skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When TSA rolled out the precheck program (which is, basically, pre-9/11 screening where you leave everything in your bag, leave shoes on, and go through a metal detector in a usually-short line), they began by inviting people from the upper tiers of frequent-flyer programs into it. I don't exactly know the thinking there, but I'd guess it's that someone who flies that much is unlikely to be a risk due to having gone through their standard screening so many times.

These days, though, they've gotten rid of that and now if you want precheck you have to enroll in it or get it from another trusted-traveler program (Global Entry, in my case).

Some airlines have had a separate lane set up to funnel their status-holders to the front of the normal security lines, too, though that seems hit-or-miss in these days when most of the frequent flyers have precheck in some form or another.
"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible." - Stanisław Jerzy Lec
Routing App Traffic Based on User Location with Docker and Nginx
Right and my point is that more people speak English than Romanian. English is also the de facto standard for international communication.
Show HN: 30 vs. 3000 lines of code for very simple MEAN app
There are a number of fundamental points you fail to comprehend or address in your posting. The article does a much better job in this regard.

The article talks about Peru, so for the moment, let's scope to that. According to the article, Peru's crimes tend not to be violent, yet the vigilantes can be. Some of the cases described appear to show a lack of restraint - consistent with mob mentality. Also, if the mob is wrong? Nobody cares.

Now let's extend this to places that are actually violent. Organised crime run the show. They could easily pay/manipulate these groups to do their dirty work. Anyone who threatens the organisation will have themself and their relatives killed, so the hardened criminals remain protected. Lawlessness still reigns supreme. Now, you may argue that it's difficult to track the orchestrator (which isn't hard). But, if it were, they make a statement by killing people randomly who may have contributed. Organised crime will not tolerate these vigilantes. Violence begets more violence.

What's also missing in your argument is peaceful protest. You assume violence is the only option. Think of Gandhi.

I'm not sure if your comment attacking moralistic people is a dig at political correctness. I support any constructive criticism of political correctness (and there are many valid criticisms), but morality? I'm assuming you've lost something in translation. The world you talk of and are willing to tolerate sounds like the antithesis of my world.
Has anyone ever heard of this site? I count myself pretty well informed on such things but I'd never heard of this place before. Just seems odd considering it's being called the "the largest US-based filesharing service".
A non-pragmatic approach to Optional in Java
Was this written as satire back in 1982? Because it is great when read as satire.

As a real thing written by a real person, not so much.
See: https://github.com/timothycrosley/hug for an interesting (IMHO) use of decorators. Might help expand your understanding
This is a great sarcasm piece that seems timeless.

"Real Programmers can write five-page-long DO loops without getting confused."

"Real Programmers don't need comments -- the code is obvious."

"If you can't do it in FORTRAN, do it in assembly language. If you can't do it in assembly language, it isn't worth doing."

"At a funeral, the Real Programmer is the one saying ``Poor George. And he almost had the sort routine working before the coronary.''
More function calls can also clutter the function, rendering the intent harder to understand. The advantage of the decorator syntax is that it stays out of the main logic of the function, which is useful for "side" concerns (like logging, but also authorization, contracts, etc).
Quacks and scam artists intentionally deceive others, generally by taking advantage of their lack of sophistication/knowledge of a particular subject matter for which they need a product.

The classic example is the "Snake Oil Salesman" who claims to sell elixirs that can cure just about any type of health issue. He is in fact selling worthless junk with no curative properties in order to make a quick buck from a medically unsophisticated crowd.

This 37rentals guy did not take advantage of an old woman with tuberculosis - he arbitraged AVIS' willingly extended offer. This is a company that knows how to run a car rental business, and it would seem that intentionally omitted rental length from the terms and conditions of the offer. What he did was not unethical, nor was it a net negative on "the whole system". He simply transferred value from AVIS to himself in a risk-free manner.

The 2007 financial crisis was fueled by a lot more than "all those people flooding in to the US mortgage industry to help inflate the 2004-2008 housing bubble with dodgy loans."

The underwriters behind the increasing number of subprime loans between 2004-2007 fit the description of Snake Oil Salesmen more accurately, with around 80% knowingly signing off on defective mortgages during 2007. [1] Mortgages, like medicine, can be complex and hard to understand for the average consumer. That is why we have the FDA & SEC to regulate these markets. The SEC failed to regulate the subprime lending market, and it failed to regulate all of the secondary and tertiary derivative markets where bundles of these toxic assets would be sold at leverage to investors who did not do their due diligence. The whole system should have been allowed to fail, and then been restructured under bankruptcy.

It's completely unfair to compare what 37rentals did to what the underwriters and investment bankers did leading up to the financial crisis, but it was fascinating thinking about why they are different...thanks for the food for thought.

