skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Correct, I worded this poorly. Was not trying to defend the forcible removal, only that they can (and do) deny boarding to position crew.
There was a push of wechat into India in 2014, but it seems to have not gone anywhere at all. The only success wechat has had outside of china is with Chinese communities, and even in this case it's marginal.
So do millions of other ambitious people. Many of us do achieve moderate success.

Walter - do you think there's a vast gap in ability between you and Zuckerberg? Or better yet, between you and Dustin Moskovitz? (He's worth 10.4 billion).

Or did they just also happen to be in the right place at the right time?
Did they issue you multiple $50 vouchers like the other person said? I fly mostly from SFO to HND (Japan) and it would be worthless if I only got $50 off a flight.
Nobody is knocking security training -- just the value of the certificate process.

We all know far too many people who have mastered the test, but not the material. This makes the signal from the certification unreliable.
Without shadow ban, you're just telling the spammers how to be effective and stay just under the limit.
It's already too late to buy the stock on sale. From 5 days ago, UAL is down only 0.19%. With DAL -.07%, LUV +4.04%, and ALK -1.54%, it's hard to argue that one-off situations like this event, or Delta's multiple days of cancellations, have much of an effect on investors.

https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&...
I would not drink that.
Some secret weapons this article did not mention

1. Allen Zhang (Founder of WeChat) was the author of once popular desktop email client: Foxmail, and later Tencent acquired it, Zhang refactored a new version of web mail on mail.qq.com.

In order to support Microsoft Exchange protocol, Zhang and his team reversed engineered it, this was later the foundation of Wechat's binary protocol design, in Zhang's words, it's magnitudes faster and robust than your XMPP copycat. It's designed to work well in extremely poor signal coverage area with only GPRS 2G online access.

2. Wechant literally stole telecom's SMS cake. Tencent put lots of effort striking deals with telecoms, ordinary IM startups might simply be blocked or QoS'd to death.

3. Tecent also pushed very hard to third-party Android ROM publishers to pre-install Wechat. It's like 2-5 RMB per new user acquisition and the app can not be deleted unless rooted. Tecent also negotiated to made sure Wechat app always stays in memory and can not be easily killed so push messages can be received, Be noted, because Google was fully stripped in all legit Android phones in China, there's no Google Play or GCM service, some other IM competitors are struggling to have basic message receiving capabilities.

4. Wechat is a lock-in mega app. Little known fact is it got a Tecent Browser (X5) fully builtin, it's an outdated Chromium build and its behavior is kinda headache to debug compared to othe mobile browsers like Chrome or Mobile Safari, lots of customised JS bridges and restrictions.

The evil part is that every link you view in wechat must renders exclusively in X5. E.g. if you open a youtube page, it renders in webview in wechat, if you have youtube app installed and wanna view the URL link in app, you have to click for the wechat menu, open the webpage in system browser, so your waste your data bandwidth for the second time and opens the exact webpage, and click "Open in App".

This ensures engagement times.

5. Wechat blocks competitor URLs for obvious reasons, e.g. *.taobao.com domain since day 1 because "the link looks malicious and may harm your device". It force users to choose Tencent equivalents(JingDong).
I have been introduced to this from my local MySQL team. Just want to confirm, how is the conflict resolution solved? e.g., two different updates on two different server at about the same time.
"known" dangers is debatable, that's what the issue is. As posted elsewhere in these comments: http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/does-glyphosate...
This thread has been eye opening. I had always assumed companies seeking remote employers were looking for cheap labor. Do you have any wisdom to share for someone looking to make the switch to remote?
Serious question: how does a ketogenic diet work for people with type 1 diabetes?
Can you achieve stable blood sugar levels?
Does it mean lower insulin doses and less blood glucose testing?
Does it make you more vulnerable to hypos?
Is it too easy to slip from ketosis to ketoacidosis?
Can it be done safely?
Lithium ion batteries are pretty much 'safe to eat'^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H non-toxic (Edit: NOT safe to eat, as discussed below) (compared with lead-acid or nickel-cadmium batteries)... but I still wouldn't actually eat one.
wow..

