skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's fun you'd say that because there are quite a few discussion on HN saying they don't read medium.com domains anymore. The articles are too low quality.
Are you a lawyer, or are you making up the law? Somebody who orders a cheeseburger at a fast food joint can still get kicked out for no reason without getting their food. When they call the cops they'll get told it's a civil dispute and to take it to court. You don't just get to decide to stay on someone else's property based on your interpretation of a contract.
Well, yes. That's what I meant by "United should have done anything reasonable to get a volunteer."

To be clear, I absolutely fault United for letting the situation get to the point where there were no reasonable options.
Well, then, looks like I have to pay attention to this again and update my understanding.

At the same time, this sounds like... regulation! Some form of restriction on how the terms may be interpreted and executed.

I am not entirely happy with the situation. I want to know that when I purchase a ticket to go somewhere, I'm going -- absent equipment failure or some act of God. (Or, the occasional drunken pilot...)

But, it is what it is. And I get a bit tired of all the outcry when much of such is basically coming from the people who made it this way -- through the governments they've voted for, or not voted for, as the case may be.
Satire is not a form of cynicism.
Back when the first half of this stuff was leaked, Snowden suggested that this was likely stuff left on an external machine that the NSA was using for staging and failed to clean up. I'd link the tweet but can't find it at the moment. Given the age of most of this stuff that seemed plausible.

Now that we've seen more than just tools and exploits leaked (powerpoints, other documents), that doesn't seem plausible anymore.
"Go gives you primitives from which to build either data or task parallel algos"

No, Go doesn't give you simd/vector primitives for data parallelism.
My point is that I'm the exact demographic of people who should be getting hit by "random" searches and I've got the volume of travel where it should be happening to me somewhat frequently if it is a widespread issue that occurs with any regularity. I'm 24-34, 1/2 Arab, have a beard, book a lot of flights on short notice, sometimes just one way, and NEVER check a bag.

I don't get ever get bumped from flights and I get pulled out for "random" searches on average of 1 times per year for the past 5 years.

Again, all anecdotal, but I'm the definition of the guy who should hate the airport. I only just dislike it.
My point is that I'm the exact demographic of people who should be getting hit by "random" searches and I've got the volume of travel where it should be happening to me somewhat frequently if it is a widespread issue that occurs with any regularity. I'm 24-34, 1/2 Arab, have a beard, book a lot of flights on short notice, sometimes just one way, and NEVER check a bag.

I don't ever get bumped from flights and I get pulled out for "random" searches on average of 1 times per year for the past 5 years.

Again, all anecdotal, but I'm the definition of the guy who should hate the airport. I only just dislike it.
"Probably" is perhaps one of the better ways for reporters to give their opinions on questions of law that have not yet had their day in court.
Agreed. Optimization for process over outcomes seems to be a recurring problem in large organizations. Unfortunately it's not hard to understand why decision maker's prefer this approach given the pressures of shareholders/voters. No one gets fired for following the process.

A similar issue was just discussed yesterday in a thread on Jeff Bezos' letter to shareholders:

"A common example is process as proxy. Good process serves you so you can serve customers. But if you’re not watchful, the process can become the thing. This can happen very easily in large organizations. The process becomes the proxy for the result you want. You stop looking at outcomes and just make sure you’re doing the process right. Gulp."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14107766
Yeah. Maybe people will forget about the incident soon if nothing happens, but they're now primed to think United is even scummier if it ever does something similar in the foreseeable future.
What are you going on about? That isn't how the law works. 'if he wants, he must get the cash in hand' - says who? You might think that is how things SHOULD be, but they aren't.

The only thing that SORT of works the way you describe would be a landlord-tenant situation, where there are legal requirements for evicting someone. However, that is a VERY special case; there are special laws for housing. There are not those sorts of laws for planes. Now, there are laws about refunding money and paying for breaking contracts on plane tickets, but not about REQUIRING that an airliner 'give cash in person' to someone who is kicked off a flight.
Thanks for sharing, will look it over and send you some feedback.
I hope you realize that a LOT of actual lawyers have weighed in on this case, and the majority believe that United is in the wrong here.
At some point the machine fact-checking relies on data input by humans. Or does the machine interpret data directly from cameras on the street to determine, e.g. that suspect A shot victim B with weapon C? Does it interpret a historical textbook and assess the veracity of its sources and claims? Or does it build a time machine to go into the past and acquire raw data to verify claimed facts?
Those points are true. You have to balance these tradeoffs. The main point of my side of this discussion is (a) they exist and (b) they're useful sometimes so worth considering. That's all I'm saying.
In theory, redlines are fine, but in practice they fail. Here's why.
Our data set was from surveys collected for human use using a variety of digital cameras - not DSLRs though. The surveyors did take specific images, blurry images would have meant not getting paid so none of those. We used transfer learning from the imagenet network vs a few hundred of the images well labelled and we trained it on a 6 gpu machine (titan x's) This is no place to claim results or do the detailed write up so all I would say is that do try for yourself if you haven't already, I was shocked by the quality of the classifier. Maybe you will be too!

