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The current claim is that the passenger was a doctor and had appointments he had to make the next day. So I can't say that this was unreasonably escalated at all.

Actually, scratch that - the profession does not matter. Flying is an expensive form of travel and most people travelling do have a schedule to meet. Military can get very severely punished, businesspeople can lose critical deals, tourists can't get on connecting flights or get fired for being late back from vacation, and so on.

United just handled it completely wrong - instead of raising the offer as long as necessary, their staff decided that it would be simpler and cheaper to forcibly remove someone from the flight. It went wrong and now they must face the consequences.
How is the passenger unreasonable at all. United could have easily avoided the situation by paying the market price for a seat, they didn't even offer the maximum they could have per their own contract.

I'm sure someone would have opted to delay their lives if the offer was $1k, $2k, hell $3k. Why does United get to economically benefit by getting their pilots to the next flight and profit from it, while inconveniencing someone else who has already purchased the flight? Sure, they're legally allowed to do what they did, but they didn't even bother to offer the maximum amount their own contract says to, so not sure why they would get any sympathy.
Yes, but that's not the whole OS. Where do your rights end to inspect the software and hardware you bought?

Also, I was careful to not say legal/illegal but allowed/disallowed. I am pretty sure that macOS disables some debugging calls, or at least it used to. What are the limits?
Airlines operate in very uncertain and variable environments (weather isn't always what it is predicted, mechanical issues are pretty common, and pilots can get sick and other stuff) and having planes or pilots on call everywhere is prohibitive expensive so it's really not surprising that they have to do stuff like this sometimes. Airlines need to be more up front about their policies but there doesn't seem to be a good way to fix it without increasing prices, which they can't really do because people flying are generally so price sensitive.
>Cheap new laptops are in the sub-$200 range. Most educational content is text or simple videos, both of which can be consumed on a cheap laptop. The cheapest broadband plan from Xfinity in my area is $40/month.

200 bucks a lot for some people, and you have to pass a credit check to get xfinity access.

> That being said, most people participating in the gig economy need access to the Internet to even participate, so most likely already have both a company and internet access.

Cell service != general internet service.

Try bootstrapping yourself into a tech job with only cell phone access. That may work in the third world where the standards are lower, but not in the West.
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The passenger didn't unreasonably escalate. If the airline screws up, they need to pay the price. And physically harming the customer crossed several lines.

Also, it looks like United violated their own rules: https://www.united.com/web/en-US/content/contract-of-carriag...
You mean to say it hasn't always been that way?
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> Their 'contract of carriage' allows them to IDB (Involuntary Deny Boarding) to passengers due to overselling, and bump people off at-will.

But my understanding from the article is that the problem here was not overselling; they decided to give priority to moving their employees around over providing the contracted service to ticketed passengers. It's hard to see how that's justifiable even by the letter of the law.
I just mentioned above (after your comment) that it's just an oversight. That text was built in to the Ghost template I used and I never bothered to change it. But I absolutely will change it to Creative Commons next time I make updates to the site.
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What state? I do them myself, as a c corp you probably aren't super profitable yet
Does this mean they can still bump people off the flight at-will even though he already boarded the flight?
I'd venture to guess likely not at first glance - the guy was trespassing at that point and refused to move. The only alternative from that limited perspective is use of force.

You can't just refuse to leave an aircraft when instructed to do so by the crew. The reason simply doesn't matter - the time to fight about that is off the aircraft.

It may be considered excessive force however - which likely opens up avenues for assault and similar charges. Heck if I know though, IANAL and now I'm well off into the speculation weeds.
Yep. There was good code before CI and source control, and there's bad code even where those things are in use. Certainly they're tools worth having, but checklisting tools doesn't actually say much about software quality.
They did, they went up to $800 and nobody volunteered. They were too cheap to offer any more.
You need it for sure. Example:

I have my business in Germany. If I write an invoice to a german company I add 19% VAT. If I sell to a company inside the EU but not in Germany I add 0%, since it's a reverse charge.

That means that the company in the EU country directly pays the taxes to their country and I don't have to pay it to my country. This solves a lot of bureaucracy hassle.

Exception is where I am selling to no business, but a private person within the EU, I will charge VAT there and pay it to my country which redirects it to the EU country (that's called MOSS).
Agree, bottom line: if you think gig economy jobs are a rip off, don't get one. It's as simple as that.
The other problem is what society views as ethical or moral is now subjective to each on a variety of different factors in this post post-modern society. There was once puritanical values, however despised they are by certain factions, which unified the "ethos" of the nation on what is and is not ethical. The civil rights movement came along and augmented that ethos for the better.

