skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
None of these simulations seem to take into account the usual activities that delay boarding:

* Not all of first class boards early, many flyers stay in the lounge till later and then hold up the aisle getting their bag into the overhead

* Passengers board together regardless of boarding order. Friends flying with an elite member can board early and not with their group.

* When the overhead is full passengers must swim upstream to bring their bag to be checked.

* Although there are plenty of bathrooms near the gate, many passengers insist on using the lav the minute they board. They again end up swimming upstream holding up the queue

* Seat stealing - whether intentional or not, some passengers help themselves to a roomier exit row seat (or on one occasion I've seen them in first class) hoping no one shows up to take that seat. Once the passenger with that seat arrives, the original passenger has to get their belongings, perhaps clear the overhead and again possibly fight their way against people boarding.

Southwest's self serve seating helps in some regards, but this style of boarding will never be used my the major carriers - at least in the U.S.

edit: typos
I run a naming company, and you might find our methodology and case studies pages useful:

http://nomvilla.com/methodology

http://nomvilla.com/case-studies

As far as your specific questions go:

1) The name is the first impression when someone sees the site via other media; i.e. a news article, or word-of-mouth, or an email. It can be the first impression when someone visits your site, but the logo and general design of the site can be the immediate first thing. In either case, the name is in the top 5 things a user first notices, and like a horrific site design, a really bad name can turn off some users.

2) The best possible scenario is an emotional company name with a descriptive product name. Apple: human, small, unlike cold, sterile computer companies of the time. iPhone: descriptive and straightforward. iMac: likewise.

If you don't have a separate company and product name, try to pick something that's in the middle. Don't be overly descriptive, but still try to have the name relate to your company, even in a tangential way.
Completely offtopic, and I don't mean anything negative about you when I say this, but I'm always interested in the response when people attribute a director to the success of a movie based on a book.

Did you know that the movie was based on Frank Abagnale's book (also entitled "Catch Me If You Can", or did you just prefer Spielberg's version?

Especially in this case, where the movie is so close to the book, it's questionable. Just like in Sin City, the adaptation is so true to its source material, if you liked one, you're pretty well assured of liking the other.
-That search can be performed a couple ways, but the easiest would be via the search dropdown in gmail: http://i45.tinypic.com/e0lbnd.png

-No. You are not living in reality. Browser is the future. Your resistance is futile.

-Mine is always the first tab. It is also my home page. You are making really bad excuses why this doesn't work for you.

-No. It has security dis-advantages since your data is stored on your device, which doesn't have the same security layers as Google's data centers.
Fibers (or equivalent constructs) aren't supported by all the languages that Vert.x supports (e.g. Java) so we can't really support something like that until we can do it in all the langs.

I know Fibers/Green threads are all the rage right now, and it is certainly something to keep an eye on, but I am not entirely convinced that roll your own threading is going to be any more performant than what the kernel can do.

If we can find a way of implementing fibers efficiently, that supports millions of fibers on a single JVM instance, I would be interested.
Ask HN: Success rate from other incubators
I am interested to know the success rate from incubators other than YC and Techstars. Everyday I see a new release of copycat applications coming out of a new incubator. I'm sure there aren't exact numbers but I would be interested to know what type of data is out there on how many of the applications get funded and what % survive longer then a few months.
I think unions and companies have closer working relationships in Germany and Scandinavia, partly because they start from more similar ideological perspectives. Scandinavian business in particular isn't nearly as hardline market-oriented; they're market-oriented of course, but tend to still use vaguely socialist rhetoric internally, care a lot about projecting a view that they take care of their workers, want to maintain good relations with their unions and avoid conflict, etc. Unions, in the other direction, are also less confrontational, and tend to use back channels and meetings rather than activist measures. The economies overall are sort of run on a general corporatist-consensus model (in the old sense of the word "corporatism"). If that model works badly it could produce corruption and smoky backroom deals, but when run well, I think it tends to produce more commonsense consensus solutions, versus the very legalistic solutions that the American industry-union standoff produces, where everything has to be precisely specified because neither side trusts the other.

One interesting feature is that much of Scandinavia is both more socialist and more marketized than the US. For example, the Danish public-transit system is heavily state-funded, but operated by private contractors, not public-sector employees. The idea seems to be to maintain a high level of public services paid for by taxes, but to actually operate those services via market-based bidding.
Training the Emotional Brain
warning, contrarian opinion:

when i have questions about why something is, i try to examine people's incentives and doing this i've found I can usually figure things out. with this in mind, here's a speculative perspective to why dev conferences are expensive.

why do speakers speak? The most attractive speakers are super busy with their projects, and they're the most visibly good at what they do so they're at the tip-top compensation. Speakers speak because it gets them visibility - it helps them recruit, it helps them network, it helps build their company brand.

