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>> Bah, the patent system as a whole is broken anyway. There are very few patents whose absence would have slowed down innovation. On the contrary, the presence of patents tend to slow down innovation.

>There is very little evidence of that.

Given the abundant and widely-publicized examples of specific patents that obviously slow down innovation, I'm beginning to think a downvote is inadequate for comments that claim "little evidence". They should probably be flagged.

Amazon's 1-click patent, GIF patent, JEPG2000, the RSA patent come quickly to mind right off the top of my head, and there are numerous more examples that I'm sure a little googling could find quickly.

The part about US being most innovative...now that's just the basic scientific error of failing to isolate variables. A downvote suffices for that.
> 3. Or maybe many of the people I know are in fact this unhappy, but they never tell anyone except their psychiatrist all of the pieces necessary to put their life story together.

4. Or maybe many of the people I know are in fact unhappy, but they never explicitly tell anyone and I'm not noticing the other obvious signs because admitting the existence of such would reveal my unhappiness and bring me some questions I wouldn't want to answer.
The TSA people you deal with at the security line are pretty low level employees. They don't decide to use the body scanner or make people take their shoes off etc. I agree that the US has pretty much the most dehumanizing security process, but don't make their same mistake and dehumanize the low level TSA workers. Instead, use that bitterness and anger to talk to people who can change it: your congressman, maybe there's a way to talk to the head of the TSA. Making a TSA screener's job harder makes the world a worse place and doesn't change things.
You're hating the player when you should be hating the game.
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Oh, excuse me, I didn't realise my rights were marginally inconveniencing you.
Thanks!

It's comments like yours, which make HN interesting. Even if the upcoming questions are of rather idiosyncratic nature.

I assume that the C line stations equipped with those bands are the ones up north (thanks for the addition). I have to admit that I never made it that far.

As a side note. The general design of the Prague metro stations are pretty awesome (well, most of them anyway). The "bubble" design of the older A metro stations is almost iconic.

Really a testament to Czech design in my view.

Thanks again for the insight.
They mention complex analysis in passing, but I wouldn't say that they use it here.
It is everywhere even Windows. There is a little bit of weirdness on some older versions of Windows CE and some undefined behavior with edge conditions on some OS's if I recall, but you can find the capability everywhere. I added the map API to QFile back in the day and went through checking different OS's for compatibility. A quick google search here is a link to the windows method:

https://github.com/radekp/qt/blob/master/src/corelib/io/qfsf...

unix version:
https://github.com/radekp/qt/blob/master/src/corelib/io/qfsf...
I don't understand how you are accusing someone of sexual harassment and simultaneously bragging that you "make them fondle my balls simply because I can"? In addition to being a hideous person it seems that you do not understand what it means to be sexually harassed.
No, but this sort of question was very much a part of the controversial New York Public Library renovation plans. [1] It was/is a complex project with a lot of moving parts but certainly part of it revolved around the number of books to store, how accessible they would be, and how optimized their storage conditions.

[1] http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-new-york-publ...
> turned my life over to Christ

I think a lot of people miss that this is the essential part of religion: I suck at being happy, despite all of my rationality and intelligence, so let God do the driving.

It's very comforting.

I'll also add that for me faith didn't come from a single "burning bush" moment, it came from long, painstaking, often failing, effort.
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I highly recommend "Ghost in the Wire". It's pretty light on the technical details, but it's really entertaining if you're interested in the "Golden Age" of hacking.

I was amazed at how much more he leaned on his social engineering skills than his technical skills when he was in his prime.
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My problem with body scanners? Before Snowden I thought I am in tinfoil hat territory -- but now I am reasonably sure this happens or could happen any time: they store those scans along with your personal data. But, you are saying, you are not identifying yourself going into the scanner. Sure you don't but they have a very, very good idea about who is at the airport based on simply the flight manifests and then it's just a matter of matching your face to a relatively small list: Atlanta had 100M passengers, that's only 274 000 daily and you can start with likelier candidates the closer to the time, it's unlikely you'd need to check more than 10-20k faces.

Edit: to add, the TSA does not even need to be aware of this going on, the clerks on spot even less so.
> The responses are largely tepid, with the conclusion seeming to be that PKIX feels it “can afford to wait until the very last minute, i.e. when SHA1 is actually broken, rather than to upgrade to some fix like SHA256 before SHA1 is broken.”

That right there tells you everything you need to know about XPKI and the CA infrastructure. It's sad that a decade before the event above took place, we had a reasoned, well-thought-out alternative to XPKI, but because no-one cared it went absolutely nowhere.

I really, really hope that after these lost two decades the industry revisits and updates the ideas behind SPKI[1] and finally figures out how to actually secure Internet communications. Can't say that I'm holding my breath though.

