skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing is, on a plane the crew is king and you have to follow their orders. If they decide that you have to leave the plane, you must leave the plane. Now, their reasons might be questionable. You have every right to fight the airline once you are off the plane. But there is no room for this while on board. Basically, as soon as he started to refuse to follow the crew's orders, it was a lost case for him.
Asus has good quality laptops for a reasonable price. These days you can get a new Asus laptop with 4GB RAM for less than $300. I always do a full install of the most current version of Ubuntu LTS, and it works great on Asus hardware, including Wifi. I purchased my first Asus laptop back in 2011, and its still running well, even after multiple OS installs and lots of heavy data transfers. Purchased another Asus in 2015 for $275, have not had any problems.
Also... MUSLIMS! In case you weren't suitably terrified by the meaningless large numbers
It will insert ads for OneDrive in the explorer.
The whole point is that the ticket doesn't actually guarantee a seat on a given flight. Bumping is in the contract.
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Well, then we can all turn off our computers and go home, because something that "works" is obviously good enough and the entire software industry doesn't need to exist anymore. Most things we have today "work" but we're still improving on them because "good enough" isn't good enough.
Let me correct that for you: 200+ people who decided that United hadn't offered enough incentives/financial compensation to be bumped.

If United ran an escalating auction system - like Delta does on overbooked flights - they would eventually have found someone to volunteer to take the incentive and that person would have voluntarily disembarked. Because they were apparently too cheap to do this, their share price is getting pounded into the ground today.

Whether that gets United's sociopathic CEO to change policy or not remains to be seen. If it doesn't, I'm inclined to agree with the OP: the consumer protection laws, at least for commercial flights, need to be updated so this doesn't happen again.
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Probably because Qt apps don't feel like native macOS apps.
Consumers: The Anniversary Update reset every personalised option in Settings, including if you opted out of some of the telemetry.

Businesses: Rolling out updates is a huge process.

Too many machines grab the update together, and the network can slow to a crawl.

You don't want to update during peak hours, which could be at night.

Some GPOs inevitably fail, so you want to test first, deploy later.

Some drivers inevitably get replaced by non-functional MS ones, something you test for.

None of this used to be a problem until MS decided that sysadmins aren't trustworthy, and shouldn't be able to tell the system that they are. No sudo and responsibility.
If there is a lawsuit, I bet the settlement will be several order of magnitudes that. Particularly given that the guy was a physician.
> A person was legally required to do something he didn't want to do

That is your claim but it does not appear to be true.

Read this comment on reddit from a lawyer (unless someone shows that to be wrong I'll assume it to be true):

https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/64nluh/united_ceo_dou...

(EDIT: The comment is actually just a quote of another comment here: https://thepointsguy.com/2017/04/your-rights-on-involuntary-...)

According to that guy's reasoning they violated the law and that's all.

> and escalated the situation

I don't understand the mental gymnastics unfortunately performed numerously by people like you which can be found all over the comments to somehow let United be in the right here. Apparently in your eyes customers have no rights, and anything the corporation demands must be done, period. Especially when I look at how you phrase it: It seems more than obvious that if anyone escalated the situation is was United. The other people on board apparently saw it that way too! Nor did they do what they were required by law to do, to the end the compensation they offered was below what they were legally required to offer. Who escalated, tell me again?
For those who want to see weird smile: check out the smiles of the help in Get Out.

I think I know how I would qualify those.

I have a lot more to say on this but can't avoid spoilers.
I'm with fennecfoxen and matt4077 on this one: it's a bug in a spam filter.

Or maybe a hate speech or terrorism filter. Does Twitter have those?

Meanwhile, it's a good time for Mastodon (and secure scuttlebutt).
I've slowly started to remove Electron apps from my workflow. I used to use Atom, but I've switched to an paid for Sublime. The last two apps I have which use electron are Hyper and Slack. Hyper could go, but I really like the interface and Slack probably isn't going anywhere.

Real-time update:

I just checked Activity Monitor and Hyper is leading average energy impact followed by Xcode. Looks like I might be switching back to iTerm this weekend.
Vim and Emacs are probably much slimmer, but a comparable GUI editor- Sublime Text, is using 311 megabytes for just one window of a folder that has 200 files in it.
> [2] I've been on IRC on and off since 1993. It's much worse.

