skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this will hurt easyJet. If it had been Ryanair people would just shrug and say, what did you expect? But easyJet's schtick has always been cheap and cheerful, better value for money than stuffy old BA but good service where it matters. And anecdotally having flown often with all three, neither Ryanair nor BA's typical passengers really care about social media, the former because they just want cheap (or there is no other airline doing that route), and the latter because they get their brand messages via other channels. But easyJet's do.
I am more and more convinced that moving from GNOME 2 to XFCE was the right move, not just for me, but for many other people.

Choosing a desktop environment ought to be completely decoupled from what init system you have. Building dependencies like this -- both the upstream dependency that was removed, and the various downstream dependencies that are unlikely to be removed because it is a support nightmare to do otherwise -- reduces the user's available choices.

Now, lots of people like to say that choice is bad. And they're wrong about that.

Choice is harder.
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I had the PRK surgery (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photorefractive_keratectomy).
The first two weeks were the worst of my life. The recovering was painful and I could barely see... And during that time the irritation and the feeling of having sand in my eyes...

Well, after this tough period all the irritation gone, my vision was improving everyday and now, 3 years later I think that it was the best decision ever. Specially if you like to ride motorcycles - and use helmets - it makes a lot more practical.
I'd go one step further, as air lines are providers of critical infrastructure, they should have damn good reasons to ban me from buying tickets at their airline.
That's not true: Apple has an exclusivity agreement with Misfit Wearables regarding their fitness tracker product (Misfit Shine)
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I've worn contacts for 25 years, since junior high school. I love them compared to glasses but I'm concerned about the long-term effects of putting something on my eyeball every day for maybe 75 years.
Windows XP users maybe aren't the best clients of your product or the clients who will pay for it. Nobody with ancient stuff can pretend to have the whole tech advancements.

Windows XP users aren't able to install many, many things nowadays, what make you think they will be shocked to know they're really can see the majority of the websites well.

The other day i was demoing a friend my old macbook (2002) and all the major websites were simply, broken. We didn't have any "omg look". It's normal to experiment this before they enter your website.
So the August 2013 Nexus 7 has a quad core 1.5g Snapdragon S4 Pro but the October 2013 Kindle HDX 7 has a quad core 2.2g Snapdragon 800. I'm not up to snuff on mobile processors but, according to what I'm seeing on the web, it seems there's no real difference other than clock speed going on here [0]. What else is going on in the Nexus 7 that makes it a "good buy" relative to the Kindle HDX models now? Other than "I have already bought a lot of Android apps so I don't want to switch", what's the compelling reason to buy a Nexus tablet now?

[1] http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Qualcomm-Snapdragon-S4-Pro-%28APQ806...
It certainly can make business sense to use technologies that aren't yet supported by 100% of browsers in the wild.

• Websites that are mobile-only

• Things that aren't websites but use HTML5 for UI (e.g. many native mobile and desktop apps do this, browser extensions, 'installable web apps' for Chrome etc.)

• Websites for whom the IE audience is such a minority that it's worth either (a) blocking them out and asking them to upgrade, or (b) maintaining a minimal-effort fallback stylesheet for IE users so they can at least access a low-fi version of the site – in return for the gains in performance and UI quality that the vast majority of users get, and for incalculable benefits in developer happiness and productivity.

I do front-end for a newspaper website and I have to offer some support right down to IE7, but it's a realistic guideline (some support – content basically visible, with warnings displayed to those users suggesting they upgrade). If we were to restrict ourselves to browser features supported by 100% of our users, this would be a lowest-common-denominator approach led by the most low-tech 5% of our users, which would give us a big competitive disadvantage. I use new browser features all the time, and fallbacks for IE users. I haven't used Flexbox yet, but I wouldn't hold back if it meant we could implement something good for a large proportion of our users (especially since that proportion is likely to be made up of the users who are responsible for most of our revenue).
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Regarding the taxes, deal with it.
full disclosure: I'm french and I like the healthcare system.

You can fire someone easily. You just have to provide a good reason for it. "Oh well, after all I shouldn't have hired him" or "This guys is not the best I could find, he doensn't give 120%" won't allow you to fire someone, no luck you're in France, labor code is sacred here.

VAT is not painful at all, even an accountant fresh out from school could handle this easily. Protip, hire an accountant. If you're a business, VAT is transparent for you. It only impacts french customers.

You don't have to declare every website to the government, you declare it to the CNIL which is an independent administrative body whose goal is to protect data privacy. I like them too.

Why setting up a business in France if you only see the drawbacks of being here?

Though I agree with you on the bullshit part. This incubator is a total waste of money.
"It wasn’t until I asked him if he’d heard of free speech that the tone changed. He asked me if I was a lawyer and I told him I taught law at Strathclyde.

