skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you misunderstand the way this works. The TSA can have 2 employees instead of 12 and they still get the same amount of funding because people can't stop travelling like a coffee drinker can go to a competitor.
omg, that's amazing! So using this tonight!
I don't have much knowledge here, but I always thought one of the main reasons to go public because you want to raise money to either expand or you are strapped for money. If anything I would be suspect of companies who are extremely profitable and doesn't need to raise money at all but going public.
Probably that prison and probation are not rehabilitation. Rehabilitation is not part of the criminal justice system in the US. Punishment does not, by itself, rehabilitate successfully.
I have two dozen friends on Snapchat, which I'm guessing is below average. Most of them are mutuals, the ones who aren't are internet famous. Most are friends I've made online in other communities, but a few are people I've known for longer in real life. Ages range from 16 to 26. All of them were added by hand, I never uploaded my contacts to the server for contact matching. Half of them are also in my phone address book with numbers.

I mostly:

- (text) chat

- receive selfies, cat pics, random day-in-the-life stuff

- send selfies, cat pics, random day-in-the-life stuff

- occasionally screenshot a snap, the other person immediately gets notified

- view people's stories (i.e. a public snap)

- sometimes directly reply to a specific story (they see the story in question)

The 'Discover/LIVE' section, for sponsored content, I basically never use, so I can't comment on it. Once, I clicked the LIVE for Formula 1 in Dubai, and it was a compilation of short videos and snaps from other users at the Grand Prix, which was cool.

I like that several UI/UX decisions are geared towards positive reinforcement:

- everything is private, friends-only, recipient-only, ephemeral by default

- each recipient has to be selected manually, so you if you get a snap you know they specifically selected you

- you can see who viewed your story

- you can't see who views other people's stories, so you won't compare yourself with popular people like on Instagram

- you get symbols next to your friends' names that show how frequently you interact (https://support.snapchat.com/a/friend-emojis)
It's not even about whether the rules make sense.

The security procedures aren't' about logic they are more like a set of rituals that we have developed: kind of a collective superstition.

Ask most people on the street if we could just scale security procedures back to 1970s levels and they will feel uncomfortable and probably tell you that the security is needed today.[1]

Ironically, because the ritual is a difficult trial, it may increase our belief in its protective power.

[1] Similar to how they may feel uncomfortable letting kids play on the street even though stranger child abduction has been declining for decades.
i had a fruitless discussion, when we found a water bottle in my bag, he said he knew, exasperated, and it's the rules and whatnot, but I so wish he said "Look Son, I don't know it's water, so I'm asking you to dispose of it". It's like even the staff know how stupid the theatre is.
It isn't about whether the underlying ui is different or not. Of course it is.

It is about whether the source application code can be the same. Today it isn't. But why not create a set of source compatible components that render to Android, iOS, and HTML?

I've seen projects approach this and I think it is a good idea. You get the typical lowest-common-denominator problem but if you have a decent way to mix in platform-specific elements where required, what is the downside?
...lol!

Now really, how many places online can you go to get a humorous ESOS reference? Thanks HN :)
"There are no Black/African-American GitHubbers in management positions, which is unacceptable."

Why is it unacceptable? Just by virtue of the number of different kinds of people -- race, gender, etc there's no way to have 'one of each' for every position for maximum diversity. This sort of thing is so creepy because it treats people like collectible figures ("Oh yeah? Well I added a black transgendered person to our team today! I have way more diversity points than you!") instead of actual people you judge on their merits. How is a white person supposed to feel about applying to Github management position after reading "Its unacceptable we don't have a black manager"?

I'm not white and I don't want to be treated as some statistic you can show off on your diversity report card. Thats really demeaning and insulting.
I'm consistently amazed by his blog. Wolfram's posts are always so huge and so detailed. I'm a decent writer (or so I thought), but it would take me weeks to write that post, even if I understood all the math, which I don't. It's insane how prolific he is.
Agreed, this is a great way to think about it. I think Ansible is at its best when the modules handle the imperative stuff behind the scenes, and the playbook just declares. That's not always possible, but the modules are getting better and better.

FWIW I also found YAML to be very confusing syntactically at first; things got easier once I realized that it's basically 1-to-1 with JSON, and could convert to JSON to get intuition for the file structure (simple yaml2json script here: http://pastebin.com/TpjZLnLa). Thumbing through the book Ansible Up and Running also helped.

In the long run, putting a declarative idempotent layer atop the same old mutable infra is tough but a necessary compromise right now. It'll be great if the immutable-first tools of today (nixos et al) mature and we can leave this behind.
Falsifiability and Unit Testing
>so the worst thing someone could do is blow up a plane, and if all you want to do is blow up a hundred people or so, you don't need to be on a plane to do it.

There is a reason we had security on airplanes before 9/11. We aren't willing to accept this risk.

