skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TSA can get approximate passenger counts and departure times from airlines weeks in advance. They could schedule extra shifts and overtime if they wanted to, and had the budget to pay for it.
Perhaps a better solution to the budget problem would be to increase the security fee during peak travel periods at each airport, sort of like charging a congestion fee to drive on busy roads during rush hour. That would fund the overtime for security personnel, and encourage some travellers at the margins to schedule their flights at less busy times.
The Matrix film came out 1999 iirc.
- Being able to install updates without asking the ISP.

Sibling comment covers this perfectly.

- Fast lanes for their services with ISPs.

I haven't heard of this, it just seems like a good idea from the ISPs side given how big Apple is. Do you have any evidence they've actually forced someone to do this?

- Making illegal deals with book publishers so they get preferential pricing. Same for music.

You mean a pretty standard most-favored-nation clause? The kind that lots of goods are sold with? Or are you talking about getting rid of the right for Apple to undercut the price of the book and force the publishers to eat the loss?

It's not like Amazon had a ridiculous giant horrible stranglehold on the eBook industry right?
I have never had any such issues with HBO Now. Maybe it's more of an ISP peering issue. (That is, if you get Internet access through your cable company, I bet they open the floodgates for HBO Go and not so much for HBO Now)
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Wouldn't our kids benefit from diverse role models?

Potentially, yes.

I vaguely recall seeing something once about the dearth of male teachers in elementary education and the negative impact this has on male students. I have also heard (back when I was involved in the online gifted education community) that a lot of (female) school teachers end up in elementary education due to their lack of competence in math. When they can't hack the math, they got told "Oh, go teach kids!"

Men do not get this same message. I am a mathy woman. I tutored my ex husband in math when he took college classes. He had a serious career in the military where he ultimately retired as a high ranking NCO. No one ever suggested that his bad math abilities meant he should go teach kids.

Furthermore, when men do desire to go into education, everyone looks askance at them, like they are obviously pedophiles.

I ended up homeschooling my sons for many years. I had to put in a lot of effort to undo the damage to my oldest son's self esteem (and his relationship to math, which he hated by the time I pulled him out of school) from the awful baggage he got from public school regarding math. I firmly believe that women who are bad at math get their egos destroyed when they are blithely told "Oh, go teach little kids!" (implied: because you can't hack a real career) and they pass their math neurosis and incompetence on to many of the nation's kids and our entire nation is the worse off for it.
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I guess I need more detail to understand your position on this one. An employee that is working for their own personal benefit and gain only is not going to work well in most team settings and will likely not care to work on projects that move the company forward. I don't think they are saying you need to die for the company, simply that your work should be focused on the goals of the company. It's kind of what you get paid for when you go to work.
In short, checks are more like cash than IOUs. If I give you $100 cash and it turns out to be magic disintegrating paper, we don't revert back to the "I owe you $100" state.
In the general space of computing, what kinds of alternatives to the Xeon Phi are there that want to do their own mini-supercomputer tasks? (very subjective on task definition, but for now let's suppose things that are hard to do on a GPU effectively).

It seems like the Parallella tried to get close, but did not succeed in breaking into the market. (On Amazon, looks to be marketed more for a high powered raspberry pi alternative...)

Which seems to be more useful? The power to compile same code with alternate flags (Xeon Phi style); cross-compile to other arch's (x86 host -> ARM binary); JIT bytecode, LLVM bitcode, or Intermediate-Representation formats?

What kind of access patterns would be most common for a hobbyist or an enterprise to cater to? For example, one issue the Xeon Phi has is memory controller contention, which makes it less optimal for less structured relational analysis.
When requested to code on a language I have not used in a while, I have to go back and code on it for a while before getting back on the "zone" (quickly remembering libraries, usages etc). In comparison, I think I could quickly be ready to go through a code review on any language I ever been proficient.. probably because It does not requires you to remember minutia?
That's your hypothesis. Presumably it will be up to the courts to determine whether the raid on Google's offices was legitimate and necessary, or not.
> If money is the end goal, wouldn't there be a bigger opportunity in pursuing investment strategy ideas (i.e. market inefficiencies), or working on making some process more efficient that could disrupt some industry (i.e. spam/phishing detection, or deep learning) and have better chance of long term gains. I'd think casino strategies once discovered can be mitigated over time so all that hard work will payoff temporarily?

Tbh, I'm pretty sure poker is easier for the individual and investing strategies require the support of an institution willing to stake you 8 figure sums to do so.