"He quickly had a word with his staff and then told me I’d better get on the flight because they were waiting for me."

What? So if you are a lawyer things change?

I would have sued the company and the manager personally (not sure this is allowed, still).

Edit: apparently the Social Media team was active during the incident and agreeing with the passenger, not with the manager.
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The smaller one doesn't look to compare too well to the Nexus 7 - it costs the same, is marginally heavier and has ads. I guess if you need a lot of support to use a tablet...?

The big 8.9" model, on the other hand, is impressive - .84 pounds is extremely light for a screen of that size and resolution. I'm almost skeptical that they're claiming 12 hour battery life on top of that. Did they achieve some kind of battery breakthrough?
I was only sensitive to light immediately after the operation, it went within a week. I was nervous about the operation too, but I can easily say that it was one of the best decisions I've ever made, no regrets whatsoever.
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Here is one. You start a small startup and you have to pay all your social charges for the fiscal year in advance. Say you project you'll make $200000€ the first year and need to pay 80000€ (just an example) before you can retain your first client. That is a huge chunk of change a lot of people don't have.

And if your company doesn't reach it's target and collapses too bad, at least you have health care paid up.
Am I the only person thinking that any Java-based IDE demos have been sped up by the magic of editing by at least 200% and all the SBBOD-ing has been trimmed out?
The big highlighted rectangle that you can't click on isn't confusing in practice? I'd be confused.
I like it!

Clarity, share, curve. Bold, italicize.
Sure, That's just my experience, I may have some facts wrong.

> You are confusing government announcing a decision with two senators from opposition making a proposition (which will not even be subject to vote anytime soon).

In fact, this structure I've exposed already exists. The new tax will just double the budget they got. Regarding the new tax, I won't be surprised if it come in application in a form or another.

> online banking - most banks expose most of their services online

By online banking, I mean full online banking. You can't do that if you are a business.

> declaring websites you own - maybe you are talking about having to declare informations systems that collect and process identifying information (access logs excluded)

Even if it's a simple blog without comments, you have declared it to the C.N.I.L.

> access logs - six months is not "an insane amount of time"

From the LCEN law, it's 1 year including user data, password hashes, raw passwords (you can demonstrate that you don't have them) and session data. Sure, everything is doable but that's an hassle.
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The shittiest project? Hmm...if he got paid, not sure I'd classify it as such. A waste of time because of business getting in the way of potential efficiency that they perceived they wanted? Yes.

Also, let's not forget that this was 1995 and most big businesses weren't really fully aware of the potential of the internet and the disruption on standard business models that was going to ensue...
... and a bit of LaTeX mixed in for good measure.

It'll never catch on.
There is something fishy about this article.

He starts by saying:

> At least 10 hours of battery as I was imagining myself taking 10 hour+ flights every month and also taking the laptop everywhere without a charger.

Then he finds his "perfect laptop" from a company I've never heard of, and writes:

> Battery life is only rumoured to be 3.5 to 4 hours – haven’t tried it without charging it for that long

Strange.
I think the real problem is that if you want fancy features like a sandboxing solution that leverages the proper way to do it (kernel cgroups, if I understood that correctly), you need to have some dependencies that reach deeper than before.

That being said, no-one is stopping enthusiasts from providing their own solution for the problems that systemd and logind solve for the GNOME project.

I always hated how all these little utilities of GNOME solved problems that were solved a long time ago and properly at that. leveraging existing solutions is definitely a good thing.

disclaimer: i really like systemd :)
If by Granny proof OS you mean a kiosk with 3 apps.
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True, I just thought of that and came back here to add that :-)

What the Bitcoin experiment taught me is that I am not a very good investor... The good part of mining was that I did it for fun, so there wasn't much to lose. The mining rig is now my new gaming computer. So even if I hadn't made any money at all, at least I would have gained a new gaming rig. In that sense it was a good speculation, for me personally (no real downsides but potential upsides).

I felt that by mining I also supported the idea of BitCoin, so it had ideological value for me, too.
Free speech applies to government restrictions on speech. It hasn't much to do with rules and terms of private service. For example, you can't use claims of "free speech" to get HN to reverse a ban on you should that happen.

I don't agree with what a couple of easyJet employees seem to have done without easyJet's approval, but right of a private company or person to refuse service would seem to trump this? It's not like they are refusing service because of a protected category (like discrimination based on race, etc).

Although this isn't even happening in America, so I don't even understand what laws apply. Freedom of speech as Americans understand it do not really even apply in some European countries to the extent it does in the US because of ridiculous slander laws and the ability to be thrown in jail for telling lies (about the Holocaust for example, which is a pretty awful thing to lie about).
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Freedom of speech is about stopping the government from interfering with your speech. AFAIK there's no law which prohibits a company doing business with you because you made a negative comment about them.

