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I've never heard of NetJets before, but it looks like it's for big business only (since you have to own a fraction of the jet). I was thinking of primarily appealing to the individual businessperson market and use economies of scale to drive the prices down.
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Even knowing it won't be different, what else are you going to do? Might as well go for it.
Hiring is one problem you just can't throw money at in order to solve.
None of those people were actually executed, which was my question and oskarth's claim: That people in the US had been wrongfully executed. Not wrongfully sentenced to die.

Are you too lazy to read before posting a knee jerk Wikipedia page?

How about just posting one name of an executed prisoner?
Head over to Flyertalk.com. It's more common than you think.

Those specials are also inflexible and require either advance planning or a lucky weekend special. The target market for something like this is frequent fliers who need complete flexibility.
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How is XML + XSLT better than JSON + JavaScript for generating the view in the browser?

Note: You can generate HTML using JavaScript but it is not needed. You can manipulate the DOM to change what the user sees.
Isn't it completely static? (no pun intended) You could host it on GitHub Pages for free.
A guy who used to come to our local tech group used to get dentists from Hungary to come to the UK and set up in inflatable dental surgeries at temporary locations and offer cheap dental care. So that's bringing cheap dentists to us, rather than us heading to the cheap dentists. No idea how it panned out though, as he isn't doing it anymore..

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1051660/Deflated-c...
Last release was 13 months ago; if you follow the Ti calculator community (http://www.ticalc.org/) you'll know this is fairly old news.
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I actually think the problem with all of these solutions is standardized testing. Throughout high school, I used my iPhone as a calculator for everything, but whenever we needed one for a test I had to drag out my old TI, because people were afraid I would cheat if I had internet access.
That's almost exactly the distance between Shinjuku (Tokyo) and Sendai, Japan. $40 cheaper + an hour faster by train. I think that's the alternative. High speed rail.

If you happen to live by Omiya's station (about 30mi closer to Sendai), you'd be there in under 2 hours.
Which is why Angelo Mozillo is broke and serving 10-20 in Federal prison for fraud. Oh, wait...

Seems to me the punishment tends to fit the size of the pockets of the ox that's gored. (i.e., screw a few million consumers and investors, get a slap on the wrist, screw with the MPAA, RIAA, prepare to meet thy doom.)
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You're a braver man than I for reversing that protocol. :-)

I agree that git is hard to learn and also that emulating a 16-bit CPU is straightforward.
This article makes it sound like relational databases are the pinacle of security. Sure, they have usernames and passwords and other controls, but the data is still usually stored unencrypted.

I don't think putting a few username/password credentials onto the datastore will make it much more secure, especially if I can put those same access controls into a database access layer.

In the end you need to defense in depth just like always, and that includes putting access controls, network controls, OS controls and everything else.
How overbooked does Amtrak get? Maybe Amtrak should be selling subscriptions. Or bulk discounts, but the passes are per person and expire end of the month.
Whatever the commercial viability of this particular idea, I hope that pressure from such ventures, whether delusional or otherwise, can inspire greater democratisation and fare transparency in air travel. For instance, I would be willing to pay an airline some amount of monthly recurring fees (though perhaps not $1k) to option certain seats on a large selection of flights at low prices. The monthly recurring revenue could, in theory, offset the impact of my unpredictability as a passenger on booking calculations.

Edit: On the other hand, I'd much rather the money go into some sort of vaguely 21st century high-speed rail infrastructure, particularly for short to medium inter-city trips. The absence of such makes us the laughingstock of Europe and Asia.
Super enlightening. I am about to make the transition from Silicon Valley back to India. I hope to start something of my own.

Your article is helpful in giving a glimpse of the industry in Bangalore and how it is structured differently from the Silicon Valley. Thanks!
Sorry, you invalidated your entire article with the last paragraph, which this has nothing to do with how the app store is managed and everything to do with the axe you have to grind with the very concept of a successful corporate enterprise.

"The App Store’s biggest flaw, at the end of the day, is that it is not a free market. It is not a meritocracy, and app success is slave to the whim of a corporate overlord that changes it mind without explanation more often than a 5 year old."

If I were Apple, after reading that I wouldn't give you the time of day.
I can't vouch for anywhere else in South America, but private clinics in Brazil are pretty much safe, well equiped and pristine (public healthcare is a whoole different story). We also have leading research in many medical fields, can't imagine Thailand (no disrespect) being anywhere near.
We use hadoop, cassandra, and redis in production. I've never found Information Week to be a high quality source of information, and unfortunately this is no exception. Data systems almost always rely on being in segmented and protected portions of a network with access being controlled by applications and firewalls.

