skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. There have been numerous "breaches" conducted by journalists, etc. over the years.

2. I think the greater point isn't that the TSA is ineffective but rather that they are inefficient. Making millions of travelers each year jump through more and more hoops isn't making any of us safer. A smart, determined, terrorist will easily smuggle something aboard. I've personally walked through security a half dozen times with a lighter in my bag (forgot it was even there) when flying both domestic and international, including going from AMS to IAD. Plus how many TSA screeners have you seen just aimlessly do their job? You think these guys have real incentive to catch smart/determined terrorists?

The fact is the TSA has burned through billions of dollars (your money) that may have been better spent on intelligence and more robust "threat list" monitoring systems. Not to mention on a bevy of other issues they could have tackled with that money.

The TSA going after a few bloggers is inane. Do you feel safer knowing that a bunch of knucklehead TSA agents wasted tax payer money to intimidate a bunch of bloggers? Will the confidentiality of a stupid list of hoops travelers must jump through make you safer?

Is the end-result even a net positive for society? Is it even CLOSE?
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anyone know what kind of development work do they need ?

It would be helpful to know what are they looking for - and whether we can contribute, with our specific skillset
Being online: Conclusion--identity narratives
Dale Carnegie's "How to win friends and influence people"

It's a classic for helping you to converse and connect better with people (its contents are much more sincere and wholesome than the semi-cheesy title suggests)
Going to Exeter would have taught him more about socialization than anyone could have by homeschooling.
Ask YC: Good "estimating / project management" web-based construction software?
A friend of mine has a handyman business where he remodels people's kitchens, bathrooms, etc. He's trying to get organized and find some software to make that easier. I told him I'd help him look for a software solution that looked good, but after spending 30 minutes googling, all I see are solutions that were made in the 90's or aren't really for small one-man shops.<p>Does anybody know of a good solution? Like a "FogBugz or a Basecamp for SOHO/SMB Construction Estimating & Management"
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Sounds like a market. Who'll be first?
Too idealistic, in my judgment, to see Rule 11 as having that effect (for others, this is a rule generally allowing federal courts to impose sanctions for frivolous or bad faith conduct in litigation). That said, I am not hostile to courts and would be the first to say that they serve us well on many fronts - that is what saddens me all the more about the way litigation can be so ill-used in our society as well.
More like JokeExplainer from Reddit.
Thanks, you've addicted me to Folklore.org

Now I have to read it all...
Ask HN: Which Scheme book to read?
I'm a high-school student interested in programming and I'm trying to decide between The Little Schemer and SICP (Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs). Haven't really found any comparison anywhere and both books seem to have many fans online. Does anyone here have experience with both that you can give me? (Or is there a different one I haven't heard of? Or a book about some other dialect of Lisp?)

Thanks!

Edit: I have a fairly good grasp of C and Ruby, and I know some Java (enough for a 5 on the AP CompSci AB test, at least), so it's not my first time learning to program.
This is an interesting topic, here's what I came up with after a bit of googling:

1. The Nikon Authenticated Image system probably uses a hardware key. I couldn't find info on the official nikon site, but according to this guy it does ( http://blogs.verisign.com/websecurity/2008/07/drowning_in_di... )

2. According to another site, an established secure chain of custody for images with severely restricted write permissions is usually sufficient: http://www.crime-scene-investigator.net/admissibilityofdigit...

FWIW I know an LAPD crime scene photographer and they're shooting digital.
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I think this would be a really fun thing to try to do. How would one go out figuring out some good small ideas that are doable in a month?
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From my own personal experiences, try "How to Design Programs" (HTDP) by Felleisen et al as an introduction to Scheme. Its a great educational book which really prepares you for SICP.

Also if you want to give Common Lisp a try, I'd highly recommend "Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation" by David S. Touretzky. Its an old book but well worth its price in gold. It is the simplest way to really get Common Lisp and its concepts.
I wanted to be a good man

He's a rapist and a murderer. Deal with it.

have a good marriage and children

Hillary stayed with him for her own political reasons. No shit.

have good friends

No clue, but if he's like most successful men, his friends are in it for the money.

make a successful political life

Yep.

and write a great book

Well, he didn't use a ghostwriter, so that's something. But most of the non-starfucker reviews were mediocre. So, "great" if not "okay", is probably out.
You know what, I've read this several times before and it absolutely left my mind. It's an obvious first step. Thanks to those who pointed out the, well, obvious.
Terrastore already implements lightweight "stored procedures" in terms of server side updates: functions which atomically update a value based on some custom logic.

