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Ask HN: Does it make sense to visit SF for a week?
Always wanted to stay a bit in the Bay area to get to know the tech-scene and there is a cheap flight this Saturday; does it make sense to come to SF for 8 days?
Hiring off-duty police officers to provide security for events is very common. Without their own police departments, universities would be doing this constantly and would likely not be able to find sufficient numbers of off-duty officers for all events for which they wanted to provide security. It also allows universities to provide a higher concentration of law enforcement officials on their campuses than would otherwise be provided by the police departments in the surrounding municipalities. There are definitely problems with policing in the US, but notable exceptions notwithstanding, campus police tend to be among the more community-minded LEOs.
Of course, because the mistakes of a few should cost the jobs of thousands of hard working low to middle-class laborers. Think about the loss of income, benefits, pensions ect... you are advocating for. Because of one stupid decision. Yes, someone should be punished but to call for the dissolution of the entire company is asinine.
How often do you pull those old wedding invitations out and what value do you get by holding onto them?
If "moderate success" is achievable without extreme fortune, then that's a perfectly acceptable target to aim for. I agree that trying to become a billionaire is a fool's errand but if you're trying to become a millionaire, you'll end up more likely to be a billionaire.

I've heard Mark Cuban say numerous times how incredibly lucky he was with Broadcast.com. But he's unapologetic in his belief that he'd be successful. He knew he'd become a millionaire and the work it took to get there, coupled with the right product and the right time is what made him a billionaire.

I have to agree with that. I'm sure Gates, Zuckerberg, Bezos, etc. would all be successful if Microsoft, Facebook, and Amazon didn't become incredible successes. They just wouldn't have been as successful.
No, it's not. It's a federal crime to assault a crewmember. It's a civil offence to intefere with a crewmember while they are carrying out their duties. This can be escalated to a criminal offense but this is not usual for just being difficult. Interference is usually in regards to safety.

Bumping a well behaving passenger in preference of a "more important" one doesn't really fall into either category.

Considering the passenger in this story has already consulted legal counsil, I'm thinking the lawyer agrees that he did nothing wrong.
I wonder if this is a staged attempt (on the part of United, if not also the passenger) to prove that the prior instance was not about race or class (e.g. economy vs. first). "See, we do it to everyone!" Could this latest behavior be used as defensive evidence in a court case alleging discrimination?
Next Generation of DevOps: AIOps in Practice Baidu
I thought of OODA Loop (Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop
The price point is what was explained to me by a developer/project lead as the hardest hurdle. It's a hard sell when someone sees it's $3,000 and not available to consumers for at least another year or two. I have a two pronged question: Is this something you approached the bank about, or is it something they approached you about, and what is your level of autonomy on it (as it is the banking world and there are heavy restrictions on stuff).

Also, what steps did you take to fully learn the technology (MVA, Blogs, VRDC, etc.)?
I met a couple of their team at Golang UK last year, some great tech leadership there by the sounds of things.
I must fly into and out of only the best airports. I've only ever had one thing thrown out; I've never had anything in my checked baggage damaged (and if I'm going for more than overnight, I always check my bag, even though I could carry it on, to avoid fighting for space with other passengers' carryons); the scanning doesn't perceptibly affect me; and I regularly show up at the airport less than an hour before boarding.

I live 45 minutes from CLT, with an office 45 minutes by taxi[0]from JFK, and when I fly into JFK, I can leave the house at 5am and be at the office by 10am.

[0] account_banned on Uber the first time I ever tried to use it, so, taxi it is.
Great, thx. Will look into those to learn. :)
Quite simple - United defines boarding as having everyone seated and the doors closed. Until that point you haven't boarded yet, as stupid as that sounds.
Is it confirmed that kernels before 3.19 are safe?
Opera also has native U2F support, although some services (I'm looking at you, Dropbox) refuse to show the token UI to anything but Chrome via browser UA checking.
What’s new in TouchID iOS 9
TouchID is the biometric authentication technology that Apple introduced in iOS 7 to unlock user devices and make purchases in the App Store. It is built on framework named LocalAuthentication.

See More: https://www.solutionanalysts.com/blog/whats-new-in-touchid-ios-9/
> who's going to be building the building blocks in the future?

There will be tens of thousands of us. The prevailing media narrative will be that there is a crisis, with not enough people available to do the work. This will have less to do with the amount of work and more to do with how much employers would like to pay to have the work done.
The HyperFIDO Mini (U2F Security Key)

clickable link: https://amzn.com/dp/B00WIX4JMC
I am constantly surprised when reading about the US. You would think that there would be more similarities with New Zealand, my home country.

Anecdotally; I flew to Australia a few months ago on an economy-class ticket purchased at very short notice. My trip through both Auckland and Melbourne airports was very pleasant, and I had no need to even interact with any of the personnel the whole way through. The flight was full but not overbooked and we arrived early.

