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I noticed in your FAQ that you are flying Bombardier regional jets, which "are the same planes that are used by United Express, Delta Connection, and American Airlines".

There was a big stink* a few years ago about the big airlines using new pilots on regional routes and paying them so little that many were on food stamps. I don't want to put my life in the hands of someone who is worried about where their kids' next meal will come from. What is the starting salary for your pilots?

* https://www.wimp.com/michael-moore-pilots-on-food-stamps/

https://www.reddit.com/r/flying/comments/1wxkki/pilots_on_fo...

https://blogs.wsj.com/corporate-intelligence/2014/02/12/flyi...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23265283-pilots-on-food-...
> Are you aware that both parties gerrymander their districts?

Yes, and I agree with you.

> Your comment is a perfect example of someone ignoring the other person and trying to win an argument at all costs

Oh yea, gotta win all those fake internet points. /s
I’ve done it in the New Forest and Exmoor. You just have to be prepared to break rules.

In a way we’re much better off than countries like Brazil which have immense natural forests in good condition. There the general public has very restricted visiting rights — sometimes just to a waterfall and picnic area — the rest is for permitted researchers only. Add to that the fact that in the tropics the disturbed vegetation around dwellings is less biologically interesting than comparable areas in Europe.

And finally, in the UK we have footpath access, whereas Americans are only allowed into their natural landscape if it is a state/federal park, or if they own it.
This is really not true at all. The most popular desktop in Linux, GNOME, has always drawn heavy inspiration from Mac. The latest version is really polished.

But there are so many options! Including IMHO the best one on any platform for a developer: no desktop environment and a tiling window manager.

There are even NeXTStep clones with binary compatibility! So saying Linux GUIs copy Windows is nonsense.
If you want to support old IEs, IE8 seems somewhat pointless as many applications that really require compatibility with unsupported IE versions have to support whatever is in Windows CE images on installed base of various thin clients, which means IE5 or 6.
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Does this actually exist, or are you gauging interest?

Don't mean to rain on the parade, but you were basically asking if anyone on HN was interested in helping you build this a month or two ago. [0, 1]

It doesn't seem plausible that you'd be able to arrange terminal space, airplanes, pilots, insurance, etc. so quickly. Would be happy to be wrong though, as I fly this route several times per year. Maybe I'm missing something about how this is all organized.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15927182

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15785691
Related to that, I recently found out about the Civilian Conservation Corps[1], which I thought was very cool. TL; DR during great depression US gov employed people on conservation projects for ~550USD in 2015 dollars per month.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_Conservation_Corps
> So it would follow that if automation were to fulfill the most pressing wants then people would simply just find less pressing wants that couldn't be automated

Why “that couldn't be automated”? Automation is capital intensive, not free, if the people with money get everything they are getting now cheaper with automation there's no reason that the next highest cost/utility tier wouldn't also be produced by automation. If automation were free, sure, you'd have to get down to non-automatable tasks to consume resources.

There's no inherent reason automation inherently needs to be less efficient than human labor at anything, and even if it is at something, there's no guarantee that that thing will have a cost/utility ratio that results in significant demand for it after all the things producible more efficiently by automation.
I'm assuming if you know either common byte patterns or string patterns you might be able to figure out where the password string is being allocated and watch that area of memory for changes.
I think it's fair to say build 108 has no security issues :P in fact, it's the most secure one yet.
I don't know about this. Configuration via JSON is common (Sublime Text, the most popular), I'd say that it's Atom that is bizzare on this aspect.

As for "projects", I'd argue that if you open a folder, that's your project/workspace/whatever.

Just thought I'd add this in case someone who doesn't know VS Code[ well] gets confused.
Products already exists. That's what users consume. That's also why users don't care about technological developments unless those technological developments improve user's experience, not make it more difficult for the users.
Ask HN: Anyone used a drum throne as an office chair?
I suffer from lower back pain (mainly due to an elongated tail bone) and have not found a good office chair.

I'm considering a drum throne (this guy here: http://www.aheaddrumsticks.com/drum-thrones-spg-bbr.html). Does anyone have experience with using a drum throne? Or can you recommend a good tail bone friendly chair?

Thanks, and have a great day!
I guess it depends on what type of restaurant you're going to. If you're going to a cheap, fast service restaurant then sure, I'd like to have a tablet I could use to order from.

But if I'm at a good restaurant, a server is actually part of the service. They can give you recommendations on dishes, and wine matches, and help you get exactly what service you want. Also the human experience is just part of the fine dining experience.

