skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As per your second point, maybe we could actually go like this: every new invasive TSA procedure would be A/B tested on similar flights (same departure and destination, comparable times, same price).

Do people want to be strip searched? Well, let's find out. You can take flight A where nobody is strip searched, or flight B where everyone is (all other existing security measures unchanged).

If nobody (but me) is willing to take flight A, we have the answer we're looking for.

My point was that everyone assumes that nobody will take flight A, but in fact we don't really know.
Isn't that exactly what the new CARD Act requires all US banks to do?
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Baseline is where the bottom of a text character sits. Sidenote: Parts of a character that descends past the baseline (characters: y, p, q, j) are called descenders.

In graphic design, baselines are used to align content in different columns so that they line up with one another. For example, if you read a magazine article and see two columns side by side, they should share the same baselines.

This is especially useful when you have elements that make columns shift positioning. Let's say on one column you have some text and on the other, you have an image that pushes down the second column. How do you align the second column? Most people would just look at the padding between the image and the second column of text when in reality, it's probably best to also look at whether or not it's sharing the same baseline as the first column.
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"Piracy" is how things work from now on (where "now" is about 1980's), and the change is quite similar to every other technological revolution. There will be opposition to it, but all the countermoves against it are just totally pointless struggle against how things shall naturally go: information will be free.

The outcome of all this is good: it takes away power from the unskilled artists (soulless list hit generators etc.) and moves it to the skilled ones. You know, the kind that make you wanna throw money at them even if you already have their stuff.
You're assuming that these measures are foolproof though. These will catch the stupid terrorists, but the smart ones will still get through.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2008/11/the-things...
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The pat down does not add 5 to 20 minutes. It's exactly the same secondary screening they give you if you set off the metal detector, performed by exactly the same person; if it took 20 minutes, the whole line would bottleneck.
excellent idea. i'd love to be able to sort by format and price, though. rather than voting to select personal preference, how about having order-able lists that i can share?
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http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-v6ops-ipv6-cpe-router-... Once this is published as an RFC we can all start asking the vendors to support it.
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Currently we have two choices. You have banks, which are huge, bloated, slow, massive barriers to entry. If you want to build an MVP and accept payments right away, good luck with a bank. But your money is safe.

On the other hand, we have PayPal. Sometimes they steal your money. For a very small business, paypal is easy to get going with. Millions of small business people have decided that this tradeoff is right for them - worst case, you lose a few grand.

I'm hoping congress doesn't turn PayPal into a bank. If they do, we will only have one choice (banks), and life will be harder for smaller businesses.

Thousands of very small businesses have decided PayPal's offers the right set of costs/benefits, why do we want congress to second guess them?
Among less or more technical means to clone somebodys fingerprints to fool the reader there is circumventing method involving the axe.

I've heard this method was used in Asia by some car thieves.
No. You shouldn't give equity now based on an imaginary look-back from the future, because it is impossible to predict the future, that's my whole point.

PersonB may contribute later, but at that point there will be a lot of existing value already, hence, even if they add more value, the percentage of value they add is less, and the risk they take is a lot less (since there is already value there), hence they get a lot less equity. How early you join makes ALL the difference.
Stop contacting them, and start contacting the relevant authorities.
Agreed. If you don't bother to follow the rules you already know, how do you expect to learn more?

It's not like native speakers don't have problems writing correctly. At one point, I couldn't spell the word "necessary" to save my life. One day I decided I would simply refuse to write any word I didn't know how to spell without looking it up. Now I can spell almost every word I know without looking it up. I got a D (a very bad grade) on my first college essay. On every other essay I wrote, I made absolutely certain I wasn't making the same mistakes. I got a B+ (second-best grade) or A (best grade) on every essay after that.

Aside from that, I would say immersion is the best thing you can do. Immersion, not language courses, is how native speakers learn to speak like natives. Devote an hour (or more) a day to reading modern English fiction and an hour (or more) to reading modern English non-fiction. Write about what you read. Ask native speakers to review what you've written. Don't just ask them to find mistakes, ask them to rephrase anything that sounds awkward how they would say it. Fluency is imitation. What you want is to say things the way a native speaker would say them, not just to say them grammatically correctly.
I have something like six Google accounts and a couple of Yahoo accounts and a LiveJournal account and three Twitter accounts and a Facebook account and a bunch of other things that come with OpenIDs.

