skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was on a school trip flying out of IAD and the TSA guy standing near security looks at me and asks me if I'm feeling ok because I look nervous. I've flown probably over a dozen times in my life at that point and everything up until that question had been a very routine day at the airport so I wouldn't have had any reason to be so. I just looked at him and said no, and he replies back that he was just checking. I think he had just recently sat through a powerpoint on detecting suspicious people by confronting them. I'm guessing the thinking is if they ask someone if they are nervous, the less experienced smugglers and terrorists are going to react even more nervously to that kind of question. But you are at an airport. There are plenty of people flying for the first time and those that are just always apprehensive about flying. Little questions like that can surely help when trying to determine the mood or emotional state of someone (like the Israelis do) but it was a dumb question. Expecting your average, uneducated TSA officer to be able to pull off those sly interrogation techniques is asking a bit much from them.
I recently read a novel called "A Fine Balance" by Rohinton Mistry. One character, Ashraf Chacha, is a man who works as a tailor. He is extremely grieved by the death of his wife. He talks about how when she was alive it never bothered him to spend all of his time reading or sewing - just knowing she was there in another room was enough. But after she dies, he regrets all the time he foolishly spent away from her.

I don't want to look back on my life with that feeling. As adults, we have very little free time and spending it on software seems like a gross misallocation of resources, even if our careers would benefit. There's more to life than work.
Maybe not immediately. However, radiation tends to take a while for its damage to appear. Especially since Fukushima is still leaking radiation into the ocean afaik
I remember their first docking attempt and the excitement of that. What impressed me the most was the fact they had to change the code so the laser spotters focused properly on the right targets (glare? I forget)

cargo runs should never make the news, once things become routine people will trust it more. from that base you build out
I think a better way to phrase it is "Barcelona is THE example". It's sort of like citing a unicorn when deciding to start a company -- sure, there's upside potential, but it's a whole lot less likely than you think.
SWiSHzone is now CLOSED
Rather than trying to write your own quoted printable decoder, why not use a library? E.g in python it would just look like:

quopri.decodestring(message_source)
What's also interesting, CA ranked one of the worst in uninsured in that same article http://politicsthatwork.com/graphs/uninsured-by-state
Ah Lies dam lies and Pension valuations - the current pension valuation rules are designed by accountants to make it easy for companies to shut them down.

On one valuation the BTPS is in surpluss

Oh and I am an activist not a full timer ;-)
We forget that raptors are protected species.

In USA you can't even keep the dropped feathers of a bald eagle in your house. Is illegal without a very special permit. To kill and chop bald eagles with a drone would be symbolically an huge success and desirable goal for any terrorist. This birds can't be easily exported to France or other countries for its huge symbolic value

In Europe is the same. To deliberately train a golden eagle to fly across a meat mincer would upset a lot of people sweating blood and tears 365 days/year for protecting predators. You would need to pass law exceptions for all EU and argue the convenience to do so. To use the highly endangered Eastern Imperial Eagles for this would be even worse and unforgivable. The trainer will be sued and will face a lot of legal issues.

For Pete's sake, this is idiot! just use another drone for that!
So sad, SwishMax was so simple and intuitive alternative to flash, and you can use it in a so big range of tasks. Internet evolution leaves somes deep wounds...
Can you use Telegram to talk to friends on Whatsapp or Messenger?
> I got the job. It was the only interview I've had where I really felt they were asking me something relevant to the work and the kind of work I would be required to do.

This is the interview method espoused in Reinventing the Interview:

https://www.amazon.com/Ask-Headhunter-Reinventing-Interview-...

I was lucky to stumble on this when I was young and it has been very useful in thinking about both being interviewed and interviewing.
Most of the recruiters I've talked to work for one and only one company.
By manual tiling I mean not having a reduced hardcoded number of layouts, but being able to split every "container" horizontally and vertically, moving and resizing windows freely (ideally using mouse like ion3 did).
Whoa, this is awesome!
I agree to a certain extent that seeing examples of work reduces recruiting risk, but I disagree that looking for people spending "every waking hour" programming is something positive.

If I am interviewing people then I would try to avoid this line of thinking (i.e. how much time is spent out of work programming) as it strikes me as unfair. My reasons are that not all candidates could spend every waking hour of their time even if they wanted to for various legitimate reasons. For example if you are a parent looking after a baby/toddler, it would be totally unreasonable to expect you to be coding "every waking hour".

If you had two candidates that were 100% equal except one had no real non-work-commitments of note and spent their evenings messing around on github, and the other was a parent who wanted to code all night but had to look after their kids in the evenings, which would you pick? If you picked the non-parent based only on the non-work github commits are you descriminating someone based on the fact they have kids? I dunno - but I thinik it would need careful consideration.

