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>That is when the money will really be earned.

That time is never going to come, others are not sitting idly either. :) - since I am not american I don't know the precise terms to define such situation. But as we would say 'more clients, more profits' but in the end, you start losing customers, when you charge even pennies more, and you become a victim of your own.

>They are competitive on EVERY product

This is the misconception, they are not being competitive at all. :) they are only being arsehole :) as I would call such competitor in my own industry.

Being competitive means, they quote prices which has profit, however they blow away the competition by virtue of either their skills or costs.
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This should take into consideration the time to organize the people before they enter the plane. I may have missed it, but I didn't see the research cover that.
I bet the "most efficient" method pointed is one of the less efficient methods to organize people outside.
You can't control how the airline orchestrates boarding, but you can control how you board. It's much less stressful to stay seated in the lounge while everyone waits in line, then jump up at the end.

I understand the impulse to get on the plane, but it's irrational if you aren't using the overhead bins. (As a rule, I do not. I always check my bag plane-side.) Getting on the plane earlier won't get you to your destination faster. So, don't stress about it, sit down and relax.

Although, my attitude could end up screwing up these optimized methods. But I don't think it hurts in the back-of-the-plane-first method.
git can not really deal with binary files well, if you have lots of png/gif/mov/mp3/jpg/etc to track git is not the option for you I think. git excels at source code, in txt format that is.
I've heard it's a common practice in defense contracts to carefully write the requirements such that you are in effect pre-selecting your desired vendor, while providing the appearance of impartiality and neutrality.
There was a Mythbusters episode a while back testing different boarding methods. If I recall correctly, having a "free-for-all" seating arrangement was the fastest, although it received the lowest customer satisfaction score from customers. The most satisfactory method of boarding was "WILMA[1] with blocks" which involves having business board first, followed by a combination of back-to-front and WILMA boarding while each zone was boarded with the WILMA method, starting from the back.

[1] Stands for "windows-middles-aisles". See http://take.ms/znON7 for a definition.
I has the same experience when flying US Airways. Seeing this I just thought someone was extra incompetent, but reading the last sentence of the article it starts making sense - they want it to be inefficient so people pay extra.
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Really? Very few of the restaurants I've frequented in NYC and Seattle had bars. This is probably because I usually eat at inexpensive Asian restaurants if I ever eat out. I've never had a problem just eating alone at a regular table though, so I agree that this idea is kind of silly.
Good themes inspire people on multiple levels. "You only get one" does nothing except imply a limited gameplay mechanic. Minimalism inspired some people to create games based around minimalism in art or philosophy.

Another problem with "you only get one" is that it came after "10 seconds" which came after "minimalism". The last 2 themes are just subsets of minimalism and it is getting kind of old.
Seismic shift inside Amazon. S-team now emphasizing making money on the previous "strategic" projects. Dismissing directors and restructuring projects currently scored unprofitable. Project I was worked on is reevaluated to maybe not launch. Other project worked on replaced management team and using new engineering teams from Bangalore and Chennai.
These requirements seem to apply mostly to "national security" payloads (e.g., spysats), so the exact nature of the requirements is classified. It's easy to come up with a plausible guess about what the requirements might be (optics going out of alignment if you tip the spysat on its side?), but those who know don't say --- and those willing to venture a guess, like me, are showing they don't actually know.
Could one use this to attack Facebook from within its network, bypassing its DDoS mitigation measures?
Parse, Heroku, Stripe, and Mongo are all selling tools. Arguably Apple as well (how many developers are using something OTHER than an Apple laptop?), although most of their revenue comes from mass market consumer products not sold specifically to developers.
I wonder, if this is the way a majority of big businesses do things, how come we don't see more leaks of entire codebases? It'd be trivial to put something up on TPB and just share all the code, but I don't see things like that happening. I also doubt that every single employee with access to the code has the moral standards not to do this. There must be something else keeping them from doing it.
This is somewhat off-topic, but if the author is still reading these comments: in the chapter on bytecode, it seems that an obvious alternative was overlooked. Don't implement your own little language. Take one that's already there. Lua, Python, JavaScript, there are lots of them! Why not?
One factor that has to be taken into account is the "social" one, i.e. how can we enforce that the ultra-fast amazingly optimal sitting scheme will be used.

Let's conduct a thought experiment. My grandma (that has difficulty hearing) is boarding a plane. Try explaining to her, in a sensible and efficient manner that only the people at the windows should get in first.

Ok, maybe my grandma is an extreme example. But think of a first time flyer. Lots of people would be confused.

Also, as already stated, people that travel together sit side by side. Are you going to split the young couple of newly weds during boarding? Is that really sensible? Or the mother and her five kids?

The main takeaway that I get is that you should let people get in without any pre-ordering. Unless you can devise a socially acceptable way to enforce outside-in boarding, that is. I'm not.

