skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The modern, advanced x-ray systems are not available to the general public. As to how exactly they are controlled, I'm not sure.

Sure they are not something that you can buy at the market around the corner, and surely they would not be cheap, but they can surely be bought by (say) financial institutions, banks, etc. (i.e. not only by airports, and public/international airports).

Now, if you can be sure that no bank (or other private financial institution) nor privately owned airport or port (or similar) worldwide may have some connections with the "bad guys" it's all fine and dandy, otherwise my previous note still stands.

I don't doubt that - as you report - the alarm may have been "triggered" by the stealing (or however vanishing) of the said machine, but from this to consider it "logic" there is a huge step.

At least the last few times I have flown (not to the US that may well have much different and more sophisticated devices) here in Europe I saw everywhere Gilardoni scanners (said to be among the best at least in Europe), like the ones published on their pages:

http://www.gilardoni.it/en_scanner-a-raggi-x.asp

And are you really sure-sure that all the scanners you can find on alibaba are tat much oudated?

https://www.alibaba.com/trade/search?SearchText=x-ray+scanne...

It doesn't seem to me like shopping for cruise missiles or the like ...
Restate Your UI: Using State Machines to Simplify User Interface Development
Any chance that Amazon hired him with the mandate to develop a "new Java", in the same vein as Ken Thompson developing Go at Google?
Spectacle is one of those apps that has persuaded me to stay on mac and not switch back to Windows.

But really, what mac needs now is larger quit/minimize/maximize buttons on each window. Most of the times on Windows, I would just click on the corner of the screen, knowing that I'm clicking on the exit button automatically. Closing windows on Windows became much of a gesture. But as for the mac, I have to precisely click on the red button to close that window, or otherwise use CMD+W shortcut.
Muslim Millennials Are Turning to Roboadvisors and Online Trading
I think we would found out by now that Whatsapp was not really encrypting messages. Plus, Moxie said they were using the Signal Protocol Lib for encrypting messages and I trust him 100x's more than any person who does not release information about their encryption and says, "trust us, our encryption works."

From the Signal Blog:

"Signal Protocol powers our own private messaging app, Signal. The protocol is designed from the ground up to make seamless end-to-end encrypted messaging possible and to make private communication simple. To amplify the impact and scope of private communication, we also collaborate with other popular messaging apps like WhatsApp, Google Allo, and now Facebook Messenger to help integrate Signal Protocol into those products."
messenger.com also works well on the desktop to chat and avoid the newsfeed.

Unfortunately it redirects to the app/play store on mobile, and has a terrible layout if you force desktop mode.

I think a good enough compromise for me is to only use the messenger and contacts, and avoid the newsfeed/posts/pages.
Both Sentry and Rollbar are incredible for debugging purposes.
Those agencies tend to pre-purchase ammo years in advance, and the "militarization" of police is mostly from agencies receiving surplus equipment from the DoD for pennies on the dollar. Lord knows civilian cops don't have the same level of discipline - if I pulled one-tenth of that sort of abuse while I was an enlisted MP, I'd be rotting in a cell in Fort Leavenworth instead of writing this post.

All that being said, I wouldn't be surprised if certain elites have noticed that public sentiment is resembling France in the 1790s. This whole surveillance apparatus is here to intercept the next Robespierre, national security be damned.
F-Droid has quite a few open-source wrapper apps around facebook's mobile site which improve usability and isolation.
From the article it seems that whites in the same situation as blacks have the same mortality rates - "If you compare whites with a high school degree or less with blacks with a high school degree or less, their mortality rates have converged."

It suggests that the group having higher status previously does not change things all that much.
I re-bought everything, chair, monitor stand, electronically raising desk, keyboard, two vertical mice - for left hand and right hand. I didn't find it that hard to use a left handed mouse as a right handed person but your mileage may vary. I swap between the two throughout the day.

