skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hate to be the one to point this out, but this is a case where people vote with their wallets for the absolute cheapest product, and then are angry to get what they paid for. They buy discounted non-refundable inflexible strings-attached fares, and then are shocked to discover than when push comes to shove, strings are attached (such as lowest priority on rebooking).

If you absolutely need to get there on time, or need flexibility, buy a non-discounted fare. Yes, it costs more, but you will be at the head of the line if there is a mechanical problem, weather cancelation, equipment replacement, etc, all of which the airline has limited control over.

Also, a bit of perspective, the last US commercial airline accident with fatalities was in 2009, and tens of millions of people have traveled safely to their destination since then, not so with any other mode of transportation.
Regarding the trade-off between observing personality ("chit chat") and technical skill (e.g., whiteboarding puzzles), I'm biased towards the former. I've seen a lot more unexpected problems arise from bad personality fits than from lack of technical competence.
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> what actually makes them different from everyone else

They don't suffer from "I cannot succeed so why bother trying."
What'd you have for lunch? I might know a guy who's into that.
Read rule 25, and once you realize that employees are booked as passengers when moved like this, you realize there's a whole procedure in place for bumping people involuntarily from flights.
What? What do you mean by "walk down the plane"?
Yeah, at a minimum you need to include Burner and Ghostbot https://ghostbot.burnerapp.com/#/
PostgreSQL Immutable Database Pattern
Turing's paper [1] is pretty impressive. Well before the mechanics of molecular biology were understood, Turing was able to reason out how you could use a 'few lines of (reusable) (biological) code' to produce patterns as sophisticated (and seemingly unrelated) as zebra stripes, leopard spots, and even the shapes of tissues, the number of digits on a hand, and the morphology of even a whole organism. And he was mostly correct once we came to be able to actually describe the physical systems biology uses for patterning.

One example of a generalizable code for patterning by 'reaction diffusion':

- Set up a 'node' that has an inverted feedback loop for producing a 'morphogen' (produce less when lots, lots when less).

- Let the morphogen diffuse through a field.

- Digitize the morphogen concentration by some thresholded sensor.

- Use an orthogonal 'clock' mechanism to freeze the field in different states digitized above.

Generally though the simulation of biology runs into just way way way too many variables to be 'nicely' modeled. Part of the cool part is that when you have a routine that generates a spatial pattern established, tweaking parameters here and there create massive variation while still maintaining a coherent 'pattern'. A bit of chaos gives each run a fingerprint - literally.

One of the other biological patterning mechanisms I like is the Notch pathway, relying on similar principles. [2]

There are fewer variables in a chemical system, but similar reaction-diffusion related principles can be found in chemistry - which can often be 'pretty'. See the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction [3].

As an aside, I like that they reference the paper that describes now chameleons change color; "chameleons shift colour through active tuning of a lattice of guanine nanocrystals within a superficial thick layer of dermal iridophores." [4]

[0] (actual research referenced) http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v544/n7649/full/nature2...

[1] (PDF! Turing's 1952, The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis)
http://dna.caltech.edu/courses/cs191/paperscs191/turing.pdf

[2] (Notch Patterning) http://www.cell.com/trends/cell-biology/fulltext/S0962-8924(...

[3] (B-Z Reaction) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JAqrRnKFHo

[4] (chameleon's color via guanine nanocrystals) https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms7368
> Imagine if you have air support you can call in the marines should things go wrong, or you have your parents couch to crash on if your startup fails, those things would help a person be comfortable going on only 70% of the information.

I would extend this to say that 50% of the knowledge needed for making a decision is understanding the downsides / risks of moving forward. For example, if you know you'll be OK if your fail, it is much easier to say yes to a big choice. However, if you're risking homelessnes, then it's probably better to find a different option.

Even in less extreme scenarios, minor decisions I make are often based on understanding the risks, more than understanding the upsides. Maybe it is too conservative of an approach, but it is (unfortunately) based on experience.
I admit that I don't have that experience. What we discussed was me growing into that position by learning from the CEO, COO, and advisors.

I met the guy twice we had some interesting conversations. He's smart. But I still don't feel like I can trust the CEO again..
> What is it that MS is actually trying to do?

They're trying to prevent Windows from becoming the COBOL of operating systems.
>How can you argue that the right is against the concentration of power when it works to limit voting systematically among people more likely to vote democratic (young people, poor people, counties where people who aren't white are a majority)...

Because you've mischaracterized the situation. Making sure only people who are entitled to vote actually vote is about insuring the integrity of the system.

>...as well as to gerrymander districts?

This happens on both sides of the aisle. To pretend only "the right" is doing it is to be oblivious to observed reality.
What actually happened:

United: "This man is trespassing on private property."

