skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
United acted illegally from the very get-go.

Via https://np.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/64m8lg/why_is_... and more:

> Lawyer here. This myth that passengers don't have rights needs to go away, ASAP. You are dead wrong when saying that United legally kicked him off the plane.

> 1. First of all, it's airline spin to call this an overbooking. The statutory provision granting them the ability to deny boarding is about "OVERSALES", specifically defines as booking more reserved confirmed seats than there are available. This is not what happened. They did not overbook the flight; they had a fully booked flight, and not only did everyone already have a reserved confirmed seat, they were all sitting in them. The law allowing them to denying boarding in the event of an oversale does not apply.

> 2. Even if it did apply, the law is unambiguously clear that airlines have to give preference to everyone with reserved confirmed seats when choosing to involuntarily deny boarding. They have to always choose the solution that will affect the least amount of reserved confirmed seats. This rule is straightforward, and United makes very clear in their own contract of carriage that employees of their own or of other carriers may be denied boarding without compensation because they do not have reserved confirmed seats. On its face, it's clear that what they did was illegal-- they gave preference to their employees over people who had reserved confirmed seats, in violation of 14 CFR 250.2a.

> 3. Furthermore, even if you try and twist this into a legal application of 250.2a and say that United had the right to deny him boarding in the event of an overbooking; they did NOT have the right to kick him off the plane. Their contract of carriage highlights there is a complete difference in rights after you've boarded and sat on the plane, and Rule 21 goes over the specific scenarios where you could get kicked off. NONE of them apply here. He did absolutely nothing wrong and shouldn't have been targeted. He's going to leave with a hefty settlement after this fiasco.
Me too - I've avoided United since 2009.
It's a bit like speed of light, you can't reach it.
The average person eats a diet primarily of carbohydrates, particularly rice. Humans have been high carb diets for the
entirety of recorded history.

It would be quite the failure of natural selection if eating a normal human diet caused type 2 diabetes.
Got it. I did'nt realize that.
Ask them for the ticket count metrics - number of tickets, severity and age of open ones. Overly ambitious managers tend to build unstable systems that will break under load.

I am going through my second stint at Amazon and I enjoy working there. However, it is not the best place for everyone.
Only if you were involuntarily denied boarding. The $800 offer is just that, an offer, and the carrier can set their own terms.
That was part of my point -- we have a popular myth that marriages are all about love, but there's a significant element of practicality about them too... and there used to be far more. Heck, look at how long arranged marriages were widespread.
First time I heard about that was in the UK
You might like this video about Shenzhen too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGJ5cZnoodY
It "comes up all the time"... and these ballpark guesses are probably(!) completely useless for anything remotely practical. At the scale Google's operating you want a Statistician, not a Guesstimator.

So, no, still not useful questions.
I have: SPG Business Amex (most recurring purchases); Amex Platinum (certain travel purchases). I use my personal Chase Sapphire Reserve and SPG Amex for some reimbursed expenses as well. I have a Chase IHG MC and an Amazon Prime (5%!) Visa that I use for IHG and Amazon, respectively (and the IHG for the rare cases I need a MasterCard).

Aside from the 2-5% return by using these cards, (and warranty, travel, etc. benefits), I find amex billing statements the easiest to reconcile across multiple purchasers.
I used to pentest for a living. Still do some red team exercises every now and then, but far less now that I'm mainly blueteam focused.

I personally organized my report into three sections, which seemed to work well. Clients seemed to enjoy the formatting:

1. Executive - Summarize everything in one page at a high level. You could skim it fast if you chose to. Highlight potential negative business impact of each finding.

2. Management - A little more detailed. 2-3 pages max. Most severe findings at the top and recommended action for remediation.

3. Narrative - This is the bulk 80-90% of the report detailing your step by step process including screenshots so that if someone wanted to duplicate your findings they could.
Well, that's "involuntary compensation" regulated by DOT. And those are usually handled before you board on the plane. So technically if you walk down the plane yourself, they can call it "voluntarily".
Also probably depends on the department you're in. Warehouse packaging employees seems to be under lots of pressure.
Startup School #3--Ideas and Metrics
Self-respect is an abstract concept, and abstract concepts quickly become devalued when, for example, it's below freezing at night in winter and you don't have a roof over your head.
Type 1 diabetes can't be managed with diet.

It also is the main market for improved glucose monitoring.

And it isn't particularly well established that Type 2 diabetes is reversible.
Let me put it this way, you are making one of those points that hits too uncomfortably close to home for most people to answer honestly and still maintain their own delusions about their own lives. So, you will likely be shouted down so that people can insist to themselves that they have True Love or something.