I think out of all of those, having the monitor at the right height, vertical mouse, kinesis advantage and then using a pomodoro timer are the best bang for buck. The standing desk is nice but not really essential in my opinion. Just getting up and walking after a 25-30m pomodoro session is good enough.
> I know it may have been rhetorical, but I just don't think managing your own data is possible (yet) for the truly non-technical person, at least at a level that competes with FB in both price and simplicity; it's still a choose-2 situation.

That's what I was trying to show. It's hard to not rely on some sort of third party service in life. I think a lot of people here just don't like Facebook.

I should probably create a Flex server at home to do this for my friends and family who aren't technical, but again if I host that on Amazon then I'm again relying on someone else.
Bankers Fleeing Brexit May Find Luxembourg an Acquired Taste
Sadly I can only agree with you my friend!

A businessman probably shouldn't be judged by the success of his customers.

You can sell the horse some directions to the nearest watering hole, but you can't be judged on its drinking ability ;)
Please don't post unsubstantive inflammatory comments on Hacker News.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
More than half of the seafood consumed globally is farmed:

http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/aquaculture/faqs/faq_aq_101.html
Well, yes and no - it depends on the length. Let's take 3 common examples. Here's GitHub's relevant headers (that we don't have):

Content-Security-Policy:default-src 'none'; base-uri 'self'; block-all-mixed-content; child-src render.githubusercontent.com; connect-src 'self' uploads.github.com status.github.com collector.githubapp.com api.github.com www.google-analytics.com github-cloud.s3.amazonaws.com github-production-repository-file-5c1aeb.s3.amazonaws.com github-production-user-asset-79cafe.s3.amazonaws.com wss://live.github.com; font-src assets-cdn.github.com; form-action 'self' github.com gist.github.com; frame-ancestors 'none'; img-src 'self' data: assets-cdn.github.com identicons.github.com collector.githubapp.com github-cloud.s3.amazonaws.com *.githubusercontent.com; media-src 'none'; script-src assets-cdn.github.com; style-src 'unsafe-inline' assets-cdn.github.com

Public-Key-Pins:max-age=5184000; pin-sha256="WoiWRyIOVNa9ihaBciRSC7XHjliYS9VwUGOIud4PB18="; pin-sha256="RRM1dGqnDFsCJXBTHky16vi1obOlCgFFn/yOhI/y+ho="; pin-sha256="k2v657xBsOVe1PQRwOsHsw3bsGT2VzIqz5K+59sNQws="; pin-sha256="K87oWBWM9UZfyddvDfoxL+8lpNyoUB2ptGtn0fv6G2Q="; pin-sha256="IQBnNBEiFuhj+8x6X8XLgh01V9Ic5/V3IRQLNFFc7v4="; pin-sha256="iie1VXtL7HzAMF+/PVPR9xzT80kQxdZeJ+zduCB3uj0="; pin-sha256="LvRiGEjRqfzurezaWuj8Wie2gyHMrW5Q06LspMnox7A="; includeSubDomains

Those are 1220 bytes. I'm not sure what they'll compress down to, but it's still non-trivial and not near 0 (anyone want to run the numbers?).

The same pair of headers are 969 bytes for facebook.com and 2,772 for gmail.com.

I don't know what ours would be - since we're open-ended on the image domain side it's a bit apples-to-oranges compared to the big players.

When you take into account that you can only send 10 packets down the first response (in almost all cases today) due to TCP congestion window specifications (google: CWND), they get more expensive as a percentage of what you can send. It may be that you can't send enough of the page to render, or the browser isn't getting to a critical stylesheet link until the second wave of packets after the ACK. This can greatly affect load times.

Does HPACK affect this? Yeah absolutely, but I disagree on "negligible". It depends, and if something critical gets pushed to that 11th packet as a result, you can drastically increase actual page render time for users.

