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And I agree that it is legal and that is why in my post I said that in court "it won't hold" in other words it might be an easy win for the customers.

But, at the same time, AA was operating under some assumptions, and that was that there won't be abuses like these going on. Now even though the contract says this and that, wouldn't your agree that selling the extra seat or booking it under a false name, in mind of most people is equivalent to abuse? I am using a common sense definition that appeal to some sense of "fairness" in everyone. Not the legal definition of it.

So to recap, AA was stupid for not fixing up the contract correctly, BUT these passengers, if this goes to the media or jury can be made to look like opportunists who are ruining and destroying a company. At least there is a PR opportunity there for AA that is contrary to what the grand-parent posted, that this is a 100% PR loss for AA and the PR loss is actually worth the $10mil/year or so loss from these customers.
Hi Matt,

Looks like the subdomain you referenced did have a hack, but the main site didn't. I had done a Google fetchbot request to check before hand. Regardless, I can see how having hacked subdomains might trigger the warning.

Based on your comment, should we understand that split testing, where it actually redirects to a few different separate pages, is an okay form of testing that won't trigger the "this site was compromised" warning?
Hi saurik, here's what I can tell from home on a Sunday night:

- some pages on the domain were definitely hacked across multiple pages for weeks.

- we detected hacked pages on the site both manually and algorithmically based on our hacked site classifier.

- we sent a message via the webmaster console on May 5th to alert the site owner so they'd have a heads-up.

- it looks like this has nothing at all to do with A/B testing (which as I've said before is perfectly fine to do).

That's what I know with near 100% confidence.

Here's what I believe, but won't be able to confirm until tomorrow when I can talk to a few folks. I think the domain was hacked in multiple ways. I found the hacked pages on model1.webdesigncompany.net just from doing site: searches. And you're right that those are auxiliary pages, not related to the main part of the site. But I suspect the core site was also hacked, based on looking at the manual action that was submitted. I'll be happy to talk to the relevant webspam people to ask for more details.
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I don't mean to be a jerk, but multiple files does not mean bloat. In fact, shoving a bunch of orthogonal functionality into a single file screams bloat more than 3 thousand-line files, or 6 500-line files.
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> I think life expectancy was around age 62

You are thinking of life expectancy at birth, which averages in childhood death.

SS only pays people who worked for at least a few years, so life expectancy for people who reach age ~20 is much higher.
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If our customers receive a defective item that costs less than $20, we simply ship them a new item immediately, without asking them to return the old one. It only costs us a few bucks, saves the customer up to 2 weeks of wait time, save us having to process the return and usually earns us a life-long customer and vocal advocate. It's a no-brainer, and I don't understand why more companies don't do it.
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It seems like hindsight is still 20/20. I wonder how much of this is simply crafting a story loosely around a person/company.
"Though both the Germans and Americans invented this chrome-plating technology in 1937 and 1950, respectively, it existed in China 2,200 years ago."

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If your assumption is infinite time and complete entropy, yes it's correct. It's also why some level of common sense (e.g. Occam's razor) should be applied before such silliness is seriously proposed. I don't think Boltzmann assumes infinite time and entropy, just enough for the completely random emergence of sentient life that thinks (perhaps falsely) that it lives in a universe populated by similar beings who created iPads from dirt and water.

Does it seem more reasonable that there is infinite time and every possible state of matter and history exists at some point, or that we simply haven't figured out the balancing forces of entropy and order?

Infinity is an interesting thought experiment, but it so thoroughly ridiculous that it should cause us to question our assumptions, not believe in absurdity conclusions based on faith in mathematics and unproven postulates that got us there.

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I am arguing that, regardless of the legal battle outcome, AA can turn this around and successfully portray these few customers as opportunists and abusers of the system who are hurting the company.

Most people have some sense of fairness and would probably agree that selling the empty seat or say booking it under a made up name just doesn't seem right. So AA could successfully turn this around make quite a few people sympathize with it.
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iPads make video calls very simple even for people who are not computer savvy. Just configure the software once and it's always ready.
> I strongly believe the contemporary fetish of liking and sharing cheapens the way we consume our information.

It's not necessary to like, retweet, etc in order to consume the content. If all you want is to click on a link and get to an article, then that's all you have to do.

> Don't get me wrong, I do see value in community driven content, but there's also a lot of dirt and sensationalism.

