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You may have enough evidence to suspect someone may be planning a crime, but not enough to go to court, or enough to go to court but not enough to get a conviction with any degree of certainty.

So the solution is to create a secondary judicial system with no oversight so that anyone the government doesn't like can be punished for something they haven't actually done? Sign me up!

It makes sense for a minor inconvenience at the airport to require a different standard of proof from sending the person to prison.

Why wouldn't someone on the watchlist not just pay someone not on the watchlist to carry the bomb through security then? For enough money, this would be very easy to do. (It's easier if you ask, "can you smuggle these drugs in for me", though, instead of "can you help me murder 300 people".)

Everyone criminal commits their first crime. For someone, that's going to be blowing up a plane. A watchlist does not handle this case.
Plus a third number in the inset's caption!
Oh, I agree. I really don't see many of these security measures making things considerably more secure. I was just correcting what appeared to be a misunderstanding of the article.
Sure, but it's likely as innocent as trying to get you to buy more puzzles.
Also known as "everybody has their price". ;)
The sensing element in the Fido XT can be used for several hours, depending on the environment you are testing in. If you are testing and have not found any type of explosive substance then the sensing element will not 'clog' up as fast because there is not particulates that are attaching themselves to the side of the element; quenching the light.
I've always found pwgen to provide usefully memorable passwords. Just have to run it a few times and find one I like.
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democide would be correct term
We know sex offender lists are a joke -- because you can get on them for pissing in public, having sex with a fellow teenager, developing photos of you/your wife breastfeeding your baby, and, most ridiculously, for distributing naked pictures of your underaged self.

And, we know the no-fly lists are also a joke.

Unless the Penis Bomber also burned off all the memories of the "2-year-old Toddler Not Allowed To Fly" and "Senator Not Allowed To Fly" etc new stories from the past 6-7 years.

It's sheer populism, pandering to the worst impulses of everyone. Bad bad bad -- not to mention ineffective.
its best when your bug tracker can automatically link to issue numbers and commit numbers.
"2. Tomorrow's ad exchanges will resemble the stock and options markets for equities."

Already largely the case. See adwords.

"3. Social media will simply be called "media," and viewed as a fully-integrated part of the overall media buy."

I'm skeptical. I've purchased a lot of Facebook/Myspace ads and I can tell you first hand, they just don't perform as well as other types of media.
Decoding Climate Change with Perl, gnuplot and Google Earth
After 1000 email threads saying nothing and 3 years of work, GNU Emacs is now using a slightly less-broken revision control system.

Everyone I know working on Emacs just uses the Git version and sends patches against that. But we couldn't use Git for Emacs, because RMS does not like Linus. Rational!
So, they're pretty. But from my trained eye, not earthshatteringly interesting, inventive, useful or usable.

The point of prototype sketches is not to be beautiful.

Thus, the article is pointless.
The power and decline of imagination
Venture Capital 2010: Hot (and cold) sectors to watch
Placing info in the code or docs seems useful for a feature, but a bugfix may not require any code documentation, particularly if there is a test case for it.
Being a web startup shouldn't be good enough for you
Thanks dasht for the well-written analysis of the situation. This is what news stories ought to be, if you ask me.
What would be cool would be if all the high performing kids had to tutor the low performing kids. The nice thing about that solution is that it is both a) cheap and b) helps both parties, unlike this policy.

Unfortunately, the low performing kids might find that humiliating :/
Sirens of titan! :)
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From your statement, it doesn't seem like you want to "start" a company. My best advice is to angel invest in a company that can use your expertise. A good place to start is YC Demo days. DONT QUIT YOUR JOB!

My question for you: is 12k pretax, if it is how much do you save per month?
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If you're going to fake a wolf photo, why not fake the EXIF?
The main problem in my mind is that the puzzle offers no feedback to the user that they are on the right track. For that matter it offers no feedback that they are on any track, right or wrong. It's just random motions with no particular motivation. Some kind of light, or bell, or even a plexiglass version so you could see the balls moving about inside would be better.
Exactly, committing with no message is poor practice.

That should be:
"C-x v v <Type Commit Message> C-c C-c"
Several wing spans is the kind of separation you have on parallel approach into SFO.
I think it's foolish to refrain from making an argument or analogy because others might misinterpret or misuse it.
Hack a walkie talkie ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkie-talkie ) ?

Use one as the base and get the audio in/out connected to your home PC audio in/out.

Hacking in a tone dialer ( http://is.gd/5EjWA ) might also be necessary.

