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It's interesting how the airline industry has evolved.

Years ago going from Australia to Europe typically meant going on the "kangaroo route" [1], typically via Singapore (the Qantas/BA/Singapore connection last year was replaced with a Qantas/Emirate/Dubai alliance). If you flew to continental Europe you often ended up flying to London and catching a local flight.

I visited the US in the 90s and ended up using US Air for a bunch of domestic flights. Primarily this was because at the time you could buy, as a foreigner, a number of flight coupons (that worked out to be about $50 each after 3 or so) that were redeemable for a single one-way flight (within a 3 month window).

US Air was (and is) pretty much the last holdout of the "hub" airline model in the US. I recall catching all those flights with layovers through Charlotte or Pittsburgh (or was it Philadelphia?).

The article is right that many passengers including myself prefer direct flights but there is some variability here. For example, I can fly NYC to SFO for as little as $260 coach return in non-peak periods. More typically it's $500-600. I can fly "First class" (it's not really that but it's a bigger seat with more legroom at least) on AA for $1100 via ORD or DFW. That's actually worth it at times. This compares favourably with the $4000+ AA charges for business on the new A321Ts.

Also, why do people prefer direct flights? It is at least in part due to the horrible experience and security theater that is modern air travel.

The A321T rollout is an example of what the article is talking about with reducing capacity too. Once complete, AA will end up with less transcon seat capacity.

But now there are not many places on the planet I can't get to from a major airport that require more than one layover. Hell, I can get from NYC to Perth, Australia (almost the complete other side of the planet) with one stop in Dubai, Doha or Hong Kong, possibly Tokyo and/or Seoul too.

I remember the fanfare the A380 came with 7-10 years ago and the competition with Boeing with what I think was the 747-400X? It was a concept that Boeing lost out on and was scrapped. They dodged a bullet on that one.

These days it's hard not to be on a Boeing 777-300ER (sometimes called 77W) for any serious long haul flights.

The article makes no mention of this but I MUCH prefer wide body planes (2 aisles not 1) as it gives you a chance of getting a center aisle seat where no one has to clamber over you to get to the bathroom. Ugh.

Anyway, this also evokes such boondoggles as the LA-SF "high speed" rail, which looks to be costing $30B, will take 15+ years to build, isn't that fast and is designed to solve a problem that isn't really a problem. The so-called problem is seat capacity between these two cities. It seems like the market is capable of solving this problem with bigger planes no one (currently) wants and prioritizing particular routes.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangaroo_Route
> in some cases it's that the people coming from overseas are willing to get paid less for the same job.

Agreed that this is the case in a lot of industries, but the problem in Silicon Valley and the tech industry generally isn't the cost of workers, it's finding enough highly-skilled workers to allow companies to grow and achieve their visions.
Watch John Oliver's Last Week Tonight video segment on native advertisement https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E_F5GxCwizc (10 min long). There is a bit on BuzzFeed where he points out that many of the posts that are "top" are really from paid advertisers.

Saying BuzzFeed is developing a journalism team is probably not the best wording. I would suggest BuzzFeed is building up a great PR, advertising, and marketing engine. They will make money. But is it journalism?
Try this:

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2014-08/11/content_182839...

As with all Chinese press articles, you'll have to read this understanding that there isn't a lot of context being communicated (I call it "passive defensive"). Basically, you are a domestic company, complain to a regulator about a foreign company, and they'll go after them for you.
Now we need a little facial recognition so you can scan to where you meet your tagged friends... of course, there are other surveillance opportunities too.
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They're also one of the few charities to whom I donate that doesn't spam me to death after the donation. Give money to the MSF, and you get a few letters a year about what they're doing.

More charities should be like that.
It was more the moral outrage that happens when you do the right thing and see other people getting away with doing the wrong thing.

It's like if you went to a supermarket and paid for your groceries and saw that you were the only person paying. Everyone else was just walking in, shoplifting, and walking straight out, and the managers weren't doing anything to stop it. That's not a supermarket I'd choose to keep going to.
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Though as long as demand for H1 visas remains high, this cycle will continue with new recruits replacing those qualifying for L1. Inevitably some of these people may wish to remain in Canada, or form their own startups there. Seems to be a big plus for Canada regardless.
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that's what I think, too.

Visicalc made computers to useful to people who moved lots of money and numbers around.

What can 3-D printers do for people who move lots of money and numbers around.. can they help predict? can they simulate? can they help people compete?

I hope so... the big thing many people miss with 3d printers is that they're excellent for making molds for better materials.
I do 6 hours a night during the week and 8 hours on weekend. 2am-8am and around 2am to 10 am weekend
What does "wins" mean? Makes money?
You and your wife decided to not press charges against someone who supposedly raped your wife...because he was working on a cryptography startup?

