skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
he'd have outsourced long-haul international flights to 50-seat CRJs...

Smisek did do it with the long-range 757s he gained in the Continental merger. Smaller plane, less crew...and just enough range to get back if the headwinds are light. If not, it's an unscheduled 90 minute refuel in Canada. Add the time to clear immigration and customs, and now you have 200+ people with a missed connection.

http://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=699955

I've had it happen to me, it's not fun.
That's not the point. There was no "bid." Maybe you don't understand what an opportunity cost is? No other fiber provider in the future is going to go into city sanctioned "Verizon fiber territory" and try to offer FTTH service now or in the future.

Also this is a classic telecom tactic, carriers put in skeletal infrastructure and let it sit fallow. If NYC comes along next year and decides to do Metro Area Broadband, Verizon's army of lawyers will come along and cry "Foul" saying the city has an unfair advantage and get an injunction against the city's plans. They will tie this up in court for as long as possible. Again an opportunity cost.

And yes there was also a financial cost to the federal taxpayer as well as New York residents with this FIOS debacle.

First the local cost to New York residents:

>"Verizon raised traditional wired telephone rates in New York some 84 percent between 2006 and 2009, blessed by regulators in return for its "massive investment in fiber optics."[1][2]

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2014/5/14/5716802/game-of-phones-how...

[2] https://www3.dps.ny.gov/pscweb/WebFileRoom.nsf/Web/B849A0203...

And the cost to the Federal tax payer is that these carriers receive FCC broadband subsidies for upgrades and investments to their network regardless of how incomplete the project is. [3]

[3] http://www.pcworld.com/article/2147360/fcc-adds-9-billion-to...
Intel Haskell Research Compiler
With Uber Limping Wounded, Lyft Makes a Deal with Wall Street’s Angel of Death
Given that divorce is a $50 billion industry http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/06/divorce-documentary..., I'm guessing that automating divorce has a lot more market potential
The Ironic Value of Labour
How to Get Ideas and How to Measure – Stewart Butterfield and Adam D'Angelo
People usually like to interact with other people for that "human touch", and even quote it as a reason why they won't lose their job to automation.

I think I would rather interact with a robot than with a crew that has procedures so rigid (and dumb) that they are not allowed to have empathy.

I think that's sadly representative of the corporate mindset brought to the extreme. The consumer is not king anymore, it's a product.
When did this start? I wonder.
Super duper invitation only "elite" frequent flyer status.

See the welcome kit here: http://pizzainmotion.boardingarea.com/2017/02/07/inside-2017...
The agents at the lounges are United employees. Usually much better and more helpful employees than those st the gate, which is one reason I find it worth paying about $500 a year for a membership. When things get messed up, they can fix it more quickly and easily (and there's rarely a line).
KPMG Fires 6 Over Ethics Breach on Audit Warnings
I usually dump it in the trash at the line. I feel sorry for the cleaning staff, but whatever, fuck it. Anyone with brains understands how useless all this is, but it's the TSA, so brains are not involved.
Why is that a big deal? You're warned not to bring bottles of liquids before you even get into the TSA line. Sure the TSA is bunch of security theatre in some cases, but if there's a rule there, why do you have to be a prick about it?
Automating compliant zero touch infrastructure with HashiCorp
Sad that this isn't the top comment. The most qualified voice being quoted in this entire thread is completely drowned out by sensationalism.
Now that I read it again, I noticed the sentence structure reads like a non native English speaker. At first I just paid attention to words that were wrong that was read like a bad autocorrection.
Detecting these kinds of behaviors is hard without generating false positives. GPS on phones arent always the most reliable thing, especially if the user is opening and closing the app.

An app that did try to stop this type of behavior was Pokémon Go. It took them a while to do even halfway well.
I'm assuming they are referring to: https://www.chromestatus.com/features/5678767817097216

Or something pretty close to it.
Is there any progress on electric aircraft that can match the durability and throughout of existing planes?
Unfortunately they limit app capabilities (such as iCloud, keychain access), so you can't use those even for your personal account.
Because only around 1% of all C developers care to use such band aids.
There's a fixed memory solution that doesn't suffer from the boundary condition that allows you to double the rate. It's pretty straightforward, so I'll describe it in prose, since it's 6am and I'd rather not get the code wrong. :)

The approach uses a ring buffer. If you're not familiar with them, they are a fix-sized array or linked list that you iterate through monotonically, wrapping around to the beginning when you are at the limit. Our ring buffer will hold timestamps and should be initialized to hold 0's -- ensuring that only someone with a time machine could be rate limited before they send any requests. The size of the buffer is the rate limit's value, expressed in whatever time unit you find convenient.