Now we have groups who place abandoning a cat on the same level as abandoning a child, as an example. It's going to be very difficult on agreeing what is "ethical" when in the "me" society it translates to "what is ethical for me, right now, based on my current views of some form of science/philosophy/religion/spirituality/etc and what happened to me personally when I was growing up"
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No. It's a federal crime to disobey instructions of the flight or the captain. If they ask you to leave the aircraft you're required to leave. If you refuse and need to be physically removed, tough.

Not that I'm saying this makes United's behavior acceptable - I have no idea how they managed to load the plane before realizing they needed extra seats - just that the law is, in this case, on their side.
That's really not the same thing as the title suggests. Sheesh, thank you for the tldr
How do you override the stack without writes?
Yeah, the mistake was United's. But the passenger also acted unreasonably. If you act like a two-year-old - even in a situation that, initially, totally isn't your fault - then you may get treated like a two-year-old. And if you act like a two-year-old after the cops start telling you to leave, they're typically going to make you leave - using whatever level of force is required to do so.

So, yes, the initial fault is United's. But there's blame enough to go around.
From what I've been reading (sources are all over the place, so take with a grain of salt) the man was a doctor and was supposed to see patients the next day and wanted to talk to his lawyer (presumably about the legality).
The only thing Uber did is create taxi drivers without artificial medallion limits.

Why are there expectations for a taxi dispatching service to be the savior of the middle class?

The gig economy may make "false promises" about how happy their workers are to get more, but I would consider that marketing.

People need to check their assumptions and expectations.
What isn't a scam these days? Scams have only become more modular and probably smarter; so there are scams targeted at simpletons (e.g. the Nigerian Prince Plot, which apparently still works af), the middle class (e.g. the importance of working hard at your 9-5 job so you can move up the ladder, probably pay off that mortgage and send your kids to college, both of which have a low chance of occurrence especially in SF & co.) and the elite (e.g. investing your money in 2/20 hedge funds, attributing more value to expensive wines, etc.)

At different points in your social and economic development, different modules of the scam program are working to deceive you and emphasize unimportant details rather than big picture perspectives.
You're going to have to empirically demonstrate to me that these gig economy business models would not be possible.

Their growth may have been aided by current levels of unemployment and underemployment, but to say they wouldn't exist is an extraordinary claim that requires extraordinary evidence.

Even then I could see them growing as fast if there were a robust middle class with disposable income to spend on these services.

The only thing that would change is the supply and demand curves. There would be more demand and less supply, making the only thing that would change would be the equilibrium price point where those two intersect.
They offered $800 to leave, and nobody volunteered. I'm certain that if they offered $10k, 4 people would. It's just a question of offering enough money. I guess they went for the "millions and millions" option instead...
Then they should have figured that out before boarding everyone. This is a colossal fuckup. The airline assaulted its own customers beating them till they had to be carried out on a stretcher. And yet people still defend them.
This analysis, like many others, compares gig economy workers to their full-time equivalents and therefore misses a lot of the positive aspects.

The flexibility has huge value that is difficult to quantify, especially for folks that are augmenting an existing job, a school commitment, retirement, family obligations, or some other constrained situation.

Consider the same at work in two different arrangements: one with a very rigid schedule that pays X dollars per hour, and the other with a completely flexible schedule that pays Y dollars per hour. What's the ratio of X to Y?
Hard to say. Which laws continue to be enforceable against airport police if there's an insinuation that you may have been difficult?
The idea of offering cash is specifically mentioned in the article.
This reminds me of when people claim it'd be better if a company was owned by its employees. This idea influences businesses to various degrees, from stock options to cooperatives.

IMHO, this idea fails to acknowledge that ownership is a dynamic concept, not a static one. In a free country, people can sell what they own. So even if you give shares to a category of person you think should own them, you don't know if they will keep them or if they will sell them to the very category of people you took these shares from in the first place.
> They messed up and overbooked the flight, sure.

To be clear, every flight is overbooked.

The airlines have run the numbers, and it is clearly more profitable to sell (for example) 105% of the plane, and then if more than 100% show up, pay people off to take a different flight.
Why not? I've been making stock from carcasses for years. Granted, most of the animals I eat are either hunted or some type of free-range/organic/what-have-you, but I've made stock from cheap grocery-store birds before too, and honestly I don't think that I could tell the difference.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14079837
Ah, the good old Social Darwinism argument.
Makes sense. Any regrets?
The passenger was attacked by a random big dude in blue jeans. Sure there were uniforms looking on with approval, but this guy looked like a baggage handler not police?
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Not at all, it's very good and would be the right thing if you wanted to be able to buy books from their store.
Depends on the lawyer, if you can get it before a judge and judge/jury. It's unlikely since United has very expensive lawyers I'm sure.

