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Ask HN: What are the best startups in London area and hiring ?
I am primarily a PHP developer with strong font-end and back-end skills. I know latest standards, working with OOP is my daily job. I am also fluent with iOS and I am starting with Ruby. I am from Europe and beacause of the situation in our country in am currently looking for job in the UK because I am planing to move there in next two to three months. I would like to ask Hacker News what are some good development related startups in London area who are looking for a new developer in next few months and could help with relocating ?

Also, if UK is not a good idea what would you suggest for my situation?
What are you talking about?

The coat closet is at the front of the aircraft. You aren't really allowed to just go rummage through it yourself. So you ask the FA to put your coat in there or to retrieve it.
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Ah damn it. What have I done with myself?
More? Probably, although it depends on how you define proper, whether you factor in aftermarket costs and whether you already have prior hardware lying around(very likely with PCs).

But definitely not "way". The 600$ the PS4 is rumored to cost(yes, i know, just a rumor) can get you a decent gaming rig.
I guess he would know what's appropriate, so I stand corrected on that point.

I guess I'm just too servile. I would have put my iPhone away and read a book and never have been kicked off the plane. (And if my coat needed hung, I would have just sat and been uncomfortabaly warm until I could hang it myself: your failure to prepare should not become the burden of another human being. )
Ok, as a guy that only flies coach I thought "hanging your coat" means putting it on the little peg that pops out on the back of the seat in front of you / putting it in the overhead bin. I was mistaken. I didn't realize coats at the front of the plane were treated so much better than the rest of the coats. :-)
I don't think it's people defending the airline, I think people just understand the unfortunate way things work now. When travelling by plane it's best to just shut up and do what you're told. The trouble caused by speaking up is obviously not worth it. If the writer had decided to follow the rules and not take anymore photos why did he feel the need to further explain himself? It wasn't going to change anything and at the very least was a waste of his time.
"You were not kicked off for taking pictures. You were kicked off for acting odd."

Not even odd, slightly odd which is now apparently grounds for getting kicked off an airliner.

The terrorists have won a great victory if acting slightly odd is enough to terrify an airline company into kicking a passenger off a plane.
It's worth reading the longer article linked from TFA

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/03/unmanned-flight/ho...
No, they really shouldn't. I've read it. Meh.

Full of just cliché advice and fluff. In fact you'll get as much good advice from reading the wikipedia article as you will from reading the book:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influenc...
> I don't like the UI formerly known as Metro, but Windows 8 isn't thaaat bad and this bashing quickly got old.

It's easily the worst GUI shell on any popular OS. It's counter intuitive (very little of the OS is guessable), jarring between Metro and the classic desktop, and so poorly thought out that even IT professionals struggle to use it.

Given the excellent research facilities Microsoft have, their near-bottomless money pit and their massive market share for desktop / laptop installs, releasing such a substandard product is completely inexcusable.

So honestly, the apologists trying to forgive Microsoft quickly gets old.
I tried Sennheisers and couldn't get them to work satisfactory. Lots of interference, crackle and noises. Tried troubleshooting to no avail and in the end had to return them.

In other words, keep in mind that there are setups where even the best wireless headphones don't work.
A single hardware configuration with a single software configuration is infinitely easier to target, test and optimize for than the free, but vast landscape of PC configurations. Here's hoping the SteamBox will give us all the advantages of consoles without being locked down for the more adventurous.
Obviously they didn't believe he was a terrorist or they would not have booked him on another flight.
The author contracted carriage in exchange for money, and the captain refused to honor that contract. The author was a victim. The captain was an aggressor. Those are facts, not opinions, and they're not manipulative. It's your prerogative to resent them, but they remain facts.

It's interesting that you seem to be claiming the captain wasn't an aggressor, but then believe that giving his name to his actions would be "petty revenge."
"Even if such a price cut caused sales to double"

Wait, you're doubting whether a price cut of 85% would even double sales? With a demand curve like that someone will need to tell the game companies they are leaving billions on the table when they could be charging $150 a copy.

I'm pretty sure we'd see sales explode on price alone but the limited console installed base is also depressing game sales. A large percentage of high end console users use them primarily for netflix and other non-gaming uses but they aren't marketed effectively for these uses. Apple isn't even marketing the ipad as a game machine but they move far more $300+ units than Sony and MS put together each month.

"I don't think 'hardcore' gaming is that price sensitive"

You're talking yourself into a conclusion here. Not only "hardcore" gamers enjoy playing Call of Duty. {And the notion of console fps players being hardcore itself is problematic}
You know you get set what the power button does in power options right?

