skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An honest way to overbook would be to sell seats beyond capacity as standby.
Discourse offers free hosting for big Open Source projects, and you can self-host it on a $5 VPS too.

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Ask 10 people on the street how the compensation works today, maybe 2-3 will know. If you asked them 2 days ago, maybe 1.

Point is the compensation is obfuscated. If people demanded their $1350 or whatever when this happened, things may be better.
He is allegedly a doctor, not a demigod. Someone else can cover his shift.
I always thought Electron was a great idea, but it definitely seems like something that should only be used for prototyping.

There's some excellent software that uses it, but using the Chromium browser as a runtime is a dirty half-measure. I hope they're​ trying to pare it down in future releases and make an effort to utilize host-OS resources.

The less your code​ is doing, the better!
this may work for ATM because you are not using it several times a day, even in a week. but scrambling will make bad UX in smartphones.
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Chats (of whatever type) have never been a good solution for this, that's why mailing lists exist. Improvements there would be nice, sure, but are unlikely to come from a chat service. They just solve different problems.
Just a heads up, you can view the entire article as one page by clicking the "Print this Article" button: http://www.anandtech.com/print/11244/the-amd-ryzen-5-1600x-v...
Do you want it to be your fault forever? If it isn't "yours to manage", realize that it will be if you take the project on.
Ah right, found it, those are by default collapsed and search doesn't find them on the page. Thank you.
It's easier for you. As the person who answers your question, it's easier for me to point you at the documentation
Oh no, I agree full hearty with you. I think the IoT trend is scary a fuck. Especially since there is no rules for support. Even if the vendor does a good job building the system, after it stops receiving updates it will become unsafe to use.

I'm stating why I think IoT stuff will take off. I think its terrible, unavoidable future. I'm not against the principle of smart devices, but we are making them just smart enough to be dangerous to our networks, and to sloppy to be safe.
No, for many reasons.

1. Colleges are usually slow, tech-challenged bureaucracies. Your redesign would be likely blocked by red tape.

2. There are a million battle-tested, open-source CMS systems with thriving communities. Your college needs a migration, not a redesign.

3. Are these "problems" caused by the CMS worth a lot of thankless, tedious work? Probably not, in the long run.
What is the alternative to commercial airlines for someone who isn't crazy rich?
The flight crew was going to work as well.
No, it's not a straw man. Yes, many species will go extinct. Human civilization will probably collapse. Maybe the human species will go extinct. But life will go on, and within a billion years, who will care?

We wouldn't be here, but for the last major extinction event.

Anyway, I'm not arguing for inaction. But I do think that it's too late. Exponentials and positive feedback are full of surprises.
Wow thanks for the Mulvaney quote. Not spending money on climate change maybe, you just wait for what climate disruption will cost.
It's almost like if turning our free decentralized internet into a bunch of centralized privately financed information silos have been a bad idea. Who saw that coming hu ?
> Is the !g bang gives you personalized results as good as google results ?

Including !g in your search query simply redirects you to a google search with the same query (minus the !g). So you can set your search engine to ddg, then select the actual search engine by starting with a bang and whatever search you want. Some examples:

!gi - Google images

!gh - GitHub search

!w - Wikipedia

Starting a query with ! on https://duckduckgo.com/ also gives you autocompletion, so you can quickly discover what redirects are available.
Remember when we used to come to tech forums to find the new updates, rather than learn how to avoid them? It just occurred to me that I literally camped out for some early OS updates. How things have changed.
Not blind, but I had eye surgery about a year and a half ago, followed by a recovery period about 4 weeks longer than I was told to expect, during which I came to appreciate things like contrast. Not coincidentally, I also realized my software was literally* painful to use for someone in my condition.

I have learned to give a shit about color choices.

*That's the literal 'literally', not the figurative one.
Lately I've been playing around with Red language and their view feature. Easiest way I've created an interface before. The Red language is really interesting and cool, but their view construct is the coolest. If you haven't played around with it, it's worth about try at least.
"But we now know that most people – around 71% - can voluntarily contract the inner portion of the orbicularis oculi."

I can't find the source for this anywhere online. My experience with over 100 hours of practice in front of a mirror (don't ask) and the research I've read suggests otherwise. And even if you can voluntarily contract your orbicularis oculi, you'll need to have the proper onset/offset times and constant intensities for muscle contraction, which are just as hard to fake and easy for a trained observer to spot.