It would be really strange if I want to Eleven Madison Park or Bouchon and they just handed me an iPad to order my food from.
I think you misunderstood me - I don't think that buying and holding any of the current tokens on CMC is a particularly good idea. You have a very very low chance of picking the ones that will be around in a few years. However, staying aware of what new development are coming around and trading into the new promising ones as they become successful may be a good growth strategy. I agree with you that 98%+ of the current coins will be dead in less than 5 years - but there will absolutely be new ones with an increasing amount of value.

There may well be a point in the coming months or years that the market cap of current crypto deflates - maybe by 90% or more - but new cryptocurrency applications and tokens will certainly exist in 5, 10, 15, and 100 years.
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Yes I remember the CDE desktop had virtual desktops, but they go back even to Xerox Parc (according to Wikipedia). There are many minor aspects that have been tweaked and are perhaps newer ideas though. For example, on my desktop, I can search for a window title and get a list of windows across virtual desktops that are matches, and jump to the relevant desktop and window.
Don't operate a US-incorporated business from a non-US location. Conversely, if you are going to be operated from a non-US location, don't incorporate in the US.
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I remember when Google rolled out a hands free payment system at McDonalds and the identity verification step involved speaking your initials to the McDonalds employee. Despite so much automation (not even needing to pull out your phone) the system totally failed on the verbal interpretation of the initials: "Did you say "J" or "G"??" and gesturing the shape of the letter with fingers.
There is Briar which is peer-to-peer and uses Tor (or even just Wifi):

https://briarproject.org/
> We as developers might have plenty of RAM to waste, but our users usually don't.

Mh? This is a tool for developers. I don't get your point. My mom isn't going to use Atom for her shopping list :-)
I was under the impression that Ubuntu would automatically revert to last good kernel of the new one fails to boot. Was I mistaken?
I'm (very unfortunately) an expert in this area. By the numbers IE8 is a must if you want to support your site globally. I've only recently managed to deprecated IE7, but IE5 and IE6 are negligible.
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Why has Hacker News become such a hotbed for cynicism, ridicule and snark by which almost none comes constructive ideas?

I along with many of my fellow engineers use Atom everyday and love it. Sure it has some shortcomings but if anything this retrospective from the Atom team shows that they're trying to address those shortcomings at a rapid clip.

I love that it's an entirely open source system and that it is written in the accessible Javascript language so that anyone can contribute. I love that I feel like I can change any aspect of the editor fully, without limitations imposed by some vendor.

Atom, like any editor, is not for everybody. I don't care much for Sublime but it certainly has its strengths- I don't pounce on HN posts about Sublime spouting negativity because it's not my preferred editor.

Please, fellow engineers, before you post something negative think about a project you've worked on that you were most passionate about and cared most about and then remember that projects like Atom do require passionate developers and those developers likely deserve a bit more than snark or non-constructive negativity.

Thank you Atom contributors! I think the idea and ongoing evolution of Atom is a special project and I hope to one day make some contribution of my own, in some form, to the core or plugins!
If a bottleneck is dom manipulation, then something that smartly batches them and reduces the number of times it's called would help. How would that not apply to Atom?
Common Lisp would be great as well.
> "Spectre/Meltdown is a wakeup call for many things, one of them probably being for computer manufacturers to not solder the CPU to the Motherboard"

Good luck with that. A large portion of affected CPUs/SoCs are in mobile devices and ultrabooks. Socketed chips simply won't fly in those kinds of devices.
It's worth pointing out that particle-based fluid simulators are not physically accurate. They compute the positions of zero-volume particles in space at every frame (fluid has volume). This is convenient for performance purposes since you can evaluate each particle position mostly in parallel and the results look convincing enough for a movie or a game.

In contrast, mesh-based (and grid-based like in the article) simulators approximate the Navier-Stokes equations and converge to the exact solution as the mesh element sizes approach zero.

Mesh-based simulators solve a global system of equations in every frame. This system has variables equal in number to total mesh elements over the entire domain. Solving such a large system (especially in 3D) is very expensive. Furthermore, the size and shape of the mesh elements drastically affect the numerical stability of the solution, and generating good meshes is not a solved problem in all cases. For these reasons, we really only use mesh-based simulators when we need a high-degree of scientific accuracy.
Sounds like an immense waste of energy, energy that can be better utilized.

The more I hear about self driving cars the more I wish the US government would take investment into public transportation seriously.
You mean 95% of their rides are entirely autonomous or their typical ride is 95% autonomous?

I remember how voice to text got to 95% in the nineties. It's used for a lot of things these days, still not for safety-critical tasks.
How do you ensure the initial conditions are divergence-free after introducing the noise?
Random bug: All panes seem to accept pressing <enter> as valid input. The URL pane seems to spin forever if you just press <enter>.