Future versions will provide map/reduce functions as well, probably in both Java and Javascript.
Call it "marketing" ;)
Joking aside, the article you mentioned is linked on the home page for that exact reason: put things in the correct context.
The original headline was weak, so I see why you tried to improve it, but the submitted headline now gives the impression Norway has the most ("leads the world in") antibiotic resistance, when in fact the point of the story is the exact opposite. (Perhaps "Norway best fights..."?)
The title is a bit misleading, I think. Change always happens incrementally (evolution doesn't leap, it refines); immersion ensures that the incremental changes are locked into a specific pattern and focus.

The image used in the post was a bit misleading too. The change in direction of that bicycle would only be forward along the path, not sideways up the groove of the path (unless the bike was jumped or the rider dismounted and carried it).

The essence of the article has a positive message though, change is a given, immersion is the key concept I think the author was attempting to convey that other responders have already made mention of.
You could say the same thing about the TSA (how will we know when they are ineffective?). So I'm not sure this is a valid reason.

Also, just wanted to point out it doesn't require deaths to judge the effectiveness of the TSA (or this solution) as shown with the "close call" over Christmas.
My second blog post last spring (http://williambswift.blogspot.com/2009/03/value-of-mistakes-...) was about the value of making mistakes for learning. I see I missed the "making mistakes on purpose" bit, and am going to add a new post now about that. The general idea was referred to several times in older Whole Earth Catalogs, I should have remembered it earlier.
Clustering and storage are completely based on Terracotta, and this is great: relying on a rock solid technology gives you the freedom to focus on more advanced features, such as communication, partitioning, data manipulation and querying.

Which is the same reason Voldemort and Riak rely on third-party storage, or HBase relies on Hadoop.
Oh, we see the "complexity" in implementing this. (Note: not very complex in real life.) But we also see the embarrassing complexity of maintaining software that uses a "quick global variable" here and there.

It's nice to know what your software does without having to guess and pray. That is worth saying "runState foo 42" instead of just "foo".
due only partially to syntax impedance, I frankly don't understand

Consider:

foo <- bar

the same as:

var foo = bar();

and:

foo >>= bar

like:

var x = foo();
return bar(x);

and:

foo >> bar

as:

foo();
return bar();
One that's never occurred to me as a rule:

"When using type within an interface element, it either sits on top (dark 1px drop shadow) or is inset (white 1px drop shadow), it's never at the same surface as a button or widget."

Will have to pay more attention next time I'm doing this.
They should get their own ASN and IP ranges. Then they could start peering and heavily multihoming which would make the site more stable and save them money.

Also varnish cache would help.
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In his tapping pieces, Mongrain doesn't sound like he's playing guitar at all, but rather some other, harpischord-like instrument. Of course his effect chain is in part responsible for that, but his polyphonic playing style is IMO more important at that.

Regarding the (lack of) structure, it's worth knowin that both tapping pieces were written as an improvisation framework while he was making a living as a street musician in Europe.
After reading a few more stories, I really wish that the same kind of documentation was available for the development of modern projects (OS X? iPhone?).

I was born in 1982, so the original Mac is more an abstract milestone to me.

Too bad it probably won't happen because the teams are so much bigger now and there's a lot more secrecy surrounding things that are still on the market.
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Quite so :-/ Unfortunately it's too late to edit, but thanks for adding that clarification.
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In fact Terastore is based on Teracotta is one of the most important aspects. This makes us comfortable to see similar performance in numbers related to clustering, storage. Same is true for MemchacheDB, Voldemort and Riak as Sergio mentioned.
All you need is a business model which requires neither time nor energy and you're fucking DONE.

The obvious objection is that such a business model is unsustainable because a competitor can deliver the same thing for a lower price (with fewer ads, say). And you have no defense against it because that would require effort.
No insult intended at all. It was just that as I was reading down that list my brain was screaming "CAP! CAP!". I was glad to find that link there. Looks like an awesome project.
Sounds like this is a lot more closer to MongoDB than CouchDB. Either way, I warmly welcome this to the document store world
+1 for HtDP, after which the schemer series, followed by SICP.

Also, read this: http://norvig.com/21-days.html
1) A more exhaustive list of faults can be found at wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_Security_Adminis...)

2) The liquids threat has been overblown; there are doubts that they pose a significant threat and in the 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot (which was going to be supposedly carried out with liquids) the plotters were arrested on the ground days before any attack was to occur. To reiterate, they were arrested by old fashioned police work, not airport screening procedures.

>> You clearly have your own list of steps the TSA could have taken - I'm wondering what they are?

The best thing to do would be to scale back the focus on the TSA and spend the money on better policing and intelligence work.
I have not read SICP, but I have read The Little Schemer. It's my favorite programming book.