I suggest the "crow's feet" from a Duchenne Smile is still a reliable indicator of feeling happy for all those reasons, if observed appropriately. It was far easier to fake a real smile by thinking of something happy, which is why facial recognition is still much better for emotion detection than lie detection.
Fingerprints are "something you have", but for multi-factor authentication you might also want to rely on "something you know". This news just indicates a problem of entering "something you know" into a device: it's definitely not a point in favour of fingerprint (they aren't simply alternatives)
nidium has a markup language (XML based), a layout engine and will soon support Yoga https://facebook.github.io/yoga/ in order to bring flexbox.

Also nidium focus on mobile devices.
They should have increased compensation. I'm wondering if they have a company limit of $800.

The reason this happened is they had another crew that missed their flight and needed to get to Lousville in time or another plane load of passengers would be stuck on the tarmac.
> ... I couldn't get either one [Spotify or Atom] to reproducibly use lots of CPU. Props to everyone involved in fixing that.

It seems deceiving to conceal that information when your call to action is to ditch Electron for the sake of performance.
It should, but I've even seen Microsoft official PR statements put it as a plural instead.

It really should just be officially called Windows 10.3; Threshold 1/1507/RTM being 10.0, Threshold 2/1511/November Update being 10.1, Redstone 1/1607/Anniversary Update being 10.2, Redstone 2/1703/Creator's Update being 10.3.
As a Linux user, I've ignored all news of this update until I saw this headline. Why might one want to block this particular update?
The road to one billion emails – sustainably scaling our startup
How will you deal with identity theft? Having all your eggs in one basket is convenient but if the basket should fail then you need a way to dissociate and to rebuild a (credible) identity from scratch.
Chrome Oilpan – Metadata, Freelists, and More
Simon Black's Notes from the Field...

It's a financial newsletter. I figure why not get a more global perspective on investing and finance.
What drives me nuts is that there are so many of these things.

I know groups that (for business or pleasure) use Slack, Discord, Skype, Google Hangouts, IRC, etc.

All of these clients are a bit more obstrusive than they need to be in terms of pop-up notifications, software updates, cpu, memory, transfer, etc. They all screw up enough that there's always a little apprehension that something will go wrong when you get a number of people together for a meeting.

It is one thing to deal with one of these things, but when you have to install ten to get your work done you have a problem. I have a high performance computer and I want to keep it that way.
>The tests where the Ryzen does shine generally seem to involve parallel workloads, but bear in mind that most of the stuff you wait for your computer to do are still bottlenecked by a single thread.

Who exactly do you think visits these forums? One-tab open in the browser grandmas?

I imagine most people here can make full use of at least 4-cores/8 threads, at all times, between compiling, rendering, editing, video streaming, joggling between 50 browser tabs and other programs, opening one or two VMs for testing, running local web servers, and so on.
I think I read about a similar "keylogging" technique in Popular Science at one point.
One person who "decided he was too important to accept being bumped"? How about one person who expected the contract that he paid for in good faith to being fulfilled? Someone who made commitments to others based on that contract.

Why is it now that the consumer always has no rights? Don't want your private information sold when using the internet? Don't use the internet.

Don't want to be forcibly removed from a plane in which you followed all the rules for purchasing a ticket that was most likely non-refundable if you didn't show up, lost your rights for privacy by being searched to board the plane, stood in line to board the plane, was on time, boarded the plane to sit in an uncomfortable seat, maybe had to pay extra to store your luggage, then get beat up when you were told they weren't going to honor the contract?

What is this country becoming?
There's an update on the page:

Update 2, April 11, 11:15ET: Some readers have suggested that the allegedly deleted tweets might have initially appeared as replies to now-deleted tweets, which would explain why they are missing. However, numerous users contacted by TNW rejected this premise, claiming the missing posts were standard tweets.

I'm betting it is something like this, or a related "Twitter did some weird UI change which no one understands again".

If it's not, then it's going to be a bug, and Twitter will apologize and attempt to restore the tweets.

Deleting these tweets isn't in Twitter's interest, no matter how much United pays for ads.

Edit: looking into this a bit more, it looks like it only affects Tweets which have @united mentioned. I suspect it's triggering Twitter's anti-Troll flooding measures, which is clearly wrong.

It'll be interesting to see how Twitter responds, given how slowly they ship any changes.
Twitter has always been a tool for corporate propaganda. It was almost literally created to be that.
Ah could be that as well, you know better. We were just young kids (still are) and believed what he said.
Another way of looking at this would be to point out that internet service and air travel are the only two industries where it is legally allowed to sell people something you know in advance you can't provide.

In a sane world, overbooking would be at best illegal, the airline would realize the savings from the flight they were paid for but didn't actually have to carry the 200 pounds of passenger + luggage.

