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American Airlines’ Admirals Club Welcomes Klout Users in Nearly 40 Locations

At Klout, we know that understanding your influence through the Klout Score, Moments and analysis is just one step toward being recognized for your influence. We launched our Klout Perks program to recognize influencers with amazing products and experiences, and have partnered with major brands like Sony, Nike, Microsoft, Disney, Audi, Gilt and many others in an attempt to keep upping ourselves. Influencers clearly like this recognition – we delivered our one millionth Perk last week!

We think we’ve found another way to top ourselves…

Today we’re announcing a partnership with American Airlines that gives Klout users access to nearly 40 worldwide lounge locations including San Francisco, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, Tokyo, London and many more. Starting today, if you have a Klout Score of 55 or higher, you can gain access to the Admirals Club by going to aa.com/klout. You do not have to be an American Airlines passenger to be eligible for this Perk.

[Picture of an airport lounge with upholstery from the 70s]

This is only the beginning of the momentum we’re seeing with businesses and brands who recognize the power of Klout to further reward their best customers, and introduce themselves to a great breed of new customers.

Go to aa.com/klout to get your Klout treatment!
Even if there is a great disparity in wealth, if the company in question depends upon selling products to the poor or middle-class, then this sort of strategy might still be effective
You described exactly how I feel a hell of a lot of the time.

Depression is a drug. It causes a change in mental state, resulting in thought processes not consciously thought of during normalcy.

Whenever I'm in this state, falling deeper down into a deep abyss of existential thought and blank, bleak unawareness, I feel... enlightened. Vehemently, I obsess over the meaning of things, waiting for an answer but never getting it.

In a perverse way, I enjoy it. I think about death. I think about what regrets I would have if I ceased to exist. I explore my subconscious and bring it to the forefront of my thoughts. While this depressive state is a state of emotion, I feel like emotion fades away and allows me to focus on logic and the purity of feeling itself. I improvise a chord voicing or an accompaniment in a way I wouldn't have thought of before. I find my right hand playing a melody I never knew I had the capability of doing so.

Pragmatic code flows from my fingertips without thought. I feel disconnected. Disengaged.

I feel individual, which is perhaps why I enjoy it so much.

As if being fourteen years old wasn't tough enough.
We'd love to do that, but sometimes it doesn't work that way. If you restart the compositor, in order to not crash, you need to unmap and remap your window with a different visual. So the code needs to be there anywhere if your compositor WM doesn't crash.
Show HN: Weekend Project for Mothers Day - WeCallYourMom.com
In order to connect to this company that lives by social media, I have to give them permission "to access [my] public profile, friend list, email address and News Feed."

What could possibly go wrong?
It has been argued that putting a web server on a bare domain (without the www) is broken, since you aren't supposed to e.g. use a CNAME on the bare domain (and many hosting providers use CNAMEs to give them the ability to change the IP address hosting a site if something goes wrong in one datacenter).
I have written gawk apps of over 10,000 lines. One was a text formatter, another was a simulator.

I also wrote a gawk program that generated a string over 300,000,000 characters long (yes - three hundred million).
No problems (well, a few, but I handled them).

gawk ftw!!!
Or use something like NoScript
I disable it for sites that abuse javascript. I'm guessing I am not the only one that does. Probably quite a few people would do that outside of us developers if they knew they could (or knew the a site's major problem was derived from it). Not inferring anything about this particular site, just that there's good reasons to turn it off at times.

I normally browse with it on by default though, but I'll blacklist it for sites that cause my browser to slow down or do other things that are detrimental to the user experience.
What a truly horrifying partnership. Let's fill up our departure lounge with a bunch of big-headed bloggers. Brilliant!
With hindsight, yes, we'd love to do things differently. Saying "you should have done" doesn't really help the current situation here.

The gsettings port broke stuff and reintroduced problems. It was long overdue. This means that cutting features to get things out of the door might happen.