Remember, the law is different depending on your income and status. Large companies are like very rich people. They can and do often get away with murder.
Honestly, I think unionizing would be a fantastic solution in this space. It saves the government from stepping in and allows gig services to exist without feeling as if they are exploiting workers. If gig workers unionize too, they can stop the brutal competition that exists in this space where underpaying your supply can help you crush your competition.
On this note, can someone ELI5 overbooking? Why is it so hard for these companies to just not overbook? Genuinely asking.
> I can't imagine that out of more than 100 people they wouldn't find at least 4 interested in waiting in the airport to travel 1st class.

Apparently they did. The law is pretty clear on this. You can be refused a flight for this reason - United decided that they wanted the seat for their employee more than the passenger.

Once the passenger starts resisting, he/she should get removed by any means necessary, up to and including force. When people are acting unreasonably they should be prepared for unpleasant outcomes.
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I would use it by printing to it from my phone or my laptop and I would use it to review things and write notes on them

Uh...interesting! I'd honestly be quite happy with just PDF functionality, but this would also be an interesting workflow. I could totally see myself finding either documentation, tutorials, or other things to print to then be able to write notes on top of.

Very interesting. This is a workflow I could get behind of.
They probably should fix the bit vs byte confusion(?) on the page.
If you buy 50.1% of Twitter, you can do whatever you want. They chose not to take the Google route of a two-class stock structure.

At the current stock price, that's about $5,180,340,000...but of course the price will begin to rise as you buy more and more shares on the open market. So let's say a cool $7 billion to make it happen. Are you planning a Gofundme?
Eink devices are not (or rather, should not be) competing with the tablet that is the iPad.

The public didn't realize this because of the ipad hype. I'm not arguing that the ipad isn't a success, I just wish the ipad would never have been created.
I don't know. Last minute logistical changes based on timetables, planes, weather, etc. The reason why I guessed this is because my brother is a pilot.
Thanks for the advice, I think I'm going the CodePipeline/CodeBuild route :)
Some web servers[1] additionally stores cache information in cookies. The same author that (co-)wrote your linked draft implemented it as a primer to the draft. If only CDN's supported it :-)

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So, "some person" of no particular power within Twitter (given how easy it is to own $2K of Twitter stock for a year) got a ballot proposal on the ballot for what could be read as more-or-less personal/ideological reasons as much as a serious proposal? In which case, this sort of thing happens all the time and this is only HN news because it's Twitter? (Checking my guess/understanding. And I'm not upset that it's HN news or something, that's fine; just trying to calibrate my understanding, as my initial calibration was perhaps too oversensitive.)
I haven't, but I've thrown together a gist [1] of the most-relevant configuration. In this case it's a pretty simple static page hosted on an nginx container, but the approach should scale to multiple services if I ever started using proper Helm dependency management. If you have any questions let me know, and I can also comment the gist a bit more as I get time today.

Admittedly, I'm probably only using 50% of Helm's capabilities, because I'm primarily interested in its templating abilities rather than managing a centralized repo of apps that can be installed.

My current pattern (which I'm still iterating on) is that I have a `chart` directory which contains the Helm chart and templates, and TBH I don't really bother updating the version in `Chart.yaml` because I'm managing it in-repo with git tags, branches, etc. Then my gitlab CI scripts just `--set` a few variables so that the right docker image, DNS, and ingress path values are used for the branch.

[1] https://gist.github.com/andrewstuart/8006a6f39ce5cb3fff7211e...
For folks wondering about whether this will happen, I would highly recommend also reading the Board's "Statement of Opposition." Pretty clear no. Shareholder value, etc.

While this might be a decent option for a medium that could be considered important for public discourse, it's certainly not going to goose your stock price and I'm guessing even every Twitter user contributing a few bucks won't get you to a sale price that might work for the board.
E-ink displays are opaque, right? How would you add a backlight to them?
> And he had to get dragged off the plane.

You've skipped over the part where the people involved bashed his head against another seat, then dragged him down the aisle while concussed and limp.
Classic UNIX file, edited with the 'ed' command :)

Nothing fancy.
Been using this for a few weeks. Simple app that does the job.

What's your long-term plan for this? I noticed you didn't use the word Stripe in the product name. Are you planning to add support for other payment providers down the road?
Whoever decided to force the guy off the plane is an idiot. They could have simply raised the comp for volunteering slowly until someone took the money.
Interesting. My understanding of this is from the Microsoft contractor case, where a key part of the finding was that since MS was providing the tools, the contractors were employees. I may misunderstand the details though!

