skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Work at McDonald's or drive Uber? Drive Uber because it's cooler than making fries. Make fries because there's a matching 401k program at McD's. These drivers have a choice.
If Job 1 pays $100/day and Job 2 pays $110/day, the person should choose Job 2. When other things come into play like fulfillment, entertainment during the day, interest in one's work, etc., the choice becomes less clear, of course.
The big thing for me is that these drivers have costs that aren't immediately realized, like the wear and tear on their vehicle or the lost compounding benefit of matching funds in a 401k that they could find at another job. They continue to make an economically poor choice because these costs are easy to forget/ignore/be unaware of.
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Oh, I don't think there's a racist angle to it since it was random selection, but I will say that if by chance the guy who had been forcibly removed was black or Muslim instead of Chinese, and the physical force was the same as what occurred here, you can easily imagine the national outrage would be even greater.
:) I don't think they much care. In particular, they freely express plenty of criticism about various company practices; I doubt they'd have bias about this issue in particular.
But the point is the pilots have legal authority to throw people off the plane. Therefore it is tautologically legal.
To be honest, everyone I know who can afford to own capital does, in some form or another. The alternative is an inability to retire.
I've seen a lot of comments where people think that their hard work led to their success without taking into account the benefits they had based on their environment.

I felt the same way. I use to say that I graduated from an unknown state college with a horrible CS degree over 20 years ago (debt free) and within three years, I was making as much as people who graduated from well known schools who had debt. If I could do it, anyone could.

But looking back, I realized that I did have a few advantages. Many of my classmates took jobs working in the defense industry working on mainframes and other not so cutting edge systems. But they came out of college, moved to small towns, making enough to support themselves.

That's not the life I wanted. I was offered a job, based on an internship the prior year as a computer operator in a larger, more expensive metro area, making much less than my classmates, but I knew it was a better long term opportunity. I told my parents my rational for wanting to take the job and I knew I couldn't afford to make the move by myself.

My parents, paid the deposit, the first months rent and sent me money for the first two years to make up the difference until I got a job as a software developer. 20 years later, the rest is history. My parents could afford to do that without blinking. How many of my classmates didn't have that same opportunity?

On a related note, many people get jobs based on unpaid internships. Who can afford to work a summer without pay without parents who are able to help?

My internship happened to be paid and they provided housing, but I was lucky.
I think you're correct, and Nginx does a nice job within that scope. I decided I wanted to learn it a bit, so I picked it for a project. I hadn't even stopped to think that I was reliant on WebDAV for editing that static content!

Long story short, I decided not to use any of the partial WebDAV implementations for Nginx and just use sshfs instead. It's so true that Apache is a swiss army knife, though.
nvALT and any smartphone voice recorder.
The "middle class" is political code for people being materially comfortable yet obligated to be economically productive. Once upon a time, there was only an "upper class" that was sustained by existing wealth and a "lower class" where people had no wealth. Both of these classes were discordant with the American Dream. The "upper class" had no pressing need to work, and the "lower class" had little ability to produce or accumulate wealth. Therefore nothing good happened or ever could happen. Enter the middle class! The middle class is able to produce and accumulate wealth, but it cannot ever comfortably stop working. Finally society can exist and people's lives obtain meaning through harmony with the laws of economics.
Hide one side of the market by "intelligently matching users"; users will assume they are in a large marketplace without actually seeing the other side. Additionally, "intelligent matching" can be marketed as a benefit to the user so they don't have to waste time searching on their own.
Another prerequisite for the good ol' days: way higher corporate tax rates. 52% during the 50s. I find it funny Republicans always leave that one out.
They'd have probably staying profitable if they couldn't overbook. Overbook it, sure, but offer escalating incentives to get people to voluntarily disembark. Physical removal is ridiculous and should be removed from the carrier's legal rights.
Ford is making a hybrid F-150 and Mustang
https://github.com/drmeister/clasp

From the CLASP page:

> Clasp is a new Common Lisp implementation that seamlessly interoperates with C++ libraries and programs using LLVM for compilation to native code. This allows Clasp to take advantage of a vast array of preexisting libraries and programs, such as out of the scientific computing ecosystem. Embedding them in a Common Lisp environment allows you to make use of rapid prototyping, incremental development, and other capabilities that make it a powerful language.

you wrote:

> This project uses LLVM's API, which is sadly difficult to utilize outside of C++.

