skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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The simplest approach that works for this at the moment is to have something like webpack build a UMD bundle and then add that bundle as a foreign lib.
There isn't as much concern about the health implications since the backscatter machines were moved to low volume airports a few years ago (I haven't seen any at major airports anyway), so they're primarily using the microwave machines (non-ionizing radiation) at major airports. Interestingly, it wasn't the risks that led them to opt for microwave scanners - backscatter machines were too slow for the volume of passengers seen at large airports.
I read it as they should be interested in something, not they should be interested in what you're interested in.
> how old were you when you started?

The project started as a hobby/side project when I was 24-25, it got funded and incorporated when I was 27.
Hi tamana,

Author of the article and lawsuit here. Anything in particular you'd like to challenge?

The thing is, I can put up a guide, but all of this takes a ton of work (and money). It's not possible to make a lawsuit tutorial that you can follow in a couple hours and be done. Once you've researched, written, and filed your lawsuit, then the real stuff begins: the government attacking your suit and you're left to defend it. I think it's fun, and it's definitely rewarding, but it takes a lot to make happen.

Thanks,

--Jon
DDT almost did it, then it was banned.
I have pre check with the global entry program and was 'randomly selected' to go through a body scanner on a recent trip, so it can happen. Most of the time pre check just goes through a simple metal detector though.
It is a service. Plus some code to make service integration into your website easy. Sadly, my experience was that it was not very reliable.
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There's a discussion in r/netsec right now about The Evil Maid problem. Looking at the datasheet for a common eeprom (24c256 http://www.techdesign.be/projects/datasheet/24LC256.pdf), the write protect pin is active high, and has an internal pull-down to GND. For a motherboard that has a physical write-protect or something like that, it'd be relatively straightforward for the Evil Maid to cut the WP pin to the eeprom to re-enable writes to it.

That makes me said. If it were the other way around (pull to VCC to enable writes), you'd at least need to add a pretty obvious bodge wire to the WP pin to enable writes.
The reason that is in the terms and conditions is because Eager exists to allow people to install all sorts of third-party SaaS tools. If you install the Google Analytics app, they are going to track you, that is what we're trying to convey. Every app Eager has built is open-source, and is going to remain that way.

The nice thing about delivering software directly to the client as we do is you can examine the exact code which gets sent, and confirm that it is what you expect.
If someone at Apple is reading this... please fork it (or built up from scratch) a solid open source SSO system and become an official (but optional) identity provider for your millions customers.

This would be a win-win as this could help AppleID and TouchID becoming even more central for your users while demonstrating at the same time that you care about privacy and are willing to develop an open standard to support strong and distributed identity management system as an alternative to Google and Facebook centralized and privacy unfriendly solution.
What are the areas you need to focus on to be good? Mine are definitely tests, specifically mocking actual write events happening (or rather stopping them from happening) in an API I have built. It'd be boring if I wasn't learning new things though right?
"But SMS costs money!" No, for most providers you can send an email to a special address reserved for the phone number. It will get translated to SMS automatically.

That's mostly an US-only solution. In most countries, there's no free email2sms gateway, since our incoming SMSs are free.

Also, I don't want to share my phone number with you, random Internet site owner. Email spam is worse enough as it is.

"But users will forget/loose their reset number!" Maybe, maybe not. It's a cultural thing. You don't expect them to loose access to their email, but that happens all the time.

They won't lose or forget it; they just won't save it in the first place, except maybe for a couple of very important sites. If people don't use password managers, what makes you think they'll manage some database (physical or not) of reset codes for each site they register for?
> for extreme weightlifters.

Again with the extremes; people don't get "big" on accident, and moderate strength training provides a whole host of benefits without the dangers. More people should be lifting, with proper form and modest goals.
The EU has banned such scanners over health concerns. Just something to keep in mind.
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I like the nanopass concept, particularly I am applying it to domain specific languages. It is not necessarily so inefficient if it is optimized. For instance, data indexing and methods such as RETE networks can make the cost of running an irrelevant pass close to nothing.
Yeah, as I was reading the article I noticed a lot of parallels to gun control in the US.

The harder one part of society pulls against guns, the more convinced gun rights advocates become that this is all a bigger conspiracy to to disarm them and take away their agency.
It's not that obvious how to delegate out a task that involves giving someone full access to an account when they ask for it.

With an on-site "Contact Support" form, you can at least compare their IP address with historical login addresses. But that comes with its own weird problems like, for example, a sibling claiming their brother's account from the same household to read their juicy PMs or steal their credits or whatever. Or giving moderators access to more sensitive information and power than necessary.