That's some rational thinking right there.
[ads that pretend to be news stories]

John Oliver recently commented on this stuff (so called "Native Advertising") on Last Week Tonight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_F5GxCwizc
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One reason why non-American countries have "easier" immigration systems is often demand related. Your example "H1-B lottery" is precisely demand related.
Does it matter? There's no punishment for having the title of your submission changed beyond wasted whatever effort you put into coming up with a new title. If you feel your title is better, submit it and see if the moderators agree.
I don't see any reason to feel bad for consumers. Journalism couldn't get much worse than it already was. At least native advertising is still more explicit than, say, defense contractor GE beating the war drum via NBC/MSNBC. Or companies buying ad slots on major news networks as insurance against negative reporting on them.
I think that BuzzFeed's quality will drastically improve in time.

To me, they're building a platform for journalism/media. They might be in the nascent stage where LinkBait is a dominant strategy, but I'd bet that high-quality journalism will become an increasingly integral part of BuzzFeed's business as it matures.
I don't think that's true. People are complimentary of others' proficiency and fingerwork (or whatever it might be called) often enough. And I think a parallel to sex work is probably music performance as much as education, in which case technique is discussed by patrons all the time.
Of course I'm serious. The weather in Seattle is so bad that Seasonal Affected Disorder (SAD) is a very common phenomenon. That's right: people get depressed because of the dark, wet and dreary weather there. I think that fact alone speaks for itself.

As icing on the cake, your "the more people who don't want to live in Seattle, the better" attitude is yet another reason not to live there. Basically a form of "just leave me alone!" syndrome. They call it Seattle Freeze. You can look it up if you haven't heard of it before (although that's unlikely).
It's incredibly difficult for survivors to prove the sex wasn't consensual in cases of rape where they know the rapists.

Your attitude is part of the reason people are raped: their rapists know they can likely get away with it because their victims face this kind of abuse and doubt. You are literally part of the problem.

> I wonder what US defamation law has to say about
> publicly accusing someone of being a rapist

It varies from state to state, but one thing is pretty constant: it's only libel/defamation/etc if the claim is false.

If you're going to sue somebody for defamation you need to be able to prove the statements are false.
Reminds me a bit of these experiments with 3d printed silicone reaction vessels.

http://www.nature.com/news/homegrown-labware-made-with-3d-pr...
Great word selection there.

shepherd: "A person who herds sheep"
Nope. It just requires information asymmetry, which IS the case here. Trucking companies know more about what income their potential workers will make than the potential workers will themselves.

Experienced truckers will have less information asymmetry, but experienced truckers need to be replenished as they retire. Apparently that's not happening.
No, you're just old. 320x240 was normal, on cellphones, a damn long time ago.

Desktops (and game consoles) really haven't kept the pace with everything else.
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I doubt there's really a "new" Microsoft. They're just in the "Embrace" phase of their usual 3-step process.
My reading of those figures is that the US never recovered its steel production after the steel collapse of 1982:
http://www.post-gazette.com/business/businessnews/2012/12/23...
People keep repeating this as if it were a definitive rebuttal of all fears, but this story gives a few great examples of why the confidence might be misplaced: when your primary diagnostic criterion is a fever (common; easily suppressed with OTC medication) and affirmative answer to the question "have you been to West Africa?", it doesn't really matter how good your public health system is -- it's a going to be a leaky early warning system.

If someone makes it through the airport screens and carries the virus into a city, the epidemiology could become overwhelming before we know an outbreak has begun. So yes, we have the advantage that we have real hospitals and good infection control, but we have the disadvantage that we have huge cities, high population density and lots of personal mobility.
In situations where the rapist is a friend of the victim, it's nearly impossible to prove that the sex wasn't consensual.

Many, many rape survivors agree that rape trials are often far worse than the actual rape. Even a conviction won't undo what is done, and in a rape trial the defense feverishly tries to prove that the victim is a slut/unfaithful/etc who wanted the sex - and this often involves digging up all kinds of painful and personal information on the victim.

Please save your anger for rapists, not their victims.
Which is why my advice to anyone about to be raped is this: fucking fight back. You might not win, but you should at least ensure there's some injuries one way or the other.

Make sure there's some injuries, so that the lack of consent is obvious when you go to the police, which you of course should do immediately afterwards with a black eye or a broken arm or whatever. It's much better to get a broken arm than to let your rapist get away with it.

