skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The whole thing seems highly creepy. I suspect that the advanced pat downs will eventually be removed and there will be no option but to go through the machine, because the prospect of some member of airport staff doing advanced pat downs on children has obviously dodgy implications which could attract lawsuits and some very unpleasant job applicants.

As the article says, a determined terrorist will get through either of these procedures anyhow.
hmm... There were signs at JFK and also at SFO that prohibited cameras last time I traveled internationally (about a year ago). Where is this quote from?
If I were to fly for some reason, I think what I would seriously consider doing is taking the machine, but as I got to it announcing, "fine, you want to see me naked?" and just taking off all my clothes, and then stepping into the scanner.
Stemming the flow of money to brutal drug lords is reason #1 to rethink the current drug policies. Glad to see that point spelled out so clearly. What's going on in Mexico is truly heartbreaking.

Marijuana is clearly a big piece of the puzzle, but what about legalizing harder drugs like cocaine?

EDIT: Removed the question because I saw another HN'er posted it. Then added it back when Paul responded so it'd make sense in context.
>I'm working on a side-project now, putting in less than half an hour a day

Is that including thinking time? Do you have commuting time or some other time without responsibility for other people in which to think?
You must really dislike football players, boxers, and others who engage in sports that cause repetitive light trauma to the head. They lose way more brain cells that way.
They approached us.
Why are all these donations happening so late? It's four days until the election. Half the electorate has already voted, and the rest are tuning everything out by now. Prop 19 is failing and it's too late for advertising to make a difference. Where were all these deep pockets a month ago?
A good target audience would be the students (esp seniors) - sending a thank you note after an interview.
> Unless the contract said that they couldn't.

I was going to mention that, but I wasn't sure whether the GPL would prevent that or not. As for the later point, yeah, no shit.:)
They de-criminalized it, The Netherlands never 'really' legalized production. The only legal pot growing is done for medicinal cannabis, which is a very marginal market compared to the coffeeshops. The reason was amongst others, that The Netherlands were bound by international treaties to fully legalize and tax it.

Prop 19, legalizes the entire supply-chain, which makes it possible to build a legal business on weed. The difference is, that the 'captains of industry' will become part of the establishment, in a while traditional businessmen might even take over. It could be that if California goes well, the same players who were in, let's say, cigarette-companies will step up. They have been thinking about this. Philip morris pantented the brand 'Marley' in France:
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/the-law-is-a-dope-if...
Yes on Prop 19
I find it somewhat odd that SebastianSh is unable (or unwilling) to grant that simple request.

In other professions (web design, software development, etc) this is usually a sign of missing expertise. What kind of designer or programmer wouldn't proudly show his/her latest creations when asked to do so?

However, in this case there might be another reason. Maybe the customers don't want to be used as a reference? This leads to an interesting question:

Is it bad for business to publicly admit the use of SEO techniques?
I don't know what the answer is for all drugs, but Marijuana should obviously be legal, so that's a good place to start. If we wait for the perfect answer to all questions, we'll never fix anything.
Potential names for back scatter machine:

Strip search

Electronic strip search

Virtual strip search

Anonymous strip search
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Most CDMA carriers offer "world" edition phones with a secondary gsm antenna and sim slot for use overseas. I believe the verizon iPhone will include these "world" attributes.
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Well said. Thanks for standing up on a tough issue.
That question doesn't have to be decided now. We can look at the effects of Prop 19, and see what the results suggest about legalizing cocaine, heroin, or even pseudoephedrine.
But would it be less of an invasion of our privacy?
why do we need teachers at all?

Teachers are good for filling in gaps in your knowledge and/or clarifying a concept that you learned or attempted to learn from the text. All you really need is a good textbook and someone to talk to when you get stuck.

If you can't learn on your own, how do you expect to perform any high-functioning job?
>His HowTo is nannies. That freed up lots of time without making him feel like he was neglecting or taking away from his children.

"How I'm Bootstrapping a Startup While Raising Three Kids"

Your friend is not raising those kids though is he? It sounds like the nannies are. The kids maybe are not being neglected but he is neglecting them.

People, it seems, sometimes don't care about raising their offspring just as long as someone does. To me that is really weird, why choose to have children if you're going to get someone else to raise them?
I don't think it's too late. There are always voters who base their decision on the last information they receive. Last-minute ads can influence those people.
Someone once recommended "Infinite Dimensional Analysis: A Hitchhiker's Guide" by Aliprantis and Border, with the claim that "solving problems in high dimensions can be approximated by assuming infinite dimensions". I haven't yet summoned up the mathematical guts to dig into it myself.
The pat down vs. backscatter machine issue is interesting because it opens up so many avenues for nonviolent resistance (most of which would be far more effective if you got a bunch of people together to do it all at once at one major airport):

1. If your kids go through the machine, loudly accuse the TSA of child pornography. If your kids go through the patdown, loudly accuse the TSA of child molestation. (If you have a suitably eccentric or sympathetic local law enforcement head, like a county sheriff, this might be the way to go, but there's probably some sort of federal immunity against actual prosecution.)

