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Well, you may not care but that seems to be a major point. As is the fact that the airline had other options than to use violence such as offering passengers more than $800 to leave (which for sure would have been a more cost efficient solution) or to realize that such a situation should have been avoided in the first place.

Having the right to do something does not automatically translate into always being right to exercise that right, especially given the bigger picture. Even the CEO of United Airlines seems to disagree with you now. Also: first offering $800 and if refused categorically, then deciding to exercise your right to initiate a lottery to find 'volunteers' is dumb, either you have the right and exercise it or you hold an impromptu auction but to first offer a bit of money (usually in $50 vouchers each of which is valid as a discount on a single future flight and which can't be combined) and if that doesn't work to resort to violence is not going to go down well.

Given the ways in which this could have played out (I don't think it is a stretch to imagine that other passengers could have come to the defense of the old man) they got lucky.
It's good they caught the callers, but whoever dispatched the SWAT team was negligent, allowing the team to be used as a weapon. The SWAT team itself was also negligent, not adequately assessing the situation on the ground.

Control of SWAT should really not be at the local police level, but at the state level. The fact that SWATing is a thing shows just how broken the current model is. The use of SWAT should be extremely rare.
Are you sure? I average about 10,000 steps a day (thanks android wear!) in some normal beat up old trainers and they only get replaced about every 3 years.

It should be mentioned that this is walking in a city, I use hiking boots when I go to the countryside, I guess the wear could be different...
According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics [0], 52% of convicted felons in state prisons are there for a violent crime; 18% for property crimes; 18% for drug crimes; and 9% for public order crimes [1]. Violent crimes obviously harm someone. I would guess that property crimes and some of the public order crimes do as well---remember that we're talking about felony convictions, which means crimes that resulted in a sentence of one year or more. For the sake of discussion we'll suppose that drug crimes never harmed anyone. So a reasonable estimate would be that around 3/4 of prisoners in state prisons are there because they committed a real crime that actually harms someone.

Now obviously it's bad that 1/4 of prisoners are there for trivial reasons. In particular, we need to end the drug war. But you seem to think that the prisons are full of people who were caught with a speck of weed or who stole a loaf of bread to feed themselves, and that really isn't true. Minor crimes usually result in a fine, community service, or at most a few months in jail (which is not the same thing as prison). For the most part, people in prison are there because they did something genuinely bad. The original article mentioned one specific prisoner by name, an Adam Johnston; I found what I think is his record [3], and he's serving twenty years for murder.

[0] https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/p09.pdf

[1] "Public order crimes" means "weapons, drunk driving, court offenses, commercialized vice, morals and decency offenses, liquor law violations, and other public-order offenses".

[2] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d3/Felony_S...

[3] http://www.drc.state.oh.us/OffenderSearch/details.aspx?id=A4...
Sorry for the meta comment, but reading this on an iPad Pro 12.9, and can't seem to get this to render as it would on a desktop, despite hitting 'Request Desktop Site'. Is there anything one can do with a bookmarklet in this situation, or am I beholden to what the server decides?
I wonder were they using WISPr [0] ... this is notorious for its security issues and is in widespread use. It's the "Captive Portal" [1] thing you see when you're logging in to public hotspots. All authentication activities happen in the clear - very easy to sniff with a NIC in promiscuous mode.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WISPr

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captive_portal
They might have switched business models.

Microsoft's revenue from patents collected from companies such as Samsung and HTC is like $1 billion.
My experience with google ads was not great. I once ran google ads for my mom's online shop. Before, there was a constant stream of visitors and revenue. With google ads, the visitor rate went up crazy - the revenue, not at all! Despite the fact that the ad was very specific for what you could buy for how much. Once the google ad credits were all used up, the visitors rate dropped to almost zero. As if google was punishing us for not running ads anymore.
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If you had one and you didn't know, I'd be amazed. In my experience, it is incredibly painful.
This is great! Congrats to the team for delivering a great update!
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This really is an entertaining game, seeing how far you will carry your obtuseness and feigned ignornace, and I'm happy to play along. :) Though I will be afk for some time soon.

"So... since your scope is the same as mine, your scope is limited to people that posted pejoratively about social justice?"

You defined your own scope by creating your response, and claim appropriateness of discussion. I did not see the flagged response, but was it talking about people who post pejoratively about social justice? I doubt it. I would infer from context that it was itself being pejorative about social justice, not about posts about pejorative social justice views. Your addendum and response was a creation on top of that, and accepted that as the new scope. Therefore, in the same way, I defined the scope of my response as an addendum and response to yours, also bringing in a new voice to add another perspective to the discussion. The scope is not just that social justice is derided, but that you have negative reactions to that derision, which I assume was unrequested and unrepresented, until you decided to add your new voice to that statement, extending the scope to include your negative reactions. In the same way, I added a related clarifying broadening to the scope of posting pejoratively about social justice, contextualizing peer verbage that has also been historically positive but became negative labels.