What I don't have is any idea what OpenID I'm supposed to be using for any given service.

I've tried to just pick one, but the other thing I don't have is a desire to share my login history with any of the above sites, or to link my identity on any of those sites with my identity on New Fly-By-Night Site X without at least trying out Site X, and possibly checking its references too.

Something I do have is an automated workflow for handling usernames and passwords.
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An excellent list, I would add:

* Understand that disk is 300,000 times slower than memory and not an adequate substitute for it.

* Understand your VM. Particularly, if it's Java, that the JVM will eventually 'walk' the entire heap you set with -Xmx. If you have a number of VMs with massive maximum heaps, that exceeds your physical memory, you will be screwed shortly.
I know this is going to sound silly, but it runs through my mind every time there's an IPv4/IPv6 discussion:

Consider a pair of random IPs in standard written form:

v4: 209.85.225.147
v6: 2001:db8:1f70::999:de8:7648:6e8

From a purely aesthetic standpoint, IPv6 addresses look nasty. They vary in length, they're hard to remember, they're a little bit harder to parse and print than v4s. Much like an email address, an IPv4 address is iconic (to the right people) and immediately recognizable, whereas it would be easy to confuse a v6 for a MAC address. Is it at all possible that this is hampering adoption of IPv6?
So if I join Google today and I come up with another billion dollar income stream for them, I'll get as rich as the founders? No. That's not how it works, sorry.
I'm skeptical of that. So far things like POS tagging have not demonstrated any benefit in academic information retrieval results, to my knowledge. Granted this is an "absence of evidence" argument, and maybe that shouldn't be taken too seriously. Academic IR is a funny business, because nobody who wants to change the world or is deeply intellectually curious goes into it. They go work for Google/Yahoo/MS, who can tell them in a day all the things they'd discover ten years for now.

But still, all the obvious ways to use POS tagging for IR have been tried, and don't work. POS is only just marginally useful in machine translation at the moment!

This isn't that surprising when you think about it. What POS tags provide is a small clue about grammatical structure. So you're either setting off down that path and trying to understand a sentence as a tree, or you're going to understand a sentence as a sequence of words. Syntax is hard, and most word-word dependencies are between adjacent words.

There's a local maximum at "just use the words", and POS tags don't take you far enough to get past it for many tasks.
I sympathize with the author!

I had the same experience a couple of nights ago -- a corporate-programmer-turned-manager friend (highly competent, Formally Trained in Dimensional Modelling and Analysis using the Microsoft stack, etc) was asking me, with some confusion, why I'd use a scripting language or any other 'out there' language.

My first answers were, really, only good for someone who already knows what the language features being described are. CL has macros, Ruby is dynamic and the practice of using blocks ... what are those features, and what do they buy you?

I could tell that my explanations were being parsed -- he's a very smart guy -- but the parse tree was just being cached, with timeouts that would expire long before compilation could take place.

So, I changed tactics -- like the author of this article.

"I like these languages because, look! I can type THIS instead of THIS!"

I kick myself now for not showing him some lisp, but I was working on a ruby+sinatra app on my server in emacs in screen, so I brought up a repl and showed him how few lines of code it took to make a class, and iterate through a list, etc.

What stuck was showing the actual code handling signups in the (sinatra, so, from-scratch) web app -- "look, 2 functions, 6 lines apiece, with error handling and everything."

My friend has to manage programmers now, so he knows that (despite the existence of libraries and frameworks and so forth) if you ask for someone to make you an interface that does X, it's rare that you can get a 5-minute turnaround. The productivity arguments carried the day(1).

"Look, I get to type less code than you, by far, every day!(2)" < -- is a quick way to get past whatever mental blocks the person has to considering your language of choice.

And it sure ought to be easy to demonstrate if they're coming from C# or Java, or what are you wasting your time on? ;)

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(1) Unfortunately, he spent the rest of the night trying to pitch me on a startup project of his own that he wanted help "implementing," because the "lion's share" of the work, the data model, was done. But I digress.

