skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The spillways can only transport so much water. If inflow is greater than that, you can build up above that point. Even a fast moving channel 10 feet deep is dwarfed by the flux of water that can be deposited by a heavy storm over a large area.

Edit: for some concrete numbers, the reservoir was rising 0.5 ft/hr!! For reference, it appears the Addicks Reservoir has an area of 26,000 acres around this depth. That's 157,300 ft^3/s of inflow. Outflow was only 4,000 ft^3/s!

Edit 2: Here's a visualization: http://i.imgur.com/usZAici.jpg
Ah, farmers' markets! We have a nice one in our town, and it's fun to visit. But it didn't take long to notice . . .

1. It's a hard life for farmers. To be open for business by 8:30 a.m. for our local gentry, it's necessary to rise at 4 a.m., load up the truck and drive for a couple hours to our town. Some of the smaller-stand operators are on the verge of quitting because the commitment doesn't pay off.

2. Part of shoppers money goes for the farmers' gasoline, travel burden, etc. That's much more intense when food is brought to market inefficiently in many smaller vehicles rather than a single, Interstate-grade truck.

3. Most farmers are trying to move produce at multiple stages of goodness. Yes, there are beautiful peaches at $3.99/pound. There also are squished ones in the mix at times, too, as well as over-ripe ones at $1/pound that the farmers need to sell, too. It's all part of running a store. But someone still has to pick out the good from the not-so-good, and often that's the customer.

Overall, I'm glad farmers' markets exist, and sometimes the goods can be spectacular. But the inefficiencies are too severe for them to take on a dominant role in feeding the USA.
Any price cuts on bread, pork, sausage, potatoes, tilapia, tomatoes, onions, leeks, beets, rice, beans? From the '49 discounts' link in this thread, the answer seems to be 'no'.
It can happen if water is entering the lake faster than it can exit.

That's why a river can crest much higher than the water lower than it - it's a dynamic level, not a static one.
What about Open Whisper Systems?
Possibly, but here StubHub would have to explain why they displayed it as unsold with a delay, and why the FTC should not consider that deceptive.

If the ticket was already sold, why the delay? A reasonable consumer think that specific ticket had just been sold at that moment, which sounds like a material misrepresentation.
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thought leaders are inflecting to the Trough of Disillusionment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle
Even better, don't sign up. I'm envious of my friends who are in this category. I deleted after reading about PRISM, then got back on. Deleted again, and then moved away from some friends and got lonely and got back on again. Luckily more and more of my friends are deleting, so should be easier to take the plunge again.
My reading of the post above yours, in the context of the conversation it appears in, is that you cannot overcome your instincts so there's no point in even trying to rein them in. If it just means to say we don't live up to our ideals all the time, well, OK, that's true, but I don't see where it's going.
They weren't enough unfortunately, hence the cajun navy. Some sort of civilian auxiliary corps would be awesome.

I'm thinking of more of a social graph where civilians who are going to help in these sorts of situations can be organized more efficiently. For instance, instead of having a bunch of people drive their personal cars out there, going out as a group would improve the individual's abilities to help efficiently.
> unless you are protecting the nuclear launch codes no data is worth being physically harmed for.

What if you’re just protecting the location of your daughter/sister from her physically abusive ex? Not worth enduring some violence for?
Charlotte's building a crapload of apartments though.
You shouldn't be compelled to give up anything that is "you" without a court order and a warrant. Not indiscriminately photographed, fingerprinted, and in some cases tested for drugs against your will.
MS was always in bed with the feds, e.g. Skype and crypto backdoors.
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Tesla 0.6k
Ford 0.6k
Bosch, Honda, Volkswagen 0k
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I treat facebook as a contact list for people who I don't regularly communicate with on a daily/weekly cadence. It is a way to keep in touch and up to date with people but the less I frequent facebook the "less unhappy" I am. I don't want to say I am happier not going to facebook, but I do know less facebook isn't a bad thing.
i bit the bullet and installed messenger lite. No facebook app on phone though.
I like Open Whipser Systems also but do they really qualify as a tech giant?
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> Getting rid of places that fester hatred is like putting out a fire

I assumed this was the mental model of those who would suppress "hate speech". Here's the problem: if there's a nugget of important truth hidden somewhere in there, something people won't say in public but which is vital, then you're not putting out a fire, you're putting a lid on a boiling pot. You can try to stop the steam from escaping but eventually it'll blow up in your face.
An M4 is price equivalent to a Golf R in Europe? Wow - quite a different story here in the US.
For those considering Comodo, I'd ask that you reconsider.

