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> The point was that the entire banking system was seizing up, and for the banks in the biggest trouble, being honest about how much it was costing to borrow money (or worse, the fact that there was no money to be borrowed) would have sent them over the edge and (maybe!) taken the system with them.

Anything that can be destroyed by the truth deserves to be destroyed.

Carl Sagan had a great quote about things like this:

"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken."
> “We have a model that allows us to give more than 50 percent of revenue to the creators,” he said. “They’re all happy with that revenue split and we’re happy with that as well.”

Sounds pretty bad to me.
They could have gotten someone who looked more like a cop to do the beating, but that would be the only difference. Cops are often poorly trained, out of practice, and in bad health. It's easiest for them to fall back on beating you with whatever tools they have available until they are satisfied that you will comply (or that the question of compliance is no longer relevant.)
The problem is that Linux and it's ecosystem are completely fragmented. Say that you deliver the laptop with your own Linux distribution. People still expect that you support dozens of other distributions, desktop environments, etc. Providing support will probably blow away the relatively thin margins that most manufacturers have to work with.

The only company well-positioned to take marketshare from macOS is Windows. They are doing extremely nice work with Windows Subsystem for Linux, which is quickly moving closer towards providing enough of Linux to be productive. At the same time, Windows provides good driver support for recent hardware, applications such as the Adobe Suit, etc.

Unfortunately Microsoft has to screw up with telemetry, etc.
Not if you live in one of those ethnic white enclaves.
There's a massive amount of Apache modules and installs of stuff that has various dependencies on Apache where it's simply not worthwhile to expend any effort to convert it to Nginx, but where it's worthwhile placing in Nginx in front if you prefer Nginx for things like caching, load balancing etc.
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A ticket is just a deal between you and the airline. At any point the airline can decide it's not going to uphold that deal.

Sure, you can try to go to the courts to get monetary compensation for that, but you can't force them to provide the service.
Like the GP said : this was a logistical problem. They needed to get 4 employees from point A to point B 300 miles away. There are several ways of tackling this challenge :

1. continue escalating their shitty voucher bribes : sooner or later someone's gonna bite

2. arrange alternate air transport for the crew : they're already in an airport, and 2 of their competitors (American, Southwest) have multiple direct flights between Chicago and Louisville each day

3. arrange ground transport : otherwise known as renting a car and driving. Not super fun, but I've had ironically had United pull that shit on me from NYC to DC - i.e. they cancelled a flight and put us on an overnight coach bus. If it's good enough for customers, it's good enough for the crew.

4. suck it up and delay whatever flight that crew was scheduled for. It sucks, but it was their mistake to overbook and this isn't a safety-critical situation.

Bottom line, there are about 951 different ways to tackle this problem and they chose the absolutely worst one out of the bunch. That kind of stupidity is legitimately impressive to behold.
Also no refunds on block purchases.
There are some airlines that do not set out to oversell/overbook flights - JetBlue, for example. Even in a situation where a flight is only sold to capacity, there can be various reasons for people to be IDBed. Damaged seats, Equipment Changes (A321 -> A320 for example), etc.

At some point, every US carrier has has or will have to IDB people, and they all have a policy that gives them as much leeway as possible under federal regulations to do so.
"Since workers for most gig economy companies are considered independent contractors, not employees, they do not qualify for basic protections like overtime pay and minimum wages."

"Most [drivers] said the money they earned from online platforms was essential or important to their families."

What do you think would happen to the average driver if the government or labor organizers came in and mandated that these workers receive overtime pay, minimum wage or other benefits? Would ride costs be the same? Would Uber be able to hire the same number of drivers? The space is competitive, it's not like Uber has a monopoly. They make 19 cents a ride on average and lost a bunch of money last year.

If anything, Uber should be celebrated for the fact it allows low skilled people without many other alternatives to be productive. Or would it be better if these people without many alternatives had... one less alternative?
ycombinator, reddit, twitter.
If I'm understanding correctly it was not United that did this but the police officer. The airline doesn't control the officer.
thats not actually true though. what if you were born with a trust fund with $20 million in it at 5% annual interest. you will gain $1 million/year doing absolutely nothing.

Our society is set up such that we massively protect unearned wealth and afford incredible privileges and powers to those who possess that wealth.
That's a good question, and I haven't really read enough history/economics regarding that time period to piece together an intelligent answer with the nuances needed. Among other things, I think it's too soon to really look back and see how the threads connected and disconnected with any dispassionate analysis. Once the signal figures of the era die off with their passions, we can start taking breaths that aren't colored by their factions.