[1] http://cybercemetery.unt.edu/archive/fcic/20110310183217/htt...
http://web.mit.edu/humor/Computers/real.programmers

Key word in the url "humor"
Yes. Let's bring back the serifs shall we?

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That looks much better, but most of what I said still applies. Too many pages, info that people actually need is missing or hard to get at. It looks like this is focused on middle/high school though, where that may not apply. For universities a lot of info that students need seems to be missing, but those videos show a teacher's view so maybe it is there but not visible to teachers.

Messages: nobody will use this, everyone uses email or facebook. You cannot win that battle. Replace feature with an email address link.

Calendar: great, make this the homepage and display WAY more info per page.

Assignments: good, but no need for a separate page; should just be accessible via the calendar. More ways of getting at the same info is bad.

Activity stream: should just be in the calendar.

The UI shown there is also still quite bad. Watch the discussions video for example. "You can easily create a discussion right on the course content page" -> click on "courses" -> select the course -> click on (+) circle -> click on "create" -> click on "participation and engagement" -> click on "discussion". Really?

Of course this is another feature that nobody will use. No student is going to participate in a discussion topic opened by a teacher on blackboard. Instead should replace this with a feature where students can post a question (like stackoverflow) and where the teacher and other students can answer. THAT is useful, if students can actually know that somebody will actually read their question and they are not just posting in a place that nobody will ever look at. Therefore it needs prominent placement on the course main page. Not a link to the discussions tab, which has further links to each question, which is a page with the actual question. The actual questions that were asked should be right on the course's main page.
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It won't even modify the stack pointer during the loop.

Here's what happens: Inbetween every loop iteration, for the correct code (stack & heap), the BigObject has its destructor called, then the constructor is called again, zero filling the array.

For the pool, it calls "reset", which does nothing. What should be done is calling the destructor in place, then the constructor in place. Otherwise you're not really doing the same thing as the other allocations.

Object pools are better than heap allocations, but they are never faster than stack allocation (which is virtually free).

TL;DR: The author is cheating, the benchmark is plain wrong.
The general way out for the airlines is that the terms give them the right to unilaterally change the terms at any time, or terminate membership in a program at any time.
Why do networks still refuse to live stream their shows?
Already amused by the comments based only on the title but not on the content:

"Real Commenters don't read the contents".
Did similar profiling with Borland/Turbo C++ a while back. (yes, I am that young. )

When I needed to alloc() 1-100 millions objects, the alloc, delete() api times did increase exponentially. BC++ profiler tracked that down to free list traversal.

Implemented my own version of pool with C++, and the new/delete time dropped down to constant times. Later one, I implemented a version on Linux (both in Kernel and User space + SMP) on faster CPU (1.5GHz) and get that API time down to sub micro-seconds measured with rdtsc.

It makes a huge difference for any code that need to alloc/delete millions+ objects as fast as possible.
One irony is that modern Fortran is quite a nice language to work with. As long as you can just call, and don't actually have to work on, all the '77 numerical libraries that the Real Programmers put together.
How I led 6 R&D groups through an agile transition
What is the difference between predicting and influencing?
FYI the founder of this website has said that downvoting a comment to show disagreement is perfectly fine by him, not just for irrelevant/spammy comments.

Personally I've downvoted you for the tone of your comment not for the fact that you expressed disagreement with people downvoting the parent comment.
I'm sitting on a cache of American Airlines miles equivalent to a business-class round-trip to Sydney on Qantas, in anticipation of visiting Australia sometime in the next couple years.

For a flight that's over 15 hours, you better believe it's worth it.
Blackboard has wicked lock-in, and contracts with the kinds of organizations that just keep paying their support and maintenance contracts for year after year after year. They could sit on their hands for the next half-decade and have a bright future.
I used to live in Peru. Cops are totally useless there, they just don't come in case of emergency, you have to go to the station and pay them for the "gazolina" (gas) they'll be using to get to your place. Most residences there use private security agents, they are much more effective, way less corrupt and when an agent misbehaves, he's reported by the residents and fired. This convinced me that police is something that could be private and not be done by the state. Even here in France, bad cops just keep their jobs, in Peru bad private security agents get fired and replaced and they're always here to help you first as a client.
You fail to comprehend that I was attacking those who moralize about how bad it is for people to take justice into their own hands without having the slightest clue as to how it is to live in a lawless place. Of course I don't oppose morality.
Am I the only one who believes "TL;DR" adds negative value here (in general, not just your contribution) ?
Yes, it's a computing-themed pastiche of "Real Men Don't Eat Quiche".
wow on a side note. I learn to love Github more and more. Had no idea they have STL viewers built into preview panels. Very Cool
“Measure twice–cut once”: The benefits of test-driven development
Sound good! will try it
Very interesting, and I appreciate the inclusion of hardware discussion. I'm looking to compete in the Intel Curie challenge for an invention, but that is just one of my projects dreamt up over the past few years.

