skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're talking about Global Entry/TSA Trusted Traveler/Nexus/etc. I'm surprised I've never heard of the app you mention, although since I'm not eligible I suppose I might have heard of it and forgotten. It looks pretty awesome. (For anyone who also didn't know about it: https://mobilepassport.us/)
This is exactly what we mean when we say closed garden and extortion. If firefox wants to exist on the platform, they have to play by apple rules. Apple are just fine without firefox so they don't care.
Related

https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/49159

https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/49161
ever tried pulling a vacuum on a normal drive? does that work?
> The Portal song in particular stands out, the only other game that I know of that tries to do voice playback is the Pokemon Yellow Pikachu cry you hear at the beginning of the video, and it's rough at best.

Bionic Commando has a few speech samples. There's a game called Cannon Fodder (an Amiga port, I think?) that opens with full motion video, with matching audio. They're both pretty rough, quality-wise.

The explanation of the demo video has a good explanation of how the wave output hardware works, and how they got such high-quality output. I think it's a combination of bad timing and non-use of the volume-shifting tricks that kills the audio quality in commercial games; if I make an emulator dump the samples to file and import it into Audacity or something, the output is much clearer (about what you'd expect for mono, 4-bit samples at 10KHz or so).
I think this explanation makes the most sense, since it explains the non-independence of the player's actions. Another way I thought of it was this: imagine (despite the prisoners' knowledge) each prisoner actually had the same number. The "choose at random" strategy would still have a vanishingly small probably of success, while (any) deterministic strategy would yield a 50% rate of group success.
Scout – Public roadmap repo
The coins in Bitcoin's genesis block are also unspendable.
It’s all about the design. In the municipality where I work you can skip the line for a bunch of things by booking a time, but we make sure the option to book a time is also available in the numbering system. Both to provide people who didn’t do their homework with the same service, but also to promote the service to them so they will use it next time and, well, to tell them why they’re waiting when others aren’t.

We’ve never had complaints about the setup during our reviews with the staff that actually work the floor. This could be culture though. If someone preordered coffee and skipped the line, every Dane brave enough to question the act of skipping would be apologizing for asking once an explanation was given, myself included.
I have been running non-stock ROMs for a while now (specifically AOSP Extended, on my Samsung S7 Edge) and ny main issues have been related to reliability/stability, primarily in what I assume is the device drivers' area. Camera freezes phone or gives shitty pictures, microphone not working, etc, etc. This is nearly enough to cause me to go back to stock.

However, I do see the number of ROMs built for my phone has increased a lot, so maybe I should try something else?
would that still be a problem if you pulled a vacuum outside the drive as well? like put the whole thing in a chamber?
Passing Booleans to an Interface in an Expressive Way
I think this is going to get far worse before it gets better. These drones remind me of the use of burner phones - like most tech end up doing eventually it's hit a price point where we can easily pick up and discard new ones with little concern which means that it's going to be a necessity to have one of these for any criminal operation as others start to include them in theirs (arms races aren't just for countries, certainly happens in smaller more local settings).

The article mentions a few options for how the authorities will limit the criminal applications but I wonder if it'll get more extreme than that (especially after we end up with a terrorist attack perpetrated by someone using a drone). It won't solve all negative use cases but I wonder if there's some way for drone manufacturers to create no fly zones automatically that will cause a drone to redirect if it enters one and allows law enforcement to create new temporary zones for situations like the one described in the article.

edit for clarity
That app is more about listening to your local station or catching up on the news of the day than listening to podcasts. NPR and their affiliate stations only makes sense for that, I wouldn't worry that their goal is an NPR only podcast app.
Not that it should be, but will Google remove this from the play store? In the past anything they viewed as being able to download YouTube got a ban, and they went through extra trouble to keep people from loading "blacklisted" plugins - more trouble than they go through stopping actual malware/infected plugins!
Nope... you're not the only one
Anyone, or most people I guess, should be able to do it though. It will cost some and take some time to do (the forms are pretty long). So unless you travel frequently, maybe not everyone feels it's that valuable for them to spend time or money on it.
You are wrong. Race is mentioned multiple times in Damore's memo, such as "At Google, we talk so much about unconscious bias as it applies to race and gender, but we rarely discuss our moral biases", etc.
I've never experienced it either in Canada. In university a friend once skipped a busy McDonald's line just to see what happened. I saw a lot of uncomfortable people but nobody spoke up. I really hope it wasn't just a thing he does.
MySQL GraalVM Multi-Lingual Environment Demo
A similar method can be used via Tor where you don't want to trust a third party and want guaranteed end-to-end encryption. Also bonus points for not needing a STUN server or having to open ports.
There's a sandwich place near my house that works like this. The line often takes 15-20 minutes during lunch times, but I call just as I step into the line. I can literally see the cashier way up at the front pause the whole line to take my call. By the time I get up to pay my sandwich is ready while the people before me are still standing around cramped against the counter for another 10 minutes.
Table Tennis: Koreas form unified team at world championships
And if you write f# or Java code?
What's the principle involved here? Not liking something being a business?
Which language would stop/warn you assigning the value of a constant to a variable? Doesn't "var = const" just work in most languages?
Moving away for a new life has been a recurring theme throughout the history of the US. The only thing that seems to be new is an entitlement to live where you were born.
I remember getting asked in a 2006 interview what websites I followed as a web developer and I mentioned AListApart, much to the delight if my interviewer and future boss.

