skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The touringplans site mentioned in the LA Times article has a crowd calendar that may help you.

From my experience, typically slower periods at Disneyland is September to November (before Thanksgiving) and mid-January to April. Go during the week. The article mentioned Thursday typically has the shortest wait times.

Good luck!
This could definitely work if they changed how their annual passes worked. Right now, pass holders can come in whenever there is not a black out date, but Disney needs to first implement a system where days have to be booked in advance. Otherwise, first come first serve would unfairly block those traveling from out of town.
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This is great news! Hope they can get it to market ASAP! kudos to those whom worked on the project!
I think that the author needs to learn about association lists. The constructor (define point '((x 1) (y 2) (z 3))) is as clear as any other language. Granted, (assoc 'x point) is a bit more verbose than point.x, but you could extend Lisp with the syntax ('x point) if it matters. Does Arc do that?
I was using fixed size, it didn't help. Read speeds were okay but write always capped out at 25MB/s.
The results are posted further down the article. You're right though, title is most definitely click bait. The notion of raising prices for the sake of shorter wait times is barely an assumption.
That’s universal, not Disney.

Unless you are talking the magic bands (which give you three rides at assigned times). Those are great, and free, but are very limited, especially with attractions that just opened.
Do you feel passionate about what you do? Do you /like/ what you do? (Don't confuse those.) I constantly struggle with distraction at work -- and I'm becoming increasingly convinced that the problem is, at least in significant part, that I /just don't like it/.
> The reality of the Android market is that Samsung makes 98% of the profit, and the vast majority of flagship devices are being made by the handful of companies that put the most effort into locking down their devices.

You know you can buy an international Galaxy S8 and unlock the bootloader without any exploits, right? That part works the same way as Nexus / Pixel devices on the S8 variants that can be unlocked (i.e. not US carrier versions, etc.). The difference is that Samsung doesn't give you 100% of their OS sources especially on the day that they release each update and they don't support verified boot for a third party operating system. They also revoke the warranty if you do it, but they permit it. They explicitly implemented a standard unlocking procedure for their consumer devices and it's not in any way forbidden by the terms of use other than voiding the warranty, which is sad but not exactly unfair. Their attempt to void the warranty is not valid in everywhere anyway. They still often need to honor standard warranty requirements unless it's demonstrated that the user is at fault for what went wrong.
In Canada (Quebec) people are generally more relaxed and drivers will wait for pedestrians even if it means they miss their light.
> If BT audio could be buffered for 15-20 seconds, this would not be a problem.

My phone (or my car) does about 2 seconds of buffering, which is usually just enough -- however, it applies the buffer regardless and doesn't synchronize to any other content. So, using BT to try and watch any videos completely fails.
This just smells like poor underlying technical leadership more than a success story.

Considering kotlin has really only recently become a 'mature' choice (if it even is) to have a app written in it seems unnecessary but to then rewrite a production app like for like because that language wasn't even a core competency of your business in the first place is just reckless.

Technical debt is a luxury small business cannot afford because of the opportunity cost of seeing it as technical debt.
> As it stands, the post feels more like "please don't fire me" than "where's my promotion?".

Couldn't help but notice that sentiment in the passive wording of the title: "don't regret moving" is not exactly a ringing, jubilant endorsement.
Do I still need externs?
Again, the analogy is the road not the car.

Anyone can use toll roads - it doesn't matter what car you drive, where you came from, or where you're going, the price is the same for everyone. Price per mile, flat rate, whatever - if it's non-discriminatory, it's neutral!

Non-neutrality is when a toll road charges more because of the car you drive, where you came from, what you're carrying, or where you're headed - or letting certain people jump the queue based on those criteria.

It's not OK to give a discount to BMW drivers because they drive a BMW. If BMW drivers are the only ones that can afford the price - that's OK. But if a Corolla driver comes along and pays the price, they better get exactly the same service.

(The analogy does break down at vehicle weight - cars can be long/short and heavy/light, packets are only long/short)
So instead you're distracted by the dopamine-inducing Hacker News feed.
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This provides added detail to the original article from mercurynews:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14741605

474+ points, 415+ comments
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Your suggestion might make sense if you have all the time in the world, but say you're going in for some small skin problem. Are you really going to test diagnosis #1 with two other doctors before you even begin your treatment?
He may be talking about the need to rebalance ... I run a btrfs balance every month to make sure I don't run out of space again.

It happened to me while on vacation -- I only had satellite internet and had to fix it over ssh at single characters per second.

It might have to do with a bug I saw mentioned on the list that referred to the free space map getting corrupted (but easily fixed with a -oremount,clear_cache). So I also run that monthly as well.