Ever notice how the speakers always have private speaker-only lunch rooms, and speaker-only bar events? Its because the speakers have less interest in networking with the masses. Being a speaker is a decent signal for being among the highest value people in the room. the speakers want to network with other speakers.

Altruism is a motivator, but I speculate, much less of one. If you're speaking at conferences "for the good of the people", you're probably not busy enough, and it will slow down as you become busy, unless it also provides something you need. so as a speaker grows his credibility, he tends to become less interested in the actual conference, perhaps a bit jaded even.

Why do tickets cost much? Most tickets are expensable. The market for headliner speakers drives competitive comp. A first-class venue in vegas will draw a bigger crowd, even if its just people who want to party for a week. More tickets = bigger conference.

This is why you go see Douglas Crawford speak to a room full of experienced developers and he gives some high-school level talk about "javascript the good parts". We get it man, the whole room owns your book. But we're all still at the conference, even if most of us don't realize that while we're wishing to learn something from the headliners, all we actually bought was a ticket to be in a room with them.
There is the danger that your own upbringing is also used as anecdotal evidence.

From my experience in what I'd guess is a stereotypical suburban American public school, going against the norm is not widely supported. It's not so much that it's frowned upon, but more that it's outside "the system" and administrators don't know how to manage people/students trying to break away from the norm, which is their job.

This leads to situations where a student trying to do his/her own thing can't because our society and school systems are filled with red tape that slows down, not enhances, free-thinking.

I do agree that the article is mostly fluff though.
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It won't, but everyone will like to think it will. If the internal mail server goes down, you fix it. If Google's goes down you're powerless and waiting.
Do You Know What You Don't Know?
字学 is the kind of confusion you run into only when you learn simplified Chinese. If I have to interpret 学, it looks more to me like a person sitting in a house on fire; whereas the traditional form 學 is a man holding 爻 in his hands in order to learn his fate, hence "learn". Similarly, 覺 is one who sees (見) his fate. Chinese characters are created with all sorts of clues for you to pick up. It is unfortunate that some of these clues got taken away with the simplification of the language. 學 is not only more distinguishable than 学, but takes the same amount of effort to type.
The lasagne theory of game design
If we judge by most actual results, most CEOs are not all that great at making decisions and leading groups. They get their jobs and get paid anyway.
Yes, vert.x should work directly on Windows. I shall update the wiki accordingly :)
I really enjoyed indieconf last year. I'd agree that the coffee breaks and time between lectures is where the magic happens. The catered lunch was very valuable too.
> Most people will not fill 10 GB of emails in their lifetime.

Who won't? I bet you lots of money that most people will have more than 25 GB of email in their lifetine.
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Normally I'm just annoyed by spreading an article over a few pages, but 14?!?!

Here's the all-in-one link. Yeesh.

http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/sports/Quoosi...
Plenty of ppl complaining about Gmail speed. I must say, with AdBlock ON, over the span of couple years I have never even once experienced G being slow...

just my 2c.
At my high school, and at my college as well, the sports players are generally looked down upon by the 'gifted' or 'AP' students. I don't know how sports players compare to the average student, but the average GPA on our cross country and track teams always shocked me a little. Few of my friends ever got below 3.5, and the sports teams often had averages below 2. The football team (by rumor, I never actually saw the numbers) was the lowest gpa sport in our school.
For the level of programmer competence we're talking about here, that hasn't happened yet.

Define that level non-tautologically then, please.
Awesome - I can share even more things in the cloud that will be inspected, categorized and used by Google Services and shared with US authorities on request! Perhaps I can get some more ads now while I surf the web while being mapped by Google.

Thank you so much Google! You are truly making the web a better place. For you.
Let me guess, you're in college?

>If you don't have a college degree, it's highly unlikely that you will get into a reputed company, assuming any company is willing to hire you.

That's just silly. I have worked for Microsoft and Amazon, and HP and lots of other reputable companies. Google was pursuing me like crazy for months until I finally told them in no uncertain terms that I had no interest in working there.

>So this means you will spend about 4 years not working to your maximum potential.

The first year or you're not at your maximum potential, but by the second you are and those capabilities grow by the third and fourth... meanwhile, college graduates are just having their first year in college being babied because they don't know how to be professional yet-- and you're the one managing them.

>usually I think what's described by me is most likely to happen.

It isn't, but there's a huge industry in college- and their tuitions are growing several times faster than inflation, and that industry is wholly dependent on people believing they have value, even while they hollow out their curriculum in order to support football and to keep a cadre of professors in the liberal arts employed.