So? There are services offering that, too. Linkability is easy to add to IRC as soon as you are using logging systems and modern bouncers such as IRCCloud or Quassel.
Orrr there's "modern" open tools like Matrix+Riot, too, which would fit most open-source communities wonderfully.
Been there. Done that. Compuserve, GEnie, Delphi, etc...
It looks like it's not an overbooking at all, they just had employees showing up after the plane was full and united decided to kick some passenger out for them. But those employees were not paying nor were they planned to come on board before.
They are just selling all/most seats as standby.
I am unable to read this on mobile. Can anyone tl;dr plz?
If i have an appointment to see a specialist that i've been waiting months for, another doctor can't just 'cover his shift'
> only bad thing so far is I can't install VS code

This is worth a note for many people. There are astonishingly few good editors that you can easily compile or get binaries for ARM CPUs. Upside: I ended up picking up Vim and Spacemacs because of this.

Also note that crouton can be a bit hacky on those devices - I set up chroagh 3 times, and for each time, the X11 integration stopped working after a couple of weeks for some reason. Working from the TTY is still pretty doable, though.

Also: Install the chroot on an SD card. Crouton requires you to put your device into Dev-Mode and press a hotkey on each boot. I ended up touching my spacebar during the prompt by accident once, and the thing happily wiped its flash memory.

Another thing to keep in mind is that you most likely won't be able to run a custom kernel, even if you boot your own system. So, there's no guarantee you'll have the fancier options at your disposal (iotop, setting inotify-limits etc).
The op asked "why did the doc need to be on exactly that plane"

I answered his question, I didn't say anything about demigods.
Reminds me of Opel Ascona (in portuguese and spanish it ressembles the word "cona" which is a very bad word for vagina).

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>A lot of the problems we have in our society now result from the abdication of those responsibilities by the people (and corporations) that act in public without taking responsibility for those actions.

Such as?
So United should not have tried to board their flight personnel so that another plane full of passengers could sit on the tarmac for hours in Louisville with no crew?
That is a fantastic link. Summary of the points:

CFR 250.2a covers overbooking but only applies before boarding. Since the United employees had no confirmed reserved seats on the aircraft, they cannot be given priority over a customer with a confirmed reserved seat.

The passenger was already boarded, so they cannot rely on oversales rules to refuse service. Instead they need to rely on their Contract of Carriage which does not allow them to eject customers for any reason whatsoever. The most circular thing they could eject him for was failure to follow the terms of the contract of carriage for refusing to disembark. They publicly stated that their reason for asking him to leave was because he was selected by a computer, but this is not allowed by their rule 21.

They had no legal right to refuse him service at that point.
I totally agree with you. I only use Slack from we app but I'm a heavy user of VSCode and Spotify. I believe in standardized Web API's rather than a clusterfuck of native API's.

The problem here is the base platform Electron and underlying Chrome/Nodejs

But as consumers we feel when our browser lags, so browser vendors optimize speed over memory and cpu, caching the shit out of everything. The Web is a dangerous place so they further isolate every tab as process, sandbox them and keeps lots or copies of the same thing in RAM because a security flaw is a lot more shameful than a memory flaw.

You are right, electron is a hog. Last I checked all, electron, chromium and Nodejs were open source. We can actually make a difference.

Making noise also makes a difference. When someone complained about VSCode cpu usage because of idle cursor and it blew on HN, next month's release had a fix (for all platform)

The truth is you can't move fast doing native development with different libraries. Electron keeps your dev costs down and allows you to move very fast.
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It simply wasn't - until United's crew members came on board. And United put prioritize employees over its boarded customers (if there are going to bump passengers out, they should never issue boarding pass in the first place).
Thanks. I'm curious - why does WSJ allow a referrer from facebook to bypass the paywall?
I wasn't objecting to the teleological language (as you say, it's a convenient shorthand for an unconscious process). Rather, the idea that "species survival" is a relevant variable for selection to target is thoroughly confused (or, nature cares deeply for the gene, but knows not of your "species").
Indeed: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2017/04/tod...
HN's policy on titles has been in place for many years (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) and is specifically organized around what you call 'respect for the original work and its creator'. If there's any place on the internet more organized around such respect, I'd like to know. In my mind we're a tiny outpost that actually cares about this and that's a big reason why readers come here.

At the same time (as you'll also see if you read the site guidelines), we ask users to change titles that are misleading or linkbait. This is obviously necessary for any site that aspires to intellectual substance, though of course people often disagree about particular cases and that's fine.

Article authors typically don't write headlines so I don't see this as a creativity issue. Web publications are notorious for making baity headlines—that's the headline's job from their point of view. "The Math Trick Behind MP3s, JPEGs, and Homer Simpson’s Face" is an obvious case of this, which is why so many HN readers protested. But a moderator found a better title than the one I changed it to.

When we change a title to something less misleading or baity, we try to use a representative phrase from the article itself, so in many cases the HN title ends up being more in line with the author's intention, not less.