I've been too afraid to remove the cron job even though I moved my CentOS7 to the "mainline" kernel rpms from http://elrepo.org

Also, I only trust RAID1 + Crashplan.
I'm thinking of embedded systems and desktop machines- the first tends not to use an OS nearly that big (if any at all), and the second tends to use Windows.
The biggest problem is what the article touches on, loss of the best employees. They kept who they thought were key, but the best employees, the ones who really move the needle and have lots of other opportunities are out the door first.

Losing your best talent means time to market goes up for new products and quality goes down. It's also really hard to get top talent again. This makes a bad situation far worse and its why so few companies can recover.

On top of that, the investors are going to push for a sale or write off the company completely. It becomes toxic very quickly.

There's still time for SoundCloud, it still has value, but they have to make some good choices in the near term.
Seems like a good idea, but really wish there were more information on the landing page. Screenshots would be great too.
I find dubious the idea that these issues are less severe in Boston (or any other city), but I have no experience with the matter. Either way, I thought this was a really good point:

> Those same VC jerks that are losing their jobs right now — do you think they invested in a bunch of nice guys? Of course not — they invested in guys just like themselves.
The article misses why this happened. I’ve seen it speculated that on any given day, 40-50% of Disneyland people are annual pass holders. They can jack the daily rate all they want, but it doesnt’ move the needle that much. If you traveled all the way to the states, a extra 15-$20 a ticket isn’t going to set you off.

Annual passholder tickets went up as well, but the same logic applies there. If you are dropping 1K per ticket, a $100 isnt’ going to be a deal breaker.

If you do care, you buy the ticket that is cheaper ($600) that is California only, and not valid for admission on busier days.
Conservative means resisting change. Gerrymandering, which benefits incumbents over challengers, is then inherently conservative.
What is it that makes solar panels cost what they do, ultimately? Not materials, right? Those are all basically sand and other not so special things. Labor? Isn't it mostly automated? Upkeep of the factories? Input energy?

Maybe it's just all those things together. But it sure seems like if we wanted to it wouldn't be that hard to ramp up production and drive costs down a couple fold. Not that I know how.
This is the most important thing. It solves so may other inconveniences of the net. Your username should be your fingerprint. Your password should be 8 characters. You should have a 2fa fob that secures your account. So much less fraud and other attacks. I think this has the highest ROI.
Not the best example. An algorithm that is O(n) is also O(n^3). If you want a tight bound you should use big theta.

I also think while it might be a bit of an issue for undergrad, by grad school at latest for math at least you should be able to tell the difference between a correct proof and incorrect proof most of the time. Usually I'd expect it after your first/second proof heavy math class (analysis/algebra/etc). Usually when I take math tests I can tell pretty precisely what grade I'll get as I know when I'm writing a proper proof or if I'm just writing for the sake of having some progress. Admittingly, my math interests are biased towards proofs/logic and I've spent time writing proofs in coq.
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I'm honestly uncertain. My best guess right now is: If you know what you're doing, it's possible that you might do memory management better in Vulkan. Then again, it's possible that by trying to exploit the freedom Vulkan gives you, you're actually making things worse.

I suspect it's similar to prefetching and non-temporal moves on the CPU in that way. If you're targeting a specific machine and spend a lot of time on optimizations, then using those advanced features can give you a performance boost. But then a new machine comes along, and your fancy tweaks turn out to have made thing worse -- this happened with some games when Ryzen came out, and I suspect it's likely to happen with Vulkan as well.

The main benefit of Vulkan is that it cuts CPU overhead because the driver no longer has to do state tracking. The state tracking is done (almost) entirely by the game engine, which knows precisely what is needed and can therefore do the job more efficiently. This is totally unrelated to memory management.

Though keep in mind I'm speaking from a Linux perspective. On Windows, video memory is managed somewhat differently at least in WDDM2. Still, I'd be surprised if the story is much different. Vulkan doesn't expose the details of video memory swapping.
How is it different from a microkernel?

Randomly, I think the interesting thing with unikernels is that with most modern languages being memory-safe (rust, python, java, .net, javascript) we don't need process isolation.
Higher level constructs like iterators, references and smart pointers are all relatively easy to misuse. It is definitely possible to have safe abstractions like std::string's + and they're one reason why C++ is an improvement over C, but there's still many other dangerous edges that are nearly impossible for a human to keep track of at scale.
Do you suggest that being a CEO is an easy job - let alone of a company in the situation of SoundCloud?
Isps started competing with the companies they provided service to- YouTube and Netflix vs cable subscription, Verizon and its web properites, etc.
There is no parallelism, the runtime doesn't offer any. The best you can do is fork(). But there is an effort ongoing for a few years now, multicore-ocaml, which will be available mainstream when it's Ready(no ETA).
The incubator program is fine but it is a little bit dependent on their cash flow. They sunk too much money into the hospital space and their free cash flow is down and so is their stock price. Johnathan Bush is a free spirit and willing to be disruptive which is their greatest strength. If I lived in Boston still, I would be working there.
No, but the Sandman might.
And it used to be worse, believe it or not. Disney shuts down now a about 80k people. In the past when Disney wasn’t opened all week, and was cheaper, they had days that the attendence was estimated at 100k.
The Asian Saga by James Clavell

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Asian_Saga
I know of at least one professor in Canada (Toronto maybe?) who was self taught and got into a graduate program on the strength of a letter of recommendation from a physicist he had been corresponding with. Can't remember the name at the moment, but I think his background had been in art.

