skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The ban is supposedly based on those cities' airports having sub-par security screening.

That reason is weak if one has ever flown out of Istanbul Ataturk (IST). It has has three security checkpoints to board the plane. You go through one just to enter the airport, one to get into the departure gate area (the standard one we know of), and right before you board the plane, there's a third check.

Yes, there was a suicide attack last June, but that happened at the outer layer--the entrance. I doubt other airports would have fared better except for ones in Israel (but I haven't been there). Also, those attackers were not intent on boarding a plane with the device we're proposing.

I know airport security can be inconsistent and people criticise it for being theatre, but with three chances of catching someone, I have no qualms flying out of Ataturk.
The camera isn't your accuser. The municipality is your accuser, using the evidence from the camera as proof of the law being broken.

If you break into a building and get busted by an automated silent alarm, the alarm isn't the one accusing you.
Plenty of parts of Google have done UA-sniffing all over the place. Opera, even after being Chromium based, have had plenty of problems as a result: the UA doesn't match so therefore they get an "unsupported" or "degraded" experience.
The car could safely stop at the intersection, but it would have stalled if he did so.

He made a human decision, a judgement call, to roll through the stoplight: one that would have been supported by a police officer, who could also apply common sense to the situation. The traffic camera and bureaucracy, unable to apply any decision-making or judgement or common sense, is in the wrong here.
https://thedma.org/accountability/dma-choice/
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A company has an IT director who upon review has determined that Linux workstations would be acceptable for some of his users now due to the fact he uses onedrive.

He tests this solution, finds it slow and decides to stick with Microsoft.

This is probably a happy accident but one they won't move quickly to fix.
My dad and brother are in construction and plumbing. They talk about this all the time. Tech industry has a lot of bullshit apps because most developers don't know how other industries work.

Kudos for you to find a under-represented industry and make a dent.
I recommend planning for 4.10, 4.11, etc. rather than introducing breaking changes.
I think you're being a little bit aggressive about the when's and the how's. I think there's nothing wrong with saying "Don't worry about that until next week, we'll be discussing that in another lecture" as long as it does in fact get explained. I don't think the statement should be "it's magic, ignore it," ever.

At most universities I've seen, CS101 assumes no programming experience, so if you want to show a real Java code block there's going to be a lot of stuff a student's never seen before.

I also think this is why languages with REPLs and relatively few syntax modifiers (like Python) are good for intro courses. You can fire up a REPL and type `print "Hello World"` and it'll do just that. The students don't have to see any "don't worry about it" type stuff.

edit We may have been agreeing about the "print Hello World" part and the Python part. The problem is that some universities (like my Alma Mater) had the hard requirement of all CS and IT students started with Java.
Great to hear that. Deploy boards is one of the few features that came from our own vision more than customer requests. So we're very happy to get validation that this is something people need. GitLab 9.1 will have canary deploys and an automatically deploy board to make deployments even better.
How is it a walled garden when it's merely a content creating app ala Camera? You post the videos on Instagram or Facebook or Twitter... did you read the article? There is no social network aspect...
Yep, the education system is a juicy target for the rich and the powerful to subvert. Laser guided bombs and foreign trade agreements are not the machinations of people who worship ignorance.
"Gee doc, it's simulations all the way down!"
Trading usability for screen real-estate? Sounds like your designers have gone off the deep end and fail to realize that Gitlab is a productivity tool, not an art piece.
> If the cost of these wraps can come down...

Unfortunately that "if" has been the problem with all those kind of products for years. They just don't have the economy of scale to bring it down - catch 22 :(
They're not losing any money. It's not like someone is going in their bank account and taking that money.

They simply won't be making that 17mm off of people.
My father met a top exec (later president) of Toyota in the 80s, he came to my house and met our dog. Some time later we saw him writing on a little black notebook.

A decade later, the exec invited my father, and during the dinner conversation he asked about his children and dog by name... that was pretty impressive, and an example of how to manage relationships.

LinkedIn doesn't (yet) give you that kind of information (I guess some good CRMs do?)
I suppose the circle with its ideal properties (ie. smallest area to circumference ratio) allows for denser packing, or at least for easier calculation of packing because there are literally no corner cases
Introducing our Global Startup Contest - open for all Entrepreneurs, no regional limitations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOLAw4nR6IQ
I particularly like your tool!
I can't wait for somebody to send me a screenshot of the salaries and ask me why are we paying $150K when StackOverflow says we can find people for $58K.
If you come at it in terms of distributions and information, some information (the observed) has a distribution over possible states, and some other information (the observer) has a distribution over possible states. When you transition from two systems to one system by interaction, these distributions are no longer independent. As a result, if your definition of objective is that something has a definite state independent of the context, that is demonstrably false. I'm pretty sure this holds regardless of which interpretation of QM you adhere to, even "deterministic" ones like Bohmian Mechanics, as in that case the observer influences the wave function, which in turn influences the forces acting on particles, producing a modified system.

