skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am curious why you used the mysterious L in your comment instead of referring to Lucent by name? None of what you wrote was libelous. For people not around at the time it will not be obvious who you are referring to. As a result only the "cool older kids" know who L is and it makes it hard for newcomers to learn about the history of the industry. Personally I do not think hacker news comments should be written in such a way as to reinforce boundaries and segregate "people in the know" from the unwashed masses.

For anyone interested in learning more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucent#History
Silicon Valley megacorps don't want us to know how much they know about us
Entrepreneurship in the Dot Com Era:A Business is Still A Business
Because he is not the one interested in that piece. If everyone in this thread adds the piece they can't find it will populate really fast...

And what's more... It'll be EVERYONE's. Not Google's or Microsoft's or X's company imposing THEIR terms.
Air France has free booze in any class.
Ryanair already have this down to a T. You don't actually interact with any ryanair staff from the time you book your flight until you're passing through the gate. At that point you meet the cabincrew/stewards for your flight, two at the door who check your boarding pass and glance casually at your passport, and you then walk across the runway to board the plane in no particular order. Everything is an extra,you're bombarded with ads for the duration of the flight (particularly annoying on a 45minute flight where they start at takeoff and keep going until you land).
You also print your own boarding pass, and are normally located as far as humanly possible from the airport terminal, in an airport nowhere near the location advertised (London Stansted, Barcelona Reus, Paris Beauvais).

But I can fly to London return for 30 euro pretty much any time of the year in return for that.
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Most of their marketing budget must be in the form of event and athlete sponsorships since that's how they get the incredible footage that sells itself. They need to keep maintaining the brand value as similar products come to market to hold market share. This in turn drives sales, profits, and funds innovation and product improvements.
I think that $10 is a reasonable bet to try out something that could save someone a lot of time and effort. Having a minimum helps weed out the casual tire-kickers. The people that pay the $10 to try it out _want_ to make this service work for them.
I don't understand your comment about Southwest. He doesn't give a "quick dismissal," he mentions things about Southwest that are unique and seem to make them an exception to this general trend. What exactly is your critique of his argument? Your comment is far more hand wavy than this article.
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And countless other industries, eg architecture, casinos, farming: http://thinkexist.com/quotes/with/keyword/small_fortune/
Do you live in a place with a substantial Roma population? Because every Roma person I've met finds the fourth phrase racist. The rest are pretty universally known as offensive, and there's easy substitutes, so why use something that's going to cause offense when you can make the same exact same points 100 different ways?

http://www.r-word.org/

http://psychologybenefits.org/2014/02/07/anti-lgbt-microaggr...
Excellent extract:

> All jet pilots are held to the same stick-and-rudder standards of the FAA Airline Transport Pilot practical test (see faa.gov). A 70-seat jet presents the same flying challenge as a 150-seat jet. The captain and first officer trade "pilot flying" and "pilot monitoring" roles on each leg of a trip. When the actual jobs are so similar, how is it possible that some airline pilots earn $16,000 per year and others earn close to $300,000? The captains, of course, do have more experience and that experience has value to the employer, which is why non-unionized air carriers may establish a 2:1 or 3:1 difference in pay between their most senior and most junior pilots. But how can we explain a 19:1 pay differential for workers with similar training and tasks?
The answer is to look at who controls the pilot's union: very senior pilots. The airline management is mostly interested in what percentage of its revenues are paid out to pilots; the distribution of the money among the pilots does not affect profitability. The very senior pilots on the other side of the table say "We need the most senior pilots to get $300,000 in pay and benefits." The airline's response is "The only way that could work is if we pay the new pilots $16,000 per year." The group of senior pilots responds "We can live with that."

And this is scary:

> From the point of view of safety, common sense would argue against pairing up a company's least experienced pilots with the company's least experienced captains and then driving them both to exhaustion. But that's how nearly all unionized U.S. airlines do it.
The article two levels above cites that very definition, then goes on to say it's offensive because: "Removing the physical aspect of leaving from the equation, we are left with the ideological aspect that infers, historically, that Native Americans have wanted to be placed on a reservation."
It's just another web framework, Coca-Cola is just another sugar water drink, Calvin and Hobbes is just another comic and a Lamborghini Aventador is just another car.

