skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> timestamp on the paper: 10:40. ..... It was 2:20PM

So this guy sets off the alarm (swab probably found traces of explosives ), has no paperwork in order (proof of work), and has to wait for 3 hours before it gets resolved.

Last time the HN crowd was enraged over someone who was questioned for 15 minutes...

I was detained overnight, and some of my friends were denied entry to US for bullshit reasons... It is like a different planet.
Biological explanation for wheat sensitivity found (2016)
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS, commonly pronounced "sifius") is an inter-agency committee of the United States Government that reviews the national security implications of foreign investments in U.S. companies or operations. Chaired by the United States Secretary of the Treasury, CFIUS includes representatives from 16 U.S. departments and agencies, including the Defense, State and Commerce departments, as well as (most recently) the Department of Homeland Security

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_on_Foreign_Investmen...

There is already an established consensus that foreign nations can't invest just like 'everyone else'.
Building a Hackintosh Pro
And if we are taking this long to fix Flint's problem, imagine how long it will take for the rest of the nation to realize housing first initiatives are a better solution to homelessness then the justice system?
That is a very long day of sitting. When I was younger I had a similar duration commute, with a couple transfers each way. I was fortunate that each line could carry a bike, so I skipped a bus on one end by sacrificing a few minutes to bike a few miles. I would have been in bad shape (mentally, physically, ...) without it.

That said, this was one of the unhealthiest periods of my life, and it didn't really get better until I stopped commuting such a distance. The time and effort that commuting saps seems pretty deeply incompatible with an active life. Not a hugely useful observation unless you have the freedom to change it, which many developers do in some way if willing to prioritize it.

I know other people who hit the gym at 6am to fit it before the trek into the office, but I've never been one of those. Making exercise a subconscious part of the routine, even if it isn't the most efficient method, has always been the most effective way to get me to actually do it.
He didn't refuse the scanner, he was given a choice and when his choice was going to get complicated he could no longer switch back to the scanner. He did opt for the scanner on his new flight. But none of that is really relevant to how he was treated. Why deny him a glass of water?
I opt out every time, or did before I got precheck (I know, irony). I never had anything remotely like this experience, and my shaving soap has set off the gas chromatograph machine twice. I still bring it with me when I travel (it doesn't always trigger the machine, but that's a different discussion about the pointlessness of a machine with a lousy false positive rate being used to test for something with a vanishingly small prior).

My secret? I'm an average looking White Male in the US. Nobody ever thinks _even for a second_ that I could be a threat. Last time my soap got me taken to secondary screening, TSA left me alone in the room with their walkie talkie charging station. With all my stuff. Unsupervised.
I am Muslim and I've been "randomly" selected at airports before. My advice: smile and be nice as you should be with anyone. Granted you have every right to not comply, when you are being hostile it does not help you get out faster.
Oh :blush:. In that case, odd to reexport a bunch rather than just link API ind doc.
Yes, most people massively over-extend the duration of timeouts.

For most children under the age of about 16 a ten minute time out is just as, probably more, effective as a week long time out.

10 minutes is discipline. One week is incompetence or cruelty.
The first thing I feel I need to point out is that my horse in this race is not whether or not jobs will go away, but whether or not the original commenter to whom I was replying advanced the discussion at all with their remark. I think that the remark–that people have always been saying that automation will take over but it never has–is facile in that the thing that "people have been saying" is not the same over time. In the late 18th century, it could only really have been a comment about capital concentration and the death of the trades. In the 1950s, it was very probably a naive comment about the power of as-then-understood computer technology's capability to replace manual labor or work. In the 1990s, it was very probably a naive comment about the state of the art of AI at the time.

Now, the remark is about actual inexpensive robotics in the context of what seems to be a genuine AI and computer vision and control renaissance, funded by government and corporations. Those are all just different remarks. To package them all up as one "thing that people have been saying" does a real disservice to the discussion. And it's a pose.

In the current case, I find it difficult to say whether the remark will turn out to be naive. However, any competent discussion of whether or not it is has to rely on an assessment of the current situation of computer vision, AI, control theory, economics, and law.
Ok, but your reply to my question might want to address the question:

>Have a look at my comment (the first reply flagging this as possibly the result of confirmation bias). In what what does it sound to you like it could be the result of confirmation bias?

Did you read the comment that that question​ was referring to? I never attack any notion of lag in a complex system being real possibility, so I'm not sure where you are coming from or why lag excludes the possibility of confirmation bias.

