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No one is denying it in Turkey even Erdogan's strongest critics. The fact that Erdogan used this opportunity to strengthen his position doesn't make it less likely. I really don't know what we have to prove it but this kind of dismissive attitude is really exasperating. Maybe they should've left some signatures and selfies.
I stopped reading when they compared Amtrack to airlines, the author needs to find another profession.
Among others, that it meets fire codes.

Just wait until an AirBNB customer dies in a fire because the property didn't meet fire safety requirements. AirBNB probably wouldn't survive the fallout.
I first saw as a it in drafts of memos and reports when such items were circulated on paper through cubby holes. This was Long before I saw it applied to source code - say '73-75 time frame.
There's another possibility of the event this author calls "river piracy." The Mississippi river is chronically at risk of being grabbed by the Atchafalaya River.

John McPhee wrote about this in 1987. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1987/02/23/atchafalaya
Ah yes, the federal government will make air travel better... Just as they have made airports themselves a delight!

I'm having a hard time taking this argument seriously. While I may not enjoy air travel, the most abusive part of flying is the part run by the federal government, namely the TSA and CBP. If they want to improve the air travel experience, start there.
if consumers live in a democratic country they need to demand policy change to regulate this.

some people frame climate change as an "emergency". politically, it is only an emergency if enough people think it is an emergency and are prepared to vote along these lines. i'd agree it is an emergency. but i don't think a majority of people do - so politically, it isn't an emergency.
Factual error in the piece: USAir eventually merged into American, not United.
One crucial difference is that the military juntas of the past always gave the power back to the civilians after setting the country back to its “factory settings." The most brutal of the coups, the one in 1980 in which about 50,000 people were jailed/tortured, created the constitution that was in force until now. It was the checks and balances in that constitution that were completely dismantled yesterday.

In contrast, Erdogan is not the type to leave power peacefully.
What about Southwest, JetBlue or Virgin? Or in Europe, RyanAir and EasyJet?

It seems there is at least some competition, United is just not a very good airline.
Maybe, but isn't the recent trend at Apple to discontinue desktop-only accessories (like monitors)?

https://9to5mac.com/2016/11/21/apple-reportedly-stops-develo...

https://www.theverge.com/2016/6/23/12020510/apple-thunderbol...
First, to the immediate point: Ropes are not talked about much outside of whitepapers and undergrad data structure courses. This is a shame, even if ropes are only useful on very long strings. More discussion, more documentation, and more attempts to use ropes are not a bad thing, even if nothing "practical or necessary" comes of it. (And I would say that a text editor is quite practical!)

Second, it's completely reasonable to imagine data-structure-driven improvements to the task of writing source code. Imagine, for example, an AST editor. There are tools like org-mode and paredit which are halfway to true AST editing, and plenty of languages have tooling sufficient to support it, if there were demand. An AST editor would, of course, generalize the lessons here about ropes to pretty-printed ASTs, but there's no innate reason why it couldn't be done.

Third, a meta-comment, to address your comment elsewhere in the thread: "There are, of course, computer science concepts that are very smart. But we don't need these to save us from slow software, because today's slow software problem is just the result of people doing bad things in layer upon layer. We have to stop doing all the bad stuff and dig us out of the hole we're in, just to get back to neutral. Once we are back at neutral, then we can try thinking about some computer science smarty stuff to take us forward."

There are assumptions here about the nature of CS. CS is a science of abstractions. Complaining about layers in CS is complaining about the very nature of CS. Software is slow and insecure and hard to use because the tasks that we demand of software are extremely complex and our human processes for creating code are not sufficiently high-level, powerful, and expressive enough for us to design good systems on the first try.

Whenever somebody says, "I have removed a useless abstraction," they usually forget to also say, "By replacing it with a useful abstraction."
It's not worth the hassle to try Hackintoshing with an AMD CPU
I figure Intel's participation was hinged on supporting a growing fleet of competitors to AWS, who would bid up chip prices. I guess that isn't happening.

IMO, OpenStack was sort of a consortium effort to compete with VMWare, AWS and Salesforce, but it's operational model is closest to AWS. Nearly all the big enterprise IT companies tied their rafts together hoping to stave the flow of customers. It doesn't appear to have worked.

RackSpace is advertising AWS migration and consulting services on podcasts I listen to. Not exactly a stellar testament for their own cloud product, but I think they still participate.

