skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was just as much the case when 2.5 had just been released and “virtually everyone” was still using 2.2 or 2.3 (or perhaps even 1.5.2).
I don't know about the United States, but pretty much everywhere taking videos of airport security check is prohibited.
In general there are a few very good reasons:

+ It gets flagged by sufficiently many people who believe it to be inappropriate

+ It comes from a known blacklisted site

+ It falls foul of behavior most commonly associated with spam.

The case in question here is in the last of these. I submitted the comment, realised I'd put it in the wrong place, deleted it, and immediately reposted in a different comment. That's behavior adopted by spammers - posting identical comments in several places in a very short time span.

Spending long enough here, and thinking about it carefully, most cases can be analysed and understood.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
1. Good point. I need to upload a few more samples, especially those that show better penmanship.
2. Awesome. I'll add this information to the FAQ page.
3. What price point would make sense to you?
Interesting. I'm not familiar with compliment cards. I'll have to check those out.
Well, I was making an online charity auction app for the United Way silly season with 10-second high bid updates for each of 20 - 30 items being auctioned each day. Average number of concurrent users was ~1000. The app supported IE 5+, NS 4.7 and 6, Phoenix/Firebird and Opera (each of our new acquisitions had its own pet house browser). Updates were through 1-pixel iframes/ilayers, and the whole thing ran on a single-processor P III 800Mhz Lotus Domino R5 server. And believe it or not, the problem child was Opera -- CSS backgrounds just would not colour inside the lines in the current version at the time.
Are you really worried about low income households hijacking the national agenda?

Don't forget we live in a representative democracy.
How do they earn any profits if they don't hold the equity? If they hold the equity, then they also are on hook for the liability. I used to work in banking and a lot of our clients would have loved to sell all their bad loans to a fully owned subsidiary, but the law simply doesn't let you do that.

I'm not a corporate lawyer but in my experience in the financial markets it is simply impossible to avoid liability while holding equity. Maybe there are some loopholes but it is not nearly as easy as you suggest.
This article is not worth anemones time, it's completely biased, and baseless.(see my previous comments for details)

It's like propaganda, the author lives in an alternate reality.

TL;DR: the web will end, and the Apple App Store will take over
Pot was almost legal in Netherlands since 70s, yet very few countries followed suit. What makes California so special that it will make the end of cannabis prohibition viral? I'm highly skeptical.
And that's a huge problem. The notion of a "pixel-perfect design" doesn't belong on the web. In the case you mention, you're sacrificing accessibility for control over what your users see. You're kind of telling your users that you know what they want better then they do. That they should be able to read the small type you put in front of them, even if their eyes are bad.

CognitiveLens is right. Proportions matter.

(Note: when I say "you", I refer to the "one [who] wants a pixel-perfect layout" which may or not actually be you.)
you forget they once jumped to SpyGlass..ie the founding code of MSIE 1.0
"merely" an act of congress? Regarding a policy that's so easy to demagogue with and involves so many social dog whistles? You're dreaming :)
(And if you don't make things people want, then I imagine it's that that PG will care about; he still won't care about the pot smoking.)
This would be fantastic to write validation code, because the same code can be used on both the server and client sides. Thanks endian for sharing this with us, I can't wait to try it out!
You can in the US.

We don’t prohibit public, passengers or press from photographing, videotaping, or filming at screening locations. You can take pictures at our checkpoints as long as you’re not interfering with the screening process or slowing things down. We also ask that you do not film or take pictures of our monitors.
So... you were in grad school... but you couldn't learn independently? How is that the instructor's fault? That's sort of the point.

The best grad classes are those where the professor just sets out a bunch of papers and says "read this one by next week" and nominates someone to find another paper worth reading, then talk about it next week. All independent, no lecturing. Having a terrible instructor you don't get along with is a bummer, and it makes the class boring, but it shouldn't affect your progress.
Four Things You Can Do When He Doesn't Call
There is no need for sulking. There can be dozens of reasons he doesn't call; some of which the most common is his being busy with his work. So stay calm and stop thinking negatively. If he doesn't call, doing these few things will get him to call you.
That's about right at the moment. Actually a bit on the low side if we assume Backflip is using a yield optimization tool and working with every ad network they possibly can.

Since ad networks always show their highest-paying ads first (this optimizes revenue for them, too), showing a user one ad each from five different networks is a hell of a lot more effective than showing five ads from one network. Cuts down on blanks, too.
Italy's Job Crisis: Why Young Italians Are Leaving
It's a shame how many good people have had their lives ruined because of our "war on drugs". When prop 19 passes, I hope they pardon some of the people in jail, especially people who have never had a record, besides their pot offense
I've been writing a Silverlight app at my job for the past 8 months. I don't feel like Silverlight has given me any kind of productivity boost. I actually find Silverlight to be rather heavyweight and slow going, especially RIA Services which is boilerplate central.

