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> if someone doesn't like how twitter operates, nothing is stopping anyone from moving to another platform.

This statement is weirdly detached from reality. The value of a social network is the ability to connect to people. Unless you're, like, Oprah, you cannot unilaterally decree that everyone you follow and everyone who follows you is going to move to another social network. So yes, there is a huge thing stopping most Twitter users from moving to another platform.

This is kind of like saying, "There's nothing stopping you from eating sand." It's technically true, but eating sand will not yield the same results as eating food.
Right. Airlines overbook because they make more money, and they are bound by laws like "If the substitute transportation is scheduled to get you to your destination more than two hours later (four hours internationally), or if the airline does not make any substitute travel arrangements for you, the compensation doubles (400% of your one-way fare, $1350 maximum)."

Thus, if expected revenue from overbooking > expected payouts, overbooking is worth it.

HOWEVER, the legal compensation required scales really weirdly - $1350 maximum for anything over a two hour delay? Why would being delayed three hours be equivalent to being delayed something like 12-18 hours? I'm also not sure that maximum number has scaled with inflation.

Anyway, some airlines already do auction off this. All airlines ask for volunteers because the compensation they offer is always less than the legal requirement for involuntary bumping.

This is just a mess because United had already let the passengers on the plane, and weren't even offering that maximum, much less over it. If somebody here actually knows contract of carriage laws, does this sort of 'required compensation' thing hold after boarding happened?
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Another way of looking at this would be to point out that internet service and air travel are the only two industries where it is legally allowed to sell people something you know in advance you can't provide.

There's also fractional-reserve banking, hotels, old-style phones, online / mail-order shopping ("sorry, your stuff is in back order"), etc.

Statistical arbitrage is a thing.
If a group has the choice between realtime and asynchronous channels there needs to be a guideline for this.

If my org takes pride in consensus for everybody, everybody needs to have the time to submit input. It's not uncommon that some active users in a chat go for an ad-hoc decision just because they are more than one and want to work _now_. In the long term this damages the culture, splits the participants and is difficult for newcomers.
Yeah, I knew it was possible for some definition of possible; I just didn't know that any game studios were using it in any capacity, let alone a studio like DICE.

The support thing makes total sense. Do you think it's fundamentally insurmountable? I'm pretty sure this is an area where the team itself has a blind spot, or maybe rather, just doesn't have the necessary expertise to even know what we'd need to do to make this possible.
I recall https://flippa.com/ being pretty popular to do this type of thing.

What's the URL? Maybe someone here would be interested in taking it.
How is the desire to observe the Milky Way due to a belief in its beauty not actionable?

There are organizations that seek to preserve the possibility to view the night sky with minimal light pollution (http://darksky.org). I went to a campsite in New Mexico that is designated as a dark sky sanctuary recently -- it was amazing.
We have been using http://rocket.chat at work and it works beautifully. Slack was never an option for it was not self-hostable
I'm happy with the update. I grabbed it the moment it was released and haven't had any issues.
The post I replied to is written as if it is something different than it is (they write as if the contract guarantees a seat on a flight at a particular time; of course it doesn't).

I think it's a bad situation, but I also think people giving very high priority to price is a big part of the reason that the contract is shit.
That's true and it would be interesting to see an airline catering more to them but that's not the case for the majority of consumers and it would be unlikely that an airline could fill a plane if a seat cost much more. The trend in airlines currently is actually providing cheaper and less services
This has been a "trend" ever since print media decided they needed an online presence.

It is basically about emulating printed documents online.

Before HTML5, this was mostly done using full size Flash sites.
Oh well! Then sure!! Its time to start knocking customers out with your hired goons then./s
They should have offered more.

But he's a doctor, not royalty. Hospitals have more than one doctor in case someone can't make their shifts. He was no more important than any other passenger.
OT but I hope you appreciate some feedback. I had a hard time getting past the "What are you going to make?"

EX: "We are going to build the world's largest private network based on e.164 addresses."

Then you go into how it technically works. I think you should spend less time on the specifics of how it works and more on what it does for customer, and if it's not clear why it's so important, maybe a sentence on that, in clear and plain English.

