skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pick them up and carry them out. If necessary, bring in more people so that you can pick them up and carry them out without hurting them.
Delta paid more than $1000 to passengers in a similar situation: https://consumerist.com/2017/04/10/one-family-earned-11000-b...
Watch the video. The guy is big, but he's not acting like police, and he doesn't have any sort of uniform. The two useless cops are just looking on like useless cops do.
There is. Delta says $600 for a 4-hour forced rebook and up to $1200 or $1400 for longer. Can't remember the exact amount.

Ah wait, I think it's some formula based on miles and delay.

Regardless, it's some arbitrary cap for no good reason.
Just curious - what's the preferred way of passing secrets from the deployment process to the application?

Environment variables? Simple to use and understand but can leak to child processes and crash reports.

Files on disk? Usually can also be read by children.

Via stdin on app startup? Seems simple...

Some other way?
if americans at large had interest in holding these jobs, the market demand would be filled and they wouldn't be in demand.

this statement feels vacuous to me?
Nice feature set with the reading time indicators and toggleable sources. Added to my list of HN apps & tools.

https://pinboard.in/u:tedmiston/t:hacker-news/
Doesn't that disagree with the study posted above? Or do you have other data?
It would seem that up until this point, Uber+Lyft has represented the transfer of billions of dollars from very wealthy individuals and organizations, to the lower working class.

There is another paradox here, that poor people use Uber+Lyft too. Most municipalities within the US do not have a functional, cheap public transportation systems.
Why should he leave in the first place?
You agree to get your head kicked in by thugs every time you board an airplane?
So many American police officers are violent thugs under a very thin veneer.
Wonder how hard it is to write a quine in Dale...
I still dislike the fact that neuromorphic designs are always funded and heralded as the next coming of Turing when they have no results to back it up.

Take ConvNets, they're ruthlessly empirically validated and have results to show for it. By contrast, these spiking neural nets were simply assumed to be somehow better (hey, because brains!) and they proceed to mint chips off the idea.
I think United were wrong here (maybe not legally) but morally and, even from their self-interest they took a major PR hit. People involved in this should be getting termination letters immediately.

However, I am curious. Once they made the decision to remove him. How could they have done so if he didn't want to move? A taser?
As someone younger who never really used Apache, I don't see any reason to do anything with it instead of Nginx.
Other than supporting "legacy" setups, whats the point of Nginx load balancing Apache?
Configuring nginx is just so much more intuitive.
Agree, my most recent Lyft ride was a [by choice] stay-at-home father whose wife was working full time, which enabled him to moonlight in the busy 6-10 pm hour.

Anecdotal evidence, but still. Not many job opportunities are available at weird hours and the ones that are (e.g. bartending, retail) usually require more rigid and unpredictable schedule than driving for a ride-sharing network.
> With that said, don't drag people off your flights. No matter what it costs you to get staff where they need to be when you make this mistake, it'll be cheaper than the negative publicity of a physical altercation removing a passenger (even if you need to retask a commuter aircraft just to relocate the crew, or ask another carrier to get them there).

Of course, that just gives a hecker's veto to anyone insubordinate enough to refuse to leave. What they probably should have done was select another passenger, and have police waiting for the recalcitrant passenger at the destination airport: that would satisfy the need to get personnel to their destination and ensure punishment for someone violating his contract and wouldn't cause a scene.
Gartner halves tech splash forecasts, blames the US dollar
America does provide a means of getting an education for everyone. If you're poor you can get Pell grants and government guaranteed loans.
Someone recently gifted me a ThinkPad. It is hands down the most awesomely satisfying piece of computing equipment I have ever owned.

Of course, I wouldn't dream of running this or any other real computer with a pre-installed OS.
That's actually not true (afaik). Certainly the command to kill another passenger is unlawful, and you won't carry it out.

But also just as certainly he can tell you to leave the aircraft for refusing.

There literally is absolutely no legal right for you to stay on that vessel after the captain requests you leave.

Plenty of incidents support this on a practical level - captains remove people rarely but not unheard of for silly and discriminatory reasons. They likely get disciplined after the fact by the company, but in the moment you have zero recourse as a passenger who was asked to leave. Your options are to grab your bag and walk off, or be removed and possibly go to jail. Either way you are pleading your case on the ground.
I'm 13 days late but, I'm not arguing that your approach is less secure or privacy-focused.

My point is, if you can't be bothered to create an extra email address for this purpose, then you probably aren't that concerned about it.

But I'm subject to being wrong.
United Is Under Fire for Dragging a Passenger Off an Overbooked Flight
> You can put all sorts of restrictions on selling shares so long as you're not a public company, though.