As each request comes in, you fetch the value from the buffer at the current position and compare it to current time. If the value from the buffer is more than the current time minus the rate limit interval you're using, then you return a 420 to the client and are done. If not, their request is ok and you should serve it normally, but first you store the current time stamp in the buffer and then advance the counter/index.
These are indeed answers, but they aren't the real answers.

The real answer for "why not a smartphone app" is "because code generators are just as phishable as passwords". In the real world, that's how people are being compromised, not by elaborate phone exploit pivots but by phishing pages. It also speaks to why phone authenticators are acceptable backups to tokens.

The real answer for "why not SMS" is "because both teenagers and intelligence services can get a phone number redirected; your phone number is not your phone."

Obviously, you don't PIN-lock a U2F token; the answer to "what if it's stolen" is "whoever stole it probably doesn't have your password, which they'll need in order to use the token, so if your token is stolen remove it from your account and then fish $17.99 out of your couch cushions and buy a new one".
I agree with the survivor bias imbued with this sentiment, but I don't know if Operation Barbarossa is a good parallel to draw in this case. The Wehrmacht was targeting Moscow, the capital, then Hitler changed his mind, and overruled the generals. Combine with his later orders to never give up Stalingrad, I doubt his case is applicable for the poitns 3) and 4) of the article.
From the docs it sounds like it is largely compatible with Selenium https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/lkgr/headle...

If that is true, the takeScreenshot() should work as normal hopefully.
The file date on the untested cryptography is 4/1/17.
I am very curious what you did to kill it. I have been unable to with anything short of a hammer or soldering iron.
Data watchdog looks at whether No 10 covered up Uber correspondence
One way that my team practices this is we don't allow the use of the word 'you' in Code Reviews. Because ultimately you are not talking about the person who wrote it but an artifact of their work. For example: "Can you explain why you did it this way?" vs "This code is hard to follow.". It's a simple rule we do that helps remove some of the personal nature of critiquing someone's work.
what Docker image are you using?
Uber’s Top Secret “Hell” Program Exploited Lyft’s Vulnerability (Paywall)
Disable your extensions one by one until you identify the one leaking memory.
What would you recommend to do? Go to meetups / what else? is there a website where I can see all cool events in SF for next week?
I haven't; I haven't tried Flow either which looked promising.

For kicks I tried the online Elm demo. Offhand it doesn't seem like Elm highlights errors inline(?). The syntax also looks a little foreign, whereas TS generally still looks like JS with a few exceptions.

I imagine Elm/Flow both have this, but another thing I like that TS does in VSCode at least with a watching task is collecting errors project-wide in a "problems" window.
I don't see the difference. What is mental health treatment besides "significant transformation in consciousness"?
A Barclays exec who went to prison for LIBOR-rigging breaks his silence
Second wkhtmltopdf ... I love PhantonJS but wkhtmltopdf is a better tool for PDFs.
It's both sad to see an incredibly useful project be sunsetted and exciting that it's no longer needed. I remember a project that used phantomjs to scrape an old government camping site to build a compatibility layer on top.

Thank you, if you're reading.
> If you can get up out of bed in the morning, have a brain that works, and live in a free country - you have all the luck you need to be successful.

In general I agree with this, though of course there are exceptions. One of my brothers had a mental disability that required him to have 24/7 care. His main caretaker was my mother, and as a sibling I helped where I could. This was bad "luck" not only for my brother, but also my mother. She was always ambitious but my brother's disability needs took over most of her time and energy, leaving her with very little to pursue any financial/career success. Anyway, that's just one example.

I think there are many clear paths in the U.S. to becoming a millionaire. Most U.S. citizens can pick up a career guide and learn about high-paying careers and what it takes to get into it. I did this with becoming a software engineer. Then it was just a matter of following the well-beaten path. Go to school -> get computer science degree -> take up one of the many opportunities -> properly manage finances and save/invest.

Of course, this all requires some degree of luck. I was born a white male in America. This alone put me off to a great advantage over someone born in a poor corrupt country. I haven't had any known health or genetic issues, which is another fortunate circumstance.

Like you said, as long as you have a reasonable/average amount of health, then there are a lot of opportunities. As individuals we just need the courage and be willing to put in the work to make it happen. But let's never get too full of ourselves, because there is luck involved with any success.
From the abstract:

"...embedded platforms are highly event-based, and Rust’s memory safety mechanisms largely presume threads.
In our experience developing an operating system for embedded systems in Rust,
we have found that Rust’s ownership
model prevents otherwise safe resource sharing common in the embedded domain, conflicts with the reality of hardware resources,
and hinders using closures for programming asynchronously..."
It was VOLKSWAGEN --NOT BMW-- that created the emissions scandal by programming their cars to change the engine running parameters when the detected the conditions of the emissions test.

first article found of 641000
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34324772

BMW is actually doing it right
http://www.bmwblog.com/2016/02/16/top-five-current-diesel-bm...

sheesh

(edit: add BMW story link)
How to create an ecommerce site in no time
http://www.practicaldiabetes.com/article/fat-protein-countin...

doesn't take long to make google searches.
Is there any kind of image stabilization? Or is that not needed?
The point is not that someone knew something was/is dangerous - in retrospect you always find them (see financial crisis too). The point is what/who actually impacted the real large-scale actions.
I know C. I write software in C++.

