skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No actually when the department of Homeland security conducted an undercover test, TSA detected the whopping number of 3 undercover agents...

They failed to detect the other 67 who were able to embark planes with weapons end explosives[0]. But that's just a detail... You know, these agents were instructed to avoid TSA screening. Who trains to do that in the real world, right? [sarcasm]

[0] http://abcnews.go.com/US/exclusive-undercover-dhs-tests-find...
> One could also say that linked-lists don't match the memory model of real hardware.

They don't, and they almost always perform (much) worse.
im looking at https://www.neverware.com/#introtext-3 to breathe new life into my older laptop. Anyone use it yet? I'm curious if it is as slim as ChromeOS.
Yep. That is what I thought. I realize now that its strategically just to blow out the generator :)
Agree. I would add three more qualities to your list:

* Fully programmable, via a nicely document Lua interface: http://www.darktable.org/lua-api/index.html.php -- you can automate all kinds of workflows.

* Truly innovative, with clever new features unavailable in other applications, including Lightroom. For example, five years ago they added a powerful new "equalizer" module: http://www.darktable.org/2011/11/darktable-and-research/ (google "darktable equazlier" for usage examples).

* Always improving: I've been using it for years and the developers keep finding ways to make it better all the time.

Congratulations on another great release!
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Yup. We've recently switched over to 4-year cycles instead of 3 for this very reason. The performance improvements are so negligible that it just isn't worth it like it used to be.

If it weren't for the bearings in cooling fans and spinning hard drives, I am certain we could push further still.
Route53 is basically the solution you describe with DNS records, and you could build out anycast DNS servers yourself if you wanted. The main thing to be aware of is that not all clients respect TTLs. We set a 30s ttl and see a 99% switchover in about 60s but if you have some control over the clients you could probably go lower.
Try finding remote work in one of the European countries. They won't require citizenship and we'll be in your timezone so you can work notmal hours.
> That's just for tax avoidance, those 'bonuses'

Can you teach me how this tax avoidance works? It seems that I am missing out. Can you also specify the jurisdiction where this works?

> mostly part of their contract

I can think of many people whose bonuses are 3x or more their salary and who do not have a guaranteed minimum bonus or even a strict formula based bonus.
Hehe. Was I able to express the thoughts clearly enough that you're able to follow (now)?
So it looks like what we're building here is the beginnings of a travel tax. If the "service" they're providing isn't necessary - and indeed, PreCheck is really just a protection racket, where you pay them to avoid the shakedown - then what else can we call it?

And by going along with it, we're really just buttressing the whole TSA program. When there's revenue being generated they'll never let it go. (yes, I know that the net is overwhelmingly negative, but when that's just looked at as a jobs program for barely-skilled workers, it's easy to write that off and focus on the income)
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Indeed. Look at the boom in the illegal ivory trade in comparison to China's economic growth.
this is (maybe) because deployment is done by front-end engineers. don't get me wrong here, "lazy devops" is great and combined with cloud is just amazing (proc files, package files, ci files etc)

i don't think people want run the database or the cache system or any other critical service as public, but probably the background is not enough to solve issues on production when they pops up so:

1. you deploy a service over cloud
2. everything works
3. but if something must be solved at infrastructure level
4. apply('old style solution') open everything and debug from home attached to production
Is the bonus agreed upon before starting work or do you just work for pennies with the hope your employer is feeling generous at the end of the year?
For reference, gas contains about 33kWh of energy per gallon, and if we assume you pump 20 gallons in 5 minutes when you fill up your car you have an effective energy transfer rate of about 8 MW at your gas pump. Even if we give an electric vehicle a 3x efficiency ratio, we still need about 2.5 MW to be equivalent to the old petroleum infrastructure.
Definitely agree!

I make a substantial part of my income (just enough to pay rent) selling photography, and I recently dropped ps and lightroom in favor of Darktable. The change didn't happen in a day, but Darktable is so good I don't think I'll ever need to come back to Adobe. Notable plus, I can now spend most of my time on Linux, no more need to use my Macbook for photo work.

The interface is not really good for smaller displays and resolutions (adobe stuff was better on my 11 inch mba), but on anything with more than 1280 x 960 px, it's great.

