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>You are simply enabling airlines to continue this unethical practice

Don't project your morals onto the rest of us. As a frequent flyer who likes to travel I love this practice. It means lower prices overall and it gives me the opportunity to fly for free somewhere else later if I volunteer out. With the switch to real cash compensation on some airlines, I can even make money if I don't feel like using it to fly.

I have flown over 2 million miles in my lifetime and I have never seen someone forced to give up their seat. The airlines always enticed people to volunteer out with (sometimes significant) compensation.

United behaving like assholes with their forced removal is indicative of their behavior, not the practice of overbooking.

I'm fine with increasing required payouts for forced removals to deal with piss poor airlines that don't conduct an auction until volunteers are found, but banning the practice outright is throwing the baby out with the bathwater due to ignorance of the practice.
Ah good point, different islands. There probably are links between those groups but still, different islands, my bad.
And that is the number one selling feature of OneStar for car manufacturers in the US (where leases are the top way to "sell" cars)
I agree with the premise of the article, but maybe [simple][1] is a better term than brutalist for [good web design][2].

Brutalist architecture is only rarely not ugly while simple buildings are often beautiful.

Here’s to more variety and diversity on the web!

[1]: http://s3.amazonaws.com/simpleuseful/index.html
[2]: https://www.simongriffee.com/notebook/web-design-where-to-be...
If you aren't familiar with it, read up on emergence. I think a global government will be an emergent process. We are already seeing countries form big blocks, like the EU. For all that the EU is the one I hear about the most on HN and elsewhere, it is hardly the only one. These big blocks of countries are de facto super states.

I think our best hope of a world government will grow out of that growing conglomeration, plus diplomatic relations between such groups. I think that is our best hope because emergent (bottom up) solutions seem to generally be far more solid answers than top-down solutions.
EmberJS was the first front-end framework I learned as a web developer, shortly after learning Django. This was before Ember 1.0 . It was cool at first - but once I started developing real projects I ran head first into unreadable or cryptic internal stack traces and APIs that forced me to adapt my back-end to fit the needs of the front-end app. A short time later I picked up angular 1.x and was off to the races because anytime I ran into a problem with a feature or design decision I could easily find the hack that would keep my momentum going.

I always felt like EmberJS meant well but chose rigidness where it should have been flexible, and flexibility where it should have been rigid. It's probably changed and solved many of these early problems. I want to go back and re-evaluate, but nowadays so many different technologies, frameworks, languages, and tools, are pulling at my time that I don't think I will be able to.

FWIW my current stack of choice (and at work) is Golang and Vue (w/Typescript) - which might identify where some of my biases and predilections are.
> pronounced "exit"

...riiiiight
Not quite because adding new companies and routes is significantly easier than laying new utilities.
What percentage of Americans would you say know how to do those things, though?
For webcrap, it's probably best to avoid this problem entirely. Don't design systems that need tight consistency between client and server. You'll get it wrong.

Maybe only one side needs to be stateful. Consider a map display application, where the map is downloaded as tiles of various resolutions. The user can pan and scroll. The goal is to give the user a seamless experience. This may require loading low-rez tiles first, loading ahead in the direction of movement, and canceling requests for tiles that are not in yet and are no longer needed. It needs to be eventually consistent - whatever the user does, the map needs to settle into validity after a while.

But the server side can just blindly serve tiles as individual files. You can do all the stateful stuff on the client. No need for synchronization.

So don't go there unless you absolutely have to.
I've used ember to build a half dozen production apps, ranging from a wysiwyg vector editor to a dropbox clone to an electron-based process manager. It's the frontend framework I reach for any time I expect to need to develop an app longer than a month or two, and ember has scaled well with each project. The ember community conventions have never really gotten in the way of whatever I'm trying to accomplish, and the consistency across projects is refreshing.
This is resonance:

Imagine an system composed of a mass hanging from a spring, like this [1]. If you pull down the mass and release, the mass will move up and down (oscillate) at a set rate (the system's natural frequency). No matter how far you pull down the mass before release (the amplitude), the system will always oscillate at the same frequency.

Now, imagine you start pushing on the mass (applying forces) while it is in motion. If you were to push up on the mass while it is traveling down, you would decrease the distance the mass would move on subsequent oscillations (damping the amplitude). But if you were to push up on the mass as it travels up, you would be increasing the amplitude of oscillation.

That is what we call resonance.

[1]: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/lZPtFDXYQRU/maxresdefault.jpg
I got some lessons in that religion in the early 00s, and think it's still gospel in a lot of circles (I certainly know a few vigorous proponents).