C++ is better than C in pretty much every way imaginable. Imagine, for a moment, that C++ is C but with even more tools. You don't have to use those tools, but the tools are there. You could write pure C and use a C++ compiler and have very few troubles.

Structs? C++ has that.

Structs without any member functions or constructors or destructors or fancy automatic under-the-hood magic? C++ has that too.

Global functions? Don't worry.

Inline assembly? C++ has that.

The biggest trouble I've ever encountered is when ensuring portability of exported symbols. That's typically only needed when interfacing with other languages or libraries. And it's not impossible to handle (just annoying).

I could very well imagine a future where things are built with C++ instead of C. And that future will be good.
> I wonder if it will start impacting traveller and tourism numbers at some point.

According to some, it already has:

"All this has resulted in an estimated loss of $185 million in business travel bookings from January 28 to February 4, as calculated by the Global Business Travel Association. The drop-off in tourism is predicted to result in 4.3 million fewer visitors this year, which adds up to a staggering loss of $7.4 billion in revenue for the US."

http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/trump-sl...
PhantomJS enabled us at the time to bootstrap a big project at work where at the end workflow the app had to turn HTML orders to PDF on the fly, eventually we moved to WKHTMLTOPDF (https://wkhtmltopdf.org/) which is much less hungry with resources but nonetheless PhantomJS played a huge role during the early days of the project and was easy to setup. If I remember correctly the only down side was to find the correct format for our HTML template so PhantomJS would render proper page break and repeat the header for super long orders.

I can understand why stepping down is the right decision, maintaining such project by himself is an amazing feat on its own and even more when it proves to be useful for so many companies. Sadly when it becomes your second job you might always be on the lookout for a clean exit and such opportunity just became a reality.

Good luck in your future projects Vitaly!
Does Startup Success Essentially Come Down to Luck?
I have a paid United Club membership. Those lounges are already pretty full a lot of the time, and one of the biggest reasons I (and many of the other members I know) pay for it is exactly the situation you describe. When something goes wrong with a flight, it's well worth the cost of the membership to have helpful agents, minimal lines, and a nice place to relax. It's not about the free mediocre food. Having a place to be during a disruption is one of the primary value drivers, so they're not going to give that away. And if they let in everyone who had a disruption, it would be quickly overcrowded.

There's no excuse for them being rude about it, but I don't think your expectations were especially reasonable either.
It seems that the rules have become a lot stricter recently, and it looks like American citizens might end up feeling the consequences as well. This week a Dutch journalist wrote about being rejected by the ESTA visa waiver application because of a previous visit to Iraq as a journalist. So to travel to the US he gets to pay almost $200 and formally apply for a visa — for accredited journalists this is unheard of. Similarly Dutch with roots in Iraq or Iran are completely banned from the US simply for being born in the 'wrong' place.

This is all within the rights of America as a sovereign state of course, but it does mean that the call to cancel or limit the visa-free travel agreement that currently allows US citizens to visit the EU without a visa is gaining momentum (tit-for-tat politics).
Letting children starve is a marker for the end of civilization as I define it.
This strategy of yours of feigning incredulousness instead of forming an articulate thought is ingenious and hilarious but I'm not sure it will be very effective here.
"You should disable any other keys that aren't backed by a security token" ... why? You don't need a security token to physically secure a backup key; just put it on a USB drive and stick it in a safe (or a sock drawer).

Security tokens are a nice little bonus for security, and they're a major corrective for the kinds of real-world attacks that screw real people over, like phishing (and dumb passwords). But they're pretty marginal against the kinds of attackers who will target SSH keys. Don't get fetishistic about them; at bottom, for serious systems security, they're mostly cosmetic. It feels good to say that all your SSH keys are held in secure devices, but it doesn't mean much.
Flying always makes me wish workers of the world really would unite...

That being said, the way this article is written makes me want to kick the author off of a plane while in flight.

"Fearns requested a full refund for his flight from Kauai and asked for United to make a $25,000 donation to the charity of his choice. This is how rich guys do it."

This is how rich guys do it? Really? ugh.
Strong assumption. It's basically selling tiger rocks claiming "but think of all the bad things which DIDN'T happen" without some data that at least hints at the prevention.

If you don't have connectivity, you can still prevent blackouts the same or almost the same level. You just need more redundancy in the system, which drives up costs.

I actually checked, it was finland and put simplified due to a heating pump continually restarting because it thought there was an error, since its sensors couldn't communicate.

