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Well, i believe they are currently building new terminal to replace terminals 1 and 2 its meant to be a very nice building, and from what little o've seen of it i'd agree.
if something goes wrong, I'm pretty anyone would take their headphones off!

This is all total nonsense, cell phones don't interfere with pilot communications and unless you put all the cellphones right next to the radios which are of course in a big shielded box up front!
I'm genuinely curious and it wasn't addressed at all in the post - how did he make his first trip? Wasn't ALL of it novel the first time? Yet subsequent trips ALL of it has to be same or his stress level goes up?

I have a friend whose son is mildly autistic, and each new thing in his life has to be introduced in a specific way. For example, a new shirt will be brought into his room for several days for him to look at and touch. Once he's used to that he'll try it on, but he'll almost immediately take it off for the 'right' shirt that day. This can go on for several weeks, before he'll wear it in the house, but he still won't leave the house without putting on the 'right' shirt. He actually has a job, but it took almost six months from when he was hired until he would wear the full uniform for the job, because each piece of the uniform (and of course the job itself) had to be introduced in this fashion.

My friend's son is only considered 'mildly' autistic. I simply can't image going through a major airport the first time with someone like this. Once the pattern is established, yes, it's a challenge to keep it going ... but what about the first time?
Presumably testing this is hard? If so, I like it.
I assume the parents help out by doing things like booking the seats well in advance. Flight numbers are fairly stable over time as well.
> P.S.: 75k (the cost of attending FSU)

Don't forget the additional $120K that the average high school graduate will earn during those years, assuming a four year program.
That's probably straying a bit too far. In reality the person is likely completely aware that they obsessive compulsive, faking otherwise is just a little unkind.
Not at all. Charity/public good doesn't imply free work. And it's still up to the company to provide work that generates value for themselves. It's not free on either part of the company or the intern.

I don't know what the case is in the US, but in Canada, the government does provide some taxable benefits to the company for hiring interns or people between 18-24. I don't know the specifics, but they do exist.
Because people assume it's an insubstantial conspiracy. I have plenty of friends and family who work in medicine and they'll readily admit that there are fad disorders closely preceded or followed by a pharmaceutical to treat them.
Why would you expect greater inefficiency when every piece of empirical evidence we have, including Medicare itself in the United States, shows the exact opposite?

Government is an instrument of society. I'm trying to use that societal instrument in a proven manner to solve societal problems that otherwise suffer a tragedy of the commons.
Tell them you have unbearable anxiety during takeoff, and are liable to have another panic attack / projectile vomiting / crap yourself incident. If they want us to suffer their lies, they may as well suffer ours.
It's silly until your plane skids sideways on the runway, requires an emergency evacuation, and you're the idiot in the exit row who has no idea what to do because you can't be bothered to give a shit about it.

It's silly when the plane is almost parked at the gate, everybody stands up, and then the plane jolts to a stop against the blocks, causing a whole plane full of people to fall all over each other and get hurt because they couldn't sit down for another ten seconds, until the bell rang, like they were told to.

It's silly when the cabin door opens at 10,000 feet after takeoff, nearly sucking out passengers who, thank god, decided not to ignore the "keep your seatbelt fastened" warnings (the plane descended/slowed down and the attendants were able to get the door closed. The flight continued to Germany without stopping).

Hey, you know that live/die seat up/down joke? Turns out it's not about you; it's about not making it difficult for the people in the row behind you to evacuate.

Can you imagine the sighs and groans of the first-world aggrieved, if they were instructed to temporarily cease their addictions?
not mine. This is a big waste, what about all the other people in the world that LHR could go to a little extra trouble to help instead. The cost would pay for more ground crew, or maybe even train baggage handlers to not lose luggage quite so often.

I'm all for being good to fellow humans, but as Spock said, the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
As an engineer at LinkedIn, this makes me very happy to hear. We work really hard on the product and try to improve the experience wherever we can, and it's nice to know people find some utility in the work we do.

The first thing I hear when I tell someone I work at LinkedIn is: "You guys spam too much." I can't blame them because even I get frustrated with the volume of email I get from LinkedIn each day. For the most part, each product team is responsible for the frequency of their emails. Our team tries to cut down on spam wherever possible. Unfortunately, there are differing philosophies within the company (and within the industry) regarding what constitutes spam.
> I can understand the desire for this, but in the current environment, it's almost guaranteed to backfire, as the best developers simply won't put up with it.

An awful lot of developers are willing to put up with inane algorithm tests.

If I was hiring, I'd be skeptical of any developer who would prefer five hours of whiteboarding to some sort of trial arrangement, or even a sufficiently complete take-home coding test that is similar in nature to the work they'd be performing as an employee.
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There is a really good blog http://www.quantstart.com/ if you know how to code.
>> The irony of this has always intrigued me: Google may crawl your servers, but under Google's policies, you may not crawl Google's servers.