-- MV
I've worked on addon's for both. Currently Chrome addons are incredibly easier to write, though they lack the api depth firefox exposes.
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Yep, that's what I was trying to remember.
I imagine that nuclear_eclipse is commenting on the obtuseness of C-x v v C-c C-c as a sequence of characters to tell emacs to commit a change.

Although it's not quite so daunting once you realise that C-x v is the version-control prefix, and 'v' is commit individual file. C-c C-c is just the command sequence to finish editing the commit message.

Once you leave apart the 'finish editing commit message' command, which is really a seperate task, C-x v v is arguably obtuse as a way of saying commit individual file, but on the other hand, C-x v as a prefix for all vcs related functions is easy enough to remember, and 'v' for commit individual file is easy enough to remember too.

In the microsoft world, 'C-x v v C-c C-c' would be replaced by a 10 page wizard most likely, and be far more irritating.

[Please note, I do not condone the use of empty commit messages, that's a heinous crime IMO]

Edit to add:

In my use of emacs with hg, I believe that that sequence will do exactly the same as it does under cvs, and it's reasonable to believe that the vcs-bazaar backend is no different either, so the complaint in the email is likely invalid.
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... and in the darkness bind them :)
You can always opt-out of civilization, just relocate yourself to the middle of nowhere, and nobody will bother you or be bothered by your racist rant. I doubt you'll have to worry about terrorists crashing at your place ever again.
It's harder for your debug environment to take apart and show the details of every object down to the OS/hardware level if you've got security to prevent it, and harder yet if it doesn't have a very good idea of the specifics of the binary representation.

We'd see this problem a lot with calling conventions (C-style vs Pascal-style vs pretty much any weird thing you found a reason to do) if our gdb-based debuggers tried harder to figure out what was going on. Luckily, they rarely really bother and are wrong constant anyway about things like optimization -- they're built to do fairly little and live in constant confusion, so we don't get that problem.

And for the record, I like gdb and company. But every so often I get a wet dream about being able to have a debugger that could show me useful representations of objects and what they do. Things are better in Ruby-land, but still not actually, like, good.
I just got an email from the president of the company saying they have 30,000 registered users.
"Personally, I think it's the right thing: rich or poor, the high-achieving students who breeze through are cheap and easy to educate. If the classroom isn't keeping them busy, it tends to be easy to find them extra-curricular opportunity. Meanwhile, many initially struggling students can be turned around and turned into huge cultural assets, education-wise. It's a good investment to try (in smart ways)."

You can't use cheap and extra-curricular activities together to form any reasonable conclusion. When the budget hammer falls the first thing thrown out are extra-curricular activities and the district will then point out how expensive they are to maintain. You toss out extracurricular like it has no structure or purpose. As if throwing some dice in the room is good enough activity. All of the leaques I participated in were highly structured, well-organized, and well-funded. And the teachers running these things were deeply invested.

The most brilliant and the most lacking are the most expensive students a school can have. I know this from a long time because my school was pushing for more gifted students, anyone that had a modicum of a functioning brain was tested. The state and fed kicked in extra money that was then diverted to other purposes: security, struggling students, ESOL.

"the tenure system and lack of measurement of teacher performance is a huge problem"

Tenure has been around for hundreds of years and no one has been able to explain why it's a bad idea. At the university level it makes sense. You devote yourself to years of work with no immediate payoff and you don't want that ruined by some bean counter. Unpopular ideas have to be protected the same as popular ones.

Tenure in highschool doesn't exist unless you can point to one that explicitly has it. This is not to confuse it with unions. There has been quantitative data of teacher performance available for years. The teacher knows it, the school knows it, hell the principal and vps also have access to it. The problem is these teachers have to be replaced. It's much cheaper to put pressure on a problematic teacher who knows the game after 10 years then train a fresh college grad who might stick it out for 1 year.

I've had 5 friends go into teaching after college. Only 1 is still doing it and she's only recently hit her stride (classroom control, curriculum, certification) after 4 years.
Don't be too short sighted! Cloud hosted version of Grand Theft Auto running in your Webbrowser on Chrome OS coming within the next 5 years!
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It's subscriber only...
Hah. You have to detonate PETN. Wasn't the guy trying to ignite it?
Just go to your local martial arts school and ask them if they have any black belt tests coming up. In most disciplines the black belt tests are comprehensive and gives you a great overview of the style. Typically they cover all the forms they learned up to that point, some sparring, and if the style does board breaking they'll do some of that.