Hey, you go to MIT or CalTech, I'll respect that. You got to Podunk U, and I won't be prejudiced against you (The way you are prejudiced against those who didn't)... but someone who spent those four years building a startup, is going to have a leg up!
I believe that designing and building software systems is not "equivalent" to experimental physics, that it is not "experimental" computer science. Following the metaphor, I believe it's more accuarate to relate it to design and engineering. As in physics, there are very exact scientific theories that, mixed with technical/practical knowledge and insight about systems and people, can be used to create technology.

But I would also argue that there may be a way to "experiment" in a similar way physicist do, and it's by looking at "computing" as a phenomenon of the natural world.

Computing can be considered a science similar to phyisics, because it can be seen as laws that describe nature, or more specifically how information is processed in the natural world. This "computing" works at a "higher level" than physics, which studies the laws of the "hardware". The most used example is the DNA, with information in a higher level of abstraction than the chemical physical support.

I always find amusing to imagine what if Newton had developed his theories as a way to solve practical problems instead of trying to explain motion laws[1], and how maybie that's what happened to "computing".

[1](Physics = "Engine Sciences"?)
Why not simply do a straight exit-early if+return?

if(!username || username.trim() = '')
return { error: "No Username Given.", field: 'name' };

if(!password || password.trim() = '')
return { error: "No Password Given.", field: 'password' };

and so on.

Is that not clever enough??? Even a monkey would understand this.
decision trees are a rudimentary ML technique.

at most they could be used for entry-level didactic purposes
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> For memory aids for Chinese characters, I much prefer Grammata Serica Recensa by Bernhard Karlgren, a less popular but much more accurate reference book.

I'd never heard about Grammata Serica Recensa until just now (and only looked it up on Wikipedia), but unless I'm misunderstanding its contents/purpose, I'm pretty sure it's an apples-to-oranges comparison. GSR looks like a reference book, which is _not_ what Remembering the Kanji is. RtK is a guide for teaching oneself the writing and meaning (in English) ONLY of the 2200 (in RtK 1) most useful characters (according to Heisig) in written Japanese.

I have a unique perspective on this issue, as I'm someone who has studied Japanese for a few years in college and is now using RtK. The courses I took focused heavily on spoken Japanese, using the Japanese: The Spoken Language series, which is also from Yale University Press and uses a very similar approach to the Chinese series by DeFrancis you mentioned (and also has the deficiency of being out-of-date). Although it gave me a much stronger handle on grammar and pronunciation than other courses would have, their teaching of the written language left much to be desired, to put things lightly.

While the courses did teach the stylistic aspects of written Japanese well, they didn't teach kanji fast enough, and that turned out to be an enormous problem in Japan. So I started using RtK (in concert with the OSS SRS software Anki) about a month ago and have gotten through 600 kanji so far, and I have to say, it is nothing short of magical.

I don't know anything about linguistics or language pedagogy, but I do know that RtK has produced the results I'm looking for. With an investment of approximately 45 minutes/day, I'm learning 20 kanji/day, and remembering them long term. Now, when I see a word I already knew the meaning of, but didn't know the kanji for until now, I find it much easier to remember - and, of course, I can write it by hand perfectly, something I have seen many native Japanese struggle with with my own two eyes far too often. I struggled with it too before starting to use RtK.

> in Heisig's own words, cautions about using his texts as a comprehensive approach for learning literacy in Japanese.

You're absolutely right. Learning the kanji is only the first step in achieving literacy. After that, you need to learn the readings of the kanji, the meanings and readings of the words they form when used in combination, and of course the stylistic aspects that are peculiar to written (vis-à-vis spoken) Japanese, and none of those things is a cake walk by any stretch of the imagination.

However, as Confucius said, 學而不思則罔 思而不學則殆, so if you approach kanji with the rote memorization method used by the vast majority of foreign learners (often because they, like MikeMacMan below, hold the misguided belief that it is a sine qua non of language learning), you will miss out on a lot and unnecessarily waste time and effort.
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Batumi hotels - Mercury hotel 
Batumi hotel Mercury is located in the city center. Mercury hotel restaurant offers national and exotic dishes. Other services include bar with live music, another open air cafe/bar with an incredible view of the old city and the seaside, sauna, swimming pool, finish bath and a professional masseuse.
I would take posts like this from the FSF more seriously if they proposed or endorsed a solution, rather than simply proposing a protest.

FSF may claim to be about "Free as in Speech, rather than Free as in Beer," but DRM straddles both of these points. Yes, we're restricted in the products that can utilize DRM files, but DRM also exists to protect ownership rights. Its a complex system, and one that can't simply be "abolished" without some suitable alternative to protects both interests.