Then curate the people you follow / subscribe to on your social networks. You have full control over the posts you see on Twitter, for example, especially if you create lists to only include accounts that tweet out new articles for a given blog or newspaper. Works just like an RSS feed, but it's integrated in the social product you use anyway (speaking from my perspective, at least).

> This forces me to absorb it all, even though most of their content doesn't go viral. This liberates me from feeling the urge to be connected all the friggin' time, plus more importantly, there is a gold mine of wisdom to be found in the non-controversial content out there.

Being forced to absorb it all and not miss a post is liberating? I often feel the opposite--that I need to disconnect and just accept I can't read everything on the Internet.
melvinram, that's correct. Split testing is a perfectly fine form of testing and doesn't have anything to do with the "this site was compromised" warning. That's the high-order bit.

If you want low-level/detailed info, we discuss this topic on our support page at http://support.google.com/websiteoptimizer/bin/answer.py?hl=... . Hope that helps.
The logic for these schemes is always that a vast majority of people enrolling won't really use all that it has to offer.

Take the unlimited buffets for example. How it generally works is if you are offered unlimited buffets at $x a month. Then the restaurant can repeatedly serve you repeated food, oily, spicy and unhealthy. Of course in while to keep you in the game they can serve you good food. But by this they can make you eat less and increase their profits compared to a per meal deal. Every once in a while this doesn't workout and people eat like pigs, and you lose out.

Same with telecom companies, the assumption they make is not everyone has the time for unlimited calls. Now there are people sitting next to me who talk to their girlfriends/boyfriends for hours everyday. There are also guys whom I know who download stuff from torrents 24x7 365 days an year.

Same with health clubs. Entertainment of weekends is expensive. So unlimited plans don't do well.

In this case it was a classic goof up. Free travel opens a flood gate to unlimited vacations.
Maybe there should be an official HN policy to post one-page stories when available, and perhaps even alter story URIs when necessary?
Which raises the point: Is there some way to report spam on Hacker News?
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My preference would be to put it in when it pays for itself (i.e. makes the code smaller) and not before. Otherwise it's too easy to fall victim to one's own spin.
Just did this on an old Inspiron 1545 with Ubuntu 12.04 on it and I'm already noticing major improvement in both boot time and the apps I open frequently (also with the help of preloader and zram)

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Did he really stop coding? How can one give up coding and focus on managing? I really find it difficult.
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Check up on the facts to avoid repeating propaganda.
I think that ship has already sailed...
Interestingly, this means that common "lucky" numbers are actually unlucky, to a degree inversely proportional to their perceived luckiness across the population.
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Well, since he is talking about how bad the specs are (and not the VM) this seems only partly true ;)
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I find it interesting how several of the events limit what anyone living then can observe about the past. It's almost as if the past itself is vanishing.
The Republican-invented meme of social security insolvency because it didn't account for life expectancy increases is tired and worn out. The reality is that the architects of it were nowhere near that stupid, and they accounted for evolving life expectancies with a fairly high degree of accuracy. Had they not, the fund would have been bankrupt long ago.

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I can't really see how a successful IPO helps them grow, its not like they need the cash?
It's posts and comments like these where I so miss the down vote click.

There's not even a hint of irony.

It's all about the 'entertainment' value.

Am I seeing a remake of the book/movie 'Hunger Games'?

"Oh Nigel, do kindly pass me two of your Entertainment cards. You'll get a treat if you do..."
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That makes sense. You can't extrapolate from two data points though. I could just as easily claim that their profit is gaining 350 million a quarter an they'll end up with half a billion in profit for the year.
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I do not. I have a degree in International Relations. My experience with PHP, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS is completely self-taught. I can't talk to the pay level, but I believe I get paid similarly to other developers with a similar experience level.

Having said that, the key is skills and experience more than education. However, an education can help you build skills that you may not develop otherwise.
Which can serve as ID, like a fingerprint or retinal scan.
>>AA was operating under some assumptions, and that was that there won't be abuses like these going on.

Please, I mean I agree with you about the abuse to an extent. But I can't imagine for a moment, how some one can go about things like this which involve tens of millions of dollars without proper paper work.

This sort of a scheme shouldn't ideally get out without reviews with the legal department. I mean any thing like this should really have some clauses for handling traditional definitions of fraud.

