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The article cites various aviation consultants and airport authorities as pointing out funding and regulation issues that limit the ability to make improvements. Fair enough. But there are so many ways the experience could be made better without significant expenditure.

- Empower airport personnel to care about the airport in the same way we do national monuments, etc. Changi, etc., want to wow foreign visitors. We should have the same mindset.

- Completely streamline and eliminate to maximum feasible extent the omnipresent "security announcements". The infuriatingly grating and condescending messages that begin with "The Transportation Security Administration..." at airports like DCA are somewhere between rage-inducing and dehumanizing.

- Patrick Smith (quoted in the article) has long campaigned against the incredibly loud airport TVs blaring CNN or somesuch, and fortunately, some airports seem to be listening. The rest should as well.

- Seats whose primary purpose is to prevent anyone sleeping there also have the side effect of being quite uncomfortable. Is the sleeping people issue such a big deal that all passengers who want to sit have to pay the price?

There has to be a ton of low-hanging fruit like this which is probably why the U.S. airport experience is so detested - it's a sign of so much negligence that such relatively easy and inexpensive measures are not taken.
Yeah. The weird thing is that in other industries, people have no trouble admitting that the old stuff is often problematic and needs to be replaced. In the supposedly forward-looking tech industry, though, we stick with our tools from 1978 and stubbornly resist admitting that we have learned anything since then. It's strange.
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Among first world nations, in Asia or West, American airports are an embarrassment. Not just TSA, though that is the worst part. In other parts of the world they are points of pride, they show them off to everyone. Here we just don't care for whatever reason.
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the question is about the wiring, not about keeping the PSTN working while using the wiring.
Any link between the offering and the analysis would most likely be in violation of Insider Trading regulations. Both their work on the deal, and their research department's analysis would be considered material non-public information, and thus couldn't be shared with the other group, until publicly announced.
This is great, but can google stop putting tensor in the name of everything when nothing they do really has anything to do with tensors?
Fair, but Heathrow and Tegel and De Gaulle aren't exactly paradise.
If anyone comes away from this discussion with one thing to remember, remember Michael's words. If it is in the contract, it can happen.

This is a true story, but I've changed the names to protect the parties, they read HN so they can out themselves if they want to :-) There was a really egregious clause added to the BigCorp Employee contract and one of the new employees objected to it explaining how it could be used. That kicked off a really interesting conversation with HR at the employee intake session which went like this ..

"Oh we would never do that!", said HR.

So He said, "Well fine, lets remove it."

And then HR said, "Well we really can't change it."

"Why not? If it isn't what you meant, why did you say it?", responded this employee.

"Oh it is just boilerplate." HR said.

"Then remove it if you don't care one way or another.", employee responds.

"But that would take so long to get done." HR said.

"Not a problem! I retyped it in and changed it and printed it out again we can use this one." said the employee.

"Oh but we have to have legal review all of it to make sure nothing else changed." says HR.

"Great, let them review it, I'm happy to wait.", they said.

"But we can't let you work if you don't have the signed paperwork." says HR.

"Ok, how long will legal take, a week? two weeks? Lets just move my start date back to then." offered the employee.

"We'll go see how long it will take." says the HR person, "In the mean time can you wait in the lobby?"

"Sure" says the employee.

The HR person returns, "I'm sorry, we've decided that you aren't a good fit for BigCorp. You can go now."

Security escorts our now non-employee to the door and watches them leave silently.

Every line in a contract has a reason for existing, who ever wrote the contract will have a number of them in there which can be used against who ever is signing the contract. A judicious person will identify those lines and have them removed, or develop strategies that will nullify them later. But you really do have to put yourself into the frame of mind that the other person is out to get you, or you might miss them.
Yeah I was just gonna say, I went to Beijing for the first time, and as I was leaving I thought to myself, "well the line is long and insanely compacted (people crowding forward into every open nook and cranny within the cordon), but at least it's not going to have the American bullshit".

And I was right in the sense that they don't make you take your shoes off or put you through the naked photo machine. However, the inconspicuous bag inspector literally disassembled my entire backpack, dumped everything out on the table in the most disorganized fashion possible, then literally walked away without saying a word leaving me 10 minutes to repack everything. That and they took away my post-security water on the jetway boarding the plane (apparently they only do this on US-bound flights though).
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Are you speaking with the window open? Bad choice, your neighbor's advanced far field microphones are picking up every word you're saying.
I can't believe more people don't object to this even on just a pure hygiene basis. Use an airport bathroom, and you've probably stepped on urine. Take a bin where the last guy's shoe soles have been, and you want me to put my laptop there? I mean sure, public spaces always have the possibility of being disgusting, but why require it?
All given, the fact that Google itself doesn't extensively use GC is kind of a red flag(I know quite a few Googlers from search infrastructure and none of them said their teams used GCE internally).