Password reset being "optional" just means that people are going to use your support system for it when they eventually forget their password or the initial registration session expires. Reddit and HN have optional email while your new website's only user just forgot their password without an email address on file. What are you going to do when they ask for help off site?

And by the time you're fielding SMS and Twitter handle password resets, you may wonder why you didn't just put more emphasis on the email address input field. Now you're polishing your SMS or Twitter handle reset system that has far more narrow appeal/usage than an email system.

Of course, at the end of the day, it depends on the type of service you're operating. But "make email optional" is a trade-off, not universally good advice. Spend too much time in the HN echo chamber and you'll just do things that work against your users.

People can opt out via http://10minutemail.com/.
Which is exactly why ChrisLTD said "careful exertion". Also, extrapolating a tiny percentage (permanently injured professional athletes) of a tiny percentage (professional athletes) to the general populace is facetious. Your average person is nowhere near "too much physical exertion", albeit they may have bad form, but that can be cleared up by competent coaching (even self-coaching).
I think those with biomedical devices especially implants have a very good case. It's a catch 22 with a life-sustaining device: https://twitter.com/statwonk/status/679390295771979778?s=09
I've done Clojure, but haven't had much contact in the last several months, and I haven't been keeping too close tabs on the community. Regarding Boot, I just heard of it the other day for the first time.

This all seems really exciting for Clojurescript. To me, it seems like it is a good option to have code that runs on multiple architectures. The ecosystem was lacking in some basics though, especially interacting w/3d party JS libraries, and I think CLJSJS (or something like it) will probably be one of the most important things for Clojurescript.

Seems like there's a decent quickstart on the Clojurescript github wiki (https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript/wiki/Quick-Start), is there a good next-steps resource that's current?
Is there independent evidence supporting their claims that they have correctly calibrated these devices to emit non-ionizing radiation?
Agreed.

Year of the Linux Desktop -- such a joke

This has not made sense for over a decade.

The release of RedHat 8.0 in 2002 brought Linux UI up to reasonable standards of general-public friendliness. Anybody shouting this ridiculous canard after that point is likely just shilling for the proprietary industry.
I'll add a second. I road biked, mountain biked, and played polo, but had knee, hip, and shoulder pain all the time. Since doing resistance training, I've only got muscle pain. Still hurts, but it goes away sooner and it isn't anywhere near as annoying as joint pain.
We view Eager as a safer alternative to installing something like a WordPress plugin. Non-technical people certainly use them extensively, yet they introduce very large security holes. We are trying to provide much of the same power, but without the danger of a server exploit.

If you do read the Eager terms of service, you'll see that we explicitly guarantee that we won't sell any tracking information. We don't build every Eager app, but the ones we have built are open source, and don't track or report anything to us.
The problem, as I understand it, is that Rust's ownership semantics don't accommodate for the kinds of programming needed by 0 dynamic allocations.

Lots of intrusive nodes pointing freely at one another, is an example. I've heard some Rust libraries approximate intrusive allocations almost perfectly, but not quite perfect.
The TSA scanners are presented to the public as a tool for detecting weapons and other contraband, but I think this is actually a secondary goal and a bit of misdirection. Think about what those scans actually are.

They're biometrics. They take precise measurements of a person's shape, which is sufficient to detect if someone is traveling under a false name, and they're building a database of those biometrics to have available for use elsewhere. If the scan's result is ambiguous, they swab your hands and stick the swab in a machine, supposedly to detect residue from explosives but with the nice side-effect of producing a stored DNA sample for later use. They've proven pretty useless for controlling the flow of contraband, but they're quite useful for catching fugitives. While the people staffing the checkpoints aren't particularly smart, it's reasonable to assume that the people at the top are pretty clever, and their policies are consistent with this having been the real goal all along.

If they tried collecting fingerprints from travelers, they would get a very strong backlash. This way, they get a weaker backlash and some jokes about how stupid they are for using machines that can't reliably detect guns.
>> "...a Win7 alt-tab switcher..."

I have been running mostly OSX on the desktop for a while, but IIRC Compiz has a couple different alt-tab switchers that you can configure.
Developers at failed startups do not as a rule get offered VP-level jobs at Google.
They didn't ban the currently deployed Millimeter Wave scanners. They banned the previously deployed Backscatter X-ray machines.
Some of the best advice I've read in this thread so far. I'd recommend reading:

1. The Richest Man in Babylon

The $7.89 I spent on this book, which I read in a single night, is the best investment I ever made.

