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I also don't understand why I can't just swipe up from the overlay button and immediately switch to the previous window, like alt-tab. Such an obvious shortcut, yet Android doesn't do it.
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The major difference here is the Concorde was real and actually flew. A few guys with a cardboard mockup of a cockpit can toss out any number for what it will cost for a ticket.
Amazon S3 transfer costs can be problematic, though. Personally, I would pair a tool like this with a CloudFront configuration. If you configure CloudFront to expire objects after 24 hours, using a A/B release model for an S3-backed site works pretty well.
The scenario you describe has happened to me as well, and it's one reason I've come to value the attributes I listed. It is very common for non-technical people to be impressed by that kind of bravado.

It's usually a sign of a corporate culture where some of the wrong characteristics are valued across the board. Do you really want to "win" in that culture? I know I don't.
Personally, I live in the present.

Snarkiness aside, I think you're mistaken. You can't say 'industrial use' or 'industrial output' and absolve yourself of responsibility. The electronics that you wrote this comment on were all built with yucky industrial machines, running on yucky industrial oil which had to pulled out of the ground by yucky, messy drilling machines. And the kicker is that people did all of that because they knew that you would buy the resulting device.

If no one bought them, they wouldn't make them! The industrial output is all there for your benefit. If we all decided that protecting the planet was more important and invested in making slower, more efficient travel more comfortable, then it would make a big difference.

EDIT: Also the kale salad thing - since you bring up industrial output from cattle farming being a major pollutant then surely you have just made an argument for eating kale salad instead of a tasty burger?
I wonder if the "no booms over land" rule will always remain in force. When I was a child, the planes from Whiteman AFB broke that rule quite often. It was interesting to hear the boom over the phone when speaking with a school friend who lived say eight miles away, and then immediately hear the whole house shaking when the plane got to my end of the circuit. It would have been annoying at night, I suppose, but during the day it was not a hardship. These military planes made no particular effort to climb to high altitude before breaking the barrier, either. While the area I'm talking about is rural, it's much more heavily populated than are e.g. the Great Plains.

So, I think that high-altitude sparse-population daytime routes could be developed that would admit supersonic flight over much of North America.
There might even be a wooden plane or two before they get around to actual carbon fiber and metal.

http://business.financialpost.com/news/assembly-of-bombardie...
> BMW did the same thing to him.

Do you have a source on that? Considering how many BMW dealerships there are I am highly skeptical.
I didn't associate it with anything negative the first time when I saw the headline. Didn't even think about it being a bad name till I read the comment.

Not sure as many people will think it is negative as you think.
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> run a business for a year without paying anything.

Is their free tier limited to one year?
Like air coach or air bus or something?
Edit: Maybe it is thread based selection bias, but I have been consistently stating this and more developed versions of this threat model and consistently get downed.

If anyone sees this and votes on my above comment (either direction) I would be curious to get thoughts on Google, search engines, or general winner take all/consolidation dynamics in tech
I flag every single "is down" post that I see. Anyone who cares already knows. Anyone who can supply inside information is (hopefully) too busy fixing it to comment on an HN thread.

Websites, even massively popular ones, go down from time to time. Unless there is a post-mortem with interesting technical reasons for the outage, there is nothing to be gained from talking about it. If you need further evidence, just read the comments on this thread. It's just a bunch of "me too" posts. Or reposts of information sources that anyone who cares about the outage already knows how to access.
No problems here with simple registration, though wouldn't trust them with DNS or anything beyond that.

One complaint is that they do have some dark patterns in their UI that tend to always work out in their favor: like a funky cart and auto-defaulting to 5 year registrations in only certain undefined scenarios.
Exactly. I realize now that the term "poker face" came across as too literal, and what I was really trying to describe was exactly the sense of caginess or unwillingness to put one's self out there.
Definitely worth mentioning in the article, but not a big concern. Even if this plane actually comes to market and is successful according to their wildest hopes, it'll only be a very tiny fraction of the aviation market. This is due to many factors: small cabin, limited capacity, limited routes (only over water)...
"Pretty amazing that materials science has made this economic."

That, I think, still is an open question. Someone must think there is a decent chance it will be, but if this were a no-brainer, there would be multiple players in this market. Also, oil price fluctuations, the bane of any airline company, will hit those running these planes harder.
And what we have today with HTML/CSS/JS is better, right? ;)
You need to separate the content creation from the editing of the content. It sounds like you are confusing these two separate roles. It's absolutely essential that you turn off the "nagging" editor voice when you are first creating the text. Then come back later and switch to editor mode.
>The standard for .NET shops is TFS

I've never seen Team Foundation Server in a .NET shop. It's either been SVN, Git or Perforce. That being said I think it's very individual, but many small companies won't pay for TFS, they barely want to pay for Visual Studio Professional/Enterprise edition
I like the clever separation of free and paid versions

Free has 4 pre shuffled decks

So anyone looking for replay value would want to pay, and the casual disinterested person would still have some fun with the free version.
I worked for a company which extended my contract to two years, but I've been in five or six different projects during that time. All but one (Avon AU which is ongoing) have been completed successfully.