That said:

one factor is that computers started really becoming available to businesses, so you really had an automation boom.

one factor is the cold war ended, which changed... a lot of things, including capital flows. That capital shuffling may have helped prosperity.

one factor is the boomers hit their financially most productive years.
This would be easy to detect. Just look for miners who regularly revive orphaned blocks.
you've never been poor
Los Angeles local and I'm in the same situation. I feel like have the developers in LA are over paid (some iOS developers making 150-200k) and the other half are underpaid (15-30 dollars and hour)
Ask HN: Are you interested in a very simple blogging platform?
There exist a plethora of blogging platforms from WordPress to Ghost but most of the developers prefer just static blog engines like Jekyll, Hugo. But some people are even too lazy to do that too. So are you interested in a platform that is dead simple where you could just login, and write post in markdown, apply some tags and hit publish. Blog layout will be plain and super fast, no side crap. Just good old plain blogging.

Any suggestions?
What would a cure for prion diseases even look like? Are prions targeted by the immune system at all? That to me is what is scary about them.
Yea, I think it passed that mark a long time ago.
I don't know how their service works. Do they pose as a 'gateway company' between you and your customers or are they just a payment gateway? If it's the latter, then the hardest problems still stand since accounting and invoicing is still something that you have to do.

It would be great to have a service that resells your goods/services and takes care of all that stuff so you can send a single invoice to them every month and that's it, but frankly, I'm not sure of the legal part of that.
I don't have any data to objectively support the textbook quality, but overall I generally preferred them to standard textbooks. Perhaps how common it is impacts quality.
Oh hey, I posted this on /r/lisp just earlier today. I discovered it because of a Google rabbit hole triggered by a rediscovery of this article[0] on Naughty Dog's GOAL (Game-Oriented Assembly Lisp). It looks really interesting, although I can't imagine doing serious programming in it (as much as I'd love to).

[0]: http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/disassembling-jak/
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A lot of Apache work load is now behind Nginx or Haproxy, I wouldn't say those numbers are entirely truthful.

Consider how Plesk panels nowadays go with Nginx proxy by default, but Apache in the backend; CPanel will probably follow soon and people have already been doing this manually for a while too.

Apache is still there, just not in as much plain sight as it used to.
Interestingly, the marketing of the white breast meat was almost a problem but worked out well for Big Chicken: they overdid the marketing of breast meat and had a problem of how to dispose of the thigh meat (there's only so much pet food required) but nowadays most is exported to Russia where the bland breast meat is not desired.
> So what are the servers behind nginx? 9 times out of 10 it is Apache httpd, and numerous instances of it at that.

Can you cite a source for this?

In my practice, the servers behind nginx are usually platform-specific application servers, such as Gunicorn or uWSGI for Python.
Is it the hardware or software that makes it better? On my Thinkpads, I disable the trackpad in Ubuntu because it's just terrible. But when I boot into Windows 10, it works rather well. The difference seems to be whether unintentional brushings are ignored and how accurately the trackpad is ignored during typing.
Yes, but then there is a prescribed compensation that everyone involuntarily denied boarding (IDB) is entitled. The vouchers is an attempt to avoid this IDB by getting someone to voluntarily fly later.

Plus, I am not a lawyer, but I think IDB means just that -- boarding. Once you board the airline cannot change its mind, not for commercial reasons (although it might be able to weasel out of that by getting everyone off and re-boarding without some people). Again, take with a grain of salt; this is just what I heard.
I never understand this. Why would a machine get painfully slow after a few years of use? Do you install rubbish on it? Do you not take care to ensure that everything in your process task list makes sense? Do you look to see what's gobbling up CPU, memory or startup time?

I have had Windows machines for decades and never reach a state where the machine is slow or that it slows down since installation. The only thing to cause that is running endless taskbar apps or background services.

What are you doing to make it slow?
Whether or not they do, the airline is still able to remove any customer and offer customers money to volunteer to be bumped.
If the doc ain't with his patients the next day, maybe he figured he'd at least make it as expensive for UA as possible.
Meeting the "candidate" lets you apply some judgement about them that you can't use from just reading a CV (or just knowing their past GPA). How they look, how they dress, their accent, their body language, etc.

People think they can get valuable information from this, so they want to meet the candidates, even if they are told the answers are random.

You need to prove (and then convince people) that all this extra information (the impression a person makes when you meet them) doesn't improve your prediction of their future GPA over a prediction based only their past GPA.
Yup. Got a PoC?
I think it's both. That is, it's a feedback loop. Some people sell their stock, so the market declines, so more people sell their stock, so the market declines more, so more people sell their stock...

