skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No way that is an economy cabin. And they chose a very petite model to sit in the chair. Economy is only going to become more miserable over time as people become taller and wider and airlines continue their war of attrition for low fares.
Lululemon, Nike, and Away all sell aspiration, hope, and a lifestyle, which get them to valuations higher than shoe, yoga pants, and luggage companies do. There are of course variations on design and differentiation in technology in each of those, but the value is in the brand.
Well. You can also create a small lab that can do full blood analysis from one drop.
To be fair, a lot of people wear shoes and yoga pants. Probably more people than have a smartphone for the former at least.
I think people generally consider facial recognition meaning to recognize your face, not just that one exists.
Came here basically to say this you will also find that well architected HBase/Big Table often work this way as well
I'm reminded of Feynman's experience in the arts discussing "The ethics of inequality in the fragmentation of knowledge."

He eventually extracted from the Jesuit priest that "fragmentation" merely meant that the Catholic Church didn't control knowledge like they had in the 13th century.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/search?page=26&q=Richard+Fe...
There are a ton of non-smartphone Android devices out there, but a lot of manufacturers are a bit cagy about the fact that they use Android. A couple of fun ones:

- Sparkling water dispensers: https://www.bevi.co

- Refrigerators: https://www.samsung.com/us/explore/family-hub-refrigerator/o...
Not just you. I'm fairly large so I can't lean forward on the tray table, but the only way I can sleep in an airplane is to lean forward on the front seat while resting my head on my arms (like this https://external-preview.redd.it/W6xGQW43ROL6XltdnBo1MbMO4EJ... but imagine my arms on top of the seat in front, my head on top of my arms). I actually prefer it when the seat in front of me is reclined.. makes it super comfortable for me to get some shut eye.
Looks like a fundamentally acceptable design change, which will probably be white-anted out of deployment on cost, or fashion grounds.

I think seating in airlines demands regulation. I don't think we will see change here without it, because unlike Premium Economy and Business, where pricing differentiation justifies the spend (the increase in revenue outweighs the engineering costs significantly: Aircraft would be viable long haul solely based on Business and Premium already) there is no pricepoint increase in economy the airlines are willing to make, without being obligated to make it.
This is not a historically unsolved problem. It just has to get to the point where enough poor people are starving, and then the rich plus a lot of random bystanders just get killed in a mass event.
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Some of the Verge article is indeed hyperbolic. The writer may have needed to hit a word count. It seems silly to sound outraged about:
* leadership being a clique
* requesting that PR firestorms not be spread further
* leadership going apesh&t over bad products being received as the 2018 holiday season is arriving and teams not addressing quickly
But, IMHO some of the behavior definitely was worth termination over. Framing the CX access as accountability exercise they way she did, for example, was pretty bad, and some of the other sarcasms I read were also just toxic. That kind of toxic is so very counterproductive in any timeframe. You can communicate what you need, with utmost clarity and punch, in other ways.
isn't the real issue the space is limited because jet fuel is too expensive? Both in dollars to get it and cost to planet earth. Seems like the space available for seats per dollar spent will get much better with EPA or NPA (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21436838) and NPA with the stuff happening at places like https://terrapower.com/ seems very promising.
To get section 8 you must meet a list of requirements. Just being unemployed is not enough.

Even if you qualify, there is limit to how total many section 8s are given out. So there is a waiting list of several years, during which time you must still qualify.

You can not just sign up on that waiting list. There are small windows open at random a few days a year when they will accept names.

No leasor is required to accept section 8 people and very few do. So even if you get a section 8 voucher, you still need a lot of luck to find a place.

Thus the streets are paved with homeless.
> I only need enough space to lie sideways with my phone in front of my face

This sounds like it'd get a lot more uncomfortable than sitting pretty quickly.
If you get successful enough where they care worry about it then. That’s a “good” problem to have.
This is his Social Security Death Index record, in case anyone is skeptical:
https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/3693/?name=clayt...

It's paywalled, but from the summary, the name, birth and death dates, and location all match.
The variance is non-neglectable. In China, for example, English proficiency is WAY higher in huge cities (say, Shanghai) than in the countryside!
I'm not sure if you think that people afraid for their lives would be faster or slower.
Ok, so it's a webcast and it LL we can join it through here:
https://www.ubs.com/global/en/investment-bank/conferences/am...

