skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not particularly, as the ones under US jurisdiction are possibly better protected by US law. I don't trust the vast majority of other countries to stand up to the US.
Massive retaliation is an effective deterrence strategy, and probably one of the only options that a weak group like consumers have against an oligopoly like airlines.

It's not even about punishing United, it's about showing other players that if they behave in the same way, _they_ might randomly be subjected to this sort of punishment. People are not going to stop using airlines, but we might stop using yours for just long enough to make it hurt.
The well-informed discussion on Naked Capital (http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/04/united-passenger-remo...) strongly supports the claim that the removal was illegal. It also provides interesting evidence that the decisions were traceable to United's attempt to reduce costs by using third party contractors and affiliates (the flight was operated by Republic, an affiliate).

This quote is telling: "When I was a outsourced regional jet captain operating United Express flights between 2010 and 2014 the gate agents in charge of the regional (out-sourced) flights at United hub, Washington-Dulles, were third-party contractors. They were horribly trained and frequently surly. The gates were always crowded, everyone there was angry, nothing worked, it was utter chaos and misery. I absolutely dreaded flying there and did my best to avoid it, Chicago was only a little better."
No qualifiers necessary, Threads is easily the most terrifying movie I have ever seen.
That'd what I'd say - considering how pro-LGBT Google are, there's definitely more than the author is letting on here
Learning from Demonstrations for Real World Reinforcement Learning
Burger King Ad Threatens to Renew Debate Over Voice Devices
Did you even read your own link?
I expect a self-aggrandizing blog post on it any day now.
Or you just don't notice / ignore / know about all the things that went right / according to plan.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14088586
...belatedly, after tremendous uproar and a tremendously lukewarm non-apology apology at first.
Best analogy I can come up with is a garage door opener. You push a little button on a box, and a door magically lifts open.

Magic, to the uninitiated (ignorant), is the coincidental linking of two unrelated events. Mix eye of newt and bat dung with newborn blood and chant the magic words under the new moon and all of a sudden, the castle's well becomes fouled.

A person who wishes to practice magic must have a clear intention of the result they want, and then they must formulate a spell that will connect and 'cause'.
What smart people think is going to happen this year on healthcare IT and policy
Inside Tokyo’s Massive (And Surprisingly Beautiful) Storm Drain
Lol. No wonder Nerds are single. There are events in life which are very personal and people value it when you actually spend time for them and with them.
I have a solution to the problem of having an ad network (Google) as the dictator of the internet.

1. Create a new browser where the concept of a URL is missing.

2a. Make terms, keywords, concepts first-class citizens. Ban URLs alltogether. Search using keywords to get to the places you want to go, not by typing URLs.

2b. Make it so that the browser gets smarter as you go and accustomed to your prose (the way you formulate your queries).

3. Make it so that the internet index is centralized so that all your browsers use the same "lookup URLS through keywords" service. Also let people use a local index version.

4. Create a buzz around this new browser. Start in the tech community of your choice. They will love using something that has a fair chance of becoming a Google-killer.

5. Your mom and dad already want to use this new browser. URLs are not important to them. Today, they google for "www.facebook.com" before starting their internet session.

6. We are done here. Internet has re-booted. We all profit.

Point 2b makes this perfect for the [random tech incubator], wouldn't you agree?
> "Resisting arrest"

What? They were not arresting him as far as it has been shown. Resisting arrest is a grave crime AFAIK, so don't mix terms (or don't complain of other people mixing things!).

> "trespassing"

Again, read more about it, he was not trespassing at all. He was legally allowed to stay in the flight (even though the crew members said otherwise).
Wilful misunderstanding of the research in the field? Or is it a gut reaction that spurs them into alternatives, based on a pretty meaningless label, which have no real proven health benefit? Perhaps it's the easy narrative of painting an entirely normal company as evil because they're messing with forces best left alone.
How one tech company ditched its brogrammers
Of course you would be able to come up with similarly bad stories for many other airlines. Especially American ones.

That doesn't excuse them. All American airlines suck. That problem should be fixed.
"Perhaps a nice card from https://lob.com/ with a QR code to the RSVP form?"

Better to use an Oh By Code, which doesn't need a reader and can be written/read by humans:

https://0x.co
"It's not the worldview or the underlying philosophy that's important, but the techniques themselves."

From a certain perspective, that could be true. But it very much depends on your perspective.

For instance, what is actually going on when you, say, sign that contract with the handsome cloven-hoofed gentleman at the crossroads, could very much matter. It could matter much more than the symptom relief or other worldly benefits you might experience from the "technique".

Similarly, whether it's a loa mounting you or just an expression of your subconscious could also very well matter.

