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> I've given my rant a million times so I won't do it again, but "The Cloud" heavily upcharges on bandwidth. Or they tell you it's "unlimited" (a word I've learned through experience to hate) then tell you "except for the kind of stuff you're doing" and send a bill or shut you down. If you've got to ship a ton of bandwidth, you should at least look into the alternatives.

It stuns me just how bad it upcharges and how much it could be hurting their business. I can imagine so many use-cases where reasonably priced bandwidth would drive consumption elsewhere. I use cloud storage for backups without worrying about the insane cost of a restore. I could send large video production files to cloud storage, use cloud compute to produce renders and then download the processed files again without paying a multiple of the compute cost on bandwidth.

To illustrate a bit on that video example, 4K 422 ProRes HQ is 424 GB/hr [0]. Assuming I have say 2h of footage I want processed, that's 848GB. Then if I need say 2h on 2x g2.8xlarge GPU instances to process the video, that's $2.78 * 2 * 2 = $11.12 for the entire process. Then I need to download that 848GB again, that's $76.32. The cost of retrieving the processed data is 7x the cost of processing it, that's insane.

[0]: https://ssl.apple.com/final-cut-pro/docs/Apple_ProRes_White_...
> In the 1960s, one person could get a blue-collar job and keep a family going in a suburban house, with a car.

Even if this person happened to be female or non-white?
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I don't think that matters in this case. When (not if) this guy sues, United is going to pay a huge settlement (with a gag clause) to make this go away as quickly as possible. They do not want this going to court with weeks of media attention, even if their case is ironclad.
I'm not trying to rationalize anyone's actions here, but if the captain told you to kill another passenger, that is not within his right of removal of choice for individual. i.e. The captain is only allowed to remove choice for an individual when the group is threatened, given they are in charge, by law, of making choices for group (perhaps for the reason of or related to in-flight matters).

Edit: changed he to they.
What are they legally required to offer before they can just pick people?
This is very much illegal in many places, fair warning.
Perhaps someone can clear up my confusion, but I classify neural networks as just one category of algorithms. It doesn't strike me as something that will replace our binary systems anytime soon because, well, we haven't shown any systems being replaced. And I'm talking about things like an Operating System, programming language, audio driver, web browser, and so on. So I'm confused why "neuromorphic" chips are a big deal, apart from just being able to run our computer vision algorithms faster.

Additionally while inspired by the brain, that's all they are, inspired. There is still hundreds of differences between our neural nets in our head and the ones we build on the computer. The article talks about "brain-inspired architectures that route for efficiency and performance.", but aren't our own brains efficient because they literally grow new pathways on demand? I feel like this sort of flexibility is something we will never see in silicon, and I don't think we even have a computational understanding of it at all at the moment.
Too bad, I say. If we're going by the exact letter of the law on what is/isn't acceptable then the mistake started and ended on the airline side.
Agreed. The description of why Lenovo is suddenly "#1" seems fairly arbitrary and subjective.
Airlines shouldn't be allowed to overbook. Causing people to miss their flights just because the company wanted to ensure 100% profitability per flight is unacceptable, and it shouldn't be legal (the overbooking, not the throwing off a plane for whatever other serious reason per se).
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Pretty sure assault and battery is not legal.
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most flights don't have every single person show up. there might be, say, 2 or 3 seats unfilled even if you sell every seat on the plane.

so instead, sell a couple of seats twice, and bet that not everyone will show up. if you're wrong and everyone shows up, you have to pay people extra to take another flight, but that apparently happens infrequently enough that overbooking makes money over the long term.
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I only read the title and it immediately reminded me of what Rabbi Cooper said: https://k0nsl.org/blog/detox/intolerant-rabbi-wants-to-censo...
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At a glance, the compiler looks solid, with full LLVM integration instead of compiling to C. That'll pay dividends down the road. Really great job :)
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And probably eliminates everyone flying with multiple people on the same reservation.
Or they can just take the hit. In this case, they decided to comp four people so they didn't have to cancel a plane load. Seems like good economics, but no one wanted to give up their seats. I mean why would you. It's bad enough you have to get molested by the TSA once. Twice? Fuck that. I want to go home. No I don't want a voucher for $200 of my next flight with the same shitty airline that will expire before I can use it.