Unfortunately, for my most prized invention, I still feel the best avenue is to put my own capital at risk and secure the patent for myself. For all I know, this is the pragmatic path before seeking investment?

I've had a good consultation with a patent attorney specializing in such cases, and his fee appears reasonable, so unless I'm really off track here, I've always thought of that as Step 1...Step 2 being the Business Plan / Margins Caluclations...Step 3 being seeking partnerships / funding, and then Step 4 is getting to market and hopefully growing the business to the point of taking on a more limited role due to expansion requiring more company infrastructure.

Guidance very welcome, and thanks again for posting this for review.
I think it's very wrong to assume that most male murder victims in Mexico were criminals. How about police officers, journalists, activists, random hostages, etc? For example, last September 43 male students were abducted and killed in Iguala after they tried to have a political protest.
Other replies have done a good job describing the actual perks of status, but in terms of "cleaner cells in prison" ...

I'd be happy to go to prison if it meant I got free massages in a spa[1] or chauffeured around in a Porsche[2].

[1] http://travelsort.com/blog/thai-airways-first-class-lounge-a...

[2] http://upgrd.com/regionalfirst/the-best-lounge-in-the-world-...
It's not a very popular language, but people are still starting new projects in flavors of Pascal. Have you seen http://www.lazarus-ide.org/?
What do you know of my "intact" career or finances, pray tell? As far as I know, you don't know me or anything about what I'm doing for a living, or what my finances look like.

Lying by implication is still lying, and _tu quoque_ is no defense. So @PopeOfNope said "careers destroyed", which I agree is overstated in my case if not in Pax's. That does not justify you making stuff up to assert "intact". Since I cannot retire, I'm doing the next thing, and we shall all see how intact I am when it launches.

As for "censure", look it up. All the definitions that do not include the essential adjective "official" have to do with judgment, and unofficial judgments like all opinions vary. Mozilla received more criticism from all sides (and still does) than I did over what happened last spring.

BTW, I came here via subtweets. Feel free to at-name me directly in the future.
The article if anything makes him seem like more of a patsy than a ringleader. He made everyone above and below him who was in contact with him exactly aware of what he was doing. Those above him new exactly what was going on and all they had to say to stop it was 'no'.
An absolute gem of an application that not only does the job but near pefect ux.
Thank you for this. Sharing your knowledge for anyone to enjoy and innovate upon is a great thing you're doing.
> priority access to customer service

I don't think people value this enough, I have really appreciated this in the past. For example, on a MEL to LAX flight, our 787 had mechanical issues and the flight was cancelled. As the 270 passengers lined up in front of the two customer service agents, I had a mere 15 minute wait in the priority line and was able to get booked on another airline.

Not to mention, if you show up to the airport early, they'll re-book you on an earlier flight at no charge (assuming available seats).
Hockey docky!
Scaling uber's real time market platform
Could just be "the media" or perception or whatever, but there seem to be more instances of people deciding that they are qualified to act as moral arbiters to the general society. The Ashley Madison story is a great example, but also there seem to be more instances of minor things like people breaking into cars to "rescue" dogs or babies (and often then discovering that the dog or baby in question is not real, or otherwise not what they thought).

Not sure what to make of it, maybe people think they're Superman, or maybe they think evil and corruption lurk around every corner and somebody has to do something so it may as well be them.

The question always is: what if you're wrong?
-t when running a docker container allocates a pseudo-tty.

Docker is useful for trying out cli interpreters like this, iojs, or any thing else of the sort. I wouldn't want to use docker if I planned on keeping it around to use more than a couple of times though.
If it was the biggest in history he likely wouldn't have been caught.

While the amounts he was trading seem pretty massive, the truth is there are some traders that handle much more money. Never mind the banks themselves, trading firms, governments, etc...

There's no doubt that, if larger actors wanted, they could run much larger scams and not get caught.

Tom Hayes only got caught because he wasn't big enough.
Heat is very hard to manage in space.
Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium
Where did you get that information from? I spent 2 years of my professional life both designing insurance products for many of the major insurance companies, as well as filing for rate increase in almost all 50 states.

What you said it blatantly false. What your talking about is called the Loss Ratio (or LR because actuaries love acronyms). Insurance companies shoot for long term loss ratios of around 0.6 i.e. for every dollar put in, they expect to pay out in the form of benefits 60 cents.

Where are you getting your information from?

