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For those of you not following these events closely: the 747-8 and the 787 (both new) both utilize a very similar engine from GE (the GEnx).

The GEnx 1B (787) failed in July this year and kicked off an investigation that is trying to determine if there is an engineering or manufacturing problem in the parts that connect two shaft pieces together to form the main shaft in the engine.

The GEnx 2B (747-8) failed in early September this year and the initial investigation is not complete.

This memo confirms that the 747-8 and the 787 failures are NOT related.

That being said, the NTSB wants to pull the ETOPS certificate from the -1B engines which would effectively ground the majority of the 787 fleet (the 787 is optimized for long flights which would be majority over water/out of gliding range and the GEnx has the widest install base on the 787).

The FAA has indicated that they will take a watching brief for the time being.
>You really need to go learn some economics.

I'm talking about the assumptions about market efficiency and the supposed superiority of the mythical "free market" here.

Hayek, since you mentioned it, was a western "free market" lackey, imposing his dogmas on the Chilean people --and lots of others-- (and through a dictator at that), with dire consequences. This kind of "policy advice" is 80% percent catering to interests and 20% ideology. No more scientific than Stalinist economics.

A science doesn't need a dictator (or an elected official) to enforce that "earth is round" or "water will boil at 100 degrees under the right conditions".

Heck, even hard science fails when there are economic interests (e.g big pharma, releasing BS half-baked drugs, or physicists making big BS claims to get funding).

Economy is all, and solely, about economic interests, so all public (non academic) use and discourse of it is inextricably tied to those.

As for the "popular topics to study today", those, while interesting from a math/game theory standpoint, are turned to shit as soon as they enter the political / economic policy field.

On my 25 years of following the stuff, I've haven't seen anything but BS, special interests, spin, greed, failed predictions and bad advice on all fronts. Which is always touted as "scientific" and "based on state of the art models" by the policy advisors.

If you take out the "cater to special interests" bias factor, the rest of economists performance can be had with any random walk methodology.
Yes I do fall into that concepts catergory, though does seem more approachable. I too am sleeping upon it.
Anyone got any idea of battery life running this on... Say and iPhone 4S?
That's because it's not in today's (Sept 29) build yet. It'll be in tomorrow's build.

Today's nightly: http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/c09a0c022b2e

Last retina changeset: https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/1d3de8da2508

Shortlog: https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/shortlog
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Was wondering if this existed. If not someone should start one.
If only someone would finally tackle the worldwide shipping problems (customs, tracking, packaging, etc)
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One day about 3 years ago I quit sugar "cold turkey." At the time I was rather highly motivated by seeing a friend nearly killed by necrotizing fasciitis. (Not that his illness was sugar related. It's just that seeing a close friend nearly die puts things in perspective.)

My taste changed within just a couple of weeks. By the third or fourth week if I accidentally drank sweetened iced tea instead of unsweetened I would nearly spit it out due to the awful taste. I also cut out all artificial sweeteners, effectively eliminating any experience of sweetness from my diet. I think previously I had drunk so much Diet Coke and eaten so many sugary things that I had conditioned myself to need that sweet taste on a regular schedule. I think one thing that helped was that I started making tea using high-quality, whole-leaf teas from adagio.com. They have such interesting flavors, I find they don't need sugar.

I'm not sure I can speak to the work-related effects of not eating sugar since I was spending most of the time in the hospital with my friend. I can say that my overall mood became much more stable; there were no more mid-afternoon crashes and I genearlly found I had more energy. Being about 360 pounds at the time, this one dietary change was enough for me to lose 60 pounds over the next 12 months while still leading a mostly sedentary lifestyle.
>> Resume? No thanks. Show me your code and then let's have a beverage and chat.

What is this hipster hiring? Give it 10 or 20 years bud you'll be singing a different tune or afraid to try to get hired as a coder and just pulling manager duty 3 or 4 levels up in the middle quietly re-assuring yourself that you could code and get a job in that new language eebbityfribitz ... if you really wanted to.
Reversely, paying 1$ in not much when you'll be travelling 25% of the world.

In my very basic example it was 20 000$ payoff for travelling 25% of the world. Let's make it 1 000 000$. I'm still winning.

Covering 25% of the world's surface is almost impossible. Yet, with my app idea, people would have most probably paid for taking the 1$ challenge (i.e. paying 1$ to participate, winning 1M$ for being the first to achieve the goal).

To expand on my concept, there would have been teams, anyone could create a new team, creating teams would have been free, people could have joined as many team as they wanted.