[1] http://world.std.com/~cme/html/spki.html
Clever idea! My current workflow for doing this same job is just using Bower to manage the dependencies and a Gulp script to concat them. I'd be a little worried about moving all my dependencies "to the cloud" like this.

But loads of people use sites like CDNJS, so I can definitely see it being used. I'm not sure I'd want to be paying the hosting bills if it takes off though :)
The only think notable about Mitnick is that he was the first to get caught/prosecuted. Sloppy opsec.
I'm intrigued as to why you think political correctness led to the renaming of "home economics", and why you think "home economics" is a better name.
It's a pragmatic thing. Similarly, sometimes I go through the imager knowing that the thing doesn't add any real security to my flight at all (so I decide to view it as a complicated piece of art in interaction between me and the TSA).

At the end of the day, I have to travel - I have a job (yay) that lets me work remote (yay), but that means cross-country fights on a monthly basis. If I opt out of flying, I also opt out of working for a rad nonprofit developing software that helps teachers share artifacts of practice. Skipping flying is an option, sure (I could get a job in SF, it's not that hard probably for someone with my background), but I've prioritized keeping my existing job over that.

Like it or not, we've structured an economy that requires people to fly. People should just be more aware of what they're giving up to make that happen.

My objection to the scanners isn't actually about the government spying on my butt. It's about how the general public is willing to let the government look at naked pictures of them without really thinking about the trade-off they are making. Lots of people don't even realize that there is a naked picture at all - if you talk to them, they think all that happens is an outline and a yellow box. If every time you go through the scanner you're aware of the deep violation of your privacy that the scanner represents, I'm okay with that.

So yeah, precheck is a cop-out. Long form performance art is a pain in the spied-upon nethers, so I'm closing the show. I'm still aware of the sacrifice of privacy we've all made, and I'll still work to make other people aware of it as well.
I used to opt out when the scans were backscatter X-ray. Now, though, at least all the airports I've been to recently use millimeter wave scanners, which is non-ionizing radiation. If you use a cell phone, you shouldn't be concerned about the cancer risk of these machines.
Not yet. That feature hasn't been implemented. For now it will send a message from a random burner number. But I'll put the santa claus feature in the queue :)
I used to work at a large organization with annual security training requirements for all employees. It consisted of hours of ridiculous scenarios where the correct answer was always "don't open attachments from people you don't know and report anything suspicious to IT." I've often thought that requiring everyone to read "Ghost in the Wires" would be a much more effective way to show people how social engineering and phishing would actually work.
Yahoo would beg to differ there
A significant benefit is derived from driving. No such benefit exists from AIT scanning.
What is you confidence level regarding the maintenance and calibration of these machines?
XCompose is great for this (oddly, it's completely missing from the page): Compose+th = þ, Compose+"u = ü &c.
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The main reason I opt out is in the hope that enough people will opt out that they'll be forced to change their policy. I'm doing my part.

Making the TSA clowns miserable is just a bonus. Maybe they'll think their job sucks so much that they'll quit and find a real job. Maybe they'll tell their manager that people are complaining and it'll work its way up the chain.

At the end of the day, making the TSA clown's job harder makes me happier, which is something I desperately need after going through the rigmarole. So I'm going to keep being just on the ragged edge of polite to them and sneak in whatever jabs I can. Fuck them.
Matter is energy. I was speaking to how much energy, in some form, is involved in propulsion. Rockets move more energy (as matter propellant) because they have lower isp, while a photon rocket has the theoretical maximum isp. Photon rockets are maximally efficient but require that all propellant be E, not m.
Why can't I hate both?
A few more:

Worshiping beauty, and always feeling ugly as a result.

Worshiping their own intellect, and always feeling like a fraud.

Being crippled with self-doubt and skepticism.

Constant anger at the world for wrongs, real or imagined.

Being underemployed and hating oneself for it.

Really, there are as many variants and flavors as there are people.
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I believe the Varnish cache server generates C code from its config rules and compile a new kernel based in it.

This all rules are optimized binary code that work directly on the data stream instead if having a runtime that applies the rules.
Opcode caching actually came late in PHP (Python had it built-in since at least version 1.4, from '96). I agree that Python has no FPM equivalent, though. There are FastCGI servers, but none that simply throws away all state between each request, AFAIK.
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I used to opt out due to radiation and privacy concerns when airports were using the backscatter scanners.

After US airports switched to millimeter wave scanners, I no longer opt out.

My understanding is that the new scanners emit far less radiation, and no TSA agent operator is viewing naked images.

The software presents a stylized body silhouette on a monitor that you and the TSA agent both view when you exit the scanner.