Additionally, insurance companies have a lot of rules on how they invest their reserves, so these aren't going into high risk high reward baskets. Insurance companies have tons of overhead, from underwriting, advertisement etc.. which would completely dwarf what they make from interest alone.
It's just a comment quote.

BUT what closed source project doesn't have Root?

Sure you can have encryption on client side BUT once again they have root to the encryption even.

So not really speculation as much as philosophy
Tickets to Disrupt SF 2015
Hi Guys,

I'm not really sure if this is the right platform for this, so pardon my ignorance.

I had bought two tickets to Disrupt SF 2015. But looks like I won't be able to make it.

So I want to sell 'em for a good discount, if there are any takers.

Ticket Details :
General Admission (All-inclusive conference pass for all three days)

Actual Price : $2,999 per ticket

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That's why I think this new generation of transportation will be the first realistic challenge to car ownership. Think about it: virtually instant transportation, available on demand, and you can vary the vehicle based on your needs. Take a small car to Ikea and a truck back home. Take a large car out that evening with a group of friends. Shuttle systems that aggregate passengers (but still make custom stops) will drive the prices down further.

You don't have to drive (leaving you free to do other activities), and you don't have to park / store the vehicle. (Our last hotel charged $65 PER DAY for parking.) Under this new model, parking can quickly become the least productive land use and will start to get much more scarce.

Finally, you likely won't ever own or time-share a self-driving car. They'll be provided by the likes of Google or Uber or Tesla as a utility model.

Will people still drive for the joy of it? Absolutely, but it will become more of a hobby / specialty market, just like private piloting.
Well, there's just three basic options: have the WebDAV server run as root, to allow changing uids. It's probably a bad idea. Have a group that both the server and uid is member of, have that group own the files (better, but breaks down when you need more than one user, unless you have dav-uid1, dav-uid2 ... groups for every uidN, and have the server be member of each -- and even then you're not much better off -- the server can still access all files -- at least uid1 logged in locally won't have access to files owned by dav-uid2 directly). Finally, just run the server as your uid, on an alternate port. That's probably more sane, optionally have a proxy stand in so you can connect over 443.

The state of dav clients is a mess, FWIW last I checked, getting it to work sanely on Linux, either with Gnome, or davfs -- was easy enough. Trying to get it to work reasonably from Windows was hopeless -- I never tried OS X -- I'd hoped that they actually had a usable client.

Either way, if you basically end up just being able to access it reasonably from Linux, you might as well just go with sshfs. For a handful of users, setting up reasonably secure[1], key-based file sharing -- ssh(fs) is hard to beat.

SAMBA/CIFS isn't fit to be used over the Internet, NFSv4/pNFS w/kerberos and encryption might be, but it, along with AFS is complex to set up.

The second easiest thing with some hope of being both secure and not a nightmare to get working for most (after sftp/sshfs) is probably Samba/CIFS over a VPN.

Not sure about the current state of the webdav-server/client stuff for python -- that might be a viable way to get a pair of multiplatform client/server things working. Last I looked the WebDAV part of Zope/Plone worked fine with davfs (sadly the rest of the thing, for editing content etc, needs/needed work).

On paper WebDAV har many things going for it: it works over standard TLS ports, should go through most firewalls, is "trivial" to secure using certificates (not sure about 2fa -- would probably depend on clients having a sane UI/UX for "require certificate and OTP/password" etc).

Does anyone have any experience with actually using something derived from Plan9 9p for sharing files? I've only been able to find broken, abandoned implementations, and no recent how-to's or tutorials.

Again, on paper, it would seem that 9p wrapped in some kind of certificate based protocol (either built from nacl primitives, or simply TLS/SSH) should be a reasonable candidate. A nice combination of not reinventing the wheel, and keeping things as simple as possible (as opposed to, NFSv4, CIFS, AFS).

[1] Ssh breaks down when it comes to revoking keys etc. This is in theory solved by using ssh certificates (which can expire, be revoked etc) -- but AFAIK there aren't any sane cli/ui/management tools yet. In that case managing x509 via AD or some other CA tool is probably easier -- but still ridiculously painful.
On hijinks: Our dorm rooms at college had a master key type system too. You dorm key would only open your room, but the RA, college dean, and other personnel had a master key. In talking with the RA who was a good friend, he let me and a few friends see the master key. I kid you not, the master key was just 1 tooth longer than our's. That's it, just 1 tooth and the locks opened all up. Well, now, with that know-how and access to any paper-clip, we had run of any lock at the college. The only nefarious purpose was to yank the cable hook-ups right before the finale of some dancing show to watch the girls loose their minds. Other than that, it was used for getting into your dorm when you locked yourself out.