(That's about $90 worth of fuel on top of the average $350 price for a plane ticket)

At worst, overbooked tickets would be required to be disclosed as such at the time of purchase.
>I completely agree with this, which is why I'm not sympathetic to the game developer, or with postdocs who regret spending so long in academia. They picked their priorities - it was not imposed on to them. And for many, later in their life, they feel they picked the "wrong" priorities.

I am sympathetic to them as we have all made bad decisions. I would argue that a neccessary pre-condition to "following your passion" is protecting that passion and pursuing a longterm strategy which allows you to develop that passion and maintain ownership over your work. Chasing passion is not an reason for failing to plan or for allowing others to walk all over you. Software engineers on the whole have sufficient power to not be at the mercy of bosses if they have the will to stand up for themselves. They owe it to themselves and to their limited lifespan to do so.

Edit: I think we both are saying that, to the degree possible, people have a responsibility to themselves to not allow themselves to be exploited.
>> As a consumer, I fail to see the value in having to download large single page webapps that are equivalent (or worse) than their online counterparts.

I use the Slack app for Windows, and the value for me is that it gets its own easily identifiable presence in my Windows task bar.

I have a (self-inflicted) problem with tab proliferation, and because I rely heavily on Slack, it's just way more convenient to use the self-contained version than to have it running in a tab buried in one of my browser windows.

It doesn't bother me at all that the Slack app is an over glorified web browser running the Slack web client.
These are fairly easy to comprehend, as they are sorted from best (at the top) to worst (at the bottom). Having an indicator would be nice, but since all the graphs are sorted, it's fairly obvious.
Not sure if it's only about the sidebar, but many youtubers were apparently deemed 'unsafe' by google and their videos stopped appearing all over youtube.
Exactly what I've been looking for. Much love.
High speed rail would kill off a lot of shorter routes, but it just doesn't work in the US for some reason.

When I was in the UK, I took the Virgin Rail from London to Manchester. The additional room and ability to walk around made it so much better than a flight. I would have paid more. The time difference was negligible once you count all the extra screening time for airports.
Given my experience when learning about complex numbers, I would rather say:

> The complex numbers come about by simply adding back the missing dimension

Mathematics makes so much more sense with complex numbers. Trigonometry a great example of this.
Exactly! United overbooked as an optimization for profits, fine. However, they should have to pay up when it backfires. They gave up at $800 and just started forcing people off. If it's free market when I'm buying my ticket, it should be free market for United buying it back.
Not sure. If that somehow poetically translates into the reason it is so easy for us to demonize science with corrupted politics... Then you get a "100% yes" from me. :)
They got up to $800 and had no takers. Not sure why they didn't go higher, wondering if United doesn't allow employees to offer more compensation than that. Which is a problem if so.
her findings that females are more likely to use simple patterns is interesting..haha
The problem isn't creating an archive, it is
a) synchronizing the archive properly to account for your feeds connectivity issues, and
b) providing the archive usefully once it gets large and/or popular

(a) is fiddly and a bit technical but has been solved-ish for ages before slack existed

(b) is fundamental though. If it's a big archive, it costs real money to provide access & search to. If you break it up, search-ability tends to suffer.

None of this is new, slack is just the latest flavor
Well, the only response police have to non-compliance has always been violence. It's always been against the law not to comply with their orders. And it seems obvious that they will choose the sort that's less risky to the officer (taser, pepper spray), because each and every one of them knows the stories of the officers who got hurt.

So yeah, if the police tell you to do something, you should expect to do it. It's neither the place nor the time for a debate and if you think they're wrong, you need to argue that in court. And that will be a lot easier if you don't resist arrest in the first place.
Most of these have been mentioned but:

Hacker Newsletter

Morning Paper

Any of the Cooper Press "Weekly" newsletters relevant to your interests https://cooperpress.com/publications/

Nuzzle is great for catching things you missed that were popular among your social media followees

Mattermark Daily
The chicken-and-egg problem is really what matters here.
Your 'address' is never going to cover all services that people use from day one, so my friend would have to keep that number around + my other contact info that are not covered.

Similarly I'd have to keep in my contacts all the information regarding people who are not registered to your service.

From my point of view as a user, this is just another line in the contact card...
I think social pressure is hugely powerful in defining peoples behaviour. That is why we act "ethically" out of a sense of peer pressure; it has little to do with the rightness of the underlying act.

You see this with how smoking is viewed. People don't really care about the health effects to bystanders, they care about what others will think about them. That is human nature.

The trouble with this kind of tax/fee is that it trivialises the issue. You are allowed to do something wrong as long as you pay a small fee. This sends a mix message, and even leeds to a sense of entitlement.
>Airlines overbook because people don't show up for flights.

That's false. They overbook because it makes them more money and for some reason people just accept it. Pretty much no other industry could get away with doing that to its customers.