I am really biased towards short, "solvable" projects :)
> I personally would generally prefer an F cabin + great Ka-band Internet for 14h, vs. a coach/Concorde sized seat for 7h.

Agreed. I spent 5 of the most uncomfortable hours of my life on an airplane from JFK to San Diego, being 6'1 and not particularly slim. Thereafter, I upgraded my seats on that flight to Economy Plus. I guess I could stand a 2 hour flight like that, but not too much more. Getting me there faster, but in a more cramped space won't make me feel better.
I'd imagine that the "one web browser window, one calculator, one instance of every app" is because currently there's not too much need for multiple instances. After a windowing-system is in place, I'd expect (hope?) that Android/developers would begin to add support for multiple instances.
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I would think that the people that can afford this have Uber helicopter service to/from the airport and all the line skipping extras paid for already. Not sure it is really 8 hours to and from airports/security.
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The top speed of a 747 is 0.85 Mach, so it should cut the duration by more than 2x.
> We're building our prototype now—and will fly late next year.

Will fly late next year? Where have I heard that one before...
Your browser doesn’t support live streaming of the event.

Seriously Apple ...

'Apple refuses to stream on your browser' would be a better message
I'm always intrigued to see what sorts of comments are so transgressive as to require green-bean HN accounts.
Try this over the top guide - https://github.com/prettydiff/wisdom/blob/master/Web_Intervi...
I work on the GoDaddy Hosting team. I'm based out of Sunnyvale, CA but the cloud team is mostly in Gilbert, AZ. I didn't personally work on this particular product, but I'd be happy to provide insight where I can. (i.e. I'm not a PR rep) I see some concerns in this thread regarding support: Our hosting products go through a different dedicated support team.
Walking through an open door can be criminal trespass (especially if you know you don't have permission to do so).

The problem isn't that easy hacks can be criminal, it's that the punishments are out of line with the harm done.
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It is easier to build a rocket, than supersonic commercial airliner. Soviets build many rockets, but practically failed on commercial airliner. Americans gave up.
They tried that for 20 years, it never works (having been in Fortune 500 companies as a consultant, it's a fucking train wreck). By the time you handle all the layers, the different time zones, the different cultures, the different values/ethics, etc. It's not even a wash. Which is why H1b is so "needed". When they're on site, it's easier to get the work done.
Because information theoretic security is a property of a randomness source, not its output data. And it has a stringent definition.

The idea that "I'm throwing the output of some randomness source at Diehard, and if Diehard says it's good then the source provides information theoretically secure random numbers" is a category error at best.
Good point. It's so sad that Concorde came and went without a replacement in place. (FYI, I'm a founder at Boom).
I'm surprised more people aren't simply trying to use TeX or LaTeX to generate dynamic PDFs. Most of the libraries I've looked at historically were comically incapable, limited to basics like "place a single line of text at these coordinates," with no provisions for line wrapping, paragraphs, tables, etc.

LaTeX (or any TeX variety) on the other hand give you so many different powerful features to generate any arbitrary document, and not only in PDF. There are, of course, a few associated risks that would need to be mitigated as with anywhere user input gets compiled in some turing-complete system, but I'd imagine it would be fairly straightforward to make sure input gets properly escaped so an attacker couldn't run arbitrary code.
> who was tragically underemployed for years because of his low GPA in college.

Is this really a thing? Just don't list your GPA...
I always get laughs when people see my Venmo picture. (https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5266/5696508703_e440e761c8_z.j...) Little do they know I'm dead serious.
Pivotal forces you to sign an NDA for an interview? Won't this discourage some substantial fraction of applicants?
How can they discuss cost and dates when it sounds like they don't even have firm plans on the engine? The promise of Boom is very compelling and good luck to them, but it's just a dream right now.

If it was as easy as the founder makes it sound, Boeing would already be doing it.
Sure: we wrote a very simple retail trading system as a one-file Ruby app. It used a custom binary protocol. We had candidates reverse the binary protocol, implement enough of it to test the system, and find vulnerabilities in it.