Chicago PD: "We'll be right over."

United breaking their agreement isn't illegal, but remaining on private property after you've been asked to leave by the people in charge is illegal.
This is just pure speculation on the authors part.
I was once in a small crash flying United. There was no major injury, but a lot of scare and a day of travel lost. United took good care of us, then I receive a 'sorry, here's $50 in credit' mail. I was stunned by how small the amount was.

A few weeks later a passenger created a Facebook group, and we all started to share our experience. United caught wind of it, and sent us $500 credit almost right away, with bigger apologies for the incident.
I get similar results: http://i.imgur.com/NDubFOO.png

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So* you're saying my issue here is just ego? Humm I can't say my ego isn't hurt but I'm just not sure if it's only my ego.
Have you actually looked at the CISSP material recently?

It's a hodge-podge of everything under the sun. The only thing it's able to prove is that

a) you have endurance and spare time to sit for a 4-6 hour multiple choice test

b) you can commit to rote memory a bunch of meaningless material which you are unlikely to encounter in real security/risk management role

It truly is the worst of the bunch, but for reasons yet explained, it's the defacto "must have" by bigCorps - which is why it gets picked on by so many folks: everyone knows it's bad, yet most people end up picking it up.
We don't need another regulation to solve this. Seems like the free market is going to handle it just fine.
So IFixit iPhone repair scores are invalid if you live in Shenzhen.
Not going to click... Not going to click... <click>

Oh wait. It's exactly what you said it was. He made the exact same arguments I did. Pretty cool.

LOL: glyphosate, fracking fluid, artificial sweetener, salt and a red bull chaser. And what I'm pretty sure was an unorganic lemon.
> when I found that it was not only condoned, but fully defended by the company top-down, red flags went off.

I thought United Airlines and CEO apologized?

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-united-boarding-201704...

> “That is not who our family at United is,” Munoz said.

> Later Wednesday, United said all customers on that flight are receiving compensation for their ticket costs.
Mind sharing the list/mnemonic?
Do you know of a source that compares these different libraries in terms of capabilities, focus/use cases, size limits, performance, format support, etc.?

Googling turned up very little for me.

TIA

Edit: libraries mentioned in thread:

PMML, Arrow, Dill, marshmallow, pytables, parquet/fastparquet (and pickle, obviously)
My thoughts exactly -- I fell off an ordinary bicycle at moderate speed last year, and suffered three cracked ribs and a concussion as a result. This fellow is courting disaster!
You are underestimating the average person.

That radio broadcast did create a response from a small subset. But that response was from an insignificant, poorly informed, population and was quickly tempered with a minimal amount of effort.

I highly doubt it created a 'mass panic' with serious consequence, as if the average person believed Aliens were attacking earth due to a radio broadcast...

The fact it was false was immediately spreading among the newspapers:

> They immediately left the theatre, and standing on the corner of Broadway and 42nd Street, they read the lighted bulletin that circled the New York Times building: ORSON WELLES CAUSES PANIC.

This type of thinking that we need to protect people has been causing comedians to needlessly apologizing for ultimately harmless art on a weekly basis.

There's a big difference between a piece of humour/fiction crossing the intended audience into people who miss the obvious humour/fiction and take it seriously... and actual malice.
The CFAA only applies to us little guys. It doesn't apply at all to larger corporations. Especially ones in excess of 1$ billion a year revenue.
My point was tat with the same chess engine, man with machine beats machine.

I do see your point about position evaluation though. And yes, it would be interesting to see a tournament.
The fact that there are so many of us discussing it implies that it is a failure of a name. After all, what are words for if not communicating? We can debate semantics all day, but in the end, it's obvious that many people find the phrasing to be confusing.
The counter argument is that by visiting a website you are then on "their property", or at the very least using their resources.

You went there on your own free will and can leave when you want. No one is "forcing" anything on your screen.

(not saying I agree with this notion necessarily - just that your physical "property" analogy isn't very good).
It's good practice to rate limit endpoints for a variety of reasons, but in particular any endpoint that exposes user authentication should be rate limited.

So this should be a tool that every service at scale has access to.

IIRC the lack of rate limiting burned Apple relatively recently.

Is this yet another area where we all reinvent the wheel? I've yet to see a recommendation for an off the shelf solution
A lot more from the East Bay sadly, takes about 1hr on BART to SFO from Oakland, to get to San Jose I would have to take BART + Caltrain or just drive. I wish their were more flights out of Oakland.
That was his third statement on it. The first one strongly defended their actions.
When school choice means choosing segregation
The issue is not the existence of Roundup but Monsanto's apparent failure to inform people of its known dangers.
+1 to GhostInspector; I used them at a previous company a few years ago, and it was very useful.

