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My wife and I, and her family, have been Walt Disney World (Florida) passholders for years. My dad was a passholder for years until he moved another 45 minutes away from Disney.

It's a little expensive, but there's always something fun to do. Most of us go to re-ride some of our favorite rides. My dad went to just walk around and get exercise and look at things.

Epcot center also has a ton of live entertainment including live bands and performers. They also have events with foods from around the world, flower or butterfly festivals, and more.

For what it's worth, my impression of Disneyland (California and Tokyo) wasn't nearly as good. They were fun, but they didn't have enough stuff to keep me coming back. But then, I don't live there, so maybe there's more to it. Those parks did have one thing that I wish Florida had: They change some of the rides once in a while to match another theme, such as Nightmare Before Christmas on the Haunted Mansion or "Hyperspace Mountain" (Star Wars) on Space Mountain.

I have to say... You're the only person I've ever heard say they went to Disney once and have no interest in going back.
Harvard just moved to end frats, sororities, and final clubs entirely
Works for me in Chrome 60. Just return twice, like a normal editor.
As 100% reliability is unattainable in practice, I would assume this has already been taken into account in defining the levels - which leaves the question hanging: while, in principle, there may be a distinction between "hands off", "eyes off" and "mind off", will there be a distinction in practice? Volvo (and Ford?) seem to think not.

And is there any "hands off" system that tests if the driver is "eyes on"? With eye-tracking, it is feasible, but I have not read of it being used.
Why kidnap? Why not just offer $20 per pint and sell it for $200?
Scientists store a famous movie in DNA
OwnBackup grabs $7.5M Series B investment for SaaS data backup service
I just meant you still need a third party MQ to be spun up (per docs here - http://socketcluster.io/#!/docs/scaling-horizontally). Without that, there is no distribution happening.

From my understanding, you're basically saying "You can combine SocketCluster with the MQ of your choice (the installation and configuration of which is left as an exercise to the reader) and then between Docker, Kubernetes, and Baasil you can orchestrate and deploy it across a cluster". That sounds a bit more complex than just using SocketCluster, which is what the OP seemed to be indicating was all you needed, and is also including the DevOps story, which I don't think either he or I was intending to include.

I was not trying to indicate that SocketCluster can't be -used- to scale websockets horizontally, but that it's not just an off the shelf solution that would have solved Discord's problem either. It requires other parts, as both the docs and you mention.

I'll also reiterate from my post, SocketCluster has no benchmarks pertaining to what happens when you -do- scale horizontally (per docs here - http://socketcluster.io/#!/performance ). That lack alone would kill my interest in it (as would scc-state being a single instance, which would make fault tolerance a real concern to me, but it looks like you know that already). Is performing horizontal scalability tests on the roadmap?
Rich people may think twice about injecting "shady" blood into their veins though. I mean, many seem fine to do it with intravenous drugs but at least you won't find AIDS-laced heroin.

I think it might make more sense for super rich people to pay people directly to give them their blood, which is morally questionable but maybe not particularly worse than, say, paying for a surrogate mother? It sounds a lot less traumatizing at least, both physically and psychologically. After all many people do donate their blood for free several times a year.

I'm pretty sure you could convince many young people to give up some of their blood for a pretty cheap price actually. No need to resort to kidnapping and slave farms.
How to Empower Your Customer Service Team
Some more kind words:

I'm currently working through week six of Phase 0, and I'm so, so sad that DBC isn't going to last. I did tons of research about different bootcamps, but ultimately I chose DBC because I wanted to be a part of a program that has such a commitment to being a corrective force in the embarrassingly un-diverse tech world.

It really is incredible that the thing you created has empowered so many students to both maximize their ability to learn and gain more agency in such an inequitable society.

Anyway, I just wanted to say thanks. I'm glad I decided to dive into this while DBC was still around. (And now I should probably get back to work with attributes and modules...)
Not trolling, just genuinely curious: what about this is so awful then? This sounds like a step in the right direction?
The same thing happened at Harry Potter for Universal. Fans are insane.