We had a grading rubric for the challenge that was based on the kinds of things people found in the application. We evaluated performance on the challenge on a 1-5 score; depending on how you did on other challenges, a 3 would keep you in the game, and a 4-5 probably assured an in-person interview.
Mouse use has a much higher risk of CTS and other work-related injuries. [1]

I've worked at startups and enterprise environments, and what has always remained constant at every Microsoft/Enterprise company is the troves of obese, unhealthy, arthritic middle-managers that can barely use a computer anymore because they got lazy and succumbed to using GUIs to get their basic work done.

Now, they are stuck on MS because any foreign GUI elicits a sudden "NOPE!" from them. They are constantly unhealthy because none of them have standing desks. They don't have standing desks because mouse use is extremely non-intuitive in such setups and in many cases dangerous [2].

By surrendering to the mouse and the GUI, my older co-workers are low-quality producers, exceedingly lazy, and otherwise slowly dying.

My console emulator has looked the same for the last ten years. I can SSH into any UNIX system and it's familiar to me. Innovation hasn't slowed me down at all.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/carpal-tunnel-s...

[2] http://www.workwhilewalking.com/avoiding-carpal-tunnel-neck-...
I'll be more specific about openness. It's not bad to be socially introverted. Many of us are somewhat, especially in comparison to the average member of the population.

But imagine you're at a restaurant with your team and someone orders a dish you've never tried. Do you simply decline to try a bite? Or do you try a small bite in case you might like it? I find that openness to new experience correlates highly with good problem solving skills and team cohesion.

Many group/team interactions are essentially minor culture clashes, and being able to navigate them requires being open to different points of view, etc.
It depends on the airport that you are travelling from. London City has famously fast security, currently you can check-in upto 15 minutes before the scheduled time of departure for a flight to New York. [1]

[1] http://www.londoncityairport.com/travelandbooking/page/check...
Ironically, the package to make your package requirements easier to write has additional requirements not in the core distribution :)

But more seriously, good idea in thinking that things should already be this way. The dual maintainance of the dependency list between setup.py and requirements.txt unfortunately leads to a lot of packages being left out of one or the other, or a package that works great from source that has a broken setup.py (which usually applies to everything I do).

A setup.py command for installing deps from setup.py would, to me, seem a bit more logical - but things already exist the way they do.

In the end though, it's a bit weird to deviate from the standard norms of package installation, at least in Python circles, which may introduce some confusion -- contrast this with Javascript circles that replace "the one true way" about every 3 months :)
My name is spectacularly unique, my full address is a matter of public record, I've had the same profession my entire life, and my salary is $135K/year. If someone wants to create trouble for me there's not much I can do to stop them, but they'd be unlikely to make much of a profit in the exercise, so I'm not particularly worried about it.

I generally don't bother thinking about potential bad things unknown people might do, because most bad things are done by known people and the people who know me are unlikely to have any such motivation. In the improbable event that some significant crime or terrorist act or whatever did happen to affect me, nothing I could have done in advance is likely to have made any difference, so I believe that I'm better off ignoring all such possibilities and focusing my attention toward the aspects of life where my choices are meaningful.

Other people will of course make different choices based on their different experiences and different feelings about risk exposure. This is just the way I live my life - I'm not suggesting everyone should do the same. But I'm pretty comfortable with it, personally.

In any case, I don't get your point, because I don't see why deciding to share one's salary figure should have any bearing on a decision about whether to share one's address.
Interesting reading, but I wonder how in-depth you can go with you getting technical in such a subject
Is there any reason you can't fly subsonic over land, then accelerate to supersonic over the ocean?
I definitely find more 'just getting the job done' developers at companies that are bigger and/or have an IT department that is less crucial to the core business. It was shocking for me to find out how relatively bad many of these developers were; more than one didn't even use shortcut keys and were hunt-and-peck typists!

One the one hand it made me feel a bit less stressed and a bit more confident about my own abilities. On the other hand it was a warning for me to keep trying to find the fun and challenge in my work, to treat it like a craft and not just a job, because every single one of these developers seemed to me to have relatively low job security, and I couldn't imagine many other companies hiring these people...
Earnshaw's theorem describes stationary charges. If the charges or magnets are constantly in motion, it might not apply.
It gets scarier, they compare it to the Concorde based on price:

Unlike Concorde, flying Boom is affordable—the same price as business class.

Ok, so the Concorde had some critical engineering faults, making it cheaper definitely sounds more secure.
useful, thanks
If being there in person gives you a 2% better chance to close a million dollar deal, then it already makes sense to blow $20k on the ticket.
The telepresence rooms we have at our corp. are 100's of thousands for a room. And you have to have another room on the other end. If it will be a consistent meeting then it makes sense to set them up but for one off meetings at different locations then the cost is not justified.

