skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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If only we could somehow prevent Uber from forcing people to drive for them, we could solve this problem once and for all...

I really just can't understand the mentality of "These people are too stupid to realize they're being taken advantage of, let's write opinion pieces to enlighten these poor simple minded masses to the errors of their ways."

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

If it really is a bum deal, people will figure it out and quit. Uber will either go out of business or work harder to retain drivers. Or if customers get too upset at always having a new driver they'll seek other options.
1st debagging experience is my fav!
This thread is really eye opening, culturally.

Aside from some devout paleo people, I've never known a single omnivore who doesn't routinely have meatless meals, without even giving it much thought. Having meat with every dinner seems rather obsessive to me, or (in my biased view) reflective or someone who isn't very creative with their diet. There are so many awesome foods out there for which meat is a minor, optional detail. I suppose some people always find a way to insert some meat, even when it adds nothing to the meal as a whole.
The real price of being an Apple supplier
You could make the counterargument that tablets floundered in obscurity for years until Apple released the iPad. The iPad made tablet ownership nearly ubiquitous among the types of people who might someday want to use a tablet for business purposes. The iPad isn't a business device, but it's breached the doors to the business market. It hasn't just tapped latent demand; it's created demand. In doing so, it's shown the way forward -- into a much bigger market than would have existed without it.
Everyone should have left the plane and stopped flying United in the future.

These things could be so simple and self-correcting if everyone acted instead of screaming oh my god.
So ... when do we shoot some rockets high up and spray something reflecting sunlight, changing earths albedo? Plan B?
Does it still allow you to buy books from kobo.com ?

By the way, I was surprised how Amazon is making special offers to authors when they restrict the publication of their ebooks on Amazon's platform only, leading to some authors to stop publishing on Kobo. Found this out when my daughter could no longer buy the new books in a series she was reading. The author confirm the reason (and actually sent the new book epub for free).
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This is a lot of words to say a very simple thing: if you measure a stock picker's performance on a binary scale (did they outperform the market, yes or no?) then you'll get different results from if you measured them on a scale that includes how much they under or outperformed the market by. It just so happens that for the stock market the former yields a result that makes the stock pickers look worse than the latter.

The original paper, as far as I can tell, is saying nothing more brilliant than that for stock picking results, the median is lower than the mean. Hence, the "average" (aka median) stock picker underperforms an index (which is, after all, the mean).
The outrage mob is pushing this pretty hard.

Booting people off a plane is pretty shitty behavior for an airline. It's bad customer service and they should dealt with it earlier than after boarding.

But if they have to do it, the passenger shouldn't be allowed to just refuse.

This guy did. And he had to get dragged off the plane. I don't really see an alternative other than just letting anyone willing to scream to stay and then boot off another customer with dignity.

This is shitty service by united escalated unreasonably by the passenger.
This is just a guess...United needed to get a couple of pilots on the flight from Chicago to Louisville or else another flight would be delayed/canceled.

Only reason I can think of an employee would take precedence over passenger.
I think this is completely relevant. I think a company should be able to moderate it's own content based on what it deems acceptable for it's community. This is a totally valid question and something I believe is worth discussing as we have gone well beyond absurdity at this point.

Edit: Disclosure, I am a twitter shareholder and approve the ban of @realDonaldTrump from twitter unless the "libel" and McCarthy type posts are removed and any accusations as such are filed in proper mediums.
The problem is that what's legal and what's ethical have diverged into two wholly different things. "The law" is now often used to aid in unethical activity, not to prevent it.
Or you just outsource it to someone like Avangate.
Maybe a population that want to be able to support themselves?

Check where trump had overwhelming support: it was mostly in areas with lots of unemployment or underemployment. The people there don't want free stuff, they want to work.
Perhaps, but why let too many people past the final boarding gate check?
White meat I agree is better in chicken tenders and nuggets. But dark meat is tastier in nearly all other dishes in my opinion. Chicken Kiev is the only other dish I can think of where dark meat isn't an improvement
Ask HN: Do schools pay for SaaS?
Im looking for saas opportunities for schools. Im curious if there's an opportunity or whether I should look into other niches? (Why schools? Im passionate about education)
What I'm curious about is the population distribution of flat-earthers. I think it's pretty clear that some of them are trolls, having fun with a ludicrous idea; some of them are mentally disturbed (schizophrenics of one sort or another, I suppose), some fraction have exceedingly low IQs, some fraction have high IQs but are exceedingly-poorly educated.

But is it really just mostly trolls? That's the only explanation that makes sense.