If my understanding is correct, then isn't this a reasonable approach?
What's wrong with moss viewing? First I've heard of it, but it makes me wanna get out my micro lens and try it. The girl seems like she is just passionate about it. Much like stamp collectors or beetle enthusiasts, etc. Probably not as intense as some videogame players.

How does this drive them to extinction? Nothing stops people with hobbies from having plenty of children.
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I agree with the "fuck the TSA" sentiment, really I do. I also appreciate the work you do with the Wine community and at Codeweavers. But as a government worker myself, I can say first hand that the peons are not "The System", and that woman whose day you hope you ruined doesn't make the policies she has no choice but to follow.

Sure, there are a few TSA workers who inevitably derive pleasure (or simply don't feel anything, which may be worse) from having to do what they do. But for most, it's just a job, and certainly not their dream job. If you're going to piss down the throat of a random TSA worker, I can easily picture you as the self-important asshole who makes fun of the cashier at the grocery store to her face for being so poor, or who kicks a dog when it crosses your path a bit too slowly.

In other words, you come across as a sociopathic asshole. It's not all about you, dude, and it's not King Coldpie's world the rest of us grovel in. Grow the fuck up already.
Fantastic!! Now their customers can exceed their data cap in 42 mins.
I wasted my five minutes reading this...
Oh, I didn't mean that in a negative way. In this case nagging emails would be a feature :)
Opt outs are removed from the body scanner line, and do not block other people from continuing through the machine.
It's not my job to defend the payments industry - I think it's full of dinosaurs putting out bad code slowly - but I will say that the flaws here are not universal.

I've worked on the security systems for some reader/terminal devices that contain their own master keys in wipe-on-tamper memory, and use various key-derivation techniques to derive (and then immediately discard) per-transactions keys to protect transaction information, PINs etc.

So it's not all as bad as this. However things like ISO-8583, better described as a protocol family or meta-specification than a single protocol, probably are rife with poor implementation choices.
Seems like this comment is based on a bad assumption. A lot of what you call "current clients" won't be updated either--they're new enough to not be stuck with SHA-1, but that doesn't mean they're getting updated anymore.
The man maintainers, at least from my own dealings with them, often don't like contributors. "Examples are nice, and I like your changes, but what if Paul Vixie doesn't?" It's easier to fork man completely and take it away from them, Xorg style.
When I opt out I get to sit around waiting for a male TSA employee to no longer feel he has better things to do so he can give me a pat down; I have ended up waiting rather extreme periods of time in the past for this to happen: you get to go around me in line the second I say "opt out", and nothing I do affects your line... I can end up with an argument with the employee (which may be what you are objecting to), and it still probably doesn't affect you (as in, I am pretty sure that my arguing with the person assigned to direct the people at he conveyer doesn't slow you down even if you are intending to opt out as I will just keep finding myself punted to later and later in the queue).
Well, reading about it has been a bit surreal. They have a different take than the normal men's rights stuff I've read.

I get taking time off from relationships. I get feeling hurt. But to conclude from that that all women should be shunned, and you should never have any more relationships, is a bit extreme.

I guess I'll have to file this away with other delusional movements of the modern era.
Yup. I'm not worried about cancer. To be honest, I'm not even worried about people seeing me semi-naked - my laptop camera takes a snapshot every 20 minutes, so I'm sure I've already accidentally exposed my ass online. I'm concerned that the software is closed-source, and uninspected by anyone but the creator, so I have no idea what it's doing.

Sure, they claim that the new machines only show the agents a generic body outline - but again, given that nobody's seen the source code, I have no idea what the machine actually sees or stores.

I'm worried about the lack of transparency.
It also depends on whether the machine in use (different airports use different machines) are millimeter wave or backscatter x-ray. Millimeter wave machines (the majority of installations), if I am not mistaken, do not emit ionizing radiation, whereas the backscatter machines do.
You can tell which type of machines are in use at your airport by the informational posters displayed in the queue, the brand and physical appearance of the machines themselves, or by checking online.
My policy has always been to ask for a pat-down when they use backscatter (to avoid the unnecessary radiation), and go through the machine if they use millimeter wave. The dose of radiation may be small (relative to normal amounts of cosmic radiation or black lightning or bananas or ...), but they don't really know if the machines are out-of-spec until, well, they do. I'd like to avoid becoming 'that person' who was severely over-radiated right before they decommissioned a malfunctioning machine.
Yes! The legal precedent that allows them to insist on examining you hinges on then having no initial information about what you're carrying. If you cleanly pass through a metal detector, then refuse a pat-down, a court MIGHT say the TSA can't pat you down after. Similarly, the TSA officers before the screening can't be trained in detecting concealed weapons, because that might count as knowledge about whether you're armed, and a court might say that the government only gets one observation. Hence the BDOs: oh no, your honor. Those staff aren't trained to detect weapons. They're there to detect behavior!