I'm not clear if we'll be able to give feedback, but I can try.
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Ratan Tata, the man behind one of India’s oldest business empires
A lot of people travel and need luggage as well. I’m not suggesting Away would ever be worth anything close to Nike but is it realistic to think it could be worth several billion? Sure.
Jesus, what does it say about our immigration policy that the US ranks behind most of western Europe.
The rendering seems to be 2-2 seating, which is definitely more of a business class configuration.
As outlined in Dr. Dan Streetmentioner’s Software Developer’s Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations
Wow, somebody really hasn’t done their homework.

Hint: Most of Singapore is at an elevation of <15m; they’re roughly as exposed as Vanuatu. They also have a government with one of the best technocratic track records in the world. And they’re keeping an eye on climate change, but they aren’t panicking.
Does Netcraft confirm it? Seriously, this meme is old enough to legally vote in most countries...
I think it sounds like we agree - most of the people who want to "change the world" are really opportunists looking to get rich. That's not to say there really aren't some fantastic people trying to make a difference, but in my anecdotal experience they are drowned out by people who really only care about money. And ultimately it's investors who dictate what companies get funded, and they definitely care about the money.
Personal attacks are not ok on HN. Maybe you don't owe "lady" better, but you owe this community better if you're posting here. This sort of comment is basically just the primate feces-hurling game—it's a mechanical response, and doesn't count as interesting in the sense that the site guidelines use that word.

There may well be a good comment to be made on behalf of the employees of the company, but this is not that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This article is completely, utterly wrong as soon as it starts talking about anything plenoptic. Please disregard after that point as there are serious factual errors, particularly regarding what Google did or didn't do with Lytro.

(Source: I'm in the VR / plenoptic space, knew a bunch of people at Lytro, some of whom are now at Google. Timelines and facts do not match this article's assertions.)
I see a bunch of not-trolly comments by you as [dead]. Might want to contact a mod.
> The designers are considering adding facial recognition technology to the design.

Um, what

> In fitting with the trend towards more personalized, data-driven flying experiences, New Territory is keen to add facial recognition technology to the mix too.

> The idea is that as the seat wing recognizes that you've fallen asleep, it'll automatically turn off the movie playing on your IFE.

This could be the worst idea ever. Have cameras pointed at every flyer for the duration of the flight, for the incredibly minor benefit of stopping your movie? To me this sounds like they wanted to add facial recognition regardless, so they found a problem to their solution.
Moral of the story, know when to pivot.
180k? Fresh grads make that
I'd tend to agree. Ironically "othering" is one of the strongest social binders there is, see: religion, nationalism, etc.
Why would it even involve a loop? And even your lambda function were:

while True:
pass

Lambda functions time out after a period of time that you specify (limited to 15m max).
Isn't this problem solved entirely by consistent hashing? Even for a non-distributed hash table, you can "distribute" your table over a collection of fixed-size blocks in memory or on disk. Maximum cost of rehashing is the cost of splitting a block, which can be made arbitrarily small. The cost can even be paid in parallel in non-pathological scenarios with a push-down/write-through splitting mechanism.
This is a disturbing comment to me, aside from the subtle (or not so subtle) sexism in the last line.

Inherently, racism, sexism, etc. is when we discriminate against or judge someone based on the "group" to which they belong, or worse, based on a stereotype of the group they belong to, whether that group is defined by race, sexuality, culture, or social economic class.

It would be a fair comment to say one doesn't feel sorry for Korey because her predicament was brought on by her unacceptable behavior. However, it's quite another thing to not feel sorry for her simply because of her perceived social economic class. It sounds like something you'd read in an Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn book, uttered by a proletariat after a "rich" farmer (i.e. bourgeoisie) was murdered and his farm taken.

Let's put away the pitchforks.
*Edit: Missed word
> But instead, even something like Augur, a weirdo cryptocurrency project which formally launched hardly a year ago, will turn over more in a month or two than LB over 2 decades.

Maybe I'm just missing something, but Augur seems pretty dead to me? I only see three bets currently open (one about the UK general election, two about NFL games).

That being said, the Long Bets project was always about high-profile individual bets, not the larger markets that Augur seemed to be trying for.
I think people started using the term as a cheap dismissal before it recently morphed into such a catch all for "anyone who disagrees with me."