Neat though, agreed with adding a todo to help the user navigate their first time through.
Are you suggesting that we recall the great bulk of modern CPU's? Like, literally gut everyone's computers, including those in data centers and running critical infrastructure, until replacements are eventually manufactured?

Or did you mean something else?
I can see how you might think you have a virus, with that strange message box and those encrypted files, but you actually have a problem with your GPU.

We tested if the reservoir of GPU fluid is low, but after we put the transistors on the megahertz scale it's pretty clear that your monitor won't ever go into X mode. It's completely out of sync. The only thing left is to update the source codes, or you'll never boot again.
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I'd like to do so. Do you have any suggested tour route that is interesting safe and legal?
I agree with you that the courts probably won't do much, but you should not group all the CPU manufacturers together. Meltdown mainly (only?) affects Intel. It's spectre that affects basically everyone.
> Past performance will not necessarily reflect (and should not dictate) future returns :)

Not but you know--Bell, Microsoft, IBM and others are doing pretty well.

> Also, the Arab world is arguably worse off... Invented much of math, and is now dominated by ascientific theocracies

Hardly comparable. You're talking about stuff that happened thousands (5000? no idea) ago, Olivetti had a PC a handful of years before it took off and made many billionaires.
Fossil fuels and automation have made us wealthier for the past century and a half. The overall pie has grown, but labour's share of the pie has been shrinking for the past few decades.

It's why in 2018, you can be living paycheck-to-paycheck on minimal wage, but own a flat-screen color TV. Is this a better life then doing the same job for more pay in 1950, where there were no flat-screen color TVs, home appliances were much more expensive, and much less useful? In many respects, yes.

The question is, what will your life be like in 2050? If current trends continue, we expect your share of the productive output of society to go down. Will this be offset by productivity gains (More, cheaper stuff)? Or will limits to growth (Cost of energy, cost of pollution) actually make you worse off?
> and everybody knows how they operate.

Yep! Painless to use, and truly cross platform. WhatsApp operates like a charm.
You can do what others have done - create or contribute to various open source projects in different areas and then use this in your resume when needed.

You can always expand your capabilities by getting involved in other projects in your work environments. Find out what different people are needing done and provide a solution when you can. people will recognise that you are the "go to guy" for solving their problems.
Customer service is not the only consideration. Anne Arundel County, where I live, has exemplary customer service. But at the end of the day, its water and sewer rates are too low to fund necessary infrastructure, and the net result is that untreated sewage gets dumped into the Chesapeake Bay after major rainstorms. Such problems, and related problems like failure to replace aging lead pipes, are a problem all over the country. Same thing for transit and roads, which are also uniformly abysmal.
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Yes and no. Normal contracts of a small dollar amount are not worth litigating. I have on a couple of occasions done a couple of consulting arrangements for small amounts of money, and wasn't paid for the work I did, even when the contract was signed.

Smart contracts can have arbitration arrangements built into the contract, where neutral parties (a middle man with a reputation/trust rating) can make a ruling on a dispute. There are platforms in development for this very thing, with mechanisms in place to mitigate against malicious arbiters.
Clustering the Pi has always been fairly easy [0].

[0] http://www.southampton.ac.uk/~sjc/raspberrypi/
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The huts are seriously fantastic. For any visitors to NZ who have any interest in hiking, buy a doc hut pass ($90 when I last bought one some years ago) and stay in most of these huts at no additional cost.

Some of the abandoned ones have been adopted. You might appreciate this: http://remotehuts.co.nz/

As far as I can tell doc seems to be engaging in more commercial activity, buying remote properties that are cheap (because they're remote), and renting them out Airbnb-style. My guess is they may actually make money from this activity. And they may need to because of years of reduction in government funding, in real terms. You may know more about this than I do.
If it is indeed legit, then the price would rise to roughly the same as on other sites.
Since this hasn't happened yet, I think there might be some issues with payout.
I'm not talking about public facing websites, but internal applications. For public facing websites graceful degradation is at least for me acceptable and it is not that hard to build site that gracefully degrades and is still usable in browser that does not support JS and CSS at all.
So how does this fit into their "no commercials" policy?

Jokes aside, I don't want to see too much of this at future consumer shows.

Edit: holy downvoting brigades, what have I done?
Processing transactions at a bank is "boring". It's simple, apart from scale, and the spec is usually insanely well documented.

But if you reach for that new language that hasn't been battle-tested yet, you're probably screwing the bank over.
I don't recall there being anything special about 4000' from a regulatory perspective so I suspect that's the service ceiling.
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My favorite: "Insolence of the young: shame of a nation."
That's ok, you just open with "Hey Google, I want a pizza from Good Pizza House" instead. Anything you leave open is up to the assistant to try and interpret what might be a good choice.