(2) But with Ruby, it's easier to add "and look how easy it is to read!" regardless of the background of your listener. Languages like Lisp, that involve a "scary" new lack of syntax, well ... still, side-by-side demonstrations like the one in the article are a good way to pique a practical curiosity.
We are not looking at the same numbers (Not inflation adjusted but relative growth should work out).

http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=wb-wdi&met=ny_gdp_mk...

JP 1.347T (1985) > 4.991T (2008) = 3.7x
USA 4.188T (1985) > 14.591T (2008) = 3.48x
here's the article from the register.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/06/voice_fingerprints/
http://freelanceswitch.com/ is a fairly decent board where you can find some decent people. as well a lot of us here that freelance are listed on http://www.hnhackers.com/ .
I cannot easily find a portal on your website to submit feedback and support tickets.

You may wish to add a CSV export feature for me, and some nice metrics/graphic reporting in other charts.

Besides that, I'm switching to this from toggl.com right now.
Question: I hadn't heard of vesting based on milestones before. Is that really a commonly used option? Since milestones are so hard to predict, and depend on lots of factors, not just the work of that one person..
you know what I don't get...is why with all the paypal stuff like this happening...why don't the banks themselves create their own paypal type service

you can use your ATM card at any bank...so banks can work together...they should just create bankpal and have it be a service you can use to send money to your friend's account
Also people pay more attention to posters. At least at our office.
This story is relevant to HN because 80% of the posts here are about building businesses and this often requires air-travel. Refusing to be X-raped by the TSA could have negative long term repercussions on your ability to travel efficiently.
I'm not really sure if I'm going to be able to effectively fly any more. Every time I go through these lines, I get noticeably and visibly upset. I keep my mouth shut, but the combination of being subversive looking and noticeably agitated means I get picked out for secondary screening a lot. :/

It makes my blood boil every single time. I feel so ashamed that I basically am forced to support this kind of behavior by needing to fly at times, and feel totally helpless about doing anything about it. I'm seriously wondering if I'm going to be able to continue traveling as these shenanigans get worse and worse.

I see a lot of driving in my future. :/
I'm a designer and the only way I've been able to find great freelance coders is through friends. Sorry that doesn't help but maybe going to some programmer meetups would work effectively.

I just say this because for designers, the best way to actually find top-tier talent is through friend of a friend. Most aren't looking (and thus, aren't on the usual suspect websites like elance/guru) but wouldn't reject a project if they actually met the person or if it was through a friend.
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Nice to see more than one team rolling with the idea. May be best one emerge victorious.
Re: initscript. If you provide a set of start commands, stop commands, and a status method, a nice SA will write it and ask you to test if you like.

Re: $TMPDIR. Alas bad (ie most) enterprise monitoring tools assign calls for OS directories to systems teams directly, without looking at the files owner.

Some systems guy gets an alert because you filled up /tmp but he can't delete your data obviously, because he's a nice guy. All he can do is redirect the call to the app guys. It's better, in this case, to have your own dedicated storage in a custom folder.
Most of your software doesn't support IPv6, which I think is a bigger problem. Most everything that works with sockets assumes that a network address fits in a machine int type; IPv6 addresses aren't even scalar.
The point about functional languages changing your coding style really is true.
After playing around with lift in a university course i went ahead and implemented the exact same cache access pattern you have described in a .net application (using lambda in c#):

var data = Caching.GetOrAdd(cacheKey, () => doWorkAndReturnData);
Yes. But the guy is talking about `bold' in emails.. He's at a completely different level.
Question: I hadn't heard of vesting based on milestones before. Is that really a commonly used option? Since milestones are so hard to predict, and depend on lots of factors, not just the work of that one person. What would an example of a clearly defined milestone be?
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I'll wager that most residential Internet users are NAT'd, as are most corporate Internet users. The Internet works better today than it did back in 1996, when virtually nobody was NAT'd (back then, the big imposition was dynamic addresses instead of static).
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I've been using PayPal since 2001 when I signed up in order to send Sluggy Freelance a $5 donation. Since 2002 I've used it increasingly for payments from my freelancing customers - there was no other convenient way to get money from Europe to America, and PayPal revolutionized the translation industry (along with Moneybookers and similar services, but PayPal is the biggest).

