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Am I the only one more concerned about furthering the "guilty until proven innocent" than I am about the DNS? Of course the DNS issue is huge, but not nearly as large (IMO, bviously) as "prove you are innocent from behind bars".
Yup, in Canada they check ID EVERY time you present your ticket.
I agree. I don't understand why they aren't linking to those resources as well, or maybe I missed them.
You can alter the ticket, but they check it to see that it matches your ID. So, using this method you would ALSO have to edit your ID
More than the quantity, quality and the actual implementation of these patents matter.

Like the old joke goes, why take the trouble of implementing your idea when you cant patent it and live off royalties?
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That's a good idea, it would handle most of what I need for a reasonable price and I can still tweak it a bit if I need to. Learning how to be a decent designer would be definitely a lot more time consuming than just getting done with it in a couple of hours.
Makes sense about checking the passport flying international ;) I guess I should have said that flying domestic you also are required to show photo ID. I'm not saying it never happens down there, but on the flights we boarded, we never had ours checked and it just seemed out of the norm for what we're used to.
Based on the transcripts, we need more innovative thinking in all walks of life, not just technology/software/etc. Economic forecasting will always have a large degree of uncertainty involved, but the frivolity with which the Fed approached the unusual signs of an aberration in the housing market shows that the Fed provided commentary on the crisis as it unfolded instead of taking action.
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I know a girl who changed her name when she got married and whose ID still has her maiden name. She buys her plane tickets under her married name, and carries her marriage license with her when she flies in case the TSA asks about the discrepancy. But no one has ever noticed.
Thanks for the information, this part was always a mystery to me as well.

To clarify, if someone has never downloaded a torrent before and starts with a rarely downloaded file, would the use of only magnet links mean they will probably not be able to find another peer? It sounds like unless you already have torrents downloaded, your list of possible peers to check for the file is very short.
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I doubt you'll find any authoritative sources on the full extent of the abuse, as the ensuing lawsuit was settled out of court under the typical terms that sequestered the evidence backing Borland's claims and gagged the truth.
However, I agree that not every Borland engineer sat on his or her thumbs; many simply felt under-utilized in the wake of a Microsoft hiring spree that was obviously designed to kill a competitor as opposed to fill open positions. It's no secret that some of those hires were lured from Borland with signing bonuses that reached 7 figures... for compiler engineers.
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In my experience, the TSA agent you have to show ID and boarding pass to at the security checkpoint also scribbles something with a marker or highlighter on your boarding pass.

But even aside from the fact that this is obviously and trivially forgeable, I don't think the person who scans your boarding pass at the gate even looks for the scribble, as I've used a different boarding pass to get on the plane than I did at the security checkpoint before (because I had printed one out at home and also printed another copy at the self-service check-in machine, and just happened to use different copies each time I needed to show it).
Unless you're late. I've rushed onto the plane at the last minute a couple times, and they have consistently failed to check my ID each time.
Air Canada's requirements specify that they require gov't issued ID, but they don't specify which gov't. Would a gate agent be able to identify and verify the authenticity of an arbitrary ID card from a distant country?

Probably not - I wouldn't expect them to, anyway.
There is a 0% chance SOPA will lead to Wikipedia or Google being taken down permanently.
Could you use the same trick to use your friend's ticket in general?

I've often had the situation of having an "extra" flight ticket for some reason. I've always thought that there is no way I can give the ticket away to a friend, but it seems like this could be a way to do it.
Yes, I realize that. In my opinion, there's no qualitative difference between employees of AWS peeking into my data or employees that I hired peeking into my data. It's about trust in the end.

Anyone who has set up company email knows this. A lot of people think that having an in-house team manage a dedicated, on-premises mail server is somehow "better" or "more secure" than hiring Google or Microsoft or Ma&Pa Exchange Hosting to do it. Those people either: (1) have a reason to trust their employees that they don't have when it comes to Google/Microsoft/Ma&Pa, or (2) are living in a fantasy of their own delusions.
Doesn't solve the problem.

The same function can get called a 1000 times and take different paths each time. Which method is your hypothetical rewinding debugger going to show? (Leaving aside the big gaping hole of how your program is executing while you are typing it out).

The problem of deciding which method actually gets called by static analysis in a text editor (and it would have to be static analysis) is literally impossible for dynamic languages - pretty much by definition.
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Agreed. I made my donation to the WMF during their last fundraising round, and I'm participating in the discussions about a blackout. That's the extent of the influence I feel comfortable attempting to exert.

The proposal comes from the right place, but it goes against everything Wikipedia stands for.
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No, but it may well lead to increased legal costs for Wikipedia, as well as forcing them to hire people to ensure no copyrighted material is posted (a daunting task on a site that size). Those increased costs could seriously affect their ability to continue to finance themselves through donations.
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I may be missing something but wouldn't your name be flagged as on the no fly list when you pass your ID to the TSA agent?
In Australia I can get on domestic flights without ever showing anyone my ID.
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It's not bullshit, it's pretty great and much better than what we had before. This is a desired result of the standards process, exactly the opposite of what you seem to think it is.

There has to be a way for browsers to test new features in the wild. That's how it's always been and will always be, which also has the nice side effect that the standards body (or single vendors inside the body) cannot slow everyone down. If everyone could only implement features when they are really done and part of the standard the world would be a dreary place indeed.

The problem with this is that when two browsers implement a feature with either a different syntax or different results you would be forced to do browser detection and have two stylesheets or use hacks. That reallx used to happen and it sucked. The prefixes avoid this problem altogether. When everyone agrees about a feature the prefixes can be dropped – in this case (if the syntax doesn't change) nobody even has to change anything. All the designer has to do is delete lines as more browsers adopt the standard.

What you are seeing is the necessary result of a standards process with many vendors.
Any suggestions from people who have switched from Google to another search engine?

I switched from Google to DuckDuckGo, but I gave up after a few days. DuckDuckGo's results were very good for popular/mainstream terms, but Google is much better at deep "needle in haystack" searches.

I later switched from Google to Bing, but I gave up after one day. Bing's results were very random and stale. And Bing is ugly. :)
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It's on the list to improve :)
How well-rounded are you outside of computer programming? Hard sciences, humanities, etc. I ask the question because to me it seems like hyperfocus is a significant danger to the unschooling concept.

In particular, I can see a real possibility that an unschooled child with a heavy computer focus and a lack of parental guidance could very easily lock in on computers and neglect potentially "boring" but incredibly helpful topics. I'm thinking largely of the humanities here; you can get away without understanding, say, chemistry [1], but it seems difficult (in my circles, at least) to be taken seriously without a decent command of English--a skill that I think is refined largely from reading, because I've never met someone who could speak and write well who didn't enjoy reading--and it seems like it'd be