Sure you can. But it is my understanding that the more restrictions you put in the circulation of capital, the further away you go from the capitalistic model and the closer you get to the socialist one.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9226260
The Startup That Can Make You Less – Or More – Addicted to Your Phone
Raise the offer from $800, which is a low amount for an airline overbooking.
Does this mean they are getting serious about a plugin API?
> [Longhorn] has used a range of back door Trojans in addition to zero-day vulnerabilities to compromise its targets.

I genuinely don't see the added value of antivirus corporations in this or anywhere else. Better tactics are:

- patch

- educate wife and children
How? Because that's how "optimal" is defined.

Why? Ditto.

Line of reasoning? That evolution is an optimization process, and that human intelligence is an optimization process - hence both are likely to reach good solutions for intelligence eventually, and if there's a strong optimum in the design space of those, then both are likely to converge at least in some areas.

What's "we"? Human technological civilization.

What's "nature"? Evolutionary process that already produced working brains.
The depraved part here is that none of United's employees (flight attendants and/or pilots) on board the aircraft stopped law enforcement or whoever it was from forcibly ejecting this guy.

The law may be on United's side but United's employees on board could have been more human about it and not let this happen once the passenger refused to be booted off the plane. Since when is use of force the norm?
I would guess that so many people move before Apache 2.4, or in early day of 2.4, and they did not look back. And with them, all new site, or old site with pre-2.4, get upgraded toward nginx.
One article claimed that a stun gun was used, hence the need to drag him out.

Edit: it was a tweet quoted by Vanity Fair, http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/04/united-airlines-passe...
Many of you have probably heard about Prions and Papua New Guinea but the end of the article discusses new prion diseases showing up in deer within North America.

The idea that human's could get a prion disease from deer meat, coupled with a potentially long incubation period, is frightening. Living in a hunting community I may avoid eating deer for the foreseeable future.
PGMs are interesting in how they represent distributions over the values of their nodes. In neural networks, (for the most part) those nodes are deterministic, so from a PGM perspective the distribution is trivial (up until the final output prediction). Performing inference in a neural net with stochastic nodes would be crazy hard, so the best you can do is usually MC with some kind of reparametrization trick to keep your gradients around.
The classic notification that "Time Machine must take a new backup". Usually that translates roughly to "Time Machine lost the plot and will now start from scratch, say bye to your old versions".
You beat them senseless! No need to increase the incentives.
Same should apply in employment contracts: Hey, Joe, listen here! I need to randomly cut your pay and if you don't take it I have security nearby to convince you!

What else can you do?! Am I right?!
I don't know about Time Machine specifically, but the first rule of backups is to always test your backups, so that may be how they found out.
A certain percentage of passengers just don't show up for whatever reason. This percentage is fairly predictable, so if the airline sells more seats than there are on the airplane, the extra tickets are pure profit. Because they are good at their statistics, usually, it isn't a problem, but every once in a while more people show up with tickets than there are seats.

There are other reasons that this can happen. An aircraft change (due to maintenance issues, for example) might result in fewer seats being available. In this case, the airline needed to relocate some employees and seats weren't available. For the record, I believe they handled it very badly.
I understand prion diseases are rare and it's more likely I'll die in a car accident or something, but the persistence of prions is just a horrifying concept.

Highly resistant to heat, radiation, proteases, enzymes... Basically if you've got a prion disease it's just a matter of time before they end you.
Well, in your example, I can't run over the kid, but I can call the cops, and have them come and physically remove him. So that's almost exactly what happened, except that the burly guy wasn't a cop (or at least wasn't in uniform).

The cops were there, though, and were (at least tacitly) authorizing the guy to try to physically remove the passenger. Is that legal and/or moral? Or does it have to be a uniformed officer before it becomes legal and moral?
Could you maybe share a screenshot?
Deleware Corp headquartered in California.
That sounds like bad parenting. Kid wants skin? Fine, make them understand the value of it and work for it though. Teach them that buying an overpriced skin will cost them eg. 10 hours of actual work - like chores.
I watched the video. Sky marshals purposefully wear normal clothes, so they blend in with the rest of the passengers on the flight. Having them wear uniforms would kind of defeat the purpose.

The cops are likely waiting until the passenger is off the plane to take him into custody.
I'm glad he did act out, though. Ultimately, he's doing so on our behalf as passengers. When United freaks out about negative PR they're conditioned to be more wary about pushing customers around.

If I were in his position I'd quietly fume about it and United would get more comfortable about booting people who have boarded without repercussions. It's pretty rare that passengers' cases get brought to light so it's kind of refreshing.
My predictions:

1. There will be no personal consequences for any of the belligerents involved in this, including the airline employees and police officers. Nobody is going to get fired.