I'm not arguing that information doesn't exist, that would be silly. My point is that perception (which requires interaction) is impossible without becoming part of the system you are perceiving. Different observers will produce different combined systems, and thus the thing being observed is to some degree inherently subjective. Like I said, the magnitude of this effect is debatable, but that it exists is unquestionable.
https://snapdrop.net had 20k views within first day of launch and 500k in the first year
The article you're referring to is here:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/01/op-ed-how-i-turn...
I don't think so, I think the person was utilising Hanlons razor[0]:

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor
First of all, big shoutout to InboxSDK / Streak folks. Our extension, Fyle (http://www.fyle.in) would've been ridiculously more difficult without it.

We're having an issue with Gmelius interacting badly with our extension. Basically, we never enter our messageViewHandler code when Gmelius finds a tracker. Have reached out to them as well.
Throttling does help if they can get away with it. Now where did I put my windows phone...
They blamed it on a rogue employee, and then claimed that they had removed all our typos and that we would need to sue them if there was anything more we needed to demand. It wasn't until the patent came out, two years later, that we could finally get them to stop shipping their crap.

If we had been offered something that lasted half as long but issued twice as fast, we would have taken that in a heartbeat.
The solution is rather simple: decouple traffic enforcement and rule-making from the revenue stream they generate.

(Not that I'm convinced that these "injustices" people claim are more than anecdotes, or that there is an alternative to red light cameras that doesn't involve actual cops stopping people and the very real injustices of racial profiling and just-shooting-people we've recently seen in that practice.)
Malignant Computation
Counterpoint: I run a matte black with no case and have not run into this issue at all.
/u/dalfonso suggests checking for a sticker that starts with X covering the package's original barcode [0], but that only works after you receive the item. I don't think there's any way to tell before you buy, other than asking the vendor or other customers.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13927309
I was impressed by this part:

> In recent years, light therapy has experienced something of a backlash in Sweden, and Malmö’s clinic is one of only a handful that remain. In part, this was a response to a 2007 study by the Swedish Council on Technology Assessment in Health Care, which reviewed the available evidence and concluded that “although treatment in light therapy rooms is well established in Sweden, no satisfactory, controlled studies have been published on the subject."

My first thought was "Wow, a whole country that reacts to scientific articles and statements about the lack of controlled studies."

(Of course, the article goes on to say that light therapy shouldn't really be discredited yet, as controlled studies are hard.)
I'd argue that extra screen real estate for the content that matters often lends itself toward better UX, but any specific suggestions for improvements would be appreciated. :)
I'm eager to see how IPFS integrates the IPNS & IPLD layers and how it affects the open linked data context...
Right. But he's suggesting that if they don't recognize the browser that they inject as much polyfills as they can so everything works no matter what.
So you use it in conjunction with an alarm? Or is it your primary alarm (built in)?
Is there an api for users that might want to integrate alternative schedulers for these features? Would be lovely to be able to integrate Nomad somewhat natively.
This is a great example of something compilers definitely do better than humans writing assembly.

Inlining code, especially with multiple passes, is something humans don't do. I still modularize in assembly and write functions, factor code used in multiple places into a single spot. The compiler is free to expand the same function inline a thousand places, and then use the expanded code to collapse to fewer instructions.

The flattening can definitely be cool to see. So in your example, what would you have done if you'd written the assembly yourself? Do you feel like the compiler did something you wouldn't have?
Stopping safely wasn't a problem. The issue was getting going again, because it'd stall out at a complete stop. Considering I'd chosen a time when the roads were virtually empty, and a route that consisted entirely of four lane roads, I wasn't endangering anyone.

I'd also already blown through my tow insurance by having it towed several times to local shops who couldn't diagnose or correct the issue, so I'd have had to foot the bill for a long distance tow on something that three shops found no issue with, which was rather difficult being completely broke at the time.
No to the gourmet coffee. They can have it, but they need other options for the non-coffee drinkers. I propose chai tea lattes and fruit smoothies.

It's a lot cheaper than office space in Silicon Valley...
I'm working on my own channel at the moment if anybody is interested. Still trying to build content, but I'd appreciate feedback.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzvhjBHSW6wLNnyAOEj9u2w
Sorry about that, we've replaced the links with screenshots.