Not once have I had any problem with them.

Jacques, I've had a bank - a real live regulated bank - deduct my paycheck instead of depositing it, and not notice until I complained. Granted, they fixed it immediately when I complained, and PayPal may not, but human error does occur. Certainly PayPal has never gratuitously deducted money from my account.
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You haven't even started talking about need an "Impressum" on your web-page. And fora are especially dangerous devices according to a German judge.
But of course, nothing in Java forces you to use state and side effects. It's a culture problem, again; but if you use Java libraries from within Clojure, you are going to run into those same culture problems.

This is a known problem. There is an in development feature called Pods that will allow you to use nasty mutable Java libraries as well write your own nasty Clojure mutable code (perhaps for performance reasons) w/o destroying concurrency guarantees. I'm looking forward to see how it shakes out.
First, I don't agree with the use of full body scanners.

To be fair, the TSA doesn't know that the guy is a pilot - only that he has the uniform and some sort of identification that says he is - both of which could be faked.

Unfortunately nothing is likely to change until it's not isolated incidents of people refusing to go through the full body scanners but rather 10% or more of the flying public. --I'm estimating, of course, but can you imagine the backlogs if just 10% of passengers refused every day and forced the TSA to spend time frisking them?
According to the PayPal agreement for the Netherlands "To obtain Verified status you must complete the following steps: 1) Set up Direct Debit and complete the Random Deposit Process (available to applicable customers); or 2) add a credit card and complete the Expanded Use Programme." So it seems you don't have to give PayPal direct debit authorization to lift the receiving limits. Am I right?
You can probably script your email client (or similar) to filter those logos.
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By that measure, 100% of businesses here are run by people who breathe air and drink water, so articles about environmentalism are pertinent too. Likewise, most of us are human beings with sexual and emotional needs, which, if not met, might lead to frustrations that could damage businesses, so "how to score with hot chicks" is on-topic too.

I call that game "7 degrees of hacker news".
Thanks, this kind of rings to the first thoughts I had.
Did you read at least some of the most prominent articles from Schneier on security? Do it, it's worth it. The basic tenet is this : filtering potential threats at the bottom of the plane is almost useless, but makes a nice "security theater". Investigating the menace is harder, doesn't show off as well as nice big machines in airports, but it's efficient.

Scanning people shoes is useless. Full body scanners are useless. As the pilot said, what will they do when someone try to blow up a plane with dynamite in his rectum? Rectal check for everyone? This is absurd, expensive and serves only one purpose : covering TSA officials' asses.

See for instance some of these:
http://www.schneier.com/essays-airline.html
http://www.newjerseynewsroom.com/professional/fox-cablevisio...

is an article with a fairly biased tone that

The 1984 Cable TV Act gave multiple systems operators (MSOs) like Cablevision the right to bundle failing networks like ESPN, the Weather Channel, CNN, CNN Headline News on an expanded basic tier as one entity (which might be a real violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act) and sell it to consumers for one price.

and that fox is trying to increase their profits by requiring these channels as part of basic cable.
I'm 49 and I have less trouble staying up late or even working around the clock than I did in my twenties. I think a lot of the age-related difference is just opportunity and desire. Do to a combination of traveling and working in April of 2005, it happened that I ended up staying awake for 40 hours, I was a bit flaky by the time I got to sleep it out, but could have stayed up longer if I had needed to.
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I am and I will. Considering the amount of companies relying on JVM I don't really worry about having to pay anything for writing an application for the JVM platform.

Perhaps I'm wrong but I feel that the only possible scenario or legal problems is in the development of alternative implementations of the JVM, although I'm pretty confident that Oracle will not find any solid legal ground there.
Hey, hold on guys. I'm writing that:

-I'm in favor of scanners because I think they'll speed things up.

-Taking shoes off seems unnecessary and counterproductive

-I fly a lot, and anecdotally it seems like TSA has improved in etiquitte and service quality

-In my opinion, this doesn't seem like an area worthy of much concern

People who disagree are welcome to express their disagreement, ideally with a reasoned, unemotional argument instead of flicking the button because you disagree with someone's reasoned point of view.