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I can't imagine that 1099 contractors were ever envisioned to be used in the manner they are being employed by these companies. These employees (err.. I mean contractors) are long term, often full time and core to the business of the gig companies. I think that is incentive enough to make sure they aren't using 1099 payments as a loophole to abuse people or to pay less then min wage. Companies get punished for this all the time, and even if you are a big company with good lawyers you don't want the IRS as a plaintiff, ever. I think we'll see law that puts some bright policy lines on the gig economy, but as is the case politics is a lot slower to catch up.
Dell shiped laptops with custom root certificate that had private key available.
> Some of that is needed, though.

The most important thing you need to make sure is that developers talk with end users. That is one of the biggest point of Agile.

Now, if you look again at the article, you'll notice this one interaction is completely missing. Not only that, but Scrum de-emphasize it too by creating middle-men, and most formal "Agile" methodologies don't even think about it.
The key isn't sent to the client.

You can set the flash message in plain text, but I'd rather avoid the possibility of tampering, and it lets me reuse the same cookie code I use to encrypt e.g. session tokens.
Hmm. So for Chicago to Louisville, $800 could plausibly have been 4 x ticket. So that could be the max that United was required to offer.

Note the weasel wording. I don't actually know.
If it was flight crew, how on earth did they not know how many employees would be needed ahead of time?
The end factor against large adoption is that: paper is cheap
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No, what they should have done is exactly what other airlines do when they are overbooked: keep raising the voucher amount until someone volunteers to get off. And if you can't find someone to get off at a price that seems appropriate (which is very unlikely: you're always going to find someone willing to take $1000), work out other arrangements.

The moment you've escalated to "we've selected people at random, and we are willing to eject people by violence or arrest them on the other end" you've already lost.
I'm not going to try, this example seemed easy, but I don't know if I have the knack for it in general. But my perspective on this is shaped by having read the Talk Origins FAQ extensively in high school. I don't know what I'd think now, but back then I was in awe of the creativity that young Earth creationists had in muddying the waters regarding the actual scientific evidence: http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/
Joe Public isn't using expensive Apple laptops. They want a $500 laptop that does the job.

In any case, the editorial staff are much more capable of comparing laptops, since they not only use a wide variety of laptops, they are also likely to be more savvy than the regular public when it comes to newer features. I'm not sure what you intend to find after asking people who only have experience across a few brands and a few models.
Agreed. I for one will never fly United again. I hope many others do the same. The way that was handled just goes to show the culture and way things are done at that airline. Nobody had the logic to say, wait a minute, this is wrong. Calling the police to throw a passenger who did nothing wrong off? Countless ways to handle this better.

In the end, this is going to cost United a TON. United could have flown a plane with only those 4 employees on it for way less than the hit they are about to take.
They don't have four of them.
Given things, I would bet United's lobbyists are going to have a bit of fun also, because this is something sure to get a Congressperson on TV.
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RNNs can handle the idea of time.
There was no reason for this to even get to a point where physically removing a passenger who did nothing wrong was necessary. There was a very simple solution here: United wanted 4 seats, offered some vouchers, and got no takers. At that point, you start sweetening the deal for giving up your seat until you get some takers. I guarantee it wouldn't have taken much.
If he uses a REPL, it is no longer batch programming. The plain edit/compile/run cycle is best left to other languages.
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Betting this doesn't end well for United.

It's not 100% clear that they exhausted other reasonable options. They don't say if the 4 employees were a flight crew that NEEDED to be somewhere. There's no indication if there were other employees (not in uniform) that could have been deplaned first. There are other flights, on Sundays, that leave after this one (one at 9pm).

The judgement to go with violence after offering $400, then $800 is odd as well. Surely someone would give up a seat after the next one or two bumps in the offer. The onus is on United, since they didn't identify the issue until after passengers were boarded.
This is great, thanks for the eye opening suggestion.
A number of my colleagues print to paper for code review. They find it easier to read and markup in that format.

I personally can't stand the idea of using that much paper, but I dig the future-y idea of printing to a read/markup slate, and automatically posting the markup to phabricator.

I imagine legal and other business functions that are review heavy could similarly benefit.
Having grown up in a rural flyover state, I just need to point out the rank hypocrisy.

The prevailing ideology there is that the government should stay out of the way and let the market decide the best course of action. Except when the market decides that rural areas don't bring much value in the modern, information based economy. Then they expect the government to intervene to save them.

No, thank you. You don't get to have your cake and eat it too.
When we are discussing principles, it is helpful to discuss the extreme case because it clarifies what the possible outcome of the principle is.
And if you have to force people off the plan with the police, the flight will have to be delayed or canceled.