I spent about 3.5 years of my life in therapy with two different ministers discussing the sexual abuse I had endured as a child. I have an incredibly thick skin when it comes to analyzing such things. Most other people find me pretty horrifying and I have largely given up on trying to have meaningful discussions about certain things in public because they tend to inspire lynch mobs.

I think a marriage based on practical arrangements is often a better marriage than one based on some weird idea that we are madly in love. But, hey, I am some heretic, as already established. :-)
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I have been looking for quite some time now for an app, or apps that integrate together, that fully meshes analytics from my phone like calls, text messages, and app usage with email analytics with desktop usage analytics akin to ManicTime, Rescue Time or preferably ActivTrak which has great screenshot integration.

I'm hoping that if subscriptions are necessary I could keep the combined cost to $30 a month but the ROI of an effective system would probably be worth much more than that.

The whole intent is to collectively gather everything I do so I can retrace just about anything (I'm a freelancer/contractor).

I've considered trying to cross-integrate apps using Zapier, IFTTT, etc but I cannot figure out what platform to pull the data into so it can be unified into a digestible format.

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Sysdig falco 0.6.0 released
If it was just that the flight attendants fucked up by calling in the cops in a situation that didn't really call for it that would be one thing. But it was more than that. The CEO made the situation worse by not apologizing and instead blaming the passenger for being "disruptive and belligerent". It was only after the stock dropped that he apologized. This shows that poor customer service is ingrained in this corp.
Exactly. I predicted every benchmark result except for the trie one, which surprised me a ton (wut??!! but pointer chasing costs!), apparently though that was just bad benchmarking putting the only path ever tested in cache.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Night_of_the_Soul

https://rightabsorption.wordpress.com/2009/02/21/dark-night-...
That was really unnerving. To me, it reinforced the idea that in a major nuclear conflict, I'm not going to have any idea what's going on. The survivors (assuming there are some) might eventually figure it out but in the short/medium term most are probably going to be left wondering what just happened, who are they at war with, did any side "win"?
A brand new discourse.org
Entirely predicated on the "once people start doing this", which most people won't.
But WeChat with all it's diverse functionality gets used as much as Facebook across their own portfolio.

> use the app an average of 50+ minutes, and 9 to 11 separate times, per day2. To put that in context, it is the same as the “combined time” users spend across a portfolio of Facebook apps
Decentralized Self-Organizing Systems
When you are bumped on an overbooked airline, here's what you should know:

Airlines start offering compensation and travel that is less than what is required under the FAA rule hoping that people who haven't been properly informed about their rights will take the cheap offer. When this doesn't work they slowly raise the offers.

The FAA rules provide that a passenger who has a reservation and who is asked to give up their seat because the flight is overbooked is entitled to a lot of money and the airline is required to fill them in on their rights right away. In writing.
Compensation depends on how quickly the airline can get one to the next place one is booked to, and can reach 400% of your paid fare or up to $1,350 if they cannot get you to your next destination within four hours. If they can get you somewhere you are booked to within an hour or two, the compensation is much less.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/11/opinions/i-got-bumped-from-a-f...
> If I keep dropping airlines for every unpleasant experience, I ll run out of options for flying.

While normally I might agree, I can't honestly say that I've seen other airlines resort to such excessive measures for something that was clearly their fault. The act and immediate response was pretty deplorable in my eyes, including the internal e-mail from the CEO himself who accused the passenger of certain adjectives that are objectively false when considering both video evidence and the legal stance as interpreted by lawyers who have assessed the situation.

As such I will refuse to ever buy a ticket from them.
perhaps we live in a multiverse, and only the surviver you-s still exist because their universes have still avoided WWIII... ;-)
So is United going to sue the guy who created this extension? Just like they did with the guy who created a website for cheap tickets using "hidden city" ticketing [1].

[1] - http://money.cnn.com/2014/12/29/news/united-orbitz-sue-skipl...
> Maybe depression is a call from a higher being

What's the more likely explanation:

(1) various different conditions including depression and psychosis are calls from a higher being, not thus far sensible to science; or

(2) the brain, a vastly complex organ with significant structure and dynamics, grown out of meat from a tiny unique egg and trained over decades of unique experience, works a bit differently to the norm in some people, in ways that can be distressing.

Occam's Razor is tingling.
You know you can implement a token bucket that doesn't share state between your API servers, in about 10 lines of code, using just a in memory map.

