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But what can you do? If you want unix environment (and don't want support Microsoft with their telemetry spyware bullshit), and want retina quality text?

You're stuck with Apple, because nothing else like that exists. XPS 13 is close, but the scaling on Linux just isn't good enough yet, and there's the coil whine, and there's the touchpad, etc.

Apple has created a niche - high quality laptops with unix environment and HiDPI screens, and is the only one inside that niche and can do anything it wants with people who are in it.

It's sad, but that's the way it is. Apple has developers by the balls and know is.

EDIT: and this is really, really sad - and it's probably even worse on mobile, where you get to chose between Apple (bye bye jack) and giving all you data to Google 24/7, but I digress, sorry.
They also smashed his face against the arm rest. That seems like it may have been a contributing factor.
Right, you can "throw" people off a plane. But if you do so in a manner that is totally illegal, you have still broken a law in doing so. That would be my point.
The passenger fucked up by refusing to leave. That is forcing a physical confrontation when it isn't needed.
> I would highly recommend also reading the Board's "Statement of Opposition." Pretty clear no. Shareholder value, etc.

While I agree there is no shareholder value involved, I think there is some scope for thinking of the platform as a public utility and putting it under some framework other than a publicly traded corporation. It could operate either as a Foundation, a Public-private partnership, a federal agency perhaps as a subsidiary of the Library of Congress, or some other system of governance that makes it operate more as a public trust than a corporation.

It's function is definitely more akin to a public utility than a product produced for market, after all, so why not? I'd say most online stuff still has too many returns to innovation to where the opportunity costs of nationalizing them outweigh the benefits. But clearly Twitter isn't doing a great job of staying afloat as it is.
I knew there was a reason I've been avoiding United like the plague.
Once the cops show up and tell him to? Because the cops told him to, that's why.

Note well: I am not saying that the cops are always right. I am not saying that we should all be good little citizens and obey whatever the authority figures tell us to do. I am saying that, in the actual world we live in, disobeying police orders will often involve painful physical consequences, almost immediately. You can argue about whether that should be. Fine. I'm saying that it is that way, though, and you'd better plan on it being that way in your situation before you decide to ignore what the cops tell you to do.
At $main_work, the reason is that there's a bunch of RewriteRules which last I checked simply couldn't be done by NGINX.

OTOH, Apache suffered from the "slow loris" attack, so the whole shebang ended up being nginx sitting in front of a few front-end apache instance kinds, which sit in front of a dozen or so backend apache instance kinds.

I find it interesting that although on those servers there are 12x more Apaches than NGINX, it might get counted as a server "using nginx"...

... and that's just because the whole she-bang sits under cloudflare, which reports Server: nginx-cloudflare ;)
Ever since they cancelled Person of Interest, I find myself waiting for this future, because I really miss good dystopian AI plotlines.
yeah let's start toting gun at people who refuse to give up their paid seats.
Yes, he should sue the bejeezus out of them.
I could say a lot about this topic, but I'll try to keep it brief.

There were a number of similar "post-LambdaMOO" systems built in the mid to late 90s, and early 2000s. I wrote something of my own during a year long bout of .com crash unemployment 2001ish time frame. But before that there was "coolmud" [written by Stephen White who wrote the original MOO before Pavel Curtis adopted it and created LambdaMOO] and then Greg Hudson's "coldmud", which spawned "Genesis", a few other projects, and the thing I was working on but never finished.

Basically they were attempts to generalize the "extensible object oriented network service" side of MOO beyond the 'game' or 'chat' oriented of LambdaMOO and to fix some technical weaknesses that LambdaMOO had.

IMHO these types of architectures/systems were sort of an alternative path for how the internet could have developed if the web and HTTP based architectures hadn't taken over and defined how we think about what the Internet is. (For people who didn't use the Internet prior to the existence of the web it's hard to imagine that, I know.)

I think the combination of prototype oriented object systems plus multi-users plus networking plus group-authoring plus socializing is something that still hasn't been realized to the depth that these systems had, even if they were hobbled by their lack of multimedia capability.

I believe there were similar efforts on the LPC/LPmud side of things, but there were some differences in philosophy there.

LambdaMOO itself lives on and gets some ongoing development here and there.
I imagine that the there was effectively a "CAN'T HAPPEN" comment on what to do when nobody bit at $800. I can imagine the people writing the policy imagining that their employees might collude with friends on board to pocket the money if they let the offer get too high.
You're implying that is necessarily a bad thing in all cases. Many people don't believe that. There are definitions of freedom other than the dominant ones - and plenty of ways in which many people are not free as a direct result of capitalism.
I couldn't tell with this article if that was guy who was screaming or if they asked the doctor first and then went to this guy. It's not clear at all.
Why offer $5000 when you can just beat people's faces in and drag them away?
Is this so bad? It seems to me that using <i> for icons has become pretty standard across many sites and you shouldn't be using the <i> tag for italics anyways - there's <em> for that now.
"So sorry we had to reaccommodate your forehead by concussing it against an armrest"
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lawsuit is waiting for you united
> So what do you do when someone refuses to leave?

