skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It wouldn't surprise me if Volantio or airlines automatically checked to see how often someone flies and tries to lowball them.
The tax man takes a cut of money you get from creating things, but money from living in a pile of bricks is tax free.
sure, but that wouldn't even get 40 votes in the Senate, much less 60.
A good start, but I think this could be taken much farther.

If we look back 20+ years, we built up very strong rituals around scheduling because we couldn't make the system work any other way. But in-person plans have become much more dynamic as we become better connected. Air travel is still very much in the old world there: we book far in advance, slotting ourselves into fixed-schedule, fixed-capacity options, even though we are often much more flexible.

For example, every August I go back for a big camping trip with extended family. I could fly from a few different airports into a few different cities over a few days. Since working remotely for a day or two isn't a problem, the return's even more flexible. Why do I have to buy a specific down-to-the-minute ticket now if I want a good price?

I'd be happy to commit now, and then let the airlines (or airlines negotiating automatically with my booking agent) work out exactly when I'm going. They could use much more data to maximize efficiency, giving us lower total prices.
> The number of famous and wildly successful startups outside of the US says otherwise :(

You are not understanding this thread. The discussion was about the difficulties people find starting a company that are mainly connected to economical issues. If you look at the successful companies, the major part had access to capital that eliminates this line of reasoning.
I don't think any of that would necessarily be indicative of civilization, though.
If people are interested in further reading on transaction cost economics, Oliver Williamson should be the next stop on your reading tour.
Any solution that boils down to just get everyone who writes code you have to interact with to always write the code correctly is doomed to failure.

Rust tries to make it impossible in the general cases to do the wrong thing. And gives you an unsafe escape hatch for when you need to do something the compiler won't allow. The result is vastly safer code because the compiler guards against the most typical human failings.
"Best" is tricky, but Vertabelo have been doing practical data model design walkthroughs for various scenarios over the past year or two: http://www.vertabelo.com/blog .. things as diverse as data models for a 3D chess set, parking system, pet care company, office leasing, etc.
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Essentially, that's exactly what I meant :)

Europe and the US have a very extreme history. These trade norms were established when America was either your (as a west European) your saviour from fascism and protection from Stalinism, or your occupier. They were also fabulously wealthy, successful and powerful.

People have forgotten over the last 10 or 20 years, how things were until the early 90s, at least in terms of narrative perspective.
Yes, absolutely. The article is borderline clickbait. If there were a technological civilization on Earth in the past, we would have detected it by now. Concentrations of radioisotopes, industrial ceramics, signs of large excavations in the fossil record... those are just a few.
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If your code fails on 100% of devices, testing with 1 device will catch it.

If your code fails with 99% of devices, testing with 5 different devices will almost certainly catch it.

Etc.

Which is to say, you won't catch obscure bugs, but you'll catch wide-spread bugs. And wide-spread bugs are exactly the ones you want to catch before general release.
I'm confused though - the oldest fossils are 3-4 Billion years old? Is the hypothesis that we just haven't stumbled on creatures of this time?
I think some people are answering the question, “What are NYC diners _like_?” And it’s confusing to non-New Yorkers because those things do occur everywhere: One can find matzo ball soup and rubbery burgers and formica counters in plenty of major cities.

The second question people could answer is, “_Why_ are there ‘NYC diners’?” The answer to _this_ question is the real reason why people are so fond of diners and claim they’re unique to NYC. NYC-style diners thrive in the unique-to-NYC combo of...

- true 24-hour foot traffic from the city’s “never sleeps” thing, cars being impractical, and its massive 24-hour (lol, mostly) metro system

- an economy that supports individual-owned quirky businesses (for now!) with decades of history

- people having to leave their tiny apartments in order not to go mad, so you find more people from all backgrounds using the same few public spaces to relax, and more of these random communities of “regulars” built around nothing other than a shared space

- you can be almost whatever you want here and no one will stop you, so we accumulate more glorious eccentrics than elsewhere, and our diners fill up with legendary, cherished characters

- you’re often anonymous and lonely here so some people get into the habit of quick intimacy with strangers

As the article mentioned, diners are dying out a little in Manhattan. This because it’s getting harder to run a small business here (taxes/expenses/rent), and people might just stay home and watch Netflix to relax rather than go out, among other reasons...

But diner fanatics are usually just NYC lovers. I can’t imagine who would love diners but hate the city.
The title is a polite way of putting it. In reality, what they are backing is a startup which claims that the data they gather will allow airlines to gobble all consumer surplus by being able to offer compensation equal to the reservation price of the customer: I.e., the compensation that leaves the passenger indifferent between flying on this flight vs giving up their seat.