Reading the stories about travel to the US is very discouraging and erases any desire I had to visit. I suppose there isn't much of an incentive to improve anything in the US, because the economy doesn't rely on tourism to the same extent we do here.
White House on edge as 100-day judgment nears
If your bank has a mobile app, it might be easier to MITM and figure out their API and use it directly.
I'm an atheist and don't believe in spirits, but when I came across a viewpoint similar to this a few years ago it really changed how I empathize with people.

I really don't agree with how widely we apply the disease model when thinking of human behaviors. Some people are mentally ill, but the world we live in is more certainly ill. The expected arc of a life in the Western world is that you spend your healthy years working on other people's goals so you can spend the last few years of your life doing what you want with what resources you've amassed and what health you have remaining. We wage wars and torture, reward greed, deny each other healthcare, homes, food, our leaders are cartoon villains. If we manage to find love, it is discriminated against unless it fits into a narrow set of parameters. If we are unlucky, we are born, starve for a few years, and then die of preventable, curable disease.

Happy participation in this society is not rational. As Krishnamurti said, "It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a sick society." I have been lucky in the opportunities that I have had available to me, but it's not hard for me to conceive of situations where the rational choice is to drink oneself to death. Life is unkind to many people.

The ideal solution is to fix all of the world's ills, but obviously that isn't realistic, at least not in our lifetimes. We can make progress, but help will arrive too late for many. I can empathize with those who choose to say that the individual is sick, rather than the world, because the individual is easier to change.

But it's simply not true in some cases. Instead of telling someone, "Something is wrong with you, let's fix it," we should often be telling them, "You're right, there's a lot wrong with your life and the world, and much of that can't be changed; let's see if we can find a way to find you some contentment despite that."

To be very clear: some people are mentally ill. Individuals can be ill AND the world's can be ill. The two are not mutually exclusive.
This perfectly describes my experience in college. I waited for my assumptions to be challenged, but all I found was more boring conformity.
Top Application Security Threats That Can Put You at a Higher Risk
Tara Mann walks the line between weird and sensible
What's a Global Services passenger?
Selenium won't really be impacted, as it's higher-level than PhantomJS.

This is also a great example of why it's smart to use Selenium or something like it for scripting the tests. You can easily swap out for another backend in Selenium, but if you wrote tests in pure PhantomJS, you're now stuck with a codebase that depends on unmaintained software.
It makes for really poor PR, but the substance of the situation is that they want to hire off-duty police officers for security with greater regularity than is possible given the availability of off-duty officers in the Birmingham area. This is essentially the only way they can fund the additional officers that would be necessary to staff their security needs.
ASAP: A Streaming Operator for Smoothing Time Series Visualizations [pdf]
My sodding washing machine does this after completing a washing programme and there's no way to disable it. Seriously, does the manufacturer think I'm going to completely forget I needed clean clothes and bedding for the week?

I also notice my new microwave sits there and keeps chirping at me after heating food until I open the door, it's not as loud and as insistent as the washing machine, but still totally unnecessary behaviour.

A more sensitive soul could eventually be driven bonkers if every flippin' thing in your house and car beeped and booped at you every minute of the day.
Progressive Web App Statistics
It's only been ~15 years.
The university that I went to has ~40,000 students between undergraduate and graduate students, and an additional ~20,000 faculty, staff and other people there at any given day. There were thousands of people living in student housing on campus and tons of sporting events that could draw crowds near the six figures.

They have a deputized police force of people available 24/7 for things as mundane as walking people home safely and as complicated as enforcing local/state/federal laws. They are sworn officers that have an agreement with the city they operate in that allows their jurisdiction to bleed into the city proper.

I never interacted with them when I was a student, but it's not out of this world to have a small police force for the campus - there were more people there on the average weekday than the city that I grew up in, which also had it's own police force.
Have you tried using app specific passwords?
Many/most laws in the US are selectively enforced. A university police force is a prudent way for many/most universities to have university matters taken care of in a way that suits the university. Typically this means doing a lot of menial things (e.g., dealing with underage drinking, esp. in public) that might create liability or a PR nightmare for the university that the local police might not be inclined to deal with. The university police can often be more likely to de-escalate certain matters than local police, and this is generally a good outcome for the school.

At wealthier universities, this is also a way to convince parents that their kids are safe. Harvard, Yale, Penn, and Stanford (off the top of my head) are all in or near not-so-safe neighborhoods -- although gentrification of those areas are making this less of an issue these days.
The company I work at (in Norway) had planed to take all 70 employees to NYC this summer to celebrate a milestone reached.

We just moved the whole thing to Paris instead as we had issues with all of the above, including employees that have visited "dangerous" countries.