Don't want to give any real advice here other than talk to someone! - that sounds very scary.

will keep ya in mind..
They failed in the US because the US has excellent credit card coverage while china (having lots of small scale retailers) does not. It was the right feature at the right time in the right place.
“We would be keeping the cost down by us doing the writing and they would just edit & sign their names so to speak,” Mr. Heydens wrote, citing a previous instance in which he said the company had done this.

Science for sale.

Shouldn't that Mr. Rowland guy be in jail?
It would probably take a day to arrange, and then coat about $15,000 per flight hour. Not the quickest or most frugal option.
None can hack Indian voting machine – challenge to global hackers by India govt
We've done few variations of those for representing parts of a trading book where you often have a few price points (the inside) are hit more often and their performance is more important. Self-balancing data structures are very cool.
In an ideal world, I fully agree with this.

In the short-term, get shit done world, sometimes things are messier and the edges are rougher and you need to allow for some of that.

My 3 month rule is good enough to evaluate, try it out, play with some ideas, get some feedback, and then scale or kill. If you kill it, expense it and you're done. If you scale it (aka operationalize it), move it to the corp account.

At Twilio, I saw this from both sides.. both as a purchaser and as an evangelist getting people to use our API.
Time for Massively Parallel Testing
We are targeting 59.
A fix for Mac OS X is on its way: https://codereview.chromium.org/2811633002
I saw a presentation at Stanford around 2000 of the science and engineering behind a watch-like device that would measure glucose levels in the interstitial fluid extracted from the skin with an electric zap. I think it is the GlucoWatch, which seems not to have worked out well in practice.
http://www.mendosa.com/glucowatch.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygnus_Inc
Mobile payments aren't so big in the west because they aren't so necessary. Almost every shop in the USA takes cards, the same isn't true in china or many developing markets, but everyone has a phone so let's use the camera and QR codes to get around our lack of infrastructure.
That's actually not true. From 14 CFR 250.1, definitions:

"Confirmed reserved space means space on a specific date and on a specific flight and class of service of a carrier which has been requested by a passenger, including a passenger with a “zero fare ticket,”"

"Zero fare ticket means a ticket acquired without a substantial monetary payment such as by using frequent flyer miles or vouchers" ... "A zero fare ticket does not include free or reduced rate air transportation provided to airline employees and guests".

Which means the employees cannot be counted as having confirmed reserved space. 14 CFR 250.2a says:

"In the event of an oversold flight, every carrier shall ensure that the smallest practicable number of persons holding confirmed reserved space on that flight are denied boarding involuntarily."

Which means denying the smallest practicable number of persons holding confirmed reserved space means denying 0 paying passengers. They cannot bump passengers for crew. Whether they do or not, they legally cannot.
I've gotten several thousand dollars in vouchers over the years. I've never ever had gotten one which couldn't be stacked with other vouchers to pay for a flight.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_laminated_timber

There's some glue involved, but it removes the carbon stored in the wood from the normal carbon cycle of trees and it would also displace cement/concrete, whose production emits loads of carbon dioxide.
Issues with GraphQL -

- the GQL server in practice is still going to have fixed contracts/endpoints, because arbitrary queries are a risk. This is what FB recommends as well

- there is no help in actually implementing the server end to end, since its just really a wrapper over the actual calls that need to be made. Apollo seems to be the new standard way to do this.

- Mutations/subscriptions are still a work in progress
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.
Barring that I will send you an immortality potion that keeps the grim reaper away.
Certification of transactions is done on transaction commit.

