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> For starters, airline customers care almost exclusively about price

I fly exclusively on United because they have Economy Plus, which lets me buy an additional 3-5" of legroom at a reasonable additional price. Sure, it's more than Southwest or whatever else, but I'm more than happy to give them my dollars for the extra space.
Very interesting idea, there must be some SciFi works on this subject.

Would the ePresident be fixed for their term of office (no upgrades whilst in post)? Could you ask it questions as a citizen before voting to know how it would respond for any given parameter set? Would it be programmed according to the Three Laws?

Perhaps all parties could submit an ePresident candidate and each could get a vote on all actions based on the proportion of the population who voted for it.
The CEO said it in jest because even bad headlines is good advertisement. I don't think anyone of his engineers would have seriously considered implementing it. And that's not even counting the insurance underwriters and CAA who would have shut it down.
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Look into Quantum GIS. It's an opensource tool that will let you do what you want (and more). A fair bit more flexible than Google Earth.

Most geographic charts and images are in formats that include a locations/scale/alignment. Mixing different coordinate systems (global vs uk local ones) needs the right settings. Good luck!

If you are looking to graphically align non-geostamped images, you should be able to figure out their corners by comparing them to a map with a known coordinate system, then use a .world file to specify that location stamp before importing them to Quantum GIS or whatever you use.
Sounds like a company of bellends.
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Built one too, but with Meteor. I actually create a login for you automatically with auto-generated username and you can rename your username if you care. Also can copy paste images, not just drag drop

http://sket.sh/
yes, just tested with binding of issac for instance, which has steam achivements and steam cloud sync, works without steam on a different system entirely.
Personally I want them to send $USD to a UK bank in $US. I set one of these up with barclays; it was trivial and low fees. Can then use transferwise to get $USD into £GBP and avoid the 2.5% forex tax our lovely banks charge.
I know, I was making the point that all software gets updated regardless if it's good or bad.
Yep. Sounds like shop talk--amazing how things at machine shops, oil rigs, and construction sites can be very similar at times. The women I know that work in any of those fields tend to either ignore it or join in--depending on their mood.

One wonders how things would be different were roles reversed--indeed, what sort of talk was common on factory floors during the world wars?
People don't like booking the last seat on a jam-packed flight. If given the preference, they'll find a flight with some room (this applies in other cases where people decide whether or not to be in a crowd). So I wouldn't be surprised at all to hear that Southwest's 80% capacity remained constant before and after the six additional seats were added.

EDIT: Here's a related article where church seating on pews versus individual chairs is discussed - and airplane seats are even mentioned: http://www.alban.org/conversation.aspx?id=2380
There's a classic experiment where you get people firstly to generate a length 50 "random" string of heads and tails by making it up. Then they genuinely flip a coin 50 times and write down the result.

You can almost always tell the difference. there are statistical tests that you can apply that almost invariably identify which is which.

So there are statistical tests that let us ask whether a particular collection is "random" (whatever that means) When we have the right model (the Cramer model is one) we can produce sequences of numbers which are genuinely created at random, but which the statistical tests cannot decide which sequences are the random ones, and which one is the primes.

You can read a little here: http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/RandomEratosthenes.html?HN1
The article states that reducing leg room from 32 to 31 inches allowed for one additional seat row. Which means that there were already no less than 32 rows on those planes. Six seats per row give 192 passengers. RITA numbers clearly show that the load factor have never exceeded 90% since 2010. That means that at least 10% of seats were empty, that is, 19 seats. There is no sense of adding another 6 seats just to have them empty. If there were a demand for six seats, the people demanding them would just have occupied those of 19 free ones.
Adding another row only makes sense if the plane is full and there's additional demand for seats. We should have looked at the load factor distribution, not only at it's mean value. Most attentively we should have looked at the standard deviation of the load factor around it's mean, but RITA didn't provide such an information.
I will probably get shunned to death for asking this, but I must ask.

The described behaviour of men in the article is pretty damn sexist, true. But how is it any different from how men in groups behave towards one another? Just replace all the sexist jokes with gay jokes or sissy jokes or just about any other type of jokes men direct at one another to establish pecking orders within groups.

Reading this, it doesn't feel so much like the terrible sexism it's portrayed as, but more like reading about a clash of cultures. This is how groups of men organise themselves. I understand it's jarring for women and that women do it differently, but still, all I see here are men treating a woman exactly like they treat other men.

By the sound of it, she's actually being accepted into the group. Hazing is always the first step.
Kind of puts the "sexism in tech" discussion in perspective. These guys make the Mad Men lot sound respectful.