HP's strategy is a bit haphazard given the recent corporate splitup. On the plus side, the HP/HPE split seems to have allowed HPE to ditch all the weird www# URLs. They retired their public cloud, but still sell hardware that can run OpenStack at least.

Dell bought EMC, and proceeded to shut down their OpenStack offerings in favor of VMWare, which they own a substantial fraction of.

IBM is in a continual process of downsizing its hardware divisions in pursuit of higher earnings per share. It seems their big push is cloudfoundry, which seems to be more about containers and k8s.

So why are they bailing? I'm guessing:

- it's way harder to hire support staff for OpenStack, than VMWare
- AWS reduces capital costs and upfront investments
- Customers on existing solutions aren't prepared to take advantage of new opportunities
- Many of these companies have existing product lines they don't wish to disrupt
Markets are such an essential tool for our society, but they're also easy to get wrong. Markets require regulation, whether it's in the form of contract enforcement or setting standardized terms for communication in the market. Any time there's a power differential, we need regulation.

That's why I wish we could get past this mindless anti-regulation political trend into a "smart regulation" political trend. Whenever I see "regulations are bad" these days it's always associated with mindless deregulation; deregulation is a difficult thing that must be done carefully, and it has to be adjusted later on to adjust for all the unforeseen consequences. Regulations are not bad, it's needless regulations that are bad.
Can you explain what's wrong with that?
>> Elsewhere in the travel industry — hotels and car rental agencies, for example — these abuses do not exist because there is actual competition. But airlines are simply not naturally competitive.

Is this really so?

I tend to believe that, smartphones with camera and the cam apps are having their wonder in that they fix "abuses" of companies and institutions by bring them to light.

Maybe hotels and car rental agencies don't have much do disguise but still can abuse, like in poor car maintenance for car rentals, or food quality or cleaning for hotels.
They already have a docker-based container service as a part of their IaaS offering, but management was a huge weak spot as most of the services are fairly new
The crazy thing about this to me is that United isn't that cheap compared to other airlines.

At least Spirit will actually give you a steep discount on most fares and then treat you poorly. United has long known to been this bad and they still charge like a full-fare carrier.
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> because they get paid for it

promised to get paid for it. Yet to see a dime.
To be fair, IDF was all over the place. I suspect I'm not the only one who felt that only a fraction of the talks were relevant to my interests. On the other hand, it was great for networking.
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There's no cosmic benefit to life existing on Earth, or at all.

Well, maybe and only if you take the position that all life and/or suffering are irrelevant on a cosmic scale.

If they are not irrelevant, then we can't know if there's any benefit to our continued existence.

Will lessons that we learn here on this planet one day be used to alleviate the suffering of other sentient beings on another? We don't know but if that happens, I would argue that it was a benefit of us having lived.
I see a whole lot of EU this, EU that.

But at the same time it is glossed over that Turkey is a NATO member, and the second largest standing army within NATO.
Can't compare the two, intense amount of competition and demand for airlines services Worldwide.
Illogical, yes, but common enough that we have parables about it. See: The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg.
Even basic highlighting and the mentioned relative linenumbers will put VIM to sleep. Which honestly is absolutely pathetic (and a know problem which was never fixed).

The file opener/finder ctrlp is kind of slow as well (there is a different search engine for it which is an order of a magnitude faster).

I really like the vim keybindings and just use ideaVim plugin for intellij which can do all the vim stuff i need and has the ide functionality on top.
And it is faster as well (at least it can do relative line numbers without dying)
I rented an entire 3br/2 ba apartment in Dublin for a week for $700, circa 2007. We had 15 people in there.

On the first night there a child cat burgled one of our wallets. He scaled the side of the building and came in through an open window. We caught him in the act, but he was too quick and scampered out the way he came. When we complained to the host (the pharmacy downstairs, really) they asked if we wanted a NEW apt in a different building or another apartment in that one (basically two apts for a week for the price of two nights in a hotel)

Now when people talk about Air B&B, I think of courier dentistry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX_GfxGIWQs&t=1s
I am certainly not suggesting this is limited to Hollande.