2. The victim will receive no compensation for his injuries, instead will be further victimized in the courts.

3. There will be no business cost to United. They are already known as one of the most awful airlines in the world, and people still voluntarily choose to do business with them. People will continue to fly with them despite them now having earned the "Beats Its Customers" badge.
It turns out that airline crew have infinite powers on their own planes (well...nearly). They can actually thrown someone off a plane on a whim. Source: I saw this happen last year.
The idea of it registering as a printer is ingenious.
I think it depends on whether you consider nginx primarily a reverse proxy or a web server.
That sentiment makes it easy to dismiss the models we use, but here's the thing - the technological concepts of the age limit what models people can express in that age. Better technology = better models, i.e. models that explain more and predict more.

Also this sentiment casually dismisses the fact that behind computing there's a whole lot of theoretical work that stems not from technology itself, but from how reality works (i.e. math).
Not if they cancel or reschedule which can be done up to about a day before in most cases without a fee. And there are very few people looking for a flight less than 24 hours before it departs so those seats would go unfilled most of the time.
Some people would prefer holdings in lieu of cash, but prefer being able to eat and pay rent in lieu of holdings so they wind up taking the cash. That too is, technically, a preference but let's not pretend all "preferences" have no more weight or societal implication than what flavor of ice-cream we like.
Good luck?

There is no luck required assuming you have access to well-stocked grocery stores.
Spontaneous Protests in Russia. A View from Below
A friend that works for Emirates managed to get this way to home on Christmas. There are usually 2 spare jump seats. You put 2 pilots there and 2 where the couple was. The flight is quite short.
I wonder if most cypherpunks accept determinism as a truth? I only ask this given the security required for privacy must be proved to be deterministic in nature, at least in this reality.
On HN users aren't allowed to pursue each other's personal details and bring them here as ammunition in an argument. That crosses the line into personal attack, which is emphatically not allowed here, regardless of how wrong you think someone else or their employer may be. Please don't do it again.
What's the benefit of paying $600 for a cell phone up front instead of paying $600 over two years on an interest free loan? Most cell phone companies have moved away from subsidies to interest free payment plans.

That being said, you can get a perfectly acceptable unlocked Android phone for less than $100.
Easiest way to create smart home apps that learn when you come and go
Spiking neural networks do have many advantages over conventional rate based networks. They can, for example, handle time which a convnet cannot do without resorting to frames.

They also have a lot of disadvantages, the main one being that no one has any idea of how to use them properly yet.
> So then I wonder if with enough play, people can beat AlphaGo once more. Maybe would should let people have a chance to keep playing against AlphaGo till they recover from the flaws it finds in human games, and maybe human creativity can win out once more.

Alpha go learns just like humans it is not standing still for humans to catch up.
Is the flash message setup a standard way implement that type of functionality?? Encrypting the cookie with a key that is delivered client side anyway seems like it doesn't buy you anything.
Urban Inequality Is a Crisis, but Don't Blame Techies for It
Ask HN: Website suddenly went down in ranking?
Any SEOs ninjas here please? my site www.agicent.com, which was doing good for the keyword app development company (ranking between 1st to 3rd page on google since a month) suddenly pushed back to 11th page, and the traffic reduced drastically as well.

I thoroughly checked the site and figured no bad backlink, though I got major crawl errors and duplicate pages (my original pages were duplicated under the agicent.com/blog/ root folder as well FYI), so I fixed that and resubmitted the site map.

Can this be the reason of that sudden decline (although google says 404 errors don't harm rankings)?

Can anyone please help me analysing the issue, and possibly suggest a fix.

Thanks,
This was such a simple problem to fix for United. They offered vouchers for people to volunteer. No one accepted. So keep raising the offer until 4 people accepted. Problem solved.

Instead they chose violence.

I will never fly United Airlines again.
This reads a lot like:

"The losers pay the winners.

Not really a surprising result given that really good arbitrageurs will extract a lot of value until the game is discovered by the wider world.
I agree.

I will point out that it is not United that "chose" violence. They asked the police to intervene. The state is supposed to have a monopoly on physical force, so they did.

Now, for the police, violence has always been normal, or normalized.

Consider the appropriate responses:

1. An airline should not call in the police when dealing with customers because they can reasonably expect violence.

2. The police should be retrained not to use violence. (Is this reasonable? You can imagine other instances where this where this would endanger them.)

3. As a society, we should not let police deal with "civil" situations where violence might occur. Perhaps we need another "force"?

And so on.

edit: clarity of last point
Personally I usually go with env vars for small, one-off deployments. For larger environments with multiple deployables/teams, a tool like Vault (https://www.vaultproject.io/) is pretty handy.
Go's net package is used by Google. In production. What's wrong with it?
I have a simple crud app hosted on heroku.
This. Chicago to Louisville is a 300-mile drive. Someone would surely have been willing to get off the plane in exchange for $1k and either a rental car, or a hotel for the night. I still enjoy flying itself, but everything around it, from "security" rent-a-cops fondling you and stealing your toothepaste, to airline employees treating you like cattle, makes me dread having to fly somewhere.
Is this only to check server identity or client as well?