I must push back against your dig at the HN community. It's both weirdly out of place—what do race, age, gender and nation have to do with article titles?—and insulting to the great many members who don't fit your description, who are every bit as welcome here as those who do.
I honestly tried to read this but couldn't get past the format. The rapid changes of background/text when scrolling were incredibly jarring. This felt like a regular long form article made into an "interactive" (in quotes because there is no actual interaction) for the sake of it.

Maybe this isn't a productive comment but the format ruined the article for me.
First of all, I'm not a libertarian, I'm a pretty solid liberal and think the government should regulate corporations when they break the letter or even the spirit of the law or when they harm the market or consumers for profit or otherwise. My objection is to the idea that twitter meets the criteria of harming consumers, because people use the services provided by twitter, for free, of their own volition. Twitter does not provide a unique service that is especially useful or necessary, there are hundreds of other discussion boards and messaging apps on the net, and if someone doesn't like how twitter operates, nothing is stopping anyone from moving to another platform.

Compare this with something like the ISPs, where consumers have to choose between one and often no alternative options in order to access internet services which are critical for participation in the economy. Unlike any individual ISP, If twitter disappeared overnight, it would have a minimal impact on the economy, society, or even the internet community in general, as most people would immediately shift over to one of the many alternatives like facebook, snapchat, or the explosion of competitors that would hit the scene or suddenly gain traction within days.

Twitter is not powerful, it is a popular messaging app where celebrities post publicly. The government isn't necessary here because consumers are not harmed by twitter sucking.
Exactly, that’s why we evolve them (see ircv3.net), or try to reinvent them (see matrix.org), and don’t try to make a proprietary clone and sell it.
Deregulation is the reason the middle class can afford to fly at all. Pre-deregulation, a Boston-LA flight would be $500 in 1978 dollars.
It's not. There's a reason Mozilla is pushing Servo.
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Construction complete Jan 43 Air force birthday Sept 47. Plausible to plan for it, but unlikely.
Night shift?
What is the draw of Hyper over iTerm2?
I pondered this for weeks, and two days ago came up with a solution. I will keep you posted.
I disagree about airplane / airport protests. First, air travel is increasingly a prerequisite to meaningful participation in the modern economy. That means it should be treated as a right, not a privilege.

Second, most of the encounters people have with institutionalized racism and arbitrary violations of civil rights involve air travel.

The unconstitutional "constitution-free" zones are exactly the place protests should occur. The current situation is akin to "blacks sit in back" of buses in the US. It is better in some ways better, and worse in others. The mix of victims skews to different socioeconomic groups (muslims, middle-lower class) than the old Jim Crow laws (and it is easier to avoid the airport than public roadways) but that doesn't make the current situation OK.

Anyway, history has decided Rosa Parks was a hero. I think it will eventually make the same call with respect to air travel.
I can relate to (what you wrote and also) "I'd rather cut my toenails with a rusty butter knife than write the paper", but even more "I'd rather cut my toenails with a rusty butter knife than be the kind of person that still isn't writing the paper even though it's 11pm on the day before the deadline but, oh, look, I'm still not writing the paper and now I'm actively running round the kitchen looking for butter knives as if they'd actually get me out of writing the paper, and now I'm cleaning the kitchen worktop for the first time in several months instead, and now I'm 10 pages deep on a Google search for what kind of spider I saw in the kitchen, and oh crap now it's midnight and I'm still the worthless jerk that hasn't started their paper"

I don't know if I have ADHD, though. Admittedly I wrote the above in a fairly exaggerated-ADHD way, and it's all the kind of thing I do actually do, but... no diagnosis, maybe just anxious about failure or lazy instead.
I believe this is capped at a maximum of $1300. From [1]:

If it’s more than two hours (four hours for international
flights), or if the airline does not offer alternate
flights, the compensation is 400 percent of your one-way
fare, with a $1300 maximum.

[1] http://www.cntraveler.com/stories/2014-09-04/bumped-due-to-o...
That is correct, but the subterranean dodecahedron itself is merely the portal that the interdimensional lizard beings use to move between our world and the 4-dimensional hyperdodecahedron.
The problem is though, that some people like to be the local expert on IRC/Slack with all the answers. They don't want to document it elsewhere.
A pilot will not leave if they have a passenger on board who refuses to follow instructions by the crew. If you feel like you are treated unjustly (which might very well be the case here), take the fight off the plane.
The legality of the request is in question. I assume you are referring to 49 U.S. Code § 46504 (link: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/49/46504). There are many people who can argue both sides of that law.