A solid guarantee with AWS is if AWS goes down, then a multitude of Amazon's services also will go down(ex Amazonian myself), so it gives me a belief that AWS's uptime is more important to Amazon itself that it is for external customers.
Yes. If one guy can build a self driving car in his garage, I'm certain free software can keep up. (http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-george-hotz-self-driv...)
Direct link to Apple's press release on this.
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2016/05/19Apple-Opens-Develo...
> C was a pretty good language in 1978. We didn't know a lot of things in 1978 that we do now in 2016. It now makes sense to revisit those decisions in light of nearly 40 years of practice.

We surely did know that Burroughs was selling an operating system written in ESPOL, later NEWP in 1961. Nowadays Unisys still sells them as MCP.

We did know that the Flex machine was written in ALGOL 68RS in 1980.

We did know that VME was written in S3 in 1970.

We did know that Pilot was written in Mesa in 1977.

We did know that Lillith was written in Modula-2 in 1997.

There are lots of other examples.

The main difference was that UNIX and consequently C, source code were available for free because AT&T could not sell it, while people had to pay for the other ones or they were behind research walls.
Well... I just found out that my connection went from 20Mb to ~120Mb recently. I have no idea when this happened and my bill hasn't changed.
There's an argument about YC reps giving favorable publicity to some but not other companies being unfair signaling, and disadvantaging the companies who are given less hype time.
I don't know if I agree with that argument, but I think it's a valid point to discuss. Furthermore, YC partners are locked out from investing in YC companies for a period of time, for a similar reason, so the argument gets stronger.
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Wouldn't that statement be just as correct for the "right"?
Something not mentioned in the article is the attitude of American staff at airports. American airport staff just seem excessively rude by comparison to any other airport or even service staff outside of airports. There is a sense that displaying power and control is much more important that showing a sense of welcome and humanity to anyone entering/exiting the US.
We have CVE for that.
> a. I haven't written a program in C in over 10 years. I wrote software 5 days a week for those 10 years.

That's fine. Perhaps the kind of programs you have been writing and not a good fit for what C is great at doing. That does not take away from C or its use for appropriate work.
What does this even mean? WebSockets can be used natively. In fact the Firebase client uses WebSockets, same as Horizon.
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These guys (and gals) aren't standing around a water cooler chatting about their work with each other for exactly this reason. It's highly unethical, and illegal to share this sort of information before it's public.
In commenting on how Zed thinks too much about his self-image, you criticise how he comes across image-wise...
It makes a lot more sense now why they open sourced Tensor Flow -- they have an ASIC design that supports it, and if they either want to sell the chips, or sell access to them via Google Cloud Platform, they'll need customers. And it's not like HP is about to roll out a server line sporting these any time soon, so Google will continue to have their advantage over the outside world.
> I've also heard that one of the quickest ways to get your Facebook account terminated in Germany is to say anything negative about the current migration situation that becomes popular or starts to get views.

This is just not true. There a lot of pages and groups that basically do hate speech and most of them are still there. E.g. there is a page called Anonymous that is not connected to the movement that spreads often false conspiracy prone right wring talking points and quack. It's still there (all through posting was disabled? by facebook).

If you post or comment something illegal under german law you can be fined by the police.

I don't know of any immigration critical pages that are civil that got permanently disabled. I reported a page for holocaust denial (illegal in Germany) that got removed after a short period of time but as long as you are civil you are fine. Right wing publication and parties still have their pages.
You had my sympathy until I read the "error prone shitty language like C".

Next time before getting pissed off about the response you get, think what could it be that you have said or done that may have triggered it.
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There are chemicals that can kill you with a couple milligrams or less. I would bet that Parkinson's and lots of other diseases involving the brain will eventually be found to be symptoms caused by lots of different things, some genetic and some environmental, and probably lots of different combinations and proportions of each.
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I find this is common attitude for all forms of transport that have a tinge of communism...err, shared quality, to them. If it isn't a car or for cars, fuck it, cars are first.

I'm a biker/buser though, so I may be biased, if my flippant commment doesn't demostrate that already.
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I remember going to see the SGI Origin 2000 installation at University of Alaska, Fairbanks. Pretty neat, I seem to remember they had a Cray T3E 900 and some J vector systems there too.
Anyone know how to transition to the new free SSL option from the existing paid SSL service?
Go is unsuitable as a replacement for C because it is garbage collected. End of discussion.