You see, the bottom line for me is that simulations are really valuable, but not taking into account the human factors involving the business, how the people actually consume your product, you can have great ideas that work on excel and flunk marvelously on the market.
Though, as others have pointed out, carry-ons can put a damper on the idea, I tend to do this. Even before carry-ons became a consideration, I've been mystified by people that want to get on the plane first. Umm, more time in the aluminum tube in an uncomfortable seat? No thanks, I'll wait. I understand that it may not work for everyone, but I typically check everything but a laptop bag, and get on as late as I can. Grab a latte after getting off the plane, and stand by the luggage output for 15 minutes while sipping my delicious (okay, it's the airport: barely palatable) coffee beverage.

Even today when you get booked flights with no carry-on room, the gate agent comes on the PA: "if you check your carry-on, we'll let you board first!" If I check my bag and don't have a carry-on anymore, and I have an assigned seat, how about I board dead last instead? Because I personally don't view being first on the plane as a reward.
This information is already in the article.
Funny you should mention ... that nasaspaceflight forum has commenters saying the same thing:

I guarantee there will be a congressional committee hearing about this very soon. Reminds me of what Howard Hughes had to go through to break Pan American Airways' legal designation as the United States' sole international carrier. Most portray Elon M. as a the new "Steve Jobs"; wrong I live in Nevada and an early study was of Howard Hughes. Elon M. is a modern day Howard Hughes. Once you understand that, things fall into place.
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Don't be mean. The clever part is the calling of the fuzzy-selector utility. (I guess you pick an artist or track, type as much it as you can be bothered to, and it will play the track or, if it's ambiguous, offer a list that narrows down as you type more).
I do the same thing, and it is much less stressful. It doesn't make the process any faster though.
> at a lot of bars, the point seems to be to interact with other patrons

Not really. The bar gets money from you drinking, not from you talking. That's why they play the music so damn loud.
> It's always seemed strange to me how many people seem to
> think that the right way to solve discrimination is with
> more discrimination, just in the opposite direction.

This is a very common and very strange non sequitur, that presumes that the total supply of opportunity is fixed.
>Oh and make sure this doesn’t just end up in a position where you just hire a few white women and call it a day. Not good enough.

This doesn't sound like they are encouraging employers to hire less qualified candidates just to check off boxes.
The funny thing for me is that everyone has always said that Amazon's share price is justified because eventually "they'll turn on the profit tap" and up their margins once the market is captive.

Yet, how do you tell when Amazon are about to do that? I would've thought they'd do it when revenue growth starts slowing. ie. When the strategy of spending money to make money starts being less effective, as there is steadily harder gains to be got from it. That's when I'd turn on the tap.

So just as Amazon are about to do this (potentially anyway), that's when people sell? I'd say this is by far the best time to buy...
Boarding time isn't a bottleneck ergo it's not a problem.

The real time suck when a plane is grounded is emptying the latrine, loading the water, refueling, doing engine checks.

The lack of major airlines and the high entry costs in the space mean that it's unlikely you'll lose travelers over user experience.

RyanAir is a prime example of this....just imho though.
Why use Go for embedded systems in robots? It doesn't make any sense. Go relies strongly on the existence of a heap, and doesn't have strong real-time properties.
Quick, get a selection of hammers and rent a boutique while the money's still hot. Start with the hollywood elite, then any early failures shouldn't be too obvious.
>I was under the impression that Nintendo had got security right this time and the device remained uncracked.

I couldn't find much, but it seems that a team called "Gateway" found a userland+kernel exploit that allowed everyone to run unsigned code on the 3DS. It got fixed a bunch of updates ago.

As for how, it seems that the documentation is very bad/completely missing, but from what I get you can write C, compile it with GCC for arm (https://launchpad.net/gcc-arm-embedded) and pass it with some tools to allow booting from the exploit. To interact with the hardware (eg draw to the screen) it seems you can just manipulate directly memory (see https://github.com/Aliakr18/mandelbrot/blob/master/source/me...)
It would have to have been rent controlled since the 1800s to live on $25k comfortably...
An interesting secondary poll is: Where does a startup stop being a startup in terms of revenue.
True, but then in that situation SpaceX would just not give the 30% cost reduction for the launch. The 30% figure he mentioned was after giving the "under $100M" price point.
How much weight would be such an anchor to hold down something as large as a rocket? Wouldn't you have to launch that into space, too?
If you want to try it out painlessly, I've written a post [0] and implemented Vagrant playground where you can experiment with go. [1]

[0]: http://www.ikusalic.com/blog/2014/03/12/using-thoughtworks-g...
[1]: https://github.com/ikusalic/vagrant-go
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Some of the complaints hold true, others just sound bizarre now:

> But for the vast majority of devices, you had better have your driver disk handy

Driver disks... yeah, I think I remember those?