If two people have modified the same data, then one of them will get a similar error to a deadlock. The other is free to proceed.
I don't think it was the Chicago PD who did the removal of the man, but there's so much bad reporting about this story that I can't tell...
Just because more tools are important doesn't mean this tool works.
Or Fibonacci trees. I have seen suffix tries used in the wild. I have yet to see a Fib tree. Shown to be optimal in a number of tree operations, horribly slow in practice..
Bitcoin Patent Firm NChain Acquired, Possible Connections to Craig Wright
Unless you paid to remain on said private property, and they are bound by contract to let you stay.
If I ordered the parts individually and read the repair manual, I could replace the starter in my car for much less money than taking it to the mechanic. The only reason why I don't attempt that is time and effort getting directed in an unwanted direction.
My dad died because of roundup. He was a physics prof, smart guy, fought hard for wetland issues. Was on the board of Wisconsin Wetlands.

He didn't drink, didn't smoke, he was very active, very fit, and yet he got cancer. I can feel the down votes coming, but he was a guy that just should not have gotten cancer.

Roundup gave him cancer. I could tell you stories about him dieing that would be not so fun.

Fuck cancer and fuck roundup hard.

Edit: he and my mom fought invasive species and they used roundup. So maybe that's on them. That's why he got cancer.
I don't alter my resume on a per-application basis, but I have a web development focused resume for web dev jobs, and a more general software engineering one for non web jobs. I make changes to both of them every month or two.

I apply to very few junior or senior jobs. Mostly mid level jobs or other SWE jobs that have no title modifiers. Most of the feedback leads me to the conclusion that I have too many years to be considered for a junior role, but lacking the experience for a senior one.

That lead me to ask about jobs that are more lenient with ramp up time. I'm the career version of the student that repeats the same grade. I've had poor opportunities to follow industry trends.

I am going to meetups more often this year. Trying to do at least two a month. This is the only way I talked to developers BTW. I don't have any Facebook friends who are SWE's or even know a SWE.

Can't share a resume, at least not now, as I'm typing from my phone. And I cannot use the laptop for internet at the moment. My resume docs are in my laptop.

No links now, but recent companies I've applied to: Akuna Capital, Braintree, Vokal, Cloudflare, DialogTech, BMW, ParkWhiz, Enova, Power Reviews, Vivid Seats, Uptake, Amazon, Morningstar, Rocketmiles, Nerdery, Sprout Social. I am willing to move if relocation is paid for. Most rejected me at submitting my resume. I bombed first tech interview with Amazon. But I'm in the interviewing stages with Cloudflare and Akuna Capital.
I really don't think the process is responsible for technical debt. If anything waterfall is better because you can do larger scale refactorings. But at the end of the day, time needs to be assigned to address that debt and no process will give you that time.
It's involuntary if they don't let you on the place, but if you willingly walk off the plane it's voluntary.

If what the person is saying is true, then technically speaking, the only one who could demand cash would be the doctor.
That's just a truism about benchmarks. Once all the low hanging fruit is picked they stop showing interesting progress and just become a garden for crazy microoptimizations. The same thing happened with C compilers 10-15 years ago.

Basically, Javascript performance is "done". It's not going to get much faster at this point, and higher performance will come from paradigm shifts (SIMD, WebAssembly, pick your fad).
> Then, the inevitable outrage led to past stories resurfacing, with a pattern of absurd insensitivity (abused dogs, broken guitars, sexist clothing policies, etc).

You don't think you'd be able to dredge up similarly bad stories for any other airline?

Look, what United did on that flight was pretty awful. But the rest of this to me smacks of the typical rumor mill that spins up when a company has bad PR, which surfaces the typical sort of 2-deviations-below-the-bell-curve scenarios you'll occasionally have when you're a company at United's scale - a scale that employs tens of thousands of people that do not actually all act as one giant United hive mind as much as we'd like them to but rather each as autonomous people that can occasionally do wrong things in a way that has no bearing on the company at large.

(That was a pretty long sentence.)