I started from the dataset bias position myself - billions of family snaps and selfies can't provide the reference for arbitrary images of stuff from arbitrary angles. My reading of the results that we got is that the claims of lower level features extracted by the cnn are correct, and that a network trained on massive public data can be the basis for specialised tools trained on more constrained proprietary datasets.

Your milage may vary though...
>Name a "that doesn't happen here" scenario -- from blatant racial discrimination/brutality in policing to "bobby's parents sent him to pray-the-gay-away camp" -- and I experienced or directly witnessed a friend experience it before coming of age.

So you were born 20+ years ago? It sounds like your notion of the Midwest is about as stuck in the past as the notion that San Francisco is a hippie mecca.

>Whenever people shame me for being overly harsh on midwestern culture, I stop and feel guilty for a split second. Then I think back to these victims of its excesses and the guilt quickly subsides.

And you should feel guilty for continually shitting on a place you have no association with anymore.
Were College Students Better Off Before Social Media?
Ireland is under the radar. One more hidden gem is Chile, especially considering land/property prices and freelance-friendly visas.
The extended previews and concept maps are a great idea.
For some reason, this never occurred to me. This seems so much better than `that`, `self`, etc. Thanks for sharing.
I'm not sure about mobile friendly. You could probably use just about any template and hire a freelancer to touch it up.

But I just want to put my vote in for Jekyll. Makes static site generation a breeze and I use it for any site that I host these days.
A crazy plan to cool the computers of the future with jumping water droplets
> It sounds like you lived in one location

Also not true. Try again.

> That's not well-informed, it's just an anecdote about a crappy time spent somewhere in the country.

Multiple decades across several states. Both in cities and in non-city areas.

The argument here basically amounts to: "But hey, the densest 20% County-Containing-Major-City, ST isn't so bad, and my college educated software engineering co-workers are all pretty decent..."

And I'M the one making inaccurate generalizations about the region?!

Come off it. Take a week off work on go two counties in any direction. Or hell, to that other suburb where 30% of the metro population but none of the folks you hang out with live. Come back and tell me you still think I'm wildly out of touch.
DU1UD/8 Jolo Island
this might be the most amazing book ever and I might even buy it and I know I'll get down votes because so many of you love books but....

part of me feels like , especially for a topic like this, I want webpages with interactive diagrams. Not last century's info dissemination tech but this century's info dissemination tech

I feel page like this

https://pomax.github.io/bezierinfo/

is far better online than any paper book on the same topic could ever be. that feels like it's probably true for almost all math, physics, and computer topics.

if I'm reading up on game ai i'd much rather have in page interactive examples than static text on a page.

this isn't in anyway meant as a comment on the book above itself. it's more a comment on tech/math/physics books in general

anyone else agree or am I alone in this way of thinking?
Thanks for this, it may be exactly what I was looking for :)
I agree that would be a fair system as everyone, even the bumped passengers, would leave happy under that arrangement. It would certainly work well if all the passengers were already on the plane, as they'd all be there to participate in the auction.

However, if people were being bumped at check-in, or between check-in and boarding,
I thought it was because it's easier to decode a few upper address lines on the bus so each peripheral is cheaper and easier to build. If you put the hardware addresses in the lower address space you'd have to decode the entire address to see if the access is on your card.

I think the real problem was that people didn't want to let go of DOS. OS/2 1.x was a fine OS, especially from 1.2 onward and it ran great on a 286.
If 'probably' was not how laws work, then there would NEVER be a court case; why would the losing side go to court if the answer was certain?

They go to court because laws are ALL about 'probably'.
Really? I've used it before for others who found it useful. That's the thing about math, lots of options/styles. Just look at Spivak vs Apostol for Calc. Do you have a suggestion for him?
A universal cloud OS for toy robots, like Anki's and Sphero's
Competitive programming = coding challenges, like Google Code Jam and HackerRank.

Nothing to do with getting a better job or a better salary.
Disrupting a major spam operation
Wouldn't this lead to an entire of idea of contextual bias? Times when it could benefit and be used, and times where it is occluded.
If you're talking about gnome/wayland, I'd call that the opposite of 'turmoil.' Those were both huge requests in the HN thread, and while I personally liked Unity more, I'm really happy with the decision-making and I think it will result in a better distro.
Seems like most of the best opportunities in general are exactly like this. It's not about what you know, but who you know...
Global IoT DevFest
How an IoT DDoS warning system helps predict cyberattacks – TechRepublic
> Most people don't realize there's a difference between shyness and introversion.