Sadly, I don't think I can bring hard evidence that this is how discussions work, but can only say that I've very commonly observed this to be the expected process of threaded web-based discussions. I'm not sure if the above qualifies as evidence that you were in line with commonly observed behavior or not.

Obviously, you're asking for evidence for ... whatever you were specifically trying to avoid discussing, so I deferred you to claimed sources of research. If you ask for evidence that universities are sources of researched evidence, then I'll simply leave you to discover your own evidence that matches your unknown-to-me criteria for absolute establishment that is your prerequisite to accepting something as evidence, so that we might either discuss from common understanding, or you would have some basis for counterclaims.

Your questioning of evidence of otherwise broadly accepted behavior indicates that you apparently have not done enough research to at least to understand what social issues entail in terms of objectivity and subjectivity, testing, and observation. Therefore, I question your qualification to be engaged in this conversation, and your ability to form productive and meaningful questions, as observed to be non-assertive to any position anymore.
I think the point is in the messaging. YouTube isn't "YouTube for the left wing", it doesn't advertise itself as being hostile to certain opinions. You could argue that the terms of service denote that "offensive" content is not allowed, but something being offensive is a subjective opinion. And then there's the issue of selective enforcement of things that _are_ banned.

In other words, if a site was called "ConservativeTube" or "LiberalTube" I personally wouldn't consider it censorship for them to remove views from the opposite political wing because the service is openly politically biased.
This has happened enough times that there really needs to be some kind of process in place to verify what the fuck is actually going on at the 'swatted' address. It is pathetically stupid and laughable that the same police force can be hoaxed so many times without setting up some kind of response to future hoaxes. If it was a new phenomenon, I could understand, but this has been happening since streaming became a thing around 2004/5 (or earlier, but that's going back as far as I know).
This is also why I pirate all the indie games I want. Cracks are just modifiers to bits I have on my computer. And don't get me started on movies. Some people offer me some bytes at a cheaper (free!) rate than so-called 'legitimate' sources.

Previously, lots of indie games used to have serial codes which I could just get off the Internet (just more bytes), but now they act in a user-hostile manner by using debilitating spyware like Steam. It's still crackable, and some people let me play their games for free because they don't put any DRM on it so all I need is the bits and lots of people are giving me those bits for free.

Non-subscription software is my favourite. I only need to modify the check algorithm, which are just bits and bytes that I can change however I wish, but subscription algorithm often means I have to get help from the Internet to prevent the spyware phoning home.
This is generally the case in all Unix shells. See, for instance, https://superuser.com/questions/156582/why-is-not-in-the-pat....
Nah. The experience in a bus: Nobody asks for your ID. You can pay cash. Nobody frisks you when boarding. Nobody irradiates you to watch nude images of you. You don't need to unpack your luggage half the time. You can stow your suitcase in half a minute, and can get it back equally fast.

We would be so lucky if flying had the service and experience of a bus!
I understand and agree with this, although I'd like to add a bit of context.

SWAT teams were initially designed to de-escalate already violent situations, not bring overwhelming violence to a peaceful situation. Sure, overwhelming violence may in many times be needed. In many times, however, it is not.

This is why we recon before we act. Unless it's an active shooter situation (the responding officers can hear gunfire and/or explosions), then it's not evidently clear that there is a violent situation that needs de-escalating.

We've seriously lost our way with SWAT. I used to say we need better training, but I'm not so sure that dismantling the moniker "SWAT" and establishing some new brand name and certification system isn't required. SWAT just means "Rambo" to too many people, laymen and LE alike.
It has actually changed recently so watching any content made by BBC requires a licence, even if it's not live.
Recently tried to use WSL to do some pair-coding tests in an interview, with screen & tmux.

The damned terminal kept making characters disappear! I actually thought my interviewer was inadvertently deleting characters, or maybe trolling me.

I had to switch to using an actual Linux system.

MS have a ways to go before getting this right. I daresay I'll be on OSX by the time that happens though.
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Sure! I'll just note there are more CI systems than CircleCI and TravisCI. Especially on premise and on older distros.
Part of this comes from an inability in the early years to truly respect engineering as both a craft and as a form.

I know your startup mindset well and I carry with it with me too. I came into a legacy fintech company the same way and pushed for faster decision making processes.