I do see a stereoscopic (3D) 360 VR future someday but we have a ways to go to get the 'presence' of that down to realism still.
I doubt Apple does that for its official recycling program. But I also doubt most iPhones are recycled through the official program (though I can't find statistics).
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People do pay 5K for just a meeting?
I suspect you can chase the turtles down quite a ways - and I already specified I don't know the details.

It wasn't really about India but about the idea that people somehow inherently dislike paying taxes, rather than feel like they are getting ripped off when paying them. It's a complex issue regardless of the country and culture.
I'm not talking about right or wrong here, that's you. I'm just talking about the possibility that Tesla will cancel your reservation for being critical of the company, which you claim is high, and which I believe is essentially zero.

It's pretty obvious from the conversation here that you don't really care about Tesla canceling reservations, you just have an axe to grind, and saw the cancelled reservation as a wedge you could use to insert yourself into the conversation. You posted under the guise of warning people not to be critical in public, but you don't care about that, you just want to point out Tesla's bad behavior towards the New York Times and Top Gear.

Note: I'm not defending Tesla's behavior towards NYT and Top Gear. I just don't see any justification for your claim that it's "more likely" you'll lose your spot because of public criticism on Twitter, and that you should "expect to be removed" if you complain about delays.
As you said, interviewing itself is a very stressful environment. I've been asked a time I've failed by one of the HR person and I talked about it. Was basically sending emails to real people from my test environment...

I talked about it openly but he kept pushing. In the end my feedback was that my "time I've made an error" was not very impressive.

Like... wtf? I find these questions very weird. I never know what they're expecting as an answer.
I'm pretty sure the rep Apple has on labor and environmental issues is highly unfair. Greenpeace actually admitted targeting Apple because it's better PR, one of the main 'journalists' accusing Apple of child labor was actually caught in a web lof lies(http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/460/r...). See also http://fortune.com/2015/09/28/apple-sorkin-children-factchec...
Carbon fiber is incredibly strong when engineered properly:

"During the test, the wings on the 787 were flexed upward “approximately 25 feet” which equates to 150 percent of the most extreme forces the airplane is ever expected to encounter during normal operation. The test is used to demonstrate a safety margin for the design and is part of the certification process to show the airplane can withstand extreme forces."
Only in the best case scenario.

One of the reasons Concord "failed" is that it could never fly supersonic over land and had to start slowing long before the destination otherwise it would overshoot (along with fuel costs causing Concord to be more expensive than business class).
Isn't this Progressive corporatism? You have a corporation trying to overthrow a nations leader. How is google not part of the evil here?
A big long list of relevant but subjective traits is a perfect vector for bias to creep in. Take what you call "poker face", for example - how do you measure openness? By how well they make small talk? What if they're just nervous because of the interview; what if they experience social anxiety; or what if they're just an introvert, and don't tend to be open around new people?

For a less trivial example, take "resourcefulness". To a large extent, resourcefulness is determined by access to resources. Continued learning after college takes more than curiosity: it takes a bunch of free time to burn on reading, hacking, debugging, etc. What if the interviewee has been spending their time outside of work raising a family instead?
One advantage they might have over Concorde is that design began in the 2010s rather than the 1950s...
That are mostly the smaller companies (at least in Germany). The bigger corporations also avoid taxes, but the legal way and with electronic transactions.

First politics should do something about this!
https://discuss.reactjs.org/t/jsx-or-pure-js/3496 yes, fuck jsx
I have never noticed that. Perhaps it is because I never used Tika directly, but as a dependency from other projects such as Nutch.

I realize the scope is different, which is why I mentioned that Tika supports more formats.
Why are all the resultsets segregated by gender? The description of the problem they were looking to solve gave no indication that gender was of interest to them in analyzing the results.
> Tax rates on the top 1% or 0.5% of earners could double over-night ...

They are not after the 1%, never have, and never will. They are after you and me, my friend. So, gear up for a good fight, because I am giving them zilch. I'd rather flush my money down the toilet.

> So your argument for not redistributing some percentage of the wealth of billionaires is that they're petty assholes who will take their ball and go home?

Yes, and that is why the factories have been rebuilt in China over the last 25 years. It is not going to get any better in the future. I don't know what they will be doing next, but it will certainly not include "redistributing some percentage of their wealth". Why would they? But then again, who cares? I don't want their money. I have my own.

In order to outsmart them, you will have to be smarter, but if you could, you would be one of them. ;-)
On Safari on OSX and I'm just getting the "starting at 10am PDT" message, anybody else?