If I had to guess without debugging, I might guess that the 'changed' signals were firing at different times in comparison to when the slider was being adjusted that means that changing the background wasn't ordered 100% correct. The code stems back to 1996 -- it's possible that assumptions like these are being made.
My Klout score is a literally a 53.95. And I fly from SFO > Istanbul > Bangkok in two days. On American.

This is the first and only time in my life I'll ever be pissed that my Klout score's not high enough...

Edit: In all seriousness though, does anybody know how I can raise it just one point?
Not this shit again.

"It’s pretty well established that non-science degrees are not necessary for a job. In fact, the degrees cost you too much money, require too long of a commitment,"

The people who choose to get them usually have a passion for the subject. How is the commitment a negative?
While we're at it. Can we have the whole world switch to UTC time and stop dealing with timezones and daylight savings?
How long until people game the system?

How many dollars does it cost to get a bunch of twitter followers? facebook, linked in?
It would probably cost the same as paying to use AA lounges for a yer.
You show it to people who might want to use it!
If you are on welfare, the government is forcing you to apply for a job. That was the result of the 90s "welfare reform."

Edit: also, I don't think HN's top commentor needs to have someone give him a link to the guidelines. That being said, I agree with you that this is relevant.
I was at 61, now 53. Flying in 10 hours; could've used this on my layover. Wonder why it dropped...

Edit: As an aside, if anyone wants to get coffee in the Seattle area sometime in the next couple weeks, shoot me an email (it's in my profile).
That might be a fallback mode, but if it's the only mode then yes it's a problem but simply removing it isn't a very good solution.
Something tells me there might be a magical barrier at 55 now...I was at 57 last week...
NZ police uncover large educational cheating service
Dear Dawn.com: Chomsky has been pretty widely regarded, for the past thirty years or so, as a crank. You do your credibility no favors by publishing an interview with him, and certainly not by your hagiographic introduction.
I'm not sure how well-supported this product has been (the website itself seems down, if that's any indicator), but https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/buy-back-your-vote/id5350143... was done as a project last year in one of my university courses.
It seems to me the decay rate over 51 or 52 is pretty high. I can hang on to 50 forever, but over that and I slip back down fast.

Getting a couple tweets widely re-tweeted seems to have the biggest impact for me.

Now, if only we could use HN karma for something useful...
I'm ambivalent at best. Is creating a new class of privileged "influential" people a good idea? I'm not sure, but I think people should be rewarded based on the quality of their influence, not on the strength of it alone. At least, that seems like a more "free market" approach.
There are many extremely valid arguments for why the US should change to the metric system, but I don't think that "maybe we'll round down and be more efficient" is one of them.

> We ship liquids in gallon containers. A gallon is 3.8 liters. If we worked with liters, might we buy and ship three liters instead? Perhaps generating less waste?

Might we buy and ship 4 liters instead? That's closer to 3.8. Anyway, if we rounded down to 3, what about those people who really need 3.8 liters? They'll buy two jugs, which is double the packaging, and if they don't need the extra 2.2 liters, it's a waste of the liquid.

Also, many things are sold by the pound. But a pound is ~0.45 kilograms. Surely by your reasoning people would round up to 0.5 kilograms, and thus be less efficient.
I've been getting very similar emails recently, but assumed that one of my friend's Gmail accounts had been compromised. However, this makes a lot more sense. The fake emails have been sent from the names of people who are most active on my facebook posts.
Well in my growing up 70s-80s in primary/high school, We got metric courses a few time and some of the books covered it (did you know that a meter is roughly three feet, the distance from the floor to a doorknob? I learnt that in school.)

In the early 80s there was another push many California road signs had dual postings of miles/kilometers to destinations. Cars also had dual gauges on their speedometers, large soda bottles were now in liters instead of ounces.

Then... it stopped again.

Wikipedia fills in some of those blanks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_State...