For this to happen, though, enough people must be thinking that the market is poised for a big fall, so they're on a hair trigger, ready to sell right at the start of the drop.
I'll just comment on "The only thing that would change is the supply and demand curves." Just taking Uber, it seems they've been pretty adamant that their entire business model is predicated on having a large enough supply of drivers that (a) wait times should be no more than 5 mins and (b) prices are lower than cabs. For example, Uber flat out left Austin because they said that fingerprinting regulations would not allow them to have a large enough supply of drivers.

Thus, I do agree with you that that the only thing that would change is the supply and demand curves, but many of these business models seem to depend on the very idea of there being a large enough supply to enable prices to be lower than alternatives.
The counter argument would be that we learned many decades ago the societal consequences of employment that does not cover basic needs. We can't pretend a human can survive in many parts of America on that kind of wage without government assistance. So we either pay it for the Uber rides, or we pay it in social welfare, or we pay it in the consequences of insufficient social welfare. You're just complaining that it's Uber riders who would have to pay for the externalities caused by Uber's business practices.
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Awesome! I will be reading through the gist later today when I get back to working on it.

I'm not planning on using all of helm either, and specifically, the whole chart repo feature is something that I don't see myself using at the moment.

The workflow I'm envisioning is one where I have a Project-A. Inside Project-A, there is a chart directory containing the project chart, so each project contains their own chart instead of having the charts in a centralised repo. The chart will be used for deployment, but something like versioning will not be bumped manually but instead be bumped by the CI after (if) tests succeeds, at which point a new docker image is built, tagged with a version-bump (or build number) and pushed, and then the chart is updated to use the new docker image and getting it's version bumped (or build number) and then at last deployed to staging environment. There should also be a next step for taking a chart deployed to staging and deploy it to production, but I'm not sure how that should be done yet.

I'm also not sure how or what the correct solution is in the case of actually updating the chart in the repo in the CI, or just supplying runtime variables (or what it's called) to helm as you deploy the chart that then overwrites the values hardcoded in the chart, but in any case, I'm envisioning a workflow where you for each PR and version-tag you make to a repo, a new docker image is produced and pushed, and a new chart is produced and deployed, so that you have a complete history of images and chart for each pr and version.
Both nginx and apache are vulnerable to slowloris. To mitigate an attack like that you need an architecture with a scheduler, that kills slow connections, not a naive event loop.
It saddens me that one of the main comment threads there is complaining about parentheses. :(

Some of the shouts out to thinlisp and other systems that did similar to this before are interesting. Very interesting.
Mac users will always find a reason to like Mac. They are possibly even more stubborn than me.

Mac will always be better to them just like KDE is better to me. And I even liked KDE 4 - which I hardly used.

Last time I found a new favourite desktop was with early Ubuntus and they were discontinued. Since then it has been mate, Gnome 3, Cinnamon and elementary until KDE 5 came and everything was back to normal with KDE being best (even if most people don't seem to be able to understand it ;-)
I bought DPT-S1 on sale from B&H last summer for $600 after ignoring Sony for many years(rootkits et al).

DPT-S1 even with its limitations (PDF only, so Calibre is extra helpful) it feels amazing to read on it.

It is a combination of hardware (lighter than 9 inch iPad, amazing screen, battery lasts a month) and quite decent software tailored for PDF reading and note taking.

I read on multiple devices, iPad Air, Kobo H20, Kindle DX and others.

Out of all devices DPT-S1 is by far my favorite for consuming text and gray scale images.

I thought of ordering a dev kit for the 13.3 inch screen but Sony really did do a good job on this that no single developer could hope to come close.

BOM for DPTS1 is probably around $200, so I envision a future where digital paper could reach mass adoption and cost less than $100.

For some reason no company feels compelled to push for this mass adoption.
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Techno-utopianism has always been a smoke screen for good old fashioned unfettered capitalism. It's the same system that's been trying its best to screw over workers since the dawn of industrialization. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
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Arrest him for trespassing and fine him for interfering with a member of the flight crew, apparently.
Would you mind sharing a link?
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Would you ever consider a job in PHP? Are the worst parts of PHP blockers for you? Tell me about your experiences!
Just pointing out that your list of "sleep, work, eating and leisure" included no time for raising or supporting a family.
Personally, I don't consider his behavior to be absurd. His form of non-violent protest to this situation helped bring to light some rather absurd policies. And as a customer who has been on some awful United flights, alongside the experience of waiting in airports and commuting for hours, I absolutely sympathize with his position.

Why should this man be forced off the plane when he bought a ticket, passed all the security check points, segmented a portion of his day for this trip, and was mostly a compliant customer? The fault of this is squarely on United who had many options available to them and opted to escalate it into the situation that it became.

