skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the theory with this is many foreign countries don't do sufficient checks.

Based on travelling in south America, south East Asia etc, this is sometimes correct.
Many of the services USCIS runs are dependent on the local American Consulate. It is relatively cheap when you compare it to what a lawyer would charge for similar services. Most of the support staff could be better paid working in the private sector.
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Market cap != economic driver.
For me, the paid work day was 8 hours in a Slack chat asking a lot of questions of 1-2 employees. My task was to get familiar with their existing systems by querying these employees. I was asked to prepare a report about what I found.

The guys seemed busy so for a lot of the day I was on my own, waiting for more information.

It was intense, but by the end of the day I had a pretty good sense of the internals. I think it was a good test overall.
It was a montage of real experiences I've had (at various companies over the years). (Nearly) every company tends to come up with its own unique form wackiness (or tell-tale indications of blasé indifference as to what the candidate is actually experiencing) to inject into the process, I find.
You are right, I misinterpreted your comment.
https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2013/ccc-breaks-apple-touchid

http://www.heise.de/video/artikel/iPhone-5s-Touch-ID-hack-in...
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It may be an unpopular opinion to express, but these "horror stories of TSA incompetence" are somewhat entertaining to those who cannot afford to fly. It's like that "Cops" TV show, on location in the airports of America, with the men and women of law enforcement - the TSA in this case.

Your having LEOs violate your rights and go thru your belongings - for someone thinking your box is a bomb - is no different than a cop stopping a driver for thinking the driver's Coke can is a Budweiser and searching their car.
How about paying better salaries so the state doesn't have to do that much?

Seems the companies want to have it both ways. Not pay much and have the state provide assistance for underpaid workers (see Walmart) and then complain about taxes too high.
What settings are you using for x264?
You can be forced to do lots of things by law enforcement, like give up your password which is something other than your fingerprint.
> Wait. There's a smaller government party?

No, there's a "smaller government" party. The quotes are important, as the reference is to a rhetorical position rather than a substantive one.
It's not like "Ford or Chevy?"

It's more like "Toyota or Mercedes-Benz?"

Even that doesn't quite capture it. Apple will defend a position at the high end of the market, even though they might give some ground in profit margins. They will do that by controlling the hardware and software, by vertical integration in CPU design, and by getting the best, newest technologies in the supply chain by locking up exclusivity. Samsung will try to chip away at this at the high end, but Samsung doesn't get how Apple attracts and keeps customers.

On the other hand, both the current dominance and the future potential for Android is understated by the article. Android is already above 75% share in handsets alone. Android N previews desktop features like resizeable windows. Android will be the basis of the vast majority of embedded screen-based UIs. Google's IoT OS is essentially a headless Android. And if Google can get tablets right, Android will become the dominant desktop productivity OS, too. Android will be in a class by itself, the way Windows used to for about 25 years, and the dominance will probably be as long-lasting.
Great, thanks! Can they generate press releases and statistics about average and peak wait times per airport? Maybe their penetration isn't hitting a critical mass. I'd love to see a live dashboard that shows "X number of people have been standing in line for Y minutes in city Z", or "the worst lines in the US airport system right now are A, B, and C". Reporters could then just show that display to the TSA press shill and call them out on their bad data in real time.
So you're arguing for consulting companies?
Sadly, both of you are quite wrong. ANC can easily cancel wideband sudden sounds. It may have problems at very high frequencies due to frame sizes and required group delay precision. Computing FFT or even more complex transforms with very low latency is possible, as is combining time domain and frequency domain processing.
You cannot do analogue ANC at high frequencies, as the internal reflections in the headphone/ear system ruin it, while a digital system can measure these and respond well enough while not damaging the sound.
Plus it is very hard to represent psychoacoustics without digital processing and those help preserve sound quality immensely.
The sweat and tears of building a landing page builder
There would be much less need for social benefits if the pay had kept up with growth. There is a whole generation of perpetual interns (Praktikant) because companies don't hire full-timers.
That's probably worth an issue?
Sharing with you how much time and resources is needed to build a decent landing page builder. #toughjourney #loveit
Google XRay: A Function Call Tracing System [pdf]
A criminal conviction could lead to a fine.
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Do you think it's reasonable to imprison someone for life if they don't tell you where they hid your car?

And holding a person is already a separate charge - kidnapping and unlawful imprisonment.
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Contempt is appealable, so it's not as if a single judge could ever detain someone indefinitely.
TFA covers this:

> During the trials when one dolphin opened the canister unaided, one or more of the other dolphins was present nearby, watching the task. On these occasions, there was no increase in chatter.
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The worst color change I recall seeing on a laptop was the background color Google used to use to identify ads (a pale yellow as I recall). On cheaper laptop screens even the slightest tilt would make it white, making the ads indistinguishable from real results.

If you have something like the Nvidia Linux control panel for adjusting colors, lowering the white level and raising the black level can help compensate a bit. The open source Media Player Classic (or MPC-HC maybe) player also has a nice shader to correct for the vertical variation, but I don't know of any way to apply it to the whole OS.
> EDIT: Current opinion: still skeptical. Here is the public cryptographic "proof": http://www.drcraigwright.net/jean-paul-sartre-signing-signif...

