skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I'm no fan of the TSA, this seems quite extreme. The chance they would look at your hard drives is nearly 0% and most countries have some insane policies that outsiders could harp on as a reason to not visit and to "do business with a freer country." To each their own, but avoiding a major country because their border agents hassle someone every now and then seems way too limiting to me.

Keep in mind that the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg has condemned France over their use of torture in pursuing marijuana convictions. France will also somewhat arbitrarily define cases as "drug use" vs "trafficking" since possession for use is ill-defined. Many consumers get tried under trafficking laws because they get caught purchasing, for example, and under trafficking laws they will get much more serious penalties including being banned from the country in many cases. Don't forget you can also be detained for four days without a lawyer while they investigate.

Some more info at http://www.drugtext.org/European-Drug-Laws/chapter-4-france-... if you're interested.

France has a lot of great things going for it so I try not to let bad laws, border agents, etc. spoil my time there.
Thanks for the fact correction (seriously).

In any case, anything in the 18th century is well before Eisenhower... ;)
Thanks, we merged the previous discussion with this one.
Prior to internet, speeches are controlled by newspapers and televisions. They won't even publish your speech if they don't like it. In that sense, Internet is still a huge step forward.
Who made the decision within the company? That's way more important than the fact the decision was made. Do they have a new position we were previously unaware of that handles requests for heads of state? What if the request is for the opposite? Who censors things explicitly? Who handles media relations? When? Why? Over what threshold do they consider it to be an issue?

Why?
C'mon, don't you guys be so nitpicky... The comment above was made in the context of financial places, and is clearly referring to the "City" of London, as they call the financial hub, not the "City of London" as a whole.
The strange and now sadly abandoned Soviet Jet Train from the 1970s
>They are rock-solid routers

They are not rock-solid routers and frequently ship buggy releases, especially if you are using advanced features or their wireless offerings. They are great, they have a ton of powerful features, but don't use them unless you plan to spend time maintaining them and learning a lot about them.

Manipulating their firewall rules is also a really cool way to intro yourself to iptables concepts.
There was a vastly reduced military in the interwar period. Not literally "no military". This goes back to the American Revolution. Not having a standing army was really of key importance in the US from the Founding.

I would have thought the reference to Eisenhower's bio. would be enough to show that there was some army.

The Navy varied dependent on who was in charge.
I don't know, but I have heard you are barred from entry to Canada if you have ever gotten a DUI, so I don't think it's unique.
Or they're going to build Trump's wall.
Why is there a discussion? What do the people who don't want to take the patch say? "We don't care if we lose customers with unusual names"?
What an awesome article title
I don't really like the title either, but in this case it is the actual title from the source. Despite my reservations about the title, I think it was worth a read, and I upvoted it. Also, I'm not sure what a better title should be, and I'm not sure it's reasonable to expect the submitter to think up a better one when submitting. In fact changing the title from the source is kind of frowned upon on this site.
In the article, it mentions "In any case, the majority of people are on a spectrum of introversion to extroversion.".
Just click the "web" link at the top of this page, then click the article link via the resulting google search - this should get you past the paywall.
fwiw, Starfighter (probably mostly Erin/Thomas? hard to tell from the outside) got me a job that I love and certainly couldn't have gotten without them.

It sucks that the business didn't work out, but it certainly wasn't because candidates were somehow getting screwed by Starfighter.
Sorry!

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case...

(By the way: I don't particularly think reparations are a good idea. But: damn.)
Surgeons used a robot to operate inside the eye and restore sight
Looks like it's Cloudflare DDoS protected, like most other booters
They may want to update the FAQ which states "There’s no venture capital, ads, or nebulous plan to “figure out monetization later” (which usually means ads)."

here: https://overcast.fm/skeptics_faq
I'm missing the part of this scheme where you need to have a large cache of aluminum in any form to make this work.

Related: The Chinese regulations on export of neodymium magnets is similarly structured. Exporting the magnets or the raw metallic ingredients is subject to high tariffs, but export of finished products using them is not. This isn't just about energy exports though, it's straight up protectionism of their manufacturing businesses.
> that can't be common practice.

It's not. It's very unusual.
FWIW Python has had OrderedDict for years.
If drivers expect to be prosecuted for offences they stop committing them
The difference is network effects. There are tons and tons of newspapers (over 1000 in the US alone), and one can plausibly start their own. There's a tiny number of social networks and it's extremely difficult to break into that market.

Low barriers + large numbers is at least a nudge in the direction of intellectual diversity.
>I think it's a stretch to say that tax payer funded services and social welfare programs are the same thing.

And I think your stretching your definitions to suit your level of income redistribution.

The conversation of how much and what type does need to occur. I just wish everyone realized that it is income redistribution. Your level of what your comfortable with is simply different from others.

