skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The helicopter market is small, about $30 billion a year sales in the US. GM had $111 billion dollar in sales. Tesla, which is still small, has $12 billion in sales. Total aircraft manufacturing sales in the US is $240 billion. [1]

Passenger airlines (like Southwest Airlines, not manufacturing) are at $175 billion in sales, something like air taxis would be very competitive in that market, and probably increase the market too.

A consumer market of $175-415 billion (upper end is domestic manufacturing + passenger airlines)[1] is a good place to start a big huge Apple / Uber / Tesla sized company. Those are market caps of $700B / $72B / $50B respectively.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerospace_manufacturer
Is buzzfeed journalism?
BuzzFeed employs ~1600 people? Maybe it's my ignorance on content companies, but that seems excessive for what they produce. Is there someone that can provide a bit of a breakdown of jobs so I'm more informed?
And yet, they currently make and sell the cheapest car they have ever offered, the mid-range Model 3, currently listed at $44,000 before credits, so $40,250 with the federal credit and $37,750 in California. Which is definitely cheaper than a year ago.
> In fact i literally know a couple who's 12 year old son basically got intimidated into giving away their iPod on MUNI.

While I'm sure the financial loss was irritating, if this is the worst that comes from letting children ride transit alone, I'd consider it an acceptable cost. Depending on the details, it could even make for a good learning experience.
L.A. may charge drivers by the mile, adding freeway tolls to cut congestion
This article is nonsense. Azure DevOps is a delight to work with. PR system is probably the best I've worked with so far. Build pipeline can improve but it's a far cry from a "horrifically broken".

IMHO, Microsoft has been getting a lot of things right lately. Keep up the good work.
Buzzfeed News certainly is, yes.
"In response to the statement tonight from the Special Counsel's spokesman: We stand by our reporting and the sources who informed it, and we urge the Special Counsel to make clear what he's disputing." -- BuzzFeed News Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith

Any chance that Smith, Leopold, or Cormier are in the 15%?
Sorry to the people who lost their jobs, but I do not think that Buzzfeed has a good product.
The joke I've heard is: "unstable" means testing, "testing" means stable, and "stable" means old.

I run stable for servers and testing for workstations. I don't use it on the desktop much anymore, just my secondary computer at work for things that don't require windows; and for VMs at home. I don't recall any bumps in the road on testing in a long time, but I guess that all depends on which packages you use and their maintainers.
Yeah, Fortnite and Minecraft seem to lead to pretty positive interactions. Seeing 6-8 kids all in the same Minecraft world makes it pretty clear that there's just as much creativity and social stuff going on as, say, playing with Legos.

We don't permit passive stuff (YouTube) or the Skinner box games, but that's not because they're screens, it's because they're shit.
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Establish RFP/RFC process for Go 2 language feature proposals
The shift of the state and local tax burden off of real estate held by wealthy savers and on to sales and purchases of household expenditures, the shift of the federal tax burden off of property income (most 'capital' gains are land value gains) and on to payroll earned by younger workers.

All of these changes to the tax code have increased the rent which wealthy property owners can extract from younger workers without having to work themselves, at the cost of increasing the tax burden on younger working families, so that they cannot afford to have as many children as early in life.
They cover Australian politics better than most of the "real" news outlets. Would be sad to see that go.
A Cooler Cloud: A Clever Conduit Cuts Data Centers’ Cooling Needs by 90 Percent
Glossy vs. matte LCDs? Pfft, I remember what it was like staring at a fuzzy CRT all day.
English website is pure click bait garbage as well.
You just gave an example of that. When it comes to actually doing anything substantive they have a spaz and start flinging poo.

Fix the student loan crisis, can't do it.
Reign in Wall Street and it's captive Federal Reserve, can't do it.
Implement a working health care system, can't do it.
Stop US industries from offshoring real industries? Can't do it.