They were just starting, but service was rather reliable, and their tech support was excellent (maybe because we were early customers). We used to run a bunch of automated tests for monitoring and compliance, archiving hourly screenshots over different builds for later comparison.
I did something similar: I made a little Javascript web game which you have to play and win in order to RSVP. Made a spreadsheet of guests and their emails, and emailed them all using the Mail Merge extension for Google Sheets.

Once you play and win the game, it links to a Google Form with your name pre-filled. All the responses go into a spreadsheet, and I can easily do a query against the original spreadsheet to see who still needs to RSVP. Then follow up with those people personally. Overall people really enjoyed the game and thought it was a unique invite.

Plus it saved a crapton of money and trees and gasoline, which was the most important part for me. The wedding industry is built on waste and my fiance and I don't want to support such an outdated, unsustainable tradition.
I had a CISSP certification, I let it expired, I couldn't afford traveling and going to conferences to get the Continuous Education points.

If you do the math, attending webminars, reading books and writing reviews don't get you all the points you need every year (I can't imagine the fraud that must be going on for people trying to get those points). So I said "fuck it".

Funny thing is, I'm way more experience in security now (with CISSP expired due to stupid points) than when I got it and was certified. Joke and money-grabbing scheme no doubt.
Sadly wkhtmltopdf's version of Webkit is ancient :( No flexbox, no es6, etc...
Yes, if you needed to fly by private jet somewhere, either for time or because the place you need to get to doesn't have commercial air service. You would indeed be "doing what you can".
And this guy drinks cyanide: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bWNpO5vvhpk

My point is that being able to drink one glass of the stuff doesn't really tell me much.
It's things like this that help validate my hypothesis: If you define something in mathematical theory, eventually we'll find some way to use it for modelling something.

I've been fascinated by Cellular Automata since I read Wolfram "A New Kind of Science", but I was not overly sold that you could model the universe in the way he described.

While I still think he was incredibly over-optimistic about the uses of cellular automata, I do wonder if after a number of years we'll find some more validation in nature.
Isn't that what happened?
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IMHO, I dont think it will pan out this way. Companies are being breached, and neither their marketshare nor profits are being significantly affected.
Aside from https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/code-spaces-hacked/ -- how many other companies do you know which really paid a significant price for being hacked?

Yes, Anthem/BCBS, Target, HD, Sony, etc, etc have all had losses.. but they really havent been long-term impacted it seems.

I dont know what the answer is, this sucks hard as both a consumer and an infosec person. I tend to view security as a "hidden performance" factor. As long as the security flaws don't inconvenience the paying customers too much, they simply don't care if they exist or not.
Echoing another comment- this is strikingly close to a jekyll theme; I see there's some custom work in there.

That said, really beautiful work. It's funny, I was working out whether I could use Jekyll collections for a documentation project today, and now here is this project. Fantastic!
Hackers Could Deduce Your Android Password by Seeing the Way You Tilt Your Phone
You could even get a little blue "verified" checkmark next to your name after you pass an STD test.
Yes, this is very important: Diet can be a complement to medical treatment, not a replacement. Don't make Steve Jobs' mistake!
How Machine Learning Is Revolutionizing Digital Enterprises
Yes, this exactly. I wrote Crabby [1] a few months back to schedule automated page testing using Chrome and webdriver but doing anything automated with Chrome is really atrocious. You can't expect to load more than one page every 10-15 seconds on the average 8GB instance and it occasionally crashes or otherwise stops working completely.

I ended up writing a simple check using Go's net/http library to do basic performance profiling but it doesn't measure DOM loading like the Chrome checks do. Such a bummer

What I really want is an easy, cross-platform way to collect the network timings for each object like you get in Chrome's dev tools network waterfall graphs.

[1] https://github.com/chrissnell/crabby
> There's no reason that, say, the manpage rendering tools (the most recent thing I had half a mind of exposing to the network) would be written in C today

Someone called Kristaps Dzonsons wrote a manual page renderer and a cgi/fastcgi library in C quite recently.
I've been wondering this myself. Yes, it sucked that 4 people were required by United to deplane. This was awful planning on United's part. But 3 passengers deplaned without the situation escalating to this catastrophe. Then we have the 4th passenger who decides he wants to potentially add resisting arrest to his trespassing and interfering with a crewmember, and a set of sworn police officers who couldn't properly deescalate the situation. But somehow, it's the airline's fault? If United truly is to blame, how far does it go? How much could the passenger and officers have gotten away with and assigned the blame to the airline?
Historian: Because Please Stop Deleting My Bash History
> Vulcan cannot be implemented on top of DirectX12 or Metal.

