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Well, whether Mc Donald's should let you buy a burger from them AFTER you just said that is solely their choice.

That's a different situation. Once you've bought a ticket, then you have already entered into a contract with the airline, and have certain contractual and statutory [1] rights. In the EU at least, being denied boarding means at the minimum a refund, cash compensation for the inconvenience, and assistance with/while procuring alternate transportation.

Furthermore, EasyJet's terms and conditions [2] only allow them to deny you boarding where this is "justified by circumstances beyond our control or for reasons of safety". While these criteria can be stretched a bit, it is very doubtful that either would cover being criticized on Twitter.

And being a hypocrite and being offended doesn't give you any special rights either.

Aside from the fact that you may not be a hypocrite (I've flown with more than one airline I wasn't particular fond of because I didn't have a choice), even being a hypocrite doesn't mean that you lose your statutory rights.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_261/2004

[2] http://www.easyjet.com/terms-and-conditions
A company should not be able to refuse service for stating a true fact. Or even opinion about them. Especially when they have common carrier protections.
I can usually grasp the general idea of content on pages with invalid markup but I just couldn't understand this one at all. `Stray doctype?' Come on now...
Although this looks like a decent implementation, it isn't thread safe. Even creating a wrapper around this wouldn't make it safe as per the article.
I got a blister on my eye from Night & Day contacts. Then in got LASIK. That was in 2005, best choice of my life.
The font is different because I was not able to find which one was used here. But except from that; do you see this halo effect?
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which is why it gets repeated everytime bitcoin articles get posted on HN ;)
Agreed I love dev doctor, it's indispensably useful! I use it all the time.

Disclosure: personal friend wrote dev doctor.
You should do customer support. For my competitor.
International air travel is tax free world wide as agreed in the Chicago Convention on International Civil Aviation.
Set one of the pages to open on startup to "chrome://apps/"
if you miss the old page.
The point is that you still install the same amount of panels, but now you get three times as many watts. Since the other underlying figures don't change, the installation cost is 1/3 per watt.
Have you tried VisualAssist plugin for C++ ? I really liked it, it had many "resharpery" features when I was using it (around 2 years ago).
It requires context... Is this a real complaint or a "Look at me and treat me better because I'm a high Klout score quasi-journalist" situation?

That should determine the level of outrage more than the legalistics.
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Agree that there are two parts - whether they'd have to sell him a ticket in the future and what happens with the current flight but there may be something in the small print that would allow them to prevent him boarding (though almost certainly subject to suitable compensation).
I've been very nearsighted since I was about 8-9 years old. I had glasses exclusively for about five years, then contact lenses (monthly disposables) for 15 or so. I enjoyed contacts well enough, but did not enjoy the hassles with them - cleaning them and swimming without them were my biggest annoyances.

I haven't been sold on LASIK because of the risk of permanent side-effects, such as the light haloes, starbursts, night vision issues, and dry eye.

I tried orthokeratology - wearing a special prescription hard lens for eight hours a night to gradually reshape the cornea. I liked the idea that it was completely reversible, and the downside of wearing the lenses at night wasn't a big deal for me (they were never completely comfortable, but they didn't bother me after the first couple nights).

The problems I experienced with the ortho-k lenses were two-fold, which would have affected me permanently had I went with LASIK: 1) my cornea is too thin for the large amount of correction I need, and 2) my pupils are too large.

1) Thin cornea: ortho-k and LASIK require material with which to work. When there's not enough cornea to mold/burn, the procedure results in weak correction. Solution? Wear contacts. Lame. We're back at square one.

2) Large pupils: my pupils are apparently freaky large in low light. The area of the cornea that gets molded was large enough for normal-to-bright light, but in low light the molded area was too small. That resulted in terrible haloes. Solution? Take glaucoma eye drops that shrink one's pupils for 8-12 hours. I didn't like being dependent on a drug in that way. After three attempts over many months to enlarge the molded area, we gave up. My cornea was just too thin to be able to mold a large enough area.

My eye doctor said that because of my thin corneas and large pupils, if I got LASIK surgery I would have suffered the same problems with weak correction and terrible haloes and other vision artifacts in low light.

So I'm very glad I went the non-permanent route first. Luckily with ortho-k, I just had to stop wearing the sleep shaping lenses for a week to revert to my normal nearsighted vision. I'm back to my monthly disposable contact lenses, and am happy I can see the stars clearly and be able to drive at night again.