12 years later, I honestly can't remember visiting the site since despite being in the field and owning a web development shop.

I've googled possibly thousands of web dev questions every year and not once has AListApart come up anywhere in the results.

Amazing to see that they're still around and producing content.
"NTFS allows any sequence of 16-bit values for name encoding (file names, stream names, index names, etc.) except 0x0000. This means UTF-16 code units are supported, but the file system does not check whether a sequence is valid UTF-16 (it allows any sequence of short values, not restricted to those in the Unicode standard). "

- from wikipedia NTFS page [1]

So if you assume that NTFS filename is valid UTF-16 and convert it to UTF-8 there might be a problem. Basically they can be any sequence of 16-bit values.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS
Gary Taubes has his own biases and problems: https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/gary-taubes-and-the-case-ag...

In fact, the study he proposed to test his hypothesis failed: https://community.fitbit.com/t5/Manage-Weight/NuSI-study-bac...

That's not to say Taubes has not written a lot of good and important things, but it is an example of someone who is in so deep that they are missing the forest for the trees. Carbs are obviously not the devil, it's just that the overabundance of cheap, processed carbs have made the diseases of abundance commonplace.
Clear is a private company though? I assume they have just negotiated a deal with the airport and the TSA.

To the question for government agencies to market they services, I absolutely think they should. Often marketing it's just informing people that something exist, so if they government wants people to use some service or change their behavior, they should do marketing.
HOmeward BOund.

Just like all of us.
To "kill" Facebook we need a decentralized protocol for sharing information that keeps data private, which is somewhat of a contradiction.
ZFS handles internationalization about as well as could be hoped for. You can forbid non-UTF-8 strings (note that ZFS doesn't know if some string that is valid UTF-8 is actually encoded in UTF-8 -- it might not be), and ZFS does form-insensitive directory lookups, so if you copy some normalized-to-NFD files from OS X, it will work out fine.

Making filesystems codeset-aware is not worth the trouble. It's best instead to just use UTF-8 locales everywhere. If you need to deal with other codesets, convert as needed, but don't use non-UTF-8 locales.

On ZFS with a fast ZIL fsync()/sync() function a lot like write barriers, which is what we really need. Actually, what we really need is for all filesystem operations to be available with async system calls, write barriers included.
Not necessarily. If you have a large influx of people into a community then it becomes more necessary to codify a community's standards of behavior.
Flems, in browser code editor
If so, rvagg should be criticized for those tweets, not for a reasonable article on neurodiversity.
Rent control isn't a solution at all. It's just a lottery to pay for some people lucky enough to get it.
Doesn't it (or Windows) also disallow the path component separator character(s) ('/' and '\')?

Unix and alike disallow NULs and /, for obvious reasons.
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This is true. It does prevent an attacker from reusing a password they recover from your logs. But as others have pointed out a DB breach means all your users are compromised. Thank you.
Air is required for the heads to function. While the disk's internal environment is separate from the outside air to keep it clean, air exchange is permitted between the outside and inside of the drive to allow the drive to adjust to changes in air pressure caused by thermal expansion. A special "breather" filter is installed to prevent foreign matter from contaminating the drive.
But the point is that it's not a problem in most of the US, which makes it an issue only for people that demand to live in a few select cities.
For some reason I especially love the motorized planispheres. All you need to do, really, is to stick the star chart onto a clock that moves fast by about 4 minutes a day. Neat little project for a kid.
I always thought that anyone competing with Google Maps API would likely remove the "private access" restriction, but this service keeps it behind a $500 paywall - I guess that's significantly better than Google's cost for the same thing ($10k IIRC)
I used k9mail for awhile until I realized it had sent every temporary draft of an email as I revised something and changed between apps. Was super embarrassing. Hard to trust it now even though the ui seemed great.
Nope, that's what I was suggesting and I see now where it's weak.
Robotic woks are the chefs in this Boston restaurant
United Airlines appoints Josh Earnest as chief communications officer – Aviation
I must confess the title made me think about Monty Python skits: Philosopher Competition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2gJamguN04
> The human mind is very much suited to understand things to have beginnings and ends. Our own universe very clearly had a beginning and will certainly have an end.