And then there's Ed Witten, who studied history and linguistics. It's not really clear when or how he studied physics (so very possibly self-taught), though he had a famous physicist father so he would have had a ready source of advice on textbooks, etc.
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The point was to have the compact XPS-like casing. All those other ones are bulky. So I'd have to go with replacing the RAM myself... I really don't get why this configuration option is missing here.
Sure, but you may have next to no information in that little amount of time to make the determination. For all you would know sitting at the terminal, that Russian/Chinese ICBMs were on their way. There was a Radiolab episode about this recently. It's tough to become one of the officers in this position and are heavily selected for those that would act unquestionably on orders. Any hint of questioning orders/superiors/the system gets you kicked out. This was done so that there would be no question in our rivals minds of our intent to follow through with the MAD doctrine.
They should start begging for money, Wikipedia style. I'd happily pay $50-$100 a year for a service I use for like 10 hours a day (I already pay di.fm something like that).
You are correct. "Small" utility-scale solar projects of 1-20 MW capacity take 7.6 acres of land per megawatt-peak, for fixed-tilt ground mount systems:

http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/articles/2013/08/calcula...

Fixed-tilt utility scale systems just recently fell to $0.99 per watt-peak in the US:

https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/Sunshot-1-Per-W...

You can buy 124 acres of land in California's sunny Imperial County, near existing solar farms, for $95,000:

http://www.landwatch.com/Imperial-County-California-Land-for...

If you turned that land into a solar farm you could fit about 16 megawatts of fixed-tilt solar arrays on it. 16 MWp of installed solar equipment would cost $15.84 million at $0.99/watt and the land is $0.095 million. Land accounts for only 0.6% of the combined costs. (A 16 MWp farm is small by utility-scale project standards and probably would not cost only $0.99/watt because of dis-economies of small scale. I cited $0.99/watt to set a conservative bound on how much cost the land component represents in a utility scale solar project.)
If an open API existed yes there would be more integrations. Of course you would have to hire engineers to perform upkeep. Eventually if the ordering API isn't profitable you get a bunch of sunk costs and have to reassign people. Its not just "make this open" and POOF. Also your access could be revoked by unofficially using the API and or they could just change it at any time.
See my reply to the other comment pointing this out.
All the technology hype aside, it often feels as if these feed prediction algorithms are akin to weather forecasting. That is, there not forecasting per se, but taking educated guesses based on some set of knowns. The problem is correlation is not cause.
hypervisor+unikernels do sound a lot like microkernel+processes...
Fixed IP addresses for everyone. Also addresses that encode LAT/LONG. These are intended to increase traceability.
Sure,

https://www.freepress.net/blog/2017/04/25/net-neutrality-vio...
Yes. Which makes sense because you are actively sharing them and can end the display whenever you want. No privacy issues.
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Understand the fast pass system. There should be blogs online about it. Don't get fast passes for rides that are not worth getting it for. The main ones where fast passes "run out" are Radiator Springs, Guardians, Space Mountain, and Indiana Jones. Note that the two parks are under two different fast pass systems and if you stay at any of the Disney hotels, I believe you can request specific fast passes.

Try and get into the park first thing in the morning. As soon as you get in, bee line for a fast pass to one ride, and wait in line for another. Some rides such as Toy Story are not part of the fast pass system. While waiting in lines that are 1 hr+, have a friend to go across the park and get more fast passes while you wait. Also, the time window for these passes are not super strict. That being said some cast members can be particularly annoyingly strict. Good luck!
There's also the Chicago Undergraduate Physics Bibliography: https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~abhishek/chicphys.htm
I'm interested in pushing boxes. It sounds relaxing. Well, relatively. Have you heard of webpack?
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My understanding is that the cost is dominated by panel interconnects and power inverters and whatnot, not by the silicon itself.
Detailed L.A. Times article on Bzeek from earlier in the year, 145+ points:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13638084
What? Why.
It seems to me that you can make an API that is trivially reverse-engineerable and both have your pie and eat it.
There is no law that NY government information has to be available through a realtime API.
It's worth noting that satisfaction is also a function of perception. Did you enjoy the movie? Yeah, probably. But then you think about all the possibilities, a small number of which would naturally be better, and an acceptable film fades towards unacceptable.