If it helps, I did a blog post with some details about this a while back: https://nickcraver.com/blog/2015/03/24/optimization-consider...
Well, by its nature a web request is sequential, so in 95% of the cases it's just:

process response -> deserialize -> put/get something from the DB -> send response

However, let's say you need to send off many requests to multiple external services in order to respond to a particular request. These would be trivially parallelized in Erlang.

Another thing to note is that, let's say Puma is running 8 workers and a bug crashes the app. Every client connected to that worker is going to lose its connection while that worker is restarted. In Erlang, you have one process for each client so only one client notices the crash.

And finally, the overhead of starting multiple Ruby processes (in this case OS processes) per Ruby interpreter is way, way larger than a starting multiple Erlang processes. It's a difference of 300MB vs 2KB.
here's an easier protip: use uBlock Origin, and completely hide the right-hand column.
He is (was?) a strategic advisor for Eucalyptus, a sort of AWS compatible on-premise cloud, also is/was a director at Jelastic. So I imagine he's already got some ideas for AWS.
How to Form a Business in the U.S. As a Foreigner from Abroad
The relevant part of the article was talking about ice that is sitting on land. Land that is below sea level. This particular ice is not floating.
No, Tower works differently (unless it has changed in the few months since I used it). In Tower, you can select lines by clicking line numbers, but then you must click "Stage" to actually stage those lines. Then your selection is cleared and those lines are moved to a separate "Staged" tab for that file. Whereas with GitHub Desktop, just selecting the lines marks them as lines to be staged. (GitHub Desktop doesn't actually run `git add` on those lines until the moment you click "Commit".)
Some people don't spy on their customers and don't have these kinds of information available for analyses

They're admittedly few though and their moral high ground is debatable considering that there are self hosted FOSS alternatives around nowadays
Crap. I knew something seemed off about it. Thank you!

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Lazlo: No. These are entries into the Frito-Lay Sweepstakes. "No purchase necessary, enter as often as you want" - so I am.

Chris: That's great! How many times?

Lazlo: Well, this batch makes it one million six hundred and fifty thousand. I should win thirty-two point six percent of the prizes, including the car.

Chris: That kind of takes the fun out of it, doesn't it?

Lazlo: They set up the rules, and lately I've come to realize that I have certain materialistic needs.
I have a two comments to share about this paradox.

1. The assumption that there are many advanced ET civilizations in the universe is based on the idea that life emergence is a natural and random process. This has not yet be proven to be valid. I share this opinion, but it is important to be aware of the underlying hypothesis because this is what can invalidate the claims.

2. The other point is the "we don't see them". There is also an underlying hypothesis that ET manifestation would be ostensible. Many people deduce from this that they are not on earth and start to speculate on different reason for that.

The hypothesis that ET do not visit us is really not so sure. The first reason is that this visit and exploration may not be in the form we expect (e.g. colonization, diplomatic) and not directly visible to us (e.g. Spying, non-interfering scientifc study). The other reason is that they might have been visible for decenies as UFOs and third type contact encounter. But this possibility is rejected, and had been rejected by Enrico Fermi. To me this is the only paradox in the Fermi Paradox.

However, I do agree that if UFOs are visible ET manifestion on earth, this manifestation has puzzling and unexpected properties. The strongest one being that they apparently seem to leave us alone. There is currently no way for us to know why and deduce anything from this, like for instance rejecting the UFO phenomenon as possible ET manifestavtion because their behavior doesn't match our expectation.
Symbols don't have any interesting properties to access.

The problem is this case:

s[t + ""] vs s[t]

For all types they are the same because as we know in JS all properties (even array indexes) are converted to strings. But not for symbols, if you use symbol as "t" then implicitly calling toString would give you wrong result in first case. As this is clearly different from the rest of JS objects it's better to throw an error rather that silently proceed.

> I though that primatives would be unboxed so that their toString method could be called. Apparently not.

It's the other way around. Primitives do not have any properties so to call a method on it they are boxed before call.