For what it's worth, I know an employee of United who loves it. But what was that saying about the plural of anecdote again..?
Its not the single cigarette that kills you :P
Ask HN: Advice for first week on the job?
In a couple of weeks I'll be starting a new job in a more senior technical role. I'm moving companies for the first time in 10 years. What advice would you have for best practices for starting at a new company?
In what way did the exploit they had you write differ from the kind we wrote in 1997?
The holy grail for treating diabetes is not a continuous glucose monitor -- not even a noninvasive one. The holy grail for treating diabetes is regulating the immune system so that it doesn't attack beta cells.
This doesn't make any sense. Google, from top-down, is incredibly pro-LGBT. I'm willing to bet $1 that there is some other violation that happened. Or, people who are anti-LGBT(or pro-Russian government) managed to trick google into shutting down the ads on his blog, for example by sending a bunch of fake traffic to it.
> perezhilton.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14090419
I lived in china for 9 years. I preferred using my unionpay card to buy things (didn't work at the wet market) and had a separate app for didi dache. You don't have to do all one things in wechat if you don't want to (accept maybe wepay), and I prefer not to for myself (wife is a different story).

After moving to California from Beijing, I can do all those things easily now online. What wechat offered instead was he Chinese preference for having everything in one place and getting around weaknesses in infrastructure. It isn't intrinsically better than what we have in the west, just different and suited for china.
This is the point that seems to get missed a lot.

yes, the police did the brutalizing, but all of the decisions that lead to that confrontation were UA's.

It's akin to arguing we shouldn't lock up people who pay for assassins, only the assassins themselves.

And I'm not trying to compare an assassination to what UA did, only point out that the law doesn't give you a pass because you weren't the one who physically did the act.
Unconventional Echo Clone
The real reason we simply don't need to do it in the west, while in china you don't have any other option accept to just use cash if you want to buy from the local wet market or pay your didi driver.
In 10+ years consulting for Fortune 100 companies, zero is the number I have seen with 400+ security staff. A 50 person security team is enormous even by the standards of financial services.
Bad example because in this case United and passenger entered an agreement for the passenger to be on United's property.

That's like saying you leased your house to a tenant for a year but then six months in you find another tenant that you want so you call the cops on the first tenant. Doesn't work like that (well at least where I live).

A contract is a contract and nobody is tresassing here.
Sure, we should collect some data.

That said, I and my family decided over a year ago never to fly United again, based on multiple bad experiences. Independent of this incident, I'm sure we made a good decision.
I need this kind of extension for companies I don't want to do business with. Also need it for news sites with Adblock blockers. I don't want to see news sites like forbes when searching for news. Is there a plug-in that removes certain sites from my google search results?
CONIKS vs. Key Transparency vs. Certificate Transparency vs. Blockchains
Try being a foreigner with a unionpay card but lacking a Chinese indentity card number. I heard it's better now, but that requirement was always a bummer for me in trying to do payments online.
That's the problem. The airline industry in the US is a oligopoly in dire need for a regulatory intervention.

Same sentiment in this op-ed piece on Medium.
https://medium.com/@thisTenqyuLife/united-airlines-should-go...
Exactly. Shadow banning, when done right and very carefully, can be extremely effective against spammers. The trick is that you have to go out of your way to identify false positives correctly so that you don't accidentally do it to a legitimate user. You have to be very careful with it.
my suggestion would be to have a look at "Two centuries of Silence" by Abdol Hossein Zarinkoob and "Sassanid Persia" by Arthur Emanuel Christensen.
This is something I've seen several people not seem to understand.

A large part of why people are upset about it isn't just the physical brutality, it's the act of FORCIBLY removing someone from a plane after they've:

1. paid
2. boarded
3. spent all the time going through customs, etc.