I myself would like to see it change over, it would be a pain for a year or so, but then everything is standard with the rest of the world.
Hmmm, this went up at about 7pm on Sat. Should have waited a couple of hours and maybe until the next day ;)
How about a picture of an F35 fighter jet? Because a fighter jet goes much faster than [insert your preferred hipster language]? Or, you know, the F35 uses C++ code (and not Python/Clojure/LISP/PHP/Ruby/whatever).
Convert it to true-color (24-bit) Windows BMP, and it's 141,538 bytes. So the GIF is even larger than the raw RGB values of each and every pixel concatenated together.
Software is an implementation of an abstract process; implementations have a copyright, processes can have a patent. It works this way for every patentable subject matter, not just algorithm patents and similar.

If I design a new process for synthesizing a chemical, I can patent it. The patent does not describe the implementation, only the abstract process. A chemical engineer may design an implementation of that process, which is protected by copyright. Similarly, an algorithm (which is a process) may be patented but there may be several implementations of that algorithm that have a copyright.

There is an unfortunate myth that an implementation of a patented process being protected by copyright is unique to software. It most certainly isn't. In the chemical process patent area it is quite common to license a patent from one party and license a copyright for an implementation from another. In fact, this is generally how all patents work.
Hah, agreed, if only karma was useful! We can dream, I suppose.
I think the general attitude towards 'lowest price' in America is what could eventually bring the downfall of America (as we know it).

I like thinking about the movement of the 'American system' as an evolution. Back in the day, all the stores were owned by a local person. You go to this store, that's Bob's store, he knows all about the fruit he gets, it's always the best, he goes over to the farmer's field and makes sure he gets the cream of the crop.

From here we have a huge population of stores (like neurons competing / cooperating to be heard). All over America, people are employed by running their own stores. Until one day, when a super store comes on the scene. It sells things cheaper than the other stores, and it has a bigger selection. Bob doesn't work there, but they have pretty much the same produce. Maybe the high school kid working there doesn't know the farmer where the fruit came from, but that's not so bad, I didn't know that farmer when I bought the fruit at Bob's. Slowly, slowly, ever so slowly, our world is shifted. Instead of going to the store, knowing the owner, striking up a conversation, getting the latest scoop on the happenings of the neighborhood, we go to the store to accomplish a task. This is efficiency, right?

There's another shift too, and it's a personal shift (that might not happen to anyone).

I go to Bob's store, and I see he mismarked his apples, they should be a $1 a piece, but they're $0.10 a piece. I don't want to rip Bob off, I know him, he's a great guy. I say "Hey Bob, is this right?" He says "Oh no, that's a mistake, sorry about that." That's alright, you have to make a living and I don't want to make you lose money by purchasing something from you.

I go to a big box - they mispriced something. Maybe I can slip this by them, and the cashier won't know the real price... I mean, there's no real people to hurt, right? I'm not ripping anyone in particular off, just the company, which is a bunch of people, and no single one of them is going to be worse off because I purchase a mispriced item.

Any way that you can represent that this purchase is not part of the 'race to the bottom of the barrel', that's great. All the efficiency in the world will not make a place that's happy for people. Efficiency is inhumanity.
Still can't overload the semicolon operator. I asked Stroustrup about this critical feature lack in C++, and he admitted that he simply forgot. Embarrassing!
I think you're missing the forest for the trees. The lesson is just: don't spend the time to generalize something unless doing so will save you time and effort. You'll have to use a lot of judgement to determine where the crossover points are.
I've been approached a number of times by MS... once fairly aggressively. Never a word or response from Google though.
A Short Quiz About Language Design
Could someone tell me what a person with a Klout score over 55 would be like please? Just how influential is that -ish?
...or people who can set a breakpoint in Burp Suite.

t.reward = "http://fly.aa.com/klout/api/reward/ + t.id;
var n = t.score >= 55 ? c("free-pass") : c("50-off");
store.set("StoredUser", {
id: t.id,
score: t.score,
nick: t.nick,
reward: t.reward
})
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw9lTB0hTNU
Avalanches catch the unwary and unprepared, burying them alive under tons of snow. "Don't go up there without a guide," the locals say.

At night, the wolves howl...
Right, so what you need is a slider. What's the cutoff age. 18? 16? 12?