Imagine the shit storm that would have unveiled if some random movie theatre sold 110% of its seats for the midnight premier of Star Wars VII and subsequently physically removed people from their seats because their employees also wanted to see the movie and they sold too many tickets.
Overbooking is an indefensible practice. You sell a service that you knowingly have no intention to provide to people who base their travel plans on that expectation. This is like playing Russian roulette with your customers. No sympathy for United.
Makapansgat pebble, the earliest example of symbolic thinking
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Isn't that what most of HN is so frantically behind? Free markets at work, deregulated to the point of making little to no economic profit, no consumer protections, and what you call a "race to the bottom" is actually what occurs under perfectly competitive markets.

Thinking you can have the good parts of competition without the bad parts and being surprised when something happens according to basic economic theory is economic doublethink at its finest.

PS: I'm all for cheap flights. It has allowed the working class (and myself) to travel and see the world and not go broke doing it. Hard to imagine but people outside of the IT bubble have to budget for vacations and having cheap flights helps a ton.
Ultimately, incidents like these are so rare compared to the passenger volume that it makes no sense for a regular person to worry about it happening to them.
> Have you been trained as an engineer, in a country where "engineer" is a very specific thing and is held to higher expectations, including the possibility of having your title taken away by your peers if you do not respect your duty to, first and foremost, your users and/or society, like every country that takes the title of engineer seriously?

No country trains software engineers in the way you describe.
I love how they say he was advised that he was "denied boarding." Here's a tip: If I'm in a seat, you've already let me board. And if you planned poorly then that isn't my problem.

Unlike any other industry of which I am aware, airlines are unbelievably skilled at making their problems their customers problems and then not apologizing for it.
Nope. That's just a shitty English translation. The Jews at the time were familiar with different types of ropes/threads. It is most likely that Jesus referred to the type of rope used in fishing which is much larger than a thread.

http://www.biblicalhebrew.com/nt/camelneedle.htm
A crucial climate mystery is just under our feet
Whilst I disagree with the tone of this comment, there is value in the content.

It behooves all developers to learn multiple languages, there is particular benefit to learning languages with differing paradigms.

Even if you only use one language for formal development, the mental agility that thinking in more than one language gives is super valuable
Nah, I dont think its strange in this day and age. To me it's infuriating, but it is all about that bottom line, man. Maximize profits, lower overhead, vertical acuity, do more with less, faster, more, grow grow grow! Plus if you contract out work and that company screws up, you can deflect blame to them. That happened at least a couple times where I used to work.

Most companies today seem to only care about being the largest in the industry. Because, I'm guessing shareholders or greed or something, I dont know for sure. It's almost impossible to find a company that wants to just stay within their means. Grow to the optimal size you can manage and coast. I assume its because those kind of companies would get run over by their competition if they didnt keep growing, but im not sure.

I used to aspire to have a super successful and huge game company. But after seeing all the insider crap that goes into game development, I think I'll be happiest with just doing my own thing and having trusted colleagues that will come in on projects to help out.
An IRC bouncer (e.g. znc) can do this, but it's far from seamless.
Just wondering but why are you still in a postdoc position? My previous field was Medicinal Chemistry and had I continued with my Ph.D, I would have gotten it by 26/27. Post docs are usually for 2 years in Med Chem I believe.
You're looking at a very specific case. My point is more general.

Some people tend to believe that a return to the old ways of no invasion of the zeros and ones of the Internet would make their lives better by some significant margin. They see some less digitalized folk and wish they could have that life because they also believe the lives of these folks are much simpler, more triangular, etc.

Nassim Taleb and a few others have advocated a disconnect from news. This makes sense from a knowledge building POV as some folks actually only know stuff about the world through mainstream media, which I believe is particularly unhealthy and misleading.

Disconnecting from the entire Internet however is a different matter. My point is that such a recoiling into a zero Internet shell doesn't necessarily confer any superior analytical abilities on anybody. It may help your sanity/peace of mind/mental health (depending on what your obsessions are)/etc.

And to your point about actual evaluation being separate from the information processing pipeline, I also disagree. More often than not you still need the various resources available on the Internet to aid in the evaluation of the data/information you have collected.

There's such a thing as a responsible/profitable use of the Internet and the gains are probably much higher than whatever any sound minded individual would gain from a disconnection.
Starred because your answers here are beautiful.
Are there some good resources you could recommend for color theory? I've come across lots of palette tools but little indication of what makes colors work, aside from contrast indications. I feel very much like someone in a workshop with every tool imaginable and no idea of how to use them.
One thing to note is the PT event took several million years to unfold.

I think human civilization has bigger problems in the mean time.
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