Incedentally, there's a weird sort of paradox in the nature of online communication. On one hand, you have a medium where information spreads instantaneously and one could expect, given that we are all exposed to effectively the same global platform, that language might homogenize and evolve more slowly. On the other hand, it's interesting to see how internet lingo tends to shift in meaning seemingly even more quickly than IRL language. There's some deeper conclusion here somewhere regarding the nature of human language but I'm having trouble conceptualizing it.
A friends has been one of those models for airline print ads. She also is incredibly petite due to a digestive issue that keeps her from digesting calories and nutrients properly. It's a bit disturbing that she's so popular for that type of advertising.
Same answer as why the real general public would care about the contestants on Judge Judy. Let's all enjoy a good story about miscreants and comeuppance. The Verge aims to tech and startup people anyway, not the general public, and this is a startup.
Maybe they are saying it is much easier to enter the country? I will give an example with my own country -> South Africa. We have more white people than all other Africa countries combined. We have more Chinese people than all other African countries combined. We have more Indians than all other African countries combined. I won't even be surprised if we have more Indians than US percentage-wise. That sounds like a country that is more open to the rest of the world according to me.

However, there are nationalists who aren't welcoming if you are from a poor African country. They only welcome other races expect their own race -> African. It is mostly poor African people who think other Africans are coming to take their jobs. Good thing is that they don't have government support. Unlike in the US where it is the head of state telling people not to come to their country.

I suspect we even make our border to be porous just to allow other people to freely enter the country.
The whole thing seems to be a narrative designed to deny the sincerity of anyone who disagrees with you.

If someone has a different opinion to you, then clearly they’re a troll. Or maybe a bot, or a shill, or a paid Russian propagandist influencer. And if they’re none of these things then clearly they’re the victim of one of the above, hijacking their mind.

What they’re definitely not is a real individual who sincerely believes their opinions and has arrived at them by the same process as you have.
> None of this is stuff you learn by spending your teenage years exclusively with siblings (homeschooled) or chilling out playing video games 24/7 with a couple other quiet kids

To be fair, I don’t think anyone learns much that is important by being socially sheltered like you describe. When I advocate homeschooling, that is not what I mean.

Sadly, our culture has lost many of the (adult) social constructs that used to bring people together, leaving school as one of the only viable options for kids to be social with one another. Healthy homeschooling necessarily involves intentionally finding social outlets for kids and teenagers, which is harder than letting school stand in—but, I would argue—is much easier when the adults in the family are pursuing healthy relationships and social outlets with other adults in various walks of life who are raising kids of their own (and I don’t mean at bars, dance clubs, etc.; there are still some non-kid-hostile places where adults and kids can both socialize with peers and be involved in something they enjoy, like churches, volunteering, fishing, hiking, biking, sports, etc.).
I once worked with someone who was perviously a consultant to a large airline and they dropped the size of their inflight magazine ~20 years ago to save weight and then were amongst the first airlines to drop it all together for the same reason

They figured out the $ they would save p.a with every change of page length, paper weight, etc. (it was partially offset by advertisers and onboard sales but not enough)

I can't recall the exact numbers but they were significant enough to warrant expensive external suits who eat their lunches at their desks doing the calculations and going ahead with it
No, I posted a different link.
Are all current computers essentially transputer?
The fact that it’s NYC is highly, highly relevant, since they have essentially been taken down by New York magazine.
Highly doubt it. All the employees who came forward were jr customer service agents. Would anyone actually believe that board members would even know who they were, track them individually down and know why they left the company?
what is the thinnest watch you are speaking off? Is it nove.com? they claim to have the thinnest watch
Would you be willing to expand on that? I couldn't find any obvious well-known issues with a quick search.
Right, there'd be no way Chrome on iOS could do the same things Chrome on macOS does when it comes to cookies, etc.
I use an MVNO, and my roaming is frequently international. I don't notice this problem because an MVNO roaming is a recipe for a long, slow APN negotiation war with trombone data effects.

It always causes me some pain to watch others get ping-bombed by texts, until I remember they are probably locals, reattaching to their base carrier.

I am waiting for the last cab in the rank to groan, walk up, and accept the 'no speak the language' passenger who doesn't know how to behave.
I just lost a lot of respect for John.

I've worked in serious NYC restaurants for years, and made a lot of big mistakes, including serving inch-worms to celebrities. I've almost always been treated with respect and kindness when I made a mistake (save for some gentle ribbing). When I first started I had a few sternly worded conversations, but they were always respectful and very clearly delivered with the intention of building me up, not putting me down.

The one and only time I was ever shouted at was in private and one-on-one, and was a motivating factor in my putting in my notice a few days later.