They tried to trademark LetsEncrypt:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11964583

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11973232

Bad OCR led to certificates being issued to the wrong people:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12761248

They created their own Superfish-like adware:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9091917
You can also go to Facebook on Chrome and request the desktop version of the site- Messages will work in that. That way you don't have to install a Messages app.
Face ID is going to screw this all up. Cops won't even need your cooperation to unlock.
Here's hoping for multiple password options that unlock secret partitions. Best way through authority is plausible deniability.
The most cuts I have seen were in the meat/seafood sections. Tilapia was cut for $4-5, ribeye $6, etc.
Supposedly you can tell fresh apples from stored apples by the color of the stem. I might just be relaying bullshit though.
In that case they would come to break your face to begin with not your 256bit encryption.
I think the question is: why should it take two days to get a couple of dispatchers out to a disaster area? As a nation, we put a lot of money into FEMA, etc..., and it's not hard to predict that there will be a need to coordinate volunteers. Why not have a shipping container or two and some people who are in the area before the storm hits? They could a generator, fuel, radios, tents, etc... and put together a small incident response center on the ground before hand. It wouldn't have to be much, just the basics to assess and direct resources available on the ground. I imagine a couple of guys with radios, maps can get a huge amount done towards coordinating volunteers, helping to make things more efficient, and helping people to be safe.

I'm on a volunteer fire department, and have had the same concerns, although on a more local level.
I guess due to his last name. Un?

If you break the title of this post before his last name it would read

Un in official.

But we also know that isn't the only reason. If you are his age with nukes I guess most would have H1 tag wrapped around it too.
You can move the cursor by long pressing on the words to bring up the magnifying glass.
In the US, no. Bit of an oddity; most other democratic countries don't do that.
The closed-source model is essentially security through obscurity, which has been rightfully and thoroughly debunked as a legitimate practice. The right solution is to use the right tools for the job - which is often open source, but that doesn't mean using it blindly and not taking responsibility for it, and actively keeping up to date with exploits and patches.
This is all from my a sample size of 1, myself, but this is how entrenched Facebook is:
- I know multiple people who do not use email or text socially, because they only use Facebook messenger for either. I can't think of anything else that replaces either one where I know people who use it exclusively.
- The only people I can think of who aren't on Facebook but with whom I'd like to communicate with more, are not on any social media platform at all.

So nothing is even close.
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Tilapia was cut.
You should look into whether Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) is available for your area: https://www.ready.gov/community-emergency-response-team

If it's not, you may want to work on partnering with local emergency services to get one going.
"The USDA defines what's considered a food desert and which areas will be helped by this initiative: To qualify as a “low-access community,” at least 500 people and/or at least 33 percent of the census tract's population must reside more than one mile from a supermarket or large grocery store (for rural census tracts, the distance is more than 10 miles)." [1]

Traveling over a mile to a grocery store is a big deal for somebody without a car -- especially if they're elderly, disabled, or have children.

1. http://americannutritionassociation.org/newsletter/usda-defi...
I deleted my thefacebook.com account in 2008 when the daily privacy rollbacks were the rage du jour. The chief reason was that 90% of the content I was seeing was who received a banana in Mafia wars, which in retrospect is annoying but relatively benign.
Even Voat has had to draw a line in the sand regarding content and began banning communities: https://voat.co/v/announcements/163288
It's interesting the large amount of regulations that are involved with gambling, due to how addictive and potentially harmful it is.

Facebook seems to be one of the few things even more addictive than gambling. What is one of the only things humans value more than money? Attention, love, affection, friendship, relationships...
PWAs can do offline.
> If you're within a few miles of a bus stop and the buses are running at all, then you're guaranteed to have high-speed cellular internet access

This just isn't the case in the United States. There are large swaths of the country that straight up don't have high speed internet in any form.
Well, the national guard aren't civilians or local, plus they get sent to fight in wars and shit.

I am thinking more like a level below volunteer firepeople, with some regional and national coordination.
They also get sent to wage wars of aggression overseas, when the regular army gets stretched too thin.

They will also be deployed domestically to repress public uprisings, etc.