Ehh I don't believe this for a second; somewhat more correctly, "Vulcan may not be able to be efficiently implemented on top of other APIs."

I also believe that Apple has a vested interest in keeping Metal around, so of course they're going to push hard and fast for their standard...
And people who get offended at things like that are the exact people I wouldn't want at my wedding.
And an internal one defended the event because the passenger was "belligerent", as if that made their actions and what followed OK
An employee using the company card usually does have some personal liability for the card. Liability does not arise in the case mentioned above where the company goes bankrupt. However, if an employee makes unauthorized charges to a company card, the company can refuse to pay them as they do not fall underneath the company card policy. Those charges then become the employee's responsibility.

Be careful with company credit cards, even if you're only an employee!
i.e. the ending of Flubber[1]

[1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td1_4L16ZyI)
This is beginning to look like Michael Clayton.
Can we say survivorship bias?
There are millions of hardworking and talented individuals who try repeatedly and end up with at most moderate success.

The number of breakouts is so small that there isn't any statistical significance to what those individuals did differently. Mostly, they happened to execute well - but nailed the timing perfectly. Bill's success with MS-DOS (on the eve of the PC revolution), the rise of car culture and suburbia for McDonald's. And Cuban got really lucky at the height of the bubble.

I'm not saying they weren't smart or talented. But to perfectly nail timing requires the ability to predict the future. And if you read "The Road Ahead, 1st ed.", it's obvious even the talented BillG isn't much better at this than anyone else.

Which leaves us with luck.
"Weeds Your Way" – Organic Farmers Share Secrets of Herbicide-Free Farming

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The 30-word expr should have been another word, or two.
You are correct and my post was not precisely worded. I was not trying to say it was OK to forcibly remove a boarded passenger for this reason.

I was responding mostly to the claim that they can only denying boarding in the event of an oversale because they can deny boarding to accommodate positioning crew, it happens all the time.

I agree that once the passenger was boarded, the situation was different. United screwed up, and they compounded the problem in their violent removal of the passenger and their subsequent public responses to the incident.
That does sound pretty unrealistic, but doesn't this consider that scenario:

"Omit user identities or screen names with which you were publicly identified."
Samsung is delaying a key part of its new voice assistant – the ‘voice’ part
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It'll be forgotten in a week if United fares are $5 cheaper.
Wow, I'd love to have a problem like yours. Both of my parents are getting on in age and aren't as healthy anymore. I worry about them all the time and can't program as much as a result. I envy you.
That's a bit of a strawman here, no? I'm saying "not all things that successful people do are the reasons they succeeded and successful people tend to suffer from hindsight and survivor bias so it's tricky to tell what led to their success." I said nothing about it being impossible or futile to try to succeed.
This was not an overbooking situation.
What about rocBLAS and rocFFT?
Especially vs other broad spectrum herbicides.

We used this one year as a no till knock down:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraquat

The skull and cross bones on the label was bad enough but seeing what even the smallest of drops did to plants was an eye opener. A droplet small enough to blow 30 feet in the air was enough to make a yellow spot on any plant it landed on.

It is also linked to Parkinson's disease.
They recently released a beta version based on a newer version of QtWebKit:

https://bitbucket.org/ariya/phantomjs/downloads/
On the one hand, that shows the advance in speech recognition.

10 years ago, you would get two cycles in and the software would assplode.
WOW. That's fantastic. As I noted in a comment above, I wrote a tool called crabby that uses Selenium and Chrome headless to do automated page testing and to report results back to metrics engines like Graphite, Datadog, Prometheus, and Riemann. The biggest problem I have is the unreliability of chromedriver and the extreme resource consumption of Chrome + Selenium. It's really too much for your average public cloud instance if you want to test any more than, say, one or two pages a minute.

Do you know if chromedp can access any of the timing measurements?
/s/apparent/alleged
I use a combination of RescueTime (for on computer tracking) and toggl for offline tracking.
I do 100K miles a year on JAL. Rockstar airline. In the US go out of my way to fly Virgin even when I have top status on One World and could fly American. I took the American Tokyo-SF flight one as JAL was so booked. Never again. I will stay in another day.

A co-work of mine just went to Japan for the first time and he has status on One World. I talked him into the JAL flight. He was amazed at the difference.

America air carriers suck.
The one terrible experience I had with United is when I was flying from Japan to SFO connecting at LA. We arrived at LA and didn't see our connecting flight on the flight status screen and went to customer service. The lady said "well it was cancelled and they should have told you in Japan. We can't help you now." Both flights were WITH united and when I asked for another flight she said "I'll send you tomorrow. OK?!" Well it wasn't nearly as bad as some of the others' have experienced and didn't cause me to boycott them but these recent allegations that have surfaced seem pretty serious.