I am going to claim that the airlines backing this and the investors of the startup have not studied Ultimatum Games[1]:

One of the most debated results in experimental
economics comes from studies of the so-called
“ultimatum” game. In this game, one player (the
“proposer”) goes first and offers a split of a pie
of given size. The second player chooses whether to
accept or reject. If the second player rejects, both
get noting. If he accepts, they split the pie as was
proposed. The ultimatum game has a unique subgame
perfect equilibrium where the proposer gets
(essentially) the whole pie. It also has many other
Nash equilibria, where the proposer offers a more
generous split, fearing an aggressive offer will be
rejected.

The experimental results are in stark contrast to
the backward induction solution.

[1]: https://web.stanford.edu/~jdlevin/Econ%20286/Experimental.pd...
If Tesla was selling 1/4th of the number of cars that Ford is selling there would be a lot less negativity.

Also I was thinking of the Chevy Bolt, not Fords stuff, my mistake.

Your arguments are also ignoring that I was exactly addressing the question of distant growth potential.

Finally I am very much of the camp that criticises classical car-makers for their inactivity. I also think that Tesla, even if it goes under, will have played an important part in transitioning the industry, by pushing things along faster than they otherwise would have moved.
Ask HN: If GDPR compliance was optional, how much would you pay for it?
How much value do end users place on GDPR, or in as much as GDPR provides it, strong privacy controls?

The major parts[1]: consent, data access, rectification of errors, records of data processing, transfers to other processors, erasure.

So, imagine that "GDPR Compliance" was an optional line item that each consumer could decide whether to purchase. What's a service that you're currently paying for (out of your own pocket, not for a business), and how much extra would you pay for a GDPR compliant version of that service?

Another way to think of it, for those using Gmail for personal email: inexpensive email services exist that are already far more privacy-conscious, like FastMail at $30-$50/year. How little would privacy need to cost in order to make it a good value for you?

There's no right answers here, only a hint whether GDPR (or even "privacy" - GDPR is as close to a definition as exists) provides more value to end users than the cost to comply with/deliver it.

[1]: Full text: https://gdpr-info.eu/
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I think the shift to self directed reading will happen at different ages, depending on a million factors.

But there are just so many amazing books to read out there and I think we are so hard-wired for story telling, just make reading a cherished daily activity, and the moment will come at some point from 5-7.
Agreed. Just look at this article: The Death of Front-end Developers (https://medium.com/@jerrylowm/the-death-of-front-end-develop...)

The author states: "Even without the divide on the front-end I still hear lots of people claiming they’re full stack developers — I guarantee they’re not."

I don't understand his perspective here. If you work on the front and backend then you are a full-stack developer. If on the other hand, a full-stack developer claimed to be an expert on both the front and backend...then I would be wary.

I was a backend dev who can now also do frontend :)
Quality at any cost is easy. Quality at low cost is hard.
Single celled fungi are likely to be older than our current continental arrangement, the title could clarify that yeast had most likely become domesticated in China, maybe around 4,000 ago, from which all modern domesticated yeast may have descended.
As a west-coaster, your description of the food is exactly what makes me keep my east-coast trips to an absolutely minimum. There are a short list of survivable restaurants, but even the grocery stores are depressing.
Yes. Every child is different.
Gmail stores the DKIM check result in the header of the email.

For a more exhaustive system, one might store a DNSSEC result proving the key was valid. Though from my limited search, it seems DNSSEC does not sign a time-stamp.
They aren't, we can easily extend the concept by using it as metaphor.
Wondering about this as well. INAG, but I think fossils are extremely rare relative to population. And things like wedding rings will have disintegrated after just a few million years. But still, you'd think some of them would survive under conditions similar to those that preserved dino skeletons?
Uber is exiting Southeast Asia
Because they update a small part of the screen, full page turns still take time
In the age of smartphones and tablets?
If you launched with a second satellite on the Falcon 9, wouldn't it only be 30 million? Seems weird to compare launching multiple payloads with launching one.
Hard to get better when ur the best
A genetic mutation eventually becomes present in all of the population or in none. See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixation_(population_genetic...

For similar reasons, given enough time I'd expect results from a paper to be in text books and common knowledge, or be forgotten. Either way nobody would learn it from the paper after a few decades.
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> China is the pro-trade side. They'll be willing to make concessions, do the work, etc. It's the beijing consensus now, not washington.

China isn't pro trade per se. They're pro export, in the old mercantilist sense. They've spent the last 30 years heavily restricting trade access into and within China by foreign entities.

They'll amass around a $900 billion to $1 trillion trade surplus with the EU over the five years 2015-2019. For the US of course it's even worse, closer to a likely $1.7 trillion over that time.

Here's how the China trade illusion works (and the West keeps falling for it for some reason):

Have vast, rigid restrictions on market access that few to none of your big trading partner nations have. Use an endless variety of means - some subtle, some beligerent - to thwart foreign entry and competition with domestic businesses (whether state owned or entirely private).