My biggest complaint with USB isn't there, the ports can be kind of fragile. Even without regular swapping (which the design seems to encourage), USB drives and cords slowly pry them out of position. Forget about the port if anyone bumps the USB stick or trips over the cord while it's plugged in.
Amsterdam is a very crowded city. Part of what you're paying for here is being left alone to eat in peace, rather than having your meal rushed because the table could more profitably seat a couple. There's no shortage of places where you're welcome as an individual if you don't mind rubbing shoulders with other people, but if you want a little space of your own without necessarily staying at home, your options are quite limited.
You've never been bumped off a flight?
Ask HN: How many new Mac Pros have been sold since launch?
Is the new Mac Pro a success or flop? How many have been sold? The latest 2014 Q2 results from Apple claim Mac sales of 4.14 million units, but I haven't seen a breakdown by model. Does that data exist? Thanks.
Not as much as you'd think: Go uses the stack. And evidently the soft real-time support is good enough to fly drones and control robots. I saw it today. All of their demos at GopherCon, including the face recognition one, had Sleep calls in it because otherwise it would operate too fast for comprehension and would make the robots/drones hard to control.
It's very funny to hear you say that. Full article assumption based on the assumptions of the authors. The truth is much easier and more interesting. Amazon launches minimum viable products, doing as little as possible engineering and then iterates on those for the production of the product. The cheapest way to test the idea of ​​a glacier was add waiting to S3. So Amazon did that.
"Now boarding people requiring special assistance or those with priority seating"

"now boarding seats A and F."

"now boarding seats B and E"...

Seems simple enough. Priority seating would just be a box that you check off, only available to people travelling in groups. Seat these people as far back and as close to a wall as possible.
The full paper[1] addresses this to some extent (my emphasis added below):

"Accurate estimates of the lifetime history (prevalence) of traumatic brain injury within the general population are scarce, which makes it difficult to compare rates of injury among homeless people with rates among those in the community. Two community cohort studies suggested prevalence rates of 3.8% (for experiencing at least 1 admission to hospital for traumatic brain injury by age 35; northern Finland birth cohort) and 31.6% (for experiencing a traumatic brain injury for which the person received medical care; Christchurch, New Zealand, birth cohort). Together, these data suggest that rates may be higher among people who are homeless than within the general community. A recent study estimated that homeless men had rates of head injury 14 times higher than rates for the general population of Canada, with a rate 400 times higher among those who were chronically homeless and had drinking problems."

And not oranges and oranges comparison, but[2]:

"Separately, a recent study by Dr. Stephen Hwang of the hospital's Centre for Research on Inner City Health, found the number of people who are homeless or vulnerably housed and who have also suffered a TBI may be as high as 61 per cent -- seven times higher than the general population."

[1] http://www.cmajopen.ca/content/2/2/E69.full

[2] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24651000
Traditionalist Catholic religious communities still use this calendar to a certain extent.

At the beginning of dinner, the seminarians will assemble in the refectory and listen to the daily reading of the Roman Martyrology. It begins, for example, with "A reading from the Roman Martyrology for the fifth day before the Kalends of February, the thirteenth moon." Thereupon, we would hear about the saints whose feast days were established for the following day. The reading would end with the words "and elsewhere, many other holy martyrs, saints, and holy virgins."

The oddest day in the calendar was the dies bisextus, which gets inserted somewhere after the Nones of February in leap years. On that day, the reading is simply "Many holy martyrs, saints, and holy virgins."

To this day, indult parishes that celebrate the 1962 Roman liturgy have saints days that get moved apparently arbitrarily in late February on leap years. If you understand the old Roman calendar, it makes sense.
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I once worked for a startup, that startup was acquired by Adobe now I work there.
I think that's a false dichotomy. Don't attract discrimination by the opposite discrimination. Attract discrimination primarily by exposing and removing the discrimination. Also (in this example) try to nurture more talented females, growing their skills to the point that they can be hired even in head-to-head competition with males.
Ask HN: How to find a good creative partner for solo projects?
Some of us on HN have ideas we want to turn into products, but lack the creative talent to put a pretty face on an otherwise solid idea.

I know crowdsourcing may fit some quick/simple projects, but for more complex projects that require ongoing collaboration and effort, it seems a more dedicated partner would be a better fit.

What are some good ways to find solid creative talent to help partner for solo projects?
The point is, extending JS to support such constructs without requiring callbacks would be worthwhile, IMO [1]. However, making it obvious with a better API would be necessary.