My estimate of this case based on the complete lack of evidence either way is... I dunno, fifty percent that she was actually raped, fifty percent that she consented and later lied about it. Maybe leaning towards the latter scenario.
There isn't any duty to press charges when accusing someone of having committed a crime, at least in the U.S., so (b) is unrelated. As for (a), it's obviously the case that if they were convicted of a crime, it couldn't possibly be defamatory to accuse them of it; but it doesn't follow that if they haven't been convicted, the accusation is defamatory, because a lack of conviction is not the same as a finding of innocence (even an acquittal is not a finding of innocence, since it can come simply due to lack of sufficient evidence). A person alleging that accusations of their criminal behavior are defamatory cannot allege merely that they have not been convicted, but must show that they also did not commit the crime. There is no legal presumption of innocence when attempting to suppress third-party speech on the question of your innocence: if you want to sue someone for defamation, you now carry the burden of proof to show that what they claimed is false. (The only place a presumption of innocence comes in is when the government attempts to jail or fine you; then, the burden of proof falls on them.)

It's quite possible, due to lacking or conflicting evidence, for the question of someone's guilt to be basically "uncertain", in which case they probably can't be convicted, but they also probably can't win a defamation suit. See, e.g. O.J. Simpson, where being acquitted of murder didn't stop anyone from continuing to accuse him publicly of it.
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We use a lot of mac minis for iOS testing. What do you all use to monitor system resources such as CPU, Mem, Bandwidth etc. I have looked into using graphite but collectd is very painful to setup for OS X
One factor in favour of the single direct flight in smaller aircraft is the horrendous efficiency of airports. The amount of time spent queuing (checking in, enduring security humiliation, and in departure lounges) is usually a very significant part of the total travel time. And having to do it more than once makes it more than twice as tedious.

I recently travelled from London to south-east France by train, and it was a joy. No check-in, hardly noticed security scanning because there wasn't a queue, changing trains in Paris took half an hour (including a metro ride).
Trust me, EU countries have their own immigration demand problems. Especially a place like Germany which has one of the few functioning economies in the block lately. People flock there looking for work. Other countries with huge immigration demand include England and Spain. There are simply better ways of dealing with high immigration demand than "dump everyone into a pot regardless of education/experience/viability/urgency and randomly select a few".
Did you miss the bit where the victim was black-out drunk? In pretty much every jurisdiction I'm aware of, you can't legally consent in that state.

EDIT: Nevada statute § 200.366 ¶ 1, emphasis added, "A person who subjects another person to sexual penetration, or who forces another person to make a sexual penetration on himself or herself or another, or on a beast, against the will of the victim or under conditions in which the perpetrator knows or should know that the victim is mentally or physically incapable of resisting or understanding the nature of his or her conduct, is guilty of sexual assault."

http://www.leg.state.nv.us/NRS/NRS-200.html#NRS200Sec366
I don't understand how computers figure out 3D from single camera video without parallax. How do they do that?
Editorialize is not a synonym for change. Editorializing is never a good idea, changing a headline is fine if you think the new one more accurately describes the content.
I got the same call from 800.922.2222 south Carolina state government is what my caller ID said. But it was same message. Save 78 on next phone bill.
Disrupters rarely start with quality. Mini mills were strictly inferior to integrated steel mills, web-based software was less powerful than desktop software, digital photography was inferior to film. (Many of these are from Clay Christensen.)

The history of progress & technology is of fast, simple, low-end solutions getting better over time to the point where they're strictly superior to the legacy alternatives. I have little doubt that Buzzfeed, or another upstart media company, will someday be able to do "real" journalism better and faster than the NYT.

(If anyone else believes this, come help me make it happen: http://www.cafe.com/developers)
In U.S. libel cases, truth is always a defense. For the accused to win a defamation suit, he would have to be confident that he could conclusively prove that he did not rape the OP's wife. Whether he was convicted or not does not matter, just like someone could call OJ Simpson a murderer (though in Simpson's case, he has much less standing ground because the U.S. court system treats public figures/celebrities as having fewer protections against libel...the accused in the OP's post would likely not be considered a "public figure")
I want to support Ze but not Buzzfeed, this is causing conflicting emotions for me :-(
Because the USA's system is incredibly byzantine and Kafkaesque compared to the EU's. I mean, a lottery for christ's sake... In my experience, getting visas for most other comparable countries are fairly straightforward.
Not every industry tries to create such an opaque payment structure.

Industries that do that sort of thing tend to suffer in aggregate because you get a 'bad money drives out the good' effect, similar to used cars.

The same thing happened in finance (nobody touches the CDO market now - it would have disappeared entirely were it not for government life support).
> Journalism couldn't get much worse than it already was.

This is such a poor attitude that totally flies in the face of history and the situation for journalists in other places in the world, like Mexico, where hundreds of reporters have been executed in the last few years. Journalism as a profession is just fine, monetizing it might not be.
Its nice that they made it public domain. There are 1000 more games from that era whose code will simply dissapear despite being simply bits and bytes that may be perfectly preserved for ever.
Sorry no empathy. I have no degree and could have the same job and do just as well or better. Better luck next time.
Anyone tried it on a Raspberry Pi?
Downvotes and upset HNers are two things I could care less about. :)
buzzfeed creates a lot of listicle contentless articles, but they do also have some well-written pieces.

