skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, now that I've looked for some sources to back this up, it seems that the fact that I stated above is either difficult to prove or just not true. The TSA is not very forthcoming with statistics on drug seizures.

I'll admit that the original statement was basically a guess. If the TSA isn't stopping terrorism, or making reasonable steps to prevent it, then what exactly are they doing?

In the US, it has seemed that if you can't immediately tell the source or purpose of a law enforcement effort, then "drugs" is a pretty good guess.
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Interesting article. While my company's cloud infrastructure is in its final nascent stages, I will definitely share this article and the ideas therein for basically reloading the HAProxy context w.r.t the proxied backends.
KC is a great get-out-and-go airport but it's terrible airport to have a layover in. It was designed to be the most efficient airport in the country in the era before security screenings were a normal thing. Pre-9/11 airport security put somewhat of a damper on this, but it was made many times worse when the TSA came into being and implemented the concept of "sterile areas". Now, if you get a layover in KC, you're literally stuck in a glass box with five gates, a juice cart, and a bathroom for its entirety (unless you wish to dirty yourself with the non-sterile area and go through security again).
So, I'd love to help but... there's nothing to show after initial work in 2011. And I found no plans to provide any updates.

Besides, this reverse engineering work should be simpler now that Skype was bought by Microsoft. For example, Microsoft no longer encrypts/destroys the executable's import table. And it seems they dumped the anti-debugger code too.

Let's also not forget Microsoft is pushing out new variants that should lend themselves to reverse engineering (e.g. web/plugin-free [0] and Universal Windows Platform [1] apps).

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[0] https://support.skype.com/en/faq/FA12316/what-is-the-skype-w...

[1] http://blogs.skype.com/2016/03/24/skype-universal-windows-pl...
I wonder if this could be used to decode dolphin language. Have the dolphins separate and make the puzzle require communicating about images on a screen or something. The other dolphin would have to push the correct button to get the prize. Recording all of these interactions could be used for machine translation maybe.
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Science magazine just tried to defend its paywall and totally missed the point
Please do come to Bend (although not all at once - at 80K, it's not big enough to absorb that many people at one time). But bring your anti-NIMBY hat!

It's time the US grew up a little bit and realized that moving to "the next place" and repeating the same patterns that made the first place too expensive isn't going to work.
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I thought he was referring to all the beer, brauts, and deep dish pizza.

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I have the fun of going through Secondary every time I touch US soil... for me, if I have a connecting flight on the way from LHR to SFO (via Dallas, LA or Chicago) then I need to allow 3 hours for the connection.

It is very hard to book such flights, and if booked as 2 single hops I've once before missed the connection due to being in security and United argued that the second flight was not a connection and so they didn't have to put me on the next flight. My baggage of course had gone ahead.
Obviously we can't have a perfect world, but vendors get fired all the time. Contracts go up for renewel, a new administration fires old vendors, etc. Public sector unions are eternal and only get worse over time.

As far as "connections" go, Theranos is imploding right now even with its deep government and military connections.
They are basically useless, but we still have to go through them to get to our flights. The fewer staff they have, the slower it goes.

A sufficiently resourced-starved TSA might "succeed" at preventing attacks on passenger air travel by eliminating passenger air travel altogether. Once lines approach 4, 5 hours people will just drive.
I love the Harrier and agree that a modern one would be a better buy than the F-35.

However, the argument you're making is silly. A Harrier won't beat an F-35 in combat. The F-35 would shoot down the Harrier before the Harrier had even detected it.

The argument you SHOULD be making is one of cost, performance at roles (e.g. CAS, bombing missions, etc), proven for naval operations, extremely flexible, and would likely be delivered sooner (even if they started today, if only one manufacturer was involved, it will likely ship before the naval variant of the F-35 in 2022 or whatever they're guesstimating now).

The core problem with the F-35 and F-22 is that they're the most advanced air to air combat aircraft ever built, so advanced in fact that they have nothing to fight, and worse still will arrive right before swarms of drones take over from manned aircraft (e.g. 10x drones Vs. 1x F-35, the F-35 would literally run out of munitions).
Wasn't the F35 spanked by an obsolete F16 recently? Which means modern MiGs are going to eat it for breakfast.
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I once wore a glitter sweatshirt through airport security. It made the backscanner machine go crazy and mark my entire shirt area as suspect, back and front. TSA was like "oh, it's the glitter on your shirt." As a result I was subjected to the most ineffective "pat down" ever. The TSA agent ran her hands across my shoulders and clavicle area and that's it. I could have hidden a small arsenal of weapons inside my bra, strapped to my arms, or strapped to my belly. It would be funny if we weren't paying millions for that "security."
> "I'm sure the fact that there's an increasing trend of empty Chinese investment properties isn't helping."