If you want to help people, you're better off becoming a firefighter. Unfortunately, outside of some small community volunteer firefighter groups, this really isn't an option. The National Guard does not fill this gap.
I'm sure you've thought about moving the renderer clientside in JS - what's blocking it? Have you played with ClojureScript before?
people respond to sincerity. once you've learned to fake that, you've got it made.

facebook teaches us to be sincere to others because facebook cares. it really does.
Here's a table of price changes by Bloomberg measured at mid-town Manhattan Whole Foods: https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iu.8ONC0rkk...
It seems 'evolved' means whatever people want it to mean very early on into these types of discussion. Usually there's a notion floating around of 'more- or less-evolved' that's not very well thought-through. And often this kind of muddying is committed alongside wishful thinking in the first place ('Despite science, I am free will incarnate; it is that which separates man from beast, nobles from savages, wealthy from beggars!').

There are no moral imperatives to be found in genes or epigenetics, only moral factors. Hume's observation about is -> ought is as pressing as ever, despite what Sam Harris might have you think. It's particularly dangerous to believe the former is true, since we make such a habit of expanding and distorting the scope of empirical results to ideological fantasy-land near instantly.

Whether we tightly and uniformly prefer genetically similar friends, whether we conversely happen to like genetically diverse mates, or whether all of these are more generally attendant to environmental factors like diet and disease -- it remains that we can collaboratively use reason to decide on our 'oughts', not just pick the interpretation and scope of 'is' that we prefer at the time. Issues of justice and responsibility seem much more interesting than endlessly turning the wheel of sciencey-tribalism. We struggle enough to figure out how best to treat each other already.
I read the article, my post was reading through it
The goal of such "controversial discussions" is always to silence the minorities. The goal is not discussion or debate but normalization of extreme views.

The mechanism here is very simple. A "controversial subject" is proposed like, say, "Women are inferior to men when it comes to X." The content of this discussion is not relevant. Its existence is enough to fulfill the true purpose: drive women away from the forum. It is abundantly clear that women, or any other minority, will rightly avoid any community that entertains their inferiority.

What's amusing about this debate is that all the heroic defenders of "free speech" have a very limited and very self-serving definition of free speech. You will never see these people argue for making a particular forum more welcoming or hospitable to minorities. You will never see arguments for diversity. This would introduce real diversity of opinion which is very much not wanted. But even though they despise real diversity, by defending free speech of the most extreme ilk they do at least get the nice virtue points in their mind with the benefit of ensuring everbody in the forum is pretty much exactly like them.
Apple is adding a kill switch to iOS 11 that lets you discreetly disable Touch ID (and presumably Face ID) by hitting the power button 5 times. And of course if you're concerned you can opt out of Touch or Face ID entirely and simply use a pass-code.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/17/16161758/ios-11-touch-id-...
Cleaning cookies, using browser extension like uBlock Origin, and not using facebook login via other web sites such as Yelp will help with reducing tracking.
Same. I keep thinking that I can rationally explain my Reddit and HN usage because they do serve some utility. But then I wonder how much I’m fooling myself with that sentiment...
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Actual question: what's the point of Messenger if you don't have notifications enabled?
It's good to be the king, I suppose. I'd love to have all my pet peeves encoded into law.
Every time I see news about facebook I feel better about the fact that I deleted my account several months ago.
Yes. These tags are correct and necessary.

Can't see what the fuss is about, other than that NK knows how to use HTML.
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I largely followed the guide on OSX-KVM repo on github. For the GPU to work, I used an AMD RX-560. After installing El Capitan with a virtual graphics card, I upgraded to High Sierra and passthrough the card.

It took a while, but worth the troubles.
I would measure temperature directly, rather than continuity or voltage. It's what you really care about.

There exist smartphones with ambient temperature sensors; if you already have USB power, this is only a few hours of hacking.
Isn't that a one off class? Cool, but an organization needs maintenance to be activated well in a pinch.
France too. Public perception is against it, but so are the economics (nuclear is expensive to produce and decommission)
It's somewhat remarkable to me that nothing sort of a complete decimation of Houston would get people to recognize what a serious business it was.

What's more, it impacted a lot of neighborhoods that were populated by people without a lot of monetary resources, so these personal impact numbers are quite misleading.

And of course, at the end we have this "even if you do believe in climate change" the country should be "thanking Houston" for bringing "clean" natural gas to the nation? What? Who even raised this point for rebuttal? This is like walking into a coffee shop and the barista suddenly shouting, "NO THERE CERTAINLY ISN'T A DEAD BODY BEHIND THIS COUNTER!"

