skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The GP never asserted being an expert and made a well-reasoned argument (unlike yours). I spent three weeks in China last year and generally got the same impression.

We westerners perceive Chinese people as oppressed and poor, but the people I talked to were extremely friendly and optimistic.
That's a great one.
If you've never been uncomfortable with how they've touched you, maybe it's probably because you've never been firmly searched.

I thought the "light touch" was universal, but once I did get an agent who really "got up in there" . It wasn't traumatic for me, and I'd do it again, but it was a very different experience from previous pat-downs.
I was kind of after a project that could feed back upstream, or provide a little competition in the same way that Firefox does (did?) for Chromium.

Palemoon, though a decent fork, doesn't (seem to) have all that much to offer upstream.
The problem is there trying to combine 20% effective methods. Last time they used box cutters, a wooden stake would be just as effective. Or just do something else, it's not like aircraft are the only thing out there.

The TSA is basically just building a 50 foot fencepost in the middle of nowhere and pretending people need to climb it instead of walking around.
This is a very tricky issue. I'm against the notion of perpetual punishments in general, but some kinds of sexual behavior are compulsive and historically the response to that has been to detain people who exhibit dangerous behaviors of this sort indefinitely in a psychiatric facility, which is obviously even more restrictive of liberty than tracking their whereabouts.

Mind, I'm not saying Wisconsin's law is well-drafted or demonstrated to work, just observing the existence of a conflict between individual rights and public safety in a context where the risk is very hard to measure.
Well:

1 check - x% effective.

2 checks - (x + y)% effective.

n checks - (x + y + ...[n times]) % effective.
>I do it as protest

http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2010/11/another_man_gets_hara...
Do more research yourself, starting with a physics book, and and you'll understand why it's not a problem. Your child won't benefit from superstition.
They're shutting down. Good.

They weren't "innovating". They were trying to run an air taxi service without meeting the pilot training requirements and aircraft equipment safety requirements for carrying passengers. Private pilots should not be carrying passengers for money - the accident rates at the low end of general aviation are too high.

(Never go flying to a destination with someone who isn't IFR qualified. The weather can always change.)

This was on YC a few days ago, at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10769333
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I opt out every time and it's the same conversation every time.

"Ok, we're gonna have to call somebody over here."

"No problem."

"Well, you might be waiting a while."

"That's show I show up waaay early, I've got plenty of time."

I think it pisses them off, but I don't care. I don't think I've ever waited more than two or three minutes, anyways.
It depends on who is telling the story. So in that case this is their mother.
I think it's your opinion on the "ghetto," not twitter, that raises eyebrows.
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The TSA will have you know that they found one gun! https://i.imgur.com/0kuS77T.jpg

/s
This is definitely an interesting project. I liked the video projection and extending battery life to 2 days. Kudos to the team :)

However, could you have a clean power source? I mean there was water, wind and the barge was floating. Is there a way you could have recharged the batteries without the generator? I know the power requirements was high but just wondering. Small wind turbines may be (assuming cost was not an issue)?
The problem is, I can't take the chance we get to the airport, go through the Pre line, and then they refuse us passage if my wife refuses the mandatory body imaging scan.

You're exercising really terrible risk assessment, arguably even worse than the TSA's own.
"I'm not Chinese nor do I have a particular stake, but I was there for three weeks this summer and was overwhelmed by a kind of social optimism"

It is normal to fall in love when you meet a different culture.

It takes 6 months or so living on a country to start seeing caveats and "not so good things" in any country.

"the shared assumption that services are getting better, progress will happen, and a relentless cycle of innovation"

It is called a "bubble", I traveled frequently to Spain(my native country) and Ireland while the shared assumption that everything was getting better was at full power and all media was talking about those "economic miracles".

When those miracles reversed it was not(and it is not) pretty.

My father lived the Japanese "economic miracle" of Japan, the country that was going to rule the world.

I lived 5 years in China at the beginning of the bubble. It is an entire world in itself, but they have BIG problems. I continue traveling and doing business in China, and it is getting worse day after day.