I change all mine to hibernate and closing the screen to do nothing.
That's basically SOP in business class on international flights. The level of personal attention / service is almost jarring at first (this applies 10x to first class).
I don't think gamers will be ditching desktop for laptops anytime soon (for example: better cooling allows for more performance; plus, multiple graphic cards, and, as I said previously, modularity). There still exists a difference in the higher end, and, while this may make some workers (be it software developers or just people who work with office software) prefer a laptop, many still won't because of the price. Yes, for Facebook and such you are fine with a tablet or a shitty laptop (although in my experience, the cheapest desktop is cheaper than the cheapest laptop; it may just be due to geographic location), and the desktop may lose the lower end; but, when you have higher needs, laptops start to get pricier and less performant, thus becomming less of an adequate option.

About the ratio of computing devices, it's not only because desktop sell less; there are many more devices being used now than 5 years ago, and most of the new ones are tablets and smartphones. The absolute decline of the desktop is less marked.
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Here's a version you can actually read - http://www.readability.com/articles/c3cbrgbi
Of course, the bad guys are gonna get them too... oO;

"May you live in interesting times."
As the comments say: "What I find most interesting here...is no one thinks to hit the Power button to turn their PC off. You do the same with your TV, your phone, your blender, why is your PC the only one you turn on and off using two different ways!"
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When a flight attendant tells you to not take pictures, its obviously for security/terrorism concerns. I find it truly ridiculous if we can no longer make true statements in an attempt to alleviate such fear ("I am not a terrorist").

When a cop pulls you over because there was a kidnapping a year ago, you do not end up in jail for making the claim "Don't worry, I'm not a kidnapper"
> You were not kicked off for taking pictures. You were kicked off for acting odd.

...which is still a fucking terrible reason.
If you aren't dead by 30, you're grossly abnormal in comparison to most humans throughout history.

The "abnormal" aspects of modernity are the most valuable parts of it. If you feel dehumanized by technology, maybe you need to reconsider what humanity means to you, and whether it's a worthy goal.
Absolutely agree. The guy acted arrogant and entitled and attempted to argue with the Captain.

There was a very simple solution to this situation; Suck it up, swallow your pride and apologise, whether you were in the wrong or not.

If he had been humble about it, he very likely would have been able to stay on the flight.
I still don't understand why using the word "terrorist" is a no-no. It is a word. Context matters. Context in this case would suggest there was nothing to worry about.

I swear sometimes it is like the whole world is a slightly mentally handicapped child who, upon hearing a bad word, starts repeating it getting more and more upset.

I guess being adults and thinking things through is too much to ask from your average full grown adult?
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How is that an analogy? Try this one.

There is a guest at my house, and I have a rule that nobody is allowed to take screwdrivers to the bathroom, because, as all my neighbours know, I am paranoid about people watching me as I take a crap (even though I have telescopes on the roof of my house pointing in all directions, and none of them into the sky; but that's a story for another day). So this guy walks towards the bathroom, and I see he has a screwdriver in his hand; I stop him, ask him to leave the screwdriver, which he does.

I make no further attempts to assure him I know he's not going to install a camera, or to be friendly or a human or something like that; I just bark my orders and waddle off. So after he finished his business, and because he's expecting to be over for a few hours and wants to clear the air, he walks up to me and says "About the screwdriver.. I didn't install a camera or anything, I just like to play drums on my knees while I poop. But I managed fine without it, so we're cool, right?"

I smily emptily, say, it's okay, waddle away... and then call the cops. Then I lie to them and say he took a screwdriver to the bathroom even after asked him not to, and onlookers actually turn my guest reacting to my pre-existing suspicion of them installing a camera in my bathroom into my guest raising that suspicion in the first place. The last part just boggles my mind.
That is not the same. He wants to fend off a personal stigma. Saying: "There isn't a bomb in my bag, if you must know. Here's my coat", that would be more in line with your analogy.
Right - I was just trying to provide context :) If there is anything in the Managed C++ -> CLI/C++ transition that is better than the ISO C approach, it is maybe the contextual keywords in CLI/C++ - something that can't be achieved with #define.
Ah ok, came across it today so posted it.
>When you add all of this up, especially when a flight is trying to get out of the gate on time, the pilot is going to err on the side of caution and kick you off the plane.

That makes no sense to me because they off load the baggage from the hold of passengers who are not actually on the plane. A security measure that actually makes sense.
Windows Blue still a complete unknown
The next version of Windows is apparently codenamed "Blue," and current rumors are that it will be released some time this year. If it pans out, this would mark the end of Microsoft's three-year upgrade cycle.
I offer this addendum to my prior comment:

http://www.paulzaich.com/2013/02/21/blog/ruby-rails/https-go...