Pay another airline to ship your employees. This is nothing but horrible planning on United's part. Worst case: Google Maps says a 5-hour drive separates Chicago from Louisville.
You seem to believe that people don't own capital because they are poor or something. It is certainly true that poor people don't own capital, but it is also probably true that a lot of people who are not poor do not own capital either. For instance, I suppose that socialistic-minded people don't, and yet I doubt they are all poor.

In any case, the preference I was talking about was excluding wealth considerations. All other things being equal, the tendency to hoard capital is, I believe, part of character.
No, that's standard. Normal procedure is that they'd have a count of present passengers based on how many people have checked in. Before boarding the plane, they'd say "we need 4 seats, and we'll pay X amount (and possibly hotel) to have volunteers take the flight take the flight tomorrow". If they don't get the volunteers, then 4 people just won't be allowed to board, and the airline pays them, and puts them up until the next available flight.

The airline isn't going to delay another flight because they couldn't get a flight crew there in time; they find a way to get the flight crew there.

In this case, they screwed up procedure and boarded everyone first. Then they screwed up again and had someone assaulted by armed goons in front of a few hundred people.
In-fact people in Iceland probably get a lot of fish oils.

Plus, their green houses grow a lot plant products that go directly to market.

The freshest food and short delivery lines may be the important factors.
We were talking about using WMDs. When I in fact showed that WMDs were used in the same country by perhaps your country you changed the target to Assad. Well okay, again framing:

> The magnitude of Assads participation in first inspiring chaos in Iraq,

The Iraq war would qualify as the BIGGEST factor in inspiring chaos in Iraq.

> then purging the Syrian people, and an increasingly brutal hold to power, far out weight any minor US involvement.

Assad is trying to hold on to legitimate power where the US is attempt to purge Syria of his government using terrorists relabeled freedom fighters who have destabilized the entire country. This began as a small movement during Arab spring which was mainly due to food price problems which were out of Assad's control due to the global economy. The situation has totally deteriorated due to American intervention, as it always does. If America never supported the so-called freedom fights, significant human life and livelihood would've been spared.

In the end I don't believe any one in the situation is a good guy. They're all scumbags playing realpolitik.
At the end of the day, the contract of carriage clauses are extremely broad and disadvantageous to the consumer. If the airline decides they want someone, or you, off the flight, there's actually very little recourse. Even the amount of time they can delay you without compensation during the day and with minimal compensation overnight is pretty absurd. That said, I'm not sure why they wouldn't just offer increasing compensation for those willing to bump to the next flight like usual. Four people will accept a few hundred to a thousand dollars to be bumped one flight.
That's not overbooking then, do the same rules apply?
The ideal solution would be to decouple the crucial benefits offered by W-2 jobs from those jobs. For instance, good health insurance- the government should offer a public option for that, instead. Given that medical debt is a crippling problem for many Americans, getting that resolved would go a long way towards recovering the Middle Class.
> Brains do not really grow new pathways, they are more or less set in stone after development finishes.

Neuroplasticity and Neurogenesis has been observed well into adulthood though [1].

> 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.

Sounds like a lot of expensive guesswork to me! Good luck to them I guess.

[1] https://web.stanford.edu/group/hopes/cgi-bin/hopes_test/neur...
Great point - actually, what the article leaves out is that investors are always competing with vast holdings held by insiders who by definition have insider information; and most of their trades based on that insider information are perfectly legal (inevitably.) Such as selling their positions. Passing on insider information other than to the public at large is what's legislated against.
I agree with most of what he says, but I would put Tesla at the top of the list by a fair degree.

> In 2016, Waymo logged more than 635,000 miles while testing its autonomous vehicles on California’s public roads compared to just over 20,000 for all its competitors combined.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/chunkamui/2017/02/08/waymo-is-c...

> Tesla’s sensor suite has so far been much lighter than Google’s, but that is now changing with the second generation sensor suite making its way to customers now. As of the end of October 2016, Google had accumulated about 3.5 million miles of data (2.2 million autonomous and 1.3 million manual miles) and it is adding about 25,000 miles per week with a fleet of just over 50 prototypes.