Of course, that's a distraction. I worked for the government when I was twelve, but I only worked an hour or two a week.
Hmm, that one is more problematic. I only skimmed his top level comments.
Why does proving algorithms involve understanding basically every else. The almost every proof (of correctness) I've seen has been simpler and easier to understand than most of the proof I saw or was asked to do in high school math.
Proofs for the running time tend to be trivial (in terms of getting a reasonable big-O, big-Omega. Getting big-Theta is often more difficult, but still tends to be relatively simple).
If deactivation of you account is something that would induce "panic," why did you play?

In my opinion this game seems fucking absurd, if it's not altogether a social engineering scam anyway.
What I was saying, is that if you are to complain about lack of pattern matching syntax in Python, you want to consider that such syntax require concise and unambiguous handling of a number of cases:

matching a value of variable:

|z when z = y -> print y

free matching with a bind:

|y -> print y

matching several values:

|2|3 -> print "2 or 3"

matching tuples:

|2,3 -> print "tuple 2,3"

Now, if I'm trying to come up with such syntax for Python, I see immediate problems. For example, lets consider following syntax for matching several values:

match x with:
1: print "my string"
2,3: print "2,3"

Would it be equivalent to matching a tuple (2,3) or matching one of the values 2 or 3? Ambiguous. So you need some other syntax. Let's try a few variations:

match x with:
1: print "my string"
2:3: print "2 or 3" # plain ugly
2|3: print "2 or 3" # interferes with '|' op
in (2,3): print "2 or 3" # too complicated
x in (2,3): print "2 or 3" # elif was simpler

Or consider:

match x with:
1: print "my string"
y: print y

Would that be matching a value of variable (|z when z = y -> print y), or free matching with a bind (|y -> print y)?

Having experimented with that a bit, I have a feeling, that it's just impossible to make up 'match' syntax for Python that would fit into the language. And I think that's why it is not there. And why we don't even want match syntax there. Now, of course I'd be happy to change my opinion, if somebody would rise up to the challenge and come up with some syntax that fits.
"You love scheme" nodding

"You understand that simplicity is beautiful, and that scheme is the very essence of what it means to write software." nodding becomes vigorous

"So we ended up embedding the Chicken Scheme runtime into a FastCGI module..." Wait, what?
In other words, the Tesla isn't for people who go on road trips constantly. Oddly enough, this was the original claim.
Waaa, programming is hard, waaa, I don't want to worry about const correctness of pointers, waaa I don't want to know what pointer is at all, waaaaaa let me keep making my HTML programs in Visual Clojure BASIC.
You can log on to your Klout account and see the scores of all your FB/Twitter friends. That would probably give you the best idea.
I'm 55 exactly. (@ws on Twitter).

I don't consider myself influential to alot of people, but there are a few.
Soliciting a few retweets might help!

I just retweeted you to help the cause. Have a good flight!
Change to imperial units instead, just think of that extra 95ml of beer in every pint glass!
Why hasn't anybody whistleblown the value of that kind of information? I'm sure it has a monthly or annual price and it may even be written down somewhere.
If this fails, will the digital community start taking the corruption of lobbyists more seriously? If we could turn the anti-SOPA campaign into something like rootstrikers.org's campaign to decouple large donations from politics, we might be able to nullify the voices that make common-sense laws so unlikely to pass.
What does that have to do with anything? Have you done a survey of all blacks, or even all black actors, to arrive at anything resembling a consensus? Why do you cite Morgan Freeman's opinion and not others?
As far as I know, the XDK Extensions were intended for XBLA developers, not "AAA studios".
> I would expect most people to realize that native code still has its place, at least for now.