"Just another" is a really easy thing to say when it's someone else's creation. And more importantly trademarks are not indicators of quality or innovation. He's the owner and he chose to put it in the footer. This doesn't seem like a big deal.
Thanks; burying as dupe.
why design a new ship, just mod an existing ship and done. the floating/propulsion part needs no modifications
I agree with this, whenever I think about the airline industry (and I do often as I travel 100% of my time for work) - I believe the only way we can really re-invent it, is to change the plane, not the airlines.
Space Mining Will Not Solve Earth's Conflict Over Natural Resources
Blog Retargeting Growth Hack
It's not just maps. No matter where you are searching, Google is very aggressive about trying to figure out what you meant. Almost no one else bothers to try. Amazingly, even Amazon didn't try to correct misspelled product searches until recently (a year or two ago, IIRC).

That's a huge and under-appreciated advantage for Google's mobile apps and services.
Here's one for $11:http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0073FE1F0/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=...

Its the first result on Amazon when you search for "USB charger"
I don't understand the basic premise here. It seems to be that the unions have very effective strikes. Okay, but that just turns negotiations into playing the "ultimatum game" which isn't great but shouldn't consistently give one side almost all of the winnings.
> There is nowhere in the developed world where you can't buy decent fresh food.

There are plenty of places like that in the US if you are poor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert
"The documents don’t spell out how the NSA has been able to tap the phone calls of an entire country. But one memo indicates that SOMALGET data is covertly acquired under the auspices of “lawful intercepts” made through Drug Enforcement Administration “accesses”– legal wiretaps of foreign phone networks that the DEA requests as part of international law enforcement cooperation."

"lawful intercepts." As opposed to what the NSA does with them later.

Hopefully the Bahamas won't indict anyone from the NSA, as we just did with China. /s
Singapore Airlines even had Singapore Slings, which are pretty good.
I am reading Dune and this is very similar to the advice Leto gave to Paul. Which came first, I wonder?
Perhaps you're not the target user then because if this service solved some of your pain points wouldn't you gladly pay $10 for a month of service just to try it out?

The upside is you found a service that saves you at least two hours per month. The downside is you're out $10.
It's all stored, but don't worry, they won't access it.

Unless either of you have had any contact with any non-U.S. citizen potentially under scrutiny, or had any contact with anyone who may have had any contact with a non-U.S. citizen under scrutiny.

This is the new law, the old law allowed three hops (so append "or had any contact with anyone who had any contact with anyone who had any contact with a non-U.S. citizen who may be under scrutiny")

edit: Unless your or your mother are non-U.S. citizens who may be under scrutiny yourselves, in which case they may have listened to you and your mother on the phone. But if you've got nothing to hide, what are you worried about?
how do you suppose they mated?
One of my father's friends did maintenance on large bucket wheel excavators in the GDR. He told how they added sensors and electronics in the late 80s until the electronics failed as often as it helped, so humans remained indispensable -- if only to tell false positives from actual defects.

There seemed a clear point of marginal utility in automation.
As the comment in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7769456 notes, these games were written in Asm while busybox is C.

It depends on the exact proficiency of the programmers involved and the compiler/platform/etc., but it's not unusual to have an order of magnitude difference or more between the same application written in Asm vs. a high-level language like C.

People have tried to rewrite standard *nix utilities in Asm; one example is Asmutils[1][2] which certainly illustrates the "order of magnitude or more" size difference. If you're curious about extreme size optimisation there are many cool examples of that in the demoscene, like 96KB games[3] and all the 4k/64k intros.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asmutils

[2] http://asm.sourceforge.net/asmutils.html

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.kkrieger
Something that pays for itself in ten years is a bad investment and how humanity progresses. Long term investment is essential and basic science requires it.
>1) Launch an imperfect product that works well for some use cases; or

I absolutely loathe this attitude that has taken over entrepreneurship. This is not OK. I don't give a shit what the Lean Theory zealots say.
I was trying it, but I think I would have preferred to see higher security for something only used to communicate between two people. Since it's only two people, they could decide on a secret outside of the app and then encrypt all the information sent between them with this secret so that the server doesn't need to be trusted. Are there any apps for couples that do something like this?

Couple appears to encrypt information between client to server using SSL, but the information is stored plaintext on the server.
I know how, photosynthesis.
While perhaps not a Java webapp, Stormpath offers a User Management API that may fit your need:

https://stormpath.com/
Good on you Ajit!
I felt literally nauseated after about 10 seconds.
Nexus 5: does it really run stock Android?
• In the race for the "Best Serial Killer, 1991" award, Jeffrey Dahmer was eating up the competition.