Overall this article struck me as having an axe to grind. I wouldn't put, SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL or any other database on the web with open access. Just like we don't do that with any of our NoSQL solutions. Generally, I've found that security granularity is not as robust in the newer Big Data tools, but that was the same argument against MySQL and Postgres a decade ago.

* Edit: Since we are playing on names, apparently Information Week = Information Weak.
Same complaints here. You nailed it:

I came to Quora to find cool information.

Quora used to do a good job of surfacing that, now it's turned into mostly people trying to advertise in a sneaky way or asking inane questions.

They should put it back the way it was before it becomes a ghost town.
London Paris is 60mi further but under 3hours - and there is a sea in the way,

If even the English can do public projects better than you, you have a problem!
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As a former member of the US Air Force, I can say that no matter how the press or anyone tries to spin this, this is NOT a first amendment issue, it is an insubordination issue.

Every US military installation in the world displays the current upper echelon of the chain-of-command in their offices, buildings, and headquarters, and I can assure you that every US base in the world presently shows President Obama on top of that command. The POTUS is the Commander-in-Chief, and for a Marine to insult the POTUS is just as insubordinate as insulting the Commandant of the Marines (technically it's worse). Furthermore, every active duty soldier is told to keep their political opinions to themselves - it's common knowledge in the military, and this soldier clearly thought those rules didn't apply to him. The military handles soldiers who don't follow rules in a very predictable fashion...

Tough titties, Sergeant.
So pick the most convincing one that was actually executed. For such a charged issue, it's hard to take passive voice claims on Wikipedia too seriously.

Felker and Garrett are the only "specific examples" in that article from the US in the past few decades. Garrett sounds plausibly innocent, but there's certainly no posthumous proof. Similarly, Felker's alibi depends on autopsy results from a body found in a creek. Not really a slam dunk either.

Many anti-death penalty advocates believe (wrongly, I think) that it would be a huge boon to their cause if they could identify someone who was clearly innocent of the crime for which they were executed. oskarth apparently believes instances have already been found. I'm just looking for the current exemplar.
Sybase and Oracle do have pretty good security solution when you dive deep into them, but I gotta question the whole premise of the article. I have always believed if a outsider can get to your database / datastore then you already have a ton of problems.
Thats what you get now (and for the last 40years)by buying full price tickets - you can simply not checkin and pay nothing

Thats the whole reason for overbooking flights, adn why you can upgrade to 1st class - the airline only knows that the discount seats will show up
Flight Options is within the realm of the small (yet successful) business person. (http://www.flightoptions.com)
I do use coffeescript on appropriate projects.
The article doesn't make it clear what sort of security features the author would like to see in NoSQL databases beyond SSL support, which they then admit is offered by MongoDB's "commercial offering". Never mind that the commercial version is, I'm assuming, the one that is used by all of the financial institutions the author is worried about.

I'm curious though -- what security features (if any) does HN think NoSQL DBs are missing?
For some reason Amtrak is by far the least subsidized form of transport in the US. If cars had so little subsidy gas tax would be 3 dollars a gallon to cover road construction, maintenance, and parking lots etc. Airplanes are less subsidized, but you would still see an extra 20-40% added to the ticket price.

It might not be rational, but we pay a lot more in taxes to make it seem like traveling is far less expensive than it actually is.
By using small planes they can fly from minor airports (and city center STOL fields) or from the FOB section of major airports

That means faster checkin, quick TSA and no screaming kids.

A few airlines have failed trying to do this on transatlantic routes because the airlines/airports have a strangle hold on the big airports. The major airlines don't like competition and the airports don't like their richest customers speeding through without the opportunity to spend that 4hour checkin provides.
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Someone with private jet cost knowledge should be able to run some numbers really quick:

they have 9 seat jets that cost a certain amount to buy /lease /fuel /service.
Assume that all nine passengers travel just once a month and then move to 1.5 times a month, then twice a month and so on. My layman guess is that this is introductory pricing and they might to revise it pretty soon.

*I pay $50 in gas to travel 250 miles with my full size sedan car, so jet fuel alone must be a lot.
Another major deal breaker is wait time. Do I have to make reservations 4 months in advance or can I call the same day?
When you say it's a "simple" matter, and "something isn't right", why don't people "simply" fix it? What isn't right?

I claim your dismissal of it as simple isn't right.
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In fact, it is still so low that it is likely not useful evidence at all.