2. Upon entering security, strip completely naked.

3. Opt for the pat down and take a dive, claiming the screener hurt your testicles.

4. Opt for the pat down; pretend to enjoy it.

Note that, like most forms of nonviolent resistance, many of these can get you arrested or at least stop you from making your flight. Getting arrested to make a point is a proud tradition, however. And unlike a mere protest, these kinds of actions can sabotage the TSA or potentially cripple air travel if you get a large enough coordinated protest.
One important application of course being that if P=NP and we can prove it is that encryption as we know it today would no longer be viable with public key systems. Also, if I recall correctly the protein problems that Folding At Home works on are some variant of NP that could be expedited.
A lot of the potential supporters for Prop 19 might need a last minute reminder ;-)
Having used graphael (really the only graphing library I've used), I can say that I like it, but I don't love it. I like how the charts looks far more than any of the other graphing/charting libraries, except for maybe highcharts. Imo, one of the key features that sets graphael and highcharts apart from the rest (especially the Stanford library, which looked very nice, except for this one feature) is interactivity. I think being able to mouse over the data points and get more detailed information is a massive leg up. From an end-user perspective, this interactivity is what @briandoll referred to as "function", in addition to the "look", which in this case, is great for both of these libraries.

- $0.02
I built something similar a while back (guess it's been in use for about two years now -- built it to support my company's product): http://github.com/daeken/Pyvascript

Key difference between Pyvascript and the other compilers I've seen is a facility for macros performing arbitrary AST manipulations. E.g. in the Pylons environment, you can use _uriOf(Controller.someAction) to have it generate a url in your JS code at compile-time.

Always nice to see competition among compilers, though.
Better late than never :)

Apparently a very large fraction of voters actually make their decision while in the voting booth!
Thanks for submitting this.
Empowerment is a word used by big companies (and found many times in Microsoft marketese) to tell people they are going to be more powerful if they use their tools, when in fact they are going to get screwed, and pay every penny for it.

When you think about it, power is not given, and esp. not given from the powerful to the powerless. Power is something you take.

The fact is that the "empowerer" is looking down on the "empoweree"; if we're talking about parents and children, then maybe that's fine; but if we're talking about companies and customers, or bosses and employees, then beware (better still: run).

That's the issue that I have with this article: it sounds like ordinary marketing PR, and plays on two very different levels. "OMG! Debt is a big problem! And look! we've found a (secret and unique) way to solve it!"

Debt is a little bit like smoking: on a national scale, it's a huge problem, very difficult to solve; but on a personal scale it's not really a "problem". You want to quit smoking? QUIT SMOKING.

Those guys seem to be talking about debt at a high level (where solutions would be needed, but are hard to find) to sell their individual-level solutions (which are easy to find, and therefore not really needed, since if people really wanted to be out of debt, they wouldn't get into it in the first place).
I'm an alumnus of Simon's Rock and highly recommend it. I went in thinking I would get my AA and transfer but I stayed for my BA. I'd be happy to answer any questions about the school.

It's technically still considered dropping out of high school though :)
How far out to sea does one have to be for the TSA to not have jurisdiction? Has anyone thought of an airline that ferrys passengers out to a ship off the coast and the airplanes take off from there?

How much does an aircraft carrier cost? It seems this would be extremely expensive, but then, airplanes themselves are extremely expensive so it kind of comes with the territory. But I wonder if we're talking orders of magnitude higher costs.

Not sure how crazy of an idea this is; it came to mind and I figured I'd throw it out there. :)
Really? You feel bad for MS Devs?

It's such a pain to be limited by C# and only able to write desktop apps for Linux, Windows and OSx thanks to Mono.

Or Droid/iOS apps using MonoTouch.

Or write a game using Unity3d.

Yes, what a drag indeed.
I’m sure I could do it in four months or so (but I am probably wrong)

Perfectly encapsulates the essential pain of estimating.
Yeah but it's true
Here's the paper in Nature for those who are interested.

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v467/n7319/full/nature0...
This looks like a classic case of the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Despite how much Apple raves about HTML5, the fact remains that the bane for the App store are HTML5 apps.

Microsoft has just raised the stakes a bit...but as many commenters have pointed out, time will tell whether or not they have staying power. They have a tendency to wax and wane on their support for products.
I agree with your point (I also agree on YES on 19, although I'm not allowed to vote here in CA).