As I said - I dunno, but it strikes me as this would be an unfair thing to look for. Afterall, you're recruiting fill a role, not recruiting a lifestyle.
I posted this once before but has been updated quite a bit since then. Would appreciate some feedback on the direction it's heading.
>By US Culture my simple definition is the respect of the current laws of the US. The left doesn't respect some laws like immigration, so it's quite logical that they are for the mass influx of others who don't respect them either. That's how cultures change, quickly.

I doubt that the "left doesn't respect some laws like immigration". (I doubt that there even exists such a group as "the left" but that's for another discussion)

There are only people who don't come in contact with illegals very often, people who come into contact with them but don't know about their status, and then the people who employ them while knowing their status (and it would make sense to solve the issue there). After all, who would come to the US illegally when no one would give them a job?

>jouralists got assaulted

Yes, I've seen that clip. It still doesn't indicate a wider long-term issue.
For the record, I just read about the use of eagles (not falcons, though they are kept at falconries in France) in combating drones in a daily newsletter I highly respect. Here is the article they cite: http://en.rfi.fr/wire/20170220-born-killers-french-army-groo...

I guess I don't understand how at least the anti-drone eagles can be considered "fake news."
LCS = Longest Common Subsequence. In case someone eants to look it up.
There are inner ring suburbs in the US that have good transit access, short bike trips to jobs, and even dense portions with trendy bars and restaurants, but getting groceries for a family there can still kinda suck. Even if the store is only a mile away, liquids are very heavy.

I've have never used instacart though.
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honestly? because i didn't know the encoding was called quoted printable, lol. I wish I had have known that at the time as it would have saved me a lot of hassle. I'm going to go back now and use a library, as my guessing-at-the-html is probably wrong.

Edit: a quick cursory google shows http://www.dpit.co.uk/decoding-quoted-printable-email-in-c/ as a good enough solution for C#. I feel kind of stupid now, but had honestly never heard of QP encoding before.
Dance of Steel: How Soviet Censors Killed a Great Ballet
disclaimer : i am not an american

Except they did not. US == technology, innovation, risk, success / failure.
Europe == traditional engineering, lack of innovation, fear.

For the sake of argument the automakers are incapable of making an infotainment that would not suck. I do not quiet understand how can people think that traditional automakers while good at making cars, logistics and selling would better and more competitive in TECHNOLOGY than people from Silicon Valley.
Also SV is not trying to make money and compete with automakers at this point. They are in it to win in the long run.
Based on the existing drone combat leagues - a lightweight drone with lots of streamers would do better than a heavyweight drone with any form of weaponry.

Foul the props, and the drone will go down.

Of course, I've also watched an expensive camera octocopter tip itself over and dive bomb the dirt because of a nearby antenna overpowering their delicate GPS.
Maybe this means Mailgun lists feature will be friendly to DMARC? It was such a great solution for domains not really requiring a mail server for inbound mail, that is, until everyone started caring about p=reject (well, except for Gmail - I'm still not sure how much my mail has to not conform to standards before they refuse to deliver to even a spam folder).
Although I prefer a bit more federation - maybe like DNS - overall the idea is really cool!

One other downside: what if the owner of a shared file passes away, or a worker leaves the company, etc.? I guess if the file's that important, then I would have to have downloaded the file ahead of time, and hosted it on "my upspin"? Not saying this is an easy thing to solve for...but maybe ipfs at least addresses that...unless I'm missing something, and upspin does accommodate that use-case?
How dare you ignore the stones beneath your feet. ;0
In fairness, her answer to "greatest need" was documentation. That can grow too large as well, but right now the consensus seems to be that Docker is struggling with features outrunning accurate documentation - so where things aren't pared back, more records would be good.
Upspin Overview
I love the idea of hosting in Greece with a "co-host" country that kicks in a bunch of money and gets to do the opening ceremony.
Long winded title could be a sign of long winded article
I've always wanted to visit the US. I grew up in India and UAE and viewed US as the ultimate place to be. It was my lifelong dream to get a job and settle in the US (and have an American way of life).

The more time goes by, the more the US is moving away from that pedestal I had put it on.(privacy is getting eroded, cops are killing people, the govt. does not trust it's own citizens etc. - and no it's got nothing to do with Trump, this was happening before Trump too - doubt if he'll make it better).

Even now, US still has a lot of ideals I consider dear, but man, they are making it hard for me to even visit the country (wanted to have an all-over-US driving trip when I get my car - but I doubt if that's happening considering recent news)
1. Skim the book in 3 or 4 hours to get idea of high level concepts and how they relate, and where to read in more detail when I hit something I don't understand.