Native code has always had a place and will always have a place. New applications will be written in C++, 20 years from now, when all the inefficient, fadish languages (and the inconsequential websites that they power) have long been forgotten.
For those who are jealous... it looks like this just gives you a one day Admiral Pass that you must use before July 31st. It's not like you get continued access to their lounges.

screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/4iflZt0.jpg

And it enters you into a contest to win a one year pass. So this is a one time freebie + contest promo, not an ongoing perk.
I'm pretty sure the MBTA has some gasoline hybrid trucks that can provide power to tools; I forget who makes them, but it's one of the usual major automakers (but was from a very limited production run).
If I met IE in a dark alley, I would reach for a shiv. Not a shim.
So high Klout users get one one-day pass and you hand over your e-mail address to AA. The promotion makes sense - AA.com gets publicity and likely some tweets from popular Tweeters, etc. And they get a chance to upsell people to a club membership.
Spot on! I kept an idea to myself for a couple years and finally committed to it by telling people about it. And not just sharing but actually saying this is my next "job." Then I rented a desk and hired a designer and "the pressure" has made me happier than any other professional time in my life. I'm not finished but I have momentum...
Events for function calls and Lisp's trace-like function for Javascript.
I use Alt+# in bash to do something similar. It comments out the current line and gives you a new prompt. Then you can run whatever you wanted to do first, and then scroll up, delete the hash sign and hit Enter.

Esc-Q sounds easier, though.
> The noise a vehicle makes matters. The fact that the Tesla makes no noise is a drawback to me and I suspect others in this category.

Meh, this is a minor problem. They could probably just slap some speakers on there to make some noise if this became a real concern. In any case, at lower prices, people are just interested in utility. And once silent cars become universal at lower price points (maybe in 20-30 years), they'll probably ban cars that do make noise, just to reduce noise pollution.
Right. I should be ashamed of myself for putting my money with a bank large enough to have a chance of getting its own way vs. the federal government when push comes to shove.

Instead, I should put my money with a small credit union with no money managers capable of getting me a decent return and so little clout when the proverbial shit hits the fan it'll be left to be roadkill.

What could possibly go wrong?
Startup idea!

Allow us access to your Facebook and Twitter, we'll pay you $2 a month for the privilege.
> I have been working with professionally on the web for over 7 years and have not once been able to configure Memcached properly.

What were the problems you had with Memcached? Assuming you install it from your distro's respositories, you just need to tweak a configuration file with less than 10 options, the most important option being -m. Unlike Redis, Memcached rarely adds exciting new features, so there's little incentive to compile it yourself.
They are hosted in rack space and rack space regularly gets DdoSsed
Couldn't think of anything worse than having to talk to people when in the middle of a bout. I'm sure it'd be helpful, just that it ain't gonna happen.
The expected audience for this book are hard-core hackers who work on important systems, are paid accordingly and can probably expense it on their corporate AMEX. So no, I don't think $75 is unreasonable. Maybe you're thinking of "Scala for Social Media Hipsters Trying to Code a Startup on a $10,000 YCombinator budget"
Embarrassingly i'll admit to having a klout >55.

Having just logged into the AA/Klout thing, you'll note that they're actually just giving away a 1 day pass with a chance to win a free year in their Admirals Club

check it: http://cl.ly/image/3g1f2h04002J
That is one of my favorite passages from that book.
The 60% was specifically about a good, big GE combined cycle natural gas plant. I was under the impression that for a purely steam powered generator, such as you have in a coal or nuclear plant, significantly less than 60% of the heat turns into electricity.

I thought he was also saying that an internal combustion engine burning natural gas is about 20% efficient, with the implication that if you are absolutely determined to power a vehicle with natural gas, burning the gas in a big turbine and using it to charge batteries is going to be significantly more energy efficient than burning the natural gas directly in the vehicle.
The particular example of the language could have been done with distinct words, not a single overloaded word that depends on order of placement. More decorator-like, for example.
How would this work for purchase, say, at a Grocery Store? The mom and pop grocer's down the road may have no evil corporate affiliation, but the makers of the junk food they're selling - that's a different story.

It's so hard to pick out every little piece. As a parallel, I am a vegan, and I just have to accept that no matter how hard I try - even if I did have an app - I'm going to be using or ingesting animal products at some point. An app just can't take into account every little piece of the puzzle.
I'm secretly a race car driver
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