Let's say there are 50 serial killers in operation in the US. And the MeFi thread cited had 100,000 uniques. Even if all 50 killers read the thread you would still get a huge false positive rate if you are counting on that thread in the browser history alone telling you anything.
No problem at all. It would only cost you, well, a ridiculous amount of money, most probably several orders of magnitude more than what you are willing/able to pay.
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Yes. My friends who are sharing their gossipy and sex-related readings have not noticed it. They're all shocked by what ends up on Facebook.

As for just using the social reader as a user — well, I shouldn't have to agree to an app and share my social graph just to read news stories. Friction Sharing is great and working already.
This sounds almost too good to be true. I think, though, they'll hit the same problem as many other "unlimited" services: Those customers most likely to buy it are the ones most likely to use it to excess. How do they make money with their "best" customers flying a dozen times a month or more, not only consuming jet fuel, but also potentially blocking out the guy who books twice a month?
WTF? If you can't trust your network, OS, and user level access, how are you going to trust a DB ACL? I'll put everything up against Information Week using a caching layer (Re: memcached), which has unfettered access without security from an external layer. Non-NoSQL don't magically make security a non-issue; what a joke; in all cases, equally, one has to be aware and diligent about securing your network.
How much information from highly secured RDBMSs is leaked and lost on a daily basis? How much of that leakage is prevented by the database's security mechanism, vs. that of the application connecting to it?

And to pick on certain things - does SSL connections REALLY matter? If you're running over an untrusted network (bad idea, in general), why not just use IPSEC?
I feel your pain. It's seems some of the most popular work available is based on some impossible existing code base that some manager wants to make an "interface" for... yet the existing engineers could not even do it. So the manager thinks they can call in a specialist to save the day. Maybe the day can be saved, but if the APIs/Services are unfinished undocumented inconsistent crap then what... We all need a strong radar detector for this kind of work.
I haven't tried it myself, but Redis has support for simple authentication at least. http://redis.io/topics/security
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Just in case you want to open up your Redis instance to the internet?

Sometimes I think people like antirez add these features just so an article isn't published proclaiming Redis security to be broken because of no password authentication.
You're completely wrong about Federal highway spending: 90+% is funded by gas taxes and other user fee-like sources. In contrast, Amtrak is hugely subsidized on a passenger-miles basis.
It's easy to avoid playing wrong notes on a piano. Just don't play the piano.

Nobody is saying that it's easy to avoid internet distraction while using the internet. But it is easy to block out a few hours of not using the internet even if you are paying for a connection. It's quite similar to not going to a coffee shop for the same few hours.
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Ask HN: Could a faster Prolog have succeeded in industry?
I've read most of what's available in English regarding the Japanese FGCP and their use of Prolog derivatives. What strikes me in all that I've read, is that the "failure" of the enterprise is attributed just to the poor performance they were able the achieve compared to object-oriented procedural programming. I haven't seen any evaluation of the FGCP approach in regard to the practicalities of software production.

From their early publicity, it's clear that the FGCP was aimed at programming in the large, the kind of projects now done with hundreds of programmers using C++ or Java. Consider a typical Java programmer in industry. How well would that person adapt to logic programming?

My suspicion is that even if the Japanese had gotten KL-1 performing like C++, there still would have been tremendous difficulty shifting programmers to that paradigm. I expect that a highly-performant parallel Prolog would have been received about like Haskell has been.

Any anecdotal evidence for or against this?
I agree. I had no idea it was custom made by a graphic designer.. that would explain a lot more the 100$ cost and the fact that there's no demo.
Because the Economist article quotes negative aspects of the report while ignoring the positive ones. The report says:

"Results indicate limited effects on academic achievement but positive impacts on cognitive skills and competences related to computer use. Cognitive abilities may arise through using the programs included in the laptops, given that they are aimed at improving thinking processes."

and found a quantitative improvement:

"students in the treatment group surpass those in the control group by between 0.09 and 0.13 standard deviations though the difference is only statistically significant at the 10 percent level for the Raven’s Progressive Matrices test (p-value 0.055). Still, the effects are quantitatively large. A back-of-the-envelope calculation suggests that the estimated impact on the verbal fluency measure represents the progression expected in six months for a child"

I would have summarized the study's results as something closer to "significant improvements in cognition were seen, but improvements against the Peruvian curriculum were not seen".

(Disclaimer: I work at OLPC, as an engineer.)
Nice idea. I would totally love to have an option to import pics from some other websites, such as Flickr, Reddit, etc.
I would tend to think financial/banking/<insert would-be secure application here> would be insecure no matter what data store they use. It seems to just be part of the game - ask anyone that's developed for one.