Having said that, I was there for the second day of Harry Potter and waited in the 3 hr line to get into the HP area, and then another 1.5 hr line to actually ride the ride. I was there with a friend, and we chatted the whole time and it was a lot of fun. I probably wouldn't do it again for a new ride anywhere, but it was a neat experience once.
Clearly your risk threshold is high. If investing in a startup have it be your own startup.....as they say at Y Combinator, find something people want and build that.
I'll add that ZFS is also quite concerned with write patterns IIRC, and thus wear leveling.

The author of the article seems to assume we should all be trusting SSD or "hybrid storage" firmware to properly handle this sort of thing for us like nice black boxes.

I think this was one of the major problems ZFS was designed to solve. To make storage hardware more simple the idea was to move a lot of this logic into the OS (especially as large RAM sizes got cheaper). It's why having a RAID controller sitting under your vdevs is advised against.
I think it is just one of the millions of possible coincidences. Yes, it's fun, but nothing weird, because there are other millions of equally weird coincidences that could happen.
That doesn't answer the question. Who do you give the command authority for that decision? Who gets to say "we cannot contact the headquarters", which amounts to being able to launch the nuclear weapons? And obviously if you want them to be able to launch under those circumstances you have to give them any "launch codes" or what-have-you beforehand.
There's now an Airbnb – to dump your bags
Steam would earn more from me if I did not closed it frustrated every time I wanted to buy game. I literally did not bought game because there was no way to filter out stuff I don't like (well defined category in this case).
For anyone wondering, an increment like this happens about every three years.
Erm... now I'm totally confused!

it's #CCCCCC now! It definitely wasn't that yesterday. And TBH I can't recall exactly what colour grey I set it to originally!

When I looked at the source yesterday it was:

<td bgcolor="#969696">

now it's

<td bgcolor="#CCCCCC">

I'm going mad!
That incentivizes using adblockers though, and given that ads are pretty much YouTube's entire business model, that would be nice for you but terrible for the business.

However, they do charge money per month for YouTube Red which removes ads, and a better recommendation system for Red subscribers might encourage people to buy it.
POSIX time doesn't count leap seconds (i.e., "seconds since the Epoch" are not actually elapsed seconds) and therefore POSIX time 1.5e6 is 2017-07-14T02:40:00 (UTC scale) exactly

right/UTC uses 1970-01-01 00:00:10 (TAI scale) epoch (it is slightly different from 1970-01-01 00:00:00 (UTC scale) -- the Epoch)

2017-07-14 02:39:33 (UTC scale) is 2017-07-14T02:40:10 (TAI scale) i.e., it is 1.5e9 seconds since the epoch used for "right" timezones, not the Epoch.
Oh, huh, hadn't seen that before. That's actually an option, potentially.
http://www.disneydining.com/happens-disney-park-closed-due-r...
What about those that can't afford to pay. Are their plans less important because they can't afford the no-bump class?
> Can you really imagine how this would work IRL?

Yes. This is basically the exact user experience of the Starbucks app, and it's a fine experience.

You pre-pay an amount, have a balance open, transactions reduce that balance, and you occasionally need to reload your balance with another credit card transaction.

Which is to say I don't think this is an intractable problem if there is good software with good user experiences to help out.

All that said, I'm not current on the block-size vs SegWit debate, so my analogy could be flawed.
Did you overload the "?" operator?
Balloon and Kite Mapping: a more flexible way to take aerial photos
> That "Bitcoin is currently suffering from significant scaling problems" is the topic of debate.

I find it hard to see how anyone could reasonably dispute it. Transactions were fast and cheap-to-free until mid-2015, when the blocks filled. Since then transactions have been slow and expensive.
Considering people in the past months have died doing exactly that, yes, there is reason to believe that.

And just look at http://autoweek.com/article/autonomous-cars/tesla-model-s-au...
I knew a CEO once who honestly believed that any feature he could conceive of could be implemented in two weeks.