Is there a school of thought that's superseded the Ricardian theory?
Just FYI, 7 years would almost certainly put that information outside of the statute of limitations.

I don't believe that sentence makes any sense. Do you have a legal background?
Yes...? What's surprising about using a central repo to collaborate? There needs to be a single source of truth for a coherent project, otherwise you're just going to have chaos.

The distributed nature of git led to the simple and secure contribution model of everyone working on their own repos and not needing to give write access to anyone else. This pretty directly led to an explosion of open source software.
So, South Vietnam resistance was supported by the North. The government was supported by the most powerful military ever and a whole list of allies. But somehow they lost.

Also, lets remember that we should not take everything they say for granted.

A lot of resistance is also passive and that is effective as well.
Browsers don’t redistribute the content. That’s a crucial difference, much like you can video tape a broadcast and fast forward through the ads at home, but not if you run a pub.
PocketMod looks convenient. There's a LaTeX template to create them.

https://www.overleaf.com/latex/examples/creating-pocketmods-...
> how they test the new stuff with junkies in Scampia and only spread them to the north if the junkies don't die.

GC/MS would be cheaper and faster...
Ssssssttt.

Don't wake the children yet.
I'm pretty sure the OP is satire. What good is social media without the social?
NASA and Art: A Collaboration Colored with History
Yes, I'm aware of how Rust handles array indexing. I was just noting that autounwrapping wouldn't be any less safe than the existing behavior for array indexing using [].
Adam Smith, from The Wealth of Nations, Chapter III:

"In great empires the people who live in the capital, and in the provinces remote from the scene of action, feel, many of them scarce any inconveniency from the war; but enjoy, at their ease, the amusement of reading in the newspapers the exploits of their own fleets and armies. To them this amusement compensates the small difference between the taxes which they pay on account of the war, and those which they had been accustomed to pay in time of peace. They are commonly dissatisfied with the return of peace, which puts an end to their amusement, and to a thousand visionary hopes of conquest and national glory, from a longer continuance of the war."
There's a lot of nonsense on HN about GDPR. I thought this, written by someone who knows what they're talking about, might be useful. Particularly the links to the Honda case, and to the ICO website.
Do I have to live there or can I just be a citizen?
It never linked me to 2.6.6. It went to 2.6.7.

2.6.6 isn't mentioned at https://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6/ nor in my earlier comment.
I have an account but haven't used it in many years. People say my wall looks weird. I haven't seen it. No reason to delete it or log in at all, IMO. Just walk away.
pitchbook.com

Interesting mix of content and product information. I like how it's laid out as well
I was curious so I googled a little bit:

Bloomberg is know for its Terminal. It seems they have a program where you can extend their terminal with web applications. Presumably Bloomberg didn't built a renderer themselves but there are custom APIs. So they are something between a browser maker and a UI framework like Electron.

Disruptive Innovations is a firm by Daniel Glazman, formerly of Netscape and of the CSSWG fame. His main product seem to be continuing the Editor part of the original Mozilla Suite based on the Gecko Layout Engine. There seems to be an NVU Editor and rather new an Editor called BlueGriffon which also does ePub and maybe his custom WebBooks format.
Yeah, improving infrastructure is likely to be the most effective step.

There's ~400 reported cases of Typhoid per year in the US, out of 12.5 million globally. Access to clean water makes a big difference.

There's also cheap, effective vaccines. Just need to build/rebuild the trust needed to get them to the people they would really help.
The technology used on both of those was not on other phones before Apple did it. "Face recognition" and "fingerprint scanning" are not the same thing as "Face ID" and "Touch ID".
If they told the world that the solution for touch screen phones failing in the market was this little idea called the “proximity sensor”, Google would have beaten them to the market with Android and the iPhone would be far less successful.

Apples success is built on unique inventions, in design, software and hardware. They rarely are first to market in any category. They are almost always first to market with the first mass market useful combination of features in those categories.
> essay based solely on online summaries of the book.

The solution is to assign books that do not have online summaries, which would be about 99% of books. Plenty to choose from!
I have to politely disagree. Sure, one video isn't a big deal -- it's just five or ten minutes. But, if I followed up every silly idea presented online with five or ten minutes of watching kooky videos, then yeah, I'd end up less knowledgeable than if I stuck to the stuff that tends to come from better sources.

Also, I've met enough smart people infected by silly ideas to know that nobody is immune to misinformation. Maybe I'm bored and one of those videos leads me down some YouTube rabbit hole that gets me stuck on some nonsense. I'd probably never see it coming; the people who listened to a little too much Coast to Coast surely didn't.