Some styles don't quite follow those patterns, but can be entertaining to watch anyways. The Akido black belt tests are like watching a violent dance.

My personal preference is to go watch a black belt/sash test at a local Kung Fu school (not Tai Chi or Wing Chun). Usually you'll see about a dozen really interesting forms, including a variety of traditional weapons, and two and three person forms, and some sparring. Typically you won't see board breaking in Chinese styles. If the style involves Chin-na you'll see some joint locking and maybe wrestling. It's kind of a tour of 1500 years of martial arts history.

At one school I went to, the test was about 4-5 hours long, and continuous (no breaks) -- apparently the student had also undergone a 1 hour fitness pretest before qualifying for the test which included some crazy metrics like 100 v-sits, 100 push-ups, 15 minutes in a low horse stance and some other things.

These guys were very fit.
I don't really buy the list brokerage conspiracy theory. Sure, you can make money renting or selling your customer list... but not that much. We're talking pennies person. Compare that to how much you make selling a hunk of metal for $100+.

Nope, it's just a crappy puzzle from a company without a lot of respect for its customers.
http://www.itvt.com/story/5733/cloud-based-games-company-onl...
The difference is that in the case of a car insurance web site, I know before I pay them any money that I have to provide them with personal information. Also, it's clear that when the product is insurance, there is a legitimate need for the company to have your personal information.

In this case, I don't find out that I have to turn over my personal information until after I've paid for the product, and after I break the seal so I can no longer return it. And there is a penalty for not turning over my information: I don't get the instruction manual. It is certainly a mild form of extortion, but it is extortion nonetheless.
Agreed. "E-commerce" is not computer science, it's an application thereof.
Someone should try to buy an equally expensive non-iPhone. If online fraud is the problem, it should apply to all expensive/high demand products, not just the iPhone.
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Ask HN: How to do dynamic real-time adverts ?
I'd like to be able to run some adverts (this is from an advertisers perspective) using real-time content, so my ads would constantly update with new content. Is this at all possible ?

The two options I see are:

(1) Using Javascript or Flash adverts to pull content in on-the-fly.

(2) Serving a dynamically generated ad image from my own servers

This is for a relatively small operation so I'm looking at advertising via something the adwords rather than something like DoubleClick where you need a large advertising budget. I don't think Google will let me take either of the above approaches, but are there other ad networks that will ?

(or are there any other ways this could be done)
Commit descriptions describe the change, which is very often different than the design of the code itself.

My approach is to use detailed descriptions in both places: commit logs track the evolution of the source tree, and comments/documentation describe the design and implementation of the source tree at a snapshot in time (e.g. now/tip).
I think it has more to do with Bazaar being a GNU project, not because RMS does not like Linux.
more specifically, take a real problem that your having ("Scratch The Itch"). That'll provide the ample motivation to spend a lot of time you wouldn't normally. Just build something. If you need to create a blog or whatnot, instead of using a pre-packaged platform, writing it in whatever tech you want to learn. Then you'll benefit two-fold, even though it takes longer than installing wordpress.
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If machine driven trading continues to proliferate, will the job of the CEO be to keep the algorithms happy as opposed to keeping the investors happy? At least the investors will call you up and tell you what's on their minds, whereas the algorithms are mainly black boxes.
Unless there's been a fairly recent change, no, they're not.
Some SCM systems have per-commit metadata facilities. For example, Perforce changelists can be tagged with a "job" field, which could be a bug identifier.
"Disable aircraft-integrated passenger communications systems and services (phone, internet access services, live television programming, global positioning systems) prior to boarding and during all phases of flight."

Because you can't blow up the plane if you don't know where you are.
Are interpreted languages fast enough?
Ask PG: are Y Pipes machines banned from fetching rss
Have you banned Y! Pipes machines from fetching the news.y.c rss? (almost?) all Yahoo! pipes fetching the feed http://news.ycombinator.com/rss are failing and showing this error on the debug console

'
error fetching http://news.ycombinator.com/rss (502 Bad Gateway)
'

example -
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=KCPCxw8t3RGoQM1MLe2fWQ
The original posting (as best I can tell), which has additional information, is at the following site - http://boardingarea.com/blogs/flyingwithfish/2009/12/27/tsa-...

This blog appears to have just repeated what was posted there.
That 1st hour and middle hour or two are perfectly safe.

Apparently only the last hour is unsafe on a plane.

Seriously, stop flying people. They have you because you give yourself to them. Just work online, etc. drive otherwise.