I'm guessing the late run of donations is because latest polls show there is a 50/50 chance of this passing, whereas a few months ago it looked like it was unlikely.

You either put up $100k earlier on to make a wider political statement regardless of the chances of outcome or you put up $100k to help create tip the balance when it looks like things could go either way...
Strange. 20 years ago, the the hot Microsoft technologies were MS-DOS and Windows 3.0.

Are you sure, that your knowledge of Ralf Brown's Interrupt List and VGA registers is still what current market demands?
You're under 500 IOPS per HDD, period

This is only significant if one is limited to a trivial number of spinning disks. 20 years ago, with separate disk controllers, this was the case.

If you run some benchmarks, I expect you'll find that, for random I/O, N disks perform better than N times one of those disks.

SCSI provided (arguably) an order of magnitude for number of disks per system.

Now, SAS provides another. $8k will buy 100 disks (and enclosures, expanders, etc). How many IOPS is that?

ETA: The Fujitsu Eagle (my archetype of 20ish years ago disk technology) had, IIRC, an average access time of 28ms. If its sequential transfer rate was one 60-100th of modern disks, what fraction of a modern disk's 4k IOPS could it do?
That's catchy, but kind of a non-starter for people who area actually worried about their privacy.....

It would be like PETA protesting by eating live animals or something.
Interesting, but severely lacking in technical details.

What kind of batteries does this car use? How expensive are they? What kind of special-purpose charging infrastructure is required? Have any crazy tradeoffs been made in order to make this possible (for instance, does the battery die after a few dozen charge cycles?)
From a European perspective, this stuff is deeply disturbing. I'm not entirely sure what the blogger's stance is, but I have some hope left that he's going for irony here.
From cca the same time - remember Fahrenheit?
Other states would follow, then... countries in Europe (Netherlands, Spain, Denmark)

It already is legalized in Netherlands and decriminalized (I believe) in Spain and Denmark, as well as UK (although that's about to change back I hear).
The danger of this sort of an incentive is that there may be some hidden externalities that will be exposed. I wonder if the accident rate per shift also increased when this system was established (c.f. Dominos delivery and unintended liability...)
this was a game changer for us -- instead of everyone contending for the Hadoop cluster, each developer has their own personal arsenal of Hadoop clusters. huge win.
The Jacket SDK trumps standalone MEX
Not so much that this is a question, but that this particular question gets 100+ points on "hacker news", when its not even a question or explanation, just a link to google result of adding numbers in java.

If it was at least a homework question on stackoverflow there would at least be a good description, and possibly a reasonable explanation.
You see, in business, everything is about cheap or expensive. It's just a more broad definition that includes developer time and ROI.

If your problem is extremely transactional and legitimately unshardable, feel free to drop 6 mil on exadata. Or a half a mil on a database server and backup. But frankly, your objections are starting to have a religious feel to them. All I was saying is that PL/SQL is a pile of crap to code in and fundamentally unscalable without spending a boatload of money. A little better design can get the same thing with a lot less cash.

EDIT: No, those are facts, PL/SQL looks like it was designed in 1965 and, yes, putting all of your CPU processing into a single node is fundamentally unscalable. I've seen it. It was fundamentally unscalable.

I'm not making a religious point about RDBMS - it can be the best model in many situations. I'm making a point about single bottlenecks for your architecture.
I really wish I lived in CA so I could vote for this. We had a similar initiative here in WA, but they didn't get enough signatures to put it on the ballot.
I just hope the TSA figures it out before someone with a bomb does.
By sending the HttpOnly flag as a server application, I indicate to the browser that it should prevent client-side scripts from obtaining the actual value of the cookie. Hence, it is more difficult for a malicious little piece of smuggled-in XSS code to steal my session id and ship it off to some Nigerian server. Is it circumventable? Yes. Are different browser implementations subverting this scheme? Yes. But is the intention behind it worthwhile? ...I think so.

Of course, that kind of protection is superficial, but please try to remember in your rebuttal there are actual attacks still happening that could have been prevented by setting this simple flag. An insistence on always making secure code that won't have this problem anyway is honorable but not realistic. By the way, it happens on high profile sites, too. It shouldn't, and it makes us web devs uncomfortable even observing it from a distance, but it still happens.

Even disregarding this argument, for me HttpOnly is the way cookies should have been conceived by default. I believe accessing cookie values by JavaScript is pathological. The behavior HttpOnly attempts to trigger on the client seems like good practice to me, and given (again) the point that it comes at no cost to the reasonable developer, turning it on is really a no-brainer. In fact, browsers should turn it on whether the flag is set or not.

It means you can't bank up session tokens; instead, you're only able to do everything that a session token would do for you anyhow.