Rust is unsuitable as a replacement for C because its memory management is poorly thought out (ie. its a joke). Here's the relevant paragraphs from the Rust FAQ. Really?

"Rust avoids the need for GC through its system of ownership and borrowing, but that same system helps with a host of other problems, including resource management in general and concurrency.

For when single ownership does not suffice, Rust programs rely on the standard reference-counting smart pointer type, Rc, and its thread-safe counterpart, Arc, instead of GC.

We are however investigating optional garbage collection as a future extension. The goal is to enable smooth integration with garbage-collected runtimes, such as those offered by the Spidermonkey and V8 JavaScript engines. Finally, some people have investigated implementing pure Rust garbage collectors without compiler support."
I've flown some in both the US and Europe.

They all suck. At least US airports don't charge you for water, which you can get at a water fountain.

I always used to enjoy sucking down some good, cool water in PDX after a long flight which likely involved the purchase of outrageously priced bottled water at some point in a European airport.
Most US airports are better than Heathrow, and I consider the few European airports I've been in to be on par with US airports (security measures aside). Outside of New York and Chicago airports I haven't had a lot of complaints (although I've somehow avoided LAX which I hear is bad). I like a lot of US airports: SFO, OAK, SJC, ABQ, DEN, MSP, ATL have all been decent to me over the years.
You are entitled to that opinion, but you've missed the point entirely.
> Some are fairly stupid: 7. Restaurants and other food service operations shall serve water to customers only upon request.

I think the idea is to raise awareness of the problem, especially among tourists. Or maybe restaurants just prefer not to have to set water out, so they can sell more drinks? Either way, I can't say it bothers me much.
And what, compensate people with the stock of the company that was found to be willfully and intentionally defrauding them?
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However, getting Global Entry is a hassle. You have to call ICE, make an appointment to go to an airport, go there, get fingerprinted, photographed, and retina scanned, get asked some questions about your background, and then wait for a card to be mailed to you.

(This probably involves giving up less privacy than creating a Facebook or Google account, of course.)
Yes, like plutonium, but we're not going to be dumping that all over the place either.

Cyanide is also "natural" but not great for our health depending on the context. The same for the "chemicals" that, when burned, cause some nasty stuff compared to if it wasn't burned.

* I love burning wood.
I don't want to be more affordable, in the same way that I suspect autoworkers don't. But it might be beneficial to society in general.
>There's certainly an ethical debate about paying the government for better service

What's far more offensive to me is that you have to supply your biometric information, submit yourself to an examination by a government agent in a review center, and submit to being photographed and fingerprinted like you are a criminal. In a free society citizens should be able to travel freely with being extorted, harassed, or otherwise molested by the government.
After 2 weeks jumping through US airports recently (currently at LAX on a Qantas A380 headed home), I can't understand all the unnecessary waiting at security clearance.

I've rarely waited longer than 5 minutes to clear security at any airport in Australia, the queues flow quickly and efficiently- cf. my recent experiences at LAX, Charlotte Douglas and JFK where I made sure I was turning up 3 hours early for domestic flights, and still came close to missing at JFK despite having a priority line through frequent flier level.

What a joke. The procedures are unnecessary and demeaning.

It looks like they could improve efficiency by just having a longer conveyor for the XR machine! Pathetic.
A portion of De Gaulle collapsed and killed four people:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_de_Gaulle_Airport#Coll...

And they also stole a huge bag of my stuff there, years ago.
I think perhaps the worst thing you've done here is deprive the viewers at home of their closure to the question of whether or not kaepora knows what his ultimate transgression was, or if he is feigning ignorance to elicit sympathy from the audience.

What did he do? Does he know what he did? Do we ever get to find out? The people want answers.
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To me, C is like PHP (ignoring for a moment that PHP was written in C).

You can document its shortcomings, its dangers and all the headache-inducing choices. But while you're doing that, people all over the world are building wonderful and terrible things with it.

So you've moving on to Go or Rust? Great! Good choices! But remember that there are people who may disagree and be wrong and also do something interesting with that wrongness.
Ironic, but the one think they are missing is an easy convenient way to call C libraries.

Rust is very promising language, but unless you plan to write everything from scratch, you have to depend on 3rd party driver implementations for most stuff. Databases for example. There isn't a single database vendor that has Rust drivers.
Very interesting, thank you. What do you do now?
> could result in endangering a life

So Tesla's autonomous driving technology couldn't endanger a life? The fact is, driving an automobile is the most dangerous thing a person does on a daily basis (outside of simply being alive).