Once the airline industry needs bailouts and the TSA have people visibly twiddling their thumbs, suddenly rules are going to become much more reasonable.
if only it didn't fit.

what would you suggest?
I do like the idea of Jetpack - but I don't see it really taking off until it's built in, which it hopefully will be, once it's mature.
I did notice that the map was disabled on my flight back from Australia yesterday. Pretty annoying.

By the way - GPS watches work just fine in a plane.
When I read how relational databases are inadequate to store, index and process unstructured data in real time, it made me draw an analogy between the old virus/anti-virus game where it was a race between the virus writers and the anti-virus software makers, and sometimes they were accused of being in cahoots.

Could we not say the same thing about the content indexing technologies (NoSql, MapReduce) and the content creating technologies (Twitter, ECommerce, Content Farms)?
Studying traditional Martial Arts is not only for fighting. In fact I'd go so far as to say it hasn't been for fighting since the invention of firearms - most martial arts focus on other aspects now.

I think your focus is too limited. It's like saying "I thought modern hiphop had killed all traditional music styles," when encountering somebody practicing a violin.

Probably in most cases, people attend their local Karate or Tae Kwon Do school as a form of exercise that's less boring than doing 30 minutes on a treadmill. In many of those cases that might be the only exercise they get. Lots of people study styles because they like how they look, or they prefer a meditative aspect of them, or they enjoy the storied history of the style or really want to learn how to handle a spear or something. Learning to beat an opponent in 1 on 1 combat is merely a single aspect of the Martial Arts.

Interestingly, this is something that's even showing up in other modern non-MMA martial arts that are pretty well tested in combat. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jailhouse_rock_(fighting_style)

I actually think MMA styles would be more appealing to the public if they learned and promoted the non-combat aspects of martial training (discipline, fitness, respect your parents, etc.). Right now, outside of MMA circles, those styles are largely viewed similarly to boxing -- rough sports for rough people. Not everybody wants to be a rough person. Some people just want to escape their life for 45 minutes, put on a costume and kick their feet a bit.
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If they smoked more weed, then it wouldn't be so dull :)
The liquids aspect of this sounds like a pain to enforce. At least in the US, the initial security screening (before you get to the gates) is supposed to filter out all liquids (over 3oz.), but once you're through security, you can buy gallons of drinks, etc. from the stores in the terminal. Thoroughly inspecting those liquids at the gate without advanced equipment sounds really difficult.
By the way - GPS watches work just fine in a plane.

It sounds like they are not allowed to be used according to that document though. I would imagine that cell phones also work just fine (I've never had the urge to try), but that doesn't mean their use is allowed.

Edit: Misread the document, I stand corrected. This is just another one of the TSA's typical security illusions.
This is utter rubbish if it's meant to be taken seriously. I'm not even disagreeing with the assertion that scientists are largely dull. Good science needs a dispassionate and objective attitude, and it's often solitary. I guess those don't make for fertile breeding grounds for what most people find to be interesting in other people. Sadly I believe the author to be serious in his 'analysis' - I'm left shaking my head at the crackpot pretentiousness of it all.
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Slow and opaque.
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Extortion is a crime - it means obtaining money, property or services from another through threats of physical harm. Did that happen here? Umm, no. The author is just incoherent with made-up internet-privacy hysteria.

Secondly, you have statutory rights. That little EULA is meaningless and everyone knows it, hell there's a bloke on GMTV nearly every morning banging on about consumer rights. If the product's not fit for purpose then that's that.
Thank you. That's exactly the explanation I was looking for, and you're right; `C-x v` is much more reasonable as a hotkey for invoking vcs tasks, similar to git integration in Vim, <Leader>-g-c for commit, etc. I was just blown away imagining some superbly arcane key chord involving pressing and releasing control twice in a string of five letters... :P
Having a URL scheme for bugs was a massive help at Apple, the standard for commit messages was including something like "Fix for rdar://17373108".
Learning to shoot a gun or a bow and arrow or ride a horse is also a martial art.
I think you're missing the point. The idea is to make it more difficult to stage an attack around a specific location, such as a heavily populated area or landmark.
Ermm, because it's not. The puzzle is part of the game of finding the gold coins in the real world (see Wikipedia entry). Of course they're going to want to update that.
The simple, clear, undeniable fact (not theory of what could happen, but fact) is that in this case, placing extra attention on this person who was on the watch list would have kept him and his bomb off an airplane full of people.