The problem is that we can't measure Unicorn timings with Prometheus since it is multi-process. Our Prometheus team is working to fix this for everyone.
Yes. It is a joke.
Obviously it works on Linux; the slow down is the direct result of OneDrive's User-Agent based code paths.
Preparing for the Transition to Data Engineering
I've heard about jobs like that, but I would never take one. There are far less insane developer jobs out there, and you could try to find one!

Development time is inherently very hard to predict, so strict deadlines - even if set by people who understand the technical issues don't make a lot of sense. There many books on this, and I won't try to summarize them here.

Still, if you have a deadline, you can use your time however you want before the deadline, right? So if it's better/faster to clean up the code after you made it work than to try to type everything perfectly the first time, what's stopping you?

Or is it that the deadlines are so tight that you only have time to write terrible code?
To be clear, I never said anything about "semiconductor foundries" (I can only hazard a guess as to what this might mean), I said "semiconductor company".
"I don't understand JSON, what do you do if JSON doesn't cover all your use cases?"

Uh, then don't use it. Nobody said JSON was the answer to everything.
The creator of JSON is right: without comments, people won't be tempted to encode directives in comments like we have with XML.

Want comments? Pipe through json5. Still vastly simpler than XML.

It's hard to take people's criticism seriously every time JSON comes up. There's a sibling comment that even suggests that it's a mistake to use JSON for config in the first place. C'mon.
Cool, simple idea.

If you don't mind answering, how many users do you have?

I feel like for making money, you could pitch the solution to Google and ideally get them to buy it.
http://www.manta.com/c/mm3k9t4/phoenix-international-a-john-...
So... Just lie? This isn't going anywhere, the platform isn't supported. I'm pretty sure the powers that be remembered that Linux was a thing when they made that decision.
Could you give more details? I'm interested about it.
Thanks! Did you try to sign up? I would appreciate any feedback you have.
I've never had a problem. Probably you have some special use case that puts extra strain on the weakest link in the cord. Don't worry about it, you are the person warranty replacement is meant to protect.

Occams Razor tells me the Ear Pods are well made, given that Apple replaces them for free during the warranty period, and if you are nice to Apple Store personnel sometimes even out of warranty.

I have lots of criticisms of Apple, esp. the long delays in refreshing the Mac lineup. But of all their flaws, not knowing their costs ain't one of them (esp. with Tim Cook in charge), and so is not fixing them when it becomes a problem.
It seems something more like:

case @useragent
when 'Windows'
send file fast
when 'OSX'
send file fast
else
sleep 3600
Google Chrome resolves three random domains at startup (2012)
So, that's an open question -- do the sorts of infractions that red light cameras catch make roads less safe? Does the installation of red light cameras make roads more safe? As it turns out, no. The installation of red light cameras in Chicago has actually increased rear-end collisions that result in injury by 22%.[1]

And that's what I mean by moral hazard. Revenue generation by these means changes the city's incentive. Rather than having traffic laws and enforcement designed to increase safety, you have laws and enforcement designed to turn the greatest part of your city's population into offenders as possible, in order to maximize your revenue generation, at the expense of public safety.

And it's an injustice because the well-off simply pay their fines and move on, while the poor end up trapped in a neverending cycle of fines and punishments, because the inability to pay the first fine leads to a cascade of involvement with a court system pressured to produce revenue, not justice or fairness.

1) https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/12/major-chicago-st...
There's a lot of anecdotal evidence.

The evidence from actual trials is at best weak.
There's one thing about some renter on Airbnb being a boofhead and another when governments are being run by boofheads

ACLU need to choose their wars and if YC can help them hone their skills so they win more meaningful wars for the masses then that's a good thing.
Link is giving me a massive, jumbled page of mixed characters suggesting something is broken.

If you're seeing what I'm seeing, here is a Google Cache version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:WUGP7Ho...
All I want is a standard date format. I had it with .Net's `/Date(xyz)/` format.
Reid Hoffman has joined Microsoft's board
So every time I buy a swifter or razor or dryer I have to do thorough research on things like power consumption, cost of replacement parts etc. No! I have a life, I have other things to do. I buy from large brand names like Lexar because I expect them to be honest and engage in fair dealing and because researching every aspect of products I buy would be a full time job in itself.
I really like Stripe's Node API, it is a pretty class act all around. Their documentation is top-notch.

