skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
theres also the fact that the person in question clearly posed no threat to anyone whatsoever. So even if he was a terrorist, theres no reason to potentially break his back, which is clearly a potential outcome when you yank someone out of a seat, past an armrest, as depicted in the video.

police in a lot of other countries achieve a lot more by just convincing uncooperative individuals with words than they do with blunt, pointless force, in murica.

there seems to be the strongly held opinion that "if they do something wrong, we have the right to treat them like shit and whatever that gets them is well deserved".

the idea that this was actually police, and not some random "security grunt" went completely over my head because this is not how police acts where I live.

for the overarching problem, theres a really simple solution: make it legislation that an airline may not book more seats than they have available. if you overbooked trains or busses or cruise ships or any other mode of transportation where you require a seat, people would call bullshit. airlines, however, somehow obtained the right to sell "the idea of a seat".
Apple promises to stop mining minerals to make iphones
Many of them will be lost when editing something in vim on a completely clean remote server or anything other... Like how to explore files without NERDTree?

You can learn basic Vim commands in 30min with vimtutor. One thing to keep in mind is this: https://danielmiessler.com/study/vim/#language and this https://www.vi-improved.org/recommendations/
I used to read The Economist and it made me feel very informed of the world until one day I realized something. It came about because I happened to know a lot of prior detail about the article I was reading about South Africa and although I could not fault the facts listed and the depth of the article, the end result was that it was just plain wrong. The shocking thing for me was that if I didn't know more about the area then I would have been convinced that I knew enough about the subject to form an informed opinion. I believe the trick to their magazine is to create subjective (one sided) articles but to give the impression that they are objective by offering up extensive research. Kind of like a scientist who only publishes results that suit their agenda. Those results may be accurate, detailed and impressive but that's not the whole picture.

I want to know why the villains (people, corporations, governments) they attack justify their actions. Give me a soup of conflicting ideas to ponder instead of cherry picked truths.

If an author makes up my mind for me, I lose interest.

I would be a hypocrite if I didn't mention some good points about the magazine. The writing style is superb and this may sound strange but I find that my inner voice resonates with what I am reading. There are many writers yet the magazine as a whole is very coherent and humor is used expertly to liven up some dry topics.

So there you have it. Read it but don't forget that you're drinking their Kool-Aid.
> Involuntary bumping requires the airline to pay cash if the passenger insists on that.

Not even "insists on it", they are required to pay cash or check, only, for IDB.

Their "dirty little secret" (which makes it sound 'naughty', as opposed to the more accurate 'illegal') is that for many years they've been offering vouchers in this situation.

And then there's this argument that the gate agent came on to the plane, and asked for volunteers, and then having no/not enough volunteers began involuntarily denying boarding, and the argument is that "having boarded, any removal of a passenger is involuntary, because by definition/law, voluntary denial doesn't involve demanding passengers give up seats after boarding or refusing to fly the aircraft".
I've never signed the legacy registration agreement for my IP space, either. I've had it since 1993, before ARIN existed.
"Kekulé had another dream, in which he saw atoms dance around, then form themselves into strings, moving about in a snake-like fashion."

https://web.chemdoodle.com/kekules-dream/
ok, suppose language was evolved. what is the evidence of that? how would we verify whether or not it is true that language evolved?

it seems like a reasonable assumption because we think of essentially every attribute of an organism to be evolved, but is this really true? there is evidence of physiological changes that support the production of speech but the puzzle is really about why those changes would ever occur in the first place. they are not adaptive (in fact, maladaptive) unless you can already speak.

so what is the evolutionary ancestor of modern language? it doesn't leave a fossil record. it's really hard to gather evidence that satisfies anything about this. the cave paintings are some evidence of a mind that has a level of symbolic abstraction consistent with being able to speak, but the oldest cave paintings we find are not really on the evolutionary time scale.

basically we just don't have the robustness of evidence that we wish we had when it comes to supporting the hypothesis that language evolved. it's understandable why we make this assumption, but finding the evidence for it is problematic.
If Joe can grow weed in his cupboard, he absolutely can grow poppies and produce opium. The process is not complex.
There's a really nice middle ground. In Portugal drugs are legal to possess but illegal to sell/distribute, so you can still go after the dealers and suppliers but not the addicts who are suffering. And they provide easy access to methadone, clean needles. There are places where they can shoot up with nurses to supervise for ODs, testing kits so addicts can verify their supply hasn't been cut with something nasty or unexpected. I'm not exactly pro-drug, but I think this approach is probably the best possible way to address the crisis and reduce usage in the long term.
This seems more like a quick intro to some Google BigQuery and NLP capabilities using a keyword that will attract readers. Not a bad thing, but anyone expecting analysis of the topic in the headline should know it's really not about that.