(And only loosely related, you might want to rethink using the example of abscense of influenza symptoms immediately after exposure to the virus as being in any way similar. You seem to be implying something I don't think you mean to).
I don't know where you live, but here in Australia there are a number of brands of gluten-free bread produced by major bread companies.
The person who created Dplot seems to have left a comment on that page clearing the air a bit:

"Mine is a mostly word-for-word copy and dates Aug 2015. But as I recall the original was Dexter Bell, who offered this up on the ASP newsgroups and encouraged copying. But as with many other things I may be wrong!"
> Sad but predictable in a world with a global movement of suicidal religious fanatics willing to murder thousands of people and cause billions in property damage. It is what is. I miss the old days too, but I wouldn't vote to water-down airport security.

Say, are you referring to the Extremist Moslems, or Extremist Christians?

Both have their fair share of "incidents". Perhaps you've never heard of the KKK? They're Protestant Christians.

>Does it? He refused the millimeter wave scan, got a pat-down, tested positive for an explosive or poison, and then refused further screening - what should happen at that point? Should he be cleared? Where did the TSA go wrong here?

That whole innocent until proven guilty in a court of law... It doesn't count for non-Christians, does it?

That's what this all really comes down to. Not while christians, eh?
I agree. I couldn't help but feel sorry for the author, many of the comments here are focusing on nitpicking a single remark/context. It feels so odd to read lousy comments for an article that goes into great depth of a personal experience.

While I'm not a very educated in startups, this was a pleasant read and I loved the 'straight to the point' approach for discussing individual experiences.
For what it's worth, practically every brown guy I know goes through the rituals when interacting with US Gov officials. Shave, look as clean cut as possible, and don't stand out. So no opting out of the scanners, no joking at security or immigration, better have backup ID.

I'm not saying it's right that it's this way but it's safer. The officials are not very smart people but they have power, so you just give them what they want.

I'm not going to wage this war for liberty or whatever it is. I'm just going to go on vacation.
They put out a blogpost while their support keeps stonewalling and denying any such issues. Nor do they reply on twitter or even tweet the blogpost. This seems too little too late.

Disclaimer: I am currently a customer who had financial loss because of them.
Works4me
It's Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming (PAIP) http://norvig.com/paip.html

AIMA provides better introduction for wider area of subjects but PAIP is one of most elegant and timeless books for both programming and old school AI.
The first sentence is its own statement, the rest was my personal experience with Witcher 3.
I know it's possible to do manually. But you have to figure it out yourself then. It also doesn't properly dirty the other affected resources.
> Weakened intestinal barrier, systemic immune activation may explain symptoms in people without celiac disease

The immune activation is likely caused by a response to the gut biome. One theory is that certain foods are not well absorbed by the digestion system, leading to an overabundance of food for the gut biome. This leads to bacterial overgrowth (or imbalance), causing an immune response. It's this immune response that causes the negative symptoms.
Building a giant internet connected LED wall
"- You must be in the US"

Yet another feature we will never see again, it seems.
Targeting the elderly can be seen by some as agist or condescending. See the reactions to the stereotype of one's parents (especially one's mom) having trouble with technology.
http://irlen.com/
How I Discovered the Cause of Slowness in My Express App
If you resist going public for over a decade despite doing billions in revenue you are going to have investors who are upset about their inability to cash out.
Its simple really.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HX0fIi3H-es
Interesting, I will check these out!
I think the issue is mabbo listed the types of apology in different orders in two consecutive sentences. This apology is the latter in the former sentence, but the former in the latter sentence.
The sacred texts don't indicate what is appropriate to do while flying in an airplane?
Lemfo S2 Smartwatch (YouTube) – Cheap from China
I am a PC gamer as well. But Microsoft agenda with Win8/10 is so off-putting I will stay on Win7. Plus I opened myself to other consoles (Nintendo, Sony). I know it feels so wrong to play a shooter on condole with a gamepad, and I wish they would just support a mouse.
Just checking, but are you saying it's okay to hit a child in that situation?
LLVM tried some nasty tactics to grow, read the whole thread
And they became profitable because they managed to provide a visibility service for millions of local establishments, not a bunch of crooked bars.
So... Should Google be reporting the addresses of people who search for drugs? Should Facebook be informing the TSA about people's religion? Do you really want corporations spying on you for the government even more than they currently do?
Europe and Canada are friendlier than USA.
JS's core language remains the same. If you're of the opinion that Lua was designed better from the start, then adding features to JS doesn't change that, as nice as some of those features might be.
It seems to me that Clojure is similar insofar as it was designed to be a hosted language. Although, it sounds like wasm might be too low level for now.
It's difficult to get a good sense of 'longevity' with life expectancy stats, especially when in this case they only take an average. I can imagine that this group of people does not have modern tools and techniques for child delivery. Obviously that is concerning and worth keeping in the picture, but any higher than usual child mortality rates will really skew the life expectancy stat, making it appear as though people just drop dead in their 40s and 50s.