I would definitely recommend checking out ortho-k, though - I wasn't a good candidate, but I'm sure many people are.
If you don't mind, how are you finding the ARTIFLEX implants? I recently got consulted for LASIK and my prescription is too strong (-12.5 and no signs of stopping) for that to be an option. The semi-permanent nature of the ARTIFLEX implants really interest me, because should my prescription get even worse I could theoretically replace the lenses.

Did you have any complications? Is the procedure any more risky than LASIK?
Going to the level of suing them seems over the top to me as he didn't have any damages or loss of pay / opportunity as he was allowed to board. That said the employees and staff of the airline should be educated on what their rights for refusal actually are.

Not to say this isn't something that should be taking seriously but peoples tendency to jump to trying to sue someone for anything and everything is getting ridiculous.
A void method that returns a sandwich, no less.
It works for some two years now. Switching family to linux (laptop & desktop) two years ago have saved me tens of hours of tech support, and saved family from waiting for my free time. `It Just Works' for them. Really, everything except MS Windows games.

And given Valve's recent announcement of SteamOS, I expect that to change soon enough.
Or knock-knock a Morse code on the phone's mic.
I'm glad I'm not the only one to see that!

OT, but does anyone know if these adverts actually make money?
And LASIK is not indicated for people with dry eyes either. It will make it much worse, to the point that some people consider suicide due to the never ending pain.
I feel that's probably a low number for the cost of turbines; turbomachinery is always very expensive.

The mirrors are "heliostats" that turn towards the sun. So they have a set of motors and control electronics which will be a large part of the cost.
Looks great. Would be interesting to add to blogging software to allow a quick sketch to be added to a post.

How would you go about persisting the canvas? json encoded output?
I'd be worried about the co-occurrence of me arranging to go out and get drunk for the evening, granny wanting to watch an important episode of coronation street on BBC iplayer and adobe releasing another broken flash update. "It was very strange! They painted all the actors blue, I didn't like it!"
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"Give me enough medals and I'll win any war"

attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte
I've seen the kind of user ranking proposed in this article many times (from clueless users on to power users on to developers and elite hackers). The assumption being that those up the ranking have an all-around better command of computers than those down.

But it seems to me that a developer need not be a power user. It doesn't seem far fetched that one might be competent in (say) python while ignoring most of the innards of a unix-like system (modulo the part that she actually uses in her programming). Being able to code doesn't automagically turn you into an expert in, say, systemd service files.
And a hilariously detailed start-up with a (Dropbox inspired?) play room. There's also a hacker character whose convincingly detailed computer setup shows several VIM sessions (one on a portrait oriented monitor).
You're right - weev was being a dick, and he knew he ws at the time.

BUT…

I personally think AT&T should also be held to account for their part in what happened. They put all that data up on the public internet, with no authentication required to get it. I think they're at least as culpable here as weev is. (and I don't think _either_ of them should get off scott free - they both played fast and loose with other people's data.)
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>> "This is infantile, I don't want to see this type of content here."

Flag it.
Back when I worked for a company selling expensive software and services to large companies and government agencies, I quickly learnt that there is zero correlation between how much a department is willing to spend on hardware and how much they are willing to spend on software running on those computers. Signing off on a $20000 software license while refusing to replace an ancient 19" lcd screens is perfectly normal as hardware and software normally come from two different budgets and procured entirely differently.
They launched as a budget airline. Now they're either same price as BA or slightly cheaper (unless you're lucky enough to get their first few cheap seats).
Who cares about the legality of them trying to deny the passenger a flight. Whether they were within their rights or not, this was just plain idiocy on the part of the airline's staff. I hope more stuff like this happens. It's called accountability and we all are subject to it.
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I'm not so sure about that. Compare with literacy. Not only is there a largish part of the population that hasn't enough reading proficiency'to be called literate, but even a large part of the literate do have trouble reading and comprehending texts, forms, and what not that are written by higher educated people. This is a big problem with governmental forms and the like. For the people for which these forms are often the most important have the most trouble reading and comprehending these forms.
Does anyone else think that the word "Firefox" looks odd in the italic versions?
That's one layer of regulation, but the problem with airlines is that there's yet another higher layer of regulations agreed at an international level to specifically govern and regulate air travel. It wouldn't at all surprise me if there's an international treaty governing the terms and conditions airlines can impose that trumps even EC Directives.
One thing I'd love is for the PDF to have a TOC. It would be great to have when opening on my iPad in iBooks!
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I have both myopia and astigmatism and I see no halos at night.