In this case it's slightly more grey because the passenger had already bought a ticket and it's not clear if the terms of the sale would allow easyjet to revoke the sale on that basis.
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Alternatively, from an Android device: Google Settings app -> Location -> Uncheck "Location Reporting"
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Ceylon 1.0 beta is available, finally, a feature-complete implementation of the language.
Yes. I have multiple "granny users" using Linux (Ubuntu+derivatives of classic Gnome), exactly the way author describes: Here's e-mail, here's web, here's (video)chat, that's it.

No user-hostile distractions of the type "the computer has decided that it WILL reboot NOW", no useless "everything is all right, update has been installed" popups, no "oh look, a new flashdisk - guess what, the computer has decided that it needs yet another product reactivation," no "new printer? lol no, insert driver glork splurk mumbo jumbo" which I've come to know and loathe in Windows.

Updates are completely under the hood, devices simply work when plugged in (which shocks me to no end, after previous experiences with Linux and W8 driver issues), no crapware, no spyware.
Yes it is going to make more "e-waste", but it's clear that we as the whole society prefer slight improvements size/weight/style over issues such as e-waste or possibility for repairs.

In words we often say differently, but the our actual actions show this preference very clearly.
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Interesting. By 'never done them before' I'm referring to platform exclusivity agreements for games, though, as the original poster pointed out they are a 'normal thing' on consoles.

Are platform exclusivity agreements for iOS a common thing now for devices and applications? How many of those is Apple signing - dozens? hundreds?
I'd love to get my eyes fixed. My vision feels not so great even with glasses/contacts, so I'm kinda hoping that surgery could get me better than glasses vision. I also don't know if it could (positively) affect my night vision, which feels significantly worse than day-time vision.

Of course my expectations for vision are probably too great, and certainly I'm currently in the "normal" range (with glasses).

Also I'm personally quite interested in IOL/ICL/Visian, their advertisements make it look really attractive. But they don't afaik yet correct astigmatism, so that's not an option for me yet.
Oddly enough, even though France has this terrible reputation for red tape, the French themselves are quite well represented (possibly even over-represented) in the UK venture capital scene, at least in the area of biotech.
those artifacts are not uncommon from what i know - especially star like haloes around bright lights. part of it is down to how your retina works and part of it down to the focusing of the light by the cornea, lens and through the humours... its not reasonable to expect all of this to work perfectly, and it has design flaws in terms of bleeds and blooms appearing in the final image.

the halos are because of how the photoreceptors work everyone gets lingering spots of 'colour' when you look at a bright light then look away - note that these bloom out as well, and as they fade they spread for the same reasons. its the surrounds of the 'correct' receptor sucking up the excess energy thats been pumped into that area of the retina coupled with the impossibility of consistently perfect focus
I really don't think it is grey. As you say, he has bought a ticket. It's like if I sold you something on Ebay, you paid for it but made a comment on Twitter about how you didn't like my haircut, and I refused to send you the item.

Think that would hold up legally?
Well, mostly because it is basically an "enterprise" requirement. More info here:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=686840 :)
"This guys is not the best I could find, he doensn't give 120%" is a perfectly good reason to fire someone. What other reason could there be? that he or she stole the coffee machine ?
I forgot to mention that now I have this halos at night and a little bit of light sensitivity as well.

In dry weathers I fell a little bit of dryness in the eyes _ I manage to hack myself by forcing some tears. Sounds strange but it works.
But most people don't need anything else!
I'd even go as far as saying that ChromeOS is a better "granny OS" than your stock Ubuntu...
As well as the Philips Hue color-changing LED bulbs.
From a cl user :

- Increased self-confidence, this is subjective, but I prefer how I look without glasses. (check)

- Going out to nature is awesome, as you can see everything without a frame in your view. You feel more immersed in reality. (check)

- Swimming is less fuss, as there is no need to switch between glasses / prescription swimming goggles. Just swim.
(this is a sore point for me I have to use goggles or the lenses wash away. In a swimming pool it's no problem, but at sea I feel uncomfortable)

- I have started exercising more thanks to the above two things. (check)

- You can see immediately when opening your eyes in the morning. (minor inconvenience. I usually have my lenses on five minutes after I wake up, tops)

- No frustration or time wasted looking around for lost glasses or needing to think about where to place them at night, before taking a shower or changing clothing.
(minor inconvenience. if a lens falls to the ground it can be very annoying)

- No risk of accidentally stepping on your glasses.
(check)

- No money wasted on renewing glasses or buying contact lenses, although later on I may need reading glasses, but for the next 10 years I should be good. This may end up saving enough money to just about pay for the cost of the operation. (3000$ dollars are 15 years of lenses at current prices for me)

I suggest, to those considering surgery and coming from glasses, to spend some time with contacts. You get to try many of the benefits without ¨committing¨.
Looking at their Terms and Conditions it is not obvious to me that any of them would apply:

http://www.easyjet.com/terms-and-conditions#a19

I don't think what he tweeted would count as "threatening, abusive or insulting words".