However, it worked on me, I'll probably give these tools a spin in the near future.
Humans have a bit more information than that -- tactile, proprioceptive and complex predictive models they can query (folk physics, theory of mind of other agents, higher order knowledge of roads and places). But I agree, humans perform well despite not being particularly well adapted to driving.

Given that, it would be foolhardy to proceed with vision and sound only because humans can get by with mostly just those. Better sensors push down the intelligence requirements for complex behavior. For example, insects as a group have a wider variety of sensors than any other group of organisms. With pin sized brains and milliwatt power, they forage, hunt, fly, walk and some even learn or communicate with an elaborate (combinatorial) language. Their array of specialized sensors plays a large role in allowing for their surprisingly rich sets of behavior.

While I'm here, I'll also note that optical illusions are not things to get fooled by but instead, show the strength or assumptions of our predictive world models. Brains do not see the world as it is (see the checker shadow illusion and inattentive blindness), they predict based on, smooth, filter and adjust their inputs to more effectively act in the world. All inferential systems must have particular structural biases to do well in their target domain. In animals, between what was evolved and what is learned based on early environment; expectation and experience ends up top-down affecting what we see. It's very non-trivial -- many were surprised to learn for example, that even the "simple" retina receives inputs also from non-visual areas (and the details differ from species to species).
The article wasn't about me or my experience. I disclosed this background fact in case some readers might think it relevant in assessing my reporting and analysis. I've spoken publicly before about my experiences with Chicago police (not the Aviation Department police), including "minor" torture. (I repeat the qualifier, although in quotation marks because no torture is truly minor.) It hasn't risen to the top of my priorities to write about it in detail, largely because there are so many more significant stories of Chicago police torture, told and untold.

I wrote about my first arrest by Chicago police (not the one after which I was tortured) here:

https://hasbrouck.org/blog/archives/002168.html

If you want to discuss my personal history, get in touch with me directly, or leave a comment on my personal blog, which is probably a better place for that personal discussion than this third-party forum.
> nature's-way-is-stupid-here's-my-brilliant-social-engineering-idea-instead

So then instead of trying to change the world for the better, we ought to just submit to a naturalistic fallacy and live our lives in ignorance of the ways society could be better organised? It seems like you're criticising Communism based on this quote, which is in fact supposed to show how life ought to be under Socialism, rather than how we ought to implement it with capitalism.

What gives you the ideat that capitalism is "nature's way"? This couldn't be further than the truth.
Hmmm... not a very sophisticated article.

It seems rather apologetic. Income taxes aren't that much higher! But for some reason taxes are 23% of GDP in the US, but 43% in Sweden. So obviously taxes are much higher in Sweden.

Yes, there is a steep sales tax, but it's rolled into the price, so you don't really know what it is, so it's all good.
Also, the "one life hack" is being deeply expert in many disparate fields and then seeing patterns in the interstices and figuring out how to capitalize on them. Right, that's a "life hack".

This is like "one life hack from a patent clerk that allowed him to win two Nobel prizes".
Hm yeah, a moment after I hit submit I realized this. So I guess I made the parents point.
They are also legally required to inform you of your rights once your ticket has been revoked. Judging from the fact they still were calling him a "volunteer" as of the CEO's press release the next day, I'd bet they did not actually go through any of this process of revoking his ticket. If this is a policy then these internal policies are wrong too.

I don't know what conversation they had with him, but I'd wager a guess their policies are slanted in the direction of calling it a voluntary bump no matter what actually happens. If you don't ever actually revoke their ticket, you never actually have to pay out at 400% of the ticket value! /s

It is not the passenger's responsibility to know their rights and request the cash payout either, it is the airline's responsibility to apprise them of their full rights when the ticket is revoked for any reason. Negotiating would be offering $1600 in vouchers (or say, a value in excess of 400% ticket price) to avoid a cash payout. I would call it "negotiating in bad faith" to offer a lesser value of non-cash vouchers than the amount that the passenger is actually entitled to receive in cash, by law. (At least once you've decided, as in this case, which passenger is the passenger that is being bumped.)

I don't know what exactly "revoking the ticket" means, or if it has anything to do with a physical boarding pass, but I've heard lots of conjecture suggesting that since he was boarded and in his seat, they would not have been within their rights to revoke his ticket at all. He would have had to meet one of the "Rule 21" criteria for Refusal of Transport, in other words, those cases limited to reasons including government request, safety, failure to pay, or in cases of international travel where your documents are found to be not in order.
Hmm, I thought Mozilla had pulled financial support from Thunderbird? This would be an exciting new chapter for the product, but the article doesn't address whether it makes financial sense for Mozilla to invest this much in Thunderbird's future.

