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agree, I flew with United this past month, long story short, my boarding pass got confiscated by ground crew, when I claimed i wasn't happy with their service for another matter, and only when I threatened with calling the police was it given back to me at the gate. I wrote to customer service but canned response was the best I got. Never flying them again. US airline industry needs a serious disruptions - end of story. Look at IRR on these companies, they have been relative disasters for investors. Most should have gone under a while ago... Too big to fail I guess...
I used to do the same, flew as a UM once a year. So much fun :)
UPDATE: I was able to email Jeff Smisek and the SVP of Customer Experience directly a moment ago. I will post their response publicly if I hear back.
You mean you were treated in such a way that it was always known where you were so these sorts of things couldn't happen? (hey! He's playing with his toys in the lounge! I can HEAR the gameboy and him clicking on it; and oh, I'll go give him another treat so I know for sure he's there every few minutes!)

Yeah, they were checking on you every time they brought snacks and toys, and doing their best to keep you entertained so you didn't do bad things. And that is what they should be doing: watching out for you.
Yeah. But you could decide how much of the stack to keep, at least. Nevertheless, I know that some smart persons (I just can't remember who!) have addressed this issue in a significantly subtler way---wish I could find the reference.
What's the problem with tethering?
Why isn't there hyphenated text layout in modern browsers?
I've recently gotten on the bandwagon and picked up readability because I'm tired of peoples' crappy blogs. I immediately turned it off because along with the large text size came the large right ragged edge, which I find extremely distracting for more than a few minutes of reading.

So, hyphenation (and syllabification) have been around for as long as TeX has, and while the algorithm isn't exactly the most easy to implement bit of code (it's actually quite nasty because of all the strange special cases), it's well within the capabilities of Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, Apple, et cetera. So why are browsers lagging 30 years behind equivalent typesetter technology? IMHO it's massively more readable than both right-ragged and justified (which has no upper bound on word spacing, as far as I can see).
> post-processes it

Or, in the case of the hosts file, blocks connections to IPs that may be malicious.

My ability to block ads in that way is a consequence of a key design decision of the network, one which we're far better with than without.
Wow, I didn't know this. It's such a great feature, they really should advertise it more.

(Examining assembler output shows that a naïve implementation of fact() also gets the autovectorization treatment as well as a fair bit of loop unrolling. Very impressive.)
I mean for early exposure.
If you have the attention of a bunch of developers because you are leading a popular project then they are more likely to check out your new product than if it was just launched by some random company.

If you do a good job impressing them, they will help spread the word.
I liked some of the features of the new Galaxy S4, but this show put me off so much. They were trying SO hard to make it 'cool', but it was getting more and more awkward with every new scene. That's why at some point I just couldn't take any more of their 'humour' and turned it off.

I don't like Galaxy's look but I quite like some of its features and I think they should re-think their next presentation very carefully and try make it look less cheap.
Why do people write the word "spam" in all-caps? It's not an acronym...
If you were flying as an unaccompanied minor in the early 90s you are not a curmudgeonly old fart. Get off my lawn!
I think it has transitioned from band-aid to design feature (when Twitter officially started using it) and then it transitioned once more. In the last transition, it has become more like an emoticon and can be used where hashtags don't make technical sense but do convey something extra. For example, I was having a Gmail chat with someone the other day and they said "I just ordered six boxes of Girl Scout Cookies. #fatty"
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The photo doesn't much the description.
Care to share the name of the company?
Do you mean? http://caniuse.com/css-hyphens

by chance?
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The analogy does make sense, but I don't think that Google's stated policy applies under any reasonable interpretation. If they changed to a policy like "we don't allow apps we disagree with", then fine. But to ban these apps on the grounds they gave is disingenuous in my opinion.
Or at a minimum don't pretend to have a chaperone service when you don't and worse still charge $150-00 for a service that clearly does not exist.
I don't think the original failure is that big a deal; the child wasn't in any danger and could easily communicate with her mother. I agree with you that things of that sort are inevitable when running an airline.