Just my 2 cents, I hope it helps.
seriously. and skype is a grand example of how shitty a native client can be.

tired of this argument. if you put in the proper effort, your users won't care or notice.
Yes especialy kobo mini is fun device. Large community of paragliding pilots are using it as flight computer by adding GPS and pressure sensor. See http://unity.paragliding.xyz/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Unit...
Isn't that their legal obligation though? Certainly they could have offered more considering everyone was seated already, they had the crew for a future flight to transport on time, and everyone was initially unwilling.

I think it's the timing that made things so difficult for them. If they asked me at the gate I'd be willing to take $400 plus flight comps. If it's when I'm already seated on the plane though (and reports said the man taken off was seated and buckled in already), my price goes way up.

One would think that since the crew dropped the ball by pulling people this late they would offer more money to make those guys volunteer happily.
>>But I do think that it's too late.

Why?

It doesn't look like we are staring extinction right in the face.

Any talk of reasonable influence on climate is over a few centuries.

So why do do you its 'late'?
The crew members needed to be in the destination the next day, surely there was other flights or connecting flights the crew could have taken? Maybe setup some seats in the baggage storage area in the belly for crew if it is such an emergency?
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Why is that considered "fall" then?
People get sick. Stuff happens. Every airline does this. It sucks, but if you think your distributed system in the cloud is complicated, running an airline every day would blow your mind.
Are they wrong though? proliferation risk seems to me an important point. Also are risk of theft, attacks on facilities and transportation, leakage due to natural disasters, and of course: bad politicians doing "unavoidable" cuts. Moreover, even with FBRs you get Pu-contaminated MSO (http://e360.yale.edu/features/are_fast-breeder_reactors_a_nu...).

Once you take all these issues into consideration you just need to extrapolate and see how nuclear accidents will happen once in a while.
Yep, and in order to exercise his legal rights in this entirely civil case, he ought to have left the plane called his lawyer then gone before a judge.

This whole act of struggling with the police is never going to get a good outcome. It will only escalate things from a civil matter to a criminal one.
Or the UAL's board should remove and "re-accommodate" somewhere outside of UAL's leadership team.
> "Manipulation"? Really? Please.
> This argument still seems strange and very petty.

Those are not an arguments for anything. What I wrote still stands. It's clear that author asked which company use (writes) Rust besides Mozilla, not which company integrate third party tools that was written in Rust - it's logical.
From what I have read, if you volunteer to leave they can pay you in flight vouchers. The worth of these is lessened by the fact they would give you $300 as 6x $50 vouchers which cannot be used at the same time.

If they elect you to leave the flight they have to pay you in cold hard cash - 4x the ticket value or $1350 max (assuming you are delayed by more than 2 hours).

Never volunteer to leave a flight until they state how you will be paid.

In Europe the airlines are not allowed to pay you in vouchers.
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Again, an absurd and grandiose interpretation. You do not need to comply with the police in "Whatever they say." If a Police officer violates the law, you cannot comply with them. If they use physical intimidation, they are not acting as an officer of the law. You are a citizen with an obligation to comply to the legal extent, not a slave to the whims of officers.
This is the first I've heard of an IRC bouncer. That's a great idea. It still seems like it's and extra step you have to add though, when really it'd be nice to see some work on IRCv3 so you could have multiple clients connect to one IRC server with the same username and sync without the need of a proxy.
This issue is so furiously divisive, and I feel like it brings out the worst in HN.
I'm from a web dev background. Some of the comments here make me feel like I should be ashamed of that fact.

I can see both sides of this argument (every time it comes up)

As a consumer of apps, I want the leanest, most minimalist, fastest thing going. I want native apps on my devices (If you think slack is a hog on the desktop you should try it on Windows Phone).

But as a developer, I know that electron is a shortcut that means my app will take less time to build. I can take my existing skills, take work I've already done on a WinJS app and publish it on Mac OS, Linux and Win 7. I can spend more time with my family, instead of spending all my evenings learning py+qt, or xamarin, or react native, or whatever the new fangled thing is. And I know people will use it.