The fact that he got brutalized, even if it was not purposeful, is secondary. If you read through this very thread you'll see most of the commentary isn't centered around his injuries, but around UA's decision to forcibly remove him after boarding.
Absolutely. I can tell you from experience, on both sides of this fence, that hiring managers ask for the moon, and rarely get everything. But, that's not the point. A manager wants staff that can do the job as necessary, and you can prove that you're able to during interviews - even if you only match a few of the "bullet points" in the hire req.
Holy shit this is a startup idea! Who is in?
It's difficult to judge long term toxicity in humans. You don't immediately keel over and die when you smoke a cigarette, and the correlation between lung cancer and cigarettes needs a fully understandable cause. That's how the industry slipped by for years.

Likewise, most European countries do not fluoridate their water and the correlation doesn't seem to show any significant difference in dental health. The anti-fluoride people state these numbers, and then go and use the same bad logical to attribute fluoride to a host of ailments that are loosely correlated without any causation links.

Can fluoride in water lead to osteoporosis in older adults? Well we don't know, and these types of studies are very difficult to conduct because there are tons of variables. Many people drink from a combination of fluoridated and non-fluoridated water supplies and beverages throughout their lives. People move in and out of municipalities with different water treatment techniques. People have different intakes for calcium, iron, fibre, carbs throughout their entire lives. People have different genetics. When it comes to long term toxicity, it's really difficult to narrow down factors because you can't control for everything (ethically) and humans can live a long time.

It would make sense for at least some percentage of the population to have adverse reaction to Glyphosate. We all have slight genetic differences and reactions. Can it lead to specific cancers in humans consistently? Do we understand the mechanism by which it does this chemically? Can we replicate this in other animals where we control for other factors.

Just like the tobacco industry, I wouldn't put it past Monsanto to both bury and make up studies to suit their interests.
>Much easier to do VR with a smartphone than AR

Why? Processing?

I cut out a hole for my phone's camera in my cardboard, was hoping to have the ability to "minimize" VR like minimizing a window and seeing your desktop background except it would be the camera so you could see someone without taking off your headset.
A combination of:

- Making sure all promises are fulfilled or rejected, so window objects don't get caught indefinitely in closure scope for any .then() or .catch() handler functions.

- Using WeakMaps as much as possible, when we have things that are tied to a particular window, like message listeners or response handlers in post-robot

- Manually clearing up any global references to windows when we destroy an xcomponent instance

Finding the references was the tricky bit. A lot of the effort was finding a leaky test-case, running in 100 times in succession, and deleting code until the memory graph was flat -- then figuring out what I'd just deleted that caused the leak.

The problem started manifesting as I added more and more tests -- so now I'm actually checking my tests' memory usage on the fly and failing if they cross a threshold. Hopefully that should avoid getting into this kind of sticky situation ever again.

https://github.com/paypal/paypal-checkout/blob/master/test/t...
I'm not at NCC!
It's really a western thing. Chinese like crowded pages with lots of functionality, they must feel very 热闹!!! The west prefers more distribution of functionality with simplicity so doing one thing is much more appealing to us.
Put a smaller GPIO connection on the screen, and you could probably make it 1/3 the thickness of the original one. Still much more powerful than my first Android phone, and you could set it up with much quicker software. Actually getting to feature parity even with most feature phones would take some serious work, though.
I'm glad to see this. The meme about private property rights giving owners the absolute right to kick anybody out of anywhere for any reason gets repeated 1000 times a day on internet forums, as if it's a profound insight into both law and the philosophy of rights.
No. I have sufficient internet and POTS access. It's really not that hard, although I suspect you may disagree (possibly due to the addictive properties of ubiquitous connectivity).
The algorithm probably tries to select a passenger who is unlikely to be flying again soon, to minimize future lost business. Might be someone who flies rarely, or has never flown that route before, etc.
I'm not going to argue that it would be a reasonable engineering challenge, but it certainly does not need random access to the memory. Screen frames are updated in a predictable pattern, meaning we could take full advantage of the bursting capabilities of modern memory.
huh? of course not all employees of the company will think alike. but when an employee does something fucked up like they did in this case, a reasonable company should condemn it and support the affected customer
We have apps for that already. Even in china you can download and use the didi dache app rather than getting a taxi throb wechat.