skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well there is no "typical" for an A380-sized widebody and Emirates might have no choice but to keep most of theirs until the end of their lifespans (unless there's a freighter conversion programme). But in general a commercial passenger aircraft lasts around 25 years, so 10 years isn't really a short period of ownership for a first owner (and is a fairly long lease). Fixed maintenance intervals often require the aircraft to be almost totally rebuilt within that timescale, which is a good opportunity to transfer owner/operator and refit to some other airline's spec.

Most airframes - the A380 is an exception - can be readily resold or leased on a liquid market. There's big depreciation over the first few years, sure, but operating costs are bigger than capital costs, and newer aircraft are less thirsty for fuel. Airlines purchasing aircraft also usually get big discounts, and have specialist financial institutions willing to front up the capital and eat some of the downside risk on the depreciation. Airlines leasing aircraft typically do so for periods of more like five years, with lease extensions at their discretion.
Here's the rub: if VR gets you to your peaceful place, that's great, but what happens when you don't have access to your VR? Suddenly you are not equipped to deal with a situation, or even center yourself because you don't have that particular crutch.
If an airline wants to own it longer, buying outright makes more sense. They can still extend the lease but a lot can change in 10 years so that it give some flexibility. For Emirates, which has a lot of ultra-long routes, they can now get newer and more fuel-efficient A380s, selling the first-generation ones to airlines that fly on shorter routes.
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Most exciting thing in this article is that they are bringing back the Ranger. I never understood why they quit the light truck market for a few years.
While I think there are critics who attempt to provide a balanced critique, I know I have provided criticism with the intent to harm. The reason is one of self-defense of a sort.

For example, I'm proposing a fraud detection system of my own design to address tricky issues in our product. Higher-ups want to purchase an existing system from a third party, which means I don't get to work on my pet project. They ask me for my input. At this point, my primary interest is in exposing all the flaws in their proposed system which render it unfit for purpose. I'll probably acknowledge some strengths just to make my argument more tolerable to them, but my goal is to persuade them to take my preferred course of action.

Likewise, if I rant about Java, it's probably because I would like to take some of the "mindshare" Java enjoys and move it to my favored language(s).

There are probably other reasons to want to damage something through criticism, but that's how I find myself employing it.
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Seriously cool. Love the old school UI. It immediately put a smile on my face. It works great on mobile. I did find a bug though. If I switch to red, I can't switch back to black. Android, chrome.
I coded once against h264 spec it felt like walking on water, there is always an edge case that the spec do not specify and you are not sure how to handle it.
I'm currently in Brisbane, and arrived here while the big drought was still in progress (around 2008). Numerous restrictions, legislation for water saving measures, desal plants, etc were being implemented at the time, with pretty astounding results in terms of average water consumption.

The drought broke in January 2011, and it's a little sad to see how much that was learnt, has been forgotten in the last 7 years. Desal plants all but mothballed, average consumption gone up (almost double the drought levels again), etc. I really hope the drought in Cape Town breaks soon (I have many friends there), but I hope they don't unlearn the lessons, and kill infrastructure when it does.

Interestingly, late last year, it was pointed out by the authorities that the dams are at warning (pre restriction) levels again here, so I dare say we will see it all again.
I guess the best approach would be to captcha everything until we've captcha'd ourselves back into dial-up times for content delivery. /s
I pay $240 a month for 5 voice lines with "unlimited data" and one data only line for my iPad with T-mobile. They also throw in a Netflix subscription in with it that I was paying for separately so really it's $230. It has 2G international data roaming included in most places and 4G roaming in Mexico and Canada. Finally it has unlimited 3G tethering (that's good enough in a pinch).

They don't throttle your dada over a certain limit but you do get deprioritized during times of network congestion. My son who doesn't live with us uses his phone for internet exclusively and he does 80GB+ a month without a noticeable slow down. My wife has a split shift and between her shift, when she's not at the gym, she watches about two or three hours of streaming video a day.

I haven't had a problem with T-mobile except in very rural areas but that doesn't happen often at all.
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Agreed. Humidity is higher on A380 than 777 though not as good as on A350 or 787. Some airlines use humidifiers on other aircraft (Lufthansa on the 747-8i in First/Biz only)
There's an issue for that: https://github.com/1j01/jspaint/issues/35
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10 years is a normal leasing term. You'd expect a significantly longer total service lifetime.
To be fair, there are lots of ideologies which provide "for all problems P, X is the answer". Capitalism, Marxism, many flavors of religion.

Fanatic behavior adds that "no problem Q can be as important as problem P (for which we know the answer is X), so we don't need to discuss it except to figure out how Q is related to P".
In German, you can combine a bunch of words to create a new one.

