skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi jaclaz,

> I mean are the people that operate daily these machines vetted to a level where you can totally exclude that they (in ALL airports wordwide) can be affiliated to whatever evil organization and do some tests after hours?

No, although after-hours testing may set off some alarms. I'm sure their on-hours experience would be useful, though.

> Does the same happen for all technicians that maintain/repair these devices?

No.

> Does the same happen for all designers of these devices?

Nope.

> Or if you prefer, do you believe that such a scanning machine cannot be re-built from commercial parts by someone who knows their innards?

Yes, I do believe that rebuilding a modern, advanced x-ray system from scrap components is beyond the capabilities of ISIS at the moment.

> Are ALL purchases of new scanners subject to governemnet approval (and even if yes, which government)?

The modern, advanced x-ray systems are not available to the general public. As to how exactly they are controlled, I'm not sure.

See also my comments to other users regarding the differences between modern x-rays and old school ones.
Well, they don't do much that's original, but the respond to market demand and make things of reasonable quality. They're one of the only third-party brands of random lithium-ion battery-containing accessories that I trust not to randomly burn my house down.
I used to work for a social network. We had meetings every day about how to "engage the users' dopamine systems." As a psychologist, this was an anathema to me - we call that process addiction.

Check out Lyra instead (www.hellolyra.com), it's a conversation service that requests language and attention. We are also a nonprofit and solicit no investment.
>And teachers? I have respect for them, but I don't consider what they do necessarily difficult, especially in lower grades.

There's a difference between a "teacher" and a great teacher. Even in the lower levels I think it's hard to know how much of an effect incentivizing great teachers to stick around could have on the world and economy. Grade school years are highly influential years of people's lives and for some, school is the only chance they have to see something different and break the mold of which they've been brought into.
Assuming that ice core data is being interpreted correctly, there is an almost guaranteed chance of catastrophic climate change sometime in the "near" future regardless of human impact:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vostok_Petit_data.svg

EDIT:

Looking at that a bit closer, I get peak temperatures at ~
412.5k, 322.5k, 237.5k, 127.5k, and 7.5k years ago.
Brother did this. The bad part about the job, as noted in the article, is the way the pay works. If the truck is not moving the driver is not getting paid. Stuck in traffic? Not paid, Takes a day to load your truck, no paid. Take a day to unload truck, not paid. Truckers sit for hours doing nothing and not getting paid. Sometimes trucks have to wait a day or two just to be assigned a load. Not paid.
I know it may have been rhetorical, but I just don't think managing your own data is possible (yet) for the truly non-technical person, at least at a level that competes with FB in both price and simplicity; it's still a choose-2 situation.

You can get a pretty good system set up with rsync, ZFS, RAID, etc. distributed between multiple machines and multiple sites, and have good security at a low price at the cost of a high knowledge bar.

Alternatively, you can have a pretty simple cloud backup system through Backblaze, Carbonite, Crashplan, etc., which should provide good security to people with relatively basic technical knowledge, but at a non-negligible cost (compared to free).

Finally, you've got the current cloud "ecosystem" players like Apple, Google, FB, etc., who can offer good technical security (ignoring the "we have locked your account" arguments) to absolutely all skill levels, with zero perceived cost.

That being said, I think the kinds of people who (A) actually even think about the privacy of online services, and (B) care enough to do something about it, probably have sufficient technical skill to choose other options. They can decide how important that privacy is to them, in terms of investing time, money, or both to solve these problems.
What you call cheating others call innovation. You have a personal view of what a "boat" is, but that doesn't mean it's shared by everyone, even just within the boating community.

I think the person designing this boat would also call your hypothetical cheating, but that doesn't make his boat cheating.
X-ray machines have to be calibrated. While you could turn up the power to see through metal, you would then be unable to see the less dense items. This makes it difficult to do a full inspection in the few seconds that the screener has.
Kim Dotcom: “I Knew Seth Rich Was the Wikileaks Source – I Was Involved”
Then you misinterpreted the analogy. Bathroom door = privacy. Bathroom activities = secrets.
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You know you can use Android N (and later) and still target Android 19 and still use lambdas, right? Or did you mean something else? Maybe the developer page confused you. Can you clarify this for me?

And yes, I know you can't use all features of java 8, but this isn't what the posts are on about. They just ignore all facts and go straight to "android is stuck at java 6" and nobody really challenges them on this belief. I guess neither will you.
They aren't, but Anker seems to be the OEM for some Aukey and Ravpower products.

And yes, I mean Anker as the OEM, not sharing Anker's OEMs (because they build stuff like how Apple uses Foxconn (and like literally every single electronics manufacturer does)).

