skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As it turns out the explanations are completely false, as in, not based on facts:

a. It wasn't overbooked. It was apparently exactly 100% booked and filled. Four paying customers were replaced by four non-paying crew. That is not an overbook situation, so United's entire rule 25 in the contract of carriage doesn't apply.

b. The removed customer didn't violate a single listed reason under rule 21 of the contract of carriage. Where else in the contract is passenger removal permitted?

c. Even if it were an overbooking, the airline's contract only says boarding can be denied. It doesn't say anything about rescinding an authorization to board, i.e. changing their mind.

What's going on here, are unwritten rules that they just made up out of thin air, convinced the police they exist, and got the police to do their dirty work. That rule is "upon refusal to comply with a polite request, the airline will petition an ignorant police force to (violently) remove the passenger from the plane."

This perverted, uncivilized, unwritten rule needs to be challenged. I hope this passenger takes them to court without settling. It needs to become part of the public record. If he settles, the details will get buried behind a non-disclosure agreement, and we won't actually learn that it's the airline who violated their own contract of carriage, and the police almost certainly broke the law not just their policies, in physically removing this person from the plane.

And unfortunately most of the media has spread false information by saying that the airline can have a person thrown off a plane for pretty much any reason, which is only true if you agree. If you look at the written contract, removal in this case is not supportable, even with a very vivid imagination.
Water is one of the strongest greenhouse gases around, and there's plenty of it in the oceans that can evaporate in a runaway process. Once that happens, we're the next Venus.

Reaching that tipping point is quite difficult though, and would require additional warming besides fossil fuels. Methane-based runaway warming maybe? Or even basic thermodynamic heat sink effects (which we'll reach in about 200 years at the current rate of growth in energy supply).
Oddly enough, the actual United website still praises their CEO for winning a PR award.
Well, one of the differences is that it's easier to kick someone off a bus mid-travel. That's why the rules are different. Also, racial discrimination ist still illegal on a plane. Just don't fight this fight while on the plane.
I really enjoy the CTO Mentor Network: https://ctomentor.network/
yes, that sense of analness, like half the time you are talking to Sheldon Cooper.
The problem is you need to compare the absolute minimum demand at night if the off season vs the absolute peak during the day time to find your base load demand vs peak demand. AC usage at night drops off dramatically during the cool pars of the year and is very weather dependent so the peak vs minimum shift is more dramatic than usual.
It's neither, it's a bad design decision that they were forced to make because the type system isn't expressive enough.
That's the cap for compensation of involuntarily removed passengers. There's no cap on how much airlines can offer for a voluntary bump.
It's much worse. A wiki still consists of pages of documents, even if they're kind of improvisational and perhaps incomplete. A chat log is just a log of people chatting, with all the free-wheeling and meandering conversational style that entails.
Evil ISPs could disrupt Bitcoin's blockchain
I'm sure patches are welcome. Well volunteered!
I think it's the addition of adverts in explorer, although from my understanding, they are completely optional [1].

[1] https://betanews.com/2017/04/10/disable-ads-windows-10-creat...
Encapsulates this era as the battleground of silo'd "as a service" vs "can be done"

For example I can have jenkins email build fails to slack in, oh, probably less than two minutes, I've done it before. From memory I make a custom email addrs in slack and tell slack which channel to feed it into, and then add that address to my jenkins that already sent buildSpam.

In IRC I could do it... google implies there's a ZenIRCBot project on github and probably many others. Probably there are bots and tools that google didn't immediately find.

Its not rocket surgery to use fetchmail and some kind of Perl IRC library to simply POP everything out of a mailbox into a directory /tmp/wtf and probably about 3 lines of perl to read all the files in /tmp/wtf, connect to irc on some channel, output what it found, and if successful delete the emails from /tmp/wtf. Then put fetchmail and the 3 line perl script into cron and away we go.

