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They just need to get rid of the overhead luggage compartments. Unchecked luggage is the entire boarding problem. It is also what holds up the security lines.

Make checking luggage much faster/easier and at the destination get it out for pick up much faster than is done now. Dramatically shrink or remove the overhead bins. Boarding and security line problems solved.
On the flip side, since I always travel pretty light, I never check baggage (and I still have the smallest carry-ons...) and a little more stress at the beginning of the flight to ensure I get overhead bin space, means that at the end of the flight I can leave the plane and walk out the front door, rather than waiting 10-20 for the baggage to show up.

If I need to bring enough stuff to require check baggage however, I am always the last to board the plane.
Personally, I don't feel like the Amazon store is at all it's main long term product. Amazon Web Services, the Kindle, the culture it has built to consistently create success.

I could be wrong but I'm willing to bet on their ability to twist and turn in the face of market forces more effectively than their peers.
No sensible ISP solution to this should take `is_netflix` as an input.

If customers are requesting more data than the last-mile pipes can handle, there are a number of fair ways to handle the overuse:

- At peak times, customers are throttled in direct, formulaic proportion to past (peak) usage

- Customers are charged more for usage at peak times

- Customers are limited to n% of the pipe at peak times

Notice how none of that singles out Netflix, just high usage in general.
Hacker in Silicon Valley type circles in recent years come to mean someone who moves fast, break stuff, and makes it work in some cases. In others, someone who is inventive and figures out how to get things to work. I'm sure there are a few others.

Some will proudly wear the badge and call themselves hackers because of the above. Facebook is huge on the term itself, even getting themselves the vanity address 1 Hacker Way.

Unfortunately, a huge chunk of the world does in fact view the word hacker very negatively like your manager and even in some reports I've come across, the authorities you don't want messing with you. For these reasons, I try to stay away from ever calling myself a hacker of any kind. It's a term. It can mean whatever you claim it to but it won't matter if others don't see it that way, it causes confusion, or at the end of the day means nothing to anyone else but you. After all, the only person that cares is the person claiming the title.
It was actually a direct translation from a play's title. One I never managed to find time to see, to be honest, but wanted to.

Slightly more easily recognizable version might be "the shoemaker's children have no shoes".
I felt a little awkward when I was a bit younger and not as used to it, especially in the large, busy, wide open places. But I've gotten over it, and most lunches I eat alone without thinking about it.

Still if you look around we are definitely the minority. It seems like some people can't stand the thought of eating alone. Sometimes co-workers will practically beg you to go eat lunch with them if they don't have anyone else to go with. I think people place a stigma on themselves about it even though they won't look twice when they see someone else out eating by themselves.
Nothing to add but the Tetris meets Sword of Damocles made me laugh out loud. Thanks for that.
err, any company with decent funding can easily support over 30 ppl
you're not going to merge binary files, so git isn't the right tool. the standard way is to use maven. git handles your sources, and anything binary (libs, resources etc) goes on the nexus (where it is versioned centrally) and is referenced in your poms: simple and powerful
Ideally, if the webserver should just return HTTP 420 (Enhance your calm), 429 (Too many requests), or 509 (Bandwidth Limit exceeded).
Which company? From Indy originally and worked for Matchbook Creative and then iGoDigital before making the jump to SF. Love working at the Speakeasy when I'm in town.
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The numbers provided by Yahoo are in kilo-dollars, so its actually $631 million (and 5000 Bay Area engineers) rather than $631 thousand. Yes, the margins are low, which may be an argument that they are overvalued, but in absolute terms they are profitable.
There's some weird fine print in the deal which could mean the revival of the Nokia brand, from an offshoot of the original company, after January 1, 2016:

http://followingjolla.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-small-print-t...

I wonder if that could work out like the weird 'sold Skype but not the key technology' clause of the Skype-eBay deal...
Amazon is mature as well; maybe not as mature, but 20 years is an old company. And Walmart has been making profits for decades, while their revenue has grown dramatically, and while they have been building extremely expensive stores and warehouses and supply chains.

> Why show a profit if you don't have to? Management is obviously finding pretty good, revenue-growing investments.

This is the nonsensical mentality that has blown up Amazon's stock price for more than the past decade. In the short term, absolutely, ramp up revenue and take losses getting there. In the long run, businesses exist to make the shareholders money.
I've encountered certain combinations of male and female USB plugs that fit extremely loosely, to the point that minor perturbation (like from a mouse cable) might eventually result in the plug falling out. It's pretty rare though, and it's probably just a matter of the manufacturing tolerances and how well the manufacture implements the physical spec.
>Corporate jail time (i.e. barring a company from operating in the marketplace) is equivalent to a death sentence for most companies.