This flight took nearly 4 hours to get to there because of the delay, and it only takes 5 hours to drive, the should have just put their employees in a car.
From what I've read. Passengers offered $1500 to leave but the employees scoffed at that. Not sure how true though.
I'm extremely skeptical. They had a stretcher to hand but no handcuffs?
It may interest you to know that outside the US (in Australia at least), "white" and "dark" meat aren't differentiated from each other at all. I was quite confused when I went to an American chicken shop and saw "white" and "dark" meat with different prices.
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Ah but if you go there, you are obviously part of conspiracy and not to be trusted!

It's all delightfully solipsistic...
Probably a lot of mod_* uses like PHP applications that haven't been migrated to php-fpm or something, and JBoss/Tomcat/Websphere/Weblogic websites. You of course can just proxy all of these things with nginx, but it's probably not worth it for most companies.
Maybe they could arrest him first? (Handcuffs and everything.) At least he would then realize that the situation is serious. Maybe also flash a gun or something...
Mass affluence seems to be a historical anomaly. Most would agree it has been very hard on the earth's ecosystem. Following that, it may not be sustainable no matter which economic policy choices are made.
So the questions I still have-
What's the legal difference between 'Denying Boarding' and kicking someone off?

Can you legally kick someone off an airplane 'just because' (i.e. not oversold/security/safety)?

Who did the removing- law enforcement or United employees?

What's the legality of private employees assaulting someone?

This is all about level of outrage though- whether the guy should sue for civil damages or should file criminal complaints.
Then their corporations are running old/insecure browsers... the end. It's not my job to coddle corporations that are endangering their own users.
I hate these in-game currencies. Makes comparing prices just harder. Thank god steam hasn't invented anything like that.
I love my Surface and I tend to love the MS ecosystem, but they (and others) don't get enough flak for reliability.

I have owned bunches of MS hardware, and only one device has made it through its life without needing warranty service. That includes my Zune 80, Xbox 360, Surface RT, a Nokia 920 (iirc), and a Surface 3 (which I will need to take in for service again after the semester ends).

More and more professors are switching to Surface devices, and students are, too. Unfortunately, just about every one I've seen has come with a story about hardware or driver issues. On top of that, the relative abundance of bugs in Office and Windows 10 lately isn't a good look.

While macOS has gotten worse over the last few releases, they're still nowhere near as bad as the Surface hardware in terms of reliability. It makes me sad, because I really love the devices but I just can't count on them to work 100%. 95% isn't good enough for a device that I use every day for hours per day; Apple seems to get that with their MBPs, and it seems the other manufacturers (notably Dell) are catching on.
I thought they were both cops.

Having a cop makes it legal, but the moral question is the one we are arguing.

I think the cop has the responsibility to remove the kid without endangering the kid.
During my education at the University of Washington, one of the lecturers was on the Microsoft side of the OS/2 development. He said that the relationship drastically soured when some IBM supplied code got passed around with comments by Microsoft employees just mercilessly ripping the IBM code apart. And then it got back to IBM..
We ran into this problem with terraform and we needed a fix quickly. The problem is that they recommend you check in your .tfstate files, which does make sense; they do need to be synchronized between everyone who might be working on the repo. However, we learned later down the line that in some cases, the state files might contain secrets. So we rolled out git-crypt for all .tfstate files to future-proof ourself against accidental checkin of secrets.

Terraform does support a number of out of band state management backends that I would prefer to use, but none of those backends support encryption at rest. Hopefully hashicorp will roll out support for vault as a backend at some point...
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What would the benefit of re-locking the bootloader be? Protection against rootkits?

Once someone has physical access to your device, you can pretty much always consider it to be compromised.

Also, I'd assume that the stock recovery on most phones will check the signature of the running Android, and refuse to boot if it doesn't match the one from the manufacturer.
Reading through the rules, it would appear that you are correct, though it looks like checking in earlier should make it more unlikely "The priority of all other confirmed passengers may be determined based on a passenger’s fare class, itinerary, status of frequent flyer program membership, and the time in which the passenger presents him/herself for check-in without advanced seat assignment."
I once added a backdoor to gain full Admin rights (without corporate sign-off) to a site I was building for a relatively large corporation. Though this was only intended for QA and Dev, I forgot to get rid of this backdoor when I deployed to production, and it was shortly found. A lot of the data that had been input was mangled and broken (or just outright deleted) and not backed up, which forced a lot of the creative people to redo several days of work.

I was fortunate enough to have a boss was pretty understanding, and I was not fired, though I genuinely felt he would have been justified in doing so.
Brains do not really grow new pathways, they are more or less set in stone after development finishes.