For most of the last three years I've worked on Nylas Mail (https://github.com/Nylas/Nylas-mail), and it hit 2.0 yesterday with Mac/Win/Linux support. It's entirely open source (GPL), written in JavaScript, syncs mail locally, etc. It essentially -is- what the author of the post is looking to build, except it doesn't look like Thunderbird. Nylas put at least $2M+ worth of engineering time into it, and I imagine ThunderbirdJS would take at least a similar commitment of time and effort. Heck, maybe they could just skin Nylas Mail and call it Thunderbird ;-)
Further analysis looking at population level, and using the UK vs Netherlands http://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/world-health-review/unite...

Deaths through CVD in the UK are at 17%, Netherlands at 10%.

Note you do have to die from something at some point, so having 7% of your population dying early from CVD should reduce your incidence of other deaths within the population. ;)
I haven't really seen many people talking about "Human sensor fusion" regarding sound/touch/etc, and I think it's a very important point.

Are driverless cars even measuring sound, vibration, and G-Forces? I'd like to better understand how those play into the whole sensor fusion of these systems.
> The goal is to confuse the people who haven't been following this into thinking Docker is a thing you pay Docker (the company) for

Following the first thing they google without actually understanding what's involved, all the way to handing over money sounds about what I expect from someone who thinks Docker is a viable platform to use for anything worth handing over money for.
Hi all, Docker founder here. It appears that the explanation in the pull request is not very clear. Sorry about that. We didn't expect the PR to be the first thing people read: there is a new website at mobyproject.org. Unfortunately Github is struggling under the load, and I can't update the PR text to clarify.

Here is an updated version with some clarifications:

<<<

Docker is transitioning all of its open source collaborations to the Moby project going forward.
During the transition, all open source activity should continue as usual.

IMPORTANT NOTE: if you are a Docker user, this does not change anything. Docker CE continues to exist as a downstream open-source product, with exactly the same interface, packages and release cycle. This change is about the upstream development of the components of Docker, and making that process more open and modular. Moby is not a replacement for Docker: it's a framework to help system engineers build platforms like Docker out of many components. We use Moby to build Docker, but you can use it to build specialized systems other than Docker.

You can learn more at http://mobyproject.org

We are proposing the following list of changes:

- splitting up the engine into more open components
- removing the docker UI, SDK etc to keep them in the Docker org
- clarifying that the project is not limited to the engine, but to the assembly of all the individual components of the Docker platform
- open-source new tools & components which we currently use to assemble the Docker product, but could benefit the community
- defining an open, community-centric governance inspired by the Fedora project (a very successful example of balancing the needs of the community with the constraints of the primary corporate sponsor)

>>>

EDIT: I'm happy to answer any follow-up questions here, if it helps clarify.
This isn't a great article - it's overly wordy and DEFINITELY doesn't fulfill the promise of the title.
If you haven't done so yet, buy the book, read all 900 pages of it, it's amazing! The first game about Dune with it's combination of adventure and strategy is also very nice. http://gamesnostalgia.com/en/game/dune
Thank you. I really appreciate the design aesthetic.
> If you're not taking one of a handful of herbal supplements, you are extremely unlikely to have a measurably different response to the same dosage of opioid.

If you've taken any common CNS depressant, such as alcohol, benzodiazepines, psychiatric drugs, drugs that are metabolized by the same pathways as opioids, even blood pressure medication or sedatives including antihistamines, you are going to potentiate the CNS depression from opioids.

> And the effects will not be vastly different. Just varied in intensity.

The scale of intensity of effects from a dose of an opioid varies from: enough to get a patient out of withdrawals to completely stopping breathing.

Titration of dose is the only way to more accurately determine a safe and effective dosing schedule for opioids.
For you it's 'out of control'. For me it's 'the price I'm happy to pay to get what I want'.
I'm not Dutch, and it's definitely not just a Dutch thing. And it's the first definition on urbandictionary, so it's not that obscure.

But speaking of which, the Dutch gay community was also quite enamoured with the name of the photo sharing site "Flickr", i.e. https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flikker

How was my phrasing inappropriate? I never said they should change the name -- just the opposite! At least it's not a demeaning insult, like gimp, git or mongo.

Is there an html markup for non-sarcasm I should use, like the opposite of 
? Or if I just nest two 
 tags do they cancel out?

Pro tip: always check urbandictionary before naming a project.
Ants have 250,000 neurons. They have some capacity.
Funny that I've been reading HN for years and never posted until an article about drugs, but that's how it goes sometimes. I was just talking about this with my wife last night during an NPR story about opiod addiction and wondered if there was quantitative evidence about the cost/benefit ratio of opiods, as opposed to anecdotal stories, valuable as they might be.

I found this article from a year ago: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/mind-guest-blog/opioid-...