Looks like Zapier is kinda in between "I could do it" and "AAS"
Yeah, if someone owns their own jet they should fly under their own rules. You can fly a Cessna without going through the TSA too, so it's not exclusive to rich people.
In this case, though, the flight was not overbooked. They forcibly removed an otherwise compliant passenger so that their own employees could get a ride.
Is that an issue? ;-)
I sympathize that folks don't like the format how this story is presented. I don't think I am quite as irritated but I do not prefer all this activity while I scroll.

I think it's great that NYT is experimenting new ways to capitalize on this medium and not merely just publishing their print stories on the web.

...but it's probably best for them to learn from this experiment and not repeat it.
It's an opinion piece that celebrates the many languages, cultures and peoples that make up London today that came about in the last two decades and speculates that Brexit came about because of the divide between cosmopolitan Londoners and rural voters. This difference it posits was exploited by conservative media to inflame residents of rural and less urban areas to vote for Brexit, giving examples of opinion writers claiming Trump as their model and Obama'izing as the problem. It wonders but does not answer if London can continue to succeed as a cosmopolitan financial center of Europe after Brexit.
Replying to myself. A number of the accounts listed by thenextweb do have Tweets to @united visible (now?) prior to them complaining about Tweets being deleted.

Eg: complaining about Tweet being deleted: https://twitter.com/iknowimbitter/status/851640007500718081
Original(?) tweet, 7 hours prior: https://twitter.com/iknowimbitter/status/851544321564323841

Complaint: https://twitter.com/TalkIBC/status/851604796113129476
Original, 1 hour prior: https://twitter.com/TalkIBC/status/851581587967934464

Complaint: https://twitter.com/MickFerry/status/851564908915437568
Original, 6 hours prior: https://twitter.com/MickFerry/status/851474942789079040

I tend to think my theory about spam/troll filtering might be close to correct, but I look forward to finding out exactly what happened.
I'm not a color expert, but is there a color tool which would narrow down available color options for the Secondary color palette? Primary palette is cool, but I can still make it all look ugly by choosing random colors for the Secondary palette, which is exactly what I would want to avoid.
"The modern web makes me want to throw up", "Electron is flash for the desktop", "Databases have failed the web" — wow... author does not look very happy with the state of the web development today.
I wasn't aware that Firefox view src had that. Cool, thanks. I fixed those and fixed one more that was hidden by one of those typos.
I don't understand your question.

Did I state the compensation for government employees is more than every other job out there?

My point is you can't award your self a unreasonable pay package and then expect somebody who didn't even sign up to pay for it, pay for it.
> High speed rail would kill off a lot of shorter routes, but it just doesn't work in the US for some reason.

Looking at what is happening in California, cost is the largest issue[1]. The other reason is the US optimized its rail for cargo which it does well.

Frankly, I do believe that automated cars with solve the less than 50 mile commute problems better than light rail. I actually am a little optimistic that one of the hyperloop companies will get it together to create a short elevated line that can actually start a new building phase for rail (well, tube) transport. The danger is that they realize they will probably make more money on cargo and go that way.

1) the compromises on speed are going to make for a lot of controversy if it ever does get done
I know it's a parody but:

https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/list-of-langu...
The installation process is not at all complex. You just have to turn on developer mode and check the box that says you want to enable WSL.
Firefox also has reader mode on Android.
There are advertisements everywhere in Windows 10 already: the start menu, the lock screen, the notification centre. That's just another brick in the wall.
I doubt you don't care. These are examples "integration with the host platform":

* Text selection

* Caret behaviour (e.g. Option-arrows on macOS)

* Clipboard

* Spell check

* Open/save dialogs

* File system access

* Drag/drop

* Window management

* Accessibility (screen reader support etc.)

* Standard right click menus

* Indexing (e.g. Spotlight on macOS)

* etc.

You may be thinking to native UI idioms, which even Apple threw out the window several years ago.