When I was there I could use a normal VPN without problems, and Chinese authorities could not care less, as it was necessary for the business. But now you have to use like 6 layers of VPN, change patterns of navigation...because people in power is desperate to control their own people.
We can ban things because there's too much of a chance of things going wrong? It's travel via aircraft, I think John Q. Public can probably fairly well assess what might go wrong, and more to the point, it's none of the FFA's business. If I go on a plane and I die crashing into some guys house, we have legal frameworks in place to handle all of those events. Why do we need more on top?
Good catch. CloudFlare's optimizations are often too good for their own good. Fixing.
As far as contact records go, that's not an unreasonable price, especially so at such a low quantity.
At least from my point of view, the perceived value of the iPhone increases with each additional device and service of Apple you use. I recently had the opportunity to test a Samsung: While the device itself was great, I didn't even try to get my music or photos synced. I'm so used of Apple flawless integration with each other. That's the challenge.
How is MapZen's international geocoding? I couldn't find info on their website saying how good their coverage is of different countries and languages.
You have my sympathy. That's a really difficult thing for any couple to go through. Still, in that case, you're probably trying to control a lot of other variables that already rule out air travel, no? For routine pregnancy there is no risk from EM identified in the literature that I know of.
"We find that Typed Racket’s cost of soundness is not tolerable. If applying our method to other gradual type system implementations yields similar results, then sound gradual typing is dead."

While some of the data is surprising (22x average slowdown for TypeScript dropping to 6.5% overhead when fully typed) the paper ignores the reason why people kicked and screamed for the functionality to begin with. It had nothing to do with run-time performance.

Obviously the tools will improve and you can always strip out the annotations if performance is an issue.

Reticulated Python is still an order of magnitude faster than Ruby, so obviously performance doesn't render a technology "dead."
You know that the agents of the system whose time you are ostensibly wasting are paid to be there, right? And that the system is explicitly designed to accommodate such a 'protest'?

You may find this an interesting read:

http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2010/11/another_man_gets_hara...
"Consenting adults"? If the government lets you only have a portion of their money "how it views taxes" why wouldn't they let you only keep a portion of your Liberty "how it views regulating consenting adult activities"?
It doesn't matter if they catch Y, as long as he didn't keep logs. Nobody, not even Y, knows who Z is, so Z can safely use his coins.

>For these reasons, I cannot figure out why they don't know who stole the MtGox bitcoins.

When you don't understand something, something might be wrong with your model. (http://lesswrong.com/lw/if/your_strength_as_a_rationalist/ comes to mind).

The exact addresses of the Gox stolen coins aren't known AFAIK. Even if they were, to cash out you only need to get someone to accept them without verifying ID. I can send coins to an exchange, and have them send me other coins in a different cryptocurrency, and send those to another exchange, then convert back to btc. If the intermediate currency is something like Monero, then the chain analysis must stop there.

I'm not saying most mixing happens through alts, but it is a fairly foolproof method for anonymity, at the cost of not supporting volume and high fees.

Also, you can sell to people for cash, so any investigation hits a dead end. There are probably dozens more ways to cash out anonymously.
It's too bad the game doesn't include an option to adopt Houston-style regulation and create a better institutional framework for regulating housing in the first place.
I'm 100% for lifetime GPS tracking of certain classes of criminals - It's a far sight nicer than lifetime imprisonment, and that is a legitimate punishment.

But the EFF's point here is solid: This wasn't a punishment handed down as part of a sentence. This was added to someones sentence ex post facto, and that is not cool. It is fairly cut and dry; You only are sentenced according to the law at the time you committed the crime. Adding new punishments, no matter how well intentioned, is unconstitutional. I don't even have to cite an amendment, it's in article 1.
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What? It's a great description of the rental market here!
> That's not what I'm asking for. You're pointing to low-level metrics and I'm asking for high-level examples of things not achievable today that Servo will enable.

I don't think there are many such things as stated, because the Web is technically capable of almost anything you want to do already. Even if we were to say that CSS is too slow to do the things you need to do (which I don't believe at all), you could always do the famo.us thing, rebuild your interface in WebGL (and even maybe throw out JS in favor of asm.js), and do anything you might possibly want to do in existing engines.

What I think Servo will do is to make it easy to make Web apps fast, by eliminating the huge distinction between the slow paths and the fast paths. In my view this is the biggest performance win we can possibly get on the Web.

To be sure, I'm not saying that Web developers are bad and that it's their fault :) The browsers have created this situation, after all. It's not that the Web is incapable of being fast. It's just performance on the Web is a minefield. I think the biggest thing Servo can do is to eliminate that minefield.
0% + 0% is still 0%.

That's the issue with security theater.
Or it might be Pipl.