Aukey and Ravpower always seem to be a generation behind, but keep up with Anker quality. So either I'm correct, or what is actually happening is still very similar.
I actually used a few snippets of this tutorial to figure out how to use the SDL bindings. I'd never used SDL before.
+1 this a thousand times. The only way i have found to effectively lock things down is using an org and creating a new Github user just for third-party integrations.
Funny how the main reason for lack of SSL is said to be the lack of support from 3rd party services... and the first service quoted is ads.

https://nickcraver.com/blog/2013/04/23/stackoverflow-com-the...
No, but I should have. It broke during a trip out of the country and we needed to replace it then and there. Thankfully, we were in Japan, so we had no shortage of options. I'll keep that in mind if I buy from them again.
No longer available. Considered a hijacking risk.
Does swabbing work? I can imagine that the "batteries" (ie bomb) would be prepared, sealed and cleaned by one person, and then inserted into the laptop by another person so there's no contamination.
In the US, the terms socialism, welfare, and welfare state have been tarred with a brush for quite some time now... I only feel like the last election has started a fresh re-evaluation of all of them, but socialism in particular.
This is really solid advice, I think.

Either you are building something for learning, or you are building something to ship it, and it's better not to mix the two. If you are building something to learn new technology, then use whatever that excites you to make something that you won't feel guilty throwing away.

If you are building something to ship, then you should preferably use nothing that you haven't already used before. You'll still improve as a developer, because you will get better at technology that you have already invested in.
It stopped charging fully and would no longer power any devices. I just tested it the other day while I was getting ready to recycle some other electronics and it was still doing the same thing.
HOPSFIELD
No, these are entries for McDonald's Sweepstakes. No purchase necessary. Enter as often as you want. So, I am.

CHRIS
Really?

HOPSFIELD
This box makes it one million, six hundred thousand. I should win thirty two point six percent of the prizes, including the car.

CHRIS
Kind of takes the fun out of it, doesn't it?

HOPSFIELD
I suppose so. But they set up the rules, and lately, I have come to realize that I have certain materialistic needs.
It doesn't so that on my Goole Pixel phone.
> They are worried that people would stop flying if they knew.

And that describes what the whole TSA thing is about. It is a theatre. There was no need to put laptop ban either because it is just as useless. One has to only check Quora answers on all sort of things people have taken through security which includes 2 full size Katana Swords, loaded guns, Fire starters, Ethanol bottles and various other items.

I understand government can not admit TSA is ineffective. But they can surely reduce the pain for us.
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Great anecdote about the X-15 from John D. Clark's excellent book Ignition!:

>But something more potent than alcohol was needed for the X-15 rocket-driven supersonic research plane. Hydrazine was the first choice, but it sometimes exploded when used for regenerative cooling, and in 1949, when the program was conceived, there wasn't enough of it around, anyway. Bob Truax of the Navy, along with Winternitz of Reaction Motors, which was to develop the 50,000 pounds thrust motor, settled on ammonia as a reasonably satisfactory second best. The oxygen-ammonia combination had been fired by JPL, but RMI really worked it out in the early 50's. The great stability of the ammonia molecule made it a tough customer to burn and from the beginning they were plagued with rough running and combustion instability. All sorts of additives to the fuel were tried in the hope of alleviating the condition, among them methylamine and acetylene. Twenty-two percent of the latter gave smooth combustion, but was dangerously unstable, and the mixture wasn't used long. The combustion problems were eventually cured by improving the injector design, but it was a long and noisy process. At night, I could hear the motor being fired, ten miles away over two ranges of hills, and could tell how far the injector design had progressed, just by the way the thing sounded.

>Even when the motor, finally, was running the way it should, and the first of the series was ready to be shipped to the West Coast to be test-flown by Scott Crossfield, everybody had his fingers crossed. Lou Rapp, of RMI, flying across the continent, found himself with a knowledgeable seat mate, obviously in the aerospace business, who asked him his opinion of the motor. Lou blew up, and declared, with gestures, that it was a mechanical monster, an accident looking for a place to happen, and that he, personally, considered that flying with it was merely a somewhat expensive method of suicide. Then, remembering something he turned to his companion and asked. "By the way, I didn't get your name. What is it?"

>The reply was simple. "Oh, I'm Scott Crossfield."
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That would definitely help. Or, simply re-run bags where there is opaque stuff that the screener is unsure about, oriented in a new direction. But, that wouldn't necessarily solve all the problems, as laptop batteries are opaque in all directions, and so if you got a lead metal box and filled it with explosives, it may look much the same.
I'd be very interested in specifics on this.
It was pretty straightforward. I had never had any experience with SDL before, and I figured it out pretty quickly just from comments and the function names.

I did use a tiny bit of code from the tutorial on 2D platformers linked by someone else.

I'm surprised it was that brief actually. I didn't even try for brevity. And I'm sure if I had a better handle on some of the other features like macros and templates it could have been much more elegant in the display/SDL code.