The goal of neuromorphic chips is also not to replace operating systems for the same reason that quantum computers won't replace conventional ones. They have strong sides and weak sides.

When you say that all the networks are is inspired by biology, it is true, but varies hugely between implementations.

Boahen is of the "true" neuromorphic school, people who use actual analog silicon neurons. These people are exclusively found in academia as all of industry only uses digital techonology. This includes the coveted IBM TrueNorth "neuromorphic" processor.

Thus the goal of these projects is not just to create supercomputing architectures, but to create systems that mimic the way the brain works and thereby learn how it manages to perform all these complex operations.
That is true; though technically the Deis v1 PaaS still lives on as Workflow. Internally the v1 PaaS bits are all there in Workflow, just switching out Fleet for Kubernetes. It was just renamed when we became "Deis the company" rather than "Deis the project". I just wanted to clarify that we never "dropped" doing the PaaS thing.
That would be a regulator or Congress. The airline would set no cap, if they could get away with macing you to get you off the airplane, they would. "Next time, just get off the plane when we ask the first time."

When a family member, or associate of Congress gets hit with this experience, then maybe the fines get adjusted accordingly.

Anyway, hopefully the guy gets a good lawyer.
I get the feeling a lawyer will want to see that "program"'s source code. I also get the feeling that will be some interesting moments in court.
If you pay me then you can come. It is called AirBnb.
If you show up, settle in and then see me coming to you and asking you to go out since I need to use the room for myself for the night. Business-related stuff, you understand.

How do you feel?
It is dark, rainy and tomorrow at 8 you have a job interview in the city.

You better pack up nicely and quickly, because I'll call the cops otherwise.

Let me know if you feel like you'd understand the situation.
Randomly selecting passengers is not a bright idea, specially after they boarded into the airplane and are already seated. Just offer more money until you find a real volunteer: even if you have to pay $10k that's going to be much better economically and morally than forcing a random client out of a plane.
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Based on the circumstances (he wasn't a danger to anyone or acting out in any unreasonable way) the better choice probably would have been to just leave him be. He may not have had a legal "right" to be on the plane and United may have been within their rights to remove him but it can't have been worth the image hit to have him strongarmed off the plane. If they had given up on removing him and just picked someone else, or raised the compensation for someone to voluntarily give up their seat, or found another way to get their crew to their destination, this wouldn't have even been a story.
> In which case, this sort of thing happens all the time and this is only HN news because it's Twitter?

Yes, this sort of thing happens all the time. If you own some shares of an individual company (not through a fund), you'll get notice periodically of items to be voted on: proposals from the board (often routine such as handling accounting and audits), which the board recommends passing and which almost always pass, and proposals from individual shareholders, which the board almost always recommends against and which almost always fail. Many of them are ideological, some more reasonable than others.

Does anyone know of any prominent case where a major company passed a shareholder proposal? And/or the board recommended in favor of one?
I'm pretty sure the "currency" will be one-way only. I think they already had something like "credits" in xbox store. The idea is just to make people spend more money, because it is harder to think about the actual price when you are using "minecraft tokens".
My kid didn't understand until the vurtual items he bought with his hard earned money, about 80usd, vanished when the company shut down. It was a brilliant educational moment. Alas Minecraft is probably good for another decade!
The captain has extremely broad latitude over who is allowed to be on the flight. He doesn't need to give a reason for kicking someone off.
it's highly unlikely... There's a (probably directed, weighted) graph of species-species transmission potential, and it does seem to obey some rough distance rule, which does NOT correlate necessarily with species distance rule. We think that cows can transmit to humans; cows and sheep can co-transmit. (if you have a sheep with scrapie sharing a pasture with cow, the cow can get mad cow disease). deer though do not seem to transmit to cow, even though CWD is super common in deer and deer and cow pasture together pretty much everywhere in the US except maybe hawaii.

Here, a transgenic mouse with human prion protein is resistant to CWD transmission; but the same mouse with elk protein is susceptible.

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19336896.2015.11...
Author of SUI here again.

Semantic is based on the idea that describing physicality (the function of html/css) is a task natural language is acutely optimized for, while describing the implementation of behavior ("cooking recipes", or the vast majority of programming implementation) is best served by programming languages.

Part of how natural language optimizes for transmitting meaning is by reducing ideal forms of concepts to words based on the exact amount of specificity for conveying meaning between humans. I.e. "horse" instead of "quadrupedal mammal that has a heart and has eyes and has a tongue..." etc.