Oh, you can still use other exploits to bank up tokens, but yes this particular avenue is blocked. You're absolutely right, having the current session to work with is pretty destructive. But I think shipping off session IDs to a hostile server is worse than issuing false requests on behalf of the user in an already open browser window. That's because siphoning session IDs is silent and can lead to problems many days later when you're _not_ online.

Try to articulate [...] Remember in your explanation that session tokens already expire anyways.

Alright, I'll try not to drool and babble more than necessary: for the sake of convenience we are used to very long-lasting session tokens. So when you say they expire, yes, it limits the amount of damage somewhat, but not in any meaningful way considering the typical cookie-based account identifier lasts well beyond a week. Certainly for the purpose of completing my answer I can now say "I remembered" session expiration but it didn't really go anywhere.
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Excellent response, it's amazing how many people have never seen a SQL server with 200 disks attached to it, and we're not even talking about SANs. A single quad core chip can easily drive 200 disks. All people see is a $200,000 price tag for a single system and ignore the fact that it will outperform 100 $2000 servers. AMD64 can scale so far these days there is little point to NoSQL for all but the highest end of web-scale. I bet if you look into the core of Google there are still mysql systems doing a lot of grunt work.
This article gets my up-vote just for his joke about calling his testicles "The Resistance" ala "The Situation" on Jersey Shore. I needed a good chuckle today.
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I'll tell you what happened--they started reporting "nobody at home" so they didn't have to ring the doorbell. Haven't you ever been sitting at home waiting all day for a package to arrive, only to find on the website that the driver reported "nobody home"?
Infinite dimensional analysis is essentially functional analysis. A crude analogy is that a function is an infinite dimensional vector [...f(0),f(0+epsilon),...] so on. Although extremely interesting in its own right, this approach however will not give you a handle on how the behavior changes as the dimensionality grows.
most frequent flyers (on flyertalk) have been calling it the nude-o-scope
I'm actually more enamored of the CAD and fabrication stuff: http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/guerrilla_cnc1.shtml
Building a single page app with Backbone.js, underscore.js and jQuery
We're a family of 4 living on the equivalent of $50 a day, 60% of our income gets paid out on mortgage costs. We're not in Pasadena though.

Median income adjusted for purchasing power (based on Wikipedia figures) would be about half your quoted amount , $34000.

I can't quite imagine having equivalent of $250 a day. You must have a lot of savings.
On the other hand, the shareholders are watching the actions of the corporations every day of the year. I'm not personally doing so, but I pay a variety of mutual fund managers to do it. If they can't maximize my return by steering clear of corporations that are flushing money away, I'm going to fire the fund manager and put my money elsewhere.

The recent financial meltdown should have made it abundantly clear that the "watchers" were in fact not watching and at times were colluding with those they were supposed to be watching to get a cut of the take. Shareholders do not watch companies for waste, they just watch the stock price (and maybe the bottom line if they are particularly dilligent.) In many cases government agencies are better managed than corporations of an equivalent size; there are usually better internal auditing and fraud controls in place and if you get caught trying to defraud a government agency you are more likely to go to jail than if you were to perform a similar fraud against a corporation.
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No kidding, it's like a battery backed write cache doesn't even exist in the NoSQL world. I was able to easily drive 200MB/sec of random IO on 25 15K drives.
> We don't need profit-driven companies who profit from increased rates of incarceration, ...

Agreed. But perhaps the problem is not with the privitization generally, but the contract the company operates under. It appears to provide the wrong incentives.

> ... they have no reason to really rehabilitate people - they want them back in the system ASAP.

I suppose so. But then has any prison system, anywhere, had significant success with rehabilitation? Is it even possible, for all but a small fraction of prisoners? (Not rhetorical questions.)
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I am a firm supporter of Prop 19, but I have one major concern: that as cannabis laws are eased in the US, gangs and criminals that used to make their living from pushing cannibis will start pushing harder drugs (like cocaine), causing an increase in violence (as more people fight for a smaller market) and heavier drugs getting pushed on school children.

I suspect (though I haven't researched further) that the recent crime uptick in northern Mexico is due to the easing of cannabis laws across America over the past few years, and that it'll just get worse after Prop 19 is passed.

Personally, I think the solution is to legalize all drugs, and to put the money that we're spending on the war on drugs into medical treatment and education. It's obviously a difficult situation, but I'm glad to see that we're making progress.
This is actually a really fascinating topic:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocannabinoid_system

Endocannabinoids are fat-soluble chemicals used for local signaling, most notably retrograde signaling among neurons: they can send signals backwards. They're hydrophobic, diffusing well through cell membranes but not traveling well in water. This makes them useful for sending very short-distance signals.
> although I'm not allowed to vote here in CA

You are allowed to man phone banks for get out the vote efforts, and are allowed to drive people to the polls, however. These multiplicative effects are likely to do more than just voting.