Opt out for Pipl is here: https://pipl.com/directory/remove/
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Can these scanners ever malfunction and give someone a massive dose of radiation? Does anyone have research on this?
There are a number of articles on this where not only are Chinese doing the construction labor in African countries but encouraging citizens over to start businesses.
Closed door meetings with odd combinations of managers that don't normally meet is a HUGE red flag.
>We can ban things because there's too much of a chance of things going wrong?

Yes. This is literally how public safety works.
> I didn't take the time, this time. I let your words to me stand on their own, and they weren't standing up very well. I repeatedly asked, and you didn't clarify some of the apparently very important nuances of your view point.

I didn't take the time to elaborate on questions you asked that I felt like I'd already addressed elsewhere. If I had known you didn't bother to read them, I would have briefly restated them.

Oh well.

> The entire history of science has been gathering data, and making predictions.

You missed the hard part of actually testing those predictions. Data science does not bother testing, it just collects more and more data. Often the premises change right underneath, and data science just goes right on lamp posting.

An excellent blog to watch this in real time is Slate Star Codex. The author will make you reconsider everything you know about science if you listen to him long enough.

> by looking at the other people who were similarly stocking the shelves.

You just looked at them? You didn't get to know them? Appearances can be very deceiving, especially when it comes to public settings like that. I'm not saying you're wrong, but I've learned to not trust other people's perceptions if there's nothing more to go on.

It doesn't matter to me that it's anecdotal. I've learned that anecdote can be more trustworthy than 'scientific' analysis. But one needs to learn how to draw conclusions from anecdote and where the holes in the logic might be before relying on it.

The people at the soup kitchen may have been putting on their best faces to go out. Without knowing their stories you don't know why they're there.

I worked at the Atlanta Community Food Bank for a short time. I maybe was the only person on the team actually getting paid. I went in with one perception of the people that were working there, and left that place with a completely different perspective after talking to them and getting to know them.

> If you enjoy it, then please refrain from the negative comments ("the very way you think about wealth is utterly silly"). I doubt they increase your enjoyment, and they negatively impacted mine.

My suggestion to you, since you did say that you were here to perhaps learn from my experience, is to be a little more critical of your own understandings. It took me a long time to come to my current understanding of what wealth is, and I'm sure that understanding will evolve further as I delve more deeply into topics like economics and finance to flesh out what I feel is a strong historical understanding. I didn't gain that understanding by believing in myself, I did it by disbelieving in my own thoughts.

If someone told me that the way I think about X was silly, I'd immediately want to know why he felt that way. Hearing the rationale of people that have negative opinions of me is quite valuable to me. For someone whose been on BBSes for the last 20 years, I'd have thought you've have acquired the same thick skin that I have regarding intellectual discussions. I apologize for offending you, but as I don't think I did anything wrong, it's obviously a hollow apology.
You don't see the danger in pilots running a commercial aviation business with a personal license? They're not like cars where you can willy around and if things go wrong usually it's at 30mph...
I have to wear a "life sustaining medical device" (as printed on it and the 'airport' card I was given). The manufacturers are very, very explicit that the unit will be damaged by these scanners and that under no circumstances will they entertain any claim if it is. The old-fashioned metal detector is OK for the brief exposure but will set it off and force a manual pat-down. The x-ray baggage scanner is also a total no-no (but given it's implanted, that would tend to involve me going through it too).

Opting out was practically encouraged last time I went via EWR - the woman doing the pat-downs seemed to be on training to do them, so they were funneling people to her rather than the scanners.

I see argument in some comments that the risk to a pregnant woman may not be so large (I have no idea), but there are many people with medical devices who could be seriously harmed by a mandatory policy.

If device manufacturers are so clear that the devices are not designed to be subjected to EMF from these scanners, will the TSA be replacing devices and compensating people ?

The security theater just got officially dangerous (ok, more dangerous than before).
Pilots are free to offer commercial services; they merely have to obey a much stiffer set of regulations.

Flying privately is legitimately dangerous, whereas commercial aviation in the united states is very safe. Customers are in no position to evaluate the pilot or plane. Most accidents are due to pilot fault, often because of bad weather; offering commercial services that come with expectations of getting places increases pressure to fly in weather or circumstances exceeding the capabilities of the pilot, plane, or both.
Print to bookkeeping is actually a pretty brilliant idea... I'm planning to start doing itemized taxes for the coming year, and this could be useful as a basis for capturing receipts... Combined with cloud print... snap a photo of the receipt on my phone, print to bookkeeping, sort it out later.

Might even be able to combine with GPS info in the image to log where the receipt is from, etc.