Here's a simple way they could deal with that - create a new company (or even just a new department within the company), hire only civilised people, fire anyone who proves to be an uncivilised jerk, and slowly grow that department/company to take over the company/industry because it's not full of retards...
The difference between economy and business class is 3-5X. Its like a completely different world/price level, that those of us stuck in economy can only dream of.

To sleep on a 12 hour flight...that would be great!
OK just a couple of points from a very personal perspective.

You would appear to have done a lot of work to solve a perceived problem; but it is not a problem that I recognise. I have some understanding of scope in JavaScript and I am content with the way objects are organised within the language - well more than content I love it.

On the tone of your web page. It might be a mistake. Implying some sort of superiority for developers who hanker for such keywords as virtual, abstract, override or private is hardly going to endear your project to folks that probably have quite a lot of experience using JavaScript. Sure the terms abound in (generally) compiled languages and jolly useful they are too - in their place.

However good luck with your project.
While I welcome the idea, I do find it strange that they just focus on Dutch startups, when if you have the right to work in the EU you can work anywhere. Another one that I came across this week, out of Scotland, is http://www.upstartjobs.com/
You're right; your comment was crap.
looks good, best wishes
I imagine it was pretty bad. I recall my grandma telling me that the talk on the shop floor during the war was... not polite.
For non UK readers Fit = "hot"

It might not be immediately clear but the article is talking about Civil Engineering which is a little unreconstructed when compared to IT.

And to progress to Chartered status for civil engineers you must have experience working on site bossing the navvies around.

When I worked for Dar Al Hadnasha (one of the big civil consultacies) we had to send out female engineers to Italy on an exchange as in the middle east it woudl have been impossible for a woman to go on site.
Actually, LibreOffice is trying to get rid of the Java dependency for a while now[1].

[1]: http://www.developer.com/open/libreoffice-3.3-frees-open-sou...
When a man walks into a predominantly female group, the behaviour is exactly the same, just the words are different.

At least in my experience.
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The HN hivemind thinks that corruption and elite deviance doesn't exist. Maybe we're trying to be different from the Reddit hivemind which sees a conspiracy under every rock.
>But how is it any different than how men in groups behave towards one another?

Men do not typically fear sexual violence from each other.

Not that the men on that site were necessarily going to rape the engineer, but it was certainly orders of magnitude more likely than them raping each other.

For the record I understand your point and you might be right, she may well be being accepted, but I don't think it's really reasonable that she should just feel OK with it.

EDIT: and tbh in an ideal world men wouldn't have to face "hazing" (bullying) either. It's a pretty poor justification for women having to cope with a worse variant.
yes I recall a case in the uk where a young lad was bullied by the mostly female workforce on the shop floor of a factory.
I wonder if one could construct a metric for how 'interesting' a drawing is- then throw it at a genetic algorithm? I'm guessing most likely the system is inherently unstable, so two 'interesting' parents don't necessarily create 'interesting' offspring
He would have had an incentive if letting it be damaged recklessly meant he'd go straight to jail...
Damn, I was just wondering about this the other day. I.e., how the software world compares to the engineering world. Seems my guesses were right in this case.
What programmers can do about homelessness(and poverty):

Simple. Work for places(or build startups) that:

1. Help develop better and cheaper healthcare systems, products and processes.
2. Help develop technology that reduces the price of construction and in general the cost of living.
3. Help non profits and social entrepreneurs.
4. Help political change through technology.

And yes, doing some of this things might mean less wages , and not living in San Francisco.
You've argued that if the the primes were basically random, we would expect Goldbach to hold, but as I understand it, we would expect to not be able to prove that it holds.

The fact that we can prove the ternary Goldbach conjecture is (necessarily) at least as surprising as it being true: in this case it seems to be significantly more surprising. Is the significance of this result in fact the techniques used, rather than the result itself?
Hmm, I don't understand how this is different from BugSense or Sentry? Don't they already group errors together too?
I like the concept but I don't like your pricing model. For what it is, even $19 a month feels like a lot. I would love to add this to the couple of web apps I run but at that cost it'd run parallel to the cost of my AWS overhead.

Semi-seriously, you should add a PAYG model that costs by the error, thus incentivising me to make my code less error-prone!
With internet you can run your startup anywhere on planet. Why would you choose the most expensive area on planet? You could be on tropical island for fraction of the cost. Also smaller costs gives you longer runway, it is big difference to have 3 months or 3 years.
I don't understand why things just have to be online-enabled nowadays. It seems like this app could be implemented with a daily-updating list of which products belong to which company, but my understanding is that they do a live server check, which wastes data and is very bad for privacy.