This. This. This.

A couple of years ago, I found myself utterly shocked by the price of homes in San Francisco. In a fit of frustration, I fired off a few emails a few random real estate firms in SF, asking one simple question:

"Who the BLEEP can afford these homes?"

You see, I was frustrated. I have a great job, great pay, and yet I can't even come close to buying a home in the city I live in.

The responses I got were jaw dropping, if not infuriating. The #1 purchaser at 2 of the 3 firms I emailed, were foreign investments. Unused, speculative, investments.

I am shocked that land isn't more protected in this state. It seems strange to me, that someone living thousands of miles away, can buy a piece of land with a home on it, thereby shrinking the available market, and driving up the price of housing. This means people who live in, work in, and contribute to, their local community, can't even afford to buy a home there.

The fact that this isn't seen as a full on crisis, confuses and saddens me.
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Sadly this isn't true for old papers, but I agree about current ones.
You may have starved. Everyone else would have continued to rely on the steam tractors that were in use well into the 30s. I'm sure most aircraft carriers would be powered the same way nuclear subs are powered now.
It's a real dilemma, as the company is doing well enough that the 409a value is not trivial, but its not clear that they will have a liquidity event in the near term. So on one hand I don't want to get screwed on a fictional profit on taxes, but on the other I don't want to forfeit the options as I earned them, and as far as I am concerned, that was part of my compensation for taking below market salary.

It bothers me that the terms are unnecessarily anti-employee. 90 days simply isn't enough time, especially when critical details related to the cap table and liquidation preferences are obfuscated. If they are not prepared to buy shares back at 409a value, they should allow an extended exercise window.
Turns out, I was wrong:

Andresen says an administrative assistant working with Wright left to buy a computer from a nearby store, and returned with what Andresen describes as a Windows laptop in a “factory-sealed” box.

source: https://www.wired.com/2016/05/craig-wright-privately-proved-...

I still have enough respect for Gavin not to leave comment about that..
Google is not a monolithic entity. You'd have to trust the individual researchers who have access to the data, and we don't even know who they are. And the NHS didn't ask their patients for permission before handing this data over, so whether you trust them or not is irrelevant, they get your data anyway.
>> "...but not both."

What about Chicago. Way cheaper than New York, and has the second best train system in the country.
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Is Craig Wright?
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does this have opencl support now?
It's a cycle. Waves of people come to and leave from the Bay Area over time. The last exodus was the 2008. The one before was the dotcom bust.
The RPi can handle playing back video (1080p) very well. Raspbian comes with omxplayer which uses the GPU to play video.
I've been waiting for another earthquake since '89 to shake out these softies. Please!
Boston police (or transit police) does this randomly on the MBTA train system.
VIPR is what you're looking for: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visible_Intermodal_Prevention_...

It's not exactly airport style - at least in NYC and Philly they swab you for explosives and check your ID. No X-Ray or nude-o-scope. You're free to not go through the checkpoint (but you won't board your train).
In contrast to parent, that makes Austin sound great! I'm packing my bags and moving there now, thanks!
Not a whole lot. I mention it in passing. You can get the Rand corporation's 1970 Soviet Cybernetics Review here: http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM6200z1.html It makes for fascinating reading.

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You're completely wrong about explosives. They're not necessarily volatile, and in fact the best ones aren't.

Dynamite will burn slowly and without any explosion. Other materials like C-4 are ridiculously stable under most circumstances to the point where there are stories of troops using it to light fires.

Without a proper initiator most explosives are basically safe. An initiator usually introduces a lot of heat, a large amount of shock, or both, which kicks off the explosion.

Likewise, many liquid explosives are totally harmless until the two components are mixed together, at which point it becomes extremely dangerous. I'm not sure what would happen if you drank either component, but my guess is you might become ill a few hours later. If your goal is more short-term in nature that is probably irrelevant.

My biggest gripe about the liquid limit is that dangerous explosives come in many forms, liquid is just one. You could probably smuggle a kilogram of thermite on the plane and nobody would notice, yet if ignited that would be extremely dangerous.
Very similar story about MIA. I flew out of ATL with a pocket knife, and lost it at MIA on the way back. Also conversely, ATL wouldn't let me carry-on my pool cue and forced me to check it, but at YUL on the way back, they had no problem with it.

I think it's more of a roulette of circumstances more than a pattern of compliance/negligence, but it is curious to have 2 MIA data points.
Perfect! Thanks for the clarification
No it's not. I'm trudging through mud and oppressive rain right this moment.
Ok, but this is a random tangent. People will always use things they shouldnt, that's their problem.