The thing that pushed everyone over was when our former prime minster was harassed[1] at the border for having been to a meeting in Iran. It says in his passport that he was a former prime minster, but apparently none is safe from the US border guards.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/03/former-norwa...
A university police force has police powers within a university campus--it can arrest people. I will add that in my college days, the university police did not carry firearms, though now many do.

I imagine that the custom arose because Anglo-American universities tended to be rural or at least in small towns, unlike the continental ones. Remember that universities until about 1900 were exclusively male, so that one was gathering a large number of young men at prime hell-raising age. A college of 500 students might generate more work for police than a town of 2000 citizens might otherwise have, or care to pay taxes to police.
MongooseIM 2.1.0beta1 what happens when you give your team freedom
Every time I've tried setting stuff up to be controlled by a phone it's been a massive faff, so not surprising anything is better than that.

The smart-tv is almost as bad, I'm just going to connect an actual computer to the TV and be done.
Some TSA clown once told me I had to throw away my water and we just stared at each other for a bit. "My water, seriously?" "Yep, your water." "Water." "Water."

Fuck the TSA and fuck the terrified Americans who keep voting to keep them.
Ah, yes, being extorted to not remove your shoes.
Apologies for the paywall folks; if anyone is interested in reading the original research WSJ is reporting on, this is it: http://us.spindices.com/documents/spiva/spiva-us-year-end-20...

The Cliff's Notes are these:

* 82% of all U.S. funds trailed their respective benchmarks over 15 years.

* 66% of large-cap actively managed funds trailed benchmarks.

* 89.4% of mid-cap actively managed funds trailed benchmarks.

* 85.5% of small-cap actively managed funds trailed benchmarks.
I don't develop games... But if I did I would create a game called "United flight agent". You would be standing in the aisle facing the rear of the plane. Each round you would have a goal number of passengers to forcibly remove.

You would walk up and down the aisle and punch out selected passengers. Once you had suitably subdued a passenger you click a security badge and the "Airport Rental Security" guys come and drag the passenger off.

The game timer would be a chart of United's share price. The round is over when the price hits zero.

The price could rise and fall with certain events:. A passenger stumbling back on the plane for instance.

The game would end immediately if you punched a baby - even United agents don't punch babies!

Feel free to run with it!!
JavaScript changes slowly, and adoption of its changes is even slower. TypeScript has the major benefit of working now.

Also, TS is a superset of JS, so the fact that it's a different language isn't really problematic.
Angular 2 was written with TypeScript.
> I haven't used TypeScript extensively, but I feel that there should be more of a push (maybe there is, please correct me if I'm wrong) to introduce whatever functionality people deem worthy that exists in TypeScript and introduce it to JavaScript.

There is a huge push going on. But Javascript has a consensus driven community: all the big players involved have to agree on something for it to be adopted (Google, Apple, Microsoft, Mozilla, etc.). Plus, even when it's adopted there's usually a 2-5 year delay before mass diffusion.
Of course, I'm aware of these things, but I still stick to the 2 tiers of service. The unbundling doesn't really create a new tier of service, it's just poor customer service. Hotels could charge extra for pillows. And TSA precheck and Global entry are not airline offered services.
Paying for an aisle seat is a thing only because seat pitch has been squeezed over the years to where a middle seat sucks.
They bumped a rich guy in this instance. I'm not sure how this can amount to a "frontal assault on human dignity" by asking a dude to relinquish his seat when there's a conflict. They had too many people in first class and they gave priority to the seat not on who had already entered the plane but to the higher member in their club? Easy to disagree or think you would have done it the other way but this isn't really an assault on human dignity. And the great thing, they didn't consider net worth or anything like that. They treated their valued customer in their program by rewarding him with his or her seat at the expense of someone who wasn't enrolled in their program.

> This is boat allocation on Titanic all over again.

This is just funny in this instance.
The attacker who gets access to the filesystem of your phone can almost certainly defeat any "encryption" a TOTP authenticator would use to protect secrets, so the premise of phone-based authenticators is that your phone isn't going to get compromised.

This is reasonable when you consider that if your computer --- the least secure device you own --- is compromised, your attacker is virtually certain to get your email account with it, because you'll have (at some near point) a logged-in session.

Meanwhile: the #1 concern that laypeople have about security tokens is that they'll be locked out of their account when they lose the token. Authenticator (or Duo) is a perfectly sane answer to that concern.

Finally, it's worth adding that at least the last time I helped someone set this up, you can't remove your phone number as a factor from your Google account until you have TOTP set up. Your phone number is an extremely insecure login factor.

We use, and recommend, Google Authenticator as a backup login factor.

We do not recommend Yubikey 4 keys for normal users. Nerds on HN might get a kick out of them; I say, go ahead and enjoy yourself. We're trying to solve problems for people who aren't computer experts.
Yeah but as I said a lot of those tools were for populating a bare logic board though that he didn't end up doing because a repair shop told him he could expect to waste 4+ boards before making on that worked so I don't really think that's part of the cost of the phone since they weren't used in the final product or making it.
Amazon's 2016 Letter to Shareholders
Not at all.