The actual implementation of the automaton is only about 70 lines of code if I remember correctly.
A while back I purged my Facebook account of all content. This was a long and tedious process, deleting things one-at-a-time, as there appears to be no way to do this in bulk. My account is now a blank page, no photos, tags, profile information, likes, etc. All they have is my name and birthdate (and that is set to hidden). I imagine Facebook hasn't actually deleted anything, but no one else, at least, can see anything.

I wish I could entirely close my account, but unfortunately there are too many people who only use Facebook to contact me, and there are a few groups that I need to participate in.

As for the apps: On iOS, at least, you can turn off location services and access to your contacts. Everything still works just fine.
> - Don't use Facebook's messaging or email.

I'd love to not use FB's messaging, especially since they recently changed the email message notifications to say "you have a message. log in to see it" instead of giving a preview of the message like it used to. However, I can't figure out a way to keep a minimal FB account and not use their messaging. Some of my friends do have the vile Messenger app on their phones and default to using FB messages for communication. I've just not been able to ignore those, as a bunch of the time it's message of the form "hey, let's do X."
Maybe this was meant to be a joke, but an officer's superiors would be the one's looking over the stalls. No secrets no privacy.

Privacy is a courtesy. And a right to courtesy. Secrecy should be all that is related to security. It's interesting because the military seems to know exactly what a secret is. It'd make more sense to have secrecy laws alongside privacy laws for citizens. Privacy laws are not secrecy laws. Hence the NSA get's to do what they did, and hence they trampled on everyone's privacy outright violating all courtesy. They then make it a security issue.

As it stands, citizens are entitled to no secrets. Hence it's the wild west and we're left encrypting ourselves and standing in direct conflict with the government that would do far better helping us than being rude and insecure. Insecure is what they are. They have no trust or confidence in the people.
It's different because GH take a cut of any sales via the Marketplace.

People already pay anywhere from 3-10x more for GH than for alternatives like BitBucket. I'm sure plenty will just click on 'buy'.
As a local, I think this is pretty overstated.

And I'm not an Uber fan, but I think the mayor is mostly upset that Uber is not giving the city $25 million for an infra project. I think that was far-fetched from the start.

Promising jobs in a depressed area and not delivering seems more reasonable to complain about. Although again everyone should have been skeptical about this: it should have been obvious that only highly-skilled, high-tech jobs would be generated for the foreseeable future.

Otherwise it's not like Uber is making a nuisance of themselves here.
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Doesn't imply that they deleted your node from the graph, only that you created a new one that might have gotten linked to the first ("disabled") one.
I'm unclear about function invocation here... FTA:

A function invocation. This comprises a list where the first element
is the function and the rest of the elements are the arguments. first
takes one argument, (1 2), and returns 1.

My problem is, the same way in every lisp I've seen, (1 2) qualifies as a function invocation. I'm not sure how the interpreter would know not to invoke 1 on 2, in these examples:

(1 2)

or

(first (1 2))
At the same time, other people being inconsiderate doesn't excuse you being inconsiderate as well.
I work at FB. A LOT of us hate the open plan.
Bitbucket is fast, and I believe focuses on repository permissions. Have you tried them?
A foyer for the back door. Usually you'll have a tile floor and rougher walls.

You do messy stuff there, like take off your winter boots, or leave your bike.
No. I corrected it. The analogy is wrong.
(edit; to be more accurate, bathroom activities are no secret)
Yeah, but, on the face of it, it seems so restrictive that you could just show up and have your lawyer ask the judge to throw it out, and they would. I suppose the company could drag you through appeals, but how do you work for the year following leaving the company? I guess this is making my head explode too much to think sanely about it. :/
One of the sad things about airport security is that there is no scope for private innovation. It is a military industrial complex of using substandard solutions for potentially non existent problems while wasting insane amount of money.

May be there is a need for the security theatre but then we can at least get good at it. Can Elon Musk design a better airport security ?
It was complete coincidence. I was trying to think of something fun, and slightly more complicated than hello world or the simple dice roller I whipped up.

Your GoL implementation is so pretty though. I really need to work on my design skills.
I disagree with you in that it is a misuse.

What Amazon should do, as Microsoft should have been done in the case of the unlimited Onedrive offer is putting some clause of reasonable use.

When some company offers an unlimited resource, some of the customers will use it to upload/download/etc a lot.
Point of order: a punch card environment would have typists do the actual keypunching. Programmers wrote on paper coding forms by hand.

Of course writing out programs by hand is also a long obsolete and useless skill — except for interviews at all the top companies, where it's vital.
It's hard to remove all trace, but yes, in theory you could avoid it by being really careful. Then again, if you work in a "bomb factory," there's trace everywhere, so it may be quite difficult.