It seems like "talking to a server" is the default for everything nowadays, even when it doesn't need to be.
I don't know what sort of places you've worked, but I've never experienced "hazing" at any of my jobs.
> Men do not typically fear sexual violence from each other.

Women do not typically fear sexual violence from men either. Any woman I've ever asked "Do you really live in constant fear from rape as the internet activists suggest" has answered with "Not really, unless I'm going down a dark alley alone at night it doesn't really cross my mind"

But y'know, going down a dark alley alone at night, I'm pretty damn on guard myself and I'm a guy.

For the record: I have always felt americans (and anglosaxons in general) are orders of magnitude more afraid of the world than any other people I've ever spoken to. Men and women alike.

EDIT TO YOUR EDIT:
> EDIT: and tbh in an ideal world men wouldn't have to face "hazing" (bullying) either. It's a pretty poor justification for women having to cope with a worse variant.

Ideal or not, hazing and bullying has worked for countless millennia to distinguish those you can rely on in a tight spot from those you cannot. The more dangerous the circumstances, the harder becoming accepted by a group seems to be. It's just how humans are.
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It will definately attract more people to their main business. So I guess it is a win win situation.
I would be interested in hearing about your experience.
What has been lacking in the past is an open source type effort to make derived datasets available. There are numerous commercial projects that process public domain data and resell it, but do not publish methods or make the data available for free. The community tend to use NASA datasets with known limitations, or commercial data with high entry pricing. There is a distinct lack of cost-free domain specific derived data.
I signed up my project. But the form seems to be the standard form you guys use for everything else. There were no fields for the specifics that are defined on the open source page.

I think it would be clearer if you had a slightly customised form for the process
I did once in my youth avoid one end of the office were I briefly worked, for there was a mouthy, and by her own account sexually adventurous young woman--who was free in voicing her opinion of my looks. I used to run home from that office a couple of days a week, but made damn sure never to exit past her work area. That was a third of a century ago, and stands out in my mind, so the reverse case is apparently not that common.

Do women freely express their opinions of men among themselves? Certainly. But it is my desire and care to avoid overhearing them.
Well there are two.

1. I was out with a group of female friends. Them being 3 to 4 females who have known each other for ages, me being the newcomer. I got the distinct feeling that men are walking penises. (granted they were all in their early twenties)

2. Living with my mum and sister (and female cat). Every day I am reminded that a man is incapable of tying his own shoes without a woman's help. We are these helpless sort of creatures you know, women only put up with us out of the kindness of their hearts and because we're good for a lay now and then.
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> For what it is, even $19 a month feels like a lot.

Please read http://wadefoster.net/post/49775946303/startups-you-should-v... :)

EDIT: What I am trying to say is that the comment is underestimating the value of something like an error tracker, vastly - especially when managing several web apps.
No, because I would not accept it as sufficiently Artificially Intelligent until it had proven itself capable of irrationality.
> For the record: I have always felt americans (and anglosaxons in general) are orders of magnitude more afraid of the world than any other people I've ever spoken to. Men and women alike.

You should qualify that by where you live. There are dangerous places and there are safer places. America is a bit more dangerous in many places than Europe.

I wouldn't let my wife walk alone at any time in India these days but I have no problem with her walking alone in Beijing in the middle of the night.

The world is vast.
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I don't think it's true. It can't be.

But if you're referring to Google's "Off the Record" feature, that's not OTR encryption. They just don't save that conversation in your logs. But they still have access to it themselves.
Yup but only automatially. Our matching default to automatic but you can redefine the matching rules.

Examples:

1. your exception messages contain the id of the entity you're dealing with "FooBar 1234 has broken". You only want to match then on the FooBar has broken bit, not the 1234.

2. for whatever reason, some IP address keeps sending you dodgy requests that break your server. You can filter all errors requests from this IP address so you don't get swamped with these errors.

3. The same bug deep down in your code is causing different errors higher up. You can choose to match on the part of your stack trace that is the common cause and get all these errors attached to the same issue.
This all sounds really great and is definitely a step into the direction to make higher education more accessible - a few side notes (for those getting too excited)

(1) There have been quite a few online learning (aka distance learning) degree courses from reputable universities for some time. For MSc / Master degrees until recently they all required at least some in-person workshops (normally 1 week long - for a MSc in the UK afak 6-8 sometimes 12 weeks over 2 years). These workshops were there for the benefit of the students (networking, group work / access to profs in person, socializing, campus feeling etc.) and various other requirements (e.g. degree requirements). The outcome of these degree programs was normally the same degree that you would have received for taking all courses on campus.