For the average consumer who otherwise didn't specify, Dominos is a good choice: it's cheap, reliable, they understand the menu and deals, and it's consistent across time and place.
Interesting, thanks for reporting !
The ad bubble and how it affects Google/Mozilla is now one of my favorite topics. It is not just Google, but it is the most interesting.
If you have a liquid cooled GPU then GPU Fluid is a real thing...
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Relying on fine-grained maps always seems to me like the Wrong Way to do these things. Fine-grained maps are guaranteed to be wrong, so you can't rely on them. And if you don't rely on them then you don't need them.
Nice infomercial, engadget.
Or maybe they are just busy doing other things??
Yes it was a comment about how unappealing this is, we do the same thing whenever somebody else here brags about the tech solution which lacks product market fit.

Shopping for a home has to appeal to people that are in the market for a home. The phrasing is not exclusive to buying versus renting, but colloquially thats what it implies. People in the bay area currently on the market wouldn't be looking for this, it would be the new and naive next year and the year after that may wind up considering this. The current market is people that can make down payments on million dollar+ mortgages and that doesn't include living in the carcass of a suburban mall.
Small world; most of my ISP complaints come from just north of you in Baltimore.

Although I think it's unfair to call the numerous problems of monopolistic ISPs "customer service" alone (service interruption, quality?) we certainly had our fair share of main breaks, probably once every few months/years you would see a fountain up through some major intersection, so I'll give you that. But they were fixed. Rapidly, and often motivated political will for higher investment, although unfortunately that never seemed to cross over past "reactionary" to "planning ahead."

Meanwhile. when Comcast has an exclusive agreement with an apartment complex, and their connections in a leaky electrical box are so corroded that 20%+ packet loss was the norm, there was effectively 0 avenue for improvement.

However, you've summarized the problem well for infra: There's simply a lack of funding/costs are not being accounted for. To my mind that's a MUCH simpler problem than convincing a free market to guarantee equivalent service for something that isn't "optional" in modern life, and that might not have effective competitive pressures. (It's not like our internet service market is miles ahead of competing first world countries, even within large cities where America-scale isn't as big a problem)
I can't honestly imagine you were either so blind or stupid as to believe that either of those were her main messages. Was your point to say that you slept through the election or that you got all of your political information via Fox news and 4chan? Not sure which, but you certainly weren't actually paying attention in 2016.
No, more realistically it results in the device being thrown out for one that doesn't ask the user a million questions at startup.

Sane defaults should be used because they enhance the user experience tremendously. Nobody buys a gadget for its setup, they buy it to use it, and delaying the user from that end goal is not going to do anything but annoy the end user and ultimately harm the manufacturer's bottom lines.
The cool part is its not programmed to do that. It is learning how to do that.
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Hmmm, so after reading the FAQ and the comments, I don't really see what the advantage here is over just flying one of the major carriers.

Changing the pricing model is useful, but only really for people who cannot predict their schedule enough to get the lower rates from the commercial carriers. It seems to me that people who fall into that class, and yet are willing to subscribe to a few flights a month might not be super common. Particularly once the service starts to fill up, and you can't guarantee a seat at the last minute.

The private terminal thing might be helpful, but frequent travelers are going to have already bribed the government to skip the full security line. Last time I was in SFO the precheck line only took me about 2 minutes. If I had checked in early, and only had carry on luggage, I could probably have gotten to the airport when boarding started and still made my flight (haven't went through LAX security in a few years can't comment there).

So, while the GA/private terminal would be enticing if it were operated like a charter plane (aka no TSA to worry about at all), and the flights were small enough they would be willing to hold it if I was running 5 mins late, but it doesn't appear to be the case. The regional jets are much to large for that kind of behavior, and given that its not a business jet, the seating is going to be as miserable as it is on the larger carriers.

To me it sounds like they are trying to reinvent the SW airlines of the 1970's which operated more like a traditional bus service (lots of frequent flights, last minute ticketing, etc) but without the huge profit margins on tickets that SW was competing against.

So I would expect that to really lure people they need something closer to the full charter experience (business class seating at a minimum). For that, I suspect people might be willing to spring for a few extra dollars (bus class tickets are probably easier to compete with given they still tend to have larger margins). Large corps that like to fly their plebs in economy seats probably aren't going to spring for the extra ticket price (besides getting into the booking system might be challenging).

Anyway, good luck...
There is a Reddit community for Generative Art:

https://www.reddit.com/r/generative/

Computer generated art is fascinating