I didn't realize the cause for conservatism until I was given a story about how the company needed to manually call and refund thousands of customers... all because one developer fucked up and double charged people.

When you deal with MONEY and you experience getting burned like that... you realize how mantra's like "move fast and break things" only work as convenient motto's for startups who have nothing to lose.
>Obviously, you're asking for evidence for ... whatever you were specifically trying to avoid discussing, so I deferred you to claimed sources of research.

I'm sorry, what do you think I'm avoiding discussing?

>I would infer from context that it was itself being pejorative about social justice,

No need to infer, I told you this in a comment above.
I'm wondering if you are misguided here - and what Microsoft is working on right now is "Bash on Windows" - I.E. The console environment that people want to interact with when writing quick scripts, connecting to remote servers, maybe running a little bit of a local web instance.

Speaking for myself, personally - if I want to run GNU/Linux software through the Linux ABI - I'm not going to be doing it on WSL - I'll do it on a VM or on a farm of VPS/EC2 instances somewhere. The attraction to me for WSL is the ability to have all my rich windows software, tools in the same environment that I'm connecting to those hosts from (which I normally do with OS X).

Note that the vast number of improvements (consoling, ping, vt100 support, launching windows apps from linux, etc...) in Creators Update are about improving the CLI/Shell experience for users.
I can see why they wouldn't want to come in a building firearms blazing due to a random phone call, though.
>These actions are emergency response teams,

And was there an actual emergency? The fire department also has emergency response teams, but if there's no fire, the water cannon doesn't come out.
Piano Media tried this in central Europe and folded.

Reason as I understand it: downward spiral. Publishers of worthy content learn to make people pay for content, and then go off-platform once they have large enough audience to keep the whole profit.

Weaker publications stay in a bundle, but at that point not many people want to pay.

Is this a future of Spotify model as well? Taylor Swift or Adele are now powerful enough to try to break away.

(use Google translate)
https://www.pianomedia.sk/122/system-piano-na-slovensku-spln...
The contact lens cleaner solution always insists that you wash your hands with it instead of tap water. I think I'll do that from now on when changing contacts
I actually don't disagree with that, all those features would be nice to have in OpenBSD. However, ZFS for example is "just pulled in" from Solaris and seems a little out of place. It works great, but there seems to be no effort to make it feel like belong.
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This is just intermittent fasting. You can read more about it at http://www.leangains.com/ or watch Fasting Twins videos on YouTube.
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Author here. The markup is trivial. The CSS is basic. I'm not sure what problem precisely you have, but I did spend quite some effort to make it look good on iphone. (for added kicks press "d" on your keyboard on desktop)
If somebody gets bumped involuntarily after nobody accepted a lower compensation, they can get $650.

If they offer $500 and one of the passengers takes it, he can't just rock up after the flight to ask for more money.
I for one am hoping the caller gets locked away for a very long time.
In the first case you are also screwing the advertising entity for the gain of the publisher, in the second case you are not pretending to see ads to profit for someone in the ecosystem on the expense of someone else.

I can hardly see any moral advancement there.
Hi, we have setup our company (UG) https://cloudron.io a bit over a year ago in Germany and used https://www.firma.de which was a breeze. They do all the heavy lifting preparing documents. Then you just have to show up physically at the bank and notary office to sign on the dates firma.de is telling you.
This reflects a failure of modern corporate structures to empower engineering to the role it should and (ought) to be having.

Thankfully, this is changing rapidly and the valley is leading the way.
Yeah my Columbo novel should not be denied an audience.
/me thinks you have an autocomplete issue.
I think I'm gonna drop by here more often. Interesting pdf.
Don't misconstrue what is being said. Imagine the sign saying "Please paint my car but we reserve the rights to remove anything we want". That's essentially what the YouTube user license says.
> Experience has proven time and time again that putting up paywalls just makes people go elsewhere.

Isn't Spotify and Netflix evidence that suggest otherwise. All the music on Spotify is available for free on the so called dodgy sites. Torrents and whatnot. Heck, you can even listen to it for free on FM radio! However, literally millions of people choose to pay for Spotify - because it's worth it.

The news is no different. If news content providers provide a useful service, millions of people WILL pay.

My analysis is that millions of people avoid paying because news content providers don't sell news, they sell people. They sell their readers as fodder to the ad men. When that business model changes, people will pay for news.
> When did the police start using them as direct ammunition? Is that generally regarded as OK?

the police have somewhat successfully shifted the public narrative around rubber bullets to a positive one of "non-lethal" force.

as this is the same police force that murders black people for sport, it's a "relief" they used the rubber bullets -- that's how low the bar is here.
I don't think I have ever been more obviously sarcastic than here. Of course I knew very well that, despite painting prisoners as victims of moral judgments and suggesting that moral judgments are something wrong altogether, you wouldn't want this crowd anywhere near your house.