It's an economic death sentence for most individuals, too.
This is how I do it for assigned seats when I have no overhead bag, but it sucks for Southwest - You will get stuck in the middle of the worst two people to sit next to. You also can't sit with other people.

Also, many people don't want to check their bags because most airlines now charge $15-25 to do so. Also, when I don't check bags, I don't have to wait in line for the baggage check at my departure, and I don't have to wait at the baggage claim when I arrive. For the short flights I take most often, this extra time can be almost as long as the flight itself.
Looks like they're putting in place infrastructure for an API affiliate plan.

To use the API you must display a copyright link whose href points at a url included in the API's response.

Ignoring the nice boost this gives to Google rank, the urls change based on the request and so can point to a place where the viewer can buy the API response's content from Marvel.

Plus each url includes a tag so Marvel can know which app sent them the customer.

Not sure why they're putting such a powerful linkback/affiliate scheme in the copyright notice though. If they're sending back custom urls it's no extra effort to include call to action text for the link as well eg: Buy 'Avengers: The Quest For Profit'.

More info in the linking section of http://developer.marvel.com/documentation/attribution
This is true for a sub-set of unmanned payloads.

Space-X is great for the sub-set of things that don't require insurance, and don't therefore need to use corner-case mil-spec stuff with the corner case pricing.

For others, the cost of losing a $1-2B bird on top of a $100m/cheap rocket is shitty math. Nobody is going to insure the top of it, so ultimately the "waste" is akin to a form of insurance.

Everybody knows this already, so I'm not sure how sympathetic a hearing it is going to get. It will be great PR though to hopefully spurn <designs> that fit the new framework...and thus expand the market for space-x and hopefully limit the superflous use of corner-case technology for mundane/run-of the mill applications (at the tax payer's expense).
Mozy has been doing this for nearly a decade.
Technology that Scans Your Skeleton To Determine If You Are A Threat
You don't, it runs off of batteries.
Wasnt aware of the fees aspect. Good to know that side of the equation.

My point is that a VPE has to be good a managing/politics/delegation and also be technical. The cost of developing software has gone down a lot = smaller teams, more technical folks. Recruiters havent realized this. A company like WhatsApp has ~50 people and was valued at $ 19 billion.

At a personal level, I have been a big company manager with many years experience managing people. I have been introduced to startup founders. What I dont like is people (read recruiters) who have never shipped a product pretending to add value by injecting themselves into the process and decided who I should talk to.
Ditto. Viva la Omniture!
Thanks, fixed. 0.3% is hardly a profit. Anyone can make more money holding CD's.
Not only that, but if you board faster you can leave faster. Less time on the ground = more hours flying = more money.
I think the difference is that I used the word API in my submissions title, which immediately makes the developer part of my brain say "Comic book API? What's that about?" and want to know more.
When I was visiting my relatives in China I never got the sense that cooks were more highly respected. It's pretty much the same there. The cooks work in the kitchen and you generally don't see their face or know who they are unless they are especially famous. China and Japan also have their own equivalents of "mass market" fast-food restaurants.
Normally true, but if Amazon trade in high enough volume (which they do), turning up the price by pennies across the board will generate quite a large bump in profit. And whilst they are definitely in the low margin, price sensitive business, programs like Amazon Prime generate quite a bit of stickiness to their brand, regardless of price.

I know that I find it a pain to shop elsewhere now, not just because of price, but because I've grown so used to the reliable delivery times of Amazon/Prime. I know almost to the hour when my packages are going to arrive. That's a killer feature worth at least a moderate bump in price before I'd shop elsewhere.
I don't know about you, but I really crank on my mouse. If your shoulder isn't moving you're not doing it right.
Actually, I think that 80% of the smartphone market profits would be more in the ballpark.
Can't and won't speak for others but here is my blunt honesty from a personal perspective. I never even thought about this and having read the above and it now being registered in my consciousness, I can confidently say I personally don't care at all.

Basically there are two problems.

1. People not even registering this as a thought to begin with.

2. People who just simply don't care.

I'd imagine you'd get a lot of the two combined for every person that would want this. But that of course is pure speculation on my part.
With Android, ant makes naive assumptions.