He was quite successful....

Any before anyone asks what the logic was behind this - there wasn't any - he just chose to believe it and ignore any evidence to the contrary.
I think you mean "Why??!??!??!??!??!??!??!??!??!" [1]

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7825055/what-does-the-c-...
I agree that DRM is a bad thing, but in this instance, what is the alternative to implementing in the browser? Media companies will each have their own DRM plugins, which won't work on all browsers and platforms. Which is worse?
The private torrent sites (What, and others that I won't name here) all tend to refer to Discogs as the authoritative source of catalog information. The difference is that while Discogs knows about metadata, it doesn't have any music.

I think I was depressed for a week when What shut down.
How to Boost Conversions on Your Website (Without Hiring a Specialist)
>I find myself a lot of times that I go to bed 1 or 2 hours too late...

I've dealt with this one a lot. For me, it's partly caused by having bright lights everywhere while I work through the evening. The bright lights are really helpful while I'm working, but not when I need to wind down.

What helped me was setting up a 'night mode'. I put tealight candles everywhere (in Australia, Dusk is a great store for that sort of thing). I also have a lamp with one of those "vintage" bulbs with long straight filaments that outputs an orange-yellow glow (in Australia they're called Mirabella Vintage). For bonus points, I run Netflix's "Fireplace For Your Home" on the TV. Whatever it is about that dim light ambience, that signals my body to start winding down for sleep, and it's usually about 1 - 2 hours earlier than without it.

[I took a photo at the beginning of my night mode setup here: https://twitter.com/syneryder/status/766299439489097728 ]

As for work distractions, I work solo so I don't get many intrusions that way. But I am ruthless in turning off notifications on my phone (and I deactivated Facebook, because it was a constant stream of distraction). I got a Pebble Time Steel watch, and set it up so only urgent notifications go to the watch (like downtime alerts). If my watch isn't buzzing, it isn't important enough to interrupt what I'm doing.
Hi everyone, author of pell.js here, thanks for all the positive AND critical feedback. Hey, this is Hacker News, how boring would it be if everyone's comment was just "Cool" or "Good job"? I love hearing the gripes and individualized complaints of smart people that have worked on similar (and much larger) projects.

I'd like to mention a few things about pell.js and it's goals:

- It was not made to be the most full-featured editor out there

- It was not made to fight with or worry about browser inconsistencies (browsers are converging, quickly too)

- It was made to demonstrate the underlying simplicity of something that looks like magic to most beginner developers (including myself) and to teach people how to use `contentEditable` and `execCommand` via a tiny, extremely readable codebase

- It was made for people who need just a basic WYSIWYG editor in their app/site/whatever and who care about bundle size (PWA's anyone?)

Over time, many of the inconsistencies and issues will get fixed or implemented in pell, but the goal of remaining tiny yet functional will always remain paramount.
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I HATE MICROSOFT, HOPE THE COMPANY COLLAPSES. Everything they touch turns to shit. They have totally destroyed skype like they did with messenger. Totally made Skype complicated and user unfriendly. I really hate you Microsoft.
I also don't understand the big deal. I'd be happy for someone to point out the obvious thing I'm missing. I believe content creators/owners should be able to do whatever they want with what they create/own, just like I can do whatever I want with what I create/own.
Blood banks stopped paying for blood because it attracted the wrong customers, those strapped for cash rather than the idealistic types. As a result quality suffered.

Between hospitals blood is bought and sold at the price you mention.

Radiolab had an episode about this some time ago.
DRM in HTML is worse.
Well, it sometimes makes sense. I, and many others, use YouTube as a music streaming service. Most people listen to most songs they like more than once. I dare say yt has gotten a good amount of ad revenue out of me listening to Darren Emerson's dub extravaganza mix of black sky by Shakespeare's sister, which is always in the recommendation panel for some reason...
Don't plasma centers effectively do this?

