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Until United staff say "Your ticket is revoked", you are still a volunteer. You are in the negotiation phase for volunteering until they actually come tell you that your ticket has specifically been revoked for the flight, at which point the DoT minimum compensation rules take over.

This particular policy does appear to be in line with DoT's requirements - you can get volunteers for any price you're willing to negotiate. Even if United has set a maximum price of $800 in some evil combination of travel vouchers that you'll never use, that is expressly legal. The required compensation only kicks in if you refuse that offer AND they still revoke your ticket for the flight.

He's said he won't provide documents for the trial, at which point Google's lawyers would ask for a judge's order compelling him to do so. His lawyer says he won't provide them in that case either. They skipped the step of waiting for the actual order.

That's a pretty poor approximation, and I think the result discounts the meaning of the original point.

The A380 is a lot more like 3 boxes (based on A380-800: http://www.airbus.com/fileadmin/media_gallery/files/tech_dat...):

1) A fueselage box with a cross section of 2067 ft^2

2) A wing box of ~1200 ft^2 (a very broad approximation because of engines, the actual wing box - the part of the plane where the wings meet the fueselage - and the curve of the wings),

3) A tail box with a cross section of 144 ft^2

So a total cross section of ~3411 ft^3 * 827 fps = ~3 million ft^3

Point being, the plane isn't moving 11 million cubic feet just to move forward, it pushes on a little more than a quarter of that directly. These wake effects happen because it's disrupting so much air outside of the zone it actually travels in, mostly below and behind it.

My understanding is that the economics of power generation are deprecating coal: http://www.triplepundit.com/2016/12/despite-trumps-promise-e...

So it would be better to have electric vehicles than ICE in its current form, but more power grid usage will likely accelerate other technologies rather than make coal profitable again.

I think a much more self-aware article from him would be "Personalized emails didn't work. My recruiter didn't help. But studying the crap out of Data Structures and Algorithms did. My personal projects might have helped but I can't really tell."

I guess the downside is that's the advice freely available anywhere advice is given to fresh grads, and so is much less exciting.

Unlikely to be your doctor, even releasing your name in combination with the health provider's name provides evidence of a patient relationship and violates HIPAA.

You're not paranoid, I don't know if money changes hands but my changes of address have 100% been accompanied by spam snail mail.

I just don't change my mailing address anymore.

Quite different, the turboprop for the Super Tucano is the better chunk of $1 million. It's a Lamborghini in the propeller plane world, where the 172 is a Honda Civic.

Lyft took $500 million in financing from GM and is partnered with them to deliver self driving cars through the GM acquisition of Cruise Automation.

Lyft isn't doing their work in house but they are on a similar timeline to Uber for automation.

It seems you significantly value not having to tip over rewarding drivers appropriately.

I use Lyft because I can ensure that the other person in the transaction is fairly compensated. I see you would prefer for both services to fairly compensate drivers, but given the choice of doing more work to ensure adequate compensation or giving up on it entirely, you went with B.

> As a passenger in these services, I had an expectation of privacy---I would not expect that the driver could record me. I've certainly had conversations on the phone that I would expect to be private.

My understanding is that California law likely protects Travis in this situation because it was just him and the driver and he could thus expect privacy.

However, it's unlikely that you can prevent someone from publishing your private conversation in a Lyft or Uber, and given that most of these drivers are not high earners you're not likely to get a major payout from them, so while you might legally have the protections of privacy it still probably means very little in practice.

The danger of wider knowledge was significantly eclipsed by the danger of a malicious attacker finding the cached data without public knowledge.

The vast majority of the people scrambling to find an older cache were the owners of those caches, who really didn't want to own data they shouldn't have been sent in the first place.

It's a reach to suggest that the pressure to get to the moon directly caused the Apollo 1 fire. There's no evidence that the engineering decisions that led to the fire or the poor escape hatch design would have been avoided with a longer timeline, many of them were choices made in reaction to near death experiences for previous accidents - in particular, both the choice of pure oxygen and the hatch design.