Congratulations to the Darktable team for this 2.2 release!
FF has never been multicore. So many plugins are not thread safe. I think they are slowly rolling out multicore as plugins fix.
Idiots bringing things on planes, by accident or on purpose, doesn't make them terrorists.
If you picked up Scala, I'm going to assume you're interested in functional programming. In which case you should check out the book Functional Programming in Scala. Describes a bit more advanced functional programming ideas using Scala
The sentence folllowing that starts with But. 'Crash repair job' also doesn't instill confidence that it is a given this will work.

Also, this dam still is close to a war zone, if not in a war zone. That updated equipment may not make it there, can get destroyed in an attack, or the personnel doing the work can be 'persuaded' not to work or may outright be killed.

What surprises me most about this story is that they kept delivering power to the enemy, while they also could have let all or most of the water out. It wouldn't surprise me if money or backstabbing ("we'll keep delivering electricity if you focus on attacking your other enemies instead of on getting back the dam from us") was involved there.
There's a JIT branch in the official upstream emacs repository. Just checkout nick.lloyd-bytecode-jit after cloning emacs from git and run `./configure --with-jit` once you have libjit (originally a part of GNU dotNET) to give it a try. libjit doesn't install a .pc file so you'll have to explicitly set the LIBJIT lib and C ./configure flags if you install libjit from source.
>Realize this is purely anecdotal but time and time again we have come to the realization that incentives matter and incentivizing good service makes sense to me (and I shouldn't have to order a bottle of wine at lunch to get it).

But this works both ways: If the service staff expects to be tipped regardless of the quality of service, then there's not much incentive for good service in the first place, because the customers are expected to tip anyway and bad service will just result in a marginally lower tip.

If customers are not expected to tip at all, then the service staff has to put in some actual effort to get a tip, because their service needs to be so "exceptionally good" that the customer actually notices it, instead of just taking it for granted.
The story suggests there is a 300 foot wide canal that can be used to let water go in casse of an emergency. Well, how about doing so now? Rather than using the turbines, use the canal to let the water out, but without it generating electricity...
> Back of house staff, in the US, cannot tip share. Its against the law.

Do you have a reference for this? I know of a few restaurants, in New York and Arizona, where the kitchen shares in the pool.
I'm surprised this is still allowed by the IRS. When I was a waiter back in the 80's in California, we went from self-reporting to turning in our tips. All the tips were pooled, then divvy'd up between waitstaff, busboys, cooks, managers etc. And taxes were taken documented. So our "paycheck" was puny since the withholding was taken from our hourly payrate.
Don't give up! I know it sucks, but if development is your passion keep going. I landed my first job at 27 with no experience and no degree. Now 7 years later I'm so happy my first start up took a chance on me. I see that you're in Toronto have you ever thought about moving?
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I'll be honest: we wouldn't be friends.

That wanton aiming for tragedy of the commons for personal benefit -- and bragging about it later -- just makes you someone I expect Id detest.

Im sure you do equally unsavory things in other parts of your life, and make up similar excuses for why it's okay for you to do it.
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The truth is the companies you have mentioned are big corporations with a lot of profit, but there are many other firms with just as much market cap, revenue, and footprints just as significant but they operate quite a bit more 'quietly.' Where would Apple be without other firms extracting the raw materials and FoxConn fabricating and assembling their devices, for example.

But the SV firms sure do seem to dominate the news (especially general business news) to the exclusion of all else.
How are you calculating that entire reservoir would boil? It's filled with 8B m^3 of water.

I couldn't find the formulas to calculate this myself, but given Tuna-Fish's comment above that it's enough to boil a kiloton of water (1000 m^3) ever hour that's 1K/8B =~ 0.00001%.

So it's going to be more on the order of dropping a single drop of boiling water into a backyard pool every hour, is it not? I.e. something that wouldn't change the overall temperature of the reservoir to any significant degree.

This is all assuming that you'd have to use the energy to heat the reservoir itself, you could just as easily use it to pump out some water and boil it until it evaporates, not impacting the temperature of the reservoir at all, just emitting a lot of steam into the air.
I said this the moment TSA was created. "Wow fedgov! Thanks! You just made my job as a terrorist exponentially easier! Now instead of having to get through security to get on a plane and blow it up, you corralled all the people on multiple flights into a single file line in one place for me before security. Thanks! Now I can wait in line with my bomb on my body until I'm the next one to go through the scanners, then detonate as o take my shoe off. Taking out the security checkpoint, all your useless equipment, TSA personnel, and innocents. Thanks!"
Yes...

http://docs.mitmproxy.org/en/latest/certinstall.html
The context here is of course persistent data structures. Linked-lists permit very efficient structural sharing.
I think you can do more than one per week but I agree, it does take time to build the muscle memory.