Toxic culture is never acceptable, not in restaurants, or tech companies.
Appreciated, Gruber is doing some real weird editorializing on this.

Edit: well I take it back. Gruber seems to taking his usual tack when covering anything outside the Apple beat, ie. pure speculation and opinion of the sort everyone posts on Twitter but at 500 words. And with a big "they are an active sponsor of my site but I am impervious to bias" disclaimer at the top.
The point is that consensus was one thing for decades and then it was later overturned. But if "the platform" backs the consensus then you don't get opinions that challenge status quo in the first place. I don't want to live in a society like that. Might as well be in China.
Ownership is bounded by legality. As long as someone starts a new company completely from scratch (without using any of the resources from the prior one), then you have no ownership claim to it.
I know an intermediate-senior level guy who's entertaining a few $120k+ offers in Minneapolis as well. Blows my mind, I never thought of Minneapolis offering that much.
here's my question - why isnt there a computational photography app startup that works on these phones (either android or iphone).

Let's take android - the snapdragon 855 is a very standard flagship CPU and is on tons of phones (including the 450$ Xiaomi K20 Pro). Why isnt there a computational photography app that works on these phones ?

Why is Pixel 4 - which uses the same 855 chip - the only one that has this software. Is it patent encumbered ? or is there some massive dataset deep learning stuff involved.

I'm surprised that there isnt a startup that is building these apps out there.
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How would you compare this to "The Princeton Companion to Applied Mathematics" ?
Do you have any additional reading on this? I've always been interested in these topics of social network topology or systems theory or what have you but struggle to find good information on it.
> Developers should operate the software they write.

This was how things used to be in most places in the 80's and 90's - it was a disaster. Development and Production Support have conflicting goals, developers want to fix the bug/add the enhancement and release, production support wants to keep things going and have no downtime. Production releases and gate keepers became the solution, to mix them up again is bad.

Maybe if there was an infinite pool of developers that are skilled in all the applications that are being run and all the environments they run in then this would work but even then developers aren't good at keeping things the same, it's not their nature imho.

Edit: Not only that - the temptation to just pop in to production and fix the latest bug is too high, its only a little fix - what could go wrong :-) - if the developers have the keys to production then this happens. Gate keepers are good and make you test your code before its ever released.
For what it's worth, film also suffers from reciprocity failure (nonlinear response at extended exposure times with low flux).

Some things were never easy.
Any improvement to airline seats is welcome, but this won't address the biggest comfort issue for me which is the prolonged pressure on the posterior caused hours of sitting. I feel like airplane seats could benefit by using elements of office chair design.
I really hope Signal takes over the world from Whatsapp. I hate Whatsapp and yet I am forced to use it due to all my friends / family / parents use of it. I try to fight but is hard and currently FB mess and WA are the only ones with a consistent reliability of delivering notifications promptly, while rest of chat apps either are too hard to use for non-computer people or they lose notifications. I mean, c'mon Microsoft!!! Is it really that hard to make Skype reliable again?!!
As others have said, it doesn't sound like you're getting much of value. At this point, you might even ask instead for a big fat one time paycheck, if that's possible.

But, since you asked specifically what you could possibly do with the left over code, I believe Shopify has a market of add-ons, so I would look to see if you can't salvage some of the code as a Shopify add-on and sell it there. Maybe your ex co-founder can even become your first customer of it.

https://apps.shopify.com/
> you can't really have a data structure that mains O(1) as it's size increases to infinity.

At the level of abstraction that comexity analysis is usually done, you can. For example, a lookup in an array (a[X]) has O(1) worse-case complexity no matter how large the array is.

Of course, this relies on a few abstractions - that random memory access has uniform cost; and that basic numeric operations have uniform cost regardless of the size of the operands. Of course, in real computers, both of these assumptions are wrong (adding terabyte-size numbers is not as fast as adding byte-sized numbers, large amounts of memory can't usually be stored on random-access hardware etc.), but that does not necessarily impact the usefulness of complexity analysis.

For hash-tables in particular, the worse-case complexity for key lookup depends on some guarantees from the hash algorithm. If you had a magical hash that is unique for any key in your domain, than lookup would be O(1) for a hash table of n elements, as n approaches infinity. Since that is not a good abstraction, we need to model the table using hash functions that can create collisions, and the worse case becomes that O(n) elements collide and get put into the same bucket, giving worse-case complexity of O(n). Adding elements to the hash table is a different operation, same as for the array.