There are lots of theories and examples of alternatives to DRM that protect the rights of both the creator and end user. I'm just disappointed that the FSF didn't propose one of these, or their own, as a viable solution. It's easy to point fingers, it's tough to propose meaningful solutions.
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Yahoo mail is unlimited, and has been for a long time. I prefer its interface too.
And it's not surprising that once he was caught, the FBI could easily leverage his two daughters to terror him into cooperating?
"Your earning potential is essentially given to you at birth"

Interestingly the data shows otherwise. Factors such as parents' education, where one lives, age, race, family structure, IQ are measured and factored in. Two stats techniques are commonly applied. Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) is more traditional while Instrument Variables (IV) is a newer approach which attempts to account for statistical errors such as omitted and unknown variables in order to more strongly determine causality.

If you like stats check out this review of the literature: http://emlab.berkeley.edu/users/card/papers/return-to-school... which concludes that studies "Taken as a whole, however, the findings from the recent IV literature are remarkably consistent with Griliches' (1977) assessment of a much earlier set of studies, and point to a causal effect of education that is as big or bigger than the OLS estimated return, at least for people whose schooling choices are affected by the supply-side innovations that have been studied so far."

There are real economic reasons why governments invest in their citizens' schooling. It's not just because it sounds like a nice idea. The increased income potential of someone going to school pays off for a government higher earnings which is a primary indicator of an economy's health.
Are any of his book suitable as casual on-the-tram reading? Could you recommend one of his books? Thanks.
Startup Verelo Hopes to Save Lives with New Monitoring Services
In my experience, most companies have a data retention policy that explicitly states that old emails must be kept for a number of years. A separate storage of email archives is an option, but it must not be difficult to extract an email from the archive - which is why I think keeping it in the original inbox is a better option.
Yes. The subpoena is not for every person that may have a copy of the e-mail, ever. It's for a piece of evidence that that specific entity may have.
http://connect.microsoft.com/WindowsServerFeedback/feedback/...

<quote>
I've been frustrated about this "feature" for a long time. However, after reading all posts about the issue and realising that there is no fix I made a last desperate attempt. I went into folder settings and checked the "single click" option(while having both "show all folders" and "automatically expand" checked), just to see if this option was better. It wasn't so I unchecked it again. Then, after this manouver, Explorer lists folders correctly, always starting at the top. Just to make sure this fix wasn't transient I closed the Explorer and restarted it. It still works. I have no idea why this works but it does. Writing software myself I do have a clue that the sequence in which checkboxes are checked can have impact on software behaviour. It might also explain why some people experience this issue while others don't.

Hope this works for all you frustrated people out there.
</quote>
I prefer Southwest's self serve style because it rewards those who check in earliest. Well, that is, if you consider it rewarding to be the first on and first off (as I do when I get to sit in row 1).

On a recent flight using Azul (Brazil's "Jet Blue", same owner), people were boarded via the front and back at the same time. First time I had seen that, though not sure if it was any quicker. Perceptions of quickness are often dependent on where you are sitting.
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"having upper class parents is probably a very high return as well"

True, which is why the studies account for factors such as family education and family income in order to attempt to isolate the impact of the one factor being measured: the subject's education level.
Wouldn't that back fire on the company (A) if some other company (B) were to use it to their advantage? e.g. B don't pay an invoice, delay 2 months, then demand proof from A that they sent the invoice? Or a disgruntled employee could claim that they informed management months ago about a problem, and management ignored the problem. Sounds like more trouble than it's worth.
Have you tried http://www.startpage.com?
Let's be honest now: if Google was pursuing your for months, and you've worked for Microsoft and Amazon, you aren't the average college student. Most people can't get a job for 50k+ out of school.

And that's not even mentioning the fact that this is limited to consumer tech companies.
Email is also very compression and dedup friendly.
> Sure, things like that have occurred. They occur in many fields. The Linux kernel mailing lists could make your eyes water at times :-)

And unsurprisingly, Linux is a terrible overall example of quality kernel development and design.

> If the Ruby community had a general atmosphere or a policy of encouraging sexist or unprofessional behavior, I'd let these remarks slide. But it doesn't.

Except that the only times I've ever had to deal with (or hear of, third-hand) a general atmosphere of sexist, unprofessional behavior in technology has been in relation to the startup community in general, and the Ruby community in particular.
Why Google Is Not Going Away
You have more control over the uptime if you control the server. If gmail goes down, all you can do is twiddle your thumbs.
ReiserFS wasn't that good. It was fast for small files, but crap for everything else.
Is it well known that we need to redefine well known?
B&N Removes Magazine From Nook Store Due To Feature Article On 'Hacking'
Steve Jobs Vs. Steve Ballmer
This just after I pointed about a dozen people to Codecademy yesterday.

Hopefully it doesn't suck.