In term of proof, it has kind of been confirmed by Hollande himself indirectly. In his interview book "Un president ne devrait pas dire ca", he mentioned that Fillon contacted him after he took office, encouraging him to dig more dirt on Sarkozy, otherwise they will be facing him at the next election. Hollande then praised his own virtue by pretending he did not proceed and Fillon denied ever asking that. However whether this discussion happened or not, and whether Hollande did it or not, what Hollande confirmed indirectly is that it was a perfectly reasonable request from an insider of French politics (a former prime minister) to get the president to use the justice system against his opponent.
Same here. I just stayed in an AirBnB house on the water in a coastal city. The hosts lived next door and gave us a ride in their boat.
Amtrack is essentially the US postal service of passenger rail.

"Founded in 1971 to take over most of the remaining U.S. passenger rail services, it is partially government funded yet operated and managed as a for-profit corporation."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amtrak
> You can't sell an unsafe car.

I'd like to address this. Not everyone can afford a new car complete with mandatory TPMS, side airbags, and traction control. When we as a society decide to put requirements on new cars, we price some marginal consumers out of a new car and into a less-safe used car.

As the price of new cars increases, so to does the price of those used cars. So there again, we're pushing less well off consumers into cars that aren't as safe.

Personally, I think manufacturers should have the ability to sell any car they want. At the same time, they should be required to put a notice on the window sticker that says "We used the value of $X to drive the design of our safety features" (or something like that). If you want an ultra-safe car, you look for one that has $1,000,000. But people knowingly buy motorcycles and Corvettes, so obviously not everyone has the same tolerance for risk.
Consult dictionary:

elite: a group of persons exercising the major share of authority or influence within a larger group.

So "by definition" would be the answer? Whichever group rules is the elite.
I haven't even thought about that. That may actually also be true and explains a lot why Erdogan is done with the EU.
These same principles are explored more completely and systematically by Nancy Leveson in her writings, specifically https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/engineering-safer-world (free pdf) and her yearly workshops at MIT (also free!).
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It doesn't matter now.
After the first week
Ask HN: How to split equity for full-time and part-time co-founders?
I'm working full-time on my first startup and bootstrapping the company with money I've saved. I'm the technical person while my co-founder is a support/marketing/people person (our vertical is heavy on support).

My co-founder is working full-time for another company and only able to meet a couple nights per week. They have financial obligations but are committed to joining full-time after we land our first sale. We were co-workers at a previous company and are good friends.

FWIW, we did UX work to de-risk the product a bit (estimating our product/market fit and profitability through user research before launching).

Our plan is to do the standard 4 year vesting with a 1 year cliff.

Would a 50/50 split make sense and should there be any special terms to make it more even (like starting their vesting after they join full-time)?

Happy to fill in any more details. Thanks for the help!
Yes, I have. If you want to talk more about, please explain more what you want to talk about.
Classic tragedy of the commons. Prices for fossil fuels don't account for the negative externalities, the costs of which are borne by all life on Earth and heavily biased to weigh on future generations. The people in the future that don't consume any fossil fuels will pay the heaviest price for their ancestors' carelessness. One could fix this quite easily just by taxing fossil fuels enough to factor into the negative externalities - except you'd have to legislate that, equally, in every country on Earth (or at least the G20.) But the temptation is for nation-states to cheat and advantage their own economies over the others by not passing that kind of legislation, Trump-style. I don't think it will ever happen, it's all quite sad and future generations will rightfully curse our short-sightedness.
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> For air travel is far from a free market.

Indeed.

> And one seat is pretty much like another — as economists say, there is little product differentiation — so in a competitive free-for-all, everyone goes broke.

False. Perfect competition leads to zero profits, which is not the same a "broke."

> For starters, planes should not be permitted to fly so full.

> Also, we need rules limiting penalties for changing flights.

> The Federal Trade Commission or the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division should take a close look, and if rules like these don’t do the trick, the biggest carriers should be broken up.

> There is a middle ground between an abusive cartel and a ruinous free-for-all in the skies. It’s known as regulated competition.

Author notes the lack of a free market in air travel, prescribes a bunch of additional regulations, then hints that a free market would be "ruinous."

As far as I know, we've never tried free markets in air travel.
It's still around: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genuine_Fractals
The entire point of automation is to reduce human intervention in a process. If post-automation jobs = current jobs in terms of quantity and skill, there would be no economic benefit to automation. This means that of the people displaced, only a minority can theoretically get the "new" job, and even then, that hopes that there are no already qualified candidates from outside the displaced pool ready to take that job.

It's true tech increases our quality of life, no one argues this (mostly). That said our current political climate can have it's roots traced to the fact that so many blue collar workers have been displaced (first by overseas labor, second by automation) and their uphill battle to attain new work at even living wages, forget similar wages has been largely ignored if not a target for mockery by the middle class.