An example:

Number.prototype.getBoxed = function () { return this}

var x = 2..getBoxed()

X will be a Number wrapper object, not a primitive.
Yep, but that applies (maybe) to the US.

What about any other country, for the sake of the example, Wherevereristan?

Do they have the same rules?
You can pretty much get that right now by buying any one of the fine Garmin navigational products on the market, right?
https://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments?
Back in the day it was fairly common to not be compliant with IEEE-754 to cut down gate count. Like just giving the wrong results on de-normals, fixed to one rounding mode, etc. I bet they're doing something like that.
It was being facetious of course. But as to your second point, I really believe we are entitled to secrets, at least from my own reading of the 4th amendment to our constitution:

> The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches

This, to me a layman citizen of our country, means we are emphatically and explicitly granted the right to privacy against our government. Then again, we live in a time where a secret court can grant an order that tramples on our constitution. Apparently our government believes on it is allowed privacy.

You ever hear about this secret court orders and ask yourself, "Are we both reading the same constitution??"
Quote from the paper:

> Conflict of interest statement: There will be a patent application on this gripper design by the Max Planck innovation.
Unreal Engine 4- How to Develop Your First Two Games
"Should be closed-loop" is an interesting assumption that I'm not convinced aligns with the reality of the technology. To what extent has speech recognition been improved by being able to feed it through a constantly-updated set of open-loop ML infrastructure?
Billionaire Michael Bloomberg: When choosing a job, prioritize this over salary
Buffett on bubbles
I mean people -- people don't get -- they don't get smarter about things that get as basic as greed and you can't stand to see your neighbor getting rich. You know you're smarter than he is, and he's doing these things, you know, and he's getting rich, and your spouse is getting unhappy with you because you aren't doing -- pretty soon you start doing it. And so you get what I call the natural progression, the three Is. The innovators, the imitators, and the idiots.

And that's what happens. Everybody just kind of goes along. And you look kind of silly if you disagree. I mean, you know, you could have these crazy Internet valuations in the late 1990s, but they prove themselves out in the market. The next day they were selling for more than they were the day before, and people said, you know, you're crazy if you don't get in on this. So it's very human.

Now, with housing it's something even more dramatic than that, because most people aspire to own their own home. And if you really think that houses prices are going to go up next year and the year after, you feel if I don't buy it this year, I'm going to have to buy it next year. That's not true of an Internet stock. But it's true of a home. And when somebody makes it very easy for you to do it by saying you don't really have to put up my money, you can lie about your income a little, or we'll give you 100 percent mortgage, you're going to do it, because everybody that's done it has been proven right.

You have what they call social tools, and, you know, you're going to feel like an idiot if you didn't do it, because the house cost more.
Here's an old spreadsheet I have of the Top HN Comments (by point score) for each month until October 2014: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZwonVX_KlDYhuhPnAAnV...
You may be making a mistake in trying to compare the plaintiff win rates between districts. If patent trolls/non-practicing entities with frivolous patents are suing in EDT and still winning at proportional rates to other districts, then the district still favors those plaintiffs disproportionately.

It would take a lot of work to work out variables like that. What I would be curious about is what proportion of patent suits brought by non-practicing entities are filed in EDT, and what is their win rate there versus elsewhere, and an attempt at analysis of how broad the patents are.

Finally, I wonder if your win rate includes settlements? My understanding is that the combination of the win rate of plaintiffs, the speed of the court, and the higher cost of defending a patent suit in a remote district, most cases are settled. Is that true?
First time I've been softly trolled on HN. Well played.
I don't think that's how Go was conceived or Ken was hired.
That's exactly what I think. Nobody trusts Oracle and want to move away from Java no matter what it takes. See Kotlin.

I hope he creates a Kotlin/Swift evolution, I am already in love with both of them.
Google for Jobs Is Secretly Out to Kill Job Sites
100% Amazon's fault. They could have simply said something like, "We reserve the right to cap amazon cloud drive usage at <x> TB (currently, but increased occasionally)."