They should have just realized they can get a crew to that plane and canceled that flight; take the hit. Those passengers haven't boarded yet and would be easier to deal with.
I don't have a framework in mind. If I were to do this, I would write raw cuda with opengl introp.

the output of cuda will be in a texture map memory and given to opengl for rendering.

although I have not done anything with visualization using this approach, I have, however, did video processing with this approach. A video frame is first processed by cuda and then passed to opengl for rendering.
> I haven't ever met someone who has sat in a tractor without a positive opinion of this company.

Then you must not know very many farmers or ranchers because Case IH(formerly International) vs. Deere is a very big thing in those circles. It is very much a rivalry with typically no overlap much like the Ford/Chevy/Dodge rivalries.
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But that costs money immediately. Forcing someone off the plane and causing a huge HR mess only costs money long-term, and it doesn't come out of my budget, so why should I care?
What made you realize that your Time Machine backups were getting corrupted? I've never seen that before and am curious to know if there's some kind of user notification.
On any given flight, there will almost always be some people who cancel at the last minute, get delayed on their way to the airport, miss a connection, etc. From the airline's perspective, there's now an empty seat going to waste (unless there are passengers at the airport waiting for a standby seat). Therefore, airlines will often sell a few more tickets than they actually have seats for because, statistically, they expect some no-shows. But sometimes what's statistically probable doesn't actually happen.
Is it random? I imagine they are not kicking a Global Services passenger off because they got RNG'ed.

Most likely the lowest fare ticket on the plane, since compensation is capped at 4x the cost of the segment.
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Don't no-shows get charged anyway? With this policy they're making money coming and going.
I believe your understanding is incorrect - someone can be denied boarding regardless of when they have checked into the flight. If there are 100 seats, they may sell 105 tickets and permit 105 people to check in - if they cannot find 5 volunteers they will have to IDB 5 passengers.

While the rules aren't printed very well (I just scanned United's Contract of Carriage, and the Federal Code), I believe it counts as an IDB even if you are physically on the airplane.
And there won't even be any "whistleblowers", since everyone will be able to honestly say they had no idea. The programmers will just plug all the information they have into a generic machine learning system, and ask it to predict the probability of a missed flight for each flyer, based on opaque correlations.
I'm calling bullshit on your train of thought. Frame ain't reality, buddy. The magnitude of Assads participation in first inspiring chaos in Iraq, then purging the Syrian people, and an increasingly brutal hold to power, far out weight any minor US involvement.
If they pick someone they are entitled to 4 x ticket capped at $1350.
According to Reddit hearsay they offered increasing amounts up to $800 but no one budged. One passenger offered to leave for $1500 and the crew laughed. I'm assuming there's corporate policy that puts a maximum cap on compensation.
It would have to go before a judge. It could be a case of excessive force. Was there something else they could have done rather than end up with him getting knocked out and a bloody nose. As someone else mentioned it would be brought against the policeman in this case (or authority they work for).

United unfortunately is probably legally in the right here. However this is a major fuck up and it will take them a while to clear this black PR mark from their record.

Anyone searching for it will find "United" might find this "Airline drags doctor off the flight because they wanted to fly their employees instead" for years to come. Hopefully it was really worth getting those employees there...
You don't have to trust corporations. You have to keep your skills up and be ready to jump ship when necessary.
It's hard for them because they make much more money overbooking since XX% of people don't show up for their flight. They make money on change fees/no-shows since they sold more tickets.
The airlines know that a small number of people will not make their flight. If they plan the overbooking correctly they can fill the plane with happy passengers, some of whom wouldn't have got a ticket, and make it right for the the people who missed their plane (let them on a different flight that wouldn't be full).

If they sold tickets up to the plane is full, no more: they would have to charge people for missing their flight since the seat left without them. While that might be legal (and moral?) it isn't something people like to happen to them, so the airlines sell just a little over so that they can tell the guy who missed his flight, "sorry, but you can use your ticket on the next flight so you are only out your time."