For example, most open source library projects that you include in a project don't change from build to build, but ant dutifully recompiles them each time instead of caching the output until the files in that project are changed or I manually clean the build output.
Yes, I can, but I used to have choice within the Linux ecosystem. Now I do not. Having choice taken away is not a good thing.
Its nice but strict non commercial license means if you built something cool you would have no way to support it.
I was wondering that too, but the end of the article does mention it:
"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." So it sounds like the rate in the normal population is about 8%, but that's probably men and women. Even if it was entirely men that had it (unlikely), that would put the incidence in the general population of men at 16%, significantly lower. And that rate includes the ones that end up homeless.
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Well now we're just quibbling over the semantics of what constitute "real" profit. It probably would be better to just argue that the profits that they do have do not constitute a good investment, which is a valid point of view.
Yes, it should intelligently proxy images.
Almost all of my flying experience is on American, so I'm not sure how much this applies to the others, but I think all US majors technically board back to front. The problem is that there are so many ways so "cut" in line that (at least according to some airline industry friends of mine) it's fairly common for about 50% of the plane to board out of order. Off the top of my head, you can board earlier on AA if you:

- fly on the airline a lot/have some sort of frequent flyer status
- are in a premium cabin
- have the AA credit card
- pay $10 extra at checkin
- are in the military
- have a seat on a row with a bulkhead in front of it
- are on an exit row
- have children flying with you

.. and, of course, I'm sure that list isn't exhaustive. By the time you factor all that in, I usually think it looks like boarding happens in a completely random order.
App developers beware: China's market is not to be missed
The aftereffects of traumatic brain injury is a very intractable problem that significantly damages a person's life. People tend to be on the street because of intractable personal problems, not because of lack of money per se.

I have thought a lot about that and I often wonder what we can do to heal the bodies and minds of the homeless as our first priority instead of trying to act like homelessness itself is the problem and like getting shelter of some sort is the priority. Homeless shelters are often really crappy shelter, with no privacy and terrible air quality and so forth. I won't go to one because I am on the street to get myself well and I can't solve my problems if I can't get well. Homeless shelters are generally not clean enough for my needs. They would help keep me sick. I can't ever solve my problems by staying chronically ill. My financial problems are rooted in my health problems.

I never know how to explain that effectively to other people who think a) my lack of housing proves I am incompetent and thus not credible or worth listening to and b) housing, any housing, is the single most important detail to address.

Years ago, I lived for a few months in a crap trailer. My health took a turn for the worse and in some ways never recovered. I am still trying to undo the damage of those few months. I have enough income that I could probably go to someplace super cheap, like rural Alabama or Mississippi, and find a trailer for rent to live in instead of choosing to be on the street and inexpensive California where the climate is good for my health but I can't afford housing. And I never know how to explain to people that I am doing the right thing and this focus on get a home, any home, is the wrong focus and is part of the problem.

I am glad to see this posted here. I think this is probably a lot better thing to post on HN than a lot of stories that wind up here which showcase specific homeless individuals and, more often than not, seem to convince people that the individual in question just needs to "be more responsible" or "make better choices."
“We believe in the long term, but the long term also has to come,” says Bezos, explaining that periodically Amazon wants to “check in” with its ability to make money. Thus, in 2007, Amazon more than doubled its profit, to $476 million, on a 38% increase in sales to almost $15 billion.

http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2012/11/16/jeff-bezos-amaz...
For anyone who has enjoyed Timehop, I put together an app I call Marvelhop [1]. It simply picks a random comic that was issued on this week in the past 20 years.

I am surely biased, but it's a pretty fun way to rediscover comics you might have forgotten about.

[1]: http://marvelhop.jit.su/

UPDATE: The code that queries the API (while messy) is entirely written in client-side JQuery, so feel free to view the source.
The poll isn't about you. A poll generally is about where a group of people stand at a given moment in time. There is nothing misleading about asking if someone currently works at a startup.
They would also have to stop charging for checked bags.

No matter how efficient they get at checking bags, though, not having to do it will always be faster.

I don't really see how much faster they can get in terms of unloading the bags... you will still have to wait for all the bags to come out on the conveyer belt, and whoever gets the last bag will have to wait quite a bit.
I actually found this bug first in Facebook and later in Google. Facebook said they needed time to think about this and I was hoping they would fix it, so I could not disclose this back then.
Here is a Glacier S3 rack:

10Gbe TOR

3 x Servers

2 x 4U Jbod per server that contains around 90 disks or so

Disks are WD Green 4TB.

Roughly 2 PB of raw disk capacity per rack

The magic as with all AWS stuff is in the software.
Rockets are surprisingly fragile when empty. Most of their strength is compressive, and only in one direction, and only when filled with compressed gas.
That's not how profit margins work. Their revenue is not capital, and the net is not an interest they could potentially earn on revenue. You're thinking of something more like a cap ratio here. The numerator is profit but the denominator is capital invested, not revenue.
This is the technical co-founder question in different skin. Most creative people don't want to "put a pretty face" on your idea. The best way to find creative talent is to get them excited about the idea early on and involve them through the project.
Wow, that is amazingly compact. Without comments the main function is only 12 lines.
Well, again it probably depends on your idea, and what the potential revenue is.

It's also possible that they have no idea what to charge for their API right now, and they are waiting to see what kinds of offers come in.