I would guess that you could use LLVM's API via CLASP. The author initially wrote ( https://drmeister.wordpress.com/2014/09/18/announcing-clasp/) :

> Clasp exposes the LLVM C++ library within Common Lisp providing a rich, dynamic, programming environment for exploring the LLVM library and for writing new compilers that generate LLVM-IR.

Then you could write the parser/compiler in Lisp, which supports manipulating s-expressions on a simpler level than C++ does.
I would be extremely surprised as not having one is all downside to them.
> I didn't mean to imply otherwise, though I would say they are one and the same thing in the long term. For humanity to survive and spread beyond our planet we need civilization and we've used up so many natural resources that I'm not sure we could rebuild one to match what we have today without them.

There's no point in spreading beyond our planet if we cannot create a fully sustainable planetary civilization first. The energy expenditures of GOING to another STAR and terraforming a planet in its orbit are many magnitudes more than it takes to create a paradise here, on Earth, at least from the perspective of energy requirements of modern countries.
United Passenger Dragged from Overbooked Flight
How so? I agree that httpd's configuration language is "unique" but it is logical and easy to understand. And httpd's design is modular as the start, supporting dynamic modules LONG before nginx ever did, plus supporting various MPM mode, including prefork, threaded and event-based. So you can pick the right functionality and modules for your environ and use case? Maybe 10 years ago nginx had a "better design" but far, far from the situation today.
This could be a fun premise for an episode of Mr. Robot or something.

1.) Someone sets up a "take a fraction of a cent off every online transaction you make and put it in a brokerage account for you" app to get a lot of seed capital.

2.) Hack a lot of newswires to spread viral false information about (a non-trademark violating analogue for) Twitter that tanks its stock price.

3.) Use your pile of app-money to buy out a majority stake in (N-TVAf)Twitter at its new low price.

4.) Open up the platform, sell off any now-pointless assets.

5.) HACK THE PLANET! HACK THE PLANET!
" I had lasagna"

Sometimes you want news to be fake news.
So they're guaranteed a seat on the flight? Sounds like a winning strategy for them.
>I despise fake currency created to form a disconnect between the real-world costs of items and their "in-game" price.

That's the entire point; it's a psychological hack. It's the same idea as gambling chips at a casino. If they force you to purchase "coins" in bulk, then you are much more likely to spend them freely once you have them than you would with actual cash, as the value is too abstract. They will also set the prices in such a way that you just need
to buy one more "coin pack" even though you only need a few individual coins to get what you want.
I think at this point we'd need a lawyer to actually tell us the law here. I agree with you in that there should be a rational reason to remove someone. I simply disagree that there must be legally speaking.

The captain (afaik) can remove you for wearing blue shoes, and you must leave. He will face zero legal consequences for that action, but of course is subject to company discipline. In the absurd case the captain somehow owns the airline itself, I think there would be zero recourse available to an arbitrarily removed passenger other than IDB compensation and a refund of the ticket.

I also think the level of force in this case can certainly be argued - but I don't think the United crew will face any legal liability even if the officers do. Had they used a bit more discretion I'm quite certain this guy would have no case whatsoever even if physically removed against his will. Knocking him out of course is excessive, and I believe that is a separate argument.

I didn't intend to call you wrong, that wasn't the greatest choice of words. I'm simply stating this has been my understanding of the legal implications for some time now, as explained to me by casual conversation with various lawyers over the years since it's a curious subject for me.
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Oh man. If I was United's competition, I'd be looking to do a major ad buy right now. I'd never let them live this down. First ad: A United plane filled with Punching Bags instead of passengers.
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Haven't you heard? Real life is just like a monopoly game where everyone starts out equal and those who end up poor do so as a result of their own flawed decision-making. It's totally fair. At least, so people would have you believe.
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The airline had plenty of options. When you ask the police to intervene, you are explicitly requesting a violent resolution.
And then when you do, you can use Nginx to reverse proxy N Caddy instances!
Yeah your kid probably wouldn't have felt the 'blow' if he didn't work for that money.