Your incoming requests should be balanced across all of the servers so you just derive the allowed throughput and divide by the number front ends....
Would this run as a chrome driver for Selenium? What is needed to make this work with Selenium?
The extra parts cost was from a dead end where he was going to attempt to populate a bare PCB with the various chips etc. Eventually he found someone that told him just how many boards he'd have to make before he'd get a working board trying to do it by hand.
Aside from HN, perhaps you could try:

* IRC Channels

* Twitter (search by profile contents and/or hashtags)

* Mastodon? Still a bit unproven, but the atmosphere there resembles the 90s web.
You can't blame a tiger for biting you.
I can't begin to explain why, but almost every American airline has been a worse experience for me than almost every non-American airline. I fly regularly on Turkish, for example, and their service is amazing! If ever I have to fly international, they are my first preference, but even Lufthansa, Swiss, AirBerlin, KLM, have all been a nicer experience than any of the major American carriers.

Of course, this doesn't address the issue of dropping United if most of your flying is domestic. In that case, I'd suggest looking into flying out of smaller airports with one of the discount carriers. SouthWest has actually been reasonably good to me. Sure, it's nowhere near the level of service on Turkish, but for the price it's pretty much in line with what I'd expect.
> 50kph

That's a lot of speed for, basically, running straight into a brick wall.
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I'm interested in finding an application that monitors my day to day productivity at work. I am constrained to work done on my desktop.

Thanks!
The plane was not overbooked. The rules and laws that apply in this case are very different. See top comments.
If you're worried about that, randomize the hash key every day or so. The queuing will be suboptimal for about a minute.
JetBlue from San Jose is often just as convenient, and the only cost is an extra hour or so on the train.
You're really citing a Reddit comment that links to an article comment on ThePointsGuy as a serious source of legal opinion?
Yeah, but let's be realistic. There are very few technologists who are passionate about computing that would really enjoy compliance roles. Infosec is a huge banner and I am going to assume most hackers here are on the technical side. Also no cert can possibly prepare you for negotiating corporate IT security policy.

But even for us (a high end infosec consulting firm) knowing how to relay findings and risk concepts to executives can mean the difference in our work getting implemented, transforming an organization from average to above average in terms of how they approach information security.

Anyway, don't be such a cynic, we just run out of air when we get to the upper reaches of technology expertise so it makes is dumb :P
Has it actually landed in the builds yet, or just been marked as targeting 59 in the platform docs?
What is wrong with ConsoleZ?
It's like the whole blaming the gun manufacturer vs the person who shot someone. United is the one that pulled the trigger here. The cops are just goons for hire.
This process has been known for thousands of years in the west and falls under the term "Initiation" (1), when it is deliberately induced and not as a result of trauma or other
pathological causes.

In modern terms, it can be described as mind reprogramming.
Moreover, in my view, all of the useful techniques for inducing and successfully guiding such a process, come out of the western mystical tradition and include tools such as the Tarot and the Hermetic Qabala.

The modern non-mystical paradigms (psychology, new age spirituality and religion) and various disparate shamanic systems are lacking too much in terms of understanding and are thus too imprecise and even dangerous if taken too far.

(1) http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=716ACCF7F16455CD2EE...
The company representatives, i.e. employees handled the situation very poorly. He deserves some compensation and by convention, an apology. He's looking for a payout. Some people just want justice --some people want more, much more.

The McDonald's woman initially just wanted (restorative) justice --Mac Donald's to pay for medical bills --McD went full corporate and got handed by the jury. Here it's the opposite, right out the gate, he's looking for major compensation and damages, rather than say medical bills, lost wages, etc.

Sure passengers in general feel a bit emasculated/defeminated on an airplane and want to give it to the airlines, but honestly I don't see a case for severe damages.

I'm certainly not going to drop United as a possible carrier over this incident. I'd drop them if it happened to me personally but I would not expect others to follow suit. Just like I won't ask anyone to boycott a particular car dealer from a particularly popular brand because I think they treated me poorly.

He must be one of those guys you don't want to prank even as a friend because embarrassment is too much for him.
You have to send all the traffic from one client to one server then right? Seems not without heavy drawbacks.

Otherwise you can easily get them to hit their limit super early with bad luck.
I tried to figure that out but was unable to
Obligatory: but then you have to live in Detroit.

His story is interesting from a handyman/do-it-yourself standpoint, but it doesn't seem all that pleasant.
I built a platform to manage invites using email for my wedding. We tracked delivery and opens. On the wedding website itself, we were able to have RSVPs for the people we sent to, intake song requests with Spotify with autocomplete.

It was pretty successful. It saved a ~$1000 in paper invites with postage and the stress of making sure people sent them back. We even had followed-up by sending reminder emails. Which we definitely couldn't have done with paper. The downside is that it's more informal but our guests appreciated the open bar instead.

I'm building something similar for a friend's wedding right now with the intention of having open to the public with features like SMS and table seating generators.
He answered in a comment. It was about 300 USD in parts but he's not sure because he'd spent a lot of money gearing up to try to populate a bare logic board pcb by hand before someone talked him out of it.
No, you evenly round robin all traffic to all servers.