Hell, I've even got better odds of pushing an electron app than a native one, as I can submit a pull request and maybe have it appear on https://electron.atom.io/

Obviously, seeing the Electron hate always gives me pause for thought, but at the end of the day it feels like the hatred is from fellow coders (if a dribbling front-end-js writing low-life such as myself can call you writing-assembly-on-a-napkin-while-you-quote-stallman-types fellow coders) and my apps user-base is overwhelmingly non-technical.
Why would you want to do this? Other than bugginess, but that's always there with Windows 10. Is there anything new that's bad?
Bumping happens before boarding.The contract doesn't allow for bumping after being seated. They're also required to offer up to $1300 cash if you refuse the $800 voucher.
$800 in highly constrained flight vouchers. If it had been cash, it would have been a different story.
I'm going to think about this but in reality it could be used as over the top so that you would never have to give out your real number but still receive calls to your current number.
Just a note: if you go from free to paid, you can recover those lost messages. They're never actually deleted, you just can't view messages after the 10k limit in the free version.
> What limitations do mailing lists impose on open source development that are not present in other tools?

None, in my opinion. On the contrary, they are the only tool that demand a structure — just by the nature of e-mail messages — that is coherent enough to be highly useful when searching archives later.
It’s not capped, as in the company is not allowed to offer more. The company is welcome to compensate more if they think this will help the situation. If the passengers who have been selected object, they can claim that much before boarding. Whether vouchers count is very much an open debate, as airlines tend to price useless vouchers at random prices. I’m not familiar with any rules allowing to disembark a passenger after the plane has been declared fully boarded other than security.
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Greyhound is super sketchy. Service is terrible. About 10 yrs ago, I made the near-mistake of taking a Greyhound to a different city to catch a cheap international flight. I was going from a remote city to a big one. Luckily I had given myself a buffer of 8-12 hours. The bus was initially a couple of hours late for a 5 hour trip. Then, at a transit point we had to change buses and we were told that ticket doesn't guarantee seat and it's first come first serve! And there's only one bus per day from the less remote connecting city! I was lucky to get into the bus that day and not missing what turned out to be a memorable vacation.
I only rode Greyhound one other time. Other observations: Greyhound stations are super sketchy in many cities. Buses are sometimes poorly maintained. Tickets are pricey. Etc.
I'll give it a go to call you on "bullshit": Spotify is not built on Electron. (Surprise, the author is wrong).

It is and was, however, always built on Chromium Embedded Framework (the UI), even when you say it "was" fast.
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Everyone should note that they called law enforcement and law enforcement used physical force on the passenger.

Should the airlines be prevented from ever contacting law enforcement? Is law enforcement not responsible for their own actions after the airline asks them to do something?
Ugh, I deal with this, too. "It won't fit in to the current sprint." Who cares? Nothing bad is going to happen! I just take them anyway and take people to task to explain why this is a worse situation than my salary burning up while I do nothing instead.
Explanation is hugely important, and the lack of it was one of the factors that killed NNs in the 90s. The ability to explain was also one of the reasons rule-based systems succeeded as well as they did, despite having huge disadvantages vs NNs for many problem domains.

AI for high-consequence decision-making is going to need the automatic feature extraction and robustness of NNs coupled with the explanatory transparency of expert systems. That's been the holy grail for almost 40 years.
They should have just shot the jerk. After all, we ALL benefit. Who cares about the rights and the blood shed of one person. We ALL benefit. The airline had NO OTHER CHOICE in the matter. They couldn't have offered more compensation to give up seats. I'll bet $800 cash would have done the trick. Everyone knows $800 flight coupons are pretty worthless. They couldn't have put their employees on other flights. Nope, there weren't any other options other than forcibly removing this one passenger so that we ALL benefit. A little bloodshed is nothing in the world of commerce.
> Go to KB 3073930 and download Microsoft’s Wushowhide tool. (Click the link marked “Download the ‘Show or hide updates’ troubleshooter package now.”)
Double-click on Wushowhide.diagcab to run it.
Click the link marked Advanced. Uncheck the box marked “Apply repairs automatically.” Click Next.
Wushowhide will run for a long time.

Windows is so user friendly ;-)

I migrated my windows app to Wine+Linux and never looked back.
Hasn't it already been pointed out a thousand times now that this was just a bug in Chrome that has been fixed right away?
There's more than just deregulation. Post 9/11, the airlines made changes to deal with the temporary (~3 year) lull in demand. They didn't pull those changes back after demand came back in spades. These were things like tighter seat pitch, higher average load factors, bag fees, bigger change fees, shifting capacity to higher margin international flights, etc.

