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It's actually pretty easy for (e.g.) United to add or remove rows of their Economy Plus seating. They can make that change overnight.

When United and Continental merged and began adding E+ to the Continental fleet, most aircraft were completed pretty quickly since that change can be made during overnight maintenance at the hubs.
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Nothing new? What about the Internet, which enables radical new ways of communicating?
>In fact, the only one I can think of currently is OpenSkies, and it is backed by a major airline (British Airways).

OpenSkies is three-class service now. And pretty much just boils down to the name of the BA route between NY and Paris-Orly without the need to connect via LHR. Pretty bizarre, if you ask me.
Nice views of the Iapetus Ocean closing leading to mountain building (orogeny) and then the Atlantic opening up along a slightly different line taking parts that used to be attached to the other side of the Iapetus (e.g. Scotland) across to the Eastern side of the Atlantic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iapetus_Ocean
You're not the only person. It very much aggrivates me. These things that so called 'makers' do, that is, to make stuff, is what untold numbers, from all countries and cultures, have been doing forever. But now some feel the need to form a sham group and proselytize.

It's similar to other group-consumption movements such as the Juggalos, aligning itself with a selection of products, fashion styles, and symbols. Some makers even proudly have themselves tattooed with these symbols.

There are many of these group-consumption movements, but this one is particulary irritating for the promotion of its own idiom onto territory that belongs to everone. One hates being told that an activity in which they have always partook in their own individual manner is now the domain of a new higher authority on the matter.
What did you try to do?

I am running Ubuntu 12.04, with several versions of Python installed including 2.7 and 3.3. I have the following packages installed: ipython, ipython-notebook, ipython3, and ipython3-notebook.

When I am developing most of these notebooks, I run 'ipython3 notebook'. When I need to make a cell using Python 2.7, I close the ipython3 server and run 'ipython notebook'.

Am I missing something?
What headset? I'm curious because I've never even heard of that happening.
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I'm in Bozeman, MT. Where do I stop by to drop it off again?

Not everyone lives in a major city.
While there have been a few attempts at competing on other metrics (there were several attempts to start business-class only airlines in the late 90s and early 2000s)

There are still business-catered offerings, they just tend to be a division of a parent (legacy) carrier. US Airways and Delta's "shuttle" offerings between major business destinations on the east coast stand out as an example.

A couple of the large airlines do still have all-business-class flights, too (BA's oddball little transatlantic A318, to take an example; Singapore's "longest flight in the world", which is about to be discontinued, is another one, using specially configured A340s). It's just that there doesn't seem to be enough demand to sustain an entire airline dedicated to the idea.
I've thought about starting an airline - an all inclusive fare type deal - also no carry on bags.
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From the link: "The Island of California refers to a long-held European misconception, dating from the 16th century, that California was not part of mainland North America but rather a large island "
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I was wrong re: ps4's library name. Thanks for the article. I left the games industry just before the transition to the new consoles.
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Print in Python 3.3 uses parentheses (it's a function now) which might mean you have the wrong version installed.
Yes but that's kind of the whole conclusion of this arguement. Basically the behavior of a hardware manufacturer was so counter intuitive that to many people the only logical explanation is that the CEO must be trying to take the company down.

I really dont know, but will say seems crazy that Nokia didn't have at least a small team dedicated to making an android OS 'port' for their devices. It seems like even if they thought it was a 1% chance of windows mobile not working out for them the hedge would have been worth it.
That would turn it into reddit. The purpose of HN is to promote YC, and not to make it into a general link aggregator.
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Hard, risky. Not impossible though.
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You've picked out data points in the USA.

Check out what's going on in Burma, Thailand and the Philippines.

Step back and look at events around the world, you'll see a clear pattern.
I think an argument can be made for the difference between the stop timer, and the stop stopwatch.

Red (in those two cases) means stop, so the button turns red. Stopping a stopwatch is an expected action to perform, so the button remains white (to be consistent with start). Stopping a timer is an unexpected action—you are cancelling the timer. To denote this, they use dark grey.
Sorry about the writing style. I've been reading a rather grandiose novel lately and it probably affected my writing. I learned English in 4 different countries, so I don't have a consistent style that I can call mine.

As for your second point, of course there have been much more disruptive changes in the past. But I wasn't talking about the scale of disruption, only about the cultural backgrounds that underlie social change. Nowadays, there are much fewer common backgrounds (religious, ideological or cultural) to bind people together than ever before. Most people who are affected by your political action will not share your faith, your ancestry, or even your language. They won't even identify you as a compatriot, and you don't care for their traditions and emotional attachments, either. How do you act under such circumstances? I find this question both thrilling and worrying.
Those are the exceptions to the rule. How many planes and routes do you need to even merit consideration at a major airport?

