skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Putting aside everything else, contracting is very different. I'm was a contractor (independent as well as via a firm I co-started) for a over a decade, and getting fired by a client, as you say, is no big deal. Every business deals with bad customers, makes mistakes sometimes, etc. If it doesn't kill the business, you fix the problem (if any) and move on.

Working for The Man is a very different relationship and is looked upon differently by everyone from other people through the tax man. So it is a different thing. Working around the same people daily for a long period of time within the context of employment means building different (and usually deeper) relationships. I won't say it is an ersatz family, but there are similar emotional things going on.

Given that you go in to your engagements with the understanding that you can be fired at the drop of a hat means you think about it differently than the person who gets canned. Perhaps people should think differently about at-will employment, but they don't, and society loads them with different meanings.
Most folks in the IC never face a significant ethical dilemma (unless you think that spying on other governments is wrong). They just do their jobs and go about their lives.

Most IC employees lament that they could be earning way more in the private sector ;) .

So you most likely made the right choice!
With the requisite of I'm an anecdote and anecdote != data....

I've been both divorced and fired. I got fired because my position was outsourced to India. I got divorced because nobody liked me :).

The firing was basically nothing. I think the key difference, for me as an individual, is that I'm not a "lifer." I'm generally well liked in my jobs and get regular raises and promotions, but I'm not emotionally attached to the vision or whatever. In addition to that I happen to be the type of person who keeps a hefty emergency savings and all that. Financially speaking getting fired was a minor nuisance. I had another job within a month.

Getting divorced was really tough. It was an existential crisis. One day I was one thing, a married man with a child. The next day I was this completely different person, a bachelor with half a child. I didn't have ANY single friends, or childless friends who could do adult things when my daughter was with my ex-wife. I had to re-create who I was almost from the ground up.

The key factor, for me, is the "lifer" status. I was a lifer in my marriage, but have never been for a job.
They just need to charge people for no shows and QED.
Probably not going to matter either way - Google's got them dead to rights, will likely win a complete injunction against the program...
Not really. There's intrinsic value in being able to type a variable name and see all it's properties without having to look up documentation -- especially if it's code you're not familiar with. One less thing you have to balance in your head.
I think there are a lot of rules around reselling tickets post-911. I'm sure you could find a way to execute it while accounting for the new regulations, but for most airlines i don't think its worth it. They also make money off of a fluctuating ticket price or they wouldn't have them.
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> Overbooking is central to airline profitability and their ability to provide flexibility - like partial refunds, or SW's "open tickets" policy on business select.

Are you sure of that?

I would think that airline profitability is largely dictated by competitive forces, rather than the particulars of in which practices the overall industry is permitted to engage.

(Note that I'm assuming a world where all airlines, or no airlines, overbook. If only some of them overbook, then I agree the practice could affect relative profitability of those who do / don't overbook.)
It's standard practice already in at least one industry I know of.
> This has been abundantly studied, contrary to your post.

Are you saying the economic downsides to regulation have been studied? Or are you saying there is abundant scholarly research that shows the costs of government regulation of private enterprise clearly outweigh the benefits?

Edit: typo
That would be a different article, I assume.
Well the government mostly hasn't been enforcing competition laws for a few decades now, so yeah, VCs can fund startup companies to play loss-leader for a monopoly position. Hell, Peter Thiel put that strategy in his book.
Can this conceivably make a difference at this late stage? Genuinely curious. Surely if a judge accepts the theory that Levandowski helped Uber's program along with stolen IP, having him 'no longer working on the program' at this stage would have to look like window dressing. Doesn't it just make them look worse, like they are admitting that there's a problem?
According to the Economist, profits per passenger are $22.40 in North America, compared to less than $8 per passenger in Europe.

April 22, 2017, page 11
The mass production and overperscription of opiates by Big Pharma is not in societies best interest either. Where do you think that Fentanyl came from?
So, stubhub for plane tickets?
I think there's some difficulty around changing the name that's on a ticket, but other than that, it seems like a neat idea.
On the significant other, if the person didn't die suddenly, but had a terminal disease, it may make some sense that happiness increased. Watching someone die slowly, and the associated hospital visits is a soul draining experience. There is relief that their suffering is over and you get to have a life again, even though the person you loved isn't with you for it.
Sounds like a non sequitur, though. Standardized testing in academia isn't necessarily a sign of lack of creativity or innovation.
That would be hilarious (the Patentshield application). It is also rare to have one of these disputes happening with such wide visibility. And reading the coverage so far it sounds like Levandowski chose to interpret the meaning of his employment agreement with Google much more charitably than Google does (which is somewhat expected on Google's part). I went back and looked at mine from 2006 (which was the year earlier version so they could have been fairly similar) and its pretty clear about what steps you need to take to clear your "side projects" with Google. The most obvious being you have to ask permission.