These 'units of optimized human idea transmission' (read words) are then clarified using a system of modifiers that take care of removing just enough ambiguity that the idea is communicated effectively. "The kindly, gentle lion", "The angry, hungry lion".

The modifiers themselves carry no absolute meaning. A "large ant" may be smaller than a "small planet", but we understand them -- in context -- of the nouns.

Language is littered with other interesting features like this that are designed particularly for this task of describing physicality. Most of which are absent from programmatic implementations of 'languages for describing physicality' like HTML/CSS.

Other key examples of useful cognitive optimization: Plurality, "Three large red buttons" vs "Large red button, large red button"; significant word order, "left floated right aligned column" vs "right floated left aligned" column.

I think the main drawback with using a natural language approach is that the implementation has to be bullet proof. Although everyone uses language, we never have to implement systems of interpreting language from phoneme to neuronal pathway. So even though the benefits are clear, the path forward in mapping language to systems of programmatic physicality isn't exactly straightforward.
But if it was a last-minute thing, what happens to checked baggage, which may have already been loaded onto the plane by that point?

Does this imply you're much more likely to get picked for last-minute eviction if you didn't check anything in?
i also used a lot at school, for me it was amazing.
the only pain point for me was drawing diagram, for me graphwiz is the only sane way to do it
> and have police waiting for the recalcitrant passenger at the destination airport

To do what, exactly?
Discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14075337 (40 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14068672 (11 comments)

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Other submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14070177

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14069969
Exactly. At this point they're trying not to cancel another plane load of people, so that's a lot of money. They should have kept going up, "We'll offer $4,000 .. anyone? .. really?" ..

At some point the compensation isn't worth the profit margin of the other flight. They can just cancel it and let the flight crew go home.
What you do when someone refuses to leave their seat?

In the free market, you offer enough money until someone decides that the offer is good enough. Everybody has a price.

In a fascist place, you call the thugs to punch an asian doctor unconscious, so that he can be dragged away from his (paid) seat, so that employees can take their (free) seats
Don't hotels do the same thing too?
Book the employees you forgot to reserve seats for on another airline. This wasn't a situation of one person leaving or an entire flight, down the line, being delayed for want of crew. It was between a paying passenger leaving or the airline having to pay more to ship their crew around.
If Apple introduced this, it would be called "disruptive" and "revolutionary". From Sony, it's "weird".

eInk still costs far too much per unit area. You can buy wall sign sized eInk displays, but they'll cost much more than an LCD TV panel of the same size. 32" diagonal display, $3,599.[1] Compare 32 inch color LCD TVs for $200 at WalMart. Despite talk of cheap "electronic paper" displays, the eInk people never delivered on cost.

[1] https://www.visionect.com/product/visionect-development-kit-...
Simple: they announce that the plane is not taking off until enough seats open up. Then just wait.

Sure, the flight would be delayed, perhaps significantly, but the impact of that would pale in comparison to this horrendous PR controversy.
Not very well though. You still need to operate on frames because you need a time interval for capturing the firing rate that conventional networks model. As you make the interval smaller, which you need for quick reaction times, you make the network more noisy and unstable.

SNNs can work in real time.
In addition to that, how did he settle it on unit tests instead of integration tests?
If you want to see IP theft and stolen mods on a grand scale, check out Roblox. Complete with micro-transactions on a grand scale as well.
I think you're wrong about #3. Quantized at the micro-level (individuals may not choose differently), it's certainly unlikely that people will suddenly change their patterns in large droves immediately.

However that might also still result in people deciding not to fly or switch loyalties where they are flexible (ie, someone having lots of miles in several air programs without any restriction to use UA flights).

Stochastically speaking, this event will likely have an impact if anyone at UA cares to look for it months from now.
>Surely they know how many of their own employees will be flying ahead of time?

They don't always. Crews call in sick, flights get cancelled, weather changes schedules, incoming flight being late delays connecting flight, etc. One aircraft type gets swapped for another (not all crews are qualified on all aircraft).

Last minute crew moves will always exist.

It's also not 100% clear that these employees were essential crew, or that they couldn't have taken a different flight. There's usually a range of employees flying, not all classed as "must ride", and often some that shouldn't be classified as "must ride".

Of course, how you choose to open up seats is up to you.
Best-in-class or near best displays are supporting and necessary but not sufficient for Apple. So acquisition doesn't make sense. The money is to guarantee supply for their huge product volumes and also sometimes a competitive measure to lock up supply so competitors can't get at it.

On the other hand, I would not expect Apple to farm out their software, OS, marketing, industrial design any time soon. Unlike the supporting value of LCDs these are all differentiators.