The other part is, there is no hiring barrier to winning at poker. Some people are going to be antisocial enough (or come from a background that is disadvantaged) to be unable to gain the kind of access/support that would permit you to play for long term stakes. (i.e. Substantial improvements in spam/phishing detection is a multiyear effort and ultimately an ongoing battle. I'm pretty sure poker is fundamentally quicker than that.)
i tried until i got the right answer without reading anything :)
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Things like the board being a 5-flush and not realizing that it's a push (or pushing instead of winning because they don't realize that they have a card in hand that plays), or the board being two pair that counterfeits your pair, or the board pairing and counterfeiting your kicker. Occasionally flat out missing things like having a straight.
I remember one of my grandmothers had one of those early Microwave ovens that was a giant lead box that ate up the majority of a countertop. Sometimes you see how thin and lightweight Microwave ovens you can find in stores these days are and wonder about how much changes in steel/aluminum, wave beamforming (magnetrons!), and a general sense of mundanity has impacted the size of the device...

Also interesting to think just how much we do with microwave beams these days (particular good old 2.4GHz and 5GHz, our WiFi friends).
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The meaning seemed clear, I think the question is why requiring carrier approval is a good idea? Ignoring security and other such things, it's only a cost for the carriers to update the software and they sell lots of phones so it's their your best interest to delete all software updates to make you buy a new or phone to get the new features.

That's why iPhones get regular updates, the carriers are involved. That's why Google has been moving Android to have most things in a piece of software they can update without actual carrier approval, so the phones don't get stuck in the Stone Age.

Is there a single benefit to the carriers getting to choose if an update should be approved?
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A lack of political will isn't the problem; the problem is the form the political will takes. Usually when towns rely heavily on ticket revenue they're citing people who don't actually live there. These are places that get a lot of commuters moving through, or they're on a highway in the middle of nowhere.

It's literally highway robbery.
Is that in fact the case?
I think you misunderstood what I wrote ("making the actual origin of a request unknowable"): of course there is a node that knows your IP address, but no node knows both the actual origin and destination (not even the user who generated the request in the case of hidden services) in any communication inside the network. The objectively reasonable expectation of privacy is in who, from all the IP addresses that are part of the network, is initiating a communication.
Who is entering into a polling place is also "public", yet nobody knows who made certain vote.
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Given all the EU bashing recently: That's something I really like. We share the driving licenses (classes, as in 'B' for cars) even.

You're only touching axle weight and distance, but I wonder if the max length (truck + trailer) is clearly defined? Are you allowed to have more than one trailer (here: Nope unless you're driving a tractor most likely)?

I have a BCE ('40 tonnes', biggest you can get here) license, although it is currently inactive¹. Trucks continue to amaze me and I'd like to understand how different the world is over there.

①: Truck licenses have a renewal date here in DE. For people far above my age (my dad) it's something like "Every five years after you're 60" or something like that. For me it was "Every 5 years" from the get go and I haven't renewed it for quite some time. I still could get it back, but would need to visit a doctor (general health), optometrist (field of view test) and maybe redo a first aid course.
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An alternative to FRP: the SAM Pattern (10 min introduction)
The minute they try to lock you in a room the only appropriate response is to Bobby Hill your way out of there.
My feeling is that they're almost certainly being rational on that front. The income from broadcast rights (or network ownership, in the case of the Orioles) is substantial.
I think it may be a good idea for the top-level comments to have this, but then allow replies to comments not.
So why you need alpha version of Servo if IE will provide smoother experience for you anyway?
Meta: Where's the "free for non-commercial use" license? I'm curious about the text.

If I did want to release a project as open source (not free software) under "free for non-commercial use" terms, what would be a recommended license? AFAIK none of the common open source licenses target this.
The C line is bad because it isn't checking for NULL?
> But this time (tm) it's different.

Everyone always says that :) That said, your sibling comment makes good points here.

> While you're around:

I think this idea is _really_ cool, but I'm not equipped to build such a thing, since I haven't had enough experience with them yet. I agree that that would be super cool.
Why is HBO Now and HBO GO run on different services? Really curious about this.
This is an interesting piece, written by an obviously very smart person. But the argument really seems to reduce to:

> The simple fact is that anybody who thinks they know what is going to happen is dangerous, because they are messing with something that is very powerful that they don’t even remotely understand, or understand how it will change in response to meddling.

Or, more specifically, there are economic reasons why the network formed the way it should so we disturb it at our peril.

Huh?

First of all, this line of argument would seem to doom any attempt to regulate the economy whatsoever. One can always say: but the market is really complicated and it has developed the way it has for good reasons so its dangerous to mess with it.