2. Start coding.

3. Refer back to book when I get stuck, and read that section more in depth.
I realized that passion to your work has a huge impact to your application.
If you are software developer (what I excect) and have a job - yeah it is a valid opinion. If you don't want to code in your free time it is up to you.

It doesn't mean that you have a narrow set of interests. It just mean I use a part of my free time to code.
Others are watching tv, playing games or doing other time wasting stuff.
If visiting the US becomes such a big hassle, have your friend visit you instead. If that happens enough, the tourism industry takes a hit.

If this country does not want you to come and spend money here, go spend it somewhere else.
There is some overhead in thread management, yes. But in a server scenario (e.g. a web api) there is already thread management happening, as it all runs in threads from a thread pool.

I don't believe that you pay a significant additional cost per await - i.e. if you have one await in your code, then you might as well use as many as you can to chop the operation up into small parts so that operations can flow through better.

If you "must wait for a thread to become available" for any significant amount of time then you have run out of threads despite being async, and you have other problems.

This article talks about the mechanics of how the operation's completion bubbles back up to your code, in some detail: http://blog.stephencleary.com/2013/11/there-is-no-thread.htm...

See also, avoiding some basic mistakes: http://www.anthonysteele.co.uk/AsyncBasicMistakes

in UI code, there is a guideline that "operations that could take over 50ms should be async" (1) so as to not lock the UI thread. But it's clear that this does not apply to web server code where it's all thread pool threads already.

1) http://blog.stephencleary.com/2013/04/ui-guidelines-for-asyn...
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AMD Ryzen price and release date revealed
The Black Technologist Who Invented the First Internet Search Engine
the thing about Obama is that even if he ultimately made a bad decision you got the feeling (a feeling that i would say is backed up by evidence) that he put thought and care and consideration into decisions.

i'm not trying to apologize for any particular failing of his but i think that explains the huge difference in protest reaction between him and trump
No kidding! I would totally give such a service a serious look for future client work.
This is (mighty) Facebook trying to convey a strong point across to Snapchat by throwing knock out punches from all sides (ephemeral stories in Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp).
I think this is mostly accurate in terms of using github as a way to determine someone's ability to do quality coding (though if someone didn't do well at "whiteboard" coding but had a long history of contributing quality code on github, I'd probably weigh the github code higher), but it seems to me that the benefit of github contributions is more on getting your foot in the door and establishing a reputation.

If you are a solid contributor to well-known projects, it can be very helpful in networking and it's useful in separating you from the pack in the early "resume review" stages.

I don't really know if the expected value of building a reputation in an open source software community is higher than the opportunity cost of other things you could do to help your career, of course. I'm just not sure if "I really don't make hiring decisions based on the code on a github account" is the right metric in this case.
This has nothing to do with libertarianism nor serves as a coherent critique of it. In fact, some of your points are things that we see readily in governments today. As an example, many corrupt police officers exist in many government systems, including western countries. A critique of libertarianism based on such things is not well thought out.
Third time is a charm?

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=alzheimer&sort=byPopularity&pr...
I guess normal people can't avoid that, true. But many people don't even have social networks except for maybe LinkedIn (especially outside the US).
Do you have a local backup of those photos? Every now and then someone's Google Account gets mistakenly shut down by, I presume, some automated risk assessment process and they can have a really tough time contacting anybody to rectify the issue. I'd say you can use Google's services as tools, but not as the basket where you put all your eggs.
As someone trying to get hired in a similar space, if you don't mind me asking, why specifically were you trying to hire her?
I went through Canadian Border Patrol and I had to deal with possibly the most aggressive power hungry person I ever have. I am a US citizen and was just going there with my boyfriend for a weekend trip.
Can you comment on what's happening in this sample (result???) clip? http://www.josesotelo.com/speechsynthesis/files/wav/blizzard...

Also, I notice that many of the result clips trail off in volume. Is that a processing error or intentional in how the clips are edited?
In the case of people with a portfolio on github, it's still somewhat hard to tell what they actually did in the projects, e.g. if they build an app from a template, it looks like a ton, you also can't tell if the resulting thing actually works.
I'm interested to read about this, can you point me in the right direction?
Why do you want to rotate your DKIM keys?
Wouldn't that defeat the point?
A multirotor carrying a heavy payload is not going to have a lot of thrust to spare to apply to the bird. The rotors only typically run in one direction as well, so it couldn't suddenly apply counter thrust.

Most multirotor autopilots also would behave in a very expected fashion when disturbed, making them pretty predictable.
I got my in-laws over to Telegram and we migrated a large group that included lot of retired people over earlier this year ...

but my family is stubborn like myself and refuse to change.

Practical advice or anyone who decides to try:

- recommend it to friends at your age first.