This is clear from a lot of the comments here. A person can prefer solitude (i.e. be introverted) and still carry on just fine in social situations without anxiety (i.e. shyness).

In writing about his own introversion, I think Thoreau summarized it well:

"To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."
In this, or the other recent tool exposes, have there been any exploits for FreeBSD ?

How about OpenSSH or sendmail or Apache httpd (on any UNIX platform) ?
Can you give a little more context on the site you're making?

Bootstrap has a component called Scrollspy [1] that does a nice menu-based list of contents. Is Bootstrap not enough / overkill for what you want to do?

What about just writing some simple HTML and CSS?

[1]: https://v4-alpha.getbootstrap.com/components/scrollspy/
in a similar vein there is : https://cpbook.net/ which is also pretty cool. will take look at this also. thank you :)
There is also https://e-maxx-eng.appspot.com/
(translated from russian, original: https://e-maxx.ru/algo/)
Yeah. There are plenty of distress signs in the semiconductor ecosystem. Toshiba selling due to inability to invest, Mentor going to Siemens and Intel buying small tooling companies who are unable to sustain investment due to their customers having merged or gone out of business. It happens across the whole value chain. A few vertical integrated businesses are able to keep up for the time being. Whether for one, two or three generations remains to be seen.
> I have even seen it suggested that the employees could even have gone by taxi, though I don't know if that was really practical.

It would have taken five hours. By itself, that's fine. But according to FAA rules, what is their status during those five hours? If they're on duty, they either need eight hours off duty once they get to Louisville, or they have a limited amount of time they can be on duty once they get there. (If that time doesn't count as on duty, of course, no problem.)
In reference to constructor invocation:

...a new empty object is created, (let’s name it newObj) and the function is invoked on that object,
like say, newObj.Person() in this case.

Is this true? When a function is invoked with "new", "this" is set to the object being constructed, but is that accomplished by making the constructor a method of the object being initialized? If so, it must be removed later on in the process:

(new Function).Function
=> undefined
The usual definition of bias in ML papers is E[theta_estimator - theta]. That is explicitly a systematically wrong prediction.

In any case, the paper suggests that this "bias" or "prejudice" is better described as "truths I don't like". I'm asking if the author knows of any cases where they are actually not truthful. The paper does not suggest any, but maybe there are some?
The "unemployment rate" is a specific number produced by the government. Whether it's useful or accurate compared to other numbers (e.g. labor participation rate) is another matter.
The author mentions this themselves:

>>>The great thing about TODO comments is that, as a very old programming trick, they are already supported out of the box by most tools IntelliJ, SonarQube, Rails, CodeClimate and I guess many others. Only one day after I refactored to TODO comments, a team mate fixed one that had appeared in his IDE’s TODO tab
This is exactly like every other linear algebra book I've ever seen, other than the title. I was hoping this had been improved over v1 but it seems to be unchanged in any significant way. What exactly does the author think the bullshit is that they're leaving out?
Right, which is exactly my point.... the law is the thing to worry about, not the robots.
Will Editing Your Baby's Genes Be Mandatory?
...who program them.

Anyone surprised?
> Edit: Also, a pet peeve of mine. You've probably heard a flight attendant tell someone something along the lines of "It's illegal to disobey instructions from a flight crew." That's complete bullshit. There is a federal law about "interfering with a flight crew". But it only applies after the doors are closed, and only applies in situations that involve "assaulting or intimidating a flight crew".

Honestly, I think a succinct statement to that effect should be legally required to be posted prominently in every plane, enough so passengers actually read it.

I used to think flight attendant power trips were just annoying, but people are now literally getting beaten up as a result of them.
Assuming she has the iPhone 7, Apple makes a little Lightning to 3.5 mm cable [1] for that use case. There's also a dock that does the same [2].

[1]: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MMX62AM/A/lightning-to-35...

[2]: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MNN62AM/A/iphone-lightnin...
If you have to file UK tax from outside the UK, then you have to do it on paper or use commercial software, but it costs from about $30 a year, so no big deal.
Those aren't the only jobs in low-cost areas. Almost every mid-size or larger company has an internal software group making real software, and every metropolitan area has at least several of these.

Lots of that is on older "enterprise" stacks v. cool open-source or experimental stacks, but it's still a plenty legitimate career path, and you'd be surprised how modern a company that looks like a dinosaur at first glance can be when you look a little deeper. Example: Walmart runs lots of stuff on Node.js.

If you want to slave away in a startup, then yeah, you're probably going to want to be in SF, SEA, or NYC.

If you want a long-term job at a stable employer where most people don't take themselves too seriously, overtime is rarely or never expected, and you work with a bunch of smart, established people (even if they're a bit change averse), there is plenty of opportunity outside of the tech hubs.