To organically grow, you'd need to find desirable and under served routes between smallish airports, build a loyal following, then maybe you take a risk, borrow money and attempt to move mainstream. Not impossible but it seems like you'd need just tons of money.

Is there much room for value add and innovation? The most obvious area I can think of off the top of my head would be an airline that did all their own security and skipped tsa but I don't know if that's allowed and I think the work would be akin to building your own airports.
Stop asking about stuff one doesn't need to get the job done
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"Lumia's are slowly gaining ground"

WP is a disaster, Nokia is dead, Ballmer is forced out, yet you still believe it is "gaining ground" ? Of course WP ramped up,from 0 ,any product can ramp up. Let's stop the whole PR, WP is a failure, it is time for anybody who invested in WP eco system to acknowledge that fact. This whole enterprise was designed to fail, because nobody wants Windows on his phone.
The GP may have been pointing out that many people in China still have hard feelings over WWII atrocities. I have a Japanese friend who pretended to be Korean when she was living in Beijing because of the hostility she experienced. I think the most blatant hostility she experienced was when her cover was blown because her mother (who can only understand Japanese) called while she was in a cab. The cabbie heard my friend speaking Japanese, and because of that pulled over and made my friend get out.
Nope. The 757 is really inefficient (RB211 engines are serious overkill). It's unfortunate, because as an aviation enthusiast, I love nothing more than rocketing off the runway on a 757.
I know all of this

my point is how do you deal with the pain of supporting code written by someone else years ago?
"As an outsider, I always regarded the Anglo-Saxon system (meaning the United States and Britain) as an antidote to the views expressed by Continental Europe, seems things have changed."

On one hand, I believe the British Empire was built on "a respect for institutions and deference to common procedures". That's just the way it's done, after all.

On the other, I suspect the United States is becoming a civilized country.
Your analogy is nothing like what Apple is doing. A more apt analogy would be selling trucks that don't have easily upgradeable engines where you wouldn't be able to access the engine components without a ton of work, which is exactly how they build most trucks nowadays. The sealed bedcover is more like a limitation in software since that's part of the functionality of the truck. Upgrading a Mac isn't part of the functionality, it's something you do to increase the speed at which you work on it.

And as for the body-on-frame comparison, I don't really know what you mean there. If you are talking about the actual, physical chassis of the MacPro not being on a conventional computer frame, then again, that is a bad analogy since a body-on-frame chassis on a truck directly affects the towing and load capability of a truck, which is not so with computers. You can have your components scattered across the floor and they would perform just as well as in a conventional chassis.
A classic example I have is, KingFisher Airlines (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingfisher_Airlines). As an outsider the promoter not only lost the airlines but had to part with large chunk of shares from parent UB group as well just to keep it afloat for awhile. Airlines indeed seem like a tough business to enter in.
I'm totally aware of how they said what they said, I just don't necessarily believe it.
Study design along with coding. You can be the best coder in the world but if you don't understand the fundamentals of design your work will not have balance.
Ask HN: What are the best technologies you have worked with in 2013?
I have spent about a year away from writing code and I miss it. I want to learn something cool and fun in my leisure time.

What are your recommendations HN?
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If you are able to design one that passes all FAA/EASA/CAA/<aeronautical regulatory body here> certifications, I think ALL airplane builders will hail you as their saviour. Not to mention the airlines ;-)
>This is a highly irrational conclusion

I would admit to it being illogical, in that I didn't use logic to arrive at that statement. But it's an entirely rational statement: I arrived there via pattern matching, though, and not logic. Is it irrational when I look at a face and recognize it? If not, then why so with other patterns I recognize?

And it's not a conclusion at all; it's just an observation. People who are as obviously disgruntled as the employee in question often end up striking out. Some, a very few, strike out violently.

The employee in question has already shown evidence of "striking out," he just hasn't escalated past passive-aggressive behavior. I used an extreme example of striking out to throw it into perspective: He's not happy, and he's willing to do things out of spite, and that's a liability, even if he never ends up violent.

There are lots of scenarios that don't involve physical harm: Leaking confidential information. Cleverly hidden time-bombs in code that no one else understands. Lawsuits. Spreading discontent among employees.
OK, there could be an argument that knowingly linking to infringing files is outside of freedom of expresssion. But the article says nothing about a knowledge criterion.

It says "owners of sites found to be making money [directly or indirectly!] from linking to pirated material will face prison sentences of up to six years and the closure of their site. ... users of these link-sharing sites will not be targeted under the new law"

This is even worse. Users who knowingly post links to infinging files would be a more appropriate target than the site owners. Under the new law, anyone who allows user posts will have to pre-moderate everything or prohibit users posting links?