A recent piece on the AUMF and its history was an excellent read http://www.buzzfeed.com/gregorydjohnsen/60-words-and-a-war-w...
What is your purpose in graphing these three metrics at the state level? What are you trying to communicate?
Unfortunately Paul you are just as engaged in wage suppression as the rest of the valley. There's no specific talent you need outside of the US. Its what your willing to pay you have a problem with.

And for that reason you are a cancer.
I did a quick check - to fly from Los Angeles to Santiago Chile (to pick a long-distance route entirely within the Americas) most every airline I noticed was doing it in two hops (typically LAX -> Lima -> Santiago) with narrow-body jets, usually an A-321 or similar.

If you were to leave from Miami, there are a couple of non-stops available, using either a 767 or 787. But the rest would have things like overnight layovers midway.

So I agree with you - if the demand were there, then a US carrier would lease an A-380 or four, so that they get more fares for the same fuel.
In which case how are we supposed to know that she did not consent?
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This is pretty cool. Sorting by the datetime field in the demo sorts the strings alphabetically though. I'm not sure if that's an issue with the plugin or the demo, but it probably isn't the right behavior.
So you think there are times when it's okay to have sex with somebody after they've passed out?

Which is why my advice to anyone about to be raped is this: fucking fight back.

You shouldn't give people advice. Some people should, but not you.
"B.C. boasts more than 600 digital media companies, employing about 16,000 people and generating $2.3 billion in annual sales, according to the commission"

While $2 billion is obviously a lot of money in real terms, think about what that is when you compare is to the collective revenues of Bay Area tech companies.
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You are exaggerating, if you just look at the charts, rain falls off from January and is quite reasonable by late March/April. It doesn't really pick up until November. So you are talking about around 3.5 months, and anyone from Fairbanks would tell you "that is nothing."

There is a big problem with sun drenched Californians coming in with bay area equity, driving up real estate in Seattle, and road raging around with their "got to get somewhere quickly" attitudes. Locals don't appreciate it, and it has been that way since the 90s at least.

Its not "just leave me alone" but its more like "losing you is no big loss to us." I've lived in the Bay Area and found it quite inferior: bad traffic, bad air, lack of weather diversity (kind of sunny all the time, at least south of the city). But whatever, we all have our preferences.
I made this simple command line tool for quickly writing map+reduce operations on datasets with JavaScript. I think it might be useful for occasional use, since I'm not a fan of using awk for anything non-trivial.
I don't understand why you have to upload the videos. Is there a part that requires a ton of processor power? It seems like you could install the right packages on the Mac, or just start a Linux VM on it.
So, three countries are going to claim the North Pole, all backed by scientific analysis. By irony the hydrocarbon resources below the sea ice becomes accessible because of excessive use of hydrocarbon. Summer sea ice volume atrophied to a fourth in last 30 years. On the Siberian side of the Arctic hydrocarbon bubbles already up from the sea bed probably because of Arctic amplification and recently we learned warming permafrost tends to explode and build craters. According to the USGS oil resources assumed in the Arctic satisfy global consumption for 3 years, gas a bit longer. If Arctic sea ice finally disappears you'll see the environmental damage from the moon with an unarmed eye. From the other pole we hear the western land based ice sheet is unstoppable collapsing adding a few meters to sea level on the long run. Actually the Arctic is still quite beautiful, that's why soon you can book month long passages from Anchorage to New York worth $20,000.

Now please tell me that all makes perfectly sense and is not based on kids having sandbox adventures.
If you have sex with somebody who's passed out or otherwise unable to give consent, that's rape.

If you've done this, you're a rapist.
That's obviously the most useful solution for us. Don't know if that's the best solution for microsoft. I'm surprised there weren't a bunch of logos and catch phrases like "Only on windows" or "powered by Microsoft!"

They said they'll offer it as a windows app, and I imagine it's for very corporate reasons.
If there is no proof it's difficult to judge ...

In undergrounds like hacking or cryptography, there is a lot of borderline people, so judging such a thing is uneasy.
(i could tell lot of story of rape accusation some true some false)

All i can say it's that when someone is a true asshole, he will not stop to be one and one day or another he will fall for that.

kind of kharma.
I've never flagged a story before but I'm flagging this one. Nobody on HN has enough information to evaluate the the events described in this link. Rape is bad, and false accusations are bad, and we'll never get to the bottom of this. But I resent the attempt to drag us into this rathole of a discussion.
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