2. Think and Grow Rich

An older book, but there are some golden nuggets within.
The most interesting result from recent research into exercise is this:

http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=159410&Cult...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep18259

An open access paper on exercise in identical and non-identical twin pairs was recently published, the data suggesting that long-term differences in physical activity between identical twins don't result in any significant difference in longevity, even though other differences in health outcomes are observed. We might draw parallels between this and similar results observed in a mouse study from a few years back, in which the exercising mice had better health but no increase in maximum life span. The researchers here theorize that the well-known epidemiological association between exercise and increased life expectancy is perhaps as much a matter of genetics as of choice.

For any observed statistical relationship in humans there are always questions of causation. This is especially true in the web of associations related to aging and mortality in population data, in which life expectancy, wealth, social status, intelligence, education, exercise, diet, and culture all have ties to one another. That we pay great attention to these relationships is a function of having no good way to treat aging, I've long thought: we care about trivial differences in life expectancy of a few years here and a few years there because this is all that is in our power to change right now, and that will continue until the development of rejuvenation therapies. Life expectancy and exercise are linked robustly in many data sets, and even more so now that accelerometers are so cheap and ubiquitous that even large studies can use them to obtain actual rather than self-reported data on physical activity. There are studies to demonstrate longer life expectancy in athletes, longer life expectancy in those who exercise modestly versus those who are sedentary, and so forth. What are these studies measuring, however? For example, what if people who are more robust and would live longer regardless of exercise tend to exercise more? Or perhaps exercise levels are a good proxy for lower levels of visceral fat tissue and consequent chronic inflammation - themselves linked to greater risk of age-related disease and mortality.

The results of this study definitely muddy the waters in the search for causation and mechanism in exercise and mortality reduction, providing evidence to support a state of considerable complexity in the relationship between exercise, genetics, and outcomes in health. Nothing in biology is ever as simple as we'd like it to be, so this should perhaps be expected. Regardless he data presented below should be added to the many past studies on exercise and mortality, and its weight balanced accordingly - never take any single set of data and interpretations as gospel in science. This doesn't change the consensus, which is that you should exercise, and that you are expected to obtain benefits by doing so. It does add subtlety to the picture, however.
Interesting parallel to occlusion training/KAATSU, which restricts veins during weight lifting and physical therapy.
> The idea is that humans were meant to move more throughout the day

I don't know if you can necessarily compare this to tons of calories (think fat from an animal) into a bit of food. Now the source of the calories yes.
That seems like a weird assumption, considering that even today, you can fly domestically without any ID at all, subject to additional screening.

PreCheck is a good thing, and a good system, but it hardly incentivizes the government to make it mandatory.
My resume is in LaTeX and I love it and its easy to edit and it looks beautiful... but some jobs (and I'm not kidding here) will only accept resumes in an MS Word .doc format. I can't tell you how much butchering I had to to do get my resume in Word to look close to how nice it looks as a PDF.
It's not just stack allocations, it's support for intrusive allocations, pointers not always conforming to simple ownership semantics, etc.
My point was simply that there is no section 6.1 in that paper, and what is in the paper does not support `tacos` claim ;-)
So you're arguing that flu vaccine must be mandatory? All the other vaccines (there sure are plenty)? You're just plain wrong about vaccination relying on herd immunity. Vaccine is still effective for those who take it. And the oft-repeated number "90%" has no scientific basis whatsoever, the herd immunity threshold is heavily dependent on how infectious the disease is, and plenty of other factors.
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This does nothing to make us safer, as the ineffectiveness of the TSA has been well documented on numerous occasions since their inception.
>It is what listeners, customers, etc want to hear. Welcome to the minority.

Is it? Or are they just spoon-fed with it to the point of being conditioned?
Aerobic exercise actually speeds it up due to increased oxidation in the system, but, in general, any BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate) increase also speeds up your demise, but this is in the ideal situation where we all die naturally, not from chronic disease, cancer, etc. Why? Because our cells can't divide indefinitely (Hayflick limit [0]). Any activity that increases growth factors also can speed up cancerous growth. So, don't run, don't exercise - just walk, do gardening work, and other normal human activities.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayflick_limit
Then you have studies showing High Intensity Training (HIT) where you only exercise three minutes per week is beneficial. But it may depend on your genes.

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-17177251

>The idea is that humans were meant to move more throughout the day

My parents are always on the go gardening, going to auctions, walking a bit, always doing something. Dad eats a lot but eats everything fish, shellfish, many kinds of meat, all kinds of vegetables he gets a huge variety of food.