If does a very good job of getting you comfortable with thinking recursively. It not meant to impart immediate 'practical' knowledge, and it really uses Scheme as a vehicle for teaching recursion, not the other way around. You can do the exercises in any Lisp dialect easily enough, and even in JavaScript (http://javascript.crockford.com/little.html).

My recommendation would be to use The Little Schemer as well as another, more practically focused book on Scheme or Lisp and work through them concurrently.

Also, if you're just getting started and are going to be using Scheme, the DrScheme mini-IDE makes it very easy to get started quickly. It's part of the PLT-Scheme package: http://www.plt-scheme.org/.
Stormpulse is the first time I've ever been interested in tornadoes, simply because the interface is good and the site is fun. Keep up the great work :-)
I would recommend you start with The Little Schemer and follow up with The Seasoned Schemer (the sequel to the other book). These two will give you a good feel for some aspects of Scheme programming, but they will not go into the same depth about the fundamentals of computer science you'll get from SICP. After reading them, then you should advance to either How To Design Programs as suggested before SICP or if you're feeling really ambitious jump right to SICP.
Some people who are otherwise reasonably bright have real trouble understanding systems. Interestingly they tend to accept claims about systems that they don't really understand that fit with their social/political associates. For example, liberals tend to accept evolution but question free-market economics because that is what their associates do, and vice versa for conservatives. Those that can understand both tend to become fairly libertarian, though remaining liberal or conservative on many specific issues.
Seems like Fark material.
If you have little programming experience, I'd start with The Little Schemer. It's short and concise. Plus, I think you'll have more fun with The Little Schemer.

Disclaimer: I've never read SICP.
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The XBox 360 may be a great machine and have great software (I have friends that have worked on it) but from a business perspective it is a disaster. It is pretty clear that Microsoft will never make up for the billions that were sunk into the original XBox and the 360. I know that the old Microsoft Bag Holder blog (which seems to have disappeared) ran the numbers.

Once you add the RROD issues and the fact that the Wii is kicking the Xbox's butt from a marketshare/penetration perspective it is hard to say that the XBox is a slam dunk success.
Sure, that's like people being able to talk long before they learn what nouns and verbs are. A matter of learning to use something versus learning and remember terminology to describe that something.
I was disappointed as well.

I do recommend the articles listed on the Rails wiki's 'Text Editors' page for Vim, though: http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/text-editors

(Listed here in case that page is changed: http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2008/10/10/coming-home-to-vim,
http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2008/11/17/vim-follow-up,
http://biodegradablegeek.com/2007/12/using-vim-as-a-complete...)
I forgot that I had a multitool attached to my keys when I went through security about a year ago. I actually took my keys out, put them in the basket, and walked through. No agent said anything until the return trip, where I was asked to either check my bag or throw it away.
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I went by Gruber's post for the timing. I didn't click the GitHub gist history [http://gist.github.com/118964], which confirms you.

Everybody? Denouement? Critical mass? Please cite.

In one day on news.yc, I've seen two Markdown critiques, which is two more than I've seen, ever. This is a new development to a Markdown user. Please note the bugfixes he sat on.

And why this needs to be argued anymore: The BSD license gives you freedom. DVCS is about politics. Do what you need to do. If they don't like what you've done, fuck 'em you've voted in code, theory and premise.
As a medical person, your headline conveyed the right meaning to me.
"Maybe you should get a better email client? "

I hear Emacs is an E-mail client ...
Is this a js emulation? Nice!
Microsofts biggest problem is that "they just have no taste" to qoute Steve Jobs.

Taste is what the enduser sees. Endusers don't care about strategy, proprietary technology, bottomlines, acquisitions, tie-ins, and what have you.

The big problem here is that having good taste is like being a good hacker - you have to be one to spot one. And since Microsoft doesn't seem to have many people with taste they don't recognize it when they see it. This is why Microsoft isn't doing well on the web - it's easy to switch to a competitor if a site doesn't just work right away, and many Microsoft offerings don't. They're clunky, hard to navigate and often have a hidden agenda thought up by a MBA. This is also the primary reason that Apple is doing so well: Their CEO has taste.

Endusers just want shiny stuff that works.
Relevancy hack:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1023863
Wow I sort of felt bad thinking the same thing but the first thing I noticed on the page were the words "I love typography" and the second thing was how difficult the article was to read.
I suggest Practical Common Lisp. (considering that it's both online and in book form)
Nice. Thanks for the mention. I saw him 5 or 6 years ago and couldn't remember his name. Mckee was the only one I could bring to mind. It was driving me nuts.
Teach more slowly. If I could, as a student, take courses that were "as long as necessary" rather than limited to a semester schedule, I believe I would be a lot more satisfied with my education thus-far.
Just for an alternate opinion:

I find programming books relatively valueless. Just start reading code and programming. Google when you don't understand a piece of code.