Some key points, all direct quotes from the article:

1. Typically, young people who misuse prescription opioids are heavy users of alcohol and other drugs. This type of drug use, not medical treatment with opioids, is by far the greatest risk factor for opioid addiction

2. In general, new addictions are uncommon among people who take opioids for pain in general. A Cochrane review of opioid prescribing for chronic pain found that less than one percent of those who were well-screened for drug problems developed new addictions during pain care

3. The vast majority of people who are prescribed opioids use them responsibly—recent research on roughly one million insurance claims for opioid prescriptions showed that just less than five percent of patients misused the drugs by getting prescriptions for them from multiple doctors.

4. If we want to reduce opioid addiction, we have to target the real risk factors for it: child trauma, mental illness and unemployment. Two thirds of people with opioid addictions have had at least one severely traumatic childhood experience, and the greater your exposure to different types of trauma, the higher the risk becomes.

5. The reality, however, is that as long as there is distress and despair, some people are going to seek chemical ways to feel better.

So in summary:

I am NOT saying that you don't know someone who developed an opioid addiction without prior risk factors.

I am saying that it seems in aggregate, this is a new phase of a common societal issue: lots of people are unhappy, for any number of reasons, and seek the most available fix. That used to be other drugs, then we cracked down on those drugs. Now it's opioids, and we're likely about to crack down on those. But something will be next, because we haven't solved the real problem.
The buzzfeed is strong with this one.
Linux hardware support often takes years to mature -- for example, the graphics hardware on my Haswell laptop has seen steady improvements despite being years old. I would strongly recommend against using a LTS linux release from around the time your computer was released. Its just going to be too old. Try Ubuntu 17.04, or take the jump and just use Arch. I use Arch on all my work and home machines, without issue. Maybe twice a year requires 5-10 minutes of extra work during an upgrade to ensure a package update works.
I use tmux and vim together as my dev environment for five years (used Sublime before) and I like to add another thought:

One huge advantage is that I can run the dev setup on a remote server which allows to keep the entire enviroment with all build tools and watchers live and persistent for weeks. You can do this on a local environment as well if you never shutdown the system or suspend only but it still feels different. Just an example: You worked weeks ago on a side-project and want to get in again for a small fix. Just to recall and open all relevant files, run the build tool and server plus tweaking the layout requires five minutes and usually you don't do it, you just want to fix one line and not think about the project setup. With tmux you go to the respective workplace with prefix+p (for previous) in case you kept the workplace still running. That's it. With a 1GB RAM VPS I can run many tmux workplaces/windows each with ~8 vim instances or other processes.

Further, I can develop on any of my notebooks/PCs/OSes with an ssh client installed, even on my phone. Btw, tmux and vim are perfect for phone keyboards, try it and it happens really frequently that you are on the go and want to try another idea/fix. Here, prefix+z for zooming into a pane is quite helpful.

And when I get a new computer my dev environment doesn't have to be setup again. I am still using the same remote server which survived three notebooks now.

And a (small) bonus: If you want to show coworkers your work in a browser (if it's a website) you give them just your static server IP without the need to ifconfig your current local dynamic IP before.

Running your dev environment remotely is a small thing but makes a huge difference in daily use.
I hope people & politics in the USA (and countries with similarly screwed up infrastructure) realize soon that, on the long run, turning public space, roads and in general (sub)urban infrastructure into a space designated for cars and cars only/mostly rather than for people does on the long run have significant social, health, etc. effects that are not particularly beneficial.
Someone local to me had launched a pay-for-membership based MajorBBS that had something like 16 phone lines in. MajorBBS was the only thing I had seen that could support so many users at once. This was around the time I had stopped running my own BBS, before college.

This meant it could offer an active chat room, and it had a MUD game that everyone loved, called TeleArena.

For me, TeleArena was fun because I'd write scripts that would automate playing the game for me when I wasn't there.
Probably "using machine learning" means a test administered with and graded by computers.
How to build a math expression tokenizer using JavaScript
Mozilla just doesn't get the message.... We don't want your features, fixes, refreshes, rebranding, or re-imagining. We want a browser that is fast, stable, secure, minimal, and that DOES NOT FIGHT US. Let me load my old SSL certs (a warning is fine). Let me keep my preferences (why does https:// disappear from my address bar every update, and my search bar keep switching back to case sensitive).

Stop making your problems worse and get your $#!% together! I'm a sysadmin, dangit, I need this tool to work!
Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-Ality Released
Sort of reflects on MIT's business school (Sloan) vs. Stanford's, I'd say.
AFAIK most Taiwanese BBSes established in the 90's already run on Telnet over TCP/IP. PTT has SSH support, smartphone clients are available as well.

BBS with Internet today serves as a high-performance forum, loading boards/articles takes a single RTT. Storage is still file-based and relies on filesystem and kernel caching.