> The particulars differ, but here everyone takes it as a given that a conspiracy reaching from your first schoolteacher to NASA to the metaphysical Beyond has deluded humanity [ed: emphasis mine]

Misusing 'humanity' to mean 'mankind' (or, if you must, 'humankind') is one of my pet peeves: humanity is the quality of being humane. Flat earthers don't believe that a conspiracy is deluding the quality of being humane (that phrase doesn't even make sense); they believe that a conspiracy is deluding mankind (or, again, 'humankind').

edit: add closing paren
> Would you say that it's a bad idea to mix a software engineer with a boat on the open sea?

Not if one's satellite navigation system fails and one is then required to reduce sextant sights to get across the ocean safely, as happened to me. I had a laptop on board and wrote a program to reduce my cheap plastic "backup" sextant's sights in a reliable and speedy way. I ended up with almost the same position accuracy from the sextant that I was getting from the failed satellite navigation system (this preceded the GPS era -- GPS is way more accurate).

So from my perspective, being a software person was a distinct advantage, and I assisted a number of other sailors whose non-cybernetic navigation methods would otherwise have gotten them into serious trouble.
"So why not just have the company pay well for everyone?" That's just not something they do.
Buried at the bottom:

> "The airline eventually cleared everyone from the plane, Bridges said, and did not let them back on until the man was removed a second time — in a stretcher."

My reading is they beat him so badly they had to put him in a stretcher. Is that right?
Well, the good thing is that they may not have to worry about overbooking for a while now :)
United employees taking passenger's seats? That's not overbooked. That's robbery.
Ask HN: Who does your corporate taxes?
I attempted to do taxes for my startup C corp over the weekend. I figured it would be easy since I just started and only had one check and a few expenses, but even using tax software, I kept running into questions I had to look up what they meant. I'm pretty familiar with tax law for personal taxes, but the C corp just stumped me.

So what do most people use? Is there a good online accounting/taxes service that I just can't find, or does everyone just have a local person that they trust?
If you assume that we evolved (this is a position some do not agree with) then you would realize that we are nothing but the top of the food chain and whatever the flip we decide to do with animals doesn't matter--regardless of how much pain it causes them.

Make sense?
Legally - is this considered assault?
This should have a major impact on learning strategies for long term retention. Short term retention may not be any indicator for long term retention as different mechanisms are at work there. But short term memory at least initially will hide any long term memory so how can we measure and optimize what we remember in the long run?
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Providing your own materials isn't really a unique thing. There's a lot of blue-collar jobs that require you to bring your own tools to the job. When I applied for a construction job back as a teenager it was a requirement that you bring your own tool belt, hammer, hard-hat etc. My girl-friend's ex bought $100,000 worth of CNC equipment for his first job. My grandfather owned his own bulldozer and while he was an employee of the company he rented the dozer to his employer. I know mechanics that own and bring their own tools into the shop.

Even today, I provide my own laptop, desktop, and work environment (I work remote). If you are particular and a specialist in the tools that you use then it makes sense to bring them with onto the job.
Yep. It has the effect of making the top layer in compression, the top of the webbing in compression, the bottom of the webbing in tension, and the bottom layer in tension. The webbing distributes force as shear along a large area (and along the entire beam), so it can handle a great force with a pretty thin member. It's like building a really wide, really short I-beam. But better.

Because the top skin only has to resist compression and the bottom only tension, you can choose materials that will perform each of these best. The top can be really thin, while the bottom can be thicker, and the result will be a slightly stronger table than if both skins were a thickness in between. The length of the web will also directly affect the strength (part of why those table tops are so thick... to have longer webs)

In fact, you can build "torsion beams" that work like long torsion boxes, but instead as beams. A 6-foot long beam might weigh only 20lbs. Sit them on sawhorses and you now have a stowable assembly table. Another benefit to torsion beams is they are easier to construct straight because finding small members that are straight is easier than finding big thick straight members. (Uh.... let's ignore the obvious jokes here)

The downside to all this strength-hackery is, if one of the webs fail, structural integrity is gone. So don't land anything too heavy on a single spot.
And they're generally worse than simulated annealing.
Can you talk more about how that works out? In my interactions with the trades, there were no trade unions in the area, so most people were either 100% contractor or employee, no union intermediary.
"In all these realms, the international community can be helpful: by opening space for mutual reconnaissance and discussion; facilitating expertise on key issues; applying pressures and offering incentives to participants; providing training and technical assistance to political groups, civil society organizations and security forces; and helping to respond materially to the humanitarian crisis."

What a load of hippie BS. Venezuela will either pull a USSR and completely collapse under its own weight, or someone with guns and tanks is going to have to run these MF-ers out. What an utterly sad situation.
Trying to express this simply, I think the business term "margin compression" applies.

In 1972 my brother was working as a heavy equipment operator, bulldozers, excavators, etc. Pay was $15 to $18 per hour.