In short overbooking when it works right is a way to earn some goodwill from people who make a mistake.
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Or, what may be a more common case, depending on caching method:

Without server push:

1. Client requests main page ->

2. Client receives main page <-

With server push:

1. Client requests main page ->

2. Client receives push promises and main page <-

3. Client cancels promises it doesn't need ->
as a web server, can I use this with an Ruby on Rails application?
$1350
s/Delta/United/
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Some versions of this story state the man that was beaten was a doctor (a specialist) that needed to be somewhere to see patients in an emergency situation.

So, yeah, I'd hate to be United's CEO at the moment, this is now too big to sweep under the rug and blindly quote IDB and other such laws.
Was the person doing the assaulting federal law enforcement? Was he arrested? I don't think either of these are true. So, I don't think this is how any of this actually works.
I think it's still relevant, because Apple has historically had great mindshare amongst thought leaders — now that it appears to have lost it, it's only a matter of time before it starts to lose mindshare amongst normal folks.

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. From what I can tell, it's not solely because of the pain of changing — it's also that iOS simply isn't as pleasant to use. And that says something, given that she was using a fairly terrible vendor Android previously.

That's just one anecdote, but I wonder how many others there are. How many vi-users will seriously consider switching to Windows or Linux? How many power users will have to switch to Windows or Linux just for more RAM? 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?
Bah!

Our society is less violent today than even recent history and continued reductions are more likely than not.

Which I don't mean we shouldn't be concerned about unnecessary use of force, I mean that it requires very careful measurement to say that violence is being normalized (Rather than rejected).
So what do you do when someone refuses to leave?

I'm on the doctor's side, United should not overbook a plane and bump a customer to get their own people on board, but when someone refuses to leave what other options do you have? Taze him and drag him off? You'll have to use force to remove someone.
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Good point. Whoever set the incentives badly and set some arbitrary cap at $1350 should be fired.
And if people doubt this, I'd refer them to the written apology issued by the CEO. He's very sorry that the passenger made them do this.
They don't even need to offer more money. Offer $1000 and two free return tickets to anywhere in the US, or miles.

I find it hard to believe no one volunteered, even for a small amount, unless they were already delayed
In a sense it is the same product (for the users, Deis Workflow / Deis v2 is basically a drop-in replacement for Deis v1, and API Clients such as Deis Dash http://deisdash.com/ can work with both). But in a very real sense also, the old product was End-of-Lifed and Workflow is a completely separate and different product.

There is no direct upgrade path from v1 to v2, the branding was changed (new product name entirely) to coincide with the release of v2, and the v1 LTS branch is no longer receiving updates, support, or new builds when issues are identified.

It's kind of like the axe that is passed down from generation to generation for 150 years. Can't really call it the same axe anymore when you've replaced the blade and the handle several times over.

(This coming from a happy Deis user that still has living installations of both v1 and Workflow.)

Congratulations on the acquisition!
There is something to be said though about shining a spotlight on the cockroach infestation, rather than filling the holes with spackle followed by a nice paint job.

Threats of violence, or calls that encourage it are a fair line to draw for any user. But the posts you're talking about removing, I think amounts to turd polishing that might actually make it sparkle more than it deserves, and ends up being a deception of the true character of the person.

Imagine if all the birtherism posts were scrubbed? That's his true nature. Compulsive liar or delusional - doesn't really matter. My concern is assurance posts are difficult to scrub. That's what incentivizes people to be sincere rather than just taking inconsequential pot shots at others.
They should have offered a ton more than $800 for that then.
"Unavoidable" is the key thing to realize.

Even if you manage to get your government to never do this, it is (or soon will be) easily within reach for private hobbyists.

My window faces a major freeway. I could probably rig up a license plate reader that registers all cars going by fairly cheaply. If not now, then surely in 5 years.

Everyone has a quite nice camera in their pocket. The car I bought last year comes with 3 cameras. And so on. I think it's an unavoidable fact that in the very near future, you have to assume you are being filmed whenever you're in public.

So I think the real question is: How do we adapt to this new world? How can we limit the bad aspects and enjoy the good aspects? Are we really sure what is bad and good?
A non-zero percentage of passengers usually fail to show up for any given flight. It is more profitable for the airline to sell (e.g.) 110% of the seats available and get near 100% utilization out of the flight, while occasionally having to pay for a hotel room and a cheap voucher, as opposed to not overbooking.