The problem is the customer service response. Asking a parent looking for her child to fill out a form when your company is supposed to know where she is is not acceptable. Blocking someone trying to get a customer service response on social media is not acceptable.
before, its like a really minimal term sheet and they are alwasy subject to due diligence, failure to reach agreement on the long-form, etc
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The mere fact that this question was asked is a sign of things being badly broken in the patent area.
As long as people are smarter than the algorithms, this is a danger. It's like bizarro SEO in that way.
Upvote. Singapore would probably drive me mad eventually, but there really is nothing like flying into that airport. My wife and I regularly argue whether SIN or HKG is superior. Our conversation on entering the arrival hall is always the same: "maybe we should move back..."
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"Once you lose track of the specific items that are causing you stress, you tend to regard it all as one big ugly entity that you want to avoid"

This. I vividly remember when some problems got completely out of hand and my life turned downhill, this is exactly what it felt like. On shitty days, I tell myself, 'well, at least it wasn't as bad as that'
You appear to be assuming that wanting to cure malaria in some other country is more rational than wanting to cure one's own baldness. Can you provide an argument for that?
I'd be concerned about complaint spam, which could quickly devalue a system like that. A small number of legitimate complaints (like in this story) could be drowned out by thousands of pointless/fake complaints.

See, for example, this story: http://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2004/12/4442-2/

>You may have also heard that in recent years complaints about TV have gone through the roof, from a mere 350 complaints in 2000 to a whopping 240,000 in 2003, and potentially even more this year ... The problem is that, unfortunately, these massive numbers all boil down to one politically motivated group with an axe to grind.

I'm sure there are ways to make it more difficult to file a complaint, but that just leads to bureaucracy. I'm not saying it's impossible, but the system would have to be executed very well or every airline will have a few million complaints that are impossible to search through.
This lays down how tough things really are. If you are starting out in the mobile app space, then I recommend you read this!
That's why you had to RTFA.
This is very incorrect.

Things get stuck in the spam filter all the time for a variety of reasons independent of keywords in the title. Multiple accounts, new accounts, or something else can trigger it. In any event, most moderators are really swift to free up things that aren't spam and otherwise comply with that subreddit's rules.

This evil plan falls apart quite rapidly because when a story is freed from the spam filter it jumps to the top of the new queue regardless of its age. This is why you'll sometimes see something that's an hour old sandwiched between submissions that are minutes old.

TL;DR I need to get off reddit and do some work.
If there was a scratch your own itch project, I believe this is it for me.

I was disappointed to learn iGoogle was closing down, as that was my primary interface to Google Reader. There are alternatives to IG (NetVibes; which is sort of horrible), but you can't present feeds as a widget.

So yes, I believe I'll give RSS Reading a crack, and create a NetVibes widget, and see if I can get exactly back to where I was before these spring cleaning announcements.
There isn't a dichotomy between rent and purchase. In both cases, you're buying a bundle of rights with respect to somemthing. You may buy use of something yet be restricted in that use. Consider buying a condo. You "own" the condo, but there are all sorts of restrictions on what you can do.

The real question is: are people aware of the terms of the deal? Are the aware of the specific rights they are purchasing when they buy DRM content? I think they are.
PublikDemand leaves the same sort of taste in my mouth as GetSatisfaction. They build a 3rd party forum for users to try and resolve issues, then people get outraged when the company doesn't jump on the new communication method.

IMHO, United shouldn't be discussing a customers business with PublikDemand anyway. Just like I can't call up American Express and ask them why they haven't raised your credit limit.
Well that's exactly what I'm looking for. Why was that not implemented 10 years ago? A whole generation of people has grown up reading in pain on the internet without realizing how much better it can be.

I just need to figure out how to enable that sucker in readability.
How did they get rich in the first place? Hint: It wasn't by charitable donations.
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My client is their biggest US competitor. I've seen operations across many business units and can say, sadly this does not surprise me at all. The employees I spoke with told me that the other airlines they've worked at are similar. The employees generally, across this particular company are generally very angry, feel screwed by their employer and simply don't care.
I thought Chrome could record your navigation actions .e.g input URL and click elements, it turned out to be directly cache of URL contents so you could read from cache later...

Anyway, cool concept, except it doesn't work with X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff, or ajax call with timestamp parameters.
One interesting property of the insurance industry, as I've heard it, is that left to pure capitalistic pressures, companies will charge too little to actually provide the product they are selling.

I don't see why that same problem would apply to air travel but it certainly seems to be the case. I know airlines outside the US provide a much more civil experience but I don't know whether they face the same competitive pressures.
From http://www.united.com/web/en-US/content/travel/specialneeds/...

What if my child’s travel is affected by delays, cancellations or other problems?
It can be very stressful when flights do not operate as planned, especially for unaccompanied children. In the case of weather or other delays and cancellations, United will contact you or the person designated to meet your child at his or her final destination. You can also track the status of the flight on united.com. Advise your child to remain with a United representative at all times. Consider giving your child a calling card or teaching him or her how to make collect calls so he or she can reach you.

In short, someone at United screwed up. The chaperone didn't call. That's bad, and they need to investigate whether this was a one-off or systematic screw-up.