One would assume that by adopting NoSQL that would mean a refresh of code/architecture/security but only a small part of me actually believes that.

I also do not really understand the point of this article ad it did not provide me with anything useful.
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Agreed. Every time I see it I get very angry. It's like seeing software betray your friends.

I've had at least five friends who have unknowingly shared their readings on Facebook. A few of them were guys who were reading about sexy gossip and celebrity bikini shots and whatnot. The result was embarrassing and annoying for them.
My time in contracting work would argue against your point. 0-250 people in 30 days? No problem.
I think most of us depend on fairly constant and reasonably ubiquitous connectivity to do our work. That, and it strikes me as kind of Ludditic; the Internet is here to stay. We should learn to productively adapt to it in a long-term, sustainable way, instead of trying to tune it out, however selectively.

Finally, who said that what I do on the Internet is less meritorious than my analogue alternatives? To be sure, the Internet has brought changes to the way we learn and the way information is diffused, and some of those changes, in terms of attention spans, length, substance, etc. are ambivalent at best, and in any case, not unambiguously good.

But if you weigh this against all the ways in which the Internet has expanded our overall productivity, democratised learning, and chipped away at the pillars of credentialism and occupational guilding in our economy, the net benefit seems pretty clear. Besides, at this point, rolling back its transformative place in the world seems like trying to put the milk back in the cow.
Ask HN: How do non-English speakers learn programming?
A lot of the syntax and "grammar" of programming is based on English words and convention. Lots of commands, abbreviations, etc. are also English based.

How do non-English speakers learn programming? Is it harder for them? Does it matter at all?
Because that's how it reads, and you can never unsee/unthink it now. :)
More than that, it's worth perusing all of Flajolet's papers, they're a wonderful intersection of analysis combinatorics and algorithms, and the recent book he had Coauthored (before his unfortunate passing last year) http://algo.inria.fr/flajolet/Publications/book.pdf is an amazing book.
Ah, the prerogative of youth: assuming that because you don't understand something, it must be simple. And that anybody who thinks otherwise is just a fool.

Actually, willpower is a limited resource:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_control#As_a_limited_resou...

The people who make the best use of it shape their environments to avoid temptation:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/05/18/090518fa_fact_...

Exactly as this person did.
There are basically 4 things driving up medical costs in this country. (Education, Malpractice, R&D, and Insurance) Unfortunately, I don't see any fundamental change happening in any of those areas any time soon. Just think what it would mean if you banned say, advertising the name of any prescription drug to private citizens.

I mean I can understand advertising that there are prescription treatments for ED which hey people might not know about. But, when these things have significant side effects and can't be sold over the counter you need actual medical advice not just people dancing around with smiles on their faces. Not that I think there is a chance in hell of this actually changing, but many country's actually do something like this.
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I can see that, but I also see cutting off your nose to spite your face.

Has anything less drastic been tried? Like, for example, making Internet access only available to one computer in the household?

If one believes that home Internet access is a bad value proposition I could see that, I guess, but this is such a foreign view point that I don't see how I could have anything to add.

Books? I have a Kindle. TV? I don't have cable, I subscribe to Netflix and Hulu+. Cooking? I find many recipes online. Purchasing things? I buy a lot on Amazon. Keeping in touch with friends? Email, gchat, IRC, facebook, etc.

The Internet isn't a product. It isn't even a technology. It's an efficient overlay communication network. If you communicate with the outside world it can make everything you do better. If one doesn't, then maybe one has no purpose for it but then I have no purpose for that viewpoint because that life doesn't even exist to me.
Or maybe professors should be more regulated.
I just had a conversation with a lawyer about this last week. We haven't gotten a quote, but it looks like it's going to cost a little more than $1000 for a template that I can use with different investors.

Reading this article, the one thing that was new to me was the purchase agreement. Does anyone have any experience with this, in connection with a convertible note?
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Both videos are about very different classes of devices from a "modern cell phone". For example you can't blob solder on a data link to a 960 × 640 full color LCD, you'd lose signal integrity.

Intel builds their factories in the US because they are required to by law (export controls on certain high tech). I think they are allowed to build some lower tech stuff outside the US (Israel for instance).
This is targeted towards not the $80 specials people but the guys who fly 2 or more times a month in first class.
I would love the option to pay for unlimited air travel. The "All You Can Jet" pass from JetBlue hit the sweet spot at $599 with a 3 month window and many destinations. I would like to see a company offer that again even if it means a no frills military transport style plane.
I have a pink noise generator in an old audio spectrum analyzer. Guess its time to dig it out now.