I personally think he did not violate that law and thus was not legally required to disembark.
It's not just about the comfort of seating in a train. It's about not having to queue for 1h at security, being abused by TLA officers, queue again, getting checked, queue again, getting checked, etc. Flying today feels like going to jail.
Hmm.. Matrix? XMPP?
You understand their staff needed to be on this flight so that another plane full of passengers in Louisville wouldn't be delayed by not having a flight crew?
> Node.js too was a terrible idea. Who in their right mind would write server-side javascript? It turns out: pretty much anyone who didn't want to have to screw around for hours before being able to respond to a simple http request.

Pretty sure you could do that as easily in PHP, Ruby, Python, Perl before Node.

> And what about Python for data analysis? The one language that is known to be 10x slower than C becomes the de-facto standard for a field where what matters most is code performance. Again: ease of programming.

When code performance matters most, you're probably still using Hadoop, C/C++, Fortran. Python is mostly in competition with R, Matlab, SPSS and Excel. Julia is the new kid on the block, and it was designed to be more performant than Python and R.
Similar in German: "drahtlos" is the real word, but "drahtfrei" is understandable, and conveys being freed from something.

"einwandfrei": a thing free of problems or restrictions
As recommended on Reddit, an Acer Aspire ($350) stands out with considerably more mentions than the rest in the $200 to $500 range: http://laptopkarma.com/?price=200+AND+500
There are tons of alternative social networks to Facebook, I run several of them. People are more than happy to pay a few $$ a month to not be tracked, censored or advertised at.

Even completely free you can be profitable just selling 'credits' to send e-gifts etc. Facebook is functionally crippled, they still don't even have a dislike button.
Your Python example doesn't really support your argument. Python succeeded for data analysis and scientific computing in part because it provided easy access to existing numerical libraries written in C and Fortran. So you got the best of both worlds: ease of use and near-native speed. It would not have succeeded if everything was done in interpreted Python.
> I've started counting the minutes that I use in a day just logging in to things with our SSO, because it has started to actually add up, haha. It has gotten silly.

If you need to log in more than once, can you really call it SSO? =)
It looked that way to me too but I am keeping my fingers crossed!
Reading the law, it seems very much like prioritizing employees over passengers is actually illegal.
The rules regarding overbooking are irrelevant as they can only be used to deny boarding. He was already boarded.
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"17 months to build it;"

They wrote the pentagon in Scala?
> why did the doc need to be on exactly that plane

I was answering to this.
The replacement seat they were offering was a full day later. http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/11/travel/questions-united-trnd/
Unfortunately, it seems to be bus or car, and I don't think that Greyhound is what it was 40 years ago.
I don't think this could happen in a world dominated by blockchain. Blockchain basically makes unnecessary all the layers of internal and external accounting controls because it "automates" trust.

Th big issue here is the auditor's unwillingness to sign off on Toshiba's financials. In other words independent professional accountants simply don't trust Toshiba's numbers.

That's a much bigger deal than any loss, precisely because we don't really know how bad the losses are.

And apparently, this has been a recurring issue with Toshiba, which is one reason they may get de-listed.

You may think that back-office accounting is straightforward and has been automated. It hasn't, in part because we lack a technology that is a good replacement for the trust that is generated by audited financial statements. The only technology that I see doing this is distributed ledger tech (aka blockchain).

If anyone asks what's a potential revolutionary use case for blockchain - point to Toshiba.
This is what happens when you normalize violence, you focus on the blaming and legal stuff instead and you get people like this CEO but no one is reacting to the fact that a human being has been knocked out, dragged out like an animal for something he didn't have to give up. He had a legitimate reason not to give up his seat, he had patients he needed to see the next day. The airline CANNOT act like the computer is right all the time (they said for randomizing the seats to give up) and they should've been humans to understand and pick someone else or increase their incentives.

Remember, the flight was NOT overbooked. They said they needed to get their four employees to a different state, so they wanted four people off the plane. This is all spinning by the airline, listen to the specifics.

I don't care whose fault it was, there was absolutely no need for that violence in the first place, the escalation was not justified in any situations. The protocol needs to be changed, that's what people need to start asking for. Change the policy to include exemptions such as doctors or others (firefighters, cops, etc), increase the incentives and so on.

The airline should've done its job correctly by informing their customers BEFORE boarding the plane and upping the incentives until it gets their goal. The customers should not be forced to give up what they paid before because the airline screwed up.

I could care less that overbooking is a common thing. The society should not be about protecting the profits of the companies, they should be promoting the humanity and moving it further. This is a huge regression by allowing the companies to have more power.