I learned in my early 20's and I did it in 6 weeks. Get the theory part out of the way ASAP.

When you have got your license is the time to watch out for complacency. The road is full of egos driving Audis, don't get involved. Keep a safe gap and you will deal well with uncertainty
I'd learn Bootstrap 3 and then just migrate over to B4 later (if at all). The key is to learn the concepts... and those won't change much even if some details do. I'm following this approach with Easele (https://www.easele.com/).
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Adafruit has some great kits, if you intrested.
https://www.adafruit.com/category/203
They can be used to implement an immutable deque.
> Fries and a hamburger are about the easiest thing to make, requiring no special equipment.

For all practical purposes of modern urban life, you at least need some kind of specialized heating apparatus.

More importantly, somewhere to store that apparatus. Which is quite often a kitchen. In San Francisco, the median housing cost per square foot is almost $1,000. A small kitchen is defined as 70 square feet, or $70,000. If we assume a rate of 3%, the opportunity cost of that kitchen is almost $6 per day, or $2 per meal if we assume three meals per day.

That brings the cost of an $8 McDonalds meal down to about $6 right there.

Then there is your time. San Francisco has officially declared that your time is worth at least $13/hr. At that rate you have just 28 minutes before you've already used up that $6. That includes gathering the ingredients, prepping the food, cooking the food, and cleaning up afterwards. That does not leave a lot of room for error, even for something as simple as burgers and fries.

It does indeed get better with scale, but I have also left off a number of other costs, including the cost of the food itself. For a single person (in SF) it is no contest without even getting into other costs.

Of course, there is something to be said about the food you can create yourself, versus eating at Mcdonalds every meal. Cost isn't everything.
except Otto which Uber acquired and presumably will be rolled into this at some point... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_(company)
If I go to a brewery for a pint (brewery, not brewpub) there's a tip line on the credit card receipt. I've been to a couple wineries for a glass of wine...And never seen a tip line on the winery recept. Can anyone explain this one to me?
Ask HN: Do an AMA (December 2016)
To everyone who wants to share their knowledge and help others: Do an Ask Me Anything session on HN.

HN is full of smart people. They often appear in comments, but threads get closed after a while and leave no way to reach the authors out. Let's have them here.

Suggest a topic you want to answer questions about in comments. Ask your questions to other authors. Topics uncommon to HN, like woodworking and singing, are especially welcomed.
It was already a protection racket, just used against your taxpayer money. Now it will also tax travelers. "Win-win" for the racketeers.
No, but few people think that anti-development regulations in San Francisco are the product of corruption and lobbying by big business, which is the allegation with regard to municipal fiber above.
>they almost always perform (much) worse.

'Much worse' relative to what exactly?
I've even seen something very shady recently - a nice restaurant that added a mandatory 20% "service fee" to our party of 7, had fine print that said "60% of your service fee goes to your wait staff."

The implication is that not only is this restaurant, which we ended up paying ~$80 a person to eat dinner + wine + dessert at, screwing their customers with the mandatory service charge, they're also screwing their employees by keeping 40% of it for the owner. I won't eat there again...

Edit: Added visual proof (and name and shame): https://s3-media4.fl.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/t3UUaCU8gl6zPsVQghlv...

I would be happy to learn that the 40% was going to the cooks. It's still a shady practice, and what makes it worse than not informing your guests ahead of time is that they're doing this in the name of "providing a livable wage for our staff." Pay your staff a livable salary and stop screwing your customers over...
I think this might come down to individual preference. Personally, I find the whole US dining experience rather uncomfortable. Because I come from a country without a tipping culture (Australia), I'm never sure if I'm tipping way too much, or way too little. So my meal always comes with a nice side-order of "paranoia that I'm committing a social faux pas".

I also hate the constant 'how is your meal going sir?' check-in; I just want to eat in peace without some poor guy feeling he has to do the whole fake-buddy routine every 5 minutes to earn his tip. But there seems to be no polite way to say "Hey, no need to constantly check on me, or be creepily friendly. I'm going to tip you anyway". It just feels so contrived.

Maybe I just have poor social skills or something...
This page is actually pretty good high-level documentation for the system. Between it and the source code you'll have little difficulty.