This is gold.
It's not in scope for the piece, as sopooneo points out. And no, you don't have the luxury of insisting authors lay out, in full scientific rigor, basic facts every time they go to make point. Vaccines don't cause autism. There is precisely zero evidence that they do. So, it is not really necessary to make the case for that when you're reporting on a different scientific study which merely takes this basic fact as a given, any more than I would have to justify 500 years of physics before telling you anything about the Huygens probe.
have i missed a bunch of airline news today? first the boeing article and now this, what's the context?
I see you don't have kids. If you never have them, you can live like that forever. If you have them, I hope you save your post and look back on it and laugh.
Noble, makes lots of sense.

Thanks
Why isn't it worth it in the UK? Is it because the railways are all optimized for passenger travel or just because of the small travel distances?
This is exactly what I thought. Think about the organizational challenge and the bureaucracy involved, there's no way for a "secret" spy unit's head to evaluate the economic value of all those targets, select for the ones needed, carry out the operation and distribute gained information to the corresponding domestic parties. It must work in the opposite way: the military set up the unit and recruited/trained the people for strategic missions like hacking through US military and private contractors. In the process of doing this, these people came across many other stuff, which they sell to other players through black market or backroom dealings to compensate themselves over the laughable salary they receive from the government. And I guess that's also how they got caught in the first place.

Bottom line is this, for your Particular corporation to be really helped by your government, there must be some corruption involved. I think this is true everywhere, but especially true in China.
Workers can find work with other employers. Employers can't hire replacement workers.
There is no such thing as a scientific opinion.
Considering that it also connotes that the person off the reservation is completely out of his depth and liable to get swindled extremely badly, I am more than happy to agree that the starry-eyed entrepreneurs are off the reservation.

We can agree that the VCs are the white traders, then, yes? Let's talk about equity.
Someone who hid their illegal activities so well must have been a skilled liar. And skilled liars are often highly successful, but this isn't often argued as a good thing...
Thanks Mandatum, we would love the feedback! The team is having a great time in San Francisco, lots of amazing people to meet.

Appreciate the kind words - we love our designer too :)
Why you need to learn to code or doom your tech startup to failure
And do it in a friendly, dependent country who can be relied on for a "no comment" when asked.
I'm working on an app to help managers with the people / soft skills stuff. It helps with 1 on 1s, goals, and personal stuff for your reports.

Would love to talk to you if you're interested (check my profile for contact info).
Full-stack Ruby on Rails engineer not afraid to change it up – Camperoo (YC W14)
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We are venture backed by global prestigious investors and Y-Combinator.

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We are open to relocation. We will pay for you to come from anywhere in the U.S. to the SF / Bay Area. We're originally from Texas, so it's a bonus if you're from there too! :)

Email jobs@camperoo.com if you're interested in finding out more.
Both, and guesthouses and homestay (one of the best experience of my life).

I maintained a travel diary but travel blogging isn't something that interested me much. And I worked as an intern turned into a web developer before leaving.
I am working on reproducing the stories scrollview from the paper demo. Lookout for github.com/jperl/famous-cards later this week.
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it. -Upton Sinclair
> One is a recently-manufactured "outrage" that only the terminally-gullible actually find offensive (i.e. folks best described by exactly that adjective).

I can't even tell if you're referring to "retarded" or "gay" here.
My Summer Is About Self-Motivation: Summer of code to be a better person
That Netflix culture slide deck sounds pretty idyllic, but it's also 5 years old. Netflix has faced a number of challenges since then, and I wonder if they've changed their approach at all.
Actually recent news show that this is US who has the most control over the internet. But this outage could be natual disaster :-)
Even better for morale, if temps truly could not be found, would be to advocate for everyone including the management above you to do the data entry. None of you are there to enter data, after all, so it's not like it's more appropriate for engineers to do it on weekends. The upper management would have maybe more incentive to get the proper temps located. And you go from goat to hero.
A smarter idea would be a fleet of automated ships following a flag carrier with the crew in it.

This way, the crew per ship could be reduced, as an engineer and even a captain cost would be divided between the ships. At the very least, the support for the crew would be more efficiently used , even if the direct crew pee ship don't get much reduced.

Moreover, the ships don't need to be of the same class or cargo, or even company: the centralized crew could be responsible for some container ships and grain ships. If needed, hand off between flag carriers could be done in open sea with a follower ship detaching from one fleet and attaching to other, packet network style.
Yup, you'll occasionally see the same "bug" result in a bunch of hits to Kansas.
Of course that's sufficient - but that's half of what moonlight provides. Given that you already can have that for free, I assume the plants are supposed to provide some improvement.