Feel free to read the full explanation on a pretty awesome example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donaudampfschiffahrtselektrizi...
I have a "Kill Sticky" bookmarklet that someone linked on here eons ago, that I wish I could attribute proper credit.

This one however, is much more fun.

Cool idea/execution!
The problem you describe mostly exists for London. JFK is crowded but not as overcrowded as LHR. And FRA just (7 years ago) got a new runway, they're not close to runway capacity. Other hubs in Europe (e.g. AMS) are also below capacity.
That's pretty much list price according to Airbus' recently published price adjustments for 2018.
For no good reason

I take issue with this. Airport expansion has obvious effects on local populations, like you've pointed out the UAE doesn't care about. Expansion of hubs can itself be expensive, disruptive, and environmentally damaging.

I'd also dispute that "the cheapest flight always wins", otherwise every flight would be run by a low-cost carrier.
Pretty sure that the purpose of a husband goes beyond bum flattery.
>Despite the publicity generated by Porteous's book and the 2011 television documentary, the FBI is standing by its position that Christiansen cannot be considered a prime suspect.[50][168] It cites a poor match to eyewitness physical descriptions, a level of skydiving expertise above that predicted by their suspect profile, and an absence of direct incriminating evidence.[201]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper#Kenneth_Christian...

I do like the more recent evidence from the tie; it contains titanium shavings or fragments.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/northwest/does-tha...
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It's been illegal to use municipal water in pools for a few months now. Most municipal swimming pools are closed.

Before that (around March 2017), you were only allowed to do so if you had a 'pool blanket', which makes a huge difference.

(The little amount of rain we have received over the past few weeks is sufficient to keep the levels high enough in our pool to keep the water level above the weir, without having used other water)
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The arguments against web frameworks
Net worth is assets minus liabilities.

Starting point:

You: Assets=$100, liabilities=$0

Bank: Assets=$0, liabilities=$0

You now deposit the money:

You: Assets=$100 (money they owe you), liabilities=$0

Bank: Assets=$100 (cash in vault), liabilities=$100 (money they owe you)

Which is to say, the number in their database is money they owe you, which cancels out the cash in their vault. So bank's net worth is still 0.
https://twitter.com/nintendolife/status/953941301023707138

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Only that the comparison is stupid.
It has too many dependencies beyond .NET and Windows Forms by now. Text rendering is DirectWrite, for example, other parts use Direct2D, the UI partially uses WPF as well if I remember correctly.
Maybe this is one way/method to deal with it? Squarely?
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I just did a bit search...

in 2009, there were roughly 40 airports worldwide could handle A380 [1]...until 2009, the number of accumulative A380 orders worldwide was 202 planes [3].

and in 2015 there were roughly 48 airports worldwide could handle A380 [2]...between 2010 and 2015, the number of accumulative A380 orders worldwide was 87 planes [3]...

there was a 20% increase of A380 capable airports between 2010 to 2015 and a 40% increase of A380 planes in the same period...apparently, so far for A380, the airport construction lagged far behind its production...

Note that almost all A380 flights are international flights (and usually covering long distance), with the exceptions of some less than 10 domestic flights which are all flying within China...

No Russian flight (international or domestic) uses A380; and no US domestic flight uses A380 either...

Given the current international travel climate, I just do not see there would be a lot of potential changes for the current A380 market within the next 5 or even 10 years...

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source

[1] http://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=339455

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20160402062354/http://www.a380fl...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Airbus_A380_orders_and...
Yeah, I would definitely nope out of that, then. Especially after a long day of talks; my batteries would be fried.
Don't think in terms of wide-body vs narrow-body. Think in terms of long-haul vs short-haul.

The lifespan of a plane tends to have more to do with the number of pressurization cycles it goes through (and the number of take-offs and landings) - they go together, after all. Pressurizing the plane stresses the plane, and eventually the frame just can't be trusted, no matter how good the airline is at maintaining the plane. Short-haul flights (say going back and forth between New York and Washington D.C.) could conceivably manage 5 round trips a day or more, which is much more stress than a plane flying one round trip per day between New York and London.

Even most planes used for short-haul flights would be expected to last more than 10 years, and planes used for long-haul flights can be used for 30 years by major airlines. But keep in mind that airlines will certainly replace planes earlier if a newer plane has enough efficiency gains that will allow costs to recouped more quickly.