>You can make the argument that I'm effectively paying for an insurance policy, or that by supporting the recipients I am supporting the economy which in the end supports me, but the relationship is not nearly as direct.

It is not very direct with fire and police, either. With both of them, it is effectively an insurance policy. If you benefited from the police, it is not clear you contributed in taxes as much as is needed to get that benefit. And I'm sure you would not advocate a system where you get only as much police benefit as what you put in.
>"git grep" is 2% of all the commands I type. I type it 10x as often as "ls". So, yeah, its speed matters to me. :)

I appreciate that - I know the frustration of tools being a bit laggy.

However, I think you are falling for the [Endowment Effect](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endowment_effect). You are accustomed to it, so the alternative seems horrible without you really thinking it through. If you were not already using grep, the search issue would not be a big deal.

I already pointed out how merely excluding ".hg" from your search will save all the time, and this benefit you speak of disappears (please correct me if I'm wrong).

On my shell, that's as simple as creating an alias for grep to always exclude ".hg".

Yes, I'll grant that searching Mercurial repositories is a lot slower. But you need to understand that the obvious solution is not "Switch to git". There are simpler solutions.

In that sense, this seems to be a very insignificant benefit of git, even for people like you who need to search often.

To beat a dead horse, if you had two developers: One using git and the other using mercurial, and both need to search heavily, the mercurial person will likely have already solved the problem in one way or another. It'd be a bit silly for an observer to look at them and say "Ah, Git is so much better because it did not require a shell alias for faster searches!"
We have indeed.

I didn't mean literally "no military" but we've had extreme drawdowns after every conflict . By "no military" in scare quotes I mean that there was an aversion to a standing army dating back to the Revolution. I was ( apparently overly simplistically) identifying that as a principle. The Legislature literally did not want the Executive to use the standing army as a political tool.

Obviously, the inventory ... lag of ships means that we'd have larger navies in some peacetime intervals than others. We only had permanent forces after the advent of the Cold War.
Errrr, yes, that's what I helped create:

https://web.archive.org/web/20120831053519/http://www.govern...

It makes me very happy that it's working out for you!
They can if you train them on the right data – a corpus of historically significant photos would be relatively small.
> If you ever want to discuss recruiting stuff, I'm easy to find.

Yeah you are. Do you use this same username everywhere?
It's a shame it seems to be network ads (so far). I can't imagine they'll pay too well. It's a lot of effort to self-sell ads but it's rewarding, too. People using Overcast are interested in podcasts, and I'd bet there are hundreds of podcasts that would pay per subscriber they could obtain via ideal positioning like this. (Or even just paying to be shown as a "similar" podcast to others the user subscribes to.)

(Heck, let's start the bidding.. I'd pay $1 a subscriber for a podcast I have in the works and I know there are people & companies with far bigger plans and deeper pockets than me.)
Here are two examples:

* My group of friends and acquaintances who play badminton coordinate on Facebook; we do not work at the same place or have each other's phone numbers. People use the number of "Going" people to figure out whether there are still slots to play or not.

* The local university feminist organization is organized 100% through Facebook. We send one email a month or so to our mailing list, but if you want to participate (help out, for instance), you do this through the closed Facebook group.

It may be easy to leave Facebook and stay in contact with your closest friends; it's hard to replace larger social groups like those above.
And what are these "rules?" Don't do or say anything stupid?
Ok you got me. Bad at math.
There's been some downvotes (thanks for the constructive feedback /s), but I'd agree that this is a better way to put it. Anything that asks for root has 100% access at that moment, and possibly in future. It's easy to forget with all the "training" that `sudo`and confirmation dialogs provide, but true. Heck, if you install something (and by install I mean allow itself to integrate into the system, as opposed to say a script), you have to trust something. Either you trust the issuer, the package maintainers, or yourself (after you've checked 100% of the source code and compile it), but there's trust at some point.
On a Unix system, a console application is effectively just a vararg function taking a bunch of const char* arguments. There's no limitation on what characters you can pass as those arguments, so that doesn't sound like a valid excuse.

(There are some characters that are treated specially by shells, and require escaping - but you don't normally spawn child processes via a shell.)
I think it's flaws, only somewhat addressed in recent revisions, are better known now than they were in the mid-'90s when I learned and started using it, plus the industry wide ... obsession? with OO and especially class based OO has subsided. So someone with good taste who reads and trusts what he reads of these details could, yeah, probably not legitimately loathe it, but at least decide without using it that it wasn't for him.

I changed the initial use of loathe in this context to dislike, thanks for pointing that out.
I would think of using this if they switch to rolling release system or had Ubuntu like release cadence
I hope my explanations to the others helps to clarify what I mean. I omitted needful words :)
If your bank is that bad then you need a new bank.
Chained Promise: functional tools for recurring promises
That's why I added the remark on the possibility of being unaware you even committed the deed.