(2) All universities that have offered online degrees without in-person workshops in the past differentiate / protect their higher priced and more strongly access-limited on-campus degrees by providing different degrees - GaTech does the same here - after successfully completing this course you will receive an OMS in CS from GaTech not a MS in CS from GaTech. It is to be seen if this will be received differently in the industry (as this was with such degrees in the past) or we finally are getting to a change here.

(3) The course will start Fall 2014. I would be surprised if EdX and/or Coursera will not soon announce something similar.

(4) From the FaQ it looks like ATT is sponsoring the course creation etc. with US$2M.
Interesting concept. Being an English guy with an American wife I've discovered a large number of common words that are very different between the two languages (beyond the obvious like sneakers/trainers, jumper/sweater) - it would be great if the dictionary were expanded to support this.

EDIT: though it does occur that you won't want to switch words with several meanings without context, which could be tricky.
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If that "automated eavesdropping" can be accessed by humans later, than no I don't think there should be a difference at all. It's the same thing. The only difference with the latter is that it doesn't happen in real-time. But the damage can be just as bad. So from that point of view, there's absolutely no difference.
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Smith Machines are awful. Gyms choose to get them rather than squat racks because it reduces their insurance payments. When you go to an inexpensive gym, this is the kind of tradeoff you get.
I couldn't figure out from the link, how is TAOS different from the JVM/CLR? It seems to me that pNaCl and asm.js are already 99% of that, they're only missing all the libraries.
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Well the chronology is following a branch :)
Very interesting that you link his age with the position. If he was 28 and just graduated with a CS degree would that still apply? Or are you saying that because of his other experiences you would not hire him as a truly junior (taking his age out of the equation)?

Out of interest, on the salary side of things would you start him off at a junior rate and then increase to mid-level when you think he has reached the mid-level criteria?
> Ideal or not, hazing and bullying has worked for countless millennia to distinguish those you can rely on in a tight spot from those you cannot.

So has being in constant danger of being eaten by a large carnivore, why don't you submit yourself to that then?
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Ugh. When I read this on my smartphone that social media share thing on the left was placed all over the content. Couldn't read a thing. So freaking annoying.
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Ah, I see, thanks. I guess I just haven't had trouble with this in all my years working on web development, it's always the same error (the error doesn't vary on ids), if an IP address keeps sending me things that break my server, I fix my server, and if the same bug is causing different errors, I'll fix it quickly.

I guess #3 is the only example that might apply to me, but I have literally never had this happen, so I don't know. Then again, I don't even use Sentry, I get the issues emailed to me and I fix them on the spot (they're usually 1-line fixes, typos, or something like that).
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In the mid-eighties I was a process engineer for a printed-circuit-board company whose production staff was predominantly female and with an education level of 10th to 12th grade. I decided I'd be part of the company if I ate my lunch with the rest of the crew, and on the second or third day, one of the "ladies" asked if I was going to eat my banana.

When I responded with "I don't have a banana", she said that sounded like a personal problem and I was asked if I had one every day for months. What I can tell you from that experience is that women can be far raunchier than men - and in this case, I think they had a contest running to see who could make me blush or fluster me the most.

I've been part of the minority in other cases (race, country of origin, gender) and I think that much of this behavior is really related to crowd dynamics. Would the men described in the article behave that way if their SO was present? In any case, this female engineer shouldn't be hazed in this way and while it probably doesn't count for much, I'll still say "I'm sorry" for the behavior of my fellow men.

Let's all try to be a bit more civilized ... and especially here on the Internet!
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> Just replace all the sexist jokes with gay jokes or sissy jokes or just about any other type of jokes men direct at one another to establish pecking orders within groups.

You may want to consider hanging out with a different crowd...

Also, this is not "hanging out", this is the workplace. Different standards should apply. Bullying and intimidation in the workplace is unacceptable for any reason, and in this case it's both bullying and sexism.

Yes, I know this is how certain groups of men behave. It also happens to be the same men who's jobs are in danger of permanently disappearing, and this is exactly one of the main reasons nobody gives a shit.
Even an ideal bytecode would likely be slower than javascript for years -- no, statically-typed bytecode should be significantly faster than dynamically-typed JavaScript (both in execution and parsing time), IMHO.