A little off-topic, but suppressing right-clicks (and trying to suppress Ctrl/Alt/Shift?) is a really obnoxious thing for a website to do.

document.onmousedown=disableclick;
status="Sorry, not sharing images!";
function disableclick(event)
{
if(event.button==2)
{
alert(status);
return false;
}
}
function detectspecialkeys(e){
var evtobj=window.event? event : e
if (evtobj.altKey || evtobj.ctrlKey || evtobj.shiftKey)
alert("The key is not available.");
}
document.onkeypress=detectspecialkeys
Great tip! I'll try that. ;-)
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Well, clearly the contestants were at the far end of the weight spectrum to begin with, but regaining weight after an intensive, successful weight loss programme isn't rare, even for people who were only mildly to moderately overweight. That suggests that their problems aren't unique to their particular metabolisms, just more extreme.

Also, their pre-competition metabolic rate was normal for their size, and after their weight loss it cratered, and never properly recovered. Even if they had pre-existing physical or psychological abnormalities that contributed to their heaviness, this is a clear, objective measurement that started normal and has become different, simply through losing weight.
I lost weight through prescription diet pills first. These helped maintain my energy and I didn't experience the effects you describe during this phase. (Lost about 60 lbs, gained 10 back.)

After that, I went on Weight Watchers and lost some more. (Lost about 20 lbs, gained 10 back so far.) This time, I did experience what you seem to be. I ended up reading a lot and deciding that carbs were the culprit. A combination of caffeine (which I previously avoided) and a lower-carb diet have help even out my blood sugar and keep me able to focus at work, and even sometimes get some programming done in the evening.

By "low carb", my wife and I look at the carb-to-fiber ratio and look for something 10-to-1 or lower, heavily favoring things that are 5-to-1. It cuts out a lot of things like white bread and a lot of snack foods, but I've found plenty that I enjoy on the 'ok' list and I feel better and more satisfied.

My 10 lb gain since stopping WW has been very slow, but it's still happening and I'm reconsidering Weight Watchers again. It seems to be the easiest, most accurate way I've found so far to track what you're eating and know when you're going wrong. Their new plan seems to shun sugars and reward protein, which is great for me, so I'm expecting to like it... And actually not change my diet much, but just how much I eat of it.

In short, I addressed it by watching my carbs.
I get that it's a compiler backend for the GPU of the Raspi, but what does that mean? I mean, can you compile arbitrary C code to run on the GPU? Is this for making a GPU firmware? Divers? games? Bitcoin miners?
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Turkish journalists accuse Erdoğan of media witch-hunt
> It was the grassroots conservative reaction to the GWB administration's "progressive" Republican administration that leads you to even think of the modern GOP as the 'smaller government' party in the first place.

The GOP (including the both of W.'s campaigns, and his administration) has been beating the "smaller government" drum for decades (pretty consistently since at least Reagan's first campaign). Its not exactly a new rhetorical position (substantively, like the Democrats -- though virtually a mirror image on the specific programs -- there are areas of government that, in practice, they work to expand and areas that the seek to shrink.)
What Is Apache Beam and How Is It Used?
Hey Gys, from our experience Maître benefits Kickstarter campaigns when they are over. The reason is very simple: usually after a campaign is over all the hype goes away. How can you capitalise from the small community you have created and get the next 1, 2, 5K customers.

Here's where Maître comes really handy.You know that your backers like your product (they backed it!). You can do a competition using Maître whereby the people who invite most people get a reward (eg: a free product or whatever).

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Yep, sorry for that. We are fixing it :)
It's a bug that we need to fix. I've seen similar things in other threads, but it doesn't come up that often. If anyone has ideas about what's going on here, emailing them to hn@ycombinator.com might help speed up the fixing process. (The core HN programmers have a... somewhat fraught relationship with CSS.)
Don't the cops already have her fingerprints? This is partly why biometric authentication is useless. You're supposed to change passwords frequently. How do you change your fingerprints? Who chooses a password the cops already know, and anyone else who knows you has access to?
not if they charged it? wouldnt it last forever?
How to #stopTrump with A/B testing
A Guide to Bayesian Statistics
What's Wrong with Open-Data Sites –and How We Can Fix Them
Useless comment. Everyone needs to pay rent.

If you don't want to pay for this, then just use libvpx.

In any case, it's good to see another entry in the one-horse race of VP(9) encoders.
While I'd never argue its a "good" thing to have a slower pipeline, in the past when I had pipelines with timing similar to this companies, it didn't have extreme negative impacts on the success of the pipeline.

I don't know why that was, but my suspicion was that our highest qualified leads were those coming from candidates that were "happy enough" at their current positions to not be frantically searching.

As long as we seemed like a good place to work, and we did a good job of communicating why back logs were happening, we didn't lose many of the candidates we were most excited about.
True enough, but those are just more extreme cases of a trend we see pretty widely.
This is why I can't support high speed rail enough. You get from downtown nyc to Washington dc without having your human rights violated. And its faster too.
https://goswift.ly/

My friend wrote it. Includes other modes of transportation like buses and scooter-shares.
No fast lane, no special categories, just eveyone lined up including those in private jets. If the powerful had to stand in line with the plebes then the TSA would be history before the end of the month.

Nope.

My congressmen and senators go through the line twice a week, and yours probably do, too. Billionaires can influence them more than you or I but personal experience beats any outside persuasion.

TSA owns them. If anything ever goes wrong, TSA gets to blame them. If they've played along on every vote, TSA instead defends them from responsibility. That's everything to a congressman.
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