Regardless of how good the recommendation engine might be, it's still always subject to human perception. That can be unpredictable and fickle, on a good day :)
Actually, twitter trending a hashtag on it is pretty good given that is their core product. The rest, yes I agree.
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Agree also...
I'm so glad this is happening. Gerrymandering is for 2nd rate banana republics, not the greatest Republic of all time. This IS a national security threat.

I would add which party is mostly responsible, but apparently mentioning the party, although factually correct, would lead me to get in trouble here. Which is Grand, coz im really Old, and I dont like to Party... anymore!
If you recreate the bug on Linux and have something like a simple reproduder I guess that the ZoL devs are more than happy to fix or at least understand it:

https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs

From reading the pull requests and issues on that repo I've got the impression that the next release 0.7.0 will be quite step forward and there seems to be quite sophisticasted work to tackle performance issues.
Although not recommended, you can turn checksum off. The granularity is at the dataset level, too, so you have a lot of flexibility.
If there was a IoT button in my kitchen that could order my usual morning order, well I'm not sure. I may or not shout out in joy.
> cause a national crisis by tweeting "watch out China, nukes are coming" from Donald Trump's Twitter?

Are you serious? That would cause actual people to die. And Twitter will end up with a huge lawsuit.
Yeah Disney America was planned for Virginia horse country outside of DC, some of the most beautiful and wealthy real estate in the region. The NIMBY factor was fierce and the locals were DC elites who wanted no part of it.
The other dev of this project here - I think it's less of a challenge than presumed because, essentially, we're hijacking Facebook's markup structure anyway. All we have to do is inject stories one-by-one into existing elements rather than replacing the news feed entirely.

If you want this as an actual feature, create a new issue ticket for your request here: https://github.com/yczeng/hackernews-newsfeed. Happy hacking!
I remember learning somewhere (perhaps a Podcasts discussion?) that Bluetooth headphones can tell the host device what their audio delay is. Given that information to host device can adjust video playback so that the sound syncs up perfectly. I know iOS is capable of this, I'd assume macOS is well.

So it depends on the headphones.

Of course that only helps with premade content. If you're playing a game the OS can't adjust the game for 200 ms of lag, everything is just going to be out of sync.
Emacs offers to let you edit ASTs in Paredit mode for lisp if you want to experience it.
I used to use Bluetooth PAN with my M600i (UIQ3): no wifi? No problem! I connected to my dodgy windows 2000 laptop with some BT software and drivers (and a dongle), and shared its connection to my phone :)
Also VPNs can be blocked easily. Look at China.
You're a better mathematician than I am. My experience passing mathematics exams involves a lot of "Ugh I know how this works in principle! Why doesn't it work when I apply it!? #@$%$#%!" I remember one time I was studying Newton's Method and got 5 different results for the same problem. It looked like I was applying the algorithm correctly in all of them, but the algo is very sensitive to small errors in arithmetic.

Hell, even for knowledge based tests, especially oral, I had this problem.

"How does CPU pipeline work?", prof
"blahblahblah", swiz
"Lol you have no idea what you're talking about"
"Argh but that's what your book says!"
"Nu-uh. Look, here"
"Ugghhh I changed one little word!"
"Yeah but that changes the meaning and now your explanation is wrong"
"#@$@#%%!@#"

You know, little details I'd never realize on my own are wrong because I was 80% correct and that sounds correct enough, you can look up details when you need them. But prof is looking for 99.999% correct.

I did not graduate, as you can imagine. But I did get straight A's in coding-based classes. :)
Mr Edward Checksum Checker.

Update: At least 1 person didn't get this joke :D
Is there a good guide out there on reverse engineering mobile apps for iOS & Android?
Opening up an API like this is ripe for abuse, so taking care makes sense. Bad actors translate directly to lost money.

A real method of securing APIs would be a godsend, but in current tech it's just not possible. This is the one place where mediocre security-by-obscurity is your only choice =(
I tried something like thiswith a user script to attack those fixed banners, but I found that it caused too much breakage. (For instance on Youtube you would not be able to use the menus.)

I settled on hiding the fixed headers and other objects upon scroll down. (They can be brought back by scrolling up.) https://iwalton.com/wiki/#NoFixed

It would be nice if there was browser support, maybe something like tricking the page into thinking the viewport is as long as the page itself.
>"This may sound hyperbolic, but I feel like them shutting down would be the "burning of the Library of Alexandria" of 21st century music"

Except that all the original content still exists and could be made available somewhere else.
Looks like someone already did: https://www.ryanpickren.com/starbucks-button
Setting aside the overused title, we should keep in mind that with the frightful complexity of today's leading architectures it is going to be a challenge to ensure secure operation, or as noted with the recent sky lake bug, correct operation.

One wonders if there is any hope for a commercially viable CPU architecture that is simple enough to audit.