When caught behaving badly or not living up to promised standards (eg for the last two decades re the World Trade Organization), promise to improve, drag your feet, buy more time, make subtle improvements, tout those improvements while moving backwards on other things. All the while your actual goal is to get big enough to not have to ever play nice.

While you do all of that, pretend you're in favor of free trade. Tout that you are, yell it from the roof tops. It doesn't matter if you actually are, it doesn't matter what the actual condition of trade access is on the ground, what matters is that you act as the face of free trade through the process of touting it. It's all about buying more time by sowing confusion over what the real picture is and what's actually occurring (are they liberalizing, are they not, are they going to?).

Then one day in the near future you wake up and have a $30 trillion economy with little to no need of the imports from the EU or US. You also no longer need their capital at all. The foreign traders and investors can see themselves out if they disagree.

> Imagine a Chinese company operating in the states, with an a fully imported senior management and all "c-level" discussions in chinese. I dunno.

All foreign corporations are free to do exactly that in the US market. The sole practical consideration is being able to speak English to interact with the wider economy. If Toyota or Nintendo want to run their US subsidiaries with imported talent, they can do so. There are probably no large economies that have been more welcoming to foreign companies and imports than the US over the last 30 or 40 years. We let Toyota come in and kick Detroit's ass, and that was at a time when Detroit still had immense political power. Picture China allowing Google to do the same to Baidu right now.
For what it’s worth, I basically had to force my son to read the 1st Harry Potter book. It’s slightly above his grade level and I had to actually ban him from electronics until it was finished and we quizzed him on it to make sure he actually read it. There were tears because he felt it was too hard without really trying.

After he finished it, he loved it. He’s on book 3 now, reads every night because he wants to, makes a point to take the books with him, takes the accelerated reader tests for them at school (and aces them).

Now the kid loves reading... :)
A bunch of languages have something much like .let/.apply already, since it's pretty much just function application in reverse order:

"foo" |> String.length |-> printf "%d\n" |> fun x -> x + 100
Two Decades of War Have Eroded the Morale of America’s Troops
Sounds like you're permanently stuck living in amateur hour... I have never seen anyone past high school level CS try to pull the shit you describe. Those aren't problems of static typing, they're problems of poor dev talent.
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The vast majority of physical and intellectual labor that “built” the United States was performed by free men. I’m not saying there wasn’t slavery, but your assertion is absurd.
An underrated sci-fi book based on this premise is Toolmaker Koan by John C. McLoughlin.
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Food Is Emotional. Food Companies Should Be Too
Please just contact the seller if this is a genuine concern, it's so easy, and we have to respond within 24 hours (on average).

1. Click seller name

2. Click contact (seller)

3. Type "Is ASIN BXXXXXXX commingled?"

4. Hit send.
Moore’s Law was working fine. What technologists could not predict was a Republican president imposing protectionist tariffs that made advanced computers prohibitively expensive in the mid-1980s.
That is a difference without a practical consequence. The reality that unless you have only checked exceptions then effectively any line of code could throw an exception. And if that is so then you have to assume that the next line of code may not run. Just as Come From would cause the flow of control to mysteriously jump on you exception could as well. You are right that at least the stacks properly unwind with exceptions which disallow a certain class of bugs but the there is still a large body of bugs around the codes semantics itself that could occur.

Your best bet to maintain a clean state with exceptions is to never catch them and just let the whole process die. Otherwise there will be a never ending stream of bugs that your maintenance programmers will be dealing with. They'll be cursing exceptions the whole time.
We left some evidence of our existence on the moon so the next civilization will be able to find that even millions of years from now, perhaps.
Do you mean to imply the books are all on the tablet or that the reading is replaced by apps?

Of course it’s each parents prerogative, but I would never trade the beaten up pile of Gerald and Piggy for an app in a million years.
Sure, the KT event isn’t the result of ancient civilization, there's nothing saying we couldn’t have had civilization at some other point in time, or that didn’t leave a record noticeable to us from that time.
Thanks :D! I love Wirecutter, didn't know they were fully remote.
> If GDPR compliance was optional, how much would you pay for it?

Another way to think about it: if non-toxic food was optional, how much would
you pay for it? And how much would you pay for an access to a judical system?