Electron apps are mostly very good at the things in the above list, because the Chromium web renderer has spent years abstracting the mechanisms needed to feel native where it matters.

Non-native toolkits such as Swing and Qt also spent years trying to achieve native look/feel, mostly through emulation and host OS detection, and they still feel pretty crappy compared to Electron apps.

Slack, Spotify and friends do a good job of inventing their own "web but native-feeling" UI. An example of the exact opposite is Google Docs, which still, for all its technological impressiveness, feels like a crummy Swing app trapped in a web page. For example, Google Docs renders its own right-click context menus, which look and feel nothing like native context menus. Google Docs' mini-apps also have a menu bar and a toolbar, but it's part of the host window, so you get two levels of menu bars and tool bars.
I know nothing about how Electron renders GIFs, but can guarantee you that there's no world where 16x16 animation should take up 20% CPU. Suggesting that we should convert them to tiny videos is completely missing the point.
I appreciate ALL feedback. There was just so much that it could do for the end user I didn't want it look like too much
Jack hamm and his books are great for lousy artists/cartoonists like me

Muscles of expression
https://terahdrawing.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/hamm_facial...

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/07/97/dc/0797dce28...

(Last is one of two pages)
He does do some html but generally he just provides things in plane text with maybe a little html markup in it.
Accounting is way more than tracking the flow of money.
but with the size of the audience you're targeting there is no way this is going to be a memorable number. Keeping a contact book with these isn't a big step forward from managing the one already present on my phone
not on macOS, Linux, BSD etc. That only applies to Windows.
That's not true, the Ann. Update reset some specific settings for some users due to a bug (now patched).
More on the beginner/intermediate end of the spectrum, the Viking Weekly Code Review pulls together resources helpful for learners and has a section on coding music each week:

https://www.vikingcodeschool.com/weekly-code-review
The 5 Basic API Design Paradigms
Their "staff" was a flight crew that needed to get to Louisville or another plane full of 200 passengers would be stuck on the tarmac unable to fly.
> I hesitate to ever recommend perl ... Or, rather, i helped someone much smarter than me do that, 20 years ago.

No need to hesitate. It's not half bad for a dynamic language if you keep a little discipline. 20 years ago the average Perl programmer was probably akin to the average PHP programmer from 10 years ago. That is, not very experienced, and with code that made that fairly obvious, even if it got the job done. With some of the more modern modules, you get something pretty swizzy[1]. :)

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11633961
Setting Up SSL with Nginx on Ubuntu Server
Where would you buy one? I'd love to have one myself.
Oh my god that happened to me the wiping memory. That's what happened? Good to know man thanks.

That super loud beep(s) too what the heck.

Does ChromeOS by default implement something like TLP? I installed it in Linux side, but not sure if when you run linux if the TLP carries over. Maybe it doesn't matter anyway , my Chromebook still has like 95% capacity thank fully and it pulls on average like 10 Watts with a 35Wh battery... but it lasts I don't know 3-5 hrs trying to keep it between 30-80% charge.

Thanks a lot for the great tips. What about read/write stuff on SD I think I heard it's hard on the SD card versus say USB 3.0 (use that for my Acer Cloudbook).

Also what's up with right-click on Chromebooks, weird ways.
> Are you ok with being forcibly evicted from your apartment because there is some sub-clause that allows the landlord to evict you if his kin/employee needs a room?

Yes.

Partly because my parents had that own sub-clause in their tenancy agreement and exercised it to allow me to move back home when I really needed it.

It's a common sub-clause permissible in cases where the rental property is part of the primary residence. It was added because getting into a situation where your own family cannot live with you because of an existing lease is.... awkward.