The problem isn't virtual items, everyone pays money for non material experiences/services - and on a long enough timescale even material things wear down/break.

The important thing to teach a kid is if the value they derive from buy a skin eg. and whatever it brings to them (happiness, bragging rights) is more important that opportunity cost of paying for that.

If the cost is always zero (daddy pays) - then the kid will not stop to think about it ever.

Something about telling a kid that the iron is hot vs the kid needing to burn himself to learn.
> It's taking advantage of children and their connection with their funders (parents).

Couldn't that be said about any business that sell products aimed at children?
I haven't seen this one -- just when the backup disk is full and Time Machine says "this backup will erase backups before date x".
> The real thing to fear here is the normalization of violence.

Then there's not much to fear, because I don't see anyone at all finding this normal. It's on every news site and social network, everyone is deeply disturbed about these events.

If anything this clearly shows that violence is FAR from normal in peoples' mind.
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NaCl's secretbox for encrypting the session cookie - nice
Couple gripes with HTTP2 ...

1) HTTP2 Server Push is a hobbled protocol. It was designed for serving static assets to desktop browsers for pre-caching. Most of the internet traffic now is moving to mobile apps or rich browser clients. Developers would greatly benefit from a true bi-directional API that could be fully leveraged by event-based or reactive frameworks. The community could even build it's own APIs if the browsers just exposed the DataFrame primitives of HTTP2. But they don't.

2) Open-source proxy servers like NGINX, HAProxy and many key IaaS providers like Cloudflare, Google Cloud do not support full duplex HTTP2 connections (one-side only at best, translated to HTTP1 on the backend). This is 1 year after RFC 7540 was officially released and 5 years after SPDY. Why even bother baking considerations for HTTP2 into your application layer when your edge infrastructure won't let you leverage it anyway.
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Now more than ever, would be the time to launch a new Unix based Operating System and hardware startup since Apple is so weak, especially with a focus on developers. Imagine a commercially supported laptop line running Linux or FreeBSD.... one can dream
With ArangoDB you can choose between synchronous replication and asynchronous. With the Agency of ArangoDB you also have a RAFT based consensus protocol which holds the state of the cluster. My team mate wrote a nice article about our approach. You might want to have a look: https://www.arangodb.com/2017/01/reaching-harnessing-consens.... In single instance you have full transactional guarantees with multi collection and multi document transactions. In cluster mode we provide single document transactions. More guarantees will follow.
The point is that it doesn't matter if it's "fair" or "unreasonable" in your eyes.

It's lawful, and eventually you will be taken off the plane. The time to fight the battle is after you get off, not struggling against overwhelming odds and then getting charges piled on you.
Unless you have some bizarre demand curve due to extreme circumstances (famine, civil war, etc) there will always be a clearing price.

No need for violence.
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A non-technical acquaintance who occasionally asks me for computer help recently switched from Android to iOS (at the behest of her daughter, indicating Apple's continuing mindshare amongst at least one segment), and she utterly hates it compared to Android.

And I know as many people who went in the opposite direction, love iOS and love the integration with their Macs (hand-off, etc.). An anecdote is just an anecdote.

At what point do people who used to be proud Apple fanatics become sheepish, and at what point do sheepish Apple users just switch to something else already?

Until 'something else' offers: good retina support (including mixing retina and non-retina displays), hardware that works out of the box, long battery life as stated by the manufacturer [1], no spying on user behavior, proper GUI and application sandboxing, low weight, uniform application look & feel + shortcuts, etc.

(I use Linux and Mac, switched from 3 years of Android back to iOS. So hardly a purist ;).)

[1] http://www.which.co.uk/news/2017/03/which-laptop-battery-tes...
I said absolutely nothing about removing anyone from a flight in my first comment.
On the subject of Go web development, I'll plug one of my favorite libraries: https://goji.io. It's a super-fast HTTP router that supports middleware and pattern matching.
If anything, there's a long history of repressive regimes that attempt to force an ethics on society through religion. The ancient Romans even tried to enforce Christianity on their own people, replacing the official state religion, after decades of trying to stamp it out.
Security aspects aside, that's fine - what isn't is the inability to run that external server yourself.