> On the other hand, Tesla is now adding millions of miles every day from its first gen Autopilot. The second generation, which aims to be fully self-driving like Google’s, should catch up with the first generation in term of data gathering during the second half of 2017, but with a much greater scope of information with now 360-degree camera coverage powered by ‘Tesla Vision’, as well as better ultrasonics and Tesla’s new radar technology.

https://electrek.co/2016/11/13/tesla-autopilot-billion-miles...

It feels to me like Waymo is trying to go from standard cars all the way to level 4 in one leap, but with a tiny number of test vehicles and locations. Tesla is going at it piecemeal instead, but are increasing their data they collect and the capabilities of each generation exponentially; and as their customer base grows, their data collection grows in scope and usefulness well beyond what Waymo can deploy out of pocket.
Okay this is freaky.

This is a legitimate reason to worry about AIs. The "world domination" angle seems overblown, but machine learning has the potential to evolve some immoral behaviors like this without anybody even knowing.
I suppose he could have identified himself and displayed a badge before the video started, but nothing about this guy said "police" to me. My experience with airport police says that taking the guy into custody was the last thing the actual police wanted to do. That suspicion is confirmed by the fact that after getting dragged off, the passenger reboarded the plane. Justifiably, real police don't consider themselves airline employees. They look down on both airline security and TSA.

Actually the real police might well have told United to increase the voucher amount like any civilized human organization would do. The gate agent then looked outside and picked out the biggest meanest baggage handler she saw. I really doubt the Sky Marshals want any part of this disaster.
It would appear that Mr A Smith reads nothing but The Register, or at least only posts The Register stories to HackerNews
The article mentions the first two people asked to leave were a couple flying together.
It's easy for a couple of cops (or even one) to remove a kid from your driveway, even a kid who doesn't want to be removed. Removing an adult from what appeared to be a window seat is going to be harder. That is, the adult can make it harder to do without causing harm to the adult. (Also, the adult is presumably more aware of the potential consequences of their actions.)
Once they called the cops, they had every expectation that force may result. It was their decision to escalate to that point.
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For comparison, Delta had a huge number of overbooked flights over the weekend due to weather cancellations. They handled it by raising the compensation for giving up your seat until they had the right number of passengers for the flights.

As a result they got some great press on a weekend when they might have had horrible press: https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurabegleybloom/2017/04/09/why...
The ASICBOOST encourages empty blocks argument does not make sense to me. How would you permute the Merkel tree without any transactions in it? More transactions would give you more permutations. Does this have something to do with transaction ordering requirements?
I love the idea of registering it as a printer.

Right now I do something similar (but more cumbersome) with my iPad Pro: I print to PDF, save the PDF in iCloud Drive, and then open it in Preview on the iPad, which lets me annotate it with the Pencil.

What I really wish I could find is some way to do the same for e-books. Amazon, if you're listening, it'd be a game changer if you could support this in the Kindle app.
Well nothing is going to change until people start telling boards of directors to go fuck themselves. Nominally BoDs are fiduciaries but frankly that doesn't mean much these days, and directors have every incentive to preserve the status quo rather than engage in any kind of innovation as regards corporate structure. In this the BoD has no more privileged insight than any of the shareholders and should be ignored. There's no guarantee it will make Twitter profitable but there's the potential to enrich the public without the shareholders being measurably worse off.
I wish they could make one either without a bezel or a bezel that was indistinguishable from the screen so it would look as close to a piece of paper as possible.
Joe Public doesn't even use a laptop, they use a phone now.
Yeah, this stinks. I despise fake currency created to form a disconnect between the real-world costs of items and their "in-game" price. It's used as a form of manipulation—and if that wasn't the original intent then they really need to re-think their reasoning.

It's taking advantage of children and their connection with their funders (parents).
Based on most reviews I've seen, it's less useful than a $30 AlphaSmart Neo (which I own, and quite like)
I used to replace my Windows laptops around every two years because something broke or they just got painfully slow. My MB 13 now is now almost 3 years old still going strong. Everything works, I never had to reinstall the OS and it still looks great.

So for me a Macbook is still the better option. I would agree, however, that Apple has lost interested in moving the platform forward so I am not sure what I'll do once my MBP breaks down. I would like to see a touchscreen for example. The touchbar seems pretty half assed. We have SP3 at work and they have a lot of little issues so I doubt they will last very long.
> That's actually not true

What exactly did I say that wasn't true? If a captain removes people for discrimination, then they are removing choice from individual based on making choice for group. People don't want to hear a racist's rationalizations, so as a group decision it might be a good one, especially given it is related to in-flight matters (or the prediction it will be related to in-flight matters). Again, I state that the captain is only allowed (legally) to remove choice for individual when the group (all people in plane) are denied things related to in-flight matters.