I may have a bit of a "grass is greener" outlook, but I do feel my productivity would be higher with a web framework such as RoR. Especially if I was just as good at Ruby/RoR/JS as I am now at C#/Silverlight (I've been using .NET professionaly since its debut)
If a cyber-terrorist wants to cause havoc, he/she will find a way; the best way for them to get around this would be to move to another country where such laws are nonexistent.

And who will be controlling regulation of such back-doors? The FBI? The CIA? And who's to say who? How do we know there won't be a way for the "bad guys", not just the government, to use that hole to get data off of my computer?

What about 100 years from now? What new invasions of privacy will be next? If this is okay, will what is not okay now be fine tomorrow?

Or am I just "paranoid"?
OK, so you set up a wholly independent company owned by a few employees. This company licenses the patent for NewDrug from BigCompany.

Heck, you don't even have to do it with shelf companies. Hi there, I'm BigCompany, and I'm willing to license this drug which I think might work to any startup that feels like selling it! Or if that would expose me to liabiilty, I'm willing to license this substance which I developed which may or may not be useful as a drug. That would still be a win-win situation.
I realized how things were taking a turn for the worst in 2003 and left Italy. At the time, people told me that I was nuts. Today the same people are begging me for advice on how to leave the country.
The 7 Deadly Sins of Web Design
Tampering with the body - unless it is really, really obvious that he's dead, somebody is going to check the body and most likely even try first aid.
The quest for freedom and safety: Why I donated $100,000 to YesOn19
Alcohol has many other disadvantages which are, IMO, worse than just the harm to personal health, though these normally only surface when overused. Can't say the same about marijuana though, and I agree with you about that.
Someone should write a blog post about dsniff and how to get dozens of login/passwords for not only pop3, imap, messenger logins at starbucks/airport wifi.

We all know that 90% of the users tend to have one passwort for everything. That password usually works for any SSL secured service, too ;-)
I was just talking about this issue last night with a couple friends. One is a teacher, and she said that every morning for the last week or so, she's been getting a list from the teachers' union of the candidates she should vote for. The other friend works for a non-profit, and she says that it's repeated to them in no uncertain terms that if they want to keep their jobs, they better vote a certain way; after all, their funding depends on it.

So while your post makes a lot of sense on an individual basis, it seems that self-interested groups are almost certainly a factor in the way people vote. It would be pretty easy to miss this looking at things like income or age; I'd be more interested in seeing studies based on union affiliation or some other sentient grouping (as opposed to a non-sentient group like "people over 60").
yeah someone clean it up. wouldn't it be great if every bad driver had social (not just legal) accountability?
Where did we meet?
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I thank that would be a good idea. But it needs to be catchy. At least where I am the "naked body scanner" phrase seems to have caught on (or at least be understood).
Doesn't this seem kind of late? Election is next Tuesday.
In his own words: http://twitter.com/#!/ID_AA_Carmack/status/21119808432

I consider myself a decent programmer but I have more trouble reading template heavy C++ than I do haskell code. To me, restrained C++ means keeping the unreadable bits outside the code base and isolated in their own library, like Boost :)
1) Marijuana is an infraction today in California. You can't go to jail for possession.

2) I'd be amazed to find someone in California who's life is actively being ruined due to a possession offense. Any conviction older than 2 years cannot be asked about for employment purposes.
Also, JavaScript cookie manipulation is something we could easily lose for the benefit of every user, web developer and server admin

With more and more apps moving to pure JS / CSS/ and HTML front ends the lack of being able to manipulate cookies would kill a good deal of in app storage abilities. Eliminating useful feature to make someone else's job easier is rarely ever a good solution.
See my other comment in thread. Spearguns of my own design.
They don't see the relationship between some of these projects?

Google consumes a huge amount of energy for their massive server farms. Is it surprising they are investing in solar and wind energy? I don't think it is much different than the airlines trying to hedge fuel costs.

Google's primary competency is software engineering. Is it surprising that they are working on cars that drive themselves? That is defintely a lucrative problem and they are well positioned to tackle it.

There are plenty of other companies with smaller market cap than Google and a wider portfolio - just look at Yamaha (musical instruments to small gasoline engines? really?) or even Microsoft.

I think it is a good thing, maybe the 21st century Bell Labs.
the coiled, closely packed lines at TSA screening sites are the most dangerous places in airports, completely unprotected from a terrorist attack -- a terrorist attack that would serve the same purpose (shutting down air travel) as an attack on board an aircraft.