Edit: Having said that, "Get right into em!" is probably not the best phrase to use - although in context it is clearly harmless.
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I did always seems strange to me that the "Android doesn't have tablet apps" poster child was Twitter, which a) is built into iOS's share system, and b) was rumored to be in the process of being bought by Apple.

More generally, being "highlighted" by Apple's editorial team is regularly touted as being the key to success in the App store so they've got a lot of power, even without handing over truckloads of money directly. Making a big deal about your Android app would just generally fall under the banner of "don't piss off Apple".
The perfect location for a startup would have:

1. Low cost of living.

2. Low house pricing/rent. (As rent-seeking forces people into being wage-slaves.)

3. Low regulation and bureaucracy.

4. Low taxes.

5. Educated, creative, and risk-taking workforce.

6. Ease of finance.

I see so many countries trying to compete in the startup ecosystem by just trying to cargo-cult their way into it with a bit of investment and a brand. Far too many are not fit for purpose because there is too much power held by rent-seekers. It cannot be fixed by simply applying duct-tape to the problem.

Does anybody know a country which fits this specification?
Try to keep your spirit up despite all this, especially your team. Things like that were part of the reason why I quit my last job.

Completely true is the thing with the superstars. I knew one myself, a genius in warehouse management systems. If I had him on a project, it went smoothly as anything. if I didn't I stayed in development hell for months. But seeing this guys workload, he wasn't off any better.

But in retrospect, the general direction the organisation took at my last employer wasn't that bad. Execution lacked, so.
Let's put a bunch of geeks into a cozy office and let's see what happens!
Yup, you can treat this incident as evidence that being a lawyer (or claiming to be a lawyer), with the implicit threat of legal hassle, can give you a strong advantage in arguments vs bigcorp midde management.
So the App store infrastructure, support, etc just built itself automatically? The entire eco-system would not have been possible without them making it.

I've been an App developer for 4 years now and have no qualms with apple taking the 'passive' 30%
Same here, perfect vision, but can see halo, especially around blue light sources.
What should I make of my most recently visited place, in the sea outside the Gulf of Guinea? Everywhere I've ever been is _really_ far away from there.
That argument sounds like it would work well if he were looking to purchase a ticket, and they would deny it because they feel like denying it.

But I'm sure the ticket was already paid for, which changes the situation. EasyJet almost refused to provide the service for which has been paid. I don't know if they have a clause in their terms of service that says something like "if you say something we don't like, we reserve the right to refuse to let you board" but if it did, I wouldn't be too sure that clause is actually legal anyway.
Its not that accurate, it is that spooky I click accept way to much. It really is like .. Google take the Wheeeeel!
I agree 100% never had a problem with easyJet , let's not talk about Ryanair , i dont even know how these guys are allowed to fly.But that's a stupid move from easyJet on the contrary , they should have give that guy the best flying experience they could give him instead of doing that.
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Yeah for what I have seen with the users he describes, the $249 samsung chromebook is almost perfect. I would say it needs a touchscreen (I remember my grandfather trying to push on the screen 30 years ago when I showed him something with a button), but further it falls in the price range of almost everyone, it's always backed up, secure, simple. No worries about anything; just sending mails, browsing and writing the occasional text if needed.

The problem of not having internet around is also no issue; these kind of users use their computers maybe a few times / week which at which point, at least here in the village, they go to the local bar and use their wifi.
Yes, yes, this is all fine and dandy until your linux distro updates and something causes the wifi drivers to crash or simply not work anymore. I think the OP wanted to have his granny just use an iPad or tablet of some kind where it's literally impossible to screw something up.
Wouldn't this also mean you have to re-implement any filters that come from third-party apps, too?
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ex Free here, yes Free is cheap (hence the ex).

And people don't understand that 42 is another way to bring cheaper developers in the market.
> - No frustration or time wasted looking around for lost glasses or needing to think about where to place them at night, before taking a shower or changing clothing. (minor inconvenience. if a lens falls to the ground it can be very annoying)

I've been wearing soft contact lenses for 7 years and yeah putting them in / out everyday is a bit annoying. My optician recommended I try hard contact lenses as she uses them. Apparently you can wear them for a month continuously without having to take them out.
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Initially I read "to let communist on board"...