Each server contains a map of tokens per per client filling at a fixed interval.

That interval is calculated by taking the total global token refresh rate and dividing it by the number of servers.

The end result is exactly the same but, now you are stateless and have eliminated the bottleneck of a central token bucket.
Has there ever been a time when you could get something similar to a modern one bedroom apartment with amenities for the equivalent of $2-300? Certainly not in my lifetime. That would be something like $30-40 in 1970, $80-100 in 1980 and $100-150 in 1990.
MS wants to control your Win 10 desktop. Now are you ready to try a Linux?
Just a year ago, I'd consider this Art. Today, with our current leadership in the US, this kind of "fake news" scares me deeply.

If enough people tweeted about it, Trump might even be stupid enough to "react"
Amazon out-competed the New York Times? Shouldn't they be more upset at Google or something?
That's totally fair to want to wait for a comparison until there's actual hardware produced. Especially for comparisons exclusively involving DL models. Make initial "area under the curve" argument was rhetorical and not sufficiently empirically founded.

> If they are indeed comparing SNN to a GPU in that paper, then it's just plain horrible!

Yeah, the paper talks about how this is preliminary and bigger savings are expected for video. However, I must concede as before that without the analog hardware built there isn't much point discussing this.

> So, my question is, why try mapping DL models, trained on "traditional hardware" to SNNs, which weren't designed to run them? Why not focus instead on finding those biologically plausible algorithms first? If your goal is to understand the brain, wouldn't it be more reasonable to continue experiment in software until you do? Why build hardware to understand brain?

Eric Hunsberger [1] has been doing most of the work in this domain, so I'm going to be awkwardly paraphrasing my conversations with him. Eric wanted to make Spaun's [2] vision system better. To do that, he knew he was going to need ConvNets or at least build something off of them. So he started to see if he could bring ConvNets into the domain of SNNs to understand them better. Once he did that, he started looking into if he could learn the SNN ConvNets using biologically plausible back-prop [3] which is where he's at now.

That's really only a branch of our research. To understand the brain, we have a lot of really different methods that are more based in Symbolicism, Bayesianism and Dynamicism. We do start in software [2], but software is slow, even on a GPU. When we get faster hardware, we're able to explore the algos more quickly. Also, we got funding to build/explore analog hardware from the Office of Naval Research, so that's where this project is investigating.

To summarize, the DNN-to-SNN-adaptation algos aren't the only thing targeting this hardware, but a small slice of a family of algos that are defining the requirements of the hardware.

(I hope this post confirms that I understood and accept your argument and isn't me having a case of "must have the last word"-ism)

[1] http://compneuro.uwaterloo.ca/people/eric-hunsberger.html
[2] https://nengo.github.io/
[3] http://cogsci.stackexchange.com/q/16269/4397
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimal_stopping
Looks neat! But won't this feed just be similar to "sorted by" or featured/hot deals amazon feed itself?
They were airport police and should be familiar with the rules and regulations. This was not a case of overbooking. Laws and rules differ in this case from the lies peddled by UA and media. They didn't have legal authority to remove him in the first place.

They could've done a lot of things better before assaulting him, but i don't think after that initial fact any further are necessary.
The chances are incredibly slim, and even if it does it's only one user.
Your choice of analogy is revealing: these were problems at Ford, as near as I can tell. (The first sounds like the Pinto.) Show me Tesla-scale problems at BMW or Audi, and I might take Musk's hilarious claim that he'll bankrupt those companies a little more seriously.

You remind me of how Americans talk about how the US is the best country in the world, and then compare themselves to Nicuragua or Afghanistan or Somalia or thereabouts. Sure, you can beat the astonishingly dysfunctional, but how do you compare against your real peers?

(Disclaimer: Musk knows what he's doing in space, to say the least, even though his car company is astonishingly dysfunctional. I hope he has the sense to keep SpaceX and Tesla independent!)
Hey buddy!

Reading all the design and discussion I was. Rey curious how you structured things at a brass tacks storage level.
It should be noted that this was NOT an overbooked flight. Even the CEO admitted this.

For a much clearer explanation with legal input, I'd suggest readers to read http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/04/united-passenger-remo... .
No, but things like SROs and boarding houses and just renting a room used to be far more common. In the 60s and 70s, something like 80% of SROs were torn down (in the US -- I realize the article is about the UK). In the US, SROs are now mostly slum housing for chronically homeless with addictions and mental health issues. This was not always true. They used to be a common way for a young person starting out to have a space of their own that they could afford.

Our expectations for housing these days is very much rooted in norms that grew out of the Baby Boom generation. That generation was a huge anomaly and the way it has shaped policy and assumptions is hugely problematic.