It's easy to go viral on these stuff. Every participant would probably call their friend oversea to tell them to join their team on this particular challenge, i.e. paying 1$ with the 1M$ reward in sight. The reward would be splitted between participants of the winning team (pro rata the surface covered).
If I were some alien coming to Earth and asked myself what language to learn, I'd start with English, not Latin. English seems like a pretty obvious start when trying to communicate the earthling's way. Then, once I've mastered English, I'd drill a bit and find out about its roots and cousins: French, German, Latin, ancient Greek, etc. Then I would learn Chinese.

So my first question would be: What's English equivalent in programming languages? PHP? Java? C? Then, because programming languages have entered in a very fast paced evolution period recently, with new languages popping out every given month, what programming language the most prominent programmer elites are using right now? Go? Any other C variant? JS? Ruby? Etc.?
It sure sounds like he's addicted to caffeine, and just happens to put sugar in his tea.
>Even my non-technical friends have been wondering when iOS would finally catch up with Android on that front.

And it did now?
I can't imagine that business has great margins. Logistics and supply chain management benefit hugely from economies of scale. "Worldwide shipping" involves multiple industries and core competences, so verticalizing would be a challenge.

A "Bank Simple" wrapper-as-product strategy might work, but you're operating in a smaller and more fragmented market than personal banking.
>Meanwhile, an enterprise with hundreds of trained economists (read: The Fed) used this magical unicorn training and prevented the Great Recesession from becoming the Great Depression II.

Really? So where were these "hundreds of trained economists" when the Great Recession came about? Out there, causing it.

As for "being saved from becoming Great Depression II", well, let's wait and see.
Persona does place a lot of power in the hands of email providers, but as Flimm points out, that's already the status quo. Persona doesn't make that any worse.

What's more, Persona can be used with any email provider, so users can control who they trust, or take that trust into their own hands. Because that trust relationship is more explicit, users are (as your post demonstrates) more likely to consider the implications of trusting a specific email provider, which is a good thing.

A world with better password reset policies is still a world with passwords, and leak after leak have shown that 1) it's hard to get every site to do the right thing, and 2) people use and re-use terrible passwords. Persona lets sites do the right thing by default (since there is no password to store), and it lets me as a user better control my own security.
Interesting, would appear the AI is based upon your email and general google collected info upon you. With that in mind I better make sure I'm catching all the spam comming in as one walk near Soho in London and things could get interesting.

From what I have played with google now and its card alerts it has so far impressed me with bus options to get home, though mostly when I'm upon a bus already and it offers alternatives. If the bus breaks down then I'm covered is how I see it in a thru positive blinkers.
Try drinking tea without sugar? Better to wean off the caffeine, though.
I too was pretty much addicted to sugar. Mostly dessert-like foods and soda. There are a few things that will help reduce the sugar cravings:

- Eat a little more protein. No need to go crazy, but just have more protein.

- Eat more fiber. Very few people eat enough fiber. Eat more fruits and vegetables. Fruits are a great way to get some sugar, but the fructose in fruit is absorbed more slowly than a cookie.

- Have some cinnamon. I sprinkle a little cinnamon on everything. Occasionally I'll even take a cinnamon tablet. Supposedly helps with cravings.

- Drink more water. When I pretty much stopped having sugar I was having 3-4 liters (roughly a gallon) of water a day.

- Eat good fats. Nuts, peanut butter, almond butter, avocados, etc. Helps with cravings too.

- And of course exercise. There are too many good things exercise does for you.

I have pretty much stopped having sugar (other than in social situations i.e. given a piece of birthday cake). I drink my coffee black, no sugar in my tea, and don't drink any more soda.
But don't you think my other examples (finding capital, good managers, compensation schemes, entrepreneurial spirit, government regulation) are all more discussed? Again, it's not a non-issue; it's just that if you cite this as your major concern, you're either an unusual case or just want to talk politics.
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>adding fruit

Just a sidenote: fruits are carby, so you still have the same problem if you replace wheat/sugar with fruit. They are slightly better for you because of the balance of fiber, but if you just replace wheat and sugar for fruit you are likely to end up similar health issues.
>I think you're conflating "people who work on Wall Street" with economists. Most of the "dirtiest" of the loan originators were people with no financial education whatsoever; salesmen, and nothing more.

And I think you're conflating economists with people that didn't influence policy at the top level to enable those "salesmen" to do what they did, people that didn't hum along while the salesmen were doing it, people that didn't praise this thing happening, and people that didn't ensure the public that everything was perfectly OK before the crash.

Because economists, and top level ones at that, with Ivy League PhDs and all, did all of the above.