This could be a pretty decent idea for adding to online bookkeeping services... so that you can tag receipts, for tracking the taxable portion of them, etc.

Advance print queues for printing services could be another thing...
Mostly the geom_bar and geom_histogram split, which I agree was a good idea.

I also used the order parameter on a few visualizations, so I'm unsure how to order a stacked bar chart without it. I'll give it another look and see what I find and file as appropriate.
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/datablog/2009/sep/02/...

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China 9,679.30 GHG emissions (MtCO2e)[1], United States 6,668.79 GHG emissions (MtCO2e)[1] - population China ~1.3 billion[2], population United States ~330 million[3]

Do the math!

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

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

[3] http://www.census.gov/popclock/
> " ... as warranted by security considerations ..."
The name is intentional. It gets them free publicly by being quirky.
I disagree with your naive and condescending reply. To assume we have thorough understanding on long term effects of any new technology is grossly irresponsible.

But then again, who cares when its other people, amiright?

EDIT: I'm not some ignorant bumpkin. I've worked with physicists to do data taking for a detector at the LHC. I have a solid fundamental understanding of physics.

Is it wrong to be cautious when hundreds of millions of people could be effected by a new technology with little to no oversight, no resources for them in the event its discovered there are health effects, and little to no benefit for the actual process?

For fuck sake, Jon Stewart had to literally badger congressional representatives on camera to provide funding to first responders who are dying from cancer and other aliments from responding to the WTC on 9/11. I'm supposed to have faith the US government is going to make things right if body scanners are causing health issues? Fuck. no.
I once went to the SLC airport with slightly damp braided hair. I went through the scanner. A TSA agent pulled me aside for a patdown. She did it quickly, sighed with relief, and said, "Oh, it's just your hair. It showed up on the scanner as a weapon."
> And nobody has "rushed" to any language introduced in the last decade.

You forgot about Swift. (though it has been limited to Apple's eco system so far, let's see how their open source effort goes)
If you have the time, could you please shoot me an email with the lessons you think CRAN could learn from CPAN? Thanks!
We chose not to do so, but I can tell you why you'd move to non-public pricing (at least have a non public pricing tier).

As much as people love to blame vendors, this is mostly due to dysfunctional nature of the large enterprise buyers. They are addicted to discounts. First the buyer contacts you asks for one then after everything gets said and done done, procurement gets involved and ask for more discounts (seen as their job). Having listed pricing becomes a problem when going through such process, so most vendors either choose not to publish their prices, or have a tier for the enterprise that is not published.
I'm confused about some of the "goals" and their impact on strategy. The first goal prohibits downtown upzoning in Alameda County to "protect view corridors", and I'm not sure whether that's a randomly drawn card or whether that's the first goal the group of players must accomplish. If so, that immediately eliminates my hobby-horse about SF rents: downtown Oakland has the infrastructure to handle many more residents and businesses without blocking views more than they already are, and it's only comparative rents with SF that are keeping it from being built out.
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It sends you a confirmation email. Inside this email is a link to your profile. You can either add information (linkedin, facebook, angellist, etc.) or delete your profile.

I deleted my profile.
Cloud flare is mucking around with the payload to save some bytes, probably.
Thanks! I think I have have underestimated how many people confused bar charts and histograms :/
> if you don't want to pay for the content, it means you don't value it.

I don't think these two are related in the way you imply. In fact, I go so far as to say they are related in the opposite way you describe. ex: If you don't want to pay for food then you don't value it? If you don't want to pay for medicine then you don't value it? If you don't want to pay for an education then you don't value it? Many of the things I don't want to pay for I value quite a bit.

Also, I can certainly value the contents of this particular article but not value the contents of the WSJ (in entirety) enough to pay for a subscription.

Finally, and in keeping with the spirit of the comments, I can actively despise that the WSJ has now been taken over by an America Destroying (TM) conservative and be going out of my way to read the article w/o paying.

Anyway, lots of issues with tying value to payments.
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I assume that the reason why this is being downvoted is because people disagree with the "for money" premise. (I wish downvoters in this case would comment, rather than simply downvoting!) Flytenow was operating under the provision that allows a private pilot to take a "pro rata share" of costs from a passenger, for a genuine "common purpose".

I think that Flytenow, by their advertising, probably failed the "common purpose" test, but more than that, it failed the duck test -- it looked like a duck, walked like a duck, and quacked like a duck. It looked like using a private pilot's license for commercial activity.

As someone with a pilot pilot's license, I think the FAA and the judicial branch made the right call.