Challenging times indeed.
I'm thinking of buying some of that stock.
> This response feels knee jerk.

The article pretty clearly suggests this policy was under consideration anyway, though the United incident at least seems to have affected the timing, and might have made it easier to pull the trigger.

> Overbooking is central to airline profitability

Flying full is certainly beneficial to profitability, and overbooking makes that more likely. But it's not without costs, and it's quite possible that the cost/benefit has changed since the policy became a norm.
The author states a purpose at http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/why.html and more at http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/faq.html
Ergonomic improvements are a major focus for the Rust team's 2017 roadmap, both in language changes and tooling. But they'll never sacrifice the core safety principles of the language to do it.
There's no reason to believe that Levandowski is an irreplaceable engineer, is there?
Having run into similar issue to this in the past, this is most likely caused by caching of group data by the backend servers, possibly coupled with multiple servers answering queries.
Also breaks down for equipment swaps. If we view seats on a given flight as assets that can be resold, there's a lot of ways that normal (even understandable) airline operations can "devalue" those assets, and sorting that out legally would be an amazing mess.
Edit: technically true but this fact is misleading. JetBlue's rate of passengers denied boarding is actually almost 3 times higher than United. [0]

[0] https://www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.gov/files/docs/reso...

Oct - Dec 2016 Passengers Denied Boarding
by U.S. Airlines. United's Denied Boarding is 0.40 per 10k passengers vs JetBlue DB of 1.19 per 10k passengers.
Turns out I was quite ignorant of Ada - thanks for the pointers.
Be most careful with retries. Saw a case where the bucket wasn't writable and the code just retried in a loop. You get charged for the API call, successful or not.
It's not done because it'd mean less profit for the airline.
Can someone (with hopefully a legal background) comment on what the judge will be looking at when deciding if there should be an injunction against Uber and stopping ALL their self-driving car work? What criteria are they specifically looking at/how much burden of proof do they need?
As a customer, I would rather get charged for a no-show than get removed from a flight.
It's not going to hurt him if he doesn't tell anyone. Does anyone expect an 18-year-old to have an employment history gap?

It's still bogus to be tossed because you took a sick day.
Why cap at $10,000? There needn't be any cap.
No, you can access Gdrive via multiple GApps accounts on a single Android device.
Would love to ask you a few questions about how you got from point a to b, mind if I drop you an email? I don't see an address in your profile
Is it possible to sell an overbook and a non-overbook class of tickets separately, and clearly delineate that to the customer as such?
In 2012, profits per passenger were about $4 [0] But lately, North American airlines are making over $20 per passenger [1]

[0] http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2014/02/ec...

[1] Economist, April 22 print edition, page 11
It's not. It's extended from that.

However, that code won't deal with other things like changing the port, having a built-in index, or having the server run for a discrete amount​ of files to serve.

Also, go is no different than Java: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/jre/api/net/httpserver.... The server just allows it to be stand alone as an application.
I have to ask what this offers over a LaTeX/Beamer setup. I'm fairly happy using LaTeX for anything I'm sharing, but I'm curious about alternatives.
It makes even more sense to criticize the article in that case. Schneier's studies and body of work is in the cryptography field. Not international relations.

He's no more credible than Ben Carson as HUD director or Bill Nye as a climate scientist.
You aren’t wrong: Our military officers actually seem to be getting stoopider
Presumption of innocence. You have to assume that the people are innocent until they are proven guilty. If you fired Levandowski and win the case, then he sues. If you leave him in place and you're found guilty, there are extra damages because you were "notified" and you still didn't stop his work. So you move him off to the side, wait for the trial to resolve. And then figure out what to do with him, which will be either fire him or move him back on to the project.
They already do. Refundable tickets cost about twice as much as non-refundable.
Will do, thanks! One more thing, is there a plan for startups? The price seems huge for me and we expect a big use of our APIs. I suggest to talk to the YC Startup School to add 3Scale as a deal. Our project is part of YC Startup School.
As a thought experiment: What in that comment allows you to distinguish propaganda from good faith substance? It's a serious question; maybe I'll learn something!

Here's how I look at it: What knowledge did it add? By knowledge, I mean something substantiated and serious; claims and allegations are not knowledge.

"President X did nothing to stop the advance of Y" is a claim. "President X said the following about their policy on Y; as you can see, it's a relatively passive position: '...' [from http://...]" is substantiated knowledge (and admittedly, much on HN isn't substantiated).