And if we are really thinking about catering to the uber rich just raise both prices by an order of magnitude and you'll have plenty of donors and probably a ton of buyers.
Sorry but it’s just using the standard contenteditable attribute, which works terribly, see https://medium.engineering/why-contenteditable-is-terrible-1...
Uber got very dominant in market share in Moscow with all its subsidized rides. I paid 200USD for 30 rides! This is not sustainable...
Came here to post about ProseMirror, glad you commented :)
Want to fight climate change? Have fewer children
The most compelling argument I know of against bigger blocks is that the big blockers have started putting Craig Wright (Nakamoto Dundee) forward as, like, any sort of expert.
Because I don't want to close the curtains (actually, I don't even have curtains currently, but assuming I did) and make the room dark whenever I want to watch TV.
Scientists Just Teleported an Object into Space for the First Time
The "mild" tag commonly refers to the winters, which is when parks in colder climates have to close.
as if humans were masters of their own minds. LOL
Fiery: flexible and lightweight framework for building web servers in R
> The reason other editors are so big is because the take editing behaviour into account.

It doesn't take it into account as much as it hoists an implicit imperative programming language onto it.

Of course learning markdown for a non-technical user isn't easy, and having a separate "Preview" pane to show the final product certainly isn't a great UX. But it is a delight compared to "for a simple URL, I type the URL, click <Enter>, then either click the 'X' on the big preview graphic that inescapably appears or click <ctrl-z> then enter again to get rid of whatever <div> monstrosity Yahoo just added to my message."
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Objects are tools, not a way of coding – so I think
363 million unique passwords "from various websites (including major sites e.g. Sony Pictures, Gawker)
", which JtR makes into 6.5 billion variants -- https://dazzlepod.com/uniqpass/
>" I don't know anyone who went to an elite university without significant baseline intelligence"

Oh, I sure do. The strongest positive correlations I've noticed with elite schooling are conscientiousness, acquiescence to authority and then wealth, in that order. Intelligence is a relatively distant 4th place, thought it still correlates positively, IMO.

PG actually wrote a whole essay on this topic: http://www.paulgraham.com/colleges.html

"...what we've found is that the variation between schools is so much smaller than the variation between individuals that it's negligible by comparison. We can learn more about someone in the first minute of talking to them than by knowing where they went to school."
This makes me sad. The urge to gather in social groups will not dismiss by doing away with fraternities, etc. organizations will just become unstructured and secret. I think the ripple effects of such a move, if instituted, could be far reaching.
It would just be another case like the EU cookies thing. Every website would have the button and everyone would click it immediately to get rid of it. It would just be an annoyance.
Uber Merges Russian Arm with Yandex.Taxi
Building developer ambassador programs at MongoDB
Nuttiness. This is the same President the MSM declared had "finally become President" after he bombed a Syrian air base following a (hoaxed?) chemical attack. Then got attacked endlessly by the MSM for not continuing to bomb Syria and for deescalating the military-industrial "WWIII with Russia so we can all make a lot of money" campaign.

There's an argument to be made for checks on presidential power to wage nuclear war at a pin drop. President Trump pulling us back from the joint establishment Democrat and establishment Republican push for worldwide nuclear armageddon is not it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programming_languages_...
The real message from the tech titans: “we don't care much about net neutrality”
But we think it's definitely worth having a "weird logo on website" day to show our deep opposition and instoppable rage about this incredibly important topic.

Those weird logos they were cool, and it's sent a message to the government that they cannot ignore.

Regards, facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft.

Ps don't mess with us Mr Trump or we might just come after you with the full force of a very light and apologetic glove slap. We're real tough you know.
You can add me to the list of people never wanting to go back.