( http://articles.latimes.com/2000/dec/13/business/fi-64817 )
Who are these "animal rights people"? Do they really all think as a monolith? Is it fair to characterize each individual with any concern for animal rights as "one of them"?
Then the law is wrong.
This test completely misses what it means to be a senior (effective) engineer. The real difference between a mid-level engineer and a senior engineer is that the mid-level engineer will mechanically apply the same strategies to all projects without thinking - All the points mentioned in this article; CI, one-step deployment, daily status check-in meetings, etc, etc... are in fact not necessary for ALL projects.

The quote "Those who only have a hammer tend to see every problem as a nail" is a good summary of the junior/mid-level mindset.

I don't know the author, but based on the rigidity of the article, I would guess that they've only worked for big companies. I would argue that a most of these rules are only effective in the context of a very large company; in literally every other context, many of these rules are inefficient.

Big companies are all about risk mitigation; they are willing to sacrifice speed and agility in exchange for stability, certainty and visibility but this is actually a luxury that only big companies can afford and should not be taken as a rule of thumb.
From my understanding, you're correct. Deny Boarding can be avoided by checking in early. These people had boarded and the plane was full before the mistake was realized.

EDIT: Still unsure as to the legality of this. IDB is well established, but the fact that everyone has boarded is a different matter. Reading the contract of carriage did not bring any more light to this point. And let's be clear, denying someone and removing someone are very different. At least one source says it does matter (unknown reputability) "This is important because involuntary denied boarding only applies when passengers have been fully checked in (including baggage) and are at the gate at a specified time, typically 30 minutes before scheduled departure." https://thepointsguy.com/2014/12/what-to-do-if-your-flight-i...
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I hope he sues the pants off them.

There is a racist angle here too. Why target the Chinese guy?
While I agree with you that price discovery is useful... the facts of the situation mean only one thing:

Active investing will decline until active investing is profitable. The price of stocks is dominated by human emotions in the short term after all (ex: Enron cooked the books as early as 1996... but didn't go bankrupt till 2001). Holding onto a "short" position for 5+ years is basically unheard of, especially in the context of a Stock whose price is skyrocketing. (You probably would have been margin-called during that runup).

How many people would trust their "active investment manager" avoiding a hugely successful company with huge income growth? A quickly stock price and a good dividend? http://picker.uchicago.edu/Enron/EnronAnnualReport2000.pdf

The fact is: even with perfect knowledge about which companies are good and bad (Perfect 20/20 hindsight), its still incredibly difficult to make cohesive arguments for or against particular companies.
Techmeme is probably the most inside source on SV. It's read by journalists and definitely influences the more mainstream tech news sites like TechCrunch, The Verge. The Information is another very inside source but geared toward founders and execs because of their business model -- expensive user subscriptions (~$400/year). Quality is top notch though.
Have you seen the video? It isn't clear to me if he's unconscious or just limp.
Law is intended to, at a fundamental level, reflect and enforce the moral and ethical standards of a civilised society.

But when law becomes a reason to induce immoral and/or unethical (but legal) behavior - the civilization collapses.

Good luck to us all!
This makes me think of a long time ago, when I was diagnosed with ADD as an adult. I started medicating with dexadrine, which really did work wonderfully. Changed my life. A couple of years later, I had the worst mental breakdown of my life. I was a wreck. Borderline suicidal. I'm amazed that I didn't lose my spouse or my job over it, and I did lose a number of friends.

Quit taking dexadrine, and it cleared up. Serotonin imbalance is no laughing matter. I technically still have a prescription, but I haven't taken it in years. I've learned to just live with the issues the ADD causes.

On the subject of LSD... personally, I think LSD is a wonderful invention with enormous therapeutic potential. Back when I was just a bum kid in a college town, I probably tripped at least 50 times. I learned a lot about myself and the world, and don't regret a moment of it. With that in context, I find the research into microdosing really fascinating. I can easily imagine the benefits.

But that serotonin thing. I'd want to know more about that.
The title is pretty accurate. What GP didn't include is that Apple was #1 for the previous 4 years.
> now have to enter the service economy and perform low-level jobs, many of which require little or no specialized skills

have to implies there's a wealth of "white-collar work or stable and well-paying blue-collar work" out there but people are forced or coerced to act against their best interests.

What's the alternative? Let's say the government decides to step in and make a structural change by changing the rules on W-2 employee vs 1099 contractor treatment. Will this lead to a resurrection of the American Middle Class?
But if he had the right to his seat, then why should he leave?
I don't think that answers lamby's question. Surely they know how many of their own employees will be flying ahead of time?
Since when is it acceptable to knock out a two-year old?