Plus airplanes are a carnage and terror multiplier. A bomb that could take down a plane would do less damage on the ground. And people are irrationally fearful of flying. One 737 blown up every 3 months would still make flying less risky than driving, but it would send the airline industry into a tailspin and TSA would come back stronger than ever.
All this effort to create a single page app that likely doesn't need to be a single page app in the first place.

If you're jumping through hoops to build an app that looks and feels like a traditional web site, you're doing it wrong.
3D Animatics for Movies in Just 60 Minutes
I'm a big fan of the Mithril MVC framework, it does some pretty smart autoredrawing [0] while still allowing you manual control of when things are drawn if needed [1]

[0]: http://mithril.js.org/auto-redrawing.html

[1]: http://mithril.js.org/mithril.redraw.html
I've never seen Grubers blog until today... Does he only mention the sponsor at the beginning and end of each week?

I don't see any other occurrence of the sponsors name.
I'm not suggesting an audit of the TSA, since the TSA does nothing useful. I'm suggesting an audit of the likely threats, likely solutions, costs, etc. I.E. the thinking that led to reinforcing cockpit doors. The TSA doesn't enter into this, since they are much MUCH worse than flipping a coin.
I get an "Invalid Attack Plan" error when trying this out :(
Ithaca is also a college town (Cornell) so it's not quite a fair comparison to most rural areas.
I don't think it's fair to call his comment uninformed based on that link.

From your gist:

For ease of use, we are including the React, ReactDOM and Babel CDN
builds to make getting started as fast as possible.

In production, you'll want to instead look at using something
like Gulp, Grunt or WebPack (my personal recommendation)
to compile JSX into JavaScript. Also, check out:
http://facebook.github.io/react/docs/tooling-integration.html

He did specify "production-ready", after all.
Adaptive cruise control is also not 'Regular cruise control'.
This reminds me of HTTP/0.9. Is there anything other than embedded that even uses it these days?
In the Compiler Design class I took 20 years ago, we used the dragon book, which I found to be pretty accessible for someone who already knows how to program (at least in an academic setting). The only production (non-educational) compiler we had easily available source code for was gcc, which is not something appropriate for a beginner to learn compiler design and structure from.
I love and hate Ansible. It has simplified so many things for me, but also had some annoying bugs and regressions. Somehow I've lost trust in the codebase. Also performance is a showstopper. I need a tool to develop, I just can't wait > 10 min for an iteration. I usually end up modifying my server's config files manually and then build the Ansible templates.

Unfortunately I'm not aware of a better alternative.
I see this a bit differently. Imagine getting to build $119M in value for yourself without needing to worry about profitability, by leveraging other people's money. Expressed that way, it sounds like a pretty good opportunity.
Conjoined triangles of opportunity.
It might be the same reason, but that isn't a good reason. The sex offender registry is a product of some politicians pandering to a maternal instinct. It's not grounded in evidence or ethics, and it's not effective.
Did you forget renew a domain name? The demo link in your post's opening paragraph is now leading to some kind of Japanese Bra company.
No, and that's a fair point, these are only the questions that come to my mind when reading this, certainly not "something that happened".

By all intents, though, Bollea is (at least to his own words) "near bankruptcy", due to divorce. So it seems odd that he'd also - after being awarded a large sum - which is all he'd sought before - _then_ decide to drop the claim which offered him his only real chance at seeing any noticeable part of that award.

Certainly there is more to life than money, though, as you point out, moral codes and honor.

I also am curious as to whether he would have gotten the award he did if the jury felt that it would bankrupt Gawker, rather than cause an insurance liability payout - that seems a little bit unusual.

This is an admittedly contrived example, so bear with me - there are some analogies, and some discrepancies, and this is the best I can do:

I am driving negligently. Setting aside any criminal charges that may cause me to face, I come careening through and have an "accident". Subsequent to that, your property is destroyed, perhaps as part of a chain reaction, me coming through the fence. Perhaps as a result, you're injured. You lose your livelihood, you lose your house.

You sue me, for damages related around this whole messy incident. Medical costs. Lost livelihood. The loss on your house when foreclosed, damages etc.

The jury says hey, you're absolutely right, he was negligent and we're going to award (say) $2M in damages.

Here I am, I'm a careless and reckless driver. But I do have good insurance. It has a whole bunch of third party, property, and liability coverage. So it sucks for everyone, but you have the ability to be "made whole" (as far as is reasonably possible). I on the other hand am out of business. The vehicle I drove was my truck I used for my own business. My fault, consequences of my actions, etc, etc. I'm probably done for.

Then you decide, at the last minute of the court case, to drop any claim of damages explicitly about the accident. "Nope, we don't want to pursue the damages claim directly related to the accident itself. We are still going to pursue all claims related to any of the fallout, the loss of house, livelihood, but the accident itself, we're waiving that".