The point of the thread is that there's still no easy scale-out solution that has come along for relational databases to provide for data that typically gets put into proprietary data warehouse or hadoop installations. Citus data and memsql might get close but the whole industry is still far behind where it should be for this.
The "hope" part discourages me. It means that despite the wishes to leave, the jobs elsewhere (or telecommuting opportunities) may simply not be there.
Oddly enough, my degree is in chemical engineering, however all of my work is entirely computational (molecular dynamics, high performance computing, machine learning, data analysis). In fact, my research for the last year has been on a large-scale nonconvex optimization problem — hopefully employers read further than my resume title...

But yeah, I don't really mind where I live as long as it's not in too dangerous of a location. Once I have children I'll want something more comfortable though.
The good news is that "smarter terrorist" tends to be an oxymoron.
no, it isn't.
The link seems to advocate/facilitate increasing occupancy, which is indeed one solution. With 12k people and 4k homes, that's a ratio of 3 which is very close to the average occupancy of around 2.5 that most cities have.
I used to take my CRKT M16-14 knife on the nerd bird SJC<->SEA round trip twice a week. Nobody cared. This was mid-90s until just before 9/11. I didn't try to hide it - just tossed it in the bin with my keys etc.

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What would make it a less interesting investment is if there were a credible threat to add enough supply to devalue it.

That's generally how markets keep prices regulated: if they go up enough, more people jump in to producing the good.

That mechanism is severely broken in the Bay Area, among other popular places in the US.
Your numbers are exaggerated to make a point, but I think it actually changes things. My claim is that the airports are already holding the extra people, compared to before the wait time increase. They're waiting in line to get through the TSA checkpoint. Getting there early enough to make your flight doesn't change this: you still spend the same amount of time in the line, then go to your gate and board your flight.

Unless everyone is abandoning the line and going home since they're going to miss their flight (unlikely).
your smartphone isn't formally verified.
There is a difference between having water near you, and being trapped inside the Republic of Texas. I've spent time there, it wasn't for me.. thats all I'm saying :)
Also: Cleveland as well.

(... jokes on me, you were all going to keep away anyway)
The density needed for effective mass transit means that what many people seem to see as affordable housing ("a house with a white picket fence") isn't going to work especially well.
Intel spent more than $10B to catch up in mobile. Then it gave up
Would you mind terribly quoting the law that requires me to submit to the physical act of unlocking my phone? Since it's not a two-factor system, it is equivalent to a passphrase, which (IIRC) has been upheld to be a form of testimony, and therefore the fifth amendment SHOULD allow the suspect to refuse to "utter their fingerprint", so to speak.

In any case, if the fingerprint isn't the same "testimony" as a passphrase, the suspect is not in violation of the law after 48 hours has elapsed, since "uttering their fingerprint" (as I'm choosing to style it) after 48 hours wouldn't unlock the phone any more anyway.
How do you validate your theories?
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>"But unencumbered by the constraints of a doctoral thesis, high school students have the time and energy to innovate"

Does that seem sad? Maybe doctoral programs should include a year of lab-time after your thesis so you can work on innovative projects.
That may be true for products from the industrial era where the end user isn't directly affected by software.

Companies that want to keep customers (in some cases keep customers alive [cars 'n shit]) are going to have to start caring about software as it becomes the conduit for every interaction their customers have with their products. It's not just social networks that are getting funded now—it's companies that build the previous poster's top five drivers of the US economy. I believe you have to call pretty much any company in those verticals tech companies to some degree.
Any and all of the above.

Although the VideoCore in the Pi is particularly interesting because it's responsible for the early stages of the Pi's boot process (the ARM cores are actually turned off when you initially apply power). Right now, that's all a big Broadcom-proprietary binary chunk; good compilers would be the first step towards freeing that code.
There is no funding them completely, because there's no definition of good enough. Whatever money you throw at them, the system will eat it up and ask for more.

It's gotta be killed. Immediately. It's a horribly bad idea that's just sinking its claws in further with each passing day. In fact, the politicians have probably already figured out -- we're stuck with them forever. I just wish they'd come out and be honest about it: infinite money sink, longer and longer lines, security theater, and more bullshit stories. Year after year.
There are a couple promising open source libraries here:https://realm.io/news/tryswift-veronica-ray-real-world-mocki...
As a nomad who has been living in over 30 Airbnb flats for 2 years, I had this feeling in the past but I don't feel this anymore. Any place I go to feels "normal" to me the minute I step inside.
Its entire culture is in its own special way a joke, from the love of Soviet everything, to the nagant-bolt-as-a-prostate-massager, to the skinwalker stories - and each of these is made even funnier the more that it gets taken over the top. IAmTheStrielok becoming famous from swallowing a DU bullet and nearly dying from radiation poisoning, for example. In that way, sure, layers of irony, inside jokes, etc. But in the end, it's all just memes - superficial board culture used as flavoring for the very real and serious discussions about all things weapon-related.
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