Why not use regular X 509 certs?
Why isn't it written in Lisp? It would be so much easier...

See for example C-MERA:

https://github.com/kiselgra/c-mera
Reverse auction.

Ok, we're offering $10,000 to anyone who gets off.

I see twenty hands and we only need four.

How about $8,000, ok, down to 19 hands.

10 minutes later, and they probably would have ended up paying LESS than $800/seat.
I get your point, but being this hyperbolic is not supporting your case.
That's a horrible reason in my opinion. What other industry could get away with doing this? If someone sold 105% capacity for a concert or sports game and just told the last 5% who arrived "sorry, no more room" people would be extremely upset.
For reference, section 25 of their contract of carriage: https://www.united.com/web/en-US/content/contract-of-carriag...
Here's an article from the alliance's news (propaganda?) site about the incident: https://imperium.news/inn-investigation-player-aid/

Here's a reddit thread with comments about what happened: https://www.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/5hxobg/the_scam_master...
I don't want to speak for the OP but I believe he/she was illustrating my point.
When they do this, it's usually a shittier offer than it sounds. They're not offering cash, but value in tickets, which has an expiration a short time in the future, and can only be applied to certain flights.

It'd be interesting to see statistics on how often these offers are even redeemed.
A couple of points:

1. You are correct that is what they CoC states, however its not like this is really a free market (ie. the customer didn't really have a choice but to accept those terms). United, and all commercial airlines, effectively have a monopoly license. So, it wasn't really a free and open market that produced those CoC terms.

2. As sign of the "bad faith" of United's contract, the reverse situation is not permitted. That is, a customer who chooses not to fly at the last minute doesn't get to reschedule - and in many cases will simply forfeit his money. So, on one end of this contract a government monopoly can kick you off a flight via force based on whim (breaking the implied contract that they were going to service you), but on the other end the customer either has no other competitor choice nor has any recourse once they've handed over their money.
all of my customers, bar one, are non-VAT-registered

the actual numbers above are examples, but the scenario matches mine pretty much perfectly, so I'm not sure why you would say that I'm misrepresenting anything

these are digital services, not cars or cans of soup
Which is why they "randomly" pick the people who paid the least for their ticket.
Do uniformed airline employees get tickets? I've seen them board without producing tickets. They don't have to wait in line either. United might just have decided that it's easier to trust the discretion of its employees than to figure out ahead of time who's going where, when, especially since that could change constantly based on numerous factors.
Over the years I've gotten an incredible amount of value out of bootstrap and 3 has been great but the uncertainty over 4 and the huge delay has made me start seriously looking at alternatives over the last few months.

Semantic and Foundation are both on my list of things to look at.
Revisited the decision to remove him.
Did they arrest him before removing him? Surely that would be the right thing to do. If they do not have a reason for arresting him then they can't just beat people up to act as "security" for the airline. If they had arrested him and read him his rights I'm sure he'd have understood that the gravity of the situation was such that he really had to stand up and leave.
Reasonableness is what faceless bureaucracies use to keep everyone in line. In the modern world, half the time an individual is wronged, there is literally no recourse but to speak to an endless string of "agents" who in fact bear no agency and no responsibility. It's a daily occurrence that we get thrust into these kafkaesque situations, and by no means is it our responsibility to take this bullshit with a happy shit-eating smile.

So no, no the passenger was not unreasonable, this is the only type of thing that gets their leadership far above the rank and file to take enough notice to actually change policies to something reasonable which is this: pay enough for volunteers. You overbooked the flight, you pay the price, simple as that.

For the love of god, don't side with corporations where the ones setting the policies and profiting are far removed from both the enforcers of those policies, and the customers suffering at their hands. This is probably the number one source of social problems in the modern age: lack of individual accountability.
A previous generation of the 'gig economy' hype was 'Free Agent Nation', a 2002 Daniel Pink book that extolled the virtues of being your own boss. The economy was cratering and in reality it became a game of musical chairs for what work was available.

https://www.amazon.com/Free-Agent-Nation-Working-Yourself/dp...

This all promotes a race to the bottom for least pay and lack of benefits IMO. Given that medical costs are a cynical for-profit business in the USA it's odd there is such enthusiasm in some quarters for these ideas.

I do know several people who fly around the word making money hand over fist speaking about the joys of this brave new era...presumably lots of people are showing up to hear the dream...
Some hacked every tornado siren in Dallas (156 in total)
Any maximum cap is ridiculous. Let the free market reign!
The flight itself represents many tens of thousands of dollars of fares.

United have a price they were willing to cost the seat, they were unwilling to bear the cost.

Either way, it's United's PR disaster to handle.