I think you might be overstating your case a bit. Non-Western cultures don't have as much an emphasis on things having a clear beginning, middle, and end, the cosmological claim that the universe clearly must be temporally bounded is not even the dominant stance for modern day inflation theorists. There are other alternates (eternal inflation [1], 'big bounce' [2], etc.)

I think part of the confusion stems also from language. A multiverse where other 'universes' are physically accessible to us in principle (if we're willing to wait long enough or go far enough), should that really be considered another universe? On the other hand, there are even parts of our current space-time that are so remote that we will never see them—so are they other 'universes'?

As a counterpoint, Chinese culture certainly focuses more on the inherent cyclicality of things—even beginnings and ends are embedded in a larger cycle that may not have bounds. “话说天下大势，分久必合，合久必分” It is said that in the great scheme of the world, that which is long divided, must unite, and long united, must divide

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bounce
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinker_paradox ?
Very true, I had not considered that possibility.
That's horrifying. I imagine the moment you found out a cold wave went down your spine.
I'm all for evidence-based recommendations. Does washing lettuce work for this kind of outbreak?
i use pocket cast everyday.
The number of layers of meaninglessness at play in being a fraudulent media influencer who pretends to be rich so they can make a buck off of selling artificial bets against the abstract perceived value of companies which employ the people who (in some cases) spend their time doing actual real things is staggering.
I haven’t heard of Stripe Cash - I’ll take a look. But Venmo doesn’t put cash in the person’s hand/bank account that same day.
I can tell you have your money spectacles on.

Tesla is doing fine. If you don't think the stock is worth it, don't buy it. There are plenty of other companies out there that need funding.

At some point you have to stop worrying about the monthly cash flow and believe in the product, although if you view everything through the lens of money I doubt that's possible.
Of course it could have! No API is foolproof
Performance analysis of cloud applications
Well, some questions rise up for me.

Did you get the interview? If you got the interview, it might be how you interview with them. I'm a startup founder and i try to hire people I can go to the bar with and seems very talented.

What kind of startups are you applying to? If you're targeting startups who does not or never plans on selling to enterprise customers, then they might be denying you because of that.

If you're interviewing with them and they ask you questions, just remember that you have to answer in a manner of "We'll get that done in 1 hour, and not 10 hours like you would with enterprise". And jobs are mostly a numbers game. They could simply be using your enterprise experience as an excuse.
Virtual Cat Home Pet Adventure Game
Get ready for the most astonishing Virtual Cat Home Pet Adventure Game, where the gorgeous pet cat is going to comfort the virtual happy family. You are going to forget the all the other kitten games, pet dog simulator, family pet games etc.
thanks for the inside information about p7zip! That's really good to know!
Not only that, but farmers need to sterilize sewage before using it as fertilizer. Some will claim they do this, and then pocket the difference.
Canonical made some attempts at a mobile Ubuntu (which is a Debian derivative) but they have a short-sighted vision and in general they have a history of failed attempts at similar projects, like Netbook Remix.
Not really. There are plenty of other quickly growing cities that aren't filled with NIMBYs destroying the housing stock (e.g. Phoenix, Indianapolis, Dallas, San Antonio, Las Vegas, etc).
The actress playing Heisenberg's wife was so good portraying depression and melancholy I disliked her too.

The dinner scene with her, Heisenberg and Jessie makes up for it though.
Maybe because it is used for all kinds of office documents. You'd have to look at the contents to see if it's a spreadsheet, text document, presentation or not even a non office pain XML file
You can try getting some freelancing work at https://upwork.com and then build a strong enough reputation or portfolio to take your business elsewhere (like your own website. Just use https://www.thinkmain.com to set it up and you're good to go.)

The goal with it would be to move to your own website eventually. Upwork fee's are around 20% from what I hear.
So for calibration: What fraction of American workers would you consider to be slaves? What do you think distinguishes a slave from a non-slave? Is it the pay? The working conditions? It's not just the discipline and the long hours, unless you think that soldiers (and junior investment bankers) are slaves. Might the same conditions be slavery or not, depending on the pay? Given a job description, how do I determine if it's slavery?

And how sure are you that you could look that guy from the boat in the eye, and tell him that yes, the workers in those warehouses are slaves, same as he was? (Did you read the story I linked? Look at the pictures, and count everyone who died?) How many people have you met who have spent time under conditions far beyond what American labor law could imagine?

I'm wasting my time belaboring this. You ignore most of my questions, and I doubt I'll change your mind. The casual use of a such a heavy word just bothers me. If we waste our strongest language on ordinary wrongs, and then the worst comes, then what words will we have left to express it?
As per the article, one of my major clients was dead in the water this week when their IT team rolled out updates to their system which included upgrading Chrome on all PC's in the office.