I really wish people would stop pointing this out. Yes, it's probably true, the TSA screening site is a soft juicy target. Yes, you're very clever for pointing it out. Now pipe down about it before you give someone some ideas.
We already have better cockpit doors - _that_ is probably the only security measure since 9/11 that was a) a good idea, and b) worth the money.
The feeling about pot has changed a lot in the last 15 years, not just in the US ( http://www.gallup.com/poll/144086/New-High-Americans-Support... ), but in the rest of the world well. A ton of countries have decriminalized marijuana and other drugs, people are realizing that marijuana isn't the drug of hell it was pitched as and that the war against it has failed.

I think it has a lot to do with the internet/information age. Just a couple of years ago the governments could say whatever they wanted and very few people would question their "facts". Now everybody with access to the internet can research the issue themselves.
Oh, God. There's a brilliant plan somewhere in here; the trick is to make the pedophilia witch hunt and the terrorist witch hunt collide.
> To expect HTML5 support when 'HTML5' is in still flux is silly.

Er… their competitors’ phones support a lot more HTML5, CSS3, and related APIs than they do. Who’s silly, exactly?
Great insight into tumor development. It reminded me of a scene in Dragon's Egg, a Sci-Fi story about life on a neutron star, where the aliens cure a female space travelers future breast cancer, by irradiating a tiny cluster of mutated cells.
compared to what? a 3g enabled device? everything is weight.
Motorola 68k -> Apple/Motorola/IBM PowerPC -> Intel ???
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Yeah the same goes for those poor sap guards at Auschwitz.

I mean, really, they we're just doing their jobs to pay their bills, etc. etc.

TSA is not a far step from that, btw.
Let me get this straight.

A wealthy, white, educated, privileged male who is incredibly talented and who won both the birth and tech lottery back in the 90's is now whining about the government taking too much in taxes?

Cry me a fucking river.

There are tens of millions of poor Americans & immigrants working as a permanent class of indentured laborers, while a smaller pool of the middle class are slowly being bled to death, both physically and economically(who's kids are more likely to die in foreign wars, the rich or poor?), by our American culture's inhumane, cruel war mongering fetish.

Yet the rich fucks who have to pay the majority of the taxes, and who already get to keep the majority of the profits for their own lavish life styles feel entitled enough to complain that their slice of the pie isn't big enough? Seeing this appalling attitude of entitlement everywhere makes me so angry, and I wish I could just open these ignorant people's eyes, hearts & minds.

There's a good reason I have little interest in the rambling, detached kooky political and economic opinions of luminaries from the tech world. Stick to hacking code and making entertainment software, and stay out of running the real world.
Not exactly. Recall prior to the hijacking being done by brute force on the pilots, most airline terrorism was bombs on planes. If we don't have any security what-so-ever, people could just bring hand grenades onto airplanes and I am 100% certain you could crash them that way.

There is a safe middle ground here, and metal detectors were definitely in it. Full body scans? Not so much.
C++ lends itself to a large variety of different programming styles and paradigms. C++ also lends itself to premature baldness, by developers ripping their hair out trying to make systems developed in different styles interact with each other.

A popular thought is that any given team or company should pick a particular subset of those styles -- and perhaps a subset of C++'s features -- and use them to the exclusion of others.
It's often the best choice for authenticating these

SAML is a better auth mechanism for REST services.
Introducing Digg's Streaming API
This sounds like the equivalent of ROWE.

So what happened next? Did FedEx management cut pay since the job was easier than they previously thought?
The title was a quote, so it was not wrong, what he disagreed with was the interpretation.
one doesn't need to be a psychologist to see author's fixation on "something up the ass"
Having lost my father to a pancreatic cancer, this is excellent news. His case doesn't seem to be an exception and it was utterly terrible (< 4 months between the first symptoms and death). Pancreatic cancers are awful, and don't get anywhere near enough attention.
Understanding Nukes - Questions
You are not paranoid.

For backdoor abuse example look for Greece government phone communication being eavesdropped by someone. Someone used phone pbx data port intended for phone conversation listening by law enforcement.
I accidentally upvoted you. TSA is quite a far step from that. Don't suck all the oxygen out of the conversation.
Then don't use Silverlight. My point wasn't to use SL per se. It was to use the best tool for the job. If you're most productive writing in 6502 assembly and then writing a binary rewriter to convert it to Logo, which you then compile to Javascript, go for it.
Chad Hurley  deja el  cargo de CEO de YouTube
I had messaged you on the Cocos2d board I think. I started working through your original tutorials but decided to wait until you redid them. Glad to see they're available now - I'll be starting to work through them this weekend!
Prop 19 is limited to marijuana, but almost everything in your post is applicable to other drugs (cocaine etc.)

Would you vote yes on a future proposition that legalizes all drugs ?
If the browsers would allow the login box to be styled via CSS like the rest of the UI, I think you would see more use. We finally went to SAML for our REST service authentication and have been pretty happy with it. THe nice part about SAML is an identity server provides the auth endpoint, and your app proxies the token to the identity server for authentication and authorization, it gets your app or container out of the game of authentication and authorization. Further many app servers can plug into the identity server therefore providing container managed security gates.
California is the 6th largest economy in the world, borders with Mexico, and is a pretty large consumer of Marijuana, perhaps one of the world's largest but I have no data on the latter.