This looks plainly stupid on behalf of the company. I still don't see customers responsible for the abuse. Its like a lottery, If I win a lottery then the lottery company must not complain I am taking home millions after investing merely some $10. If that is what should worry them, then they shouldn't offer the lottery at the first place.
Managing a company is not that different from coding: instead of instructing machines what to do, you instruct people.
As much as you can criticize Facebook for its privacy fumblings and other missteps I have an enormous amount of respect for Zuck for one simple reason:

For someone of that age with so little experience to guide something that started from his dorm room into a (potentially) $100B company in ~10 years while still maintaining effective control of it is a truly remarkable accomplishment. There would have many, many opportunities (and traps!) to exit, get ousted by investors or whatever.

The fact that he didn't cash out and maintained his singular vision is (agree with it or not) a remarkable trait.

He does seem like he has come a long way since his virtual meltdown at the All Things D conference 2 years ago.
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Dan Gilbert's TED Talk does a great job demonstrating this (http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_gilbert_asks_why_are_we_happy.h...).
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great discussion. interesting topic. garbage article. really. read it. it's absolutely atrocious.
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It boggles my mind every time I see that spreadsheet program. It's probably one of the tersest bits of code I've ever seen.

Here's an overview of the spreadsheet program that's implemented and a walk through a bit of the code:

http://www.nsl.com/papers/spreadsheet.htm
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CISPA is way worse and its backed by 800+ massive corporations:

http://www.digitaltrends.com/web/cispa-supporters-list-800-c...

So they can talk all they want... its still the same kind of thinking in the system. Dirty old men wanting to get more power.
I think you've missed the point. I'm not saying that using the cascade is bad, I'm saying that you need to have better control over it. Applying styles in the global scope gives you no control over it. When I say "global type styles" I'm referring to styles in the global scope, not cascaded styles.

You need to be able to separate your styles into layout and decoration for them to be re-usable. Anything in the global scope becomes a problem. It's the same as writing modular code in any other language.

Regarding the rendering speed, it has been proven multiple times that the performance impact of wildcard selectors is so unnoticeable it's not worth even worrying about at all.

When you build anything large enough that needs to be maintained and scaled by a team of people you need to limit to the cascading of styles or your stylesheets will grow out of control. So yes, the cascade can bite you in the ass and does suck unless you know how to control it.
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In case anyone was wondering, that comment is almost a textbook example of an ad hominem.
A similar nugget of wisdom:

"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code."
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Can you explain me why anybody shouldn't use a unlimited offer as defined?

Companies use this as a bait to catch fish, assuming unlimited plans won't be treated as such and that will translate to some profit. Isn't this fraudulent assumption to begin with at the first place.

Let me tell you most people will side with what you describe as 'opportunists' and 'abusers'. Because unlimited plans of all types - Phone calls, internet data plans, unlimited buffets, gambling, lottery all work on assumption of making up on volume assuming decline in consumption on an average.

If the company can't handle the unpredictable aspect of such a business they shouldn't offer such plans at the first place.
It is most certainly a tax on the poor and undereducated. The level of cognitive dissonance required to believe that there is not a massive information asymmetry at hand is simply staggering. Yes, some people are perfectly able to calculate the probability of winning the lottery and know that they should gain enjoyment just from playing, not from the belief that they'll win. These are not the people who are victims. The victims are the high school dropouts who don't understand that their chances of getting hit by lightning while simultaneously getting hit by a bus while crossing the street are still better than winning the lottery. Many, if not most, of these people don't really have the discretionary spending ability to lose hundreds of dollars a month on merely dreaming of winning the lottery. But somehow we pretend everything's fine.
Quora is definitely useful if you want well thought out responses and actual discussion.
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It's just NetFlix for books, this ought to be the norm someday. Another idea off my drawing board (or not).
On the other hand, someone could walk up to you on the street and hand you a briefcase full of $10M. It's not out of the realm of probability.
But machines are rational and logical, people are not. :|
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Microsoft may be pretty good in reacting to security issues,
but many of the holes are results of mind-bogglingly stupid
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No the businesses which contribute to the campaign funds do.
It's only a problem if Zynga chooses to purchase other people's winning games at huge rates. You can't throw half a billion at every kid who writes a successful game and expect in-app cash upgrades to offset it. Making a successful game is hard, but at the scale of the market, there will always be another kid next month with an unexpected hit on his hands.

Zynga can make it work either by continuing to develop successful games on their own, or by backing down from Instagram silly money on their buyout offers. But they can't make it work by pretending to be the gateway middleman for a distribution network they simply don't own.
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It might be an urban myth, but it's still funny:

The only weekend when casinos did not make a profit, in the entire history of Las Vegas, was when the annual U.S. statisticians conference was organized in Las Vegas :)