People who get married and need a tenant to move out, would instead have to move out of their own houses and rent an apartment.
We can argue what "be a cheerleader for them[employees]" means. If I were a United employee, I'd not be impressed by my employer. I'd feel ashamed of being part of an organization that has managed to escalate a logistical problem (because that's what we are talking about) into violence. I'd like to be proud of my employer and, today, I'd not feel great knowing my company is ok with beating up a harmless man. I'd seriously question the ethics and core value of my employer. As an employee, I'd like to know that /something/ went wrong in that situation - and we do not stand for violence. Frankly, that would cheer me up.

As comparing overbooking to German soldiers - the Nuremberg defense, despite originated from Nazi's trial, refers today to any account where "I was just following orders". It refers to /any/ situation where someone claims unaccountability because "it is the protocol". This is exactly the case. If the protocol accounts for beating up a passenger, are the employees unaccountable just because "that's what the manual says"? No, they are not. They are human beings and they could say "fuck the protocol". There are a million other ways to handle a logistical problem without the use of violence.
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There is competition, for example between Slack's electron app and their website, or between Sublime, Atom, and VS Code. It seems like the author of this post doesn't trust users to choose memory usage and battery life over other things.

I expect that's correct - they are sometimes less important to users than other things. Emacs is tiny now, but at one time it was considered a memory hog and people kept using it.
The Spotify app is not built on Electron - it's built on CEF and always has been, author was wrong.
However, the mood of the piece accurately captured my ambivalence about continuing to live in London.

I bought a house just before the election, but I'm finding it extremely hard to justify investing much in it because I can't really see a future for me in this country, if it continues to trend.

It's not about plummeting stock markets or failing banking systems. It's about living with the uncertainty as to whether I'll still be welcome as a non-citizen. The moment the UK state starts to vary treatment on important things like entitlements or tax rates, I'm out of here - I'm not like some cow to be milked for the benefit of the natives.

I reckon I'm 6 to 18 months away from leaving for someplace else.
Electron is great for user experience. Compare to something like JetBrains' IDEs which are written in Java and are much less native feeling than Atom (and just as resource-hungry).
I thought director was flash for the desktop?
Come on it's just a video game not the Sistine Chapel. A few decades from now the games of today will be vanished and forgotten.
I don't even bother logging out, ever. I just have them open in different tabs.

Imagine having about 7 tabs open. By the time I'm finished with the last tab, something new has come up on the first tab I checked. Huge waste of time. I'm trying to wean myself from all these services, but it's not easy.

This or that project is on GitHub, but join the developers on Slack. And I hate Slack.
I wasn't the first one that made that claim. And I don't know the author of the comment that made it and I am not involved with anything that author do - something you can't say yourself in context of person you are defending. I've asked couple of people about that question without suggesting the answer and all of them agree with interpretation that it's about writing software in language A, not using third party tools written in language A.

Example of usage outside of company like in question from arstechnica:

"Outside of Google, companies like Wrike, Workiva, Blossom and others have also been using Dart to develop their products, so there is definitely still a Dart user community outside of Google, too."

This is how everyone interpret that question.
VS Code Extension for Evernote. Like the Sublime Text One
Of course - I'm just saying it's easier for the customer/consumer.
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They have updated the status page with more information. Apparently, they had a major power outage that took out multiple redundant power sources.
There is the AWS free tier[0]. which means you can get free ec2 instances:

> 750 hours per month of Linux, RHEL, or SLES t2.micro instance usage.

(along with S3 and some other services) I think it's only free for a year though.

Other than that, they have lumberyard[1] which is a game engine, but I think there are some weird terms like you need to use AWS if you use a server[2][3].

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/free/

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/lumberyard/

[2] https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/#57._Amazon_Lumberyard_...

[3] > 57.4 Operating Restrictions. Without our prior written consent, (a) the Lumberyard Materials (including any permitted modifications and derivatives) may only be run on computer equipment owned and operated by you or your End Users, or on AWS Services, and may not be run on any Alternate Web Service and (b) your Lumberyard Project may not read data from or write data to any Alternate Web Service. “Alternate Web Service” means any non-AWS web service that is similar to or can act as a replacement for the services listed at docs.aws.amazon.com/console/lumberyard/userguide/alternate-web-services .
Researchers recover typed text using audio recording of keystrokes (2005) [0]

[0] http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/09/14_key.s...
Compared to some articles about the book it's not the worst.