(I don't mean to be the arbiter of or set rules for validity and knowledge; I'm just trying to give a rough idea of the distinction I'm trying to make.)
Here are some good reasons, mix and match for most effect:

1 parent earns, two disabled kids, parent has chronic illness, alzheimers grandparent lives with them, relatives are absent or unreliable, job was their visa sponsor and now they have to go back to their war torn country of birth, denied retirement, they are a minority race/creed/color...
Virgin America[0] has a better website, in my opinion. Southwest has always been nice to me, but when they had their big outage in May 2016 they were quite rude to everyone.

https://www.virginamerica.com/
What he says is true some of the time.

Last time I got fired, for refusing to cooperate with illegal and unethical management behavior, it was a huge relief to me and a net benefit.

I realize this is not always the case for people, but it sometimes is. In general though you have a better shot at claiming unemployment insurance benefits you paid for if you're fired without cause than if you quit. This wasn't a factor for me since I immediately flipped to a new higher paying job, but it's an issue for many people.

On the other hand, my last divorce was also a huge relief to me as well. Good riddance in both cases.

It seems like the referenced study is looking at people who become unemployed and who stay unemployed and are unable to find work. Yes, that is a very bad situation. But it's different from the article title that suggests they are talking only about getting fired. Getting fired and becoming long term unemployed (whether from firing, layoffs or quitting) are fairly different scenarios.
TLS verification vulnerability in LibreSSL 2.5.1 – 2.5.3
Have you tried Conrad? (https://github.com/PistonDevelopers/conrod)

I've not delved much into GUI programming in Rust myself, so I'm just interested to hear any arguments for/against. As a more general point, I suspect a good Rust GUI framework will end up looking more in the spirit of React and the FRP approach, as ownership and the tendency towards immutable data have less friction with that approach.
I think something that makes propaganda difficult to deal with is that you are fundamentally dealing with someone who is not operating in good faith.

Usually when reporters work or people argue, they're generally trying to arrive at the truth, even if it's in a flawed way.

For the propagandist, truth is merely another tool in the toolkit, and they'll use it when it advances their purpose and discard it when it doesn't. The same goes with logic and reason. The propogandist will in fact use the truth and reason and logic as much as possible for the simple reason that it's so effective.

This is why Wikileaks was so devastating. As far as I know, there was nothing fabricated in any of it, but it produced an inaccurate impression of the candidates because one side had all their dirty laundry aired in public and he other side operated in secrecy. You'd be a fool to think that a similar release of RNC and Trump emails wouldn't have produced just as much damaging material.

So now the counter-propagandist is put in the difficult position of arguing against the publishing of the truth, not a particular nice place to be, rhetorically.

I think the only way to effectively fight it is our own countermeasures, fighting the truth with more truth. Unfortunately, the executive branch of the us and the U.K. is thoroughly compromised, so the west is going to have to rely on France and Germany to step up their games.
I think my favorite solution to this is to sell "guaranteed" and "standby" tickets. Sell full plane capacity of "guaranteed", and then any ticket after that is bumpable/standby. You could potentially switch to sell "bumpable" tickets earlier, too, at a discount.

If the airline is flying ~8 flights a day from SFO-SEA, I'd be fine in many cases paying x% less for y% risk of being bumped one or two flights later.
What can you do to keep it from happening though? It's not like you can just grab their brain and make them apply themselves.
I would agree with most of this, but add that the comment could very well be talking about US domestic propaganda and the falsehood narrative that "Russia is behind it."

Essentially it's this: there are many narratives for explaining what's going on provided by different sources of authority and different avenues of information dispersal. Much of it is consistent with a propaganda narrative by the United States, Israel, Russia, Britain, China or another active "strategic communication"/"public messaging" campaigner.

Thinking that any one of these narratives is wholeistic truth (for example the US domestic propaganda) and then charging forward critical of any true facts that inconvenience that propaganda or are consistent with a competing one is not the solution to the problem.

And thus the track that this thread has gone down: inconvenient truths about the gaps, assumptions and conspiracies that support a broader US propaganda position are being called into question not as facts but because merely contributing these facts into the discussion could be conceivably be supportive of a competing narrative.

That's ultimately how these propaganda programs function: they overwhelm your instinctual capability to reason about facts in a manner that is divorced from reaffirmation of the propaganda bubble.

I don't know how to help you get out of it other than to call it out to you.
Any C++ programmer knows that bad things happen when throwing in a ctor. Just don't do it. This is a non problem.
Alternative explanation: Romania is a comparatively teeny tiny country so the necessary infrastructure costs are a fraction of what they would be here.