So while I'm excited by new ideas on just about every subject, I also have something of an immune response to them, a conscious decision that I'd rather be uninformed -- and maybe spend that time reading a book or doing something fun outside -- than misinformed. Since I'm not smart enough to know what's right and what's not when I don't know anything about the subject, I rely on the source as a strong signal of trustworthiness.

HN's just about the only guilty pleasure I've got left, but the S:N here is still better than a lot of other places.
Here you go: http://archive.is/GcbOK
It's maybe just not cool to be a true engineer and true engineered products. It's more cool to participate in a startup and build crappy software.
Where did this "editing a copy makes it transformative" meme come from? Legally, transformative means "created a substantially new work" not "mechanically applied a style change that preserves all of the original content and its original value"
Sure, there are some who bootstrap. But the vast majority do not.
Yeah. I have always been amazed by the Haskell crowd's dislike of macros. Proper macro systems are incredibly useful, even in a language like Haskell.
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MailChimp has a nice website. What I don't like about them is that they are in the business of spam email.
I don't think their recommendation engine is working any less well; they've just made a higher-level strategic change in what it's trying to recommend.

Netflix used to want to give people the "perfect movie for them", expecting that eventually they would run out of perfect movies, and move onto just "pretty well-fit movies", and then run out of those too, and probably unsubscribe at that point.

Nowadays, Netflix seem to want to keep people subscribing by making them feel like they have a chance of finding the "perfect movie for them", but only after Netflix has recommended a bunch of those "pretty well-fit" and even some "not-so-well-fit" movies. This is "better" (from Netflix's perspective) for two reasons:

1. it gives people the impression that Netflix's library still has plenty of "perfect" movies to offer them (by stretching them out);

2. it gives variable-scheduled rewards, rather than constant rewards, making people more addicted.

I'm betting the new algorithm works much better at keeping people subscribed, despite seeming to work worse. Netflix is a very data-driven company, and wouldn't have switched to an algorithm that could be observed to hurt.
"Real journlaists do it for the love of their art."
#Malware researcher have dismantled the #EITest Network composed of 52,000
What do you think social networks need block-chain for?
I would definitely say that about vision, not so much dental. I don't think most people realize how linked dental health is to physical health and wellbeing...plenty of studies on ties of poor dental hygiene and cardiovascular disease.

If anything I'd advocate to require health insurance companies to bundle adult dental care instead of it being a separate insurance product.
In high school I read a book or two a week, but I avoided english lit classes like the plague.
We've reworded it.
Long lasting nuclear waste products could survive for a few million years that may have no natural occurrences.
One of my favorite sci fi stories posited that the civilization was centered on the land that is currently Antarctica and the disaster that destroyed it shifted the earth, moving that continent to the South Pole. Prior to the event, it was a lush South American style landscape.

Maybe we are just looking in the wrong place for our evidence. ;)
It primarily makes sense as a benefit to employees because they don't generally get taxed on it. But because it's much closer to pre-paying than actual insurance I'm guessing it doesn't usually make sense for individuals to buy it.

ADDED: Interesting. It doesn't seem to be that expensive for an individual to purchase. (Maybe $400 or so.) I guess the theory is that most people just end up getting a cleaning or two and caps on policies reduce the amount you can get paid back.
Then stop asking, and start telling maybe? By that I mean state your opinion, not tell people what to do; and then organize with those you can organize with.

How many people did it take to end segregation? Certainly it didn't just "happen when most people said, when asked, that it should end".

I think there's a reason there is so little positive social change these days, it seems like everybody (I don't exclude myself, far from it) expects some else to make it so they can just buy it, vote for it, sign up for an account or run a local copy. We, each of us, need to actually make our society together. Not just talk about what "happens" to it endlessly. It's hard. It's also worth it.
Something odd about the word "gotten" in the context of student literacy? Or is it just me?

I see the headline here has since been edited to remove that word.

Perhaps this is some clever "English as she is wrote" kind of joke that flew over my head??
"millionaire" is hardly successful for YC, any of those people and more would have been millionaires if they joined an established big company. $10millionaires would be interesting credit for YC (and maybe some of them are). And Reddit's impact on society as a top 10 consumer website is undeniable regardless of financials.
None of which has any bearing on whether dental insurance is worthwhile vs paying out of pocket.
The TV show is even better. So highly recommended.
I'm not sure I'd call it "failed commercially at solving booking". Google stopped their work on creating a booking system after the acquisition since they were never interested in getting into booking.
It's not about power at all, it's about scale. Some problems can only be effectively addressed at the global level, like biological weapons or environmental pollution. Anything that can cross a border without a way to stop it.
> up to the task of writing a five paragraph essay without major stress

I'm in my late 30s and I wouldn't compose a "five paragraph essay" if my life depended on it.