Case in point:

"""The former Federal Reserve chairman, Alan Greenspan, has conceded that the global financial crisis has exposed a "mistake" in the free market ideology which guided his 18-year stewardship of US monetary policy. A long-time cheerleader for deregulation, Greenspan admitted to a congressional committee yesterday that he had been "partially wrong" in his hands-off approach towards the banking industry and that the credit crunch had left him in a state of shocked disbelief. "I have found a flaw," said Greenspan, referring to his economic philosophy."""

But all other top dog economists policy influences were doing the same things, and praising the same "throw caution to the wind" attitude towards the "free market" and unsupervised banking...
I've done that a number of times, and I always feel like I have more energy, lose weight, etc. It's fantastic.

But the problem is, carbs are so damned tasty. I always wind up starting to eat a few french fries, a piece of croissant in the morning, a bit of crusty baguette, a bit of cherry pie, a homemade chocolate-chip cookie, a buttered toasted English muffin, a waffle, kettle potato chips, a hamburger with bun, a slide of brick oven thin-crust pizza...

...and pretty soon you're back to where you were before. I eat a lot less carbs now than I used to, and make sure they always have high fat content so I eat less (lots of olive oil on bread/pizza, cookies with lots of butter, etc.), and also try to make sure they're tasty enough to be worth it.

But it's really hard to say no to so many of the delicious things out there!
"I drink tea, lots of it, several liters per day...If I don’t drink my tea my head feels like mush."

Sugar may be a red herring here. That sounds like a massive caffeine dependency.
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It makes perfect sense.

Probably my most well-traveled friend is far from well-off. She just prioritizes travel over many other things in her life, like $5 mobile apps that don't solve any specific problem.
You can buy pure sucralose (the stuff in splenda) online for $10/ounce. It's around 600 times as sweet as sugar, so that's equivalent to paying about 25¢/lb of sugar.

The upsides are that there are no documented negative health effects, it tastes pretty much like sugar, and it has no calories.

The downsides are that it doesn't work like sugar chemically (you can't caramelize it or use it to activate yeast), and that you have to dilute it (I like to just make a very sweet sucralose+water solution to sweeten things with, but you could easily cut it with some other powder like maltodextrin).
I actually like these health articles appearing on HN - I understand it's not on-topic, but the majority of people here sit on computers all day so the occasional tip is useful.

I guess you could argue being healthier makes you a better entrepreneur/engineer/etc?
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A game can be fun; it can be deep and complex...or it can be like farmville. The problem is that companies are moving in droves towards Farmville type products because addiction is more profitable. I would like this community, as the vanguard of tech development, to see that there is a problem with this.
> The poster child for strong patent protection is usually the pharmaceutical industry, as drugs are easily copied and can cost upwards of a billion dollars to develop. Here, Boldrin and Levine admit that the government would likely need to step in. But rather than giving companies a legal monopoly over their formulas, the authors suggest we should modify the drug approval process to let makers start recouping their costs faster. They would also set up a prize system to reward companies that invent the new medicines we need.

This strikes me as a really fantastic idea. Actually, I wonder if insurance companies shouldn't offer these prizes regardless of the patent situation. They know intimately well which disorders cost them the most money. They could form a consortium and offer a prize for x amount of money for reducing the cost of treating some disorder by y dollars per patient, where x is guaranteed to be less than the amount of money they will save.
My experience with several lawyers matches tptacek's, I've never seen any other kind of lawyer.

I think it's something about their professional ethics as they see it - do everything possible to protect the client, and only pull back when the client makes it clear that business needs overrides legal concerns. Lots of people don't realize that, and that's how some companies, or some part of companies, end up being effectively ran by lawyers.
Quitting sugar is hard without a diet replacing it that satiates your appetite on a daily basis. I highly recommend Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It. Basically, an Atkins diet. That means eat as much as you want, but low carbs, high protein, high fat (including sat. fats, but no tranfats, etc.), high vegetable diet (and few fruits too, fruits are sugar.)
First I thought that, too, but he mentions explicitly that tea alone doesn't work for him. So I tend to agree with what someone else on this thread said, that he might need to simply up his intake of nutrients in his diet. Especially protein and fat which produce more stable energy levels.
This is crude, sexist, and could deservedly be downvoted to death, but the story reminds me of a joke (jokes are supposed to be irreverent, right?):

-- What's the most difficult surgery?
-- To take the c..k out of a woman's mind.
It also sounds like you're addicted to caffeine. You're probably addicted to Gluten as well.

The paleo/primal food lifestyle would probably interest you greatly.

(notably, sugar is my most major vice - I kicked gluten, caffeine, alcohol, and many other substances a long time ago. I still consume wheat here and there, but sugar (particularly in juice) is the worst.
A good resource: http://www.stephankinsella.com/category/intellectual-propert...