Edit: I probably don't need to point that out to the typical HN reader, but its something I personally wouldn't have picked up on a few years ago
I disagree. If the 'customer' has gone as far to search cracked version, they obviously do see the value in the software. I'm sure everybody sees the value of Microsoft Windows, but there are certain parts of the world where nobody pays for it.

Many newspapers are still sold using the honor system (collect a newspaper, put the money in a pot). In such a system where it is easy to steal (which is similar to software piracy), there are many people for who 'opportunistic theft' is a default behavior.
I think if you can allow creating of anonymous personas, and also tackle the spam problem, you'll have gold. No one wants to put their name onto a platform where their shortcomings are tracked. But I would happily create an anonymous persona to get feedback that helps me make my life and behavior better. I think holds true for most people.

Hence the nut you've to track is allowing pseudonymous persona's but not allowing spam/riff-raff, and building a genuine community of helpers. Helping anonymous strangers is an inherently altruistic endeavour so you have to figure out the carrot and stick factors for both sides.
> Where did the TSA go wrong here?

Perhaps it was the bit where they held him for 18 hours without charge, due process, food, or water.

Edit: Misread the article. He was held for 3½ hours. Still, refusing to give him a glass of water was not necessary, unless water-activated throat-bombs are now a thing.

In a more general sense, TSA went wrong the same way they usually go wrong. Kafka-esque "you're not detained but you can't leave" nonsense designed to side-step due process, comically ignorant staff who think Islam is the only religion brown people can have, whilst not even being effective at detecting contraband.
Regularly used to test client configurations and also as a training aid when teaching users about web security.
The chemical swab (at least the one they use in Canada) seems to get set off by something in my wife's cosmetics pantheon. An agent made life hard for us on our last trip, almost made us miss our flight, very stressful.

I have heard, can't confirm, that glycerin soap will detect as a "bomb ingredient". Considering how ubiquitous glycerin soap, that's a rather terrible test.
Well they could do what any hacker does with your personal info... use it. Bundle and sell it. Whatever else they feel like.

What you're saying is wildly short-sighted, and frankly bound in a very dangerous false dichotomy.
Is this some kind of comedy bit you're doing? You clearly understand the gist of what's going on and instead of asking for minor clarifications you're being unnecessarily facetious.

The single point of contention seems to be whether this site is showing you what your browser claims to support, or whether it's showing you its own opinions of which configurations are safe to use. I believe it's the latter (but you're right, some more clarification on the github page or something would be useful).

And look, you learned something already - chrome thinks dh2048 is unsafe while this site thinks it's fine. If you now want to go learn more about why that is, great. It would be worse if you saw something in the opposite direction - if this site had a configuration marked as red and chrome rendered it as secure, that would mean you're vulnerable to attacks exploiting that configuration.
Grandparent is still correct. The dashboard connects to stuff, but on the main linked site, red still means bad and green still means good.

For example, in current Chrome, Mozilla "Old" TLS config is red, but Chrome connects fine.
Why Trump Wants Power to Remove Director of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
The company that literally racks Mac Pro trashcans sideways, is telling us that they have made technical decisions that allow them to offer a competitive price for features.
Do I lack "imagination" because I'm less worried about "the Chinese" seeing "mah datah" than about USA LEOs seeing it? Very few Americans have suffered injustice at the hands of PRC. Meanwhile back in USA, 1% of adults are incarcerated and 2% are on parole.
What better way to put him in his place than to deny him his humanity?
I think the software creator is also going to be facing another issue: this seems only one step away from creating an actual malware version and releasing it on the internet. That is not an impression you want to leave on your potential customers.

The second problem is that you might now open yourself up to differentiation from competitors who can now claim they don't create 'manipulative' honeypot pages and thus gain attention to themselves in the worst way possible for this author - by taking a seemingly high moral ground.
Yep, makes it much simpler to write scripts like this https://github.com/psypete/public-bin/blob/public-bin/src/st... (run an application that's stored in git, but in a temp working directory, and clean up after)
The Ignorance Of Err Ignorant People

dd is a tool. dd can do a lot more then cat. dd can count, seek, skip (seek/drop input), and do basic-ish data conversion. dd is standard, even more standard then cat (the GNU breed). I even used it to flip a byte in a binary, a couple of times.

New-ish gnu dd even adds a nice progress display option (standard is sending it sigusr1, since dd is made to be scripted where only the exit code matters).

> Actually, using dd is almost never necessary, and due to its highly nonstandard syntax is usually just an easy way to mess things up.

Personally I never messed it up, nor was confused about it. This sentence also sets the tone of the whole article, a rather subjective tone that is.

edit: Some dd usage examples: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/learn...
>has no paperwork in order (proof of work)

Oh? I must have missed the law that required people to do be able to prove where they work at all times.