This has the curious effect of 1) meaning my insurance company says "Well, sorry, pal, we no longer have an interest. You're not being sued over damages due to your accident, you're on your own", and 2) which you realized, also realistically means you have near zero chance of collecting any of the moneys awarded, because this is putting me out of business.

I would certainly be asking questions of you there, were I the judge: are you aware of the consequences of this decision? what motivated the change, certainly at this point in proceedings, and I'd be asking the jury how that would affect the award, because in most cases there is going to be -some- (not the only) element of the likelihood of payment of the award.
Potentially. Far as successors, look up crash-safe.org and Cambrige's CHERI processors. Those are cutting-edge successors to tagged (i.e Burroughs) and capability (i.e. i960, Sys38). Draper is adding SAFE's PUMP to a RISC-V corr they plan to open-source and turn into an ecosystem. CHERI is OSS plus already runs a FreeBSD port called CHERIBSD. That CHERI supports legacy, C software and runs BSD means it's ahead.

I considered porting EROS capability system, GenodeOS, or Muen to CHERI. Plus cutting it down from 256-bit to 128-bit pointers as the extra bits are just there for experimentation.
AWS Summit Mexico 2016 – Expectations
Think Global to Go Global
I think most people agree here that the TSA should be ended altogether and we should return to metal detectors if anything.

How do the american people make this a reality? What steps can be taken to motivate our political leaders to support such a change?

As of right now, it seems like political suicide for anyone to politically support such a thing, as they would surely be painted as a terrorist sympathizer or some such.
Thats 12% of > $1B. Those "vulture capitalists" have invested >$230M into Twilio at various valuations to help it grow.
NY Times Uncovers Fannie Freddie White House Scandal
I don't know if it would be possible, but if you could add referer tracking as well... somehow... For example a link I clicked from hacker news is almost certainly distracting.
IDL operations are not particularly slow. Last I measured, a call from JS into C++ is between 10 and 40 CPU instructions of fixed overhead depending on the exact thing being called (method vs getter vs setter; they have slightly different costs) and the browser involved. At least once you get into the top JIT tier; baseline jit and interpreter can involve more overhead, obviously.

There's additional cost for dealing with the call arguments, too; this varies widely by type of argument (e.g. an options object is clearly more expensive to deal with than a boolean, or even than a list of arguments containing the same information as the options object) and somewhat less widely by browsers.
I largely agree.

> Now that men and women are much more apt to work independently – each working both in and out of the home – there is little need to solidify a legal partnership to protect the partner not collecting the income.

This is often why (anecdotally speaking) I've seen many engagements occur when someone has an opportunity (job,grad school, etc.) outside of the present city they live in. One half of the couple is taking a professional risk (or even, outright sacrifice) by moving to stay with that person.
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=...

Yikes.
Go consult your linguist about that guilty feeling, you'll feel better afterwards :-)
shit! I'll figure it out real quick. What plan did you choose?
Global population has grown by about that as well. Don't you think it's possible that air travel would have increased even more, without the impediments that have been placed on it due in part to ObL's actions?
You kind of get a chicken and egg problem here. If you don't sufficiently understand something, how can you hope to identify situations in which you could apply it?

I think the more pragmatic approach is to sample from a lot of different topics. The more I read CS papers on random topics, the more I find opportunities to improve my day-to-day work by applying them. There's no way to get this payoff without expending some effort, unfortunately. Requiring that the payout be obvious before the work is put in is, IMO liable to lead to not learning and improving as fast as you otherwise could.
If you want to put together an Ikea chair, everything is in the box and the instructions are two pages long. If you want to put together a chair from scratch then you need the wood, hammers, nails, saws, a lathe, sandpaper (in multiple levels of coarseness), glue and a number of other tools. React is a lathe in this example, it's hard to put it in context without the rest of the tools but that doesn't make it complex.
I also got frustrated by the setup time for a simple react app, so I make a starter repo that I just clone for all my new projects. It's made to be as simple, light, and understandable as possible while still being useful. Check it out and let me know if you have any questions! https://github.com/hammeiam/react-webpack-starter
Twilio is ranked #224 [1] in the Paysa [2] CompanyRank that ranks companies based on the quality of talent the company is hiring/retaining.

[1] https://www.paysa.com/company-rank#!companies=Twilio%2C+Inc....

[2]https://www.paysa.com/
What an awful clickbait title.
Being an independent project is presumably going to have less dev resources than Facebook, as a non-official IDE they're also going to have a smaller ecosystem and not having direct access or influence with the core React Native development team is a disadvantage for Facebook tooling developers who would.