But they don't want to do that, apparently. Why? I don't know, but it looks like they're worried some of their customers (the same ones they don't like because of excessive usage) will go over to B2 or whatever other cheap services are available, for the peace of mind of not running into any caps even if the service costs more at 2TB or 5TB worth of storage. "Unlimited" storage companies, that nevertheless discriminate against very high usage, want to have their cake and eat it too. Either state a limit and accept the risk that some of your customers decide to go somewhere else, or don't limit and don't discriminate against them. Those are the reasonable choices. Other choices are not reasonable.
Some of the New England area McDonalds sell Lobster rolls: https://newengland.com/today/travel/new-england/places-to-ea...

No idea if they are any good, but they are $8.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14387014 and banned this account for repeatedly violating the guidelines after we've asked you to stop.
Another way of looking at it is that efforts at pay equality simply counteract bias built in to the system. Though it's often unspoken, gender/ethnicity/etc. already are hugely important in pay, even if the bias is unconscious.

There could be various reasons women are paid less which, from a business perspective, make some sense, e.g. the likelihood the business will lose its investment in the employee on account of her quitting work to raise children. By pressuring employers to pay women more than they assess them to worth, it may actually discourage employment of women and decrease diversity in the workplace. But surely it's some of both: women looked at individually do have some additional risk over your average man due to biology as well as the desire to actively mother children, AND women are unfairly (if unconsciously) discriminated against by men who assume they're less capable simply because they're women.

I actually feel pretty comfortable with per-job-code on-average pay equality between men and women. I think it's symbolically important, as well as acknowledging that simply having more female voices in the organization has worth in and of itself. But I would hope it could be enforced by social norms rather than requiring onerous government action.
Pushing the question about 'why is it suddenly popular' can appear to be a veiled attempt undermine a clearly anti-competitive abuse, or be trying to appear contrarian and savvy. But, the sooner this issue reaches a critical mass of attention, the better.

This is a problem that is likely having a detrimental affect on economic growth and innovation, and that could get worse.

Giving the benefit of the doubt as to why this could be more popular:

1. Confirmation bias. You're assuming your observation is correct that it suddenly has blown up relative to past coverage. Maybe you just haven't noticed it. If you search for stories on HN, it's a common topic over the years.

I am more of the view that it has actually increased in popularity over time because of #2.

2. The abuse is becoming more commonplace.

What started getting abused due to hot tech talent markets is now being applied to more job sectors.

If some companies try and successfully abuse noncompetes to reduce turnover or wages, then other companies will follow. It's a tactic destined to snowball until a court case strongly rules against the broad application of NCs, or law is passed prohibiting this abuse.

3. Political issue "consciousness raising" could have some exponential shape. Your inquiry is more of a general interest in political science. There is likely some literature on how this process happens that would provide insight.
The fun thing is that burning hydrocarbons also itself produce water too!
Given how many people had similar experiences, I wonder why they don't fix the products before they sell them? I mean, it's nice that they replace the faulty products, but do I really need to contact them at all? I guess making reliable product at scale for acceptable price is not so easy after all.
They create a kind-of-fixed limit.

They don't create a running list of the top X% of usage and ban those users. They study their customers usage for some period and find the top X%, then translate that to a fixed upper limit. Then they punish anyone who goes over that fixed limit. If their customers or technology changes, they can re-calculate that number.

As far as "unlimited": marketing is full of bullshit words that don't mean what you think they mean. Courts (no wait, its all company-paid arbitrators now) unsurprisingly favor the companies.

When the Supreme Court sided with AT&T on the binding arbitation clause, no joke I got an email from Charter Communications the very same day the ruling was released that said they updated their terms of service to include binding arbitration.
tldr: GTX1080ti

They're fairly easy to get now too, in the beginning it was rather hard to get them.