Yet still (at least in my time) we were not taught what I call basic writing skills:

* how to write or respond to a friend/family/boss letter.

* how to structure sentences so they easily express what you mean.

* how to format text so it's easy to read.

I write and read lots of emails nowadays and it's quite "amazing" that people fall into two categories: they either use 100 words to express basic ideas or they do the opposite, write 3 words sentences that need 3 follow-up emails to get right.

And don't get me started on text formatting... People can't seem to express ideas without bold, colors, custom bulleted lists and emoji.
And so you prove my point yet even a step removed - to even mention that mentioning that a collective narrowmindedness might exist incurs criticism, is not permitted.
> I’ve often heard veterans wish for a draft, for something that would drag more Americans into orbit around the dark star that is the country’s constant exercise of military power.

Just when I think I cannot support our stupid wars and troops less, something like this comes along and does the job. I'd rather break my own leg or spend years in the hell that is American prison than take up arms for what America has seen fit to go to war to in every conflict since WWII. Maybe if we didn't have this seemingly never-ending record of fighting wars for idiotic reasons, losing almost every single one, our soldiers' and public's morale wouldn't be so low. What else can one possibly expect when fighting wars that aren't meant to end, against enemies that have never harmed us, for no fucking reason anyone can possibly explain or comprehend? To be fair, the American people have not even had a choice of a candidate that didn't support such wars from either party at least since 9/11 and for the most part even before then. The troops finally realizing how idiotic and purposeless conflicts like the one in Iraq are could be a great thing for America. If enough of them speak out or even refuse to serve, maybe we won't be involved in such crimes against humanity. But let's face it, the politicians who don't have to go to war or send their children to war seemingly will never get the message. Possibly the only thing that might change their minds is seeing their own children bleeding out in the middle of a highway and coming back in coffins. I guess this is what happens when we have a military like the US has and no actual enemies. In the meantime, actual enemies rising are generally ignored, and by the current administration even encouraged to become more powerful. At this point, I'm quite certain the idea of "winning" any of the conflicts we're currently in or will be in the near future is mere fantasy and quite delusional. So is the idea that a draft will ever be supported or come back successfully. The internet exists so at this point, I can't imagine anyone but the poorest, the dumbest, and the most violent can even twist their minds enough to not be disgusted enough by our past actions to support any war the US is or might be in. That's probably why we're enlisting klansmen and other similar lowlifes--no one else is insane or stupid enough to enroll of their own free will.
The author argues that explicit unwrap() is good because it forces you to realize the value may be empty and think "Oh crap, I better handle that too." But the docs you linked say that "most usage of a mutex will simply unwrap these results" and not try to handle the case.

So it seems like the explicit unwrap() here is not preventing any bugs, it's just adding noise. Wouldn't automatic unwrap be better, at least in this case?
You might be able to delve into the history of its development for a specific answer, but I suspect it boils down to a decision needed to be made trading off it's size in bytes (8), it's range, and it's resolution. The SQL92 spec mentions fractional seconds but doesn't specify a precision AFAICS. At the time when it was implemented (and even now) microsecond is adequate for many needs.
> They're communist in name, but extremely capitalist in practice.

Which is orthogonal to individualist.

State power serves individuals largely to the extent that influence is well-distributed over a population (and that population cares enough to be attentive and thoughtful).

Markets serve individuals largely to the extent that purchasing power and a reasonable level of information symmetry are well-distributed over a population (and mostly for areas in which incentives are well-aligned).
Ask HN: Ideas for a Tropical Hacker Island?
I'm looking for ideas / brainstorm around creative uses for an actual 100 acre tropical island.

Volcanic rock, 3 beaches, jungle. 100" of rain a year; no history of hurricanes; very remote; undeveloped.

Ideas include retreat space and annual festival. Hacker space; treehouse village; medicine work; yoga; adventure retreats; rock climbing; water sports; etc.

I'd like to use the space to create a space for adventure, healing, insight and invention.

I've considered doing something where folks can control a virtual share of the Island and vote on design and uses and get access.

Hoping to get discussion on ideas and insight that would excite you. (More brainstorm vs. feasibility critique).

If you'd prefer to email me: a@175g.com

I'm committed to contributing the space and seeing what we can build on it.
W3C's DOM 4.1 Spec Roadblocked by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla
> traditionally, seats can't be resold effectively once purchased

That's not tradition, that's self imposed to make yield management work. If you could just buy a ticket at its cheapest and sell whenever you want then yield management would collapse.
Source?

Literally the only Google results for a search regarding Authentic and the Moto X1 is this thread and your comment.