Of course, if you have Emacs you'll presumably also have the manuals. Chapter 16 of the Elisp manual seems pretty thorough.
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Oh, I was assuming a runtime that didn't do wraparound. If you are doing wraparound, you already have a ton of special case work you'd have to do.

But yes, you'd need logic for pointer comparisons as well.
Or read MrMoneyMoustache. He was a programmer who was able to retrieve in a few years of working.

The biggest obstacle to most people is that you win by consuming less not making more.

Which is hard for people to accept. A lot of the same analogies as weight loss. You retire early by spending less. You lose weight by eating less. Earning more and exercising more are good, but they are the second line of defense.
Assuming he's not being sarcastic, it could be power aimed at semi trucks. That would probably be sub-megawatt for regular charging, and 1-2 for supercharging. It's gonna be a lot more important to have a well-developed charging network for trucks since they are working vehicles: nobody is gonna buy a truck and then sit around and wait for it to become profitable to drive. Maybe we'll see some extra-large charging spaces opening up soon...

https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/4u0yci/why_i_w...
load of bollox , George Michael died so 2016 has been a disaster :(
Tipping is truly one of the stupidest aspects of American society. It's unfair to both the worker and the customer.
The Forever War (the space war book) is also excellent
The pledge you originally mentioned (neveragain.tech) was created by and for individual people, not corporations. It is not a petition.

The difference is important. In a pledge, engineers sit down and define their own ethical boundaries for themselves. A pledge succeeds when even a single one of its signatories follows through: by action, by resignation, by speaking up, or by sabotage. The power remains with the individual to keep their promise or not. The intent is already there; only the action matters.

A petition is different. Several concerned citizens who are not stakeholders ask a corporation to do something. A petition fails when the company simply decides not to do the thing. Here, neither the intent nor the action is present.

We saw the difference clearly illustrated in Rogue One. Chief scientist officer Galen Erso did not petition the empire to dismantle the death star. He simply pledged that no matter the circumstances, he would destroy it by whichever way he knew how, even though he knew full well this action would cost him his life.

Back to your point: the difference between the rise of NSEERS and the future rise of the Trump Muslim registry is that now individuals _within these corporations_ are beginning to make a concrete, visible, and actionable pledge to destroy the registry.

Maybe there was less hullabaloo during the origin of NSEERS. I see the current stance as "learning from previous mistakes." Or perhaps "trying a more effective approach." There's no reason to place blame on "obama's muslim registry" (your words not mine), when we're trying better strategies now.
But the aim of these social graphs is for them to sell you junk you don't want. The graphs are useless if you got adblock and JS disabled. Good luck throwing crap at me via the web when I basically neuter your site's DOM too.
This isn't exactly a productive comment, but I just wanted to say that it's extremely thoughtful to do that for the elders in your family, and I'm sure they would appreciate it immensely. Now that you've given me the idea, I want to do this for my grandmother while she is still in good health. Thank you!
> What about clean air? I live 70 miles north of Wall Street, and the air seems fine to me.

Had we not regulated emissions and created one of the west's most extensive public transportation networks to serve the 8.4 million people in NYC you might not be saying that.

I understand your point, that you need a car to live in most of America. But you need to understand how different life in a real, dense city compares. If everyone drove - if we made space for everyone to drive and park - you would radically alter the culture of the city, and you'd significantly reduce its capacity to house so many people and businesses. Density creates opportunities for cultural exchange, cities are efficient human/economy-amplification systems. NYT rightfully hates cars, there is simply no space for cars in NYC and people are so close together they feel the pressure car infrastructure exerts on the city.

My argument is that we'd have more spaces like these if we didn't subsidize the construction of places where you need cars to live. I'm presently teleworking in Northwest Indiana, and thought it would be easy for me to wait for my car to get fixed in the Starbucks kitty-corner from the repair shop. I didn't heed when the shop owner said, "you take your life into your own hands," when I told him my plan. I nearly got hit walking across the street - the only way out of this place - in broad daylight.

We have an obesity epidemic and our communities are dissolving. Just look at what was trending on HN 4 days ago. [1] More suburbs, strip malls and parking lots are certainly not part of the solution.

1. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/22/upshot/how-social-isolatio...
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C++: Persistent List destruction size limit
I just wanted to try some new technologies (server side rendering with React), and that's why I decided to play with nasa apod api. If anyone is interested, code can be found on https://github.com/caspg/space-exp.

I hope you will like it.