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Very cool, what inspired you to make this?

The airline industry operates on decreasingly small margins. Airlines have no other choice but pull these kind of measures to stay afloat.

This comment and the parent comment are some of the most insightful things I've read on HN, thanks! Haven't considered genetic engineering's risk from a computational perspective, but this is absolutely spot on!

Unlike other experiments, genetic engineering can be incredibly disastrous to humanity. There's very real risks of destroying our food supply, the environment, and our health. And so far, we're taking these risks in the name of GMO crops, which are either resistant to toxic chemicals like glyphosate (Round-Up ready soybeans), or worse, plants that produce toxic chemicals to ward off pests (bt corn).

Consider that some people have meaningful jobs. If they're not working solely for the money, it's understandable that they'll do some work outside the office.

Great article! Curious to see how GM industry will react, same-ness has been one of the big arguments against labelling GMO food.

Pretty awesome, well done!!

At the early stages, which problem a startup is solving is a fluid thing. Given that the team remains relatively constant, emphasizing the founders makes sense when predicting startup success.

To clarify, I meant that vast majority of evil doers would pay $85 for less screening (alongside a lot of normal people).

While doing thorough background checks on all travelers is an impossible task, it might possible to do thorough checks on all Pre-Check members. This could be worth it for the TSA, even if 99% of PreCheck members are good.

TSA pre-check is actually a good honeypot for finding bad people. Regular TSA is a joke, so having these people skip it is fine. But coming up with a shortened list including most evil doers is golden.

I'm sure they scrutinize the heck out of anyone that's trying to avoid detection.

It's good for extracting money from restaurant patrons :p

As for humanity, imo capitalism is the wrong model if we want to optimize for global happiness. Directionally, basic income seems better, though I'm sure the devil is in the details...

Omitting tipping and taxes from prices is deceitful and annoying, but it promotes consumerism and getting people to spend more.

The key for restaurants is to minimize the menu item price when you decide what to order. Even if you have a mental limit of $15, you might spend $17.55 on lunch because the menu said $14 when you ordered.

Good point, I wish this was better understood by the engineers at Gmail

Depends on the platform you're building on. What kind of disability problems do you aim to solve?

You'll end up using different languages on web vs. a mobile app vs. robotic assistance, etc

Generally speaking, can't go wrong with learning python first. If you end up needing something else, you can figure it out later

Ha, I thought this project would generate a realistic-looking photo based on a text description... using deep nets

Accept the VC funding!

From pg: "If someone makes you an acceptable offer, take it. If you have multiple incompatible offers, take the best. Don't reject an acceptable offer in the hope of getting a better one in the future." [1]

And hey, you might be able to convince those YC partners to advise you without going through the program.

[1] http://paulgraham.com/fr.html

I believe that he'll do everything possible to stop this from happening again. However, Pandora's box has been opened, redditors will be conscious of the non-zero chance that any given comment has been altered.

Right on - there's tons of other issues that give men an unfair advantage overall.

Just thought it was interesting that there might be an upside to this specific case of misogyny. If they succeed, they blow all expectations; if they fail, weren't expected to be Steve Jobs anyway.

This is awesome!

Makes me wonder how this can apply to image and video compression. You could send over the semantic segmentation version of an image or video, and system on the other end would use these technique to reconstruct the original.

Congrats, exciting news!

Interesting how even at YC, university degrees are a huge part of someone's credentials. Everyone's description was 2/3 experience as founders, 1/3 university degrees.

pg - can't get enough of his advice

If you're not sure, try out the job and see if you like it. It's easy to quit later if you realize you'd rather spend your life working on your app.

Before leaving my last job, I was pulling all nighters working on a side project. I'd show up to work super sleepy and take naps in the meeting room. I put in notice after about week, realizing this wasn't fair to my employer, since I had no intention of slowing down with my app.

Interesting, why bother voting for major party candidates in non-swing state states in the first place?

Voters disenchanted with their options in California, Massachusetts, etc. should not waste their vote. They would be better off voting for a 3rd party candidate. Then, they could make a tangible difference in helping that party reach the 5% popular vote mark that would lead to federal funding.

Despite Monsanto and Syngenta's marketing about "saving starving children", there's good reason why developing countries are actively fighting GMOs. Giving centralized control of food production to a handful of American corporations is a precarious position.

In practice, GMO agriculture creates a trade imbalance. Instead of simply exporting produce, many countries will find themselves importing huge volumes of proprietary products from the likes of Monsanto. This includes buying new breed of patented seeds every year, fertilizers, insecticides, pesticides, etc. And of course, once a farm goes GMO, soil damage makes it almost impossible to go back to organic farming. High level of lock in.

http://sustainablepulse.com/2015/10/22/gm-crops-now-banned-i...

GMO seeds have been modified to create plants that won't make new seeds, great for recurring revenue

How is this news worthy? Intervening in foreign elections has been a cornerstone of US foreign policy for centuries. Would be more surprising to see high ranking officials opposed to this practice.

For starters, check out this timeline of US intervention in Latin America since the mid 1800s: http://www.zompist.com/latam.html

You're right, definitely best to give the benefit of the doubt.

The whole point of the article is that Gates' efforts focus on singular diseases, as opposed to investing in healthcare infrastructure that can support predictable, systemic outbreaks of new diseases.

Then again, it's much easier for Gates to elevate his status as a philanthropist by investing in projects that can come up with sexy headlines like "we saved X million people from AIDS!"

"corruption in many of these client countries"

You say that as if governments in donor countries like the US were responsible with public funds.