Imagine if instead of using "proprietary cloud xyz" for a particular IoT product, you could spin up a cloud server or container up somewhere and install it yourself - and as long as you pay for the server, you have access.

Let the consumer decide based on their "expertise" level what option they want to use - but the option should be there, and included in some form with the product itself (maybe on an sd card or something), so that they could at least transition to that should the company go out of business. Ideally, the system would be open source as well, so it could be expanded.
This is a run-of-the-mill "union vs management" story. Only the fact that Fujitsu = management makes this vaguely on-point for Hacker News.

Flagged.
Cryptomator solves that problem fine, and incorporates into major storage providers anyways.
You would hope in vain then.
Because you will get fired if you manage your reports to behave in this way.
If someone wants to make a free CPU that is comparable to an i5 or a Ryzen I will be all over that. I'm not as interested in some weird CPU that I can't run most of my software on.
This sounds in-part like a response to the popularity of Roblox.

Also, I see no reference of Etherium so I assume this isn't really an app coin but rather an arcade coin.
Their technical definition of boarding may include everything up to until taxing for takeoff. They definitely are able to remove people between boarding and takeoff, whether through IDB or another clause.
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United Airlines uses hired goon to drag passenger off plane
Too bad it's not like Microsoft's Longhorn - then it would have been delivered years late as a shadow of it's promised self (Vista) ;)
[dupe]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14079837
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nginx is turning into much more than just a load balancer. Projects such as OpenResty (a full CMS built into nginx) and Kong (an API management service), are built right into nginx using Lua. We've done some minor nginx Lua extensions and are looking to offload activities such as JSON validation into the front-end nginx.

http://openresty.org/
https://getkong.org
Our company is leaving China because they steal and do surveillance on us
I am a Southern California resident, and I would like to nominate Jakarta, please, as vastly worse than Los Angeles.
Your kindergarten teacher probably told you that the number after 1 is 2. How stupid of them not to know that you can also have 1.1!

You can't hop in the deep end when you start learning a new subject.

If you continue in Economics you will deal with models that consider irrational actors.
The prevailing theory for why the brain uses spiking networks is that it is much more energy efficient to transmit "all-or-nothing" spikes versus propagating analog
membrane potential across very large axonal trees.
Contemporary machine learning is focused on rate-based neural networks with continuous activation levels representing the firing rate of the neurons.
This makes these networks unable to measure the time difference between spikes arriving at a single neuron, an ability which is known to play a critical
role in your auditory system for example. It is unknown how it is used in other parts of your brain. However, in recent years the concept of dendritic computation, defined as computation being done by the complex interaction of synaptic activations as they pass down a dendritic tree before reaching the neuron soma, has gained a lot of attention. If you do not create networks where time is a "first-class citizen" you will be totally unable to do this.
Of course this might be more of an academic interest depending on your point of view.

The power efficiency argument from biology translates well to silicon when you want to build large structures. Here you cannot have 32-bit floats being passed
around to thousands of target synapses, so you must make do with less.
I use Mind Maps for all my note taking.

https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/knowledge-map

I found it to be the most optimal format for this task.
-7 thanks.

I would do absolutely anything to avoid working with whoever scores very high in this test.
Does go have any advantage over other compiled languages, like say, swift?

For example: https://vapor.codes
Even if it is not their fault it is still their problem.
The money can't be spent "in-game" if that makes sense.

Marketplace essentially adds another layer to Minecraft - it's not in the game, it's outside of it. You don't give coins to other players, you buy things from registered third party companies that are then paid in real money.
> XPS 13 is close, but the scaling on Linux just isn't good enough yet

It isn't? A coworker has one and Fedora looks pretty stellar on it. What qualms do you still have with it?
While I think that consumer antivirus is pretty terrible, I think it is hard to say that antivirus companies don't add any value.

I'd highly recommend reading up on Stuxnet and the work done by security firms (many of whom would qualify as antivirus corporations) to identify the source, spread, impact, and intent behind one of the most advanced technical attacks ever identified.

Fun Wired article on the topic: https://www.wired.com/2011/07/how-digital-detectives-deciphe...

Also a book: http://a.co/0WGJm1H