We need to start taking a serious look at how to deal with the groups of people who will be displaced so far and at such advanced ages that asking them to re-enter the workforce is impractical not just for them, but for the economy at a whole. Hell, even older TECH workers have a hard time finding new work after their COBOL shop shuts down, do we honestly expect it to be any easier at all for a factory worker or coal miner? I do not understand why so many obviously incredibly intelligent people in the industries I work in and read about have such a hard time grasping that for a worker who's done what they call "dumb work" for 10-30 years will have difficulty getting an education and entering a white collar profession. That was hard for me and I was a kid!
I was wondering that Oracle is not member of CNCF and they do not talk about Docker stuff. May be they wanted to chart their own path totally independent of Kubernetes/Docker/CoreOS technologies etc.

But now with this news it seems this time Oracle is not looking to reinvent everything cloud related in Java.
yeah, that is why poor Americans voted for Trump to cut taxes on wealthiest and to make healthcare less affordable.
USA is no difference. People are the same all over world.
That's fair, and a good point.
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I would also guess flexibility. It's certainly a nice property to be able to resize the swap without having to move partitions around or deal with LVM.
Project is based in Canada.
consumers still benefit from the status quo (in the short term, at least) -- this is separate from the question of if they have the option or ability to change the status quo.
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I've read a fair share of articles about his rise and background and was left with the impression that he always has been rather religiously conservative. But maybe that's the wrong conclusion. On the other hand, how can you be sure? It is hard to know whether someone is a religious fanatic or just uses it as a tool.
don't call them heroes. that degrades the word hero. it would suffice to just call them "successful".
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A system of checks and balances does a much better job of avoiding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_majority than a free-election but gridlock-less system (which is by definition much closer to direct democracy than a checks-and-balances system).

Avoiding that can be quite beneficial. The real question is what you give up to get that benefit, right?

It seems to me that what you give up is largely the ability to pass legislation that is only favored by a small majority of the population. Things that have overwhelming support still end up getting passed in checks-and-balances systems, generally.

I, personally, consider the inability to pass things with small majority support a good thing, especially given statistical fluctuations in such support....
Whatever you want to learn, you might also want to buy a paper book on the subject, e.g., one of the O'Reilly books. Interacting with paper is a qualitatively different experience from interacting with a screen, and you may find (as I do) that it is effective to switch from one to the other as your mood and location varies.
> The idea that this isn't "fishing" because they're tossed back afterward is really beyond me. Seems about equivalent to chopping the fin off a shark and then dumping what remains into the water to bleed out and die.

I guess I'm missing something, how is this in any way comparable to that? They're not cutting off a piece of the crab, just drawing some blood and putting them back. Why would they bleed out and die? Do humans bleed out and die after drawing blood?
Guess you live by the 40 hour rule, eh? Clock-in, clock-out, drone it out in corporate america?

No one is saying you should be working 70 hour weeks consistently. That's a recipe for burn out.

OP said his expectations are that people will deliver when push comes to shove. Which is more than reasonable, as people who actually deliver and put in extra hours when it matters, are given more flexible schedules, because management doesn't have to micromanage them.

If I work a 70 hour week and we deliver on-time or early, I can take extra time off. It's all about building trust. There's no linear workloads in software. We all know estimates are hard, and you should always pad your time. Some weeks you're stuck in meetings, some weeks you're coding like a mad man.

I've had plenty of coworkers who are content with working the 9-5, not thinking about anything that's outside the box, because "that's not in their job description". I would not want to work with people like that.
Yup.

Continental merged with United. They need to get the facts right.

2 stories on the front page now peddling outrage over United. HN is better than this.
There's a degree of irony in that the reason air travel is so safe is because air travel safety is so heavily regulated.
Hey Josh,
This was very helpful.
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You're afraid Hungary and Poland are going to be taken over by an Islamic dictator? Or are you referring to the rise of nationalist parties?
I hate the airlines too but holding up Amtrak[1] as the model isn't going to win you any points.

The reason airlines "hate" passengers is because they basically break even on shuttling economy passengers and look at economy passengers as more of a cost than a profit center.

Sure they're making more money now because of all the tacked on fees, but those are a relatively recent trend. The real profit is from business/first passengers and from the miles/credit card game they play.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/03/01/amtra...