It's also an interest piece, rather than normal news. So the editor will let things slide.
Everyone gets that. We're mad that United messed up the logistics of having staff in the right cities, and instead of treating their customers well they decided to use literal force to removed a customer with a confirmed seat who was already boarded.

They had better alternatives: other customers had offered to leave for higher voucher value, I'm sure they could have paid someone already in Louisville 4x overtime. Instead they chose force and intimidation.
At least they weren't on the fucking plane already. It was a next morning flight, plenty of time to wave off the customers affected by United's own fuckup. This is why we need to re-regulate the airlines.
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Titanium is very corrosion resistant, AFAIK it can be directly bonded to carbon fiber.
But they arent trustworthy. To be trustworthy one must understand the system one is admining. MS now plays so many cloak and dagger games that no sysadmin has any real idea what is happening. They cannont be trusted to understand a system so poorly documented, so hidden behind secrecy walls.
That is due to the technologies available on the web being easily more suitable for GUI development than older native tools or desktop frameworks. We're in a similar boat, we made WPF apps. Now we're bringing it to the web and Electron. The things you can do now in React, heck i wouldn't even know where to begin in WPF or QT. If you look at modern Electron apps like Atom, VSCode, Discord and so on, the things they do and how flexible they are, this would mean so much hardship and pain in older solutions to the point where it's probably not viable any longer.
Why do you need to compute the n-th decimal of a number for this proof to work ?
let Ω be a Chaitin Omega number it's decimal are non-computable, yet for every x, Ω + x is a perfectly valid number.

Then `floor(Ω.10^(n))-10.floor(Ω.10^n-1)` is also a number (a natural one) and actually it's the n-th decimal of Ω. It cannot be computed, but it still exist no matter what.
In my opinion, accounting can not be boiled down to something as simple as blockchain.

Any inputs that you put into the chain would probably still need to be vetted by accountants. There's GAAP, industry practices, and even individual firms can have the flexibility to account for things differently. You still have the same problems.

Literally the best middle class+ job you can get is being an accountant. Until the government collapses they will always have work.
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There's an option to do this in many third party Android ROMs, which I personally take advantage of. I don't think it's really "terrible ux"; it hasn't been that hard to adjust to.
I'm happy to hear uranium will last for a long time, gives us a good alternative if the sun ever stopped shining (e.g. massive volcano or asteroid). But it doesn't really change the economics.

China's newly installed solar capacity in 2016 was 34 GW and growing fast, they currently have 20 nuclear reactors under construction with a capacity of 20GW. So solar is quickly outpacing nuclear even in China, and the trend is in solar's favor.

The only saving grace that nuclear has at the moment is the lack of massive battery capacity. Electric cars are quickly changing that, and then it will be game over for nuclear.

I think that potential investors of nuclear reactors see this trend now as well, which is why interest in building new nuclear reactors in market-based economies is quickly fading (of course it depends on latitude at which point in time solar/wind dominance is reached). Quite substantial cost overruns are also typical for nuclear power plants, but rare for solar/wind.
It's worth noting that in the picture from the article of the printed piece, what they're actually doing is building up a near-net part and then sending it off to be machined down to it's final spec. It appears similar to the process of using a TIG welder to rebuild a severely damaged engine block or other metal part and then machining it back to spec.
> He had a legitimate reason not to give up his seat

This is true until an officer of the law asked him to get off the plane. Argument time happens before that, and after that in court. But at that point, you're being ordered off a plane by a law enforcement officer. When you don't comply there's only one way for it to proceed at that point.

> The airline CANNOT act like the computer is right all the time

It was the police officers who were right when they ordered the man off the plane.