Here's the video of the lawyer about this issue:

https://youtu.be/6wXkI4t7nuc?t=5m46s

The video is worth watching from beginning to end. The second part includes the cop's perspective.
I read the first link and it didn't seem entirely clear cut to me that Watts hadn't done anything to incite the episode. Even assuming he hadn't, he was convicted by a jury of ordinary civilians so apparently they empathized with the border guards.

Obviously it goes without saying that its a real shame things could escalate that quickly and I'm not saying the border patrols shouldn't be ashamed.
> There was a vastly reduced military in the interwar period.

Sure, but its not even approximately the same as no military (and its much more true of the Army than the Navy, except, IIRC, for two periods -- from the end of the revolution to 1794 when there was little (and, from 1785, no) Navy, and about a decade somewhere around 1870-1880 when there was a very small Navy.

From just before the turn of the 20th Century onward, the US at no point didn't have a world class Navy.
I'd love to use it, but it's not free.
Two accounts is not a shell game, and you're avoiding the risks of credit. Cash back is just a lure for the trap.
Ask HN: Most excited during a work crisis?
Over the past 10 years or so, it seems like my most enjoyable times are work are during some sort of crisis (e.g. critical bug in production, or an absurd deadline). Suddenly, the next steps are crystal clear and you stop wondering if there's something more valuable you could be working on.

Of course, given a choice, I'd never wish such things upon my company. Nonetheless, does anyone else share this odd guilty pleasure? Does this say something about my personality?
Why doesn't anyone ever think of the pimps, spies and terrorists who want to comfortably practice their trades in the US without being warned that the US is not keen on such activity?
Apple really needs to get its act together and realize that, as far as indie developers are concerned, the App Store is Broken with a capital B. First Gruber bailed entirely, and now Marco has been forced by necessity to abandon (or at least weaken) his anti-ad stance. And these guys are two of the biggest supporters Apple has, with built-in customer bases to boot. If they can't make it work, no one can.
Apple Is Said to Be Rethinking Strategy on Self-Driving Cars
"Objective" and "political" are not opposites. Whether I like chocolate or vanilla ice cream is both completely subjective and completely apolitical, and I'm sure there are plenty of politics involved in math and physics research (the most "objective" things I can think of).
Yes - those acts in themselves are indeed acts. But!

One can then own land without actually doing anything with it - you can let it out at rates for others to use. You can't just let a car factory sit. And if you just own the building and land, and do nothing else, then yes- you're just charging rents. But generally owners have to work to own a factory, if at nothing else than making operation policy decisions.

Perhaps a trip thru "Poverty and Progress" is in order? George is better at this than I am.
It isn't right, but popular personalities like the creator of Flask have been demanding it for years so here we are. Welcome to Open Source.
I agree wholeheartedly with the sentiments expressed in this article. At the end of the day it all boils down to the incentive to take initiative. Without competition it is far to easy to become complacent which inevitably leads to mediocrity. The Republican party has always had a solid foundation when it comes to personal responsibility and growth which attracts me to the party. However, until the party stops trying to infuse the bible into laws resulting in these so called culture wars, they will continue to be mired by racist and bigot labels that prevent true discussion from taking place.
Answer the question they asked, not the question you think they asked. Don't volunteer any extra information. Don't admit to any criminal activity. Know the exact address that you are travelling to. Take off your hat, and your sunglasses. If it's dark, and you are travelling by car, turn on all of your cabin lights.

If you have anything interesting in your passport, or in the luggage they searched, you may be asked questions that will try to catch you in a lie. "So, how do you like working at Facebook?" "I work for Microsoft, Sir, it's pretty good."

Be polite and deferential, but not friendly. Keep your answers short and to the point. Be white. Don't look nervous.

Follow these simple steps, and the overwhelming majority of the time, you'll be just fine [1].

[1] If you are traveling as a speaker to a conference, or for a work function, my understanding is there is a separate set of incantations that you should invoke.
That's one hell of a vague caution.

Vague rebuke: In my experience, Django actually does very well compared to a lot of other solutions. So there.
You're not wrong. But your analysis excludes one salient point: This only works if we permit it. We need not do so.
How about “No, I don’t remember doing anything like that, ever” ?
Actually: I'd like it to be more about learning new stuff, or at least learning that you're already good at new stuff.

What I want to find are people who are spooky good at specialized, high-status tech skills. HFT is like that. So is reversing. So are like 10 other specialties I can think of.