And on salary, the average may be an OK guideline but it is by no means the top of the market. Lots of good people will hire in at 1.5-2x the area's average.
I'd love to see Mike Judge team up with Trey Parker and Matt Stone on a project.

Id imagine it would be a instant classic, hilarious hard-hitting social commentary.
> tsunami of far-right populism

Do we really need to drag this horrible crime into our political discussion by attributing it to our enemies? Do you really think that is helpful?
> Some people can't switch immediately. A patch should be made available, and the module should be depreciated

Maybe that's what should happen, but it's not what will happen.

The module is unmaintained. Who do you suggest should do it? Will you? If not then you're just demanding that work should be done somewhere, by someone else, without providing any path or resources for it. That's just not how freely contributed and shared labour works.

It's a risk you take on when you use that free resource, and why it matters to contribute back to the ecosystem that you're using free of charge. Frankly, if you've been using the freely available module for this long then you're already ahead of where you were before.

"This software is broken so you shouldn't use it" is absolutely a perfectly reasonable solution to the problem, and nobody owes you anything more.
Seems to me that the question of how stars function is completely separate from the question of how they and the matter in the universe came to exist.
The cost ($80M) is not the interesting metric - consider the press coverage, positive poll results and resulting political engagement. The power gained is the interesting result.

Currently there is no power to be gained in wiping out bitcoin when half of the constituents have never even heard of it. Never mind the cost.
There is already a section on computer graphics[1] that covers basic homogenous coordinates (instead of representing points as 3-vectors [x,y,z] you represent them as 4-vectors [x,y,z,1], which allows you do do translations and projections easily).

I explain the math, but I'm not expert enough to talk about practical graphics topics like OpenGL / WebGL etc, so not sure how much further I can go. To merit the "NO BULLSHIT" label, it's really important that the author know the subject matter inside out ;)

[1] https://minireference.com/static/excerpts/noBSguide2LA_previ...
It's not that simple. Common carriers are subject to more regulation around duty of care, refusal of service, and so forth. Lawyers will have to hash this one out. Though United might settle before we get to the real answer.
Agreed. I come to HN for reasonable debate, not flag waving of any colour.
I feel the same about the left currently but everyone thinks their side is correct so there is no discussion.
Understanding Money: Where Does It Come From?
The same skills used in competitive programming are needed to pass a modern day technical interview at some of the larger companies. So I wouldn't necessarily say it has nothing to do with getting a better job or salary.
Be careful with the word truth. You don't know what it means.
The tsunami of far right populism? The far right is in favor of protecting U.S. citizens from the monsters that perpetrate such heinous crimes. The far left wishes to open the door to immigration from these countries.
If you not familiar with Professor Leonard check out his playlists. I like his teaching style more than Khan.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoHhuummRZaIVX7bD4t2czg
> OR at least go up to the $1,350 that the regulation stipulates.

IIUC, regulation stipulates $1350 or 4 x the fare, whichever is lower. For Chicago to Louisville, the fare may well have been $200. If so, stopping at $800 was within the regulation.
Thunder, Flush and Thomas Crapper: INDEX
"Those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it. Those who do study history are doomed to stand by helplessly while everyone else repeats it."
Who programmed us?
Anyone surprised?
> That is, before providing an explicit or institutional explanation for why individuals make prejudiced decisions, one must show that it was not a simple outcome of unthinking reproduction of statistical regularities absorbed with language.

This is an extraordinarily bold claim. I'd be quite interested in how peoples' responses to the article changed if this was the lead.
Just flag it then!
You are definitely right, thanks for pointing it out.
Couldn't agree more! I was like 10 years old in the 90's (before Windows 95 on 1995) when all good games run on DOS. I had became an expert on how to edit config.sys and autoexec.bat to enable EMS or XMS or save a few KB off the 640 kb limit - some games needed more than 590 kb from base memory free even though they were also using extended memory!

And of course you needed to know exactly your sound card configuration (IRQ number and COM port) and your video driver capabilities and memory size (I started with a hercules and moved over to a trident before getting a 3dfx voodoo).

Yes, running a game then was much more difficult than double clicking an icon but it was worth it. The games of that era were great and you could aquire skills (persistance, attention to detail, thinking on finding solutions) useful for the rest of your life - if you were a kid at least!
Slugger O'Toole is an interesting community; personal project of some journalists in NI.

I thought the views of skilled technically employed people from the EU experiencing the changes may be of interest on HN.
I guess you think it's unfair because it's like a sealed-bid auction: passengers are required to submit a price without knowing other passengers' prices and with no information as to how badly the airline needs the seats. So most of the time, probably, the airline winds up paying less than it would have under the traditional system.

But in the case we're discussing here, United's offer wasn't sufficient to get them as many volunteers as they needed. So they would have had to pay someone more than usual. Seems like the right outcome to me.
How do you know it's the same bug?