Laws are typically rational.

I will note my response was directed to the claim that if they ask you to do something, you must do so. I'm stating that I do not believe, in all cases, the captain has the rational right, by law, to remove choice from an individual if they are not threatening choice for group. That's not to say the captain can't and won't do a removal, but it is irrational to remove choice from individual if they are not threatening group. That also implies it might not pass the muster of law, and a passenger would not be "guilty" of breaking a law by resisting removal. And besides, four people had to go, so the choice to remove that one individual's right to choice was removed by randomness or judgement, both of which are irrational actions.
> digital blackboard that consumes little power and can be remotely updated would be extremely useful.

This is what I've been looking at them for. I would consider them an electronic notebook.
There seems to be some sort of impedance mismatch CSS is _for_ developers give me .di-bl { display: block; }, make it easy to understand by just looking at the markup instead of having to having to dig into other files.
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That's a problem with the processes in place in the airline. They have to do their own due diligence.

Who's to say that this man's price was the lowest price? Turn it into a bidding process, the lowest 5 bids on the plane get paid, and the airline gets their seats.

The potential for misuse is not a good excuse for accepting negative actions.
I have no idea if this is relevant, but it seems like it: http://www.srp.law.harvard.edu/companies-voting-on-proposals...
Thanks - glad you like it. That's quite the list!
> It's also nearly impossible to find a physical place where you could test it without making an appointment.

b&h photo had one in their store to play with. Was very nice, weighed much less than I expected, but still wasn't quick. They seemed to push the note taking with a stylus feature which I didn't really care about.

The 13 inch size is amazing, but leaves the whole thing probably larger than I really wanted.
> I really just can't understand the mentality of "These people are too stupid to realize they're being taken advantage of, let's write opinion pieces to enlighten these poor simple minded masses to the errors of their ways."

The good news is that you don't have to understand that mentality, because no-one has it. At no point does the article suggest that Uber drivers are stupid. It suggests that they have fewer options than other Americans, and are driven into these jobs by a lack of alternative. The article even mentions an effort by these drivers to unionize - hardly the actions of a bunch of stupid idiots. They know what they are doing, but their unionization effort was blocked by a federal judge.

> It just feels so condescending and elitist to me to take this viewpoint.

Frankly, to me, the condescending and elitist viewpoint is the one that assumes no-one really needs employee protections (while you enjoy them) and assumes that jobs are so plentiful that anyone doing a job they don't like is surely a fool who can't take control of their own life. Or that "the market" will fix all of this, when we now have decades of evidence showing "the market" failing to do so.
Well said. I'd be curious to hear if there is a major airline that does not have the IDB policy.
What if the size of Go board was increased? Does AlphaGo scale as well as expert human players?
The notion that this day would be significantly different for United's PR team assumes a level of self-awareness on their part that might or might not actually exist.
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Programmed by Mr Worldwide himself?!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14060846
I want one. Now. There is another technology with a high refresh rate, transflective.
http://t17.net/transflectiveTFT/

And I've seen a presale or kickstarter for a fast epaper tablet not from Sony.
TBH this seems to be a more legacy airlines thing.

I've never seen EasyJet or Ryanair overbook flights (and they operate at WAY higher load factors that legacy airlines - Ryanair is up to 97% load factor on average).

Edit: looks like Ryanair actually doesn't overbook. "Ryanair is the only airline in Europe that does not overbook its flights; therefore Ryanair has eliminated the possibility of passengers being denied boarding due to overbooking."
Excellent observation (and thanks for your comment!).
We do want to expand to other providers.

We're starting with Stripe because we find it easier: we like the product, we're users ourselves, they already have a good market-size, and with Paypal, they're two of the payment processors used most by bootstrappers / small-biz / freelancers (which are the people we love creating tools for — people like us!).

The goal is two-fold:

1. Give simple tools to Stripe users to help them manage their business money. We're starting with giving them information about their cashflow (now the notifications, very soon aggregating multiple Stripe accounts under 1 app), and we'll follow with enabling them to act on various events (how to best manage a failed payment, help them through disputes, welcoming a new customer, etc.).
(Maybe, one day, to close the loop, we envision being able to give them best practices depending on the business' state of maturity — a $200/m is not the same than a $2K/m is not the same than a $20K/m. That's if app is sustainable.)

2. After really nailing down features for Stripe users, we expand to other payment providers. We've already started reaching out to some of them, to see which ones would be the fastest for us to integrate.

The best way to help is to tell us how you think you're losing opportunities (or money) not or badly managing your Stripe account, and which other providers you'd vote to add into the app.