Or: see the UK and Netherlands, where government regulation improved service by forcing more competition in the broadband market [1], i.e. exactly the opposite of your "regulated to death" claim.

In all three of those examples, increased competition seems to have been the real explanation for reduced prices and improved service, not deregulation as you claim.

https://www.engadget.com/2011/06/28/why-is-european-broadban...
Maybe Uber has realized that this guy is toxic and can't be trusted handling "their" tech? If he spent a decade stealing Google's tech, are they willing to risk him treating Uber the same way? Especially since Uber's epic level of sliminess would make it even easier for Levandowski to rationalize theft.
You ever read an article that goes against everything you've experienced as a human being? This is one of those for me
I believe the commenters who say he's very smart and very driven.

But I'd also suggest that setting up small companies isn't THAT much work. Funneling other people's designs to those companies isn't THAT much work either.

Surely, the scheming took time and effort and I'm not saying he wasn't working hard. But the scheming described doesn't exactly sound like a superhuman feat for the ages.
> What's up with the massive drop in happiness of fired women between years 3 and 4 post-firing?

Noise from big data, were I to guess. There's no logic involved in this sort of thing, just a lot of self-reported correlations and just-so stories about the results. I can't say I'm happy that this is what "science" tends to mean these days...
Wired has quite a long piece on Silk Road and Ross Ulbricht [1], definitely a good read.

[1] https://www.wired.com/2015/05/silk-road-untold-story/
I mean, how was this not brought up and made a settled point before Tesla acquired his company?

Probably something like, "The plan is X but of course the details aren't set in stone, we're a fast-moving company so we'll revisit our roadmap every so often." And then down the road Elon wants to do something that Grohmann strongly disagrees with, and the only plausible resolution is to fire Grohmann.

This doesn't seem too surprising to me. Tesla bought this company to make Teslas. Why should Tesla spend any effort at all helping BMW and Daimler make cars? Maybe there's some rationale there but it doesn't surprise me that it is low priority.
Considering Ryanair doesn't overbook yet is stupidly profitable, I think it's possible to make this work.
You're right that it's not intrinsically essential.

To an airline, a flight that leaves with an empty seat is basically throwing money away; that empty seat doesn't mean you can take less fuel, fewer flight crew members, or wear out the airplane less. Therefore, the empty seat saves the airline no money.

Furthermore, people often miss their flights.

Overbooking is one way to deal with these two assumptions. Assume a certain number of people will miss the flight, and sell some seats twice. Then you don't fly with money-eating empty seats, and you can lower the ticket price a bit, because you don't have to charge customers the cost of those statistically-likely empty seats.

There are other solutions. Don't offer any refunds or reaccommodation to no-shows. The seat was empty, but someone paid for it, so who cares? But customers probably don't like that. The might even like it less than overbooking. I don't know, I don't run an airline. There are options, but overbooking exists for a reason.
problem with Sanic that it does not implement streaming properly. so it is very easy to kill any Sanic process, 10-20 seconds. again any.
I haven't read of CFAA and scraping so I had to do some research and it is fascinating. I just read through http://www.sociallyawareblog.com/2014/07/21/data-for-the-tak...

It seems that even though people keep trying to use CFAA for scraping it almost always gets thrown out as long as the source is publicly accessible. Even if the ToS prohibits scraping explicitly.

Seems people have had more luck with just plain old copyright.

But back to this tool in particular... depends entirely on what you are using the data for. Don't use it to gain access to data you wouldn't normally have or give other people access to data they wouldn't normally have and I can't see why CFAA applies.
JetBlue doesn't overbook, but they do swap A320 for A321 which have 50 fewer seats, fairly randomly, which leads to a lot of IDBs (you can ask for volunteers and get them when it's 1-5 people on a 200 person flight; you are probably screwed if you need 50 people on a 250 person flight.)
Sometimes people need help moving on and getting fired could be that push someones needs.

If they wanted to "help" the employee move on they'd (1) at least attempt to engage them in an honest discussion about the situation, and (2) offer something resembling a decent separation package. Heck even (1) by itself would do a lot to soften the psychic blow -- but that's almost always off the table (in part due to litigation concerns; but in part due also, let's face it, to a simple lack of humanity and empathy).

Instead it's usually "Lawyer up. Manipulate (via bogus performance reviews, or simply not supporting the employee to an extent that they're basically destined to fail). And isolate, isolate, isolate."
Good thing Dropbox is free cash flow positive then!

https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/14/dropbox-says-it-is-cash-fl...
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I would hazard to guess in tech this role is being filled up by coder bootcamps and Pluralsight, if such candidates were aware of any knowledge deficiencies.