MS-DOS was written in Assembly, just like any application where performance mattered.

CRUD applications were mostly written in an xBase dialect, with Clipper being the prominent one.

Turbo Pascal, Turbo C, Turbo C++, Turbo Basic, Quick Basic, Quick C, Quick Pascal.... All of them had plenty of users.

I own MS-DOS system programming books, with examples in Assembly, Pascal, Basic and C for both Microsoft and Borland variants.
Holographic GIS: Toms River Deploys World’s First Holographic GIS Application
You can use PhantomJS as the backend on a Selenium script, and this news clearly demonstrates the utility of a higher-level API than using PhantomJS directly. If your tests are in Selenium, changing backends is generally a small matter.

I started writing in Selenium instead of CasperJS (a PhantomJS frontend) because PhantomJS experienced intermittent bugs on the page I was trying to access. I think you're right that "real browsers" are still much more reliable for complex use cases, but the low profile of PhantomJS is definitely nice when it works.
Esoteric doesn't mean "non-existent" or "spiritual". It means "understood only be those with specialized knowledge". I meditate daily and have a made a study of my own consciousness for years. I have some esoteric knowledge about the subject. That doesn't make it any less esoteric.
>The Alabama Senate voted Tuesday to allow Briarwood Presbyterian Church to hire fully deputized officers who would carry weapons and have the authority to make arrests.

So presumably the church is paying for these officers? If so, I'm fine with that. Private companies pay for security all the time. But the fact that the officers are fully deputized (having the powers of government police) gives me pause, and may be the thing that makes this unconstitutional.
What sold me on TypeScript was that it didn't just add features, it actively solved a problem I'd been experiencing.

Once a JavaScript project scales beyond what can fit in your head, JS's initial productivity boost crumbles because you have to constantly double back and make sure your methods/constructors/etc. are correctly used, which properties are optional, etc... A lot of the debugging happens in runtime and god help you if you try to make a breaking change to one of the major classes/apis in your project.

It's not unbearable, but the main reason for using JS is because of the productivity it allows.

With TS for the cost of taking the time to explicitly define your data you get a C#/Java level of debugging that has clear productivity gains and shifts your debugging from the browser/console to the IDE.

And when something doesn't fit the TS model you can just exclude it or only type the wrappers that integrate with the rest of your project.

That and async/await is a godsend over promises.
To discuss a feature proposal, it might be useful to contact the moderators directly using the |contact| link at the bottom of the page.

My personal take is that the number of interesting discussions that notification of responses would generate is probably significantly fewer than the number of inflamed discussions it would prolong.
The first two paragraphs fits in the most stereotypes of any article I've read. A better one is Matt Walsh's, http://matt-welsh.blogspot.com/2010/11/why-im-leaving-harvar...
Great presentation on use of Go to build large distributed apps. Good open source tech developed there (see https://github.com/monzo). Also -- They appear to be hiring (located in the UK): https://boards.greenhouse.io/monzo
I think that in the US, we've been fighting for some long about how much to cut government, the idea of proposing to create a new category of spending just doesn't occur to Democrats. The closest they can come to imagining something new is free college (which is the same what we have now [free high school, college scholarships] but more so) and free daycare (which is like free preschool but younger).
I suspect if you are a diabetic that actually cares about his/her blood sugar, you wouldn't give two hoots as to the company that made it easier to monitor. You would simply want the device.
Cannot agree enough.

I'm studying (at my own pace) the book, practicing the problems, and watching the lectures--I even downloaded the Panopto iPhone app to watch lectures while on the bus ride into work.

The course is very rewarding: x86, memory systems, systems programming, linking, socket programming ... all packed in a single book, providing a holistic view of systems, from a programmers perspective.
The Statement near the top seems unambiguous:

> This issue does not affect the Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and 7, Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2, and realtime kernels as the code that introduced the flaw is not present in these products.
GPS would work, but maps would stop working after a while.
> You Are Not the Code You Write

Unless you're really passionate about your work. Take this from developers and programming will become just a job.

All the things the author mentioned in this article is just a bunch of statements probably based on their personal experience.
U2F Yubikeys are so cheap and available (Amazon will ship them Prime) that I'm not sure why you'd waste time looking for alternatives.
Have you tried Elm? Id love to know your experiences.
Lets say there are 50 people in the lowest priority (fare class[0]). It'll pick from random out of these 50 people.

Come'on this is hacker news. I am sure most here have seen the mainframe based applications that entirely control every aspect of airline industry.

These things were coded by professionals over 30 years ago. Its not like these flights are being managed by some buggy wordpress plugin made by some offshore developer.

[0] http://www.cwsi.net/united.htm