They are a broker agency for a major financial institution, and all of a sudden, they could not log in to their major vendor's financial transactional system - because it was secured with a GeoTrust cert that didn't have the appropriate root chain and was thus rejected by Chrome. Complete stop. In many ways, much worse than the whole Y2K thing.

The parent financial institution had no idea about the cert, and it wasn't until I sent an email to their IT department that they realised what had happened (because internal tests (with different browsers or older Chrome versions) were still working fine).

It is getting to the stage where we need to have some sort of overriding, holistic approach to managing these sorts of issues and upgrades. It is too easy to think everything is ops normal if you aren't using a particular browser or framework etc. I fully admit that we are guilty of this too - we only test our web development work on a narrow subset of browsers and hope for the best. That target is getting smaller and smaller every day.
And more malware infections than all the other platforms combined. A toxic hellstew, if you will. https://www.technobuffalo.com/2015/09/24/apple-names-top-25-...
> If we assume that there are no racial differences in technical ability, then the demographics of my office should roughly mirror the demographics of the surrounding community.

This is a big assumption. It may be true, but you are asserting it without evidence. Demographics of NBA do not mirror demographics of USA.
I don't know about this specific case, but mobile Safari versions have a history of doing special things like CSS position: fixed works entirely different on that platform.
The Return of Monty Hall [pdf]
Google can change their prices at any time, and they just proved that they do.

There is some kind of trust I have/had in cloud providers to be fair when it comes down to vendor lock-in. One of the things I expect a cloud provider to do is not suddenly increase prices and instead give their clients a reasonable period (a year would be perfect, but I think 6 months is a reasonable period) so they can change their usage to minimize their new costs according to the new pricing or transfer to another provider if the costs are too high.

But Google just proved that they don’t really care about their clients.
If you made an app that heavily relied on the Google Maps API, and you spend $3K a month now, you just received a mail that your costs might be increasing to $60K a month and you might need to drop all your current projects/tasks to migrate the app to another service.
The idea that bonobos and chimpanzees can speak the same language is absolutely thrilling. Even though bonobos are chimps, I always saw the two species as very distinct; this discovery really resets my worldview on multiple levels.
Why support Windows!? We should support Linux only and make everyone else conform. Also Mac won't support more than 64 characters.
Building from scratch or using an API?

You can use plaid.com for that. It also integrates with stripe.com pretty well too.
Zathura supports this (and is otherwise awesome, too)
But we're talking about NPR affiliated stations. Doesn't their news reporting come from NPR?
When you sign up to use their api, you give them your email. They email blast those peoples.
Making sense of agile methods
I have been working on a simple project for evolving 5v5 ship battles similar to asteroids. My advice is make it easy to serialize the game state. 99% of the simulations will do the same thing or waste 1000s of frame getting to the "important part" of the match, and the ability to save the game state and re-play it from a specific position can be beneficial.

However, from what I understand, this limits your game to a simple Markov Process, which not all games likely expressed like that. (In my case I can only use this approach if I don't allow neural networks to have memory between frames)

Another benefit is being able to debug in real-time how decisions are being calculated via the model, like a neural network.
NPR One currently has twice as many installs than Pocket Casts on Android, and it's inclusion of podcasts seems secondary to listening to live radio or recent news stories. That being their plan seems unlikely.
I don't think so, it's not working for YouTube videos..
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I think most software devs are HIGHLY against patents for software. Hence the strong opensource community within software.

Personally: Screw patents.
Why Netflix is embracing Python over Java (2013)
Blockchain Technology and Travel: How It Will Transform Travel Industry
tangentially: Tool I use to test my stuff when I expect it to handle all valid filenames:

https://github.com/jakeogh/angryfiles
>it's going to take a minimum of 15-20 years to make a really significant dent.

According to what data?
Its a mistake , it happens. Software is hard. Change your password.
You might as well be selling an image saying "EU customers go away!" With regards to GDPR compliance it's just as good in that, at best, you're showing intent not to serve EU customers (yet you still don't actually block requests, you just serve them different content and log all the same data).
The problem is primarily hardware support with two issues:

A lot of hardware support on these devices is proprietary in some way. Mostly proprietary firmware, some proprietary kernel drivers and some proprietary userland daemons or drivers.

Most hardware doesn't have support in the mainline Linux kernel, u-boot, mesa etc.

These are improving slowly as people do reverse engineering of proprietary components and the FLOSS enthusiast community does the work of getting hardware support mainlined. Some vendors also do mainlining work too and some employ folks to work on FLOSS drivers (Broadcom RPi VC4/VC5 for example).

Some related links are gathered on this page:

https://wiki.debian.org/Mobile