(Also they have lurkers in HN so if you complain, you get someone from Stripe offering help. :))
The top 8 companies from Y Combinator W17 Demo Day 2
They're not good for surfing the web either, they're just better than phones, purely because of the larger screen. They still have all the same limitations, especially with the lack of a keyboard. I could browse Reddit or HN on a tablet, but there's no way to write my own comments longer than maybe one sentence because there's no keyboard. So it's fine for reading news stories, but that's about it; anything that involves interaction is just too cumbersome to bother. And if you suggest hauling around a separate keyboard, now you've made it so I might as well just bring my laptop.
What if you just set up an nginx reverse proxy?

gitrepo.mycompany.com/product.git --> reverse proxy to git.mycompany.com/gitrepo/product.git

Should be straight forward in nginx
Like with onions.
Some of the comments in the linked thread go into this, but nobody was able to provide hard evidence of short yellows.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13930194 and marked it off-topic.
Cant send Spotify -> Youtube.
Cant send Spotify -> XLS for free.
Uninstall.
It's much harder to hide racial bias in fixed camera installations, which can be nicely illustrated on a map, than in the day-to-day decisions of individual police units.

These decisions are also made by different groups of people, and a city's elected leadership tends to better reflect the population's diversity than the police department.
Apropos whatevs, that is some wild indentation. The block at the bottom, that actually does the connect, none of the code after the if is what it looks like it is. If you know the author, might mention this.
Please don't do ideological flamewars on HN.
> They can't be throttling based on user-agent... right?

It can be, but not for the motives many would assume. I can imagine them white-listing clients that they've thoroughly tested with advanced functionality, and blocking it for others.

I'm not for a second suggesting this is a wise course of action, but I also really don't think it's a cynical attempt to make Linux a less viable platform. It's just cover-your-ass behaviour for a corporate-focused product.

User agent sniffing is usually a bad shortcut for feature detection, and little more.
The phrase shameless self-promoter comes to mind.
Anybody know when the developer preview / early access for Gmail Add-ons is likely to happen?
Unless the protest included the 51% of the population it is possible that only a small vocal minority wants the change.
This is a really stupid question, but all info about startups and making it in any field seems to be muddled with all this grinding bullshit, but is there any way to really succeed at any moonshot dream like a successful startup or business or athletics without "grinding" and sacrificing the now for the future?

Are there examples, of hopefully non wunderkid geniuses, who succeeded by just clocking in and giving it their all? Without the help of adderall, microdosing, or any other "nootropic"?
FIA Startup Contest at Formula E Mexico – Focus: Smart City Autonomous-Cars IIoT
"performing everyday tasks such as ... streaming YouTube 4K videos"

to your phone? what's the point?
This seems disingenuous. I mean, the "as long as" is the key qualifier. If I showed you someone who uses sublime and someone who does all their coding in notepad, and asked you to bet on which was a better programmer (for some metric of better) can you honestly say that you wouldn't bet against the notepadder?
I've looked at their website. Is Gitlab basically a self hosted Github and Heroku style (app containers) like product?
This is a really stupid question, but all info about startups and making it in any field seems to be muddled with all this grinding bullshit, but is there any way to really succeed at any moonshot dream like a successful startup or business or athletics without "grinding" and sacrificing the now for the future?
Are there examples, of hopefully non wunderkid geniuses, who succeeded by just clocking in and giving it their all? Without the help of adderall, microdosing, or any other "nootropic"?
I haven't learned Scala yet. I'm referring to a .NET library (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.collections....).
It seems the issue is on the wrong issue tracker. Our omnibus lead Marin will make sure that it lands in the right place and gets some attention (see the comment from ZJ).

Edit: more info in the issue you've posted.
I want to say they sponsored a NASCAR or Indycar race.
About the "ship it (optimize later)" point: The interpretation seems to completely opposite to the data. It seems most people seem to disagree with it.

It's also most reasonable from experience. Everybody experience stuff that is supposed to be optimized later but then never gets revisited until it's rewritten completely 20 years later (again with the idea to just ship it of course).
> In essence you are moving responsibility for data integrity away from the DB and in to your app, something I think is quite dangerous.

This is only necessarily true of specific "instances" of NoSQL. MongoDB has supported server-side schema enforcement since Dec 2015, for example. Most likely other relatively mature NoSQL systems have similar features. There's certainly nothing about NoSQL which makes server-side schemas impossible.

The issue is social, not technical. I believe that people that want to use NoSQL dislike schemas - or believe that their use case is too hard to describe with a schema. Most NoSQL databases won't have schema validation set up even if the feature is available.
Why can't you setup a redirect in nginx?
I would like to thank whoever changed the title of this post. The old title led this comment section to the generic patents are bad discussion while not addressing the substance of the article. It was clear the people commenting hadn't actually read the article. The new title has already started steering the conversation towards what the article actually says and people will be educated about the exhaustion doctrine.
"document rather than create"

what does this mean?
WhatsApp to bring back text status, rollout for Android users starts next week
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Sketchpad III Demo [video] (1963)
Boy, that landing sure could use additional marketing copy.