Singapore Air returning this plane already (and there's a second as well) means that the plane simply isn't profitable (or profitable enough) for them to keep flying. Most likely whatever route this plane was used for will continue with a smaller flight that costs less to fly.
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There's an issue for that: https://github.com/1j01/jspaint/issues/2
I really don't feel like there is a better way to handle it than the curators system. I mean, look at Youtube and Amazon recommendations, they're awful.
I understand why Microsoft doesn't list the affected AV vendors/products, but I'm curious. Is there a list of offenders somewhere?
> that didn't say "government is bad."

Yet it did start with "The problem is government".
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Need likes, That's the only way I can save my relationship. It's weird
> When I worked in Student Life Department my Universtiy never sent anyone to the National Student Life Conference. They sent two from my office and whent they came back all kind of chaos happened. They found out we were overworked and underpaid.

Is that really a negative?
Cost and lead time of infrastructure (and adequate planning).

Systems to do this exist in the country (eg, moving water from Lesotho to the Vaaldam with the Highlands water scheme), but that project was 15+ years in the making, and is still ongoing.

From what I can see, nothing like this was realistically expected for Cape Town, and thus never planned for.
That was fun :)

Seems like a fun (if not particularly effective) way to test CSS graceful degradation too.
Water supplies implicitly mean freshwater supplies. Sea level rising can't help that (seawater is not usable directly, and for desalination plants the bottleneck is their capacity and power usage, not amount of seawater available) but it can make it worse e.g. if certain aquifers become saltwater.
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In fairness Steam forces updates too. In the old days you could play games without updating to the latest version. Now game updates are mandatory.

So MS followed Valve on this.
A friend of mine joked that a recent Windows update “downloaded the entire internet and then proceeded to install it”. The next day, I watched with horror as my computer restarted with the same Windows update...it took a similar amount of time (45 minutes to download, 30 minutes to install)

I would really like to know what it was downloading, and why it took so long. My entire windows partition is only 100GB, it would have been faster for me to back up my data, download a new ISO and install Windows from scratch than to just update it.
RE: Denying plaintext connections. Totally agree & great if your clients connect directly to hosting you have full control over. The biggest problem I've come across is that cloud services like CloudFlare & API gateways (Tyk for example) don't have the option (or at least I couldn't find it) to disable HTTP traffic. Plenty offer to redirect HTTP to HTTPS but I haven't been able to refuse HTTP traffic outright.

Does anyone have any recommendations for services that do offer this? (or where those options are in the named services)
What worries me is that those tests are with unpatched kernels. So these drops are only from the microcode updates?!
There's Labview, Scratch, and now I think, Luna. Are visual programming languages really now so common that we need to specify "text-based" for new computer programming languages?
Agreed. It's a terrible waste of time, money, and energy from tens of thousands of people. All for nothing.
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The problem is that Windows is designed for the lowest knowledge user, who would never manually prompt for updates because they either think them useless, don't know they are there, or have a "don't fix it if it works" mentality.
Their support is pretty bad from what I hear, but then again, so is Microsoft's. Bad support doesn't seem to be the kind of thing anyone is making decisions based on, no matter how much people like to bitch about it.
It's an interesting graph, but I wonder if it's specific for the adult vertical. I could imagine traffic for YouTube showing the same pattern.
Entertainment-related site use may just have gone up and down along this curve (with news-related sites maybe showing the reverse pattern)? Does anyone know other sources of traffic stats (arent there public stats of big internet hubs somewhere?)
> It also makes elections a more accurate reflection of everyone's preferences

I happen to know that Brazil has mandatory voting for most people (it’s optional for 16 and 17 year olds, and for anyone older than 65).

They allow people to vote for nobody, and to vote for “whoever wins.” Since Brazil requires an actual majority vote, voting for “the winner” amounts to “I want to avoid a run-off.”
You'd need to pay Steam a librarian fee, or something. People would buy games on the low cost markets with the crap management and low user numbers, then transfer to eg Steam. Steam pick up the costs of updating, managing users, etc., and the other sellers get the money from sales.
I'm not sure

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is a particularly interesting SVG image that has any benefits over the equivalent PNG.
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On 8.1, it's in Network & Internet/Data usage/Network restrictions. It does seem odd that they put it in the data section, not the wifi section.
> Well, price is zero

Except it isn't - Steam reportedly charges a chunky 43% extra on top of what the publisher gets (30% of the retail price you pay goes to Valve).

Other platforms try to charge the same, but for a near-zero-marginal-cost good, it is a bit strange that there is no price competition yet...
Lives aren't ruined by airport noise. The housing price around major airports is lower than it otherwise would be, but still higher than housing even further away from the city requiring a longer commute.
Which is a decision I agree with. I feel like the ones who sell the products and the ones who recommend the good products shouldn't be the same people.
Hi all,

I'm the VP of Engineering at Wallaroo Labs. Happy to answer questions. I worked with Andy on this preview release of our Go API. Andy will be on in a while and will also be answering any questions that might come up.