Whether the knowledge which is not occult or esoteric reveals anything of value that once was also really depends on who you ask. Some might say the really secret knowledge has never been revealed to profane outsiders, and is kept secret for the elect, and what has been published is false, no matter what some others might claim. Many also believe that the true knowledge is only passed on directly from teacher to student, sometimes non-verbally or even supernaturally, and can not be expressed in words.

But who knows how to separate the wheat from the chaff here? Certainly not me.
I'm actually working on a CA that'll hopefully reproduce primitive life.

Not Wolfram's way though.

https://scrollto.com/life-a-universe-simulation/
While I'm all against war I'm not sure how the banks are supposed to set it off. If anything the banks would be screwed. Wars mostly seem to be caused by alpha male leaders sacrificing the people for their greatness and glory. Which is why wars between democracies tend to be pretty half hearted or not happen as the people tend not to be keen on that.
The Future of Agriculture Is Already Here
Didn't news come out that the initial wave of personal muckraking was actually background information about a different doctor with a similar name?
Am also in San Francisco. In 2011, exactly one year after my bankruptcy, I got a Capital One card w/ a $750 credit limit and a $75 annual fee. Three months later I got a another Capital One card w/ a $2000 limit and no annual fee. I'm guessing Capital One is a great company to go with, especially when it's "live off credit cards" time and your credit rating is in the crapper :)

A less snarky answer is to join Credit Karma and see what they recommend. It's a great service for $0.
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One important reasons for robotics is to reduce/eliminate the use of pesticides. After all we use weed killed because it's cheaper than weeding by hand.

Regardless of whether Glyphosate is toxic to humans or not, it kills the rhizome (fungi and other ecology around the roots), drying the soil and making it less productive. Robots will not only avoid this problem but support the planting of complementary crops.
uBlock, uMatrix & host based blocklists are the price of entry these days. https://github.com/jmdugan/blocklists/tree/master/corporatio...
Block at your router if you can, then any mobile devices on your network enjoy ad/tracker blocking too.
im on linux but i limit it to 50(user) and auto remove duplicates(system wide). albiet i have read man pages and wiki's to understand and have got into a bit of bash or sh scripting but the things i mentioned are just options.
What do you think about zsh? I really like zsh history.
How I attracted awesome team members as an introverted founder
I don't think this is an entirely fair comparison, as US airlines are far more biased towards domestic flights which globally are held to a lower tier of service. That being said, I would still anecdotally evaluate them as of poorer quality than the better foreign airlines.
I think his point is you wouldn't need to fly by private jet anywhere.

Doing what you could would be choosing another solution.
A corporation has no freedom of speech rights. It's important to remember that a corporation is not considered to the same rights as a person in these cases, nor should they ever be allowed to be.
That's a terrible paper. This is a small epidemiological study where they're looking both at 1. exposure to sun and 2. occupational exposure to -any- herbicides/pesticides/fungacides/insecticides (not just glyphosate) and trying to pull out odds ratios of melanoma risk. Outdoor work definitely increases melanoma risk, but I wouldn't try to pull out much more than that from this paper!
Exactly. Law enforcement are supposed to do just that: enforce the law. Not provide muscle for multimillion dollar corporations.
Hindsight is 20/20. A private plane charter would have been significantly cheaper and no one would have been the wiser.
More than once my plane has been late on southwest and every time my connecting flight waited for me to arrive before departing. What a nice way to end a trip.
Someone didn't read the article.
It was my understanding that Google's crawler literally is Chrome. Does Google have any plans to open source those parts of the browser to make integration easier? Maybe I was mistaken
It also pays to realize that when people say something makes them feel "deathly ill", they're probably using it as an expression to signify how shaken they are by something.
> Let's reductio ad absurdum: what if one of your friends was a literal nazi. Never gassed any Jews, but thought it was a good idea. Wouldbe okay with that?

Well put, I wonder would the signers be so vocal in support if he were a fundamentalist Christian that opposed abortion and gay marriage?
Analyzing JavaScript in terms of AST
Can we use the current regulations to punish United for breaking the law? No? Looks like we need another regulation.
https://keygen.sh and https://www.themejuice.it.
I'm so sorry your dad died, I'm with you on the roundup, very nasty stuff and a nasty company lobbying/suppressing any claims that say otherwise. I worked with it for many years myself until I left the industry.

I was diagnosed with a brain tumor recently, I wasn't surprised to say the least. Won't get much of a two sided argument on HN about this unfortunately. It's interesting to see the usual anti-big-corporation crowd on HN and Reddit stick up for Monsanto. I guess when a message gets pushed hard enough the crowd follows.
Without claiming RoundUp is good for you, I would point to this with regards to your point #4:

http://www.snopes.com/food/tainted/roundupwheat.asp
everyone supports the censorship of political content they don't like, what comes around goes around
>Which means the employees cannot be counted as having confirmed reserved space.