[1] Note, however, that it would turn JS's threading model completely on its head. Right now, the philosophy of JS is "single-process" threading model, with WebWorkers supporting a "multi-processing" concurrency model by isolating different threads of control. Allowing futures without callbacks would bring JS closer to Golang's concurrency model.
In general, you are seeing the premium customers board first, who have seats in front.
So one of my problems with the stock functionality is that I wanted it to automatically upload images to my samba fileserver at home, rather than some weird tablet/cloud service. Having some way of printing to my network printer would be awesome too.

I also like the idea of having a tiny, relatively cheap, long running deaddrop wifi hotspot on batteries. Any idea of how long you could run it for from a button battery?

Could you create a half decent mesh network / wifi repeaters with these taped at various locations?

I could imagine a wifi hacking linux distribution like xiaopan might be quite fun too, or something with tunnelling / vpn that can connect to a hotspot and make it safe.

If there were some way to add a few sensors to it without making it much larger / power hungry, that could be really cool, especially considering how much space you have for logging.

I'd like to see if one could be surreptitiously built into a usb cable, or wall wart, so it's powered when the usb cable is plugged in, but otherwise there's nothing obviously special about the usb cable.
This was covered, along with 5 other interesting cases of people acquiring interesting abilities after injury, in an amusing Cracked.com article [1].

One of the most interesting, and well documented, is Tony Cicoria [2]. He was stuck by lightning, and then shortly afterwards developed an obsession with piano music, and quickly taught himself to play and compose.

[1] http://www.cracked.com/article_19504_6-people-who-gained-ama...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Cicoria
Your personal theory is very correct.
No, usually I just wing it and write my own physics during the compo. I've gotten quite quick at throwing together simple verlet physics engines.
I'm not seeing any Group 1 passengers arriving late and having to board with Group 3 or 4 and that happens on pretty much every flight I've been on.

Maybe we're simulating a delayed flight then?

But if the flight's already delayed, who even cares anymore.
No, but that's kind of misleading because I've worked for ten startups in the past.
This would be pretty nice combined with the Open Gaming System to produce a marvel + d&d mashup. Think dungeon crawls with Iron man
I usually do this, but a couple of times I have been told that I have to gate check my carryon because of it.

Still worth it to wait in the lounge and use the wifi instead of cramming into a tiny seat early.
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WhatsApp Powered Toy Connects Kids Fighting Cancer To Their Loved Ones
I think you need to define what you mean by "discrimination" here, because the obvious definition of "excluding someone based on certain traits" doesn't work here. Men are very much not being excluded from tech fields, nor is anyone attempting to do so, so what do you mean when you say "discrimination"?

And how to you "expose and remove the discrimination" in this case?
Not by your definition.
The article actually addresses some of the cases you mentioned - like families and couples - and proposes exceptions for those. You could conceivably implement a check-in time boarding order assignment algorithm which takes such factors into consideration. This would result in a slightly longer than ideal boarding time, due to congestion in the aisles, but still better than the current scenarios.
The paper ( http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/12/1059 ) is a meta-analysis of papers addressing this correlation. In the section "Limitations of the evidence base," the author notes the deficiency you pointed out in most papers (only two had a control group), among other deficiencies. The conclusion is a rallying cry for larger and more rigorous studies on the matter since the current (ragtag) evidence shows a noticeable correlation.
the USB connectors have no locking mechanism. [...] users
will scream in frustration when they realize their USB
mouse has been inadvertently unplugged from the back of
the computer because it wasn't locked into place.

Is this really a problem, except for high-vibration industrial applications?

I'd rather have USB than be fiddling around trying to reach thumbscrews on the back of my computer in the dark under my desk.
If they've got memcached with their own patches, linux with their own patches, Hadoop with their own patches, etc. and tons of translations I can see 8 gigs of text.
I don't have a problem with it, but I've lived a largely solitary life. I have friends who would never dream of going to a restaurant alone, though, and would think everybody was watching them eat and wondering what was wrong with them.
One of the developers here. I just wanted to say that for this demo we are using a "demo api" which doesn't need a server. You can generate previews and metadata on JavaScript only apps.

For server based API calls we have a proper REST API.

I can answer any question you might have.
Padgett's cognitive transformation is real, even if the mathematically-illiterate reporting on it obscures the nature of that transformation. Berit Brogaard, who's a professor of philosophy and neuroscience at the University of Missouri St. Louis, has done a lot of studies with Padgett in the course of her work on synesthesia [1]. I haven't read any of her papers involving Padgett myself, but people looking for a more rigorous treatment of his condition might find something of interest in her writing.

[1] http://www.stlmag.com/St-Louis-Magazine/August-2013/Pieces-o...
Michigan faculty object to well above-average administrative salaries
Sounds simple, but I have yet to be on a flight where nobody misses the guidelines. There are always quite a few people "lost" and most of the time intentionally.
How is that misleading? It says "Do you work at at startup", not "did you"
Being a single founder with a speech impediment
You just turned my frown upside down!