He's right that this will always raise the possibility of Unintended Consequences. So it's a welcome point. But he's also discounting the fact that, given people's level of expertise, and the sometimes dismal status quo, it's hardly self evident that regulation is never the right move. Returning to this case: it's the obvious response that the network may have evolved the way it did for good economic reasons, but we have good reason to doubt that these reasons adequately include the safety of the financial market as a whole in the very long term? This, of course, is why we have regulators in the first place: because the aggregate interests of private actors in the market do not always correspond to our collective social interests.
"The government should not regulate the shared limited resource of radio bandwidth because it is useful to work around restrictions on free speech" is nonsensical.

If your government significantly curtails free speech, then it either is also so fascist that it doesn't care what you think about bandwidth regulation, or (as in the case of the GP) it is so technologically incompetent that it effectively does not regulate the airwaves. Either way your suggestion is useless.
Diluted ethanol doesn't burn very hot and is easily extinguished by cabin fire extinguishers. Cabin materials are fire retardant.
I see "team" three times and "company" zero times. Can you point to the specific portion?
There's always a hierarchy. We're pack animals, establishing social hierarchy is at the core of our being.

Office politics are more rampant in places without externally defined hierarchies because people have to figure out the hierarchy on their own.
I would too, I didn't realize that it was achievable, but even as a long-time Debian user, I haven't payed close enough attention to these policies, it seems.

Oh no, I meant that Cargo itself will already not hit the network, and you can configure exactly where it downloads sources. I wasn't aware of any "Cargo can use a .deb for source" plans.
Could you point to the part of the ACM code that stack ranks priorities? I must be missing it. It's a code to act ethically in conducting job functions, not how to set personal priorities around a career.

In fact the code says it's all in service of the public, if there is any sense of priorities to derive, the employer is not on top. And besides, "The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions."
So many of you are so ready for your Facebook interview. And I believe none of you. Unless you have ever quit a job without having another one to jump to, because you concluded that your current employer couldn't possibly ever get value out of you greater than what they are paying for you. Then I would believe you and consider you out of your mind with misplaced loyalty.

Some of you claim the question is about putting your personal glory above the success of the team. If so the author states it horribly
If you set up the culture right, this isn't as big of a problem as you might think. On our team, it doesn't matter if you're the manager or not, the decisions for the product are made by consensus of the team. Sure management will still do approvals for time off and deal with the skinned knees and runny noses. But for day to day operations, it's peers working for a common cause.
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It's a tooling issue, not those using the tooling: meaning, it's up to the Cargo devs to not break the behavior, and we have incentives not to do so.
The load issues were prior to (and sparked) the switch to MLBAM.
>Going for self glory in projects isn't good for a company. Going to team glory isn't good for a company, but its better than self glory.

you and FB missed the most important - going for the glory of your boss. It is good for the both - for the company (as the company did make sure that the glory of the boss is aligned with the glory of the company) as well as for the team (as the company did make sure that glory of the boss is aligned with the glory of the team). And it is obviously also good for yourself as bosses value the ones who bring them glory.
Is Lily a cat?

Anyway, somebody hire this guy. I'm sure someone that can do this is qualified to make web CRUD for lots of money (should he so desire).
Didnt know that. Cool that part of it survived. Im mainly interested in the processor IP's. A clone would be a fast RISC with PALcode. Not to mention run VMS, UNIX, etc.

Not too practical, though, unless aiming for low-cost given other holdovers (POWER, SPARC) have more software (esp FOSS OS's) plus state-of-art implementations.
Per "Surely You're Joking" and the article, one of the cognitive techniques Feynman used was to keep a physical example, a demo, in his mind that conformed to the math being explained. I wonder if he used that for this, and what his model was.
> You also can't advertise signing up for the subscription outside of the app.

IN THE APP.

This is why you can't buy kindle books in the Amazon app, because then they would have to pay the 30% tax. This is also why Amazon doesn't have links in that app to take you to a web browser where you can buy the books.

But if you don't want to pay the 30% tax and you have a subscription service, you are free to charge whatever you want on your own website. You just don't have to have people sign up inside the app or links to where to sign up inside the app.

This has ALWAYS been the rule. It's not new. Some companies charge extra to cover the fee, some company seem to eat the fee because they're happy to get that many extra sign ups.

I imagine if you open the Spotify app and it said that it's a subscription service and you must have a Spotify account to login and listen to music, and nothing else, the vast majority of people would figure out to check their website to sign up.

I'll ignore the question of whether not what Apple is doing is right. There's nothing new here, so why is Spotify making noise now? Could it be because they're losing members and losing money and need someone to blame?
> There have been similar studies showing that shorter/uglier people tend to get hired less than their taller/better looking counterparts

This is a red herring, this is not relevant to a discussion about racism. That other forms of discrimination exist doesn't justify in any way racial discrimination.
Depends on how you interpret that.

One extreme: If I make more money than I need, I will not ask to be paid less.

Other end: I will work on whatever is most important for the team/product/company. Not what I find most fun.