Whilst it's not impossible to compete with official tooling, they'll always be faced with a distinct disadvantage where they'd need to deliver a lot of added value in order to attract relevant mindshare.
Look up Synflow C flow or whatever it's called. It's a high-level synthesis tool that's closer to C and open-source.
At no point have I said that Thiel acted unethically, either. I think it's natural, and valid, to ask questions, or discuss why someone might act in a way that on the surface appears deleterious to their own interests, particularly when there is someone behind the curtains who does have a different, or tangential interest.
It's that the points mentioned are the same old familiar points, and the arguments against them are also the same old familiar ones.

For example, the article says "men have more privilege than women", based on the criteria provided, which are

> 1. Who don’t have families to take care of (kids, parents, whatever)

> 2. who have a good, steady income (i.e. not learning while, say, balancing two part-time jobs)

> 3. who live close to work (minimizing a commute)

And yes, women are more likely to have people to take care of. However, there are also reasons to say women are more privileged than men in this context. For example,

4. Are in college, as a lot of open source contributors are college students.

Women are a lot more likely to get into college than men.

5. Are not in jail or prison.

Women are far less likely to be in those situations.

In other words, it is horribly simplistic to say "men have more privilege than women" in this context. It's just lazy regurgitating of the familiar talking points. It's not helpful.

Yes, it's worth mentioning some people have an easier way into open source. But no, it's a bad idea to turn this into an oversimplified and false matter of "men > women".
Holy crap. This is the best $0.89 I've ever spent. I'd like to nominate GoatAttack.com as an IPO candidate. Are you listening, Goldman?
Right, but my point is that there are a lot of lawbreakers who will not be punished at all because they were not "not nice" to a billionaire.

I guess I'm in favor of "all companies breaking the law should be punished" versus "billionaires should selectively bankroll cases against companies that broke the law if that company isnt nice to them". I think people aren't seeing the bigger picture here.
I haven't mastered rebasing yet (nor interactively) but I've started feature branching off master, committing (and more if needed), then checking out master and `git merge --squash feature/<branch>` to squash the commits. Seems alright, so far.
I wonder if they tried using any sort of infrared vision at night to locate her?
You're looking at it wrong. Twilio _could_ be profitable with 28M users, easily, but they'd rather not be profitable and spend more money on expansion.
Even simpler: Completely separate the cockpit from the passenger cabin.

Without the possibility to use the hijacked plane to take hostages to a friendly destination, or to use the plane as a missle, it's no more attractive as a target than any other public space.
> The subjective experience is merely an identity based on cultural stereotypes of "man-ness" and "woman-ness".

No, it runs much deeper than that. Gender roles are cross-cultural, and fundamentally rooted in the fact that females can get pregnant and males can't. That's why the stereotypes exist, because they are rooted in biological facts. But those facts aren't absolute. Most people who have male genitalia also have certain behavioral predispositions which we associate with "being a man." But not all people with male genitalia have those behavioral predispositions, and for those who don't there is no reason not to treat them according to how they feel rather than what happens to be between their legs. (For starters, if you want to cast your lot with "biological facts" and treat people according to what happens to be between their legs, then you have to deal with the fact that there are natural hermaphrodites.)

> If I decide to wear a fancy hat and call myself King of the World, should I expect everyone to call me that?

Sure, why not?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Norton

> people can be wrong about themselves

They can't be wrong about their own subjective experiences. An individual is the ultimate authority on that by definition.
Android app in 3 days?
How to create easy list app in 3 days?

Thank you,
Martin
Using the word clean was wrong but I can't edit the comment. What I mean is there need to be stories that show how trans people fit into society like everyone else. They could be our brothers, sisters, parents, friends, coworkers. Just like anyone else. However, someone with a story like Chelsea can easily derail the conversation into a story that doesn't promote trans equality.
> Snapchat has a filter that allows users to record their speed of travel, and she wanted to see how fast she could go. So McGee accelerated, then accelerated some more

Really? Snapchat has a feature that is basically designed to get people to use their phone while driving/moving?
Do you remember more examples? I'm curious, because I did something similar years ago and didn't really find much that would have been stopped – other than liquids, which don't count for obvious reasons.

I don't eat in airport restaurants that often, and when I do, it's just a public one, not an exclusive lounge. But I haven't seen a sharp metal knife in the airport for since 2001. I've seen plastic knives and rounded metal butter knives, but those should also be allowed through security.
Yes, I used it for a while to see what kinds of trackers exist on OS X. But I rarely need to know the path or track a specific project. Productivity of sites and chats is more important for me since I want to know stats of my procrastination.
"Also, it's going to be hard to argue that his lawyers bungled things when he won a huge pile of money."

And then made a decision that meant that in all likelihood he will see either none of, or a tiny fraction of that money, when he could have seen nearly all or all of it by virtue of a liability insurance pay out.
This is about as possible as ending the war on drugs was in the 80's. Just because something is reasonable and makes sense doesn't mean it is possible to implement politically. In fact, I'd say an inverse relationship exists between common sense and what's implementable politically in the US. You simply face too much fear and stupidity.