My thesis is that the training requirements for these things are way overblown.
It's my last name, the name of one of my companies, and it's always available.
It costs less than a cup of coffee.
Except that 1GW/km^2 is the absolute upper limit. As dreadmorbius computed, reality gives ~1.5% of that.
I would argue that the answer depends on your reasons for learning. If you want to study microeconomics for the sake of 'knowing'/studying microeconomics in the academic sense, take one the standard textbooks (i.e. Intermediate Microeconomics by Hal Varian) and work it from cover to cover. Afterwards, dive into the topics that you found most interesting. Also, a fairly strong background in calculus helps with the more advanced concepts.

If you are interested in microeconomics for the sake of understanding something more about the (economic) world, ignore the math/simplistic models at first and try to grasp the theoretical concepts and, more importantly, the ideological/epistemological concepts behind microeconomics as a sub-discipline. Understanding the assumptions behind microeconomics (i.e. the idea of a fully rational human being) will probably give you something to think about.

Besides the sources already mentioned (especially Khan Academy), I can recommend Jodi Beggs (http://www.economistsdoitwithmodels.com) video series.
I know people who worked on vw emissions in Germany that have been banned by vw / their sub contractor from ever entering the USA again. Probably in their own personal interest too. Curious to see what will happen to them in Germany..
> It may be easy to leave Facebook and stay in contact with your closest friends

Often it is not, because Facebook has so successfully inveigled itself into and through people's social interactions that a lot of folks just don't think about keeping in touch any other way.
If you think offering every variation of data structures is doing usability right, then C++ has done a lot of usability right. So much that its usability has suffered.
This shit takes five steps to work properly and looks extremely delicate as well. How are you supposed to carry this around safely? The 3D printed part is basically a giant lever for breaking the three way stopcock into three parts. I'm not even sure this does more good than harm to be quite honest. What happens if using this thing incorrectly kills you? Given it's so hard to use, it's pretty easy to see that happening.
Maybe it's just me? Georgism is inherently about the proposition that taxing labor rather than rents is inherently immoral. That's rather the point of it.

I'd just like to see rents in general taxed rather than labor taxed. The theory of rents provides a means to distinguish between ... "socially useful" wealth and "sort of parasitic" wealth."

As you note, there's nothing original about this.
> I agree, a big part of the problem is that few tech organisations have alternate progression paths for technical staff, so promoting to management is seen as the only way of rewarding long term tech staff.

An idea to solve this problem that I have seen, I think, on HN: Why are the managers the people who decide what the subordinate programmers have to do? Why not instead hire management people who assist the programming team to do the things that the typical programmers don't like (in opposite of "management types")?

To give examples:

Instead of some management boss forces some deadlines on the programming team, now instead the "management assistant" is here to communicate the deadline to the customer so that the programmers are shielded from grumpy customers who want more tight deadlines.

Or they are mediators if there are conflicts in the programming team.

Or they serve as the bogeyman who explains to the customer why their idea for new "necessary" program features cannot be implemented this way.

Or they help (instead of force) the programming team to arrange some roadmap for shipping the product (something unluckily few programmers like).

Or they help the programming team to understand what the customer really wants so that less time is wasted implementing stuff that the customer meant differently.

...

TLDR: Why not reverse the hierarchy: The management guys assist the programming team.
What do you see potential successors to containers being? What are your thoughts on NixOS, which uses binary hashes to immutably declare dependencies?
"The human body produces its own heroin. In fact, when the fight-or-flight instinct is activated in the hypothalamus, your body releases endorphins, dopamine and norepinephrine. That is heroin, cocaine and amphetamine, all at once... There is a reason to believe that a person can get addicted to this type of high."
Fahim Ahmadzai - Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3553442/quotes?item=qt2958783
Sure, there's the argument that we're squeezing the balloon rather than reducing waste; the waste products can be tweaked to produce more or less of one or the other. My point is that as long as diesel continues to be propped up as a "clean" technology, based on fabricated data, we won't see migration to actually cleaner technology. Of course it's cheaper to make vehicles that are either poisonous or cause climate change (both, actually, no matter how you squeeze the balloon).

Diesel, it turns out, isn't all that "clean". I hate that it's so...I drive a modern turbo diesel vehicle, and have been very disappointed to learn about the tradeoffs and negatives of that technology (though I drive a big Ford diesel, which doesn't make some of the compromises that VW was making in its small engines, and does comply with EPA regulations without trickery, to the best of my knowledge).

Burning fossil fuels contributes to climate change and produce dangerous emissions that are toxic for living things. As long as we continue to allow auto makers and the fossil fuel industry to externalize those costs, alternatives won't be competitive and won't be able to replace those fossil fuel burning vehicles.
Agreed. "A moat the size of two oceans" and all that. Thanks for clarifying things.
All you really need is a filter that recognizes a few select images and allow them through. And adding something to that list shouldn't take much time, effort, or controversy.
since the problem wasn't them exploding, and the resolution they offered was to toss the old one in the municipal waste system...then no, they won't explode