In 2017, typical pay for this same job might be twice as much. However, everything else is multiples higher, from gas, cars, housing whether renting or owning, etc.
What exactly makes the experience terrible? Are you exaggerating? There is nothing to it, you buy your ticket, and sit in a seat. It's the same boring routine.
This isn't about demand: this is about labour supply, and how the lack of opportunity makes gig economy business models possible.
Edit: Never mind, after a re-read it looks like this has nothing to do with the PC version... for now.

Who said it was okay? I for one am disgusted with it. I'm sure they'll catch my kids eye with some lame skin or map and I'll have to have yet another argument with him about how it's absolutely insane to buy virtual clothes in exchange for real money. He's already done it, and I've caved, several time with the XBox version. He moved to PC about a year ago so it hasn't been an issue. I knew MS was going to turn this great game into a shit hole as fast as they could. This game will eventually be completely centralized.
No, it's robbery if United doesn't compensate you for denying your boarding.
The "gig workers" "back then" were minorities and women.

Progress is determined by your viewpoint.
The plane was full before all the United employees showed up? Yeah they should have gotten there sooner, but in previous situations when I knew the plane would wait on me I've been the last to board...
We've updated the title from “Twitter to discuss proposal to sell itself to users”.
I believe it. Last summer I switched to a Dell M5510 (dev edition) from a MacBook Pro that was under a year old. Until then I had been a die-hard Mac user basically my entire life, but the MBP and new versions of the OS just had too many bugs:

- Time machine backups being corrupted on a monthly basis

- Audio occasionally not working after wake from sleep

- Laptop failing to wake from sleep altogether

- One or two kernel panics

In contrast, the Dell has had absolutely no problems running Linux for the past 9 months other than the inability to hot-plug the ethernet dongle. It's truly been more stable than the Mac. And the physical build quality is 90% of the way there, too. Aluminum case, similar keyboard, rubberized CF palm rest, etc. No complaints.
Most full time TNC drivers I've spoken to only work 50-60 hours a week, which is about the same as what I work at my job. It leaves plenty of time to learn new skills.

The truth is that most people regardless of education and job don't realize how they utilize the 168 hours per week that we all get to split between sleep, work, eating and leisure. When I used to teach, I had students give me the excuse all the time that they didn't have enough time to complete the assignment. I would ask others in the class how long they spent on average and then ask the students making the excuse to give me a rough breakdown of how they spent their last 168 hours. After account for sleep, other classes, other work, meals and liesure, they would routinely be unable to account for about ~40 hours. Most hours are squandered.
Tough day for them, but now tomorrow I'm sure customers will be a lot more compliant and willing to take arbitrary orders to save the airline money, and that will make everyone's job easier. #WorthIt
Was this thread just killed? I can't see it on any of the three first pages.
I think you're wrong. They should have upped their monetary incentive until someone left voluntarily. It was their business fuckup, not the passenger's, and they should pay for it.
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I'm using the Plain Notes Sublime plugin right now, but I also like OneNote. I haven't landed on a long-term solution yet.
They messed up and overbooked the flight, sure. But why on earth would they forcefully drag people out of the plane, while they could just find volunteers?

They could offer cash/miles to whoever volunteered, increasing the offer until someone accepted. I've seen other airlines do this on several occasions. They couldn't have handled it worse than they did.
United could have had someone drive the passengers in a van or something at least...
The fact is that you agree to lots of things when boarding a plane (buying a ticket). Not knowing the law is not an excuse. So...

It is annoying and terrible but it is ehat it is.
Why not use the jump seats?
That API really is awful, I'm sure it's down most of the time.
It seems like a student project, not groundbreaking research.
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I'm not one to get outraged easily, but seriously this story is shameful.

They needed the seats, fine. They asked for people to volunteer and no one did? Did they even offer maybe a 1st class on a flight taking off a few hours later? 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.

They handled that like bozos and I can absolutely see how a passenger chosen "at random" would make a fuss.
This IS Microsoft investing in Kubernetes. They also have partnership with DC/OS.

So it is Kubernetes AND Mesos for them.
Or trespassing? Law is fun right?
I studied Computer Science in Germany, and I didn't use a single book during my entire bachelor. The way it worked was professors always put the slides from their lectures online, so we could reference them as sources. Sometimes, additional references or texts were available online.

In addition to lectures, we had weekly classes where we applied the concepts from the lecture in practice. Exercises for these classes were also available online.