It's not something that you want to have as an option.
€20 per month is an astonishingly optimistic figure.
Many entrepreneurs are terrible employees.
If you don't mind me asking, what do you think of Go-style error handling where there are multiple return types: one exclusively for errors and however many for actual results. Is this better to your eyes?
I thought webassembly has no GC. Is this implementing a GC for go as well, or did something change?
There were so many overtly biased and misleading statements in just the first page that the whole work lost credibility.
Having been entrepreneurial itself becomes a signal that opens doors at companies -- even if the business fails. I don't know about hiring on and doing what you're told, but being the person who made sure it all happened -- including doing everything you haven't yet hired someone for. I've seen several folks who stepped out, failed at a business idea, and then stepped back into corporate at a higher level. Starting up a new company is like starting a new division. It signals that you can handle the complexity and diversity of responsibility. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/11/upshot/how-to-become-a-ce...
The original article from the SF Chronicle has some more info. Specifically, it contains the following very strange paragraph

Sources said that Waymo does not plan on operating its cars remotely — even in difficult situations — but it will remotely monitor them during tests. If one of the cars encounters something it doesn’t understand, such as complicated road construction, the car will contact Waymo for help recognizing the situation. After human testers give it feedback, the car will then decide how to navigate the situation.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Exclusive-Waymo...
I think a couple of replies are missing one aspect to your question. If you have more RAM and you use it, you'll probably have more processes to drain the battery. I noticed this when my desktop went from 8GB to 16GB under Unity and extra Google Chrome/Vivaldi/Firefox tabs.

On the other hand, it encouraged me to buy a faster and more energy efficient graphics card, run i3wm, and buy an SSD. That fixed the problem.

So a laptop with 32GB RAM might mean you'll push it harder, but I guess it also opens up the opportunity to run VMs, etc. Regardless, highly-specced device is cheap, Apple or otherwise.

At the moment, I think my favoured approach is an ultrabook + desktop system. Laptops will never be desktop replacements so long as you can pack more punch per dollar into a desktop. As usual, it's horses for courses. I think ultrabooks are best used as devices of focus and for mobility. Putting the kitchen sink into them doesn't make a whole lot of sense, usually.
Theres a cool ST Voyager episode about this, the species gets labeled the Saurians. They are extremely powerful and dogmatic, due to living in space for millions of years.
A whole Ariane5 launch costs between $165M and $220M. Divide that by two satellites and it's still more expensive, per satellite, than a Falcon 9 (at $63M) -- and the satellites can't be nearly as heavy. There are instances of the lower berth being sold for as little as $60M, but that is
for fairly modest satellites (relative to what an F9 can carry), and is only possible because it's being heavily subsidized by the upper berth. There's no comparison.
It seems a bit funny to blame the US launch market specifically for "corruption" when every other launch market in the world behaved in essentially the same way.

While the US launch market is not a perfect model of market principles, efficient operation, and fair competition, it's also the only one where it was possible for an outsider to found a new company to do things in a different way.
That was my thinking as well, though apparently geologists are pretty pessimistic about both the survival of human artifacts and the probability that someone would find the rare oddballs that did survive.

Plus, it’s possible that some hypothetical dino civilization mastered bio-degradable materials early on before taking to the stars ;-)
It's worth having a dialogue about this. This specific type of signaling (flashing brands) is enforced by social rules that prevent chameleons. It would be pretty easy to imagine relaxing this - allowing products to appear externally in any form, as long as their nature is always recognizable to the owner (to prevent fraud). It's not clear this would be bad for society.

IANAL, but it seems to me that plastering logos all over a handbag is an abuse of trademark functionality doctrine. The function of the pattern is to make the owner appear wealthy, not to prevent buyers from being misled.
Do other devs tend to agree with the idea of full stack being a myth?
"A developer who can code the front-end, back-end, API, and database isn't as absurd as it once was (excluding visual design, interaction design, and CSS). Still mythical in my opinion, but not as uncommon as it once was."

I've been FS for most of my career, mostly the result of working in smaller dev teams where you had to own product from top to bottom. I'm willing to admit not being an expert in all the areas and perhaps that's the catch. I also have to disagree with the timing idea, if anything, I feel I was more an expert in the past (despite JS being my top skill) before the exponential increase in JS tooling and framework complexity hit the scene. So, 10+ years ago, I was writing FS application. VBS on the back-end in ASP classic, build out the schema in T-SQL(Sybase), build out our own psuedo-mvc in VBS to server JSON for XHR requests from the client that we then wrote with the help of PrototypeJS. I knew ES3 like the back of my hand and often had to contribute to SQL queries a couple hundred lines long. VBS wasn't that hard (just annoying) and ASP classic pretty straight forward. Now even though JS is everywhere, things are much more config and library dependent and the shift has been a challenge for me.
Ask HN: What are well designed SaaS websites?
Food and justice are not optional. Using Facebook is optional.
I'm a typical "math is hard; let's go programming" type of person, but the only problem i have with that quoted section is the missing antecedent of "This can be done...". But I worked it out from context.

I thought the article was very good.
Have you tried magnesium? It completely knocks me out. I’ve also had life long sleep difficulty.
Not just oil, we probably wouldn't have an an iron age without access to unmolested surface deposits.

Iron, tin, copper. If there was a pre-human civilization, they couldn't have gone beyond the stone age, else they'd have consumed the resources our iron age depended on.