Any light output that's a marked improvement will mean either large plants, or a surprisingly large chunk of the metabolism dedicated to light generation. I don't say it can't be done - my bio-sciences fu is too weak - but I'm somewhat skeptical given the pure numbers.

I'll be happy to be proven wrong.
Yeah, I think it's deeper than just being a self-important asshole. It's more about the fact that we are 1000 times more productive, as a species, than we were just 20 years ago, and yet, we all still work just as hard. This, coupled with always being connected means that our work and obligations never end, they just follow us around.
I get scared everytime I do an apt-get update because I've had it break my Linux box more than once, sometimes horribly (especially when doing a dist-upgrade to get a new kernel).

It's even worse when the Nvidia drivers don't automatically recompile for the new kernel. I've had many upgrade that resulted in no functional X-Window session so I had to use the terminal to download and recompile the video drivers.

I realize that's a problem with binary blobs rather than open source drivers, but it's also a reality.
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To be fair this was addressed in the linked post:

> On the subscription payment idea, even if 10% of the userbase started paying a few bucks a month for extra Pro-level features, we’d still be coming up thousands of dollars short each month.
Even more visible in Australia, nobody lives in the center.
This is a failure of Google's algorithm to recognize and rank appropriately quality web content. Shame.
So, the end is neigh, we're all doomed... and also, the government sucks?

There must be some point to this article beyond the fear mongering... but somehow I'm completely missing it.

> So, fast forward a few centuries from now, what will the world look like?

You tell me... Where is the data? What are the studies? When do they say these coastal cities will have to be abandoned based on current trends?

Blah :-( .
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Who said it did?

Nexus phones have always had different or at least earlier features than aosp afaik. Further, what is "stock" if not the nexus version? IMO nexus is stock, as it defines what stock is. You could argue aosp is stock but then no manufacturers run stock aosp. Nexus is probably the closest thing you'll find.

Nexus have also traditionally had more of an integrated experience with google, I assumed carriers / manufacturers ripped that out in favour of their own futile attempts.
Remove the union. Now everybody gets paid $16,000 and the "percentage of revenues paid to pilots" can be slashed.

Is that

a) Better?
b) The other thing?

(Yes, the current situation sucks and those unions certainly don't help it any. This is not an argument for the status quo.)
I was going to say that I'm going to read this every day until its time to talk to my kids about sex. Then I realized; that time is probably now.
Plex is terrible. It requires transcoding audio and video on the fly, which requires a hefty media server. XBMC decodes everything on the fly on the local box requiring no transcoding.
On The Verge, some more background: http://www.theverge.com/design/2014/5/19/5733060/the-metropo...
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Thanks a lot for your comments. You are insanely good at reading between the lines.

I don't let it get me down that my adviser doesn't give me that much approval, because I'm not in it to get his approval. I also don't let it get me down that he doesn't think my work is that much of a contribution, because I genuinely do believe it is.

I did let that stuff get me down for a long time, so I have been miserable part of the time, but I have learned an important life lesson about not letting your own self-esteem come from other people's standards. You have to set your own standards and do your own thinking and evaluation. This is true in all areas of life, but it's super important for self-esteem.

I don't think my adviser is just using me to help his career. He's too established to need that. It's just not a factor. That is definitely something to look out for in academia but not all professors are that hardcore/machiavellian.

Your questions may have been purely rhetorical, but in case not, my plan is to finish my doctorate and then most likely go on to become a practicing (i.e. non-academic) computer scientist.

I do think all this is worth it in terms of not spending much time with my family (I mean my parents' generation, as I'm not married and have no kids) on holidays. It would have been a much larger tradeoff if I had had much social (friends/romantic) prospects, but I don't think I really would have done much better outside of grad school (my best years are still ahead of me in all that kind of stuff). And I do have some really good colleagues that basically are friends, AND I get to do real computer science full time, which is basically a dream come true.
I'm running on a 8 year old self built computer with Windows 8.1 and it still works wonderfully even with Photoshop, Visual Studio, and phpStorm. The only slowdown is the hard drive, which could stand an SSD upgrade someday.

Macs just seem too low end hardware for the price and an 8 year old mac wouldn't run this well - i also couldn't get over the no right-click on the mouse. Linux is fine for the server side, but after years of MythTV I got tired of getting things to work.
>Employers can't hire replacement workers.

Sure they can. They're called scabs or strikebreakers.
I had the mount for my GoPro break while I was descending a mountain road at around 75 kph on a road bike. The camera careened down the road for who knows how long. The SD card had popped out of the camera, but in the end both the camera and the card still worked, and I use both to this day.