I'm sitting watching my computer screen not moving, I eat a limited diet and I think I will be worse off than my parents. And I think Millennials will be even worse I've never seen so many fat people at such a young age, at least bottom out at mid 40s and not mid teens.
To be clear, the EU only banned backscatter x-ray machines, which the TSA has mostly eliminated in favor of millimeter wave machines.
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There seems to be a lot of interest in sync related protocols in this thread and dismissal of JMAP as a result. This is bad, because the current state if synchronization protocols still kinda sucks - full disclosure, I work on http://GitHub.com/amark/gun which is a JavaScript based syncing database. Getting synch right in p2p or federated systems (email) entails more detail than centralized ones. So any work on synchronization should be seen as favorable compared to how bad other protocols are for sync.
I totally agree with the first paragraph, but I'm not convinced on the second.

Mozilla is right in the sense that they're independent and a not-for-profit. But they're also small relative to the other players, with more limited resources. They also just don't seem to be very good at politics and/or building business partnerships.

In particular here they seemed to solve it as mainly a technical problem. They apparently launched it with the assumption that its existence alone was sufficient to generate uptake, which even at the time seemed naive to me. And then after a while they shrugged, said, "looks like it doesn't work" and closed it down. That doesn't seem like the right organization to me.
I completely agree with this. I can't imagine the inflated lifestyle people are living, saying they can't retire until they make $300k+ for 40 years.
Have you calibrated your flashlight to emit non-ionizing radiation?
Interesting.

I opted out this morning. I have friends on flight crews who opt out (either by KCM or by the freedom frisk) and I haven't heard anyone in my circles complain about it on Facebook.
It would really save me time in understanding who to talk to first. Would it impact the final decision? No. But it would certainly help me prioritize candidates. It is really time consuming to go through 120 resumes to see who you want to talk to first (especially when you also have a day job of delivering software).
Thank you for your initiative to fight this BS
That holygrail project looks cool thanks. As a Clojure newbie, I'm not too fond of Lein to be honest.
They do collect fingerprints from travelers -- TSA PreCheck -- but it's 100% opt-in.
It might very well be the case. I'm not sure about their motives, I even said so. I don't see how that affects the poorly written definition and the case that poker and fantasy sports are games of skill.
But it specifically says in DHS document:

TSA does not store any personally identifiable information from AIT screening.
I'll add a third - hiked and rock climbed for years, always had some pain afterwards, even at lower body weights. Started lifting, now I hardly ever get sore after hiking and climbing, and if I do, it doesn't last long. If it does, it's a sign I'm probably coming down with something. Which also happens much less often since I started lifting.

BTW, started lifting based on a book suggested on an HN thread years ago: "Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training" by Mark Rippetoe.
The biggest problem is you lose sight of your personal belongings. And TSA workers are arrested for stealing from passengers at the rate of about 1/day.
Canada is not a homogenous society.
Here is the excerpt from the DHS document:

Individuals undergoing screening using AIT generally will have the option to decline an AIT screeningin favor of physical screening. Given the implementation of ATR and the mitigation of privacy issues associated with the individual image generated by previous versions of AIT not using ATR, and the need to respond to potential security threats, TSA will nonetheless mandate AIT screening for some passengers as warranted by security considerations in order to safeguard transportation security.
Sadly, no alternative currently exists. Well, none I know of.

There were some attempts like WebID and gpgAuth, but none is usable at the moment. They have to be dug out of dirt of oblivion, carefully analyzed and improved with important features they're missing to be usable for ordinary people (at least key escrow and sync - both completely optional, of course).

What I want from authentication system, is complete independence and full and ultimate control and ownership of my own identity. I don't want to trust, depend or even need any third party just to have account with someone. Not even if this third party is a domain name registrar, not even if I have a legal agreement with them.

When we had just usernames and passwords - it was exactly like that, except for mandatory emails thingy (but that's another story). I met someone, we introduce yourselves, negotiate a shared secret - and we're now acquaintances. With OpenID/OAuth/SAML/JWT/Persona this is no more the case - we have to call a notary and the notary will tell us who I am. And I really don't like this and want to see this fixed.

I want to revoke any possibility of any third party to revoke or otherwise deny my identity. They may assert my identity (say they know me and I'm a good lad) and revoke their assertion about my identity (i.e. say they don't trust me anymore), but not the fact who I am.
Nothing hidden about that --

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/sometimes-people-jus...

How to report specific programs that you think should not be allowed --

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/play.html#invalid
They are not necessarily unique over time. There's no guarantee that jrandom@example.com today is the same person it was a year ago or a year hence. Or in the case of services like mailinator, even unique at all.
I usually think of myself as someone with an above-average tolerance for unpleasant shlep work, but that sounds like incredibly boring work.
> they're building a database of those biometrics

Where did you get this information from?
This is an observational study and proves correlation, not causation. People whose bodies age slowly for whatever reason are more likely to be athletic, especially in the 40-65 age range they called out.