That's also smart (or ruthless?) since it allows them to tailor their price to your idea (i.e. maximize their share of the potential revenue).

I hope people figure out cool things to do with this though.
Is that the same Jason Surace who got his PhD from University of Hawaii befor Y2K?
If so, small world, few Jason Surace's.
Are you an employee of the purchaser or are you still working for the startup?
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I think this is really the biggest obstacle to any of these 'superior' methods; getting everyone to do it. For one thing, not everyone is ready to board when you first start boarding. People will show up at different times, after their own group was supposed to board. People won't line up in the right order, no matter how hard you try to enforce it.
AWS does not re-use disks under any circumstance. It is strictly forbidden to protect customer data. Disks also do not leave the datacenter until they have been degaussed AND crushed.
B2B finance tools, startup.
Does the connector have much effect on the construction of the cable itself? Perhaps Micro-USB cables are more likely to have a thinner cable due to the smaller connector.

What I have experienced are the connectors on the cable either breaking or ripping off of the cable. This has happened twice with a device I use regularly, with no damage whatsoever to the port.
People constantly say this about him, yet he consistently comes through on what he says. I tend to favor trusting what he says about things like this now.
I'm a founder of a startup in Brazil. We help doctors manage their clinics.
Actual age in years is not particularly relevant in terms of maturity. Maturity, in this thread, has been used in terms of revenue growth. Amazon's revenue grew 20% over the last year, while Wal Mart's grew 1.6%. Its still valid to say that Amazon is in growth mode.
If you don't have the source that produced those binaries your only choice is to have them downloadable from somewhere else (which is a real hassle for the developer) or just check them into the repo.
I'm reminded of the fortran to c compiler f2c that was used to produce pure c implementations of lots of libraries like LAPACK.

I'm curious how they will handle things like pointer arithmetic and memory safety in C vs Go. If they mange to do so in a performant way I could see translating lots of numerical or computationally intensive code to Go so that it could be run in a shared cloud environment without worries about memory safety and without having to resort to vms for separation.
I'm talking about checking my bags plane-side, where you hand it to them when you walk on the plane, and you wait about 5 minutes in the walkway to get your bag. This is different than having to go to the baggage carrousel.
You don't even need a robot. The electronics needed to digitally "switch" which disk is connected to the server would be extremely inexpensive. I'm not sure why the original article even considers the idea of a disk drive robot.
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I'm glad I don't work at your big company
> so they can be hired even in head-to-head competition with males

Maybe read what you write?
> it would be nice if...you could sponsor homeless people with enough money to find accomodation and medical/psychological assistance

You're presuming that our society and economy isn't designed to purposefully try to get a certain percentage of people into this situation. If someone theoretically entertains the possibility that this is the case ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_army_of_labour ), then that would be like building sand castles on the shore during low tide.

Actually you don't have to go back to the 19th century to read about this. Read what mainstream economists openly say about NAIRU, or what Business Week and the Wall Street Journal were openly saying when the unemployment rate went below 4% in early 2000. They were pretty much calling for higher unemployment rates - as much as you can get away with in this society any way.
Funding doesn't need to be able to support 30 people in order to be decent. What's decent depends on what the company needs.
Why would they put that all in the same repository? I'm pretty sure this 8 GB repo is just their website code. A frontend dev working on a Timeline feature shouldn't have to check out the Linux kernel.
It's not clearly stated. I think what they mean to say is DoS on Facebook using brute force mechanism as testing this would bring down the Facebook system itself. Now manipulating Facebook's server to cause the attack, that'd be different I guess.
Nice! I'd love to chat. Feel free to email the address in the question or my profile.
Stuff like this gets me pumped. We live in rapidly changing times and I love getting to see what Musk is doing.
This looks really cool - I'd be interested in seeing more demos of printing circuit boards. Also, will the head work on something like a Prusa i3?
Nokia has sold many products in it's life including toilet paper. I don't think Nokia as a company is going away soon.

As a former employee at the end of it's heyday it continues to be the best company I have worked for. They paid fairly and treated us fairly when it was time to part ways.

It sucks that the management could never grasp what the Iphone was. There were no shortage people trying to tell them.
Or you bump an API version. And the fixes are gradual everywhere.
I don't understand. I get the idea for us to self organize and bring about more diversity to the tech industry. What is lost on me with all these posts/comments/arguments is that they act as if white males are trying to stop women and other minorities from entering the field. More than most fields, getting a job as a developer is based on objective facts. Can you solve x problem. Especially in a market where good talent is hard to come by, I can't imagine an employer saying, "well, you have the technical chops, but i'm not going to hire you bc you're a woman". This just doesn't happen.

Yes, let's be open minded and work on making programming as accessible to as many ppl as we can. But, let's not start affirmative action here.