Ad nauseum.
They're defiintely administration and engineering heavy. It's a media company, so they should have budgets for reporters and actual reporting. Have one editor, get rid of all the engineers and put them on a contractual basis and then all reporters.
"People that stare at the screen all day long are sophisticated enough to know that a matte screen is just better."

A matte screen isn't just better. You get that weird prism-like diffraction of light, that turns a white pixel into coloured dots. Personally I much prefer to maybe have to move my machine occasionally to avoid a reflection than to have that weird fuzziness. For a laptop screen, anyway.
Macbook Pro to X1 Carbon convert.

I could not disagree more with you as a developer.

- The X1 Carbon lets me use Nvidia GPUs using an eGPU.

- It has a much, much better keyboard. On my MBP, I hit this problem:
https://youtu.be/4QDsqWkUvXQ

- The high end models don't force you to get a touchbar.

- I love having more port diversity and number of slots vs. the MBP. No dongle life for me.

- As an added bonus, I got the X1 Carbon Yoga, which has an OLED display. The display is gorgeous with fabulously dark blacks.

The one thing that I miss from the Macbook pro is it has a much better trackpad. But overall, I am very happy with the switch, and it's overly simplistic to just say "Macbooks stand on their own".

Though overall, I couldn't be happier with the switch.
why can't we just 3d print and laser cut these things already?
Perhaps I am in the minority here, but I think Turbotax for Bankruptcy is a helpful analogy. You should also look at the Free File Program Turbotax runs - while it's gotten some heat for not being 'Free For All' it is a free (and useful) service for lower income individuals who do bring in an income. They partner heavily with libraries to ensure that people who may not have internet/computer access at home, are aware of this offering. Probably some overlap in demographics here.

As for the funding model: are there any businesses that stand to benefit from people being able to file for bankruptcy more easily? Collection agencies? Hospitals? There is a certain cost associated with tracking down a non-payer. Who could stand from this cost being eliminated? Non-profit is well and good, but it's even better if a business will stand up a foundation to specifically fund your product because it supports their revenue generating business.
The problem with testing is you get security updates quite late.
From my understanding Buffett doesn’t invest in Apple because of a certain technology but because he sees them as a lifestyle brand with a sticky ecosystem.
It might be because they just sent two shiploads of cars to the EU, several thousand cars each, so that might affect the output lot and the carriers since they only had to go to SF to be loaded on to the ships.
So like the English version. I've yet to see anything more disgusting than buzzfeed. Maybe the ads on snapchat, because they prey on children.
Clickbait titles, useful advice "how to track user's mouse movement" (!!) , and Europe's osteoporosis. Good times though; for me Hacker news has lost a lot of its appeal in the past 4-5 years, as for some reason it has become overly political and "suits-oriented". I used to read a lot of technical commentary, which i now find on reddit instead.
With multiple lines, there's also the excellent visual cue to managers - if the average line length appears too long, you know you need additional cashiers. And my local grocery store is excellent about bringing in additional cashiers if any of the lines are two deep or more.

With a global line, the length of the line isn't a good visual indicator of needing more cashiers. I suppose you could just periodically count the line length, and count the cashiers, and divide, but it's not a quick eye check anymore.
I propose a work force cut of 100% after spinning off BuzzFeed News under an untainted name.
I feel like something has changed in Australia. I've worn glasses a long time and remember them always costing a few hundred dollars per pair. A few months ago I went into Specsavers and was able to buy glasses for under $50 per pair.

My prescription hasn't changed but the prices definitely have.
Well, maybe they finally figured out how to automate clickbait title/article generation.

But I'm sure those 15% will find something more productive to do with their time.