- emphasize ease of use, not security (also I wouldn't even feel comfortable telling people that Telegram is more secure)

- both can be used free of charge so I am fine with communicating with my stubborn siblings on Whatsapp and everyone else on other platforms.
This is not exactly true.

* Canadian' border can ask you for your local passwords.

* You can refuse - at which point, if you are Canadian/PR, you are allowed to enter the country but your device is confiscated and sent to Ottawa for further examination.

* They can NOT ask for online passwords (like your dropbox account for example). THAT SAID, if you give them your local password, and you are logged in to Dropbox, it's fair game.

Furthermore, this has not been through the Supreme Court to set precedence.
In the US at least, this is offset by the fact that large metropolitan areas have excellent D1 college facilities along with multi-use professional sports stadiums. More importantly, those facilities are already being used and will be used in the future.

As far as I can tell, the biggest hassle for American cities is traffic. All of the facilities are there, but putting them into use all at once with tens of thousands of foreign tourists would be an utter nightmare, especially with American reliance on cars and lack of public transportation options.
It would be okay if it was split between the driver and the shopper, but Instacart is basically just tricking people into thinking that they are tipping the people serving them when they are actually just giving money to Instacart.
There's something to be said for just reading manuals. Like, I can mess around with Gimp and get basic stuff done, but I bet if I read a book or manual I would pick on fundamental things that would help me really learn to master the tool.

I like to just read man files of utilities too, even when I have no specific need. It's like broadening my background knowledge to call on later when an opportunity comes up.
I remember those days. You didn't need a passport to cross and half the time you got waved through because you knew the border guard by name.
He spoke at the Republican National Convention when the platform called for conversion therapy and outlawing gay marriage (and did not address the issue at all), and he has donated to a wide range of Republican candidates, most of whom are much more vocally against LGBT rights than Trump is.

I'm not sure these qualify as "active attempts to rip away LGBT rights", but at the very least it seems to be one of his lowest priorities.
Std Lib for JavaScript
Wait, but can't you just ship the xmonad binaries rather than the source?
Suggestion to anybody reading this: don't use a DaemonSet for this. This really ought to be a Deployment of nginx-ingress resources behind a service exposed as `type: LoadBalancer` (if you're in a cloud-provider that supports LoadBalancer services). Then just create DNS aliases and configure nginx to do session affinity if needed, etc. Not only will it be able to scale with your load instead of cluster size, but you can actually update it in a rolling update already; DaemonSets cannot yet do that.

Really the most important part, though, is that DaemonSets are for services that need to run on each host. Like a log collection service [1] or prometheus node exporter [2].

[1] https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/tree/master/cluster...

[2] https://github.com/prometheus/node_exporter
What about calling mmap to map /etc/localtime into memory? The file would still have to be parsed for every call to localtime(), but the system call is avoided.

(Better yet, if it were possible to memory-map the directory entry for /etc/localtime, parsing could be avoided as well).

I agree the best solution is to provide a more sensible API. Why should an application be limited to only _one_ timezone?
But if you have hundreds of initial applicants to sift through, the one having some open-source contributions would surely standout. Even considering that it won't affect your final say, reaching the interview stage is definitely advantageous. I don't agree that lack of Github commits would ever be a deal breaker in hiring, but having them does signal a positive factor provided that the projects and contributions are purposeful.
Microsoft confirms second major Windows 10 update coming in 2017
Not Whatsapp, not officially at least. They will go after anyone who reverse engineers and publicizes an API.

I think at some point they had the (IMO possibly good) idea that they would make the client free of charge and make money by charging for API access for businesses etc but that was before (IMO as usual) they decided to go all in on scooping up user data and trying to copy Snapchat again ;-)
Uhm... I don't think it's hard at all to acquire the materials to build a bomb. I'm not disputing it's still the hard part of planning a terrorist attack, still... A teenager can get a kilo of ammonium nitrate online for 10 dollars, at least where I live.

Maybe ANFO bombs aren't that powerful, but those can't be the only easy options for DIY bombs.

I don't really see how it's a useful priority to try to physically stop terrorist attacks. There obviously aren't that many people who successfully commit them (because the number of related deaths is tiny) and the talk of "well we're stopping a load of them you just don't know because it's classified", yeah... they say that, but why should I believe unqualified statements about other people's secrets?

Why not focus on the factors that make people radicalize, and work on reducing those?

I guess it makes shitty headlines compared to "Kevlar-coated military drone hunting eagles kick evil khaki-person ass".
Exploring Kubernetes Init Container, ConfigMap and Secrets
That's impressive but also quite some effort. Feels like premature optimization when looking at the (rather low) traffic of fromAtoB. On the other side, it's always good to have a scalable deployment when dealing with RoR apps.