I know you asked for a good reason, and I feel embarrassed to propose this as one. But it appears to be the actual reason.
> you are not identifying yourself going into the scanner

You don't have your ID checked and boarding pass scanned moments before entering the scanner? Sure, you wouldn't know exactly the order folks entered the scanner after being identified, but assuming you couldn't correlate the scan to the ID based on other publically available information, all it would take is for you fly twice to correlate the scan to the ID (say... both legs of a round trip flight?).
And now I finally have a use for that right alt key.
I think they'd only care if they were hit with a lawsuit; which I would strongly encourage you to file if this happens. (http://professional-troublemaker.com/ might be able to help.)

I rarely travel alone; it's usually with a wife, and soon it'll be with a wife and kid, so I'm not sure we'll get the option to just say no :/
Yes, my particular comment was that I don't have a choice to turn around and leave if I'm denied a pat-down whilst opting out on the return leg of my flight. It was a kind of sarcastic response to my comment parent. Sarcasm doesn't translate all that well in plain text and nested comment threads.

TSA agents run the gamut from fascist jerkwads to rando people working a crappy, thankless job. I'm sorry you got treated badly - I've also had bad experiences going through opt-outs.
That's what I would do, stay there. I wouldn't be a dick about it though, I'd simply explain that I don't mind being pat down, but don't want to be scanned for personal reasons. If it was obvious they were going to make an issue out of it, then that's when I'd calmly turn on the Periscope app and notify them I was streaming live video and audio, then sit down and see how it plays out.
The kernel space is ugly because of all those out-of-tree patches and binary blobs, but the user space is rather normal. I run a vanilla Gentoo ~arm on my Banana Pro and I have yet to encounter an issue.
There are little to no downsides to storing that information.

It will have value to someone, most likely intelligence, law enforcement and private security agencies.

I'd say it's safe to assume it's been stored.

Many times you have to have your photo ID scanned before entering security and you have cameras pointed at you from multiple angles while queued. The task of matching scans with their owners becomes much more trivial.
Cool marketing, but not a novel idea. There a tons of similar products. I have been told that the paint only lasts 2-3 weeks WITHOUT washing the clothing. I am also hesitant to spray any nice fabric with it. Unless you are in a bind, just use a dedicated riding jacket with reflective fabric.
> gaining weight despite not eating much.

It doesn't work like that.

It really discounts the rest of your story.
Some purging of books happens regularly at most libraries. But this advice to rush into the digital world is dangerous because some administrators take it too seriously: see the Urbana public library purge of 2013 when the administrator insisted on removing all nonfiction books published more than 10 years ago (http://bookriot.com/2013/06/21/bookgate-when-urbana-free-lib...). That's blatantly outrageous behavior, but it's the sort of thing unthinking government officials might insist on when they read simplistic arguments arguing that paper books are worthless, too expensive to keep, that librarians have no value when "everything is online" (in fact, librarians become ever more valuable as the volume of available material increases), and that library books, buildings, and staff are expendable wastes.
After some inspiration from this post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10784089) I got motivated to finish a side project I'd been working on and off for a little while. I've been wanting to play with Elixir and Phoenix since the Phoenix 0.13 release, so I had starting messing around with the framework over the summer.

I had also noticed that when trying to change gyms or travel, I could never find the info I needed from Google Maps or Yelp when it came to trying out a new gym, so me and a friend started collecting some more in-depth information on the health clubs in the US. So naturally this seemed like the perfect opportunity to test out Phoenix and stretch my knowledge a bit.

Right now we have over 4000 gyms and health clubs in the database, with about 150 that have pretty complete profiles in the major metropolitan areas. We're testing out picture reviews with a few friends we showed it to over the weekend. It's definitely still got a few kinks to work out, and there's a bunch more features I want to put into it, but I felt that the holiday weekend was the perfect time to wrap it up enough to show to the world!

Would love your feedback and any advice/tips on working with Elixir/Phoenix - I'd also be happy to share my experience programming in Elixir/Phoenix as well, it is a lot of fun and very easy transition for someone with a functional and/or Ruby background.
I don't know about Go, but Django is relatively popular. It's a stretch, but I could see it being useful there. But we might as well include any language that has a Web framework then.
They must know a bunch of <LIST of LANGUAGES>

What about concepts? Like distributed systems? Big-O? thread safety?
I see. Then is seems the issue is that you can replace a normally signed OS-library with a local unsigned one like that. Having the OS libraries load before the local directory would resolve it just like GAC assemblies are preferred over locally resolved ones in .NET
Thanks, that's encouraging! All I want a service for is building assets, not hosting them, so there are easy ways to secure it from that angle: making the build URLs expire after 60 seconds, making users authenticate to access them, etc.