Sorry about the snark.
Can I do what I'm doing at 75? probably. Can my friends in construction keep working till 75? No, most of them are haven't trouble in their 50's already.
No snark intended but the bar is honestly pretty low these days.
Ok, but that still doesn't explain why this particular difference in scale matters.
Buzzfeed has both a click-baity division and Buzzfeed News, which has been breaking important investigative stories for the past several years.
"macros" are unfortunately used by C and lisp to describe two different things, and both usages are as widely popular as their parent languages (i.e. very).
It's a shame that such an important news source is not doing better. In this day and age, we NEED a website like this to bring us valuable information and help us navigate through all the noise and useless distractions out there. I mean just take a look at their front page today: "21 Secrets Wegmans Employees Would Never Tell You, But I Will". Who else would tell me if not Buzzfeed??
You must be mixing Buzzfeed and Buzzfeed News. The former is low tier content that funds the actual investigative journalism in the latter.
Quantum mechanics sure. Particle physics no.
RF Hacking Research Exposes Danger to Construction Sites
I used to do a lot of housecleaning for family and friends and recommended Dyson vacuums for their strength and robustness. Since then I have got into professional housecleaning and have found Dyson vacuums to be a terrible curse. They are aggressively priced which makes people emotionally invested in them beyond reason. They are typically too strong such that even skilled users get overwhelmed and damage fringes and drapes and anything that isn't super strong that gets too close. Although they may have been built to a high standard when introduced current models have many parts made with vulnerable plastic connectors. As such used Dysons tend to be coming apart in various places and tend to be difficult to use because their unusual mass and strength puts extra stress on the small plastic connectors they are built with. If you want to clean up for a reasonable price without a lot of unnecessary complications then staying away from Dyson products is a good first step. If they are going to be charging that much and putting that much design work into them then they should be advancing robustness and ease of repair. For the fraction of a single Dyson I keep a fleet of Sanitaire vacuums working over a period of many years because all of their components are reasonably designed and can be simply swapped out upon failure.
Neat. Doesn't really change anything, except that you aren't required to manually manage memory but, practically speaking, you will end up manually managing memory. Especially if you're choosing C for performance requirements.
Agreed, the selection is pretty terrible. Seems to be where terrible movies go to die.

I had a pretty high opinion of HBO from decades ago, tons of premium movies etc. I got a few months free from comcast and was surprised how little content there was.
The “Real” Warp Drive
They've been doing some of the best political reporting in the industry for the past several years
Upcoming version of Google Chrome will make it harder to block ads
Seems like there are a few to me
No Windows or macOS support though. Also Git integration isn't as straight-forward as it is with Travis/Circle CI.
I'm well acquainted with the merits of types in general (I've worked in Java & Scala for years).

I'm curious why it's so special on the frontend. I can't tell if it's just part of the Javascript hype-train, or if there's legitimately something different about the frontend.
Because I was engaging in a broader discussion. I'm sorry for offending you.
My retirement plan includes living somewhere where I can own the land and not be raped by property taxes. Many people, my in-laws included, have to flee their high property tax states upon retirement in order to be able to afford to do so. How does this help maintain stable communities? Shouldn't people be able to retire in place?
> will tunnels be cheaper?

Per person? It’s hard to imagine a subway being more expensive than flying cars... even with the US’ ridiculous public works costs.
No. In fact hell no. Maybe this will encourage more people to buy?
Reconstructing rough images of hidden objects via light that bounces off a wall
The way this is written reminds me why I try to never interact with security people in any social or professional situation, ever.

When is the insufferably arrogant techno mage trope going to die?
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18984823 and marked it off-topic.
Another data point, I have an XPS13 L322X that's a couple months shy of 6 years old that's also been a daily driver. I've replaced the battery, but it has otherwise stood up surprisingly well. I was amazed when I looked up how old it is.

I'll pass it onto the kids once I get one of these shiny new ones and will be replacing the keyboard and fan when I do. Some of the plastic covering on a few of the keys is starting to come off and the fan bearings are starting to go so sometimes it's louder than it ought to be.
it won't work if the mirror is tilted or bent, so make sure you get a flat mirror on a flat surface (e.g. use a level)
Now we have two promising candidates for the cause of Alzheimer's -- gingivalis, and herpes-family viruses.