This isn't a situation where only one seat was available on a plane and the only solution was to bump this one person off so that someone more important could take it. This is a situation where United could've easily upped the compensation to look for someone among dozens of passengers to give up their seat.

Honestly, most consumers are not going to look at this story and sympathize with United.
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I have to install/uninstall a lot of software during development. Maybe the uninstall isn't complete, who knows? Most people I know reinstall Windows once a year from scratch.
This won't help with tolerance.
Kaspersky just announced a comprehensive report on the Moonlight Maze Russian government campaign against U.S. military networks in the 1990s.

Kaspersky has also published at least two recent (last 10 years) campaigns attributed to the Russian government or state-aligned actors.
To establish a reference point, would you say this about labor laws in general? ie get rid of any labor laws and let the market sort itself out.
The board's statement of opposition pretty cleanly argues against this type of equity overhaul.

That said, I do appreciate the spirit of the proposal. Specifically, how do users that are contributing to the value of the network somehow extract some of that value in real terms? Of course, there's a lot of complexity to that sort of system and the cost of implementing it substantial. But whereas some people are working on architecting that sort of system from the outset as more a technical feat, this tact would get legal momentum that would almost guarantee some sort solution, be it good, bad or more likely, somewhere in between.
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Ask HN: Where do you advertise your new product 2017?
I'm talking about a small SASS/side project with a limited budget. what budget and what are the current effective advertising trends in 2107? any advice/recommendation is highly appreciated.
Related: calibre https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre
Except that it has been proven that Lenovo laptops had spyware, twice. In one case with a HTTPS-hijacking proxy server to inject ads. To add to the insult, the same private keys were used on multiple laptops allowing third parties to MITM HTTPS connections

If that kind of user-hostility does not place you at the bottom of the list, what does?
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1) That's an interesting project. Worthy of discussion on its own.

2) "Why isn't it written in Lisp?" It's 42% C++ according to GitHub.

3) Based on a hunch and past experiences, I'm going to ignore any follow ups on this thread.

EDIT: And now I look like a jerk because lispm replaced his terse comment with a fuller comment. My apologies for even engaging in the first place. Should have known better.
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How would this be different from Medium?

I love Medium, so I think it is a good idea. But is the idea to recreate Medium?

The only feature you would need to add is the ability to customize CSS.

But you would be providing lifetime free hosting, and the ability to have one's own URL. For free. Is that worth it to you?
You have what's called a cognitive dissonance.
I thought compiling them into the binary was a very clever idea!
Here's an informative link with a screenshot: http://pondini.org/TM/C13.html
The OLPC project had something special for its display; not sure it lines up exactly with what you're proposing (especially the size!) but perhaps in the same ballpark ("two screens sharing an LCD"). Looks like around $80 shipped on eBay.

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Display#Screen
Carlsen would still beat Stockfish on an iPad.
Stockfish 8 on a server farm is 3294 to Carlsen's 2838.
But on a circa 2014 1GHz iPad, it's about 2500.

http://support.stockfishchess.org/discussions/questions/865-...

http://www.inwoba.de/
Seems quite interesting. I would try it this week.
> So what do you do when someone refuses to leave?

They should not get into this situation. At ALL. They should, like they normally do, handle overbooking at the boarding stage -- by either offering compensation or by issuing IDB checks to people they choose to prevent from boarding.

What happened is major mistake and is morally despicable. I hope the passenger gets punitive damages.
> even though there are better solutions for reverse-proxies out there... Apache Traffic Server to even Apache httpd

Really? Completely disagree. Just look at the configuration files for these vs nginx.
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Yes, according to the current definitions (maybe, or maybe not, see below). However, the point is that instead of making up a new category, which means you are mucking with definitions, you can just as easily change the definitions to clarify that these are, in fact, employees.

I bring my own laptop and my employer has a "work anywhere anytime" policy (as long as you get your job done). Does that mean I am no longer an employee??
Almost no one negotiates comp with Google -- because their recruiters strongly discourage it and all decisions are made by committee.
yeah, or just ... more nginx.
No, working on it. Was very demotivated.

But thanks! getting back to work.
When I have Deja Vu it's very clear to me that what I'm doing _right now_, in this second, is something that's happened before. I sometimes have experiences where the Deja Vu occurring in the present is possibly the _third_ time that it's happened as well. It just feels so familiar in multiple ways that I am reminded of something happening a while back.

Such an odd sensation when your brain is telling you you're experiencing a repeated situation, but your mind is telling you it's impossible.
I think this is different, in that what's being sold is community-generated content: custom maps, texture packs, and skins. They're not locking pieces of the actual game behind paywalls.
Is it certain this came from cannibalism and not infected pigs?