Approximately how to get started on an Ubuntu system:

$ sudo apt-get install mzscheme
$ mzscheme
> (print "hello world")

Then Google for increasingly complex programs.
Tech4000: Twitter? Profitable? Really?
SICP isn't so much about Scheme, but language design principles, the beauty of abstraction, the dangers of mutable state, and the inability of a reactionary, functional approach to compensate for the lack of a mutable state.

But I would still go with SICP.
I consider not being VoiceXML a good thing :)
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Your question is well phrased: you have asked for a confirmation, which Youtube has not supplied. That amounts to a tacit admission.

I would suggest using it in a story where you clearly outline your question as well as the answer, and point out that the response does not answer the question. Or you could send out a follow up email:

"Your response, does not contain a confirmation that this ToS change was NOT initiated or modeled in relation to a YouTube API powered website called Totlol (totlol.com).

In the absence of a confirmation, or response to this email, we will go ahead and accept your response as a tacit acceptance that the ToS change was modeled in relation to Totlol.com.

Again: Can you positively confirm that this ToS change was NOT initiated or modeled in relation to a YouTube API powered website called Totlol (totlol.com) which has launched two months prior?

Warm regards, etc."
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I second that. Sicp, though, is quite hard conceptually (for instance, I've been baffled by church numerals and the y combinator), but in a good way.
You may want to read something more entry-level before, though.
Tech4000: Kid gets Xbox 360, loses mind
As far as YouTube's bandwidth bill goes, it is probably low, as discussed a couple months back:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=886109

I wouldn't deny that the Microsoft seems to be improving the Xbox from the customer's point of view... but I think the larger point is that the Xbox program is in the red.

There was already a convergent device for the living room. It's a computer with an HDMI cable and a wireless keyboard, or maybe a wireless tablet. Packaging it as a console with funky controllers is not a game changer, no matter how many games come out for it.
The problem with forking is that you can end up with a situation similar to the UNIX Wars of the eighties and early nineties with multiple, not-quite-interfunctional versions. That almost killed UNIX and could more easily do it to a minor program like Markdown.
thanks! "Vim contains every features you could possibly imagine, and then some. Even when taking this law into account" - 10ren's Law
Ask HN: working habits - minimalism or "organized" chaos?
A lot of people show-off their super tidy minimalist's workplace with nothing more than a monitor, keyboard and mouse.

But that doesn't seem to work in real life. At least for most of productive people that I know. When you really focus on work, everything around you fades out and the attention becomes too precious to be wasted on organizing environment.

So what works better for you?
Very true.

You don't really understand something until you can explain it in clear terms to someone without any knowledge of the subject.
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Maybe you haven't heard, but we've been profitable for 5 quarters. The org is well on it's way towards climbing out of the hole it dug. I think getting the foot into the living room was well with the price of admission. Well, except maybe that $1B RRoD loss...
Thanks! I'm pushing a many, many hour week here doing a speed improvement. Can't wait to release it (will make our severe weather maps load much faster, and add a couple levels of zoom).
But if the TSA turn up at your door, claiming they'll put you on the no-fly list if you don't co-operate? Once on the no-fly list, it's close to impossible to get off the list.

It's a government agency with far too much power and no transparency.
> I am explaining why even if that's true it doesn't mean that AGW people are "paid to confirm AGW".

What part of "you get grants for peer-reviewed publications" don't you understand?

> Also, so far as I can tell it isn't true for any sensible meaning of "fixed".

The folks who wrote the "ClimateGate" e-mails disagree, but then they did the fixing.

> So, I wonder, is there anything the peer-reviewed literature could contain that you would regard as good evidence that careful scientific study supports AGW?

This fixation on "peer-review" is interesting. You claim that the "peer"s all agree, so their review is subject to all that that implies. You might remember http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/12/fail_accept_defeat/ .

The climate people have threw away raw data, so we can't know whether "normalization" was actually reasonable. They're still saying "trust us" even though every time someone finds an error in their work, the error goes the same direction....

BTW - Scientific truth isn't defined by consensus.
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Article on one page - http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/12/fail_duke_nukem/all/1

"Yet the truth is, Broussard’s financial freedom had cut him off from all discipline. He could delay making the tough calls, seemingly forever."

Interesting how unlimited time and money, combined with previous success can be a curse.
Sometimes you really understand something only in retrospective -- and after you learn a lot more.

Your understanding of basic science improves significantly when you see 'how things fit' in a much larger framework.

Moreover, as your studies progress (sometimes much after the exam) you see new applications of what you have learned. And this sheds new light on the subject and you get deeper understanding of the subject.
What happened to TIMTOWTDI? :-)
No, english is the most widely spoke common language of Nigeria. Same situation as in India.