I believe your interpretation is incorrect. This was discussed in another thread last night.[0]

Assuming 14 CFR 250 even applies (there's multiple reasons why it may not), the explicit exclusion of employees from the definition of a zero fare ticket is immaterial due to employees otherwise satisfying the definition of confirmed reserved space.[1]

The critical point is that the definition merely includes zero fare tickets, which are explicitly defined as not being employees. That does not mean employees cannot otherwise satisfy the definition of confirmed reserved space.

Deadheading employees are not involved in the operation of the aircraft, so they may be considered passengers. The employee travel passes used reserve a specific date, flight and class of service at their request.

Due to the urgency of that particular situation, the passes used were positive-space, also having higher seating priority than paying passengers. While that sucks, the alternative is that an entire flight is delayed or canceled, with many passengers on that flight missing their connections. Those missed connections then bump people off subsequent flights, creating a cascade of chaos. That's why deadheading flight crew have priority over ticketed passengers in certain situations.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14095224

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/definitions/index.php?width=840&...
Actually, things like voter ID requirements and DMV closings are specifically about putting up barriers to voting for people who do have the right to vote, by making it (in some cases) much harder to meet the requirements to exercise their franchise.

You can't look at policies and their arguments in isolation, you have to look at them in context. In context their purpose is clear.
This is brilliant, exactly what I was looking for. I did a profile recently on some API calls and found that 40-50% was being spent on serialization with marshmallow, which I'm looking to drop.

I'll be doing this stuff for myself, but would you be curious in having:

a) Support for lima: https://lima.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

b) more benchmark cases (serializing a larger list of objects)
I disagree. United chose the other passengers who were to be removed as well, and so none of the chosen passengers volunteered to leave the flight as there was no alternative (default) option presented in which the passengers would remain on the flight. Threatening to call the authorities if someone doesn't leave doesn't qualify as eliciting a voluntary exit.
I appreciate your response, especially the backstory of running a convnet on SNN hardware.

A couple of remarks:

1. Your own response to your stackexchange question: "The random synaptic feedback weights only accomplish back-propagation through one layer of neurons, thus severely limiting the depth of a network."

Didn't they show in the paper how it could work through multiple layers?

2. software is slow, even on a GPU. When we get faster hardware, we're able to explore the algos more quickly

I'm not sure what you're referring to by "faster hardware", but somehow I doubt you will beat a workstation with 8 GPUs in terms of speed, if your goal is to explore algos more quickly. More importantly, what if the next algo you want to explore does not map well to the hardware you built? For example, what if we realize that relative timings between spikes are important, and most of the computation is based on that, but your hardware was not designed to exploit this "race logic" principles? Suddenly your custom system became much less useful, while your GPUs will simulate that just fine.
There's a possibility that instead of exploring the best or most plausible algorithms, you will limit yourself to algorithms which map well to your hardware.

3. What do you think about HTM theory by Numenta? They strive for biologically realistic computation, but they don't think spikes are important, and abstract them away in their code.

p.s. the reason I'm involved in this discussion is I'm trying to decide whether to accept an internship offer to work on Bayesian inference algorithms for SNN chip.
Bottomline is most humans don't care about other humans that they don't know. United will live on. I for one, wanted United to go out of business when they took away my 4 yr old daughter's OPENED yogurt container (that she was eating out of) on an international flight after realizing that we forgot to order kid's meal for her and that they had given one to her by mistake.
You might also be interested in Science-Based Medicine [1], another blog where Steven Novella posts.

[1] https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/

(in case you're wondering about the name: in a nutshell, "science-based medicine" is the position that "evidence-based medicine" is an insufficient rejection of quackery because it leads to a lot of effort being misspent on finding "evidence" to support scientifically implausible and already-debunked treatments and theories)
I agree 100% with this. The 'disagree' part should at least come with some form of strings attached. Something like 'we need to be able to pull the plug early with this', 'you start with a limited budget', or similar. Otherwise it's useless to mention the fact that you disagree.
Huh? Azure does not require an enterprise agreement and it's pretty easy to get $100 or $200 free credit, basically no questions asked. And the only thing you can't use that on is certain images that are billed at a higher rate (i.e. Red Hat images).

And where does it say that a 12 seat commitment is required?

(Disclosure: I work for Azure, but nowhere near anything Windows, or this product. I'm a Linux nut and besides I'm not even convinced it's an Azure thing, this smells more like a WDG thing...)
Agreed. This goes totally against the corporate culture.
I mean, while I in no way support bullying/harassing/assaulting gay people - google didn't suspend them for reporting on what was going on with VK.com. They suspended them for advocating people call and harass the comptroller of New York.

Reporting on an event is one thing. Encouraging people online to call and harass an elected official is something else entirely - and I think it would qualify as harassment.
Has anyone worked up a WebVulkan proposal or a Vulkan extension to WebGPU?
Apple was on OS X for awhile.
I like to borrow from the decision theory field. There are massive frameworks around the "value of information" or "value of clairvoyance"[1].