The obvious problem with the law is much more basic: how can the site owner know whether there is or is not infringement at the other end of a link? Are site owners expected to somehow have a list of all copyrightable works and know the terms on which each of them is licensed to each recipient?

Placing the burden on the operator of the linking site creates a situation where no one will dare to make a link, because if it turns out to go to something infringing the linker will be subject to prosecution.
Whoever said anything about there being a "well run market"? I think it's pretty clear that, at least in the US, the incentives CEOs and boards face are almost laughably perverse.
It's not an open world game, but racing games work the same way these days.

I know almost every corner of the Nürburgring at this point. Hell, I was watching a video of the new Porsche 918 (1) a few weeks ago and I was puckering accordingly knowing how much speed he was carrying into certain sections.

(1): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AuhjpQPs1M
> it's hard to say that getting terminal real estate is any easier than building an airport would be :-)

A budget of "tens of millions" would be eaten by a small airport alone (estimates for extending and overhauling Plymouth's airport to link to international traffic and handle up to 115-seaters are 30m GBP)
Well if they're all aware of that yet some still prescribe antibiotics for viral infections due to pressure from patients, isn't that an ethical issue? If for some reason bloodletting came into fashion again among the populace, would doctors be acting ethically if they caved into patients' demands to give them that therapy? Doctors won't prescribe useless treatments like homeopathics to patients, so why can't they say no to patients asking for antibiotics when antibiotics would be ineffective?
As far as I can tell, W3Schools is not a company, it is a project by a commercial company. That means they’re not tax exempt and any donations made to them can’t be written off. The company may not make any profit from the project now, but it’s unclear whether that’s by choice. Blackberry doesn’t make any profit, but that doesn’t make them a non-profit.
Microsoft was throwing a ton of effort into getting developers to move to Windows. It took a while but they got here.

They had 'bad' demos like Hover! but there were some pretty nice games like Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure, Earthworm Jim, and Fury^3.

Once it got OpenGL and Direct3D, Win32 ruled the gaming world. It already had 32-bitness, virtual memory, TCP/IP... Apple dinked around with things like QuickDraw3D and GameSprockets but they just couldn't get it together for some reason.
Please note that the pricelist omits a "most popular choice" column/highlight ;-)

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How he did it absolutely does matter. He did not know what he was doing was illegal because that is the expected interaction with an HTTP server. He certainly knew it was immoral but we give Wall Street a pass on that.

Suppose I write a scraper with user agent "I am a teapot" and I discover AT&T emits personal data when I access with that user agent. What is the arbitrary cutoff for number of things downloaded before I am a criminal?

There are in fact actual criminal charges that can be brought for identity theft, we don't need the US courts to be more aggressive with the CFAA by considering thoughtcrime in their deliberations.
You don't need specific empirical data to back up the point of saying that claims without empirical data are not reliable enough. We have the scientific revolution to back that point up.
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Super insightful, love such stories. I wish they could be easy to replicate
> It's just that there doesn't seem to be enough demand to sustain an entire airline dedicated to the idea.

Yeah, this is kind of what I meant. The only people capable of doing this are the majors (and then only on a small handful of mostly-Transatlantic routes). Every attempt so far at building a whole airline around the idea of not competing on price has met with failure.

And, as a sidenote, I really want to take that BA JFK-LCY flight sometime, if for no other reason than it uses the old Concorde flight numbers.
As in the whole situation is surreal:

- high unemployment = no money
- entertainment needs + no money = piracy

And now they've come up with jail time. Awesome. I wouldn't like to be the spanish gov right now.
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Scala and Wicket. Writing web apps is a dream. And I'm worried I won't get to do it in 2014, because the world has moved over to javascript, whose type system is 10 years behind scala's.
"If a student starts to outpace me, I can steer them into something more established such as Udacity or Coursera. These are the students who are likely to be successful in more independent learning settings."

Everything about what you do should be commended, but I outright give you a standing ovation for this point.
One of the things I was always wondering about is if we can use the JDWP protocol to do code coverage in testing. I imaging a debugger that instead of stopping at breakpoints, just tracks what code is running and what branches are covered, and outputs a coverage report.

Today all (I think) code coverage tools use code instrumentation, potentially changing test results (as we run a modified version of the code we test). The impact of this is that most coverage tools suggest running tests twice - once without coverage tracking (the actual tests) and again with coverage, a practice that slows down builds.

Using the debugger interface for tracking code coverage means we are running unchanged code in tests, those not requiring a second run of tests just for coverage.