That said, flying from Great Falls to Nashville (which is already hairy due to the small regional airports on either end of the journey) on a day where there's a major winter storm forecast to slam the midwest. This including a foot of snow on Chicago, which ruins United's system for the day (is this not a well known fact)? If you don't want to entertain the possibility that your child might be stranded without you? Fly yourself to Great Falls, meet your child, and fly back together. Alternatively, driving to Atlanta or Memphis will up your odds considerably of a successful venture.

Instead of sending her on the next flight to Nashville, they have routed her across the country on three connections and is staying overnight in Houston with a complete stranger!

United probably thought there was a pretty good chance "the next flight to Nashville" wouldn't exist (It was delayed 5 hours, arriving in Nashville at 2am).

This doesn't excuse United's behavior, but Ms. Neff-Aguilar could have prepared better.
My sister (several years ago) was flying United solo (minor, 17, first solo flight) from CA to ME, connecting in LGA. Her flight came in late and she missed the connecting flight (late at night). There were no United employees on staff (at all!) in LGA at that hour. My mom spent several hours trying to get someone at United to help her out and they couldn't get ahold of their "on call" staff member to assist her. They ended up telling her to "sleep on a bench" and wait till the staff came in some 4-5 hours later in the morning and someone could get her set up with a new connecting flight. They eventually offered a $150 coupon for her "next" flight, which will never happen.
> That's equally true of all sorts of food.

No, it isn't, thanks to the FDA.
Never said it would.
This is a plain case of kidnapping. I strongly encourage the parents to push for kidnapping and any other charges that may apply here such as child endangerment. United already admitted wrongdoing.

Think about it, if you replace United with John Doe in this article, there is no doubt that this was kidnapping. We all want to see justice and justice, in this case, needs to be a very long and hard prison sentence for someone at United.

Period.
You can append something like ?foo=1 to submit a new URL.
Actually, it is. It stands for "Stupid Pointless Annoying Messages".

...At least, that's what I've always thought it to be, anyway. Now that I go back and check, I can't quite find a source for this claim.
That tweet looks like a trolling attempt to me. I would have responded and directed them to have the customer contact the company directly and then blocked them.
Lately, these events are a source of press and discussion. Now you've got articles centered around the phone and articles centered around the event. It's marketing.

It's showy, it's exaggerated, it's fun. Although I've preferred their previous events where they focus on the device, this one is being marketed towards being a personal companion, and with that comes a lot of personal demonstrations.

It's not classy, or maybe not as classy as they'd hoped. But it's launched now and people are talking about it. Maybe it wasn't so bad.
> Blend social with RSS and get something like Pandora for newsfeeds.

You might like Prismatic: http://getprismatic.com/news/home
I was referring to the specific case of having a significant other.

I think that the protocol as described makes a lot of sense, because paperwork. (Although I think Clerky was supposed to be trying to help out with that?)
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Sorry, I shouldn't. But their focus is on the regulatory side, rather than the fun eco analytics that I'd hoped they would be interested in.
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The early exposure we got was from our audience on our blog, Signal vs. Noise. They were web design shops like us (that's what we did before we morphed into a product company). These were customers that were like us - small shops that needed a better way to collaborate, communicate, and present with their clients.
The entrepreneurial lesson to be learned here is not to sell items you can't provide.

Like sending people zooming through the air from point A to point B for a price that people are willing to pay for it[1]?

[1]: http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2011/11/29/american_...
When people think about plant patents, they're usually thinking of the Monsanto suits.

Most people might, but those posting patent questions to a gardening forum are a special breed. The patent question comes up often for those interested in propagating fruit trees. Groups that exchange varieties of plants and desire to obey the law often have complicated self-policing policies. For example, here are guidelines for a local chapter of the California Rare Fruit Growers association: http://www.crfg-redwood.org/patented-fruits-list-2013.pdf

I'm just saying, the likelihood of accidentally become a lawsuit target appears like it might be overblown in some ways.

Perhaps, but for many the question of risk is distinct from the question of legality. The questioner wasn't asking whether he was likely to be caught, but how to determine ahead of time if one is behaving legally. It's not clear if this is even possible. Does intent matter? One of the major breeders of new fruit varieties in the US asserts that it does not:

"Asexual propagation of patented plants (including any of its parts such as leaves, buds, cuttings, seed, fruit or pollen) is strictly prohibited without the written authorization of the patent holder or the patent holder’s agent. Possession of improperly propagated trees of patented varieties (such as the receipt of trees, budwood or graftwood from unauthorized sources) constitutes infringement, even if an illegal propagation was inadvertent."

http://www.dwnbeta.com/plant-patents-and-trademarks
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Nah, you're just lucky. I'm an older fart than you, and pretty much exactly this happened to me in 1984. The airline had a delay, bumped my friend and I (13 and 12 years old) to a later flight (NY -> Paris!), and didn't tell anyone. And of course we were too dumb to call someone too.