When a business is acting in an abhorent, immoral, or unethical manner profit and greed are nearly always the fundamental reasons.
You're right, the US can improve. 56% is low. I just dislike the entire metric of mobility out of the bottom quintile.
Then the flight attendants wouldn't have had seats in the case of an emergency which I'm willing to bet isn't allowed.
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[2] http://sgmljs.net/blog/blog1701.html
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Automation/Notification

1. Your oven can cook the pizza in the oven, which will be ready by the time you are home.

2. Your coffee maker can check your location to see if you're in town or not and decide to make coffee.

3. Security cameras can upload video to cloud directly so you can see them from anywhere live. They can be motion activated to alert you so that you can check if it is a dog or a burglar.

4. A fridge which recently came out with a camera which you can check to see what you need to buy[1]. Can be triggered when your location is close to a grocery store.

5. Your smoke detector can send you a notification, turn
off the internet connected thermostat and any other appliances. Can turn on the security camera inside so you can check if it's your family burning cookies or house burning down.

6. You washing machine can remind you when your load is done. Can send you reminders that you didn't do laundry for a while.

7. Roomba already does neat stuff that I don't need to explain here.

As I said, the real benefit comes when they all work together. There are custom solutions, but if one can set up everything so that it can track your location/schedule to automate things, that would make for a great increase in quality of life. You won't keep forgetting food in the oven, let the heat bill run up too high, forget your clothes in the washer, and a nice coffee as soon as you wake up.

This might seem insignificant, but I think it's similar to having a very smart housekeeper (although not as capable). Combined with all the data about you, like weight, heart rate, schedule, etc. intelligent systems can work pretty well.

[1]: http://www.samsung.com/us/explore/family-hub-refrigerator/
I think he is just referring to your Deis v1 PaaS before you started on Workflow and k8.
They just released this non-statement: https://twitter.com/united/status/851471781827420160
I feel like that would be easily circumventable given time and resources.

I imagine most attacks aren't people being like "You know what, I'm sick of life. I'm just going to ram my truck into people"
I don't know. I am assuming there is some other way to judge "what something looks like!" - something that an AI could learn, be programmed with, derive, or invent. My assumption could be false and perhaps there is no way to approach aesthetics with anything other than a human brain, or training on the outputs of human brains.

But if the AI had brain-like features, couldn't it be its own judge? Couldn't it have as an emergent property, its own sense of aesthetics or meaning, which it could then approach using its own naive approaches. Which humans could say "Wow" to.

AI as the ultimate naive painter. What a concept!

I realize it presupposes a lot that may never come to pass.
Of course they want "free stuff". They want farm subsidies, they want tariffs and a trade policy that has everyone else paying more so their wages can be artificially increased, they want unnecessary military spending that puts money in their pocket, etc.
And how does any of that justify assault and bodily harm?
For some reason it looks a little bit off considering that he was already boarded and in his seat.
I can understand the reasoning if it is executed at gate or check-in. It happened to me, and while frustrating, you comply.

But if you have to take people off the aircraft, that looks like a last minute decision made by the airline to move staff.

The best approach would have been to up the reward/incentive.
Let me explain in other words. You said:
>It is the failure of concepts so if the tool brings the right concepts, it helps avoid such design mistakes in the first place.
In the context of Spring/DI it does not make sense, because no matter what, some developers do and will be doing design mistakes related to coupling and modularity and some will write great code, but this is neither feature nor failure of the tool. DI/IoC is too low-level concept to influence application design, because in case of Spring it affects individual classes, not components, namespaces or subsystems. It is the responsibility of the developer to make decisions and create designs that make application modular, designs that restrict number of dependencies etc, and, in general, to do all the work required to avoid creating "giant ball of mud". The result of this work done with Spring or any other IoC/DI framework will not be very different from manual instantiation of objects and wiring.
Sarcastically: mostly anything.

Realistically: mostly anything, e.g., Rails, NodeJS, Elixir. Even Java, but I'd lean away from that from a resource perspective.
They said it was "the computer", but I think they just looked at the fare paid and picked the lowest ones.
I don't think your average person will view this as being "fair". Specifically already being on the plane and effectively being evicted from your seat for no fault of your own I would call "unreasonable".

Public opinion I think will also be very "unreasonable" regarding United in these circumstances.
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