Why is this political/economic spin job on hacker news?
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>large amount of regulations that are involved with gambling, due to how addictive and potentially harmful it is.

Regulation in the gambling industry is not there to protect you. It's there to enforce monopoly.
I'm pretty confused by this post. I shop at whole foods regularly and while their prices are high, their product is usually much better than the other stores I visit (kroger, meijer).

I also do not get the "shop at a farmers market exclusively" line of reasoning. We don't have access to farmer's markets in the winter. That's not really a highly available thing where I live (Michigan). Even when it's summer we still do not have access to all the same foods that are available in a grocery store.
>In fact several people that I spoke to (who themselves could document) would likely argue that the Army Core of Engineers caused more damage than Harvey did.

Where do they think the water came from? Where would it have gone without the dams and associated water works, and when?
Except fat people already know all those things. And also most of what this is about isn't that level of neutral, but at least not hurtful criticism. Most of it is of the "ugh let's all point and laugh at the gross fatty" variety.
Here's where the common usage of first and last name break down: his family name is Kim. I suspect it's along the lines of what you're getting at: to keep the name together.

I'm not sure how interesting this is in and of itself. It might be interesting to see if this is a special case. If it is, is there a particular reason for it? One could speculate all kinds of reasons, but I'm not sure how useful that is without actually knowing why.
Inflow minus outflow rates determine the height of a reservoir.

On the upstream side you have a big river basin. On the downstream side, pipes and a spillway. If the basin is catching a lot of rain, you'll need all the pipes and spillway to keep up with the inflow. That's part of the dam's design.
> This plan, arrived at after significant debate on the blink-dev forum, would allow reasonable time for a transition to new, independently-operated Managed Partner Infrastructure while Symantec modernizes and redesigns its infrastructure to adhere to industry standards.

It's funny they still mention giving Symantec an opportunity to modernize and redesign its infrastructure when Symantec simply decides to give up: http://investor.symantec.com/About/Investors/press-releases/...

Interestingly, this investor.symantec.com doesn't properly support HTTPS at all (certificate host name mismatch). I guess that speaks volume about how much Symantec itself cares about SSL/TLS and PKI.
1. Uninstall the CA certficates the browser has pre-installed

2. Create and install own CA certificate

3. Download or create desired server certficates, sign them with own CA and install them

I have not tried 1 but I regularly do 2 and 3. (Usually for monitoring outgoing encrypted traffic.)

Anyway, the idea of your comment is spot on, I think. The process whereby users blindly trust browser authors has serious flaws.

The user should be the one controlling the list of trusted CAs and servers, not a third party such as ad-supported company or organization distributing a web browser.

The more the user (cf. third parties) actively controls what endpoints she will trust, the better.

The system should encourage users to be active in managing what certficates they will trust versus passively letting ad-supported web companies do this for them.

It is the user who has the greatest incentive to make things right in terms of her own security and privacy. Third parties may help, but they ultimately have their own interests to worry about.
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Use Litecoin or Ethereum instead. Both are more secure, more stable and faster.
Wow, quite impressive specs for 200 eur! Also 2 years of OS updates minimum.
Cruise employee here. I'm sorry to hear you feel that way. In my experience, Cruise is one of the most exciting companies to be working for today, and Kyle is easily the most intelligent, hard working, and reasonable CEO I have worked for.

For sure, there is still a lot of work to be done before we can launch a full L4/L5 vehicle, but I would say with high confidence our platform is ahead of most other players in the industry, and I'm confident that we will be one of the first companies to launch AVs at scale.

FWIW, Glassdoor seems to agree with me: https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Cruise-EI_IE97...
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There is a militia, usually referred to as State Guard and several states have a Naval/Maritime regiment, including Texas[0]. Unlike the National Guard, the State Guard regiments are under the Governors command only.

There is also the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps[1], which have other public health roles, in addition to deployment during natural disasters. The PHSCC deploys with the Coast Guard for sea duty. USA Freedom Corps[2], and AmeriCorps[3] play a role in disaster response.

Team Rubicon[4] is a group of veterans that deploys in disaster response. I think they have small boat capability.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_State_Guard#Maritime_Reg...

[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Public_Health_Se...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_Freedom_Corps

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AmeriCorps

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_Rubicon