Title: "Always test your app in IE8"

Quote: "A simple 1 character change from ‘http’ to ‘https’ on the shim was all that was needed to fix the problem, but it had been lurking there for several weeks unseen because we only were testing on 'modern browsers'."
1. Yes it is. Startup failure rates are really that high.

2. No one knows these odds or who will actually succeed - it's the reason why being a VC is so random. Furthermore - failure rates still push the EV towards zero.

3. The difference between say $3 million at a $15 million valuation post money and my example aren't really that different. Valuation leverage is a huge issue that no one seems to talk about.

5. You say this as if startups grow linearly and smoothly - this is not the case. They do so in fits and bursts - and I've seen too many cases of zombie founders and terrible early employees to honestly think this is true. More often than not later employees carry the company.

6. That's not really a denial. You just reworded 100+ hour work weeks and sprints in nicer terms.

Most frivolous benefits at startups are merely extreme examples of psychological arbitrage.
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This sort of attitude is childish and pathetic.

And it will get you absolutely nowhere in life. Nowhere.
Everything is better at the front of the aircraft (except the toilets for some inexplicable reason).
>You've turned what should have been an uneventful flight into a situation where tension can only increase before you've even left the ground.

Basically, one has to be mindful not to use words that will cause people too stupid to parse the context in which they were used to be anxious.
It's interesting to see, what impact Google Glass and others will have on the practice of such no-photo-policies.
> When a cop pulls you over because there was a kidnapping a year ago, you do not end up in jail for making the claim "Don't worry, I'm not a kidnapper"

No, but you'll get a more thorough check of your car (trunk and backseat), plus a more in-depth check of your car's plates and your ID - because you just made a seemingly unrelated statement about a horrible thing (kidnapping) when the cop pulled you over for something trivial (not obeying speed rules).
I doubt the bit about being humble means they might let you stay on the plane. The decision process is a one way process, once you cross the line there is no going back; or in the words of De Niro "If there's doubt then there is no doubt".
What? a shortage of visitors represents a fault in the visitors? This is a recipe for creeping and progressive obscurity. Think of real reasons why there are so few visitors. There certainly are such reasons, and "defective visitors" is not on the list.
What seems sort of a shame is that at least at one point, their actual software seemed pretty nice ... I used their facebooks apps for a while and I enjoyed them.

There were also plenty of bugs and "issues", etc, however, and after a while it became clear they were overwhelmed or something, and things just kept getting worse. The feeling that I was putting lots of personal data into a database that seemed likely to implode at some point was obviously a big turnoff, and I lost interest.

But if they had been on top of things, it might have turned into something pretty cool (I guess you can say that about most startups though!)...
> When a flight attendant tells you to not take pictures, its obviously for security/terrorism concerns.

Not necessarily. A plane is a crowded, cramped environment and other passengers (such as myself) might not want to be photographed.[1] A broad "no photos" rule is an easy way to make sure that those of us who don't want to be photographed don't have to be. Similarly, photo-taking by tourists is often distracting (people spilling into aisles, flash photography in a small reflective space, etc.). People often seem to have no idea how to take photos without being disruptive. I agree that the disruption is the problem, but a "no photos" rule is easier to enforce than "photos, but no flash, except the LED flash on camera phones..."

This interaction should have ended after "thanks, I didn't know there was a policy against taking photos."

[1] See, for example, the evergreen controversy about the photography rules at Burning Man. It's a constant balance between "people want to take pictures so they can remember what happened" and "some people don't want to be photographed in what for them is a very personnel experience."
It's not the word itself. The word could be "terrorist" or "bomb" or "Muslim" or anything, really. It's denying some wrongdoing without having first been accused of it. Humans learn very early on to be suspicious of people who offer denials prior to accusations, and we likewise learn in childhood not to offer such denials ourselves.

When no one has accused you of stealing a cookie from the cookie jar, saying out of the blue, "I didn't steal the cookie from the cookie jar" instantly makes you a suspect. This is Encyclopedia Brown level stuff.

(As an aside, your lack of intuitive understanding of this principle, combined with your righteous indignation and judgment of the world at large, makes me feel very much like you describe while writing this reply.)
It's very disturbing and amazing to see so many people here jump to conclusions when we've only heard one side of this story and OP has only contacted United after posting this article.
They're not mutually exclusive
The "terrorist" jibe is a red herring.

Seriously, he was ejected because of taking photos, not because of the "T word". The fact that he took one photo and ceased activity means that he is NOT in the wrong.

While it is common sense not to use the word "terrorist" on board or in an airport (I certainly wouldn't), this doesn't mean that it is logical or justified. 1000 years ago it was common sense that you could fall off the face of the earth. We seriously need to stop being so precious about this word and take our power back.
One day when the high school dropout in the TSA feeling you up at the airport decides he doesn't like you or that you insulted him, he will be able to walk over to a monitor and trace your past month as recorded on a series of drones - all cataloged by license plate and origin addresses.