If you don't have connectivity, then that heating pump would need a human to regulate it, which leads to higher latency and less efficiency.
IF the VLJ (Very Light Jet) segment would ever fully blossom a major Uber-style disruption would be possible.

The biggest thing that could prevent this welcomed development? The government. Specifically that the FAA is likely to clamp down on "Uber Air Taxi" market and declare them common carriers.

Got to protect those monopolies.
Yes. But those concerns don't really matter. Just use whatever TOTP application you're most comfortable with, and, because even experts can be phished, try to use the security key as much as you can.
There are a lot of very impressive things about the device, but for me, the dealbreaker is the FOV. It's distractingly small. I haven't done development on it though (just tried it out).
> What is 'good' for the 'community'?

Decision means someone has to do something. So probably nobody decides that. But everybody is free to have an opinion. Everybody presents what they see as "the community" and feels a fantasy connection to people who he has barely anything to do with, and a distinction from people who he may have more in common with than he assumes. That's how community works. It's mostly in people's heads.
In a watch form factor, it would be dramatically less intrusive to an individual's daily life.

With automatic periodical measurements, data logs and trends, food intake recommendations, alerts and notifications, and so on, management of the disease would be quite effortless.
If you know of it, then report it. Otherwise you're allowing it to exist.

If you don't know if it, then this is some fancy way of slashing up FUD about IoT.
A bit off topic, but I'm delighted by the live updating of the slides below the video. This is something all conferences should be copying.
Ask HN: Have you ever done a remote hackathon?
Or coded together with friends for fun over video chat? I wonder how well this works for learning new tech stacks. Get people who want to learn say react 'in a room', give them a well-defined task (eg a clone of instagram) and let them go at it.
I'm not so sure an ad. which encourages you to interact with your phone (to take it back out of flight mode) is going to have the desired effect.
I have been using it for almost 2 years on a production server to generate html orders to PDF on the fly, such an amazing tool.
Reading your replies(can't watch the video, I'm at work - chef here), really makes me wish I was back coding. Which would give me time to do things like this! Do you have a blog or is this a one off?

Edit: found the link lower :-)
And there's its sister project wkhtmltoimage for rendering to images as well :) Sadly, though, the browser seems way behind the times so I think Chrome will win the next round. I built a prototype library for rendering pages to animated GIFs using the Chrome debugging protocol, but headless will make it even easier: https://github.com/peterc/chrome2gif
Harvard is in a safe neighborhood and near safe neighborhoods.
What is "digital eyestrain"? I know some people claim yellow/orange glass glasses help - but if it's dry eyes, it might help to simply blink more often - maybe set a timer like for exercise/change position? And perhaps add in a round of focus exercise (focus far/focus close; repeat)?
What you might be missing is the fact that the condition and diagnosis of schizophrenia is completely subjective; meaning there is no objective science surrounding schizophrenia and many other such conditions (i.e. depression, bipolar).
It seems to end with EE 31
Sounds like they don't have the authority to do it. Perhaps pitch it to the business school Ethics professor, who perhaps might be willing to sign a letter of support.

Then take that to the authority. I believe it's the dean or provost of the CS department who would have the authority to make changes to the program -- and it is usually on a review cycle (so they might tell you to wait).

I think it's great what you've started, and so if all else fails -- put it on Coursera or open source it.
There is nothing special about charities. You describe most human organizations. Whose nature also depends on their environment - I posit that in a less cut-throat world humans and their organizations would be less cut-throat too. I also don't believe that the way it is is "inevitable" and/or "human nature" (http://nautil.us/issue/46/balance/survival-of-the-friendlies...).

Think about this: At least in the western world we have achieved wealth and productivity where the word "unimaginable" from a point of view of even 500 years ago would be a gross understatement. And yet, to many people daily life still feels full of threats, while many work what they themselves recognize are meaningless jobs (see the popular Dilbert cartoons). It doesn't make sense, it is artificial. It doesn't need to be this way. We force people - and organizations - to live in a "stress and survival mode" that is completely unnecessary.
Similarly, minesweepers are probably great people that work very hard and care deeply at preventing generations of people from being maimed.
Given that we have likely hit peak demand for fossil fuel (the theory being that the demand for fossil fuel has peaked before we have reached peak supply), this is unlikely. Oil prices are unlikely to ever reach the highs of $100+ ever again. Or so goes the theory..

In short, flight prices are unlikely to be severely effected by oil prices again.
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Authy has the same core issues because the problem is they have to store the secret key in plain text somewhere for TOTP to work. Worse: it is closed source and does not allow itself to be easily audited so we don't even get to know for sure where the key is stored and how beyond what the docs promise.

Security is hard enough when everything is open source. Closing foundational security tools so only a select few biased individuals can deem them secure on a deadline is never a good plan.