This isn't an issue of malfesance or neglect. It's just what happens when a bureaucracy hits a situation it didn't forsee. You can only "fix" it with common sense, which was in no greater supply 30 years ago than it is now.
You do realise this post is from 2010, and it was on the front page of Reddit and HN back then, so it wouldn't be hard to think that someone may have fixed it since then!
The company is not required to engage with us in anyway to access a complaint. And specifically in this case, they ignored not only tweets coming from PublikDemand but from me as well. We simply help the consumer get attention when they weren't being helped otherwise.
I've read some blog posts about procrastination, but this one I think really hits the mark. Good read!

"You see, procrastinators tend to be people who have, for whatever reason, developed to perceive an unusually strong association between their performance and their value as a person. This makes failure or criticism disproportionately painful, which leads naturally to hesitancy when it comes to the prospect of doing anything that reflects their ability — which is pretty much everything."

First paragraph in the text that stuck me so deeply. And it's not like I fear criticism (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5361495), but my urge for perfection is killing my performance and this in fact is indeed literally killing me.
Lovely! Is there a ready-hosted version, so I don't have to install it?
I'm a strong believer in TicTail. They have a great team and seem to be building a userbase rapidly. It will be quite interesting to see what happens once they launch their paid add-ons.
No, I didn't realize it was from 2010.

My comment still stands though: this post is incorrect. It may have been correct way back in the day when I was a Digg user, but now it's wrong.

A lot of people, like me, won't read the date of the post and will assume that this is still how reddit works. My comment illustrates how reddit works today.
OwnCloud is a WebApp that replicates a lot of cloud services (file sync [android and desktop client], contacts, calendar, streaming music, etc.). It's available as FOSS or with commercial licenses.
> First, Android hasn't solved the updating problem.

Sure it has - buy a nexus device, get updates. The rest isn't Google's problem as they aren't Google's devices.

> It lacks code-signing

Wrong.

> Apps have access to a shell.

So? The shell they can access can't do anything the app can't. That's like saying apps can run code - no shit, what's your point?

> App Permissions, though many people think they help with this problem, actually have nearly no effect whatsoever on the ability to root/jailbreak/privilege escalate on Android.

Of course they don't, because those are completely unrelated. iOS's code signing and other stuff hasn't stopped it from getting jailbroken. Complex systems have bugs, who'd have guessed it?

Also rooting is an actual feature on some Android phones (such as all Nexus ones) - not an exploit.

> Apps can dynamically update their own code at runtime.

Yup, and as a result Android users get to enjoy real web browsers, for example. And languages with JITs.

> If you wanted to develop a mobile/embedded platform to bring a new generation of users onto the web and into your customer base, you should have spent about 5 minutes figuring out how to do it without opening them up to harm. Android is the way it is because it wasn't believed these design features (aka safety) couldn't be included in the beginning.

Wrong. Android is easily the most securely designed OS out there that still allows side loading, period. Not claiming it is the most secure, as there are obviously bugs, but the most securely designed. Desktop OSes are incredibly bad here, and iOS only manages to prevent it by stripping you of all your freedom.
I have a cell phone and cash. A cell phone can never be what cash is. Anonymous.
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Is there any market sizing or business intelligence data available for the manufactured internet controversy industry?

It seems to be booming.
Here's a link to the "Experiment No. 11" he mentioned:

http://www.raptitude.com/experiment-log-no-11-an-attack-on-p...
I would love any suggestions for making tweets look less "spammy". We face that problem daily.
I had an epiphany today that the biggest solution to this problem and other feelings of "shittiness" is to just tackle it with nonjudgmental awareness, breaking the problem down and analyzing exactly what parts of it are making me feel that way. It's then easier to reframe and put the smaller parts into perspective than it is to deal with one blob of stress, which is an illusion anyway.
thanks, autocorrect- of course I meant "last"
The occasional mistake is forgivable. But this was not "a mistake". This was a long series of serious mistakes, and that just shouldn't happen.
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I can't believe that airlines accept the liability of flying unaccompanied minors. It seems they have so much to lose when something like this happens.

I understand the need/demand. So if the airlines stop offering it, I'm sure some kind of private travel companionship service would develop. They might be more expensive, but as their primary business, they may be able to provide a higher level of service/assurance.
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