And I bet that day is by the end of this decade.
Bomb. Also, if your lips are dry and your friend has a moistener, favor the word "chapstick" over "baum".
Well when you enter the USA under the visa waiver scheme you sign a document that asks you many stupid questions, one of which is are you a terrorist.
not sure if i made my original point correctly. putting away the camera is entirely related to terrorism, which is why its perfectly reasonable to respond with "I am not a terrorist" (taking pictures of the plane for future blowing-up operations)
Same here, I don't understand. The problem is that at a given size they can't use their "intelligent routing" anymore, but afaik no customer of theirs has that size, so why don't they just make as many copies of "old Heroku" as needed? Then they can just use the DNS to select the right shard, and route within shards.

It's like: "Sorry, we're full, go see our competitor. Oh, and by the way, our competitor is us." You're never too large, problem solved.
Wow, so people seriously thing that saying "I am not a terrorist" is reason enough to kick someone out of a plane?

I honestly will never understand how a one-time attack carried out a decade ago could throw the American society off its rocker so much.

In my country (Spain) apart from an Islamic terrorism attack we have had local terrorists (ETA) killing people almost every year from the 60's to 2011, and there just aren't such taboos and irrational fear in our society.

NB: I'm not one of those Europeans who bash on Americans, I admire the American society in many aspects... but this one I just can't understand. Ánd I could expect to see this kind of thought among uneducated people, but in HN? Oh wow.
Discussion done here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4372563
I dunno, I used this source http://www.upenn.edu/computing/provider/docs/hardware/poweru...

Something is wrong with a computer using 20 watts in sleep mode. Is there a list of the actual models there? I would want to see how old they are.
> Legal liability.

Basic human decency rather.
You were not kicked off for taking pictures. You were kicked off for acting odd.

Exactly. It's a long-haul flight, you might have a grudge against the flight attendant, you've already behaved slightly oddly - thinking it appropriate to say "I hope you didn't think I was a terrorist" is odd - and there are so many ways the flight could become a nightmare for all concerned, all thanks to you remaining on the plane.

Maybe the captain could have handled things better. At the same time, the author went off the plane calmly and without making a scene. The author's disappointment aside, it sounds like a success to me.
> There is nothing civilized about failing to point out that the claim "he took more pictures" is a lie.

Was it? Or did she misunderstand his need to justify himself as a way of indicating that he did not intend to stop? You assume she lied -- probably because that's what you are most comfortable believing -- but it's not necessarily true. People make false claims all the time that they really, genuinely believe to be the truth. Based on the scant evidence as we have, your accusation toward the flight attendant could even be an example of the same thing she did -- automatically assuming the worst of someone.
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People ditching RSS is sad. I want a web where people can write cool software that consumes and transforms and enriches other content on the web. I want more sites to make more data accessible via stable public APIs, not less.
Expecting a flury of "fix all your problems before anything else" comments ITT.

Keeping aside cynicism, it is nice to see a lot of countries aiming towards exploring Mars. We can cover even more grounds this way.

Looking forward to a better space race and hoping these countries will do the right by releasing their work into the public domains.
The problem is that recordings can be modified or erased and soon will be forbidden, the first problem they have they'll make a new law or rule, so you can not put the authorities against the wall, for your protection of course. I think is now forbidden to record policemen, not sure non US citizen here, in US while they're working.
On the subject of countermeasures: I worked for a defense contractor over a decade ago which was developing countermeasures for such things. On the basis of supply/demand, they obviously weren't doing it for a laugh.

With a relatively unconstrained budget, access to technology which is quite scary and secrecy regime, we might already be there behind closed doors.
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You managed to omit a link to the site. How shall we say what remedies to apply to a site whose appearance we can only imagine?

But this advice anyway -- perform some A/B testing, see if proposed changes actually work before making them permanent.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/B_testing

> Any ideas are welcome, no matter how outlandish!

I offer this outlandish suggestion: provide a link to the site so people can offer meaningful advice.
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Network switches are the most common case now I suspect.
There's equity, and then there's "equity."

For example, a well-funded late stage startup recently offered me a salary that was $35k/year below the market rate, plus X hundred thousand stock options. These came with no strike price, and their grant was subject to final board approval after hiring. When I asked how I might possibly valuate these at anything other than zero dollars, they told me that this was just a standard bay area offer structure. When I persisted, they reminded me of the free lunches. When that wasn't convincing, they fell back on the old, "People don't work here for the money, they do because they want to change the world! You may just want to get rich, but we'll be happy if we can cure cancer someday."