Also, the "turn on your device" thing they sometimes do offers some mitigation against this. Obviously, you can think of ways that may defeat this too, but to defeat all of the security, accurately, in one small package that doesn't look sketchy, is not easy. Fortunately, most terrorists are not the brightest people in the world.
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic — it's very clearly a general backup system: "Amazon Drive offers secure cloud storage for your photos, files, videos, music, and more. Back up your files to the cloud and know that all of your documents are safe."
Thanks for the feedback on the idea. My main complaint with open floor plan is the level of background noise is very high, and of a very distracting type. Within teams, though, we'd often gather around to discuss solutions to tough problems before we coded them up. This was all ad-hoc, so it did help that we were all in the same area. The main thing I could have done without was the cross chatter from other teams.

Small call rooms were available throughout to address the private call issue, so there was never any sort of hunt.
On average, it may be true to say that certain minority groups may be more violent or less intelligent. That doesn't mean it's ok to treat them as such.

It may seem like a glib comparison, and I hope it's substantive enough that it doesn't start a flamewar. But if one person can come to see ageism as equally valid as racism, then they can teach others, who will teach others, and eventually it will no longer be a problem.
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GitHub Apps (was called Integrations until today) allows for 'per repository' configuration. We use it at Percy.io and it works pretty well. It has some other parts that need smoothing (like a non-admin going through the flow), but GitHub's been improving it. :) I like it a lot.
I think it's safe to wait until we can envision a truly post-scarcity society to envision how we might go about destroying it.
I'm not saying that the existence of porn is supposed to hurt his reputation. I'm saying the fact that he would violate somebody in this way should hurt his reputation. The porn is just evidence of his doing this. I'm in no way trying to diminish this lady's situation. On the contrary, it makes me angry and I would want to see this guy see some serious consequences for it.
> X-XSS-Protection: 1 is the default since a long time for browsers supporting it and Chrome blocks by default since two releases.

Do you have references to back this up?

> Referrer-Policy is a matter of choice. It's a useful information for the target site as long as the referrer doesn't contain sensitive information. IMO, most sites shouldn't set this header.

Exactly. I think its primary use is when the original site's URL contains user supplied input like Google Search page.
I heard somewhere that version of FB was going to be depreciated at some point?
Thanks, we've updated the title from “A lisp compiler in JavaScript”.
Yeah, there are a lot of edge cases. And of course, it's reasonable to point them out.

But again, do you think that, generally speaking, these edge cases (and notable underemployment among law grads) indicate that the ABA is largely ineffective in restricting supply and increasing costs?
You might get exactly your way with environmental preferences, but you miss out on the collegial atmosphere of working in the same space with a few other people you really like. I love that aspect of small shared offices, and was one of the things I really enjoyed about working on a small startup.
I find it's best to work as though HR is driven by one thing: their mission is to protect the company from adverse employee action. They are agents of the company, not of employees, and it's best to assume they view employees almost as adversaries. Not necessarily enemies, per see, but definitely not 100% aligned with the best interests of the company.
I bet in the ToS there are likely limits spelled out, or barring that, a clause that grants Amazon to right to shut you down if they unilaterally decide you're "abusing" the system.
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Fuck Elon Musk, can you design a tool that would make airport security better? I bet in 15 minutes, most HN readers could come up with something that would be cheaper, more effective, and faster to use than the current tool set. There's indeed money to be made here (and good to be done), even if the easiest way would be to patent your idea and sell it to the military industrial complex you speak of.

Fun fact: the parent company of the company that makes the TSA body scanners (L-3) also owns the company that made "waterboarding" famous. It is, indeed, the military industrial complex.
> It's interesting to find someone on here who maintains all of their files/email/photos/etc locally in a redundantly backed-up manner at home on their own personal server. How did you do that? Can you recommend me a way to do that for a non-technical person?

...You don't do that? If you don't have local "gold master" copies of your files, then you don't own your files. And if you don't copy them onto multiple devices, then you have a single point of failure.

> I mean what would you do if apple/google wrote an update to their os that wiped all of your contacts for good?

I'd be very impressed that they could also reach my copies of that data that aren't stored on Apple/Google services...
Fair, maybe 4-6 is a better max. You can also shame the mechanical keyboard user mercilessly for bothering everyone else.
Http2 compresses headers so it they are not changing the amount of overhead is negligible (see HPACK).
Could just be the California style. Or finance. Don't really know any other office locales so this could be true.
Hook: Google made an AI that they're using to help design other AIs. It worse or as good as the Google human experts.

This feels like an important moment.
"A thousand songs in your pocket"
I just use it to upload daily encrypted backups of my mail-server (< 500MB per month)... so I wouldn't mind if they set some reasonable limit to encrypted uploads (say 1-10TB).

I feel like anyone who's actually uploading personal content and who isn't uploading media files that are amenable to deduplication would be comfortable with some threshold as well.