Given the number of safety recalls we're witnessing in the automobile industry right now, the number of deaths that occur every year from automobile wrecks, and given how inherently dangerous it is to manually drive a 3,000+ pound piece of metal down the road at 70 mph, I'd say your premise is very off base.
this is a reasonable counter claim and the middle ground I was looking for. Everyone pounces on Theranos, which was founded by a research student who dropped out of college in 03, which is 13 years ago. It irritates me that people come out in condemnation of Theranos like a foregone, obvious conclusion they would have been fully equipped to make 13 years ago.

Maybe they could have used the best search engine to do due dilligence[0]. Of course it was google, they had just taken 29% market share to eclipse yahoo by ~1%. So yeah, with 13 years of hindsight and a decade of research the 20 year old college whiz didn't build a successful company. Like you pointed out, there are a reasonable subset of things you should expect(even from a failing company) and I believe you are correct.

It would just be nice to see a bit more contemplative thought around Theranos. Quite obviously they made major mistakes, had some ethical violations which regardless of being par for the field are piss poor from a judgement and statistical validity standpoint, and other short comings.

I'll gladly be the person that says I would fund 5 Elizabeth Holmes if I could get 1 Elon Musk/Steve Wozniak/Bill Gates ect. and I think we all know, that would be too cheap a price.

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>Seats whose primary purpose is to prevent anyone sleeping there

I don't understand this. Post 9/11, anyone who enters the terminal is either a paying customer with an upcoming flight or staff. It's not like a train station where you need to worry about the homeless hanging around.
Well, here's two things that I don't think has been addressed in this thread yet:

1) Virtually all commercially-produced liquor that has a flavor and isn't single cask is blended. The no-age-label is blended, the 16 is blended. The difference is in what they're blended with and how much.

2) Every study done of wine tasting involving brain scans shows that expectation modifies how taste is interpreted. So yes, to you, it totally did taste better, but not because it necessarily was better, from an objective standpoint. And at a certain level that'll be based purely on personal preference anyway.
Except practicality gets in the way. "Dear voters, please approve a bond that will increase your taxes to help pay for all the new people who are moving in, who will increase your traffic and suck away resources from your children."

Those don't usually go very well.
Why would they prefer H1B candidates?
I'm constantly inspired by the resourcefulness of the developing world to find solutions using just recycled materials.
I use it all the time in embedded systems. It's very common. Basically there is no good alternatives until you get to much bigger chipsets. However in the embedded world you tend to go with a limited subset of C. Especially no use of dynamic memory.
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You don't describe why you think it's a joke.
> I'm pretty sure people still buy those things because they see the value in investing money in quality products, not to signal something. Signaling is a consequence here, not a purpose.

Rather than write up my position on this, I will Defer To Authority and post this excellent Quora answer on signalling and its relationship with quality: https://www.quora.com/Why-would-anyone-buy-a-Rolex-watch/ans... (although I disagree on her premise that there is no objective difference in quality, especially when it comes to wine, but then I am a card carrying Frenchman so hardly unbiased). I particularly liked the ending:

> Of course, none of this applies to me. I honestly love Van Gogh paintings, not because it signals good taste within my social circle, but because they're intrinsically beautiful.

Well, I love my Port Ellen, Karuisawa and Mortlach and I would look forward to adding Urushi Seikos or Chanel's Cuir de Russie (vintage, of course) to my collections. For their intrinsic qualities, naturally. Unfortunately, my wife does not see those intrinsic qualities as clearly as I do, so my plans have been put on hold for the moment (and, probably, all future moments).
Despite having a veneer of a good comment, well written, sourced with links, and starting with some (faint) praise - it's actually just an ad hominem, and not appropriate here.
People have differing needs and differing devices, so fracturing under the title "VR device" is perfectly normal. What developers need is a standardised API to access all of them with parts specialized to cater for each device's unique functionalities. Which will eventually happen. I cite ios+android libraries/frameworks as an example.
"Raising awareness" is stupid. What are they supposed to do in response, and how much water would that save?
> Generally, no.

Then, no matter how “valid” and “normal” their modus operandi may be it is of no relevance to someone looking to enjoy life (bien dans ma peau and joie de vivre) instead of wasting time — and it is indeed such a waste of life, don’t you think — feeling alone or withdrawing (via dissociating from the said loneliness).

> How would you posit your question to an existential nihilist? To them it would have no meaning.

It takes the naiveté (innocence/ unsophistication; not gullibility) of a child to want to enjoy life. Nihilists, and spiritualists, are too sophisticated for that.