And innovations that thrive without IP: http://www.stephankinsella.com/2010/08/innovations-that-thri...

Also: http://mises.org/media/categories/226/Against-Intellectual-P...

and

http://mises.org/journals/jls/15_2/15_2_1.pdf [pdf]
Because jacquesm is a well-known HN user.
If you are serious about thinking that Latin would be a good precursor to learning other languages, then I would recommend that you learn Scheme. Scheme is a dialect of Lisp, which was one of the first programming languages. Scheme was designed to be used to teach the fundamentals of programming, and was used for quite a while at MIT in their introductory programming course. The textbook that was used for the course (Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs) is freely available online, as are quite a few video lectures that teach from the book.

There is another dialect of Scheme called Racket, that has an entire development environment intended to make it easy to learn Scheme. Racket uses another book titled "How to Design Programs", that is also freely available online.

Learning Scheme will give you a solid foundation in the fundamental concepts of programming.

If you would rather start to learn programming with a more mainstream language, Python is the programming language that MIT is now using in their introductory programming course.

For more information use your favorite search engine to look up "mit ocw gentle introduction programming" or "sicp" or "htdp".
The "show us your Github, not your resume" line in a lot of job posts is more about the specific engineering culture in a particular kind of startup development, not a hard and fast rule for every software firm everywhere.

What's the business need for stating it in those terms, then?
This seems quite nice. It has a solid UI and is certainly heading in the right direction, but lots of work remains to be done. For example, flight booking needs to be integrated, and a smartphone app isn't available.

They say the service is completely free, which IMO is a big mistake - the right approach is to be responsible for all the payments and then charge the user just one time, which not only allows you to add a fee on top (your primary revenue source) - it removes one more pain point for the user.
That is a pretty much irrelevant point though, use any other example of buying a meal from somewhere that is not as common as McDonalds. On the point of endorsing, people can endorse an app as well so I am still not sure how that applies.
Firefox is at v18? Last I knew it was at v5. Guess they didn't waste any time in their quest to catch up with Chrome.
In my mind Boeing bears just as much responsibility for the quality missteps of their vendors.

The key is integration - Boeing is responsible for the testing and when problems are discovered, they need to be brought to the attention of GE.
The patent system somehow has morphed from shield to sword.

Protecting inventors is one path toward innovation, but it should be a byproduct of maximizing innovation and not the end state.

If the objective of the patent system is to foster innovation, then it should grant patents only if they are necessary for innovation, i.e., innovation wouldn't reasonably occur otherwise.

Amazon's one-click patent versus drug patents are two good cases. If the patent system didn't exist, is it reasonable to think someone else would come up with a one-click method of shopping? Yes. Drugs, however, often require hundreds of millions of dollars in upfront investment. It is reasonable to think that pharma companies couldn't raise the necessary capital, and therefore invent these drugs, without some protection.
Where do you get your energy from then? Are you just eating masses of fat and protein?
Even though an apple might have up to half the sugar of a 12-oz can of Coca-Cola, somehow it affects my body completely differently.

From a Coke, you feel the stimulation and then the drop in energy afterwards.

An apple just makes me feel good. There's no over-stimulation like sugar, and no drop in energy afterwards.

It's well known that the body processes sugars in foods very differently (sodas, honey, fruits, etc.). Unfortunately, not much is known about why or how, from what I know.

But something to keep in mind: humans have been eating fruits, presumably as long as we've existed. Drinks and desserts with concentrated cane sugar is a new thing. It wouldn't be surprising if evolution has adapted us well to the former (in moderation), but not that latter.
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That's usually the case. Colloquially known as the paleo diet.

The same as our ancestors did for tens of thousands of years. Remember, dense carbohydrates like wheat and carb-rich potatoes are a very recent phenomenon in human history.
This is definitely a "Why didn't I think of that?" moment.
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The major problem I have with this thesis is that Japan's birthrate started falling off a cliff in 1974 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bdrates_of_Japan_since_195...), when things were getting quite a bit better, but still a dozen years before the formal bubble started.
You're not alone: sugar is the only thing I'm really addicted to, other than maybe the Internet.

The only thing that has worked for me is going completely cold turkey for my two big sugar vices: candy and soda. I haven't had candy in about a year, and I haven't touched soda in three or four years. It gets easier...I don't really crave either of those things ever anymore. I still eat things that have sugar, but I don't really go overboard with anything other than candy and soda, so it's not a problem.

Quit cold turkey; some of us can't handle moderation for some things.