All of this material was free for students, and created by the professors and instructors specifically for the course.
Not like united employees going on vacation or to a meeting. But a flight crew going to where they need to be. It's part and parcel of an airline service. If they can't get to where they need to be a flight will have to be delayed or canceled.
Maybe they should just keep offering money until someone accepts. Surely someone would accept $1200 and a replacement ticket. It would have cost much less than what this PR fiasco has cost.
I would imagine it was a form of restraining him.
TypeScript got approved as internal development language at Google [video]
But why is that a problem? That isn't the name used to login and would only be visible if you navigated the file system via console or went into c:\users\. File explorer abstracts that folder name away and in scripts it should be referenced via the environment variable.

So it shouldn't actually be an issue.
> So what can be done about it? Can we prevent a person in the upper quintile (your typical HN reader) from feeding their child a balanced diet? Would that be fair?

Of course not, and no one sane thinks we should actively hamper development of upper-class children. The argument is that we can and should do more to provide additional opportunity to lower-class children.

> So we are not going to reach 80% mobility out of a quintile. We can't, without producing some sci-fi dystopia.

I agree we aren't likely to see that.

> But I think the article's presentation of 66% as a problem without much further elaboration is troublesome.

56%, not 66%. And I don't know what the ideal number is, either, but almost half of people born into poverty staying there does seem high to me. I suspect there's a lot more nuance that needs to be captured, too. We'd see 100% "mobility" if we simply swapped the bottom two quintiles, but that wouldn't actually address real mobility.
The responsible action, is for the business to accept the overbooking as their fault, and arrange alternative traveling plans for their employees. Forcibly removing a customer due to overbooking should never happen, and a customer should be able to refuse. His actions while extreme to some, were reasonable IMHO.
I think eink just isn't there yet. It's too costly to make the size people want, and the lag drives mainstream away. Just a guess though.
That's a sale of goods, though, which isn't currently covered by the VAT rules and MOSS scheme that we're discussing here, and doesn't seem to be the intended use for the OP's API.
https://github.com/jmcfarlane/notable
> I don't really see an alternative other than just letting anyone willing to scream to stay and then boot off another customer with dignity.

Offer people compensation. Raise the offer until either (a) someone takes it, or (b) it's cheaper to send the employees via another route.
No, but it might be grounds for a suit against the police.
I wonder if they've made any significant advancements in input latency. Something like this was my dream device when I was in college.
I wonder if all tax rules should be expressed in code, it would reduce ambiguity.
>But if they have to do it, the passenger shouldn't be allowed to just refuse.

why not?
if the passenger in this situation was allowed to just refuse, Delta would have had to get its employees to another location via some other method, or delay/cancel whatever it was they were supposed to do when they go there.

why is that a worse universe than this one?
Good call. That was built in to the Ghost template I am using and I never changed it. I've been meaning to update some things on my site so I will relicense as Creative Commons. Thanks for pointing that out!
Why didn't they figure this out before boarding everyone? It's much easier to deny boarding than to pull someone off of a plane.
> Involuntary Deny Boarding

I don't have the contract at hand, but by the above wording, the man was already boarded...
I share this sentiment. Way back when Plastic Logic killed themselves by trying to bite off too much of the ecosystem, their legal pad sized 'Plastic reader' was something I could see replacing both printouts and faxes.

I came at this way back in the epaper epoch by getting an Illiad2 from IRex Technologies (a large epaper device with a watcom digitizer), I've since gone through an iPad, iPad Pro, and currently use a Surface Pro 4 for this function.

The essential bits are exactly smooth drawing on it and for wide market penetration low cost. I have been really impressed with Microsoft's ASIC which makes drawing on Surface almost lag free.

Sony on the other hand has a history of weak business models, I was amused by their selling of the books made available by the Gutenberg project for their original e-book (as an example).

The product I would find really interesting (and would buy at least one of :-) Would be an e-paper tablet that I could draw on at a reasonable PPI (200+) that was US standard paper drawing area, built in wireless network and presented to my computer as a 'printer' on the network. 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 (sort of like Drawboard PDF) and then either push the annotated prints into an archive or delete them once I was done with them.
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>it's not nearly as complicated or intractable as everyone makes it out to be. the basic problem in the system is concentration of wealth at the top and wage stagnation at the middle and bottom.

Complicated? No. Intractable? Definitely.
Derogatory to "leftists" or to "liberals"?
On the other hand, there are plenty of shops with CI and test suites that simply fail. Like, everyone knows lots of the tests are red from some legacy code or workaround, and they just stay that way at great length.

That's sort of my concern with these indirect questions about tools - it's very common to have them but not have them doing their job.
Creative! This reminds me of FreeCiv maps with the 'flat earth topology' option turned on. The edge of the earth must be long enough to encompass the earth. So the folks using that argument must imagine Antarctica as _huge_, though we can easily measure the coastline and prove their explanation impossible.