It looks like some of their site can be crawled and some not, that's how robots.txt has worked for a long time:

http://www.google.com/robots.txt
Both are gatekeepers. One has been configured with an employee handbook. The other is configured using .htaccess or similar. When making requests of either, how do you know whether you have permission to make the request you're about to make?

If a server cannot consent, does issuing "GET /" to a web server mean you snuck into the homepage and are not authorized to view what the web server was configured to provide to you?
One example... many airlines have a one bag policy, in most airports if you have an extra camera bag or small handbag, the staff will politely ask you to put it inside the bigger one or most of the time let you off, in London you can guarantee somebody will shout at you for it. It's not one particular thing, it's the general feel of the airport.
support, integration, etc.
Oh, Civilization

http://www.civfanatics.com/civ1/manual/civ1_man.htm
"The newly announced rules limit insurers to charge their oldest customers no more than three times as much as younger ones"
I for one applaud the Fermat-like comment and lack of additional information.
Right. You're the center of the universe.

And "Gilligan's Island" was made for people stranded on desert islands.

"Taxi" targeted that coveted taxi driver demographic.

"That 70s Show" targeted time-travelling teenagers from the 1970s.

"Scrubs" was written for doctors. Remember how upset all the doctors were when Scrubs joked about doctor stereotypes? No?

Likewise "Frasier" was for effete psychiatrists, "Cheers" for bar flys, and "I Love Lucy" for Cuban bandleaders and their wives.

Or, it's just a comedy about some quirky, nerdy friends, written to appeal to a very broad audience.
This is the case with most of these transparency reports. Even if they did report them, they would only be able to give very vague numbers, like "between 1 and 999" or the like. But yeah, more info is always better.
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Blackberry is trading at levels significantly below asset value and below the amount you'd get from tearing down the company

FWIW, this is about where Apple was in 2000, at ~$12/share.
>A master's degree is almost certainly worth less than than a year of full-time work experience on your resume.

For how long is this true? I mean, at this point, I have "more than a decade" of experience - and, considering, I think I'm likely to say 'more than a decade' even when I have two or three decades of experience; no reason to point out that you are old.

On the other hand, people leave their degree on their resume forever.

My point here is that years of experience seem to have, ah, a diminishing marginal return.

(that said, I'm almost certain that you are correct for the first five years of your career... /if/ you can get a good job without a degree and without experience, which in my very relevant experience, depends a whole lot on the shape of the job market at the time.)

Actually, as someone without a degree... the 'perishability' of my credentials is something I think about often. I mean, i wrote a book, [1] which is a pretty strong credential, but will one obsolete book mark me as 'middle class' 20 years from now? probably not. A masters degree would. (Now, would that masters, if it was fallow for a decade or two, get me a job? probably not by itself. But, my impression is that it keeps it's value as a credential longer than, say, my book, and certainly longer than work experience.)

[1]http://nostarch.com/xen.htm
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That's ok, but I was more intrigued recently by

25840^2 + 43776^2 = 2584043776

which led me to Numberopedia. https://sites.google.com/site/numberopedia/
Sure there are areas to improve, but overall I'm really liking iOS 7.

To the blog author - sorry if you think that your opinion == the objective, absolute truth, but it's not. It's just one opinion of many.
You still need to be an accredited investor until next year anyway. I'm not sure where the $1000 minimum comes from but it sounds like they intend on lowering it to $100 eventually.
On the one hand, this is a wonderful and heartwarming tale.

On the other hand, the Heathrow staff (many of them of Indian origin themselves) treat every brown international traveler like a probable terrorist.

Heathrow could and should do a lot more to make travel a better experience for the many, rather than (only) for the special one.
While I agree with a few of your points, re: "Why Isn't Anyone Saying So?", a lot of people are saying so. I think I remember two other Tumblr blogs in the last week on HN making the exact same argument. Careful with the linkbait titles.
The animations are the worst bit by far. I'm constantly hitting the end of them and having my touches ignored.
The US system is terrible, for so many reasons, so using it as an argument that socialized medicine is a solution is kind of a strawman. How did we care for people 50 or 60 years ago, when medicine was LESS socialized than it is now, and arguably care and outcomes were more compassionate in spite of less technology?

How, exactly are you solving the tragedy of the commons by expanding on its status as a "commons"?

And "Government is an instrument of society". That's true, but a somewhat vacuous statement. It's a very special instrument of society; and it is worth thinking about whether or not its special status makes it the "appropriate instrument". Do we really want the organization that invades brown countries and spies wantonly on everyone to be managing our medical system?