>and has to wait for 3 hours before it gets resolved

By this time, I hadn’t had any food or water in almost eighteen hours.

Learning to read would be a good start.
I'm in the same position. And use the same day bag for train travel as my carry-on, meaning I've brought packs of razor blades on planes by accident more than once. (And a hunting knife once after a camping trip). The theater around keeping us safe is really about protecting us from non-whites
I wonder if their render service is still backed by racked Mac Pros (http://photos.imgix.com/racking-mac-pros). If so, considering the lack of updates around that machine for the last several years, I wonder if they are planning to remain with that solution.
Stole his picture.
Corporations ordered to pay half of Revenue towards “SMBITINABOX” data breach
This strikes too close to home. Growing up in India - one of my uncles drove Autorickshaw's for living - each time he came to our home and saw me not studying, his response was pretty much - "what the heck are you doing? Do you want to drive autorickshaw's for living?"

I had no response to that.

Also - a lot of women in their 30s/20s now have seen - what it means to be a homemaker in India. I think neither their mothers and nor themselves want a life like that.
That seems reasonable. I trust them to figure this one out.

I doubt that China is on the brink of holding a majority of Palantir, or that they would gain access to its data by investing.
Thats a fun question to ponder!

I imagine this school system would:

* Guide students through identifying their preferred learning style. Nosce te ipsum to begin with.

* Guide them through identifying their current, individual interests. Use innate (especially while young) human curiosity to fuel the passion for learning a subject. Gotta be driven!

* Instruct on how to obtain knowledge in a certain domain. How to grasp new concepts, identify linked domains, learn required vocab words, speak to experts, read and write about the domain, use of digital/physical resources, how to be a good volunteer, how to participate in verbal discussions, active listening, what comprises a project, time management, collaboration, facilitation, culminating in completing projects of varying difficulty in the domain, teach others along the way, etc.

* Surround the students with resources/access/tools and experts in a lively creation space (think Maker/HackerSpaces).

* Then turn the students loose. Get the heck out of there way until they come to the "resource desk" in search of access/introductions/further guidance.

Some thoughts on the topic, quite random and unformatted, but thanks for posing this question!
I generally have issues when an engineering manager blames bad luck. Luck doesn't happen as often as people like to believe.

For instance, losing three backup generators in ten minutes (as happened to someone else a while back) might be bad luck, but I'd want to see the maintenance logs and talk to the vendor. Because what's much more likely is that they hadn't been maintained properly, or there was an manufacturing defect in that run and they all came from the same batch (see also, clustered hard drive failures).

If their upstreams have had intermittent problems before, it was only a matter of time until they both had problems at the same time. And capacity planning is one of those strategic decisions that gets bland on the engineering team, who never get what they need because they're a 'cost center', which is a very different and highly damaging way of thinking about the cost of doing business (intrinsic costs).
To clarify: this doesn't show what's supported and what's not, that's for you to find out by clicking things. It shows things in green that are generally considered secure. For example, 2048-bit finite-field ephemeral Diffie-Hellman (that's dh2048.badssl.com) is generally still considered secure, but Chrome doesn't allow it, so that's why you get that error even though the website shows it as green.

Chrome does so for tangentially related, mostly-fine reasons. Generally dh2048 doesn't really exist on much of the Internet: because clients that don't do ECHDE (only DHE) are also generally limited to 1024-bit FFDH. That's not as good (not totally busted, but not great either). Anything that does 2048 bit FFDH probably also does ECDHE, and ECDHE is much better from a performance perspective and marginally better from a security perspective.

The best classical attacks put P-256 at about 128 bits of security, and 2048 bit FF at about 112. Neither is problematic at present. FFDH has some other problems: because the other peer communicates the field over which you're going to work, a poorly configured or malicious peer could pick a bad field or a small subgroup. (That's a little esoteric, but since there's no good reason to keep it around anyway....)
About 1,5 years ago, I worked for a company that had company showers. And nearby was a nice, green area. So often I would bring my jogging gear and run for about 1 hour during break time.

At that time, my commute was about the same, perhaps a bit longer even.

Sadly my current company doesn't have showers and I am sure my colleagues wouldn't appreciate a sweaty smell.
Ha, I thought that was a joke.

Apparently not:
https://blog.imgix.com/2015/05/08/racking-mac-pros-hardware-...
I've tested positive for "explosives" after contact with beach sand in Puerto Rico, so maybe you need to understand that you don't know jack.
I agree that it feels like an ad campaign, especially since the CMS was on the front page recently.

The speed improvements could have been achieved without switching from WordPress, by installing a caching plugin with a CDN option.