The best summation of their framework is "Make a decision when the probability of new information changing your mind is minimal."

Of course, we need to quantify "new information" and "minimal", but it's a good framework to consider what new data points would change your existing course.

[1] http://lesswrong.com/lw/85x/value_of_information_four_exampl...
After the third or fourth attempt which does not reflect well on him.
Wow. I was impressed but now I'm kind of glad we don't have that kind of monopoly in the US. Google is in the same arena but we have several strong competitors for most of their products at least.
boric acid is an interesting one. it has a significant level of toxicity for kidneys. they use a lot of boric acid in that common residential attic insulation made from shredded post-consumer paper.
The big one is lacking any frequent flyer membership, which indicates a traveler with no reason to fly United in particular on a future flight.
Most criminals don't think big enough.
Caffeine is a part of many drinks yet its LD50 is lower than that of Roundup. The dosage matters too.
So this sort of thing for women in tech isn't going too far if a similar thing is happening to coal miners very specifically in the US? Where was this going?
But you can't be prosecuted because you called the police and the police beat someone up. Unless the police officer was conspiring with you to do something criminal, their illegal acts are not your responsibility.

If I call the police because there is someone suspicious in my neighborhood and they show up and end up shooting an innocent person, I am not responsible for the shooting.

The only exception I can imagine is in the case of a false report. If one were to call and say he saw someone with a gun walking down the street and waving it around threatening people, and that was false - I suppose he could be responsible for injury that resulted from a confrontation with police. But it would require a criminal act on the part of the person who calls the police to have lied to the police.

If United is legally held responsible for the action of the authorities, I would have to expect that it could only be if they made a false claim to the police about his behavior prior to their arrival. I have a hard time believing they would be responsible just for misinterpreting the FAA boarding rules, even IF they did it knowingly.
> You are right that most information is "non excludable" (if that actually is a word).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excludability

Maybe do a quick search before implying someone is making up words.
It seems like Gorean is some shit people talk about before they cum. Sometimes I call my wife a whore, and than we cum and I go help with the household chores and changing diapers.

Larry likes to jerk off to weird stories, who gives a shit.
Think that's bad? Try switching back to windows. I've found it is at least as bad, except you can't edit driver source to work around brain damage. It is like staring into the abyss. I have no idea how normal people use computers anymore.

MacOS doesn't run any software I want (except office, which is terrible, since I know how to use windows office, and I no longer care enough to learn new menus / keyboard shortcuts). Some weeks it fails to resume 3-5 times, but it generally limps along, I guess. This makes it about as reliable as an average well-chosen linux laptop, at 2-3x the cost, and with an inferior userspace (for me, YMMV).

I just want there to be a company that makes a working linux box that is only as terrible as a MacBook. This is a disturbingly low bar. I guess the dell xps developer edition exists. That might be a good bet (especially after Ubuntu actually kills Unity).
Rendered powerless by self-esteem and practicality perhaps?
casino owners compete with each other. Lots of casinos fail, but you don't get interviews with failed casino owners. (edit: I just realized that there is one, very notable exception to this)

If the only difference between a successful casino strategy and an unsuccessful one is failure to control for some variable, then the variance in that variable will yield some very successful casinos, and some unsuccessful casinos, regardless of the actual expected value of the casino business.
Very nice. Appreciate the nice simple/clean layout and advertsisment free content.
Can you add an RSS feed?
The Elements of Bureaucratic Style
Indian Election Commission Challenge Hackers to Break Electronic Voting Machines
he will likely head a regulatory agency soon instead
It's the container shaped VC bonfire at work. Hype new things to drive adoption

K8S and Docker swarm/compose seem to be trying to replace VMs completely as a general purpose compute abstraction. Google certainly uses them that way, though they have a unique situation arguably. Mesos is doing it too but in a somewhat different way.

Given that, I'd say one of the main features k8s or container platform vendors promote is stateful workloads even though they're not baked at all. most stateless cloud platforms like Heroku or cloud foundry have tended to shy away from that for good reason. But I can't count how many unrealistic and unreliable "run this distributed database... on a single docker host! Slowly!" examples there are out there. "12 factor apps" is now used as a disparaging term for "you can't even persist, bro" rather than something to aspire to, which to me seems seriously misguided.

Disclaimer, I work for a software company that competes in this crazy cloud world
Oh, they will be cheaper alright.
Upgrading a Vectrex to 32 Bits
He didn't really clarify anything though, just gave his opinion on evidence that he said didn't exist just a comment before.

You could have given any of the other studies that warn against roundup and people will always find something wrong with the study. When people make up their minds about this stuff they stop looking at it objectively.