Before you dismiss that - when you vote for president (who is where the buck stops in terms of accountability) do you take into account whether or not he bombs brown people or spies? Do you want that part of the decision process contaminating the decision vis a vis his or her ability to manage the healthcare part?
Yeah, I feel the same way. If the FCC thinks it's fine, great. Otherwise, I can read a magazine for a few minutes.

The case that I suspect worries them isn't the well-manufactured, brand-new device on a shiny new plane. It's the older, banged-to-hell, third-rate Chinese knockoff against the oldest avionics in service. The question they have to answer isn't, "Should it be fine?" but "Can we prove it will never cause a glitch at the worst possible moment on the most problematic flight of the 10,000,000 we have each year?"

I'm astounded at the arrogance of random people who are sure they know the answer to that based on zero data and a strong sense of entitlement.
Really grasping at straws here for the "REALLY yucky". Can't see how someone can mistake a stopwatch for safari.
> My understanding (from a pilot friend of mine) that it is really about radio interference with the pilots' radios

If it was the case, this would be a complaint we hear from pilots every day. Think of how many people simply forget to turn off their cell phones...
To be fair, people are still easily scammed on the Internet. See: Bitcoin stock exchanges.
> It's bad for the introverted and highly intelligent because it further stigmatizes both of those things, especially in combination. By establishing extroversion and median IQ as "ideal,"

Let's be honest. Intelligence is widely regarded as a good thing to have, better than the alternative. People are regularly lionized for it. Nobody says, or thinks, "I wish my child was a little dumber" (whereas "I wish they weren't so shy" is common).

There's a class of intelligent people that other people find off-putting. But those other people aren't being put off by the intelligence, nor are they attributing it to the intelligence.

The concept of an acceptance campaign for introverts at least makes sense. The highly intelligent are already accepted.
Industry acceptance too.

In the heath care industry, it doesn't matter what you make, it doesn't matter how good it is, and it doesn't matter how proven it is.

If you don't say the word "Oracle", you don't get the contract.
Actually Heathrow is a terrible airport. I had a connecting flight through there and swore I'll get on a scrappy prop plane via Djibouti first before doing that again.

The security "might" be impressive, but often there's no real coordination so I've felt this is largely theater. I was wandering around while looking for the security office and not once was I stopped and asked where I was going.

No one knew where the security office was. One of my travel companions got lost and wound up there and I had to ask 6 different people (I don't know if they were security, but had uniforms and radios) and all of them gave me the "try over there" treatment.

Gate announcements are invariably late so you either make it barely on time or not at all. I know this is something we have to keep an eye on, but tired people tend to fall asleep.

It also doesn't help that it's one of the most confusing airports I've ever been through. Probably only second to Charles De Gaulle. The language used on most sign posts is English, allegedly, but of no dialect I'm familiar with and with no obviousness at a distance.

I don't know if they've changed these things since the last time (it's been a couple of years), but it was really quite terrible.
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I like iOS 7 a lot. Why isn't anyone saying so?
Obviously I know nothing about this person, or the persons particular disability. But I've done a whole lot of work (> 5 years) with autistic kids and a fair amount of training.

Hats off to the airport staff for being so accommodating, definitely. But I wonder about the parents. They've gone to great lengths to ensure their son is able to travel and their heart is in the right place. But what happens when the airport can no longer facilitate these conditions? The shit storm that will be unleashed will be ferocious since his expectations have been set in stone over time.

I understand that routine is very important to a number of autistic people. But not everything can be controlled. Staff move on, different passengers travel on different days and the weather changes. There are infinite variables.

My particular strategy would be to control the things that can be controlled. Introduce artificial events that you can keep constant. Perhaps a set of clothes designed only for flights. A trip to a fast food outlet on the way to the airport. A particular toy or electronic device (radio?) for the trip. This all sets up an expectation for what is about to happen, hopefully reducing the need for specific events - like the same airport staff being in a particular place, or the same seats on a flight.

And maybe the parents have tried all of this before or know it just won't work with their son. Everybody is different, and not all strategies work with the same people. But I think they're setting themselves up big time if they don't start slowly removing the 'constants' that can't be indefinitely controlled.
Of course the proper way to order surgeries is to give priority to the wealthy persons so they can quickly get on with creating jobs. Lazy poors aren't going to do anything significant anyway, so they can wait eight or nine months and it doesn't matter.

I cannot imagine raising taxes any further, if a wealthy child's parents couldn't afford to send him to a private school imagine what a terrible education he will have! He might even end up poor himself, which, I'm sure we can all agree, is a fate we should reserve for the already poor.
I dunno, or care, but it's funny, there was an article posted here recently that was titled almost exactly `psychiatry is bullshit' and that got to the front page. It's not a conspiracy, it's incompetent doctors readily prescribing dangerous drugs to children for make believe illnesses. This has happened since the birth of medicine and will continue to do so.
> If you visit and internet cafe and someone's forgotten to log out of their bank account and you fiddle with it, that's probably a crime.

That can be construed as impersonation without unauthorized access, which is in some jurisdictions is illegal.

But that is not what AT&T did, which is more like a open brothel with conference rooms and private bedrooms. They just let in anyone that looked in one type of attire, and had some numbered badge come into one of the reserved conference rooms. IoW, the security person did not ask for ID, or a password to enter. The fault lies on the brothel, not the visitor. For all we know, anyone could have come in looking with that attire, and a matching badge out of coincidence (maybe there was a costume party, who knows, still the brothel did not do a good job of securing the reserved conference rooms).

> No password, no HTTPS, no access controls at all. Who is responsible for the security breach? You or the bank?

The bank, they are not complying with the legal statues, and more than likely violating their own privacy policy, if any exist.

> I would argue that if there are no technological access controls in place, there is no such thing as "unauthorized access" You can't be unauthorized if there is no authorization. The default on the internet is "can access"

That is correct. In that analogy, it would be an open business, like store or malls. It follows jurisdictions of private properties, with some business statues, but overall, since it is an open-doors business, there are no authorization requirements.

> They're prosecuting him for the digital equivalent of walking down a street and taking pictures of houses which don't display numbers on their mailbox.

No. Like in the example above, they are charging him of wearing an attire with a numbered badge, and coming into the reserved conference room, and learning the attendants names or addresses (which should not be there in the first place, esp. with no security protocols). The worst they can charge him is for impersonation. However, what can incriminate him is if the pages he visited clearly displayed or linked the Term of Services or EULA, which does detail this scenario, and he violated it in some way.
Wow. This is one of the most melodramatic and disconnected-from-reality comments I've ever seen on HN. And that's saying something, recently.
Actually, in my experience, airport staff in UK is less pleasant to deal with than in other countries in Europe.
If only you had the option not to use it.
Because 90% of geeks have /self-diagnosed/ themselves as having aspergers and they take any criticism of it as a personal attack on them and their "illness".

Don't worry, something else will come along that is way more trendy in a few years and these same people will move on to claiming they have that, instead.

(Obviously not claiming autism itself is not real and not a legitimate and difficult problem to deal with. I shouldn't have to disclaim this, but I'm obviously talking about the Slashdot type crowd that has convinced themselves that because they are detail oriented and are sometimes awkward in crowds, they have aspergers and constantly talk about it.)
And what do you suggest we do for Aaran Stewart? Tough luck? People can handle losing their luggage once in a while. I doubt putting the money it costs to do this (how much is it anyway? Just paying for staff and a couple rearrangements made well in advance?) would improve baggage handling anyways. Aaran obviously can't handle flying differently, and it sounds like an important flight.
iOS7 is winning this poll by quite a bit:

http://polarb.com/polls/126643
Jest. I couldn't resist.
I think the illegible text is a pretty serious complaint. A lot of the visual metaphors typically used in nonflat design have real purposes. Kind of silly to throw them out because it just so happens you used too many leather textures in previous designs.

Text shadow is pretty damn useful. With certain color combinations, it's practically required. http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDEzLzA2LzEyLzY3L2lvczd2c...
Because your taxes are so high that people who might otherwise be able to afford a private jet now cannot? Not having a jet is quite embarrassing and really harms the jet-less that have to fly in merely first class.
Because it turns out most people don't really mind. The general feeling I've gotten from people around me is that they like iOS7.

Addressing a few specific ones:

> "What’s with the fly-in animation all the time?"

This has existed since the very first version of iOS. How is this at all an iOS7-specific complaint? The fly-in hasn't changed in any substantial way since the very first iPhone.

> "Especially for common workflow tasks like switching from an app to 1Password and back to the app."

Use the task switcher, which is now much faster than before? The task switching animation on older versions of iOS took eons unnecessarily (it was a very slow animation that "swapped" two cards). The new one is much, much faster. You're talking about an overall improvement in iOS7, not a regression.

> "Default wallpaper color theme is white on cyan."

It isn't. The default wallpaper on the GM/final build is a dark blue starfield, no contrast problems at all. It was only the cyan dynamic wallpaper in early betas.

Blah blah blah, the self-anointed aesthetique classe will continue to pick apart iOS7 in whatever ways they can find. In the meantime the world will keep using it, and people (Apple included) who spend more time developing and creating than bitching will find ways to improve it (like the community has improved iOS in the past - see: left-navigation, pull-to-refresh, etc). By far the biggest complaint I've heard from lay users re: iOS7 is performance on older devices. I've yet to meet a single person who despises iOS7's design as much as the self-appointed defenders of good taste.