California legalizing Marijuana for private consumption would deal a strong blow to the cartels. If over several years no ill effects seem to result ("seem" is important, unfortunately) other states, such as Massachusetts, may follow suit.

The semi-legalization in the Netherlands and the full legalization in Portugal set good examples, but few places in the world are as prominent as California.
Another example is reducing fuel use: Any economist will tell you that if you want to reduce fuel use you can simply tax fuel (or tax it more heavily). Instead we get things like CAFE standards, which are both less effective (more efficient cars = cheaper driving = some amount of additional driving) and probably more expensive for everyone involved (i.e. someone that doesn't drive much might be better off with a cheaper, less efficient car). But no politician is willing to buck up and propose a higher gas tax (in fact recently members of both parties in the US proposed a gas-tax holiday).

(Note: there are other reasons why CAFE-type standards might be a good idea, but they are far from the most effective way to reduce fuel use).
He seemed a little more interested in something up the vagina, if that makes you feel any better.
One thing that makes marijuana more complex is that, unlike was the case with alcohol, the prohibition is written into international treaties. Countries could just ignore or withdraw from them, or try to get them modified, but so far none seem to be willing to. Treaty obligations relating to banning marijuana trafficking are one thing that's complicated the Dutch experiment with decriminalization, and led to absurd situations, where coffee-shops selling pot to customers is tolerated, but that pot cannot legally come from anywhere (they cannot grow it, cannot buy it in wholesale quantities, etc.).
1. Not true. If you're possessing too much, you're considered a dealer.

2. If you get caught with weed you'll lose your college grant and loans, essentially making it impossible for a lot of great, hard working people, to get a college degree just because they're caught with some weed. Taking away the right to higher education just because of a small possession case is downright inhumane. Not even rapers and murders lose their college grants and loans.
Did they come after you or did you approach/pitch first?
Yeah, because there all those potential terrorists are wringing their hands wondering what to do next..."Ah! The newest edition of Atlantic Monthly. This shall give me some inspiration!"

Given the state of international relations, this scenario is really a question of 'when' and not 'if.'
but I'm talking $500 a day.
I mean, what is the simplest way to prevent another 9/11? Steel cockpit doors and a communications shutoff between cockpit and everything outside.

Well you've still got the bomb-on-plane problem, which is what the latest three rounds of security increases have been in response to -- there was the shoe bomber, and then the liquid-mixture plot, and then the underpants bomber.

You'll note that none of these plots worked. Why? Because they were increasingly shitty bombs. Why were they increasingly shitty bombs? Because they've been progressively closing loopholes. The underpants bomber might have been successful if he were shoe bomber number two, but he wasn't, because the bomb-in-shoe loophole has been closed.

People like to use the words "security theater" a lot because it makes them feel clever, and yes, the TSA like any government department has its own particular forms of insanity. But there's actual security accomplished there too. In the 1980s it was possible to sneak a 747-destroying bomb into a plane in a suitcase... now they're reduced to sticking dynamite up their butts.

Also, communications shutoff between the cockpit and outside is crazy. What happens when there's a medical emergency onboard? Let 'em die because the pilots aren't allowed to know about anything that happens in the passenger cabin?
The life and death of a fake hotdog app.
Correct, but I clearly did not say for possession. I personally know a grower who had his house rated, and was sent to jail for 6 years. Reason: he had too many plants.

Good people should not go to jail for this, aftermath: he lost his house in a sheriff's sale, his kid was taken away. I'm sure you can find 100 of cases where peoples lives were ruined in their own way, not necessarily yours.
As a person who believes strongly in personal freedoms, thank you for saying this Paul.

If someone chooses to consume a drug of their choosing and still create in a way that fulfills them and their customers -- it is a grave injustice to shackle someone, wag a finger and tell them no. You inspire on many fronts.
>Unless you have raised a kid or two and are not a woman, it is unlikely that you can appreciate the sincerity of that simple statement.

I don't understand this statement. To me it says "Unless you've raised children and are a man" then you can't understand the concept of needing to quit because of lack of sleep?

Why does it matter which sex you are. Personally, as a man, getting 3 hours sleep between a very full day of childcare and night of work and another round of the same makes me exhausted and has pushed me to very unhealthy behaviour.

Mix that with some poverty and I was considering quitting life.
Actually the "medical alcohol" exemption was present in the initial legislation and preceded universal defiance. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volstead_Act for more.
I wish I could upvote the idea about videotaping the proces and downvote you belittling those less fortunate than yourself.
Same thing happening in Spain, I left in 2007.
Eh, it worked for the National Socialist Party. What, too soon?