That doesn't mean one is right and the other wrong. Maybe herpes gets in first and lets gingivalis in, or vice versa, or some other, more interesting interaction.

What's tragic is that effectively none of the present researchers are virologists or bacteriologists. As consequences, (1) progress studying and generating a useful clinical response will be radically slowed by resistance from the old guard to the threat to their livelihood, and (2) they will all need to find something else to do, because you can't pick up those specializations overnight.

The herpes connection was noted twenty years ago, but is only now getting traction. If it's right, then almost everybody who died of AS since then was killed by the structural resistance to the idea.

The best way to accelerate progress, now, would be to find another urgent health problem that seems to need the skillset that had previously been brought to bear on AS, so they jump ship and get the hell out of the way.
What breach? Every apartment lease agreement I’ve ever had says the leasing company can change the lease anytime they want. My recourse is to move out immediately.
Not sure why there are so many on here and other forums that are always so quick to take the employers side.
They cover a wide array of geographic regions.
Well, at some point you get tired communicating with tinfoils, and it's reasonable to expect that author just didn't have a motivation/incentive to even start. Better spend time for something more productive.
Verizon is a journalism company?
The content creation for ads business is dead.
That's what's stunning to me. There are youtubers shooting videos from their kitchen or bedroom for approximately zero dollars who have larger audiences than these "mainstream" publications. I don't understand how they can still exist with 1600 people in their employ. Furthermore I don't understand what those 1600 people actually do other than make shit up and repost other, more legitimate news sources.
Why does Michael Arrington have the same dead comment on every post?
My company’s mobile app is made in react native.

As a senior dev., I still use an iPhone SE, but the mobile dev team all have the latest iPhones.

The app looks horrible on the SE, and some touch areas are blocked by overlapping text or images.

It is basically unusable on a supported device.
So you’re saying to fight back people should just keep hitting random numbers locking everyone out in a building? Not a bad play.
Why doesn’t buzzfeed split the brand between buzzfeed and buzzfeed news. Clearly, as evidenced by these comments here, buzzfeed is doing massive damage to the reputation of the news section; and I highly doubt the target market of the non news section is there because of their competent news half.
In that case, cookies would be completely insecure as well
I grew up staying out past sunset daily, rain or shine, playing street hockey, building ramps and forts until I was in highs school. My wife is from Italy and having lived there I see guys my age who are just as street smart/adventurous and well rounded but grew up in apartments with a very different childhood. Americans think our experience is so special :/. That is the phenomena
Depends, a lot of companies used the pension fund to buy back their own stock. Not that companies didn't also use 401k's for the same purpose with the same result. See Enron's 401k plan.
Public sector pensions are bankrupting states around the country and widely mismanaged. Not to mention extremely politicized and an easy way to get votes by over-promising and kicking the burden to the future.

For all the faults of 401ks and such, they aren't destabilizing state budgets around the country, and the market is in fact relatively stable if you keep it simple. They also aren't dependent on your company remaining solvent for the rest of time.

We can also relatively stabilize Social Security if we want to, but nobody is willing to make the hard choices to do so: http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.com/2019/01/a-plan-to-f...

Until then, we'll suffer the consequences of turning anti-immigrant, years of property value getting held hostage by the few, and politicians who are fiscally irredeemable at this point (another bomb that will drop on our heads eventually)
Blippar finds life after death; former investor buys assets to relaunch
This was such a beautiful comment. Thank you. You should write more (maybe you already do!)
True, but a lot of the linked pages 404. Not so at the archive.org page.
Thank you. What would you recommend for me to study to learn more about this behavior of photons, specifically?
They're a media company at the very least.
This comment was enlightening, even if it appears fairly critical:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18946296
> With brands like Yahoo, HuffPost and TechCrunch, Verizon Media transforms how people stay informed and entertained, communicate and transact.