You are not supposed to see halos if your prescription is correct. You might get some artifacts if you look through your glasses at an angle, but that's it.

Halos are an artifact of LASIK, usually when the pupil is large enough that it expands past the area of the cornea which was "corrected".
I can now conclude that I didn't loose my phone last Saturday... it was stolen.

Last seen speeding towards a part of the city with a bad reputation.
Does it stay there all the time? CPU going above 100% during indexing and inspections is normal; we use multiple cores to complete the operations faster.
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You may need to read these threads.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6320089
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6320089
So what? The article isn't about those people. It's about the plenty of people who just want a computer for browsing the web, checking their email, and playing solitaire. They haven't heard of "Left for Dead" or "Photoshop" and they don't care about them either.
Is it common to use "she" for punctuation marks? Or is it a perversion of the current trend in mixing he and she randomly?

Oh, and is "looking" really an adjective? It must be: this author is lecturing us about English usage, I can't believe she wouldn't tell adjectives and verbs apart.
Those with lots of resources will use force to defend them. Conflicts of interest need to be declared up front - if we think people with patents need to be taken down a peg or two, we shouldn't take objections/arguments coming only from companies with thousands of patents seriously.
Agreed, turbines are precision mechanical devices and also need regular maintenance. High-pressure steam is aggressive stuff so all the plumbing needs to be built accordingly as well.
*the price of solar photovoltaic modules tends to drop 20% for every doubling of cumulative shipped volume

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swanson's_law
This is why:

1. You should spend more time designing (away from the computer) so that you find a _problem_ and then come up with a reasonable solution. Instead of putting together a list of features. (see Rich Hickey's talk "Hammock-driven development").

2. Think of the sum you're going to charge for your consulting and then multiply it by 4 and charge that because you have to take risk and other factors into account.
I think MS will make over $3B in 2013 on Android. Even if they have to spend 1/10th of that on legal fees it's worth protecting I guess.
same argument, different basis in reality.

Doctors actually like genuine weight loss techniques (like taking more exercise) because their use improves public health. Patent holding megacorps do stand to gain from weak patent enforcement.
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It's a lovely game, but it's not the same kind of thing. There isn't really a plot and there are no puzzles.
There is, the halos!

If you are a software developer, as many of us, you really don't want that. Nor do you want dry eyes, specially when staring at a screen under air conditioning.

If someone really wants to do the operation anyway, then get a LASEK. This won't create the never-healing flap, with all its complications. Recovery time suffers a bit, but that's a minor issue, considering the long-term benefits. Less dry eye.

Halos might still be present though.
The attention to detail in this game is crazy
> Free speech is one thing, but abuse of free speech is another.

You can't have it both ways, it's a logical contradiction.

Furthermore, the idea that by entering a contract with a company for providing you a service to you implies any loss of free speech rights on your part is inane.

In the great scheme of things, we are just witnessing the birth if the Internet. I have noticed a horrible trend wherein, month after month, more consequences become apparent for expressing your opinion freely -- even between friends on some social network. At the same time, the majority of human communication is converging to the net. Can't you connect the dots and realize we might be heading to hell?
Slightly OT, but boingboing have an article [1] today about companies in Beijing that offer real-world "mystery room" scenarios that resemble Myst puzzles:

"...customers are locked into single-room funhouses where they have to solve a mystery in order to escape. Some mysteries are supernatural, others are crime-scenes, and others are "hospital-themed." They're inspired by similar video-games and cost less than a movie-ticket to play."

More at [2].

[1] http://boingboing.net/2013/09/24/beijings-mystery-rooms.html...

[2] http://kotaku.com/escape-from-chinas-mystery-rooms-136968856...
Well, It's a multi-threaded program, and when you create a project it will start out by indexing everything. So while it's doing that, it can spend quite a lot of CPU time -- "top" etc. typically show the CPU time spent by all the threads in a process, so you can easily see it go up to N * 100% based on your cores.

That can get occasionally annoying, if you drop in a a bunch of 1mb text files in your repository and it insists of examining them.

But, introspection and refactoring capabilities are great.
You can't say Mc Donald's sucks and eat a burger from them (that would be hypocrisy).

Of course you can. You may not enjoy it because it sucks, but you might be really hungry. Easyjet sucks massively, however sometimes you just need to get on a plane at a certain time, or someone else might be paying and you get little choice.