We are getting ready to start work on performance tuning soon. We have a lot of work already planned there.

If you play around with the Go API, we'd love to hear from you. We need your feedback to improve our Go offering.

You can reach us via our user mailing list:

https://groups.io/g/wallaroo

Or our IRC channel:

https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wallaroo

We'd also love to do a short call with folks to discuss their Go stream processing use cases. If you email hello@wallaroolabs.com, we can set that up.

Thanks in advance!

HN was really helpful in helping us develop the new version of our Python API. We hope to get the same results with the Go API.
Yes, but hunting and gathering in the bush doesn't do a damn about increasing technology and getting us off this planet. All it takes is one planetary scale disaster, and we're done for.
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A very good place for elixir questions is https://elixirforum.com/ community is super friendly and you will often get questions answered by core team members or even Robert Virding (one of the Erlang creators).
They made 15 in 2017 and will make 12 in 2018. Starting in 2019 they will go to 8 p.a., which means that the additional 20 planes will push the currently foreseeable end of production from 2023 to around 2025.

However Airbus have said that they could go to 6 p.a. and there are strong rumors regarding a big order from China being announced at Leahy's (head salesman at Airbus) last press conference in February. This plus Emirates supposed demand for Airbus guaranteeing production over a 10 year period starting in 2028 has lead people on the internet to speculate that 2028 is the year current and prospective orders will be delivered (going at a rate of at 6 p.a. instead of 8), barring any replacement orders by current users.

Overall, the whole story is murky at best. We simply don't know the details of Airbus' production costs and though they claim to be making a profit at 8 p.a., it's pretty unlikely that 6 p.a. can yield any profits. So that would be Airbus making a bet on significant demand materializing over the next 10 years. It would also be a huge bet on Emirates making use of the 10 years of production (i.e. at least 60 airplanes) starting in 2028 that Airbus is rumored to have guaranteed.
This is also my experience in Vienna. Having been there very often and also a few times in London I would say that there are both noisey and quiet bars/café's/pubs in both cities. And indeed in most cities in europe.
I agree, on the functional requirements vs non functional. On most of the project that I worked on the non functional part is what hurted the most. But still, in you example in my opinion there is 2 defects, a design defects for not choosing the right data structure and coding error which is not checking the boundary or any other error and handle it properly. I can choose the most terrible data structure for a given use case but I can make a good job at handling the case with it that it will work, it won't be fast or it will use double the needed memory or more cpu... But it will function properly. On the other hand I can select the perfect data structure but do a poor job at using it and end up with bugs.
My point is the 2 are different type of defects and need to be catched separately with the right set of tool for each and not mixing stuff.
The tools for catching coding errors are multi level of tests, code review ...
The tools for catching design errors are design review, clarifying requirements (including non functional), may be formal verification when needed...
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What I didn't mention in the article is a sea of corner cases around the SYN handling code. For example: did you know, that when SYN Cookies are disabled (sysctl set to 0), a quarter of slots in SYN Queue is reserved for "IPs that we have in route cache".

http://elixir.free-electrons.com/linux/v4.14.8/source/net/ip...

/* Without syncookies last quarter of
* backlog is filled with destinations,
* proven to be alive.
* It means that we continue to communicate
* to destinations, already remembered
* to the moment of synflood.
*/

Anyway, setting SYN Cookie sysctl to zero is a terrible idea.

There is more, the SYN Queue used to bleed-out SYN packets at a rate of 0.5HZ if full. A feature basically nobody understood - removed in 4.10.
I so, so wish something like Fuze was available for ioS. I'm an old-school ZX-Spectrum tinkerer and I still miss Basic. I can't help thinking it would still be unsurpassed as a simple (text-based) way of teaching coding to kids.
On the flip side; if you had babyduck'd to Apple instead, then Windows would be the odd one out of the modern operating systems.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_duck_syndrome
I like conferences like Hope and Defcon because they aren't just informative..they are entertainment. Lets be honest, when you want to learn something, text will have a way bigger information density than a slide talk watered down to appeal to the poor taste of the public..
why would they not move water from one place in SA to another

Not my area of expertise, but:

South Africa has some massive water transfer schemes: The Lesotho Highlands Water Project and others. The Western Cape Province and Cape Town are governed by the national opposition party (Democratic Alliance). It wouldn't surprise me if this led to a lack of coordination and plannning with the national government, if not outright neglect of the issue (along with general infrastructure-planning neglect between 1990-2005 or so).