With my comment, I only wanted to point out this exact hypocrisy. So thank you for confirming that my cynicism is justified. I feel better about myself now :)
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Hats off to Rich, Russ, and the entire WSL team at Microsoft. Another excellent release. Your work here bringing Ubuntu and the open source world to the Windows ecosystem makes us very, VERY proud!
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How accurate can you be with them when you have to bounce them first though? In an emergency situation, you need to be damn sure that the bullet will hit the target after the bounce.

That being said, they should have assessed this situation better and have realised it wat not an emergency situation.
I agree, but it's not a shortcoming of the tool (no tool can fix it, anyway) as much as a shortcoming of the process.
monopoly is not about being most popular service, it's about being the only supplier of some commodity or service. youtube is not the only supplier of video publishing service, hence it's not a monopoly. users can switch from youtube to another service easily.

users can't easily (and sometimes at all) switch to a different internet provider, which is why net neutrality is important.
It comes down to the root word "rob", meaning slave [1]. There is probably an o->a shift going from west to east slavic. From "rob" you get "robota", or work, and "robotnik" is "robota" + "-nik", meaning a person who performs robota. The other word you can see used is служба, or servitude, which comes with less slavery connotations. You would never call a slave "слуга", servants are paid, not owned.

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rob#Czech - The page also lists several other slavic languages where it has the same meaning and has links to the proto-slavonic term
Not being able to change the shell is an open issue.

https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/846

Then, we both edited our replies. He corrected his typo, I removed my remark about the typo. At no moment there was any insult given, and the replier did not take offense.

No need for insulting.
Yeah, because tesla, facebook, google, apple, spacex etc all had such bad reputations when they were up-and-coming too right? /s
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How many programmers could write a functional machine code?

The wrong question is being asked. Modern programming techniques work because they have successfully abstracted this complexity.
Why is this? Is it because it is easier to categorize users as opposed to content, or do ads perform better when targeted to specific audiences? If I had to guess I'd think that audience targeted adverts would perform better, but here we have a large amount of companies upset that their adverts are appearing next to specific content.
If you want to put on muscle then follow a decent program and eat 1 g per pound of body weight of protein, 0.5 g per lb of body weight of fat and then set your carbs to give you a 300 to 500 calorie surplus. Don't drink your calories (well protein shakes are fine but chicken/tuna would be better), eat them. This might be of some help: https://www.reddit.com/r/Fitness/comments/4d6fg2/m_28_175_lb...

Oh, and use MyFitnessPal
interesting, aka cult starter kit.
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They're still giving us exactly what they promised - promised not by just words, but actions.

Initially, Uber set itself out as the hero of the day, riding on a shining horse to fight the Evil Taxi Mafia. Anyone who looked closely at how they did that could easily predict that what they want to become is the new, but worse, Taxi Mafia. They've been assholes almost from the start, they continue to be assholes now. That so many people only got angry after sexism accusations, of all the things, only makes me sad about the state of humanity.
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Ask HN: Anyone know any good herbal remedies for alertness?
What do people favor as herbal remedies for helping with alertness and combat tiredness (besides sleep) lol.
I wish that you could explain that in Estonia. Around here, anyone doubting e-voting is viewed as part of the fifth column and mocked like a 9/11 truther even by fellow techies, who really ought to know better.
This is pretty exploitable though. Someone could just spam the police with fake reports to waste their resources. I remember that once someone reported a bomb on a railway station - but he didn't say which railway station, so they closed and search all of them (in a 10 mil country), lol.
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> Because you can upgrade from windows 3.11 all the way to 10

That has never ever worked for me until the 7 -> 10 upgrade: 95 -> 98, 98 -> 2k, 2k -> XP and XP -> 7 all failed miserably and required installing from scratch.

And even 7 -> 10 failed without any helpful information= the first few times I tried it (unlike OSX where I've been upgrading and migrating the same system for more than 10 years across multiple machines and versions).
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This episode shows just how dangerous it is to have a militarized police force, behaving as if they were in a war zone. And it's also terrible that the Independent didn't focus it's reporting on the whole militarized police issue.
This big effort could serve as an indicator how experience damaging those ads were perceived to be.

If you create great costs (like ripping 30 pages from a magazine) for a small gain is this a particularly well intended economic strategy?
"we can surely find specific shortest programs to compute arbitrary data."

That would be what the scientific method is about.