In addition, using the debugger interface, we can look at variable values and estimate coverage based on different states of variables in a statement.
Elop did sank Nokia , and he got rewarded for that. How do you call it , a win win contract? But that's the price one pays when one does business with Microsoft => Scroogled !
Didn't know it had been deprecated, it seemed like a great tool for scaling databases. Anyone know why?
Only forward!
How many megapixels do you need?
Flask (Python). It's a joy to work with.
"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see."
-- Arthur Schopenhauer

Enough said.
The problem with wet leasing is that it doesn't scale. Try operating an airline with 300 planes under wet-lease and still make a profit.
You can also be a contract airline that fills up routes for other airlines. Lots of the "operated by xyz airline" on weird routes are run by airlines that nobody has ever heard of outside of that notice on their ticket.
The lack of affordance in iOS7 is a real usability killer. People argue that the lack of button borders and inconsistency invites exploration. That's the kind of BS argument bad designers make when their designs test poorly. iOS7 is great in many ways, but is harder to use than ever before. Ugg.
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iOS7 is a beautiful new path in the history of these amazing devices. Are there a few warts here and there? Sure. That's part of the process of evolving anything. With user feedback and experience future evolutionary steps will improve upon this and nobody will remember the warts.

Usability? There are loads of examples of usability not being as much of a problem as many make it out to be. You can start with Windows as an example of something that billions of people use without problems while usability experts blog about how horrible it is --yet five year olds in schools all over the world seem to not have any issues. Another one is computer games. No two games seem to have the same interface (save such things as basic navigation commands) yet people adapt and become very adept at operating them. I always take usability reports with a grain of salt. Some are legitimate and honest, most are less than that.
The nearest Apple Store is in Boise, Idaho. It’s only a 500mi drive! But seriously, in your case, you’d call Apple and they’d send either a technician or a courier – or you could take it to an Apple Authorized Reseller, there are loads of them.
This ticket is (justifiably IMO) marked as invalid. It's not a bug, misfeature or anything. It looks like a misunderstanding honestly.

If you approach it with a "Play first" mindset and ignore that any of the Play build-cycle stuff only works because it's built on SBT it's going to be rough going.

An "SBT first" mindset makes it much easier.

Create three console apps in three different folders. Doesn't matter where on your system these live.

Now create a fourth directory, add a project sub-folder and a `Build.scala`. Aggregate the projects together and make Project-C a dependency of Projects A and B. A and B are otherwise completely unrelated.

Now when you drop into the SBT console you can run test, compile, etc. All your standard aggregation tasks. If you wanted to actually run A or B, you can run the `run` task and it'll ask you what main-class to execute.

Here's the only real difference as far as Play is concerned: It doesn't use the standard SBT `run` task. So to get the `run` task from the Play plugin you first need to select your Play sub-project: `project my-play-project`. Now you can run `run` and it'll work like a normal Play application.

I think that extra step is actually resolved in Play 2.2 (it uses the standard `run` task now I've heard).

In this setup your "root project" isn't your Play app. It's a code-less project just defining the build and dependencies between your projects. You could add your common project to the Play app's Build.scala, and use `file()` in the Project declaration for it. The project can live anywhere. It's not at all necessary it be in a sub-path, use symlinks, anything like that.

In SBT 0.13 it's even better since you can do almost everything in .sbt files, which unlike a Build.scala can be built up across several projects. So Play-App-A can read the build.sbt from ../common/build.sbt and use that. Where a Build.scala has to be all-encompasing, so your common project configuration would have to reside in my-play-project-a/project/Build.scala.

SBT really is very nice. :-) I've used Maven, Bundler, Buildr, etc. Written my own JRuby Maven+Rubygems build tool (http://github.com/sam/doubleshot). The docs for SBT are real heavy, but if you set aside a few hours to watch some presentations on Parleys, Youtube, etc, it's pretty easy to get into.

Feel free to ping me if you're interested and could use a hand.
Today, if you'd ask for a NeXT-like toy, you'd be denied were you an average Eastern (western equivalent).

What does this phrase mean? I'm a non-native speaker, and I'm honestly struggling to understand what you wrote.
So the worst penalty for a financial crime is to lose all your money? Low odds of being caught, very high reward, and assuming you didn't have money to begin with a zero penalty for being caught. Seems like a financial criminal's dream.
Are you making enough money as a freelance designer?
Well they do still write $1 billion dollar cheques. Otherwise where did the bank get the billion dollars to lend someone else? :)

Edit: I think I need to dial down the subtly of my humour.
Participation on the internet is around 1%(edits on wikipedia), that's way more than tradionnal media, and 1% of a one to one conversation. Blogging is still putting on a suit, climbing on a soapbox, reading an edited speech and answering publicly to remarks (ie taking stances, playing roles).
Why are the US health care exchanges behind schedule?