I was fairly excited to take my kids to Disney as I had never been there myself as a kid for unknown reasons. And while I had good time, once is certainly enough. I'd rather travel and see different places as opposed to going the same place year after year.
The truth about Human Trafficking will rock the world. The truth will come out soon.
What if we build the internet we always wanted?
You haven't seen their prices in T2 cities, it is like $1 per 5 to 6 kms. And they have the problem of "Uberists" - people who drive themselves around when Uber subsidizes rides. And they also have issue of botters who do the same, but at industrial scale (without actually driving themselves or anybody else of course)
1) I honestly have not seen a ratio that high for a web service. Most of the hot points of serving a web request through Ruby are actually written in C, so on the same machine I can only serve about 2x as many simple JSON requests through Gin as Sinatra. Once you add in waiting on IO for a DB call this gap gets narrower until it basically disappears.

What blows it out to 40x? Some sort of live image/sound manipulation?

If it was an inherent problem with Ruby, you wouldn't see such fantastic performance from nginx_mruby.

2) Sure, the Go connection pool is nice, but the Go ORMs are horrible as they try and work around the warts of the language. Everything's a trade-off, really. You give up terseness and flexibility for performance.

3) The GIL is definitely not convenient when thinking about code. Threads in Ruby still require you to write thread safe code. The GIL exists to make the _Ruby VM_ simpler. Otherwise you end up in the situation of Lua, where you have to re-initialize the VM in every thread and essentially have sub-interpreters, or you build something incredibly complex like the JVM.

The 2.1+ GC usually spends less than 1% of time in collection. That's fast by any language standard. The next step for Ruby will be a method JIT. There are two promising method JITs in development using LLVM as a backend.

Images shouldn't be served through a dynamic web app regardless of your language. They should be served directly via a web server to a cache/CDN, even if you're generating them on the fly like dynamically composed map tiles. People pan away. They pan back. You don't want to regenerate the tile.
Western world is already struggling to find enough blood donor, and one of their main source are the students.

You would not want to force those students to have to choose between morality and 1 order of magnitude more money than what they can do in the official public blood donation center.
An even better tactic, if applicable in your area is to buy used Miele appliances. All my appliances at home are Miele, all used from the local Craigslist equivalent. I usually pay 70%-90% off the sticker price because people are stupid when the remodel kitchens and bathrooms - "everything else is new, we should have a new dishwasher as well!".

Do I get the warranty transferred? No. Do I care? Not in the slightest. Even if something breaks after a year I just buy a new used one and still come out ahead. The cost of transportation and looking it up is the same as for a new appliance.
Yes? That's how things are decided in a capitalist marketplace, there's no real moral force that exists within a negotiated exchange.

The obvious answer is "chartered jet" has a 100% seat guarantee, but that's an order of magnitude more expensive.
An app for eye witnessed news reporting
For those (like me) who immediately wondered if SATs correlate with socio economic status rather than IQ, this Slate article covers some of the debate about standardized tests and points to meta studies. SATs do track IQ and predict college success, but social emotional skills, grit, and other factors also count.
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/201...
If only you knew how bad things really are.
It's likely to be Sony, the VAG (owner of Audi, VW. Skoda, Seat, etc) has been working with Sony for many years, and had a Level 4 autonomous vehicle prototype in 2008.
Well that's an awfully uncharitable title. Isn't it possible he simply thinks EME is a better alternative than Flash/Silverlight? Because I sure do.
I just wanted to echo this, John is a hard worker and a great resource for people. I know some people are turned off by his writing style, but his blog is an excellent example of a well-executed content marketing strategy.

Disclaimer: I occasionally author articles for him.
I don't get the gripe. EME is used solely for wrangling media bits and it doesn't insist on any specific CDM. It's up to the browser manufacturers to decide if they want to include any closed-source implementations.

The fact that commercial browser manufacturers include their own closed-source implementation makes perfect sense (IE = playready, Safari = fairplay, Chrome = widevine).

If ARRI decides to create a web browser, would you expect them not to allow their end users to natively play ARRI raw files if they could provide it, simply because other browsers can't include that closed-source capability? Seems to me like an arbitrary restriction.

If I want to use open-source-only browser, and lose out on some of the proprietary commercial stuff I get elsewhere, that's a respectable choice, but it shouldn't be the only one.