[0] - https://www.verizonmedia.com/
Sovereign wealth funds, or the abrupt lack thereof, seem relevant.
It's simply another way to block ads. Not better nor worse. A mental and technical exercise that's all.
New York City Council Kicks the Tires on Scooter-Sharing Program
“Flying cars” like this would be great to have! For instance, emergency vehicles that don’t get stuck in traffic could save countless lives.

...We just need appropriate noise regulations, which will almost certainly prevent private citizens from operating them. Especially in cities.
It's nice to see someone from BuzzFeed here. What's your job as a Data Scientist there? Maximizing the effectiveness of Clickbait?

What's still burned into my mind about BuzzFeed's business model is some person high up saying something along the lines of "I don't care if they click to comment that the article is shit [because in 99,99% of cases it is], they're still seeing the ads".
And the early colonisation of north America made use of indentured colonists who where early on preferred to slaves in some cases.
That's not actually Michael Arrington.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=454679
US healthcare is complete regulatory capture.
Who would have thought a story about reading thousands of pages of archived documents could be so riveting?

For anyone interesting in how this task has changed, there are similar meta-stories about, as but one example, the process of analyzing the Panama Papers. The investigative collaboration sharing access to them digitized millions of pages, and ran (among other things) named entity recognition and clustering / graph discovery algorithms on them to find the signal in that particular heap of noise.

If you’re looking for a project exploring / learning some new technology, I can only encourage you to try to find an angle that explores some public data or document set. That could yield something far more interesting than yet another RSS or HN client.
I think that you want somebody who's unbiased to answer this from their perspective (I'm a PM for Azure DevOps, so I'm pretty biased). But I've built out Azure Pipelines for many platforms, including Ruby and RoR with a lot of success. Feel free to drop me an email (my HN username @microsoft.com) and I can point you to some pipelines.
From the article:
"Verizon Media Group, the portfolio of media brands that includes Yahoo, AOL and The Huffington Post"
The old UI was better, and forcing people to this weird pretty UI doesn't make sense.

Several products aimed at tech people seem to make this mistake. We are power users, we don't want stuff hidden away. Stop having UX that's designed as if we were trying to browse twitter.
Phoenix area TJ's use multiple lines
Based on recent events, it looks like buzzfeed news doesn’t need any help when it comes to damaging its own reputation.
I feel this is also a good option in case you want to block ads network-wide.
Fry’s does the same thing with the screen (used to have a human for it), with a single global queue.

Same thing; never had a concern with it. But whole foods and fry’s are bigger and I end up spending a good deal of time there just shopping uaually, so queue length isn’t as concerning as when I’m in a smaller grocery, just grabbing a gallon of milk
I think generally UBTI refers to income that is actually unrelated to the good the nonprofit purports to do.

For example, Princeton a nonprofit can totally charge tuition and use it as a base of funding, and not pay taxes on that. They can even sell their students food in cafeteria and not pay income tax. [1] But they can't start a food franchise and not pay tax.

This software seems clearly within their registration statement. Now if they started selling software consulting as their major source of funding...

In any case, I agree checking with your accountant is the best.

[1] https://fms.iu.edu/tax/ubit/
While I generally agree with the sentiment in this thread and article, it's all gut feeling at this point.

The causal relationship is still to be proven, though. There are countless other factors at play.
Is it possible to integrate Pharo with KDE so the windows won't be trapped inside the Pharo window (I don't really like MDI) and would have system-set decorations (I love using "keep above", "keep below" and "shade" buttons I've added via the window manager configuration)?
I hear this argument again and again: "there's no exploit, or show one".

Guys, this is not how info security should be taken. Just follow best practices, and experts recommendations, even when you cannot immediately see how it can be exploited. Because tomorrow someone _may_ actually find an exploit there. Finding exploits is a hard job, and a bit of luck.
Issue with GitHub Forks: Private repos can be accessed after being removed