The Space Shuttle was fundamentally flawed because NASA compromised with DoD to get it funded. Had NASA been fully funded for space exploration alone they would have made better choices.

Concorde may have failed but jet travel is far more common and affordable today than when it was rolled out.

The article's premise is that most people thought Trump was bluffing/lying about barring Muslims, as well as about increasing deportation of undocumented workers. These executive orders proved Trump was serious about Muslims, and the NY Times simply found people who then realized that he probably is serious about undocumented workers as well.

Basically all the fears in this article were realized with the DHS announcements yesterday: https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-immigrant-crackdown-worri...

Profits

Yes, there's strong political opposition to immigration enforcement, but there's also strong opposition to illegal work enforcement.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/09/us/california-farmers-bac...

If anyone were serious about this problem, E-verify would be in force everywhere and the working population that supports 12M undocumented immigrants would be out of work tomorrow, and out of the country the next day.

Udacity is trying with their nanodegrees.

The F-35B is still being deployed on the Wasp class: https://www.f35.com/news/detail/f-35b-completes-first-sea-tr...

The problem is that without a catapult the takeoff weight and therefore range and armament of any aircraft is greatly reduced. That's a problem fundamental to the Wasp class.

I think you have some confusion about indicated airspeed - it's used because it provides pilots with predictable information about how the plane will react, it's not indicative of the actual speed of the plane: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indicated_airspeed

They were truly at 0.9 mach, had they increased speed by 11% they would have broken the sound barrier, well before the indicated air speed would have read a >mach 1 number.

Is that a real problem? Genuinely curious why that bothers you

It appears that Trump's CBP is significantly different from Obama's though. Where CBP had the option to stop travelers and didn't exercise it in the past, they're now doing so more frequently (at least for the subset of travelers in targeted countries).

This is the problem with giving wide latitude to a trusted administration - it doesn't stop there.

I didn't realize there was a student tier, thanks for the note!

Yup, the current battery uses thousands of 18650s, but they developed a more 'economically efficient' 2170 cell for the model 3 - https://qz.com/879121/teslas-tsla-cheaper-more-powerful-2170...

In my experience (4 years in ed orgs with 15-5,000 employees), chromebooks dramatically changed the ed market. Instead of $1000+/unit, you can buy chromebooks and their support infrastructure (9-5 support, networking, charging) for about $350/unit. For a fair number of schools, that allowed them to transition from a few roaming computer labs (carts of laptops) to a cart of chromebooks for every room. They also came along as there was a significant political and financial push for more access to technology in classrooms. This is abundantly apparent in the bay area, but it happened along both coasts and in most cities.

I think that "long-term preferences tend to be established" mantra is defensible in light of this, absent large market changes people tend to stick to what they're doing. The chromebook was a major market change for the ed space.

wordpress.com is owned by Automattic, which I don't believe publicly publishes their revenues (a requirement for a fortune ranking). To break the 500 a company needs over $5 billion in annual revenue, Automattic's total valuation in its last round was only $1.16 billion, so they're not even playing in the same ballpark.

What in your reply contradicts the facts presented in mine?

I'm happy to debate whether the topic is appropriate for HN, but that requires at least bilateral application of intellect.

Even if your fact was contradictory, it's from a member of an administration that routinely lies about basic facts to make them support its viewpoint, and this is no different: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/01/...

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.

The president of the United States just signed an order legally barring hundreds of millions of people from entering the US on the basis of their country of origin, which is in fact unprecedented.

> This topic now is yet another gathering point for all unhappy with the election results.

Accurate.

> It's probably a good thing that liberals, in general, avoid firearms, otherwise there might be fighting in the streets already.

Classy

There is a chasm between anti-illegal behavior by the president and anti-president. By this definition of "actively and explicitly anti-Trump" the ACLU was probably the 2nd most anti-Obama group after the birthers.

The ACLU has a clear agenda that is not highly aligned with either political party, so "being politicized" is accurate.