I'm sure there are more factors as well. Flying is just a chore these days. And there's not much granularity of choice. There's 'cattle class', and the jump in price to something better (business, first) is huge...and does little for large parts of the bad experience. Compare to say, hotels, where there are many tiers of quality you can choose from.
I doubt that United would be party to the lawsuit. It would be the airport cops who were called and roughed up the passenger.
The problem is that there is very little way to opt out of new/changed features.

People hold up on doing updates because they do not know what will break, and they need the computer to work 24/7 these days to stay in contact not just with work but also with family and friends.
Is Nidium being used in any real applications (or games)?

Are the needs of specific applications (or games!) influencing the feature set of Nidium?
High speed passenger rail doesn't work in the US because freight is prioritized over moving people. That's the short version at least. I found this video to be a pretty good walkthrough - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbEfzuCLoAQ
That's false. A ton of airline business is refundable business travelers. Your meeting goes late? Take the next flight.

Airlines are catering to their customers, if one didn't offer refundable their competitors would.

If one offered refundable but didn't overbook, 10% of their passengers wouldn't show up for every flight. They'd get killed by competitors who did overbook and could offer cheaper fares because that 10% is nearly pure profit.

And though they've actually made big profits the last couple years, historically airlines are one of the least profitable businesses, possibly even posting net negative profits over the entire industry lifetime. They require massive capital costs to buy expensive airplanes, and alternate profitable and unprofitable years. Warren Buffett said if he had been at Kittyhawk he would have done capitalism a favor and shot the Wright Brothers down.
https://www.transportation.gov/airconsumer/fly-rights

The airline may offer some alternative compensation (and of course one can accept it) but you have a right to a check.

Of course the airline may try to hide this from you, or give you a hard time, but according to the Dept. of Transportation you're entitled to cash.
It's rare because it's hard. Look at Europe and see how easy it is to do it with a truck.
I completely agree with this. I'm part of a group that's trying to help people in the local community learn programming and we're using Slack to chat outside of any scheduled sessions. We're at over 1000 members in Slack now and are seeing messages disappear before the two-week mark. We don't collect any money from our members and Slack's pricing model makes it unfeasible for us. At this point, Slack's search feature is hit or miss when searching for anything over a week old.
Also a good choice.
Premature optimization used to mean optimizing something that doesn't cause any noticeable performance degradation.

I think it's a mistake to redefine it as optimization that doesn't affect profits. Companies often get away with painfully broken software for a long time because they benefit from some other moat (e.g banks). But they're setting themselves up for disruption by doing that.

Also, profits are not the only purpose in life if you value your craft. (I'm not denying that you have to be able to afford high standards and economics does play a legitimate role)
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I was blown away when I realised COS was run by H&M. Such different brands and experiences.
Pretty obvious this is either an algorithmic response to flooding or an algorithmic response to United mass-reporting tweets that @mention them in response to this...

If Twitter wanted to actively work with United on damage limitation they'd start by not running Twitter moments about the event for the whole day and suppressing the circulation of the video, not deleting a percentage of sarcastic @mentions the following day. And probably delete that United CEO response too...
react-native-macos is a great project but it's not sponsored by Facebook and is way behind Electron in terms of the exposed API's and stability.
the current state of political discourse, while it has many contributors, is certainly partially caused by the abdication of responsibility of the media to pursue truth.

the current state of governance as well is strongly impacted by the pathologies of shareholder capitalism, which leads to businesses seeking to increase their private profits at the expense of literally everything else, including a scorched earth approach to legal regulation that serves the public benefit. the financing of climate-change denial propaganda campaigns by the coal industry is a very good example of this. another good example would be the private prison industry, and its associated lobbyists seeking to increase rates of incarceration.

this applies to individuals as well though, not just corporations. in many places, people have abdicated their responsibilities to their communities, seeking to live in walled off communities that have no interaction with "others" outside the barricades.

I could go on. I think you get the idea.
It's 4x the price of the plane ticket, up to $1350 (the $1300 is indexed to inflation).[1]

Which explains why the crew offered $800 (it's a $200 ticket.)

BUT! Just because the the government caps the airline's liability does not mean the airline could not have offered more compensation to make it right. In fact given the unusual nature of the situation (flight was already fully boarded; the seats were needed for internal airline purposes, not other customers; the rule is for delays of 4 hours or more, while here the delay would have been close to 24 hours; the situation was escalating) they could have easily sweetened the deal further with an additional voucher or two, instead of calling the cops.

[1] https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2015/05/27/2015-12...
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