As far as your point about negatively impacting sales, criticism from a continued customer doesn't hurt sales nearly as much as banning people from buying from you for being critical. That isn't business, that is just being immature.
Intersting!

Well, I don't know the details, if it works directly with steam then the circuits must withstand a high pressure as well no? (which can justify the higher cost)

But I thought that for thermal solar the most common case would be a molten salt circuit (high temperature low pressure) transferring heat to a steam circuit for better efficiency (and the heat storage capability of the salt)

Ah yes, the technology is not that new (it's heating with the sun after all)
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This is something which I now can't agree with enough. Unfortunately it has taken me two years to get to this point.

It's embarrassing how many times I built products with the sole marketing strategy of "post it to HN and hope it gets 200 votes".

It never felt like that was the strategy at the time. It always felt like I had some better, bigger plan - becoming an active member of some domain forums, writing whitepapers, cold-calling etc. But, had I been honest with myself, it would have been painfully honest that I just didn't know how to reach my customers.

Distribution is the hardest problem startups face these days. Solve that problem first, then write code.
Wow, at first I was with you until it became clear that you think the journalist was acting offended, not the company. You got it completely backwards! It must be possible for people to criticize big companies, and I believe the companies do at least have to take it (ideally they'd listen to the feedback as well). It should not be legal for a huge service company to refuse said service because they feel offended. Companies, especially huge ones, can't act like people whenever they feel like it. It seems they're switching roles whenever it suits them.
The Myst series are probably one of the games that bring back so many memories. When my brother and I heard they were turning URU into an MMO we were pretty excited, but also scared that there wouldn't be a big enough user base. We were right, and the project 'died' . Then I told him they'd probably open-source it, and there we are!

I'm gonna play the MYST series again. Any programmer/hacker will love these series. they're a real classic brain cracker, and worth the play. You will get pulled into the myst worlds as if it are your own. it's so immerssive!
The cost does seem rather high, I wonder if (as a DOE funded project) contractors or suppliers were massively overcharging knowing that the money was there to do so.
Arial was originally it's own font (Monotype Grotesque), but got squished to match Helvetica's metrics which is a good example of how fonts can be different and similar to each other.
I don't have my phone with me right now. Can anybody confirm if this works on iOS? I'm asking because I'm looking for an HTML5 drawing script which works on mobile browsers.
I loved Uru and I'm curious to try this. What is different this time? This plus the article yesterday tells me something big is being prepped.

EDIT: typo
GPUs? It's ASICs or not at all these days. Start with an FPGA prototype that can be used to create an ASIC, like an Altera. If you want to muck around with this stuff for fun you can buy a Cyclone or Stratix for relatively low cost.
I believe the most straightforward way of doing this is with your 3rd option (interactive hints through the workflow). You can easily accomplish this with popups and overlays.
He did actually get on the flight so the title is misleading.
Misquoted. According to Respectfully Quoted, this maxim is unverified. In fact, however, it is drawn from Plato's Republic. Paul Shorey offers a literal translation: "But the chief penalty is to be governed by someone worse if a man will not himself hold office and rule" (Book 1, Section 347c). Since Plato specifically addresses those unwilling to govern (), rather than those who are simply indifferent, the accurate translation unfortunately does not apply as broadly to think-tank work as the misquotation does.
> Legal liability is the least of their worries today. It's a PR nightmare. People all over the world think they're thin-skinned bullies.

I wish it actually amounted to something. They probably won't get any drop in ticket sales, because in cheap airline market you pretty much don't have many (if any) alternatives. People are still going to fly with them because they're the cheapest / only ones flying to the destination they want.
Standard David Clark. I think it's a bigger problem with GSM which uses TDMA (the noise is caused by the cell phone transmitting only at specific intervals and therefore rapidly switching on and off, causing the buzzing noise).
Plants vs Zombies 1 for Android was an Amazon store exclusive for a while, and one of the Angry Birds games was a Samsung exclusive for a bit. There were also the Tegra exclusive games, which were mostly permanent exclusives (on Android only; they were usually ports of iOS games).
Here's more on dashes and hyphens: http://practicaltypography.com/hyphens-and-dashes.html
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Latest PV kinda use mirrors internally
The second sentence of Article 10 of the HRA explicitly reads "without interference by public authority" (i.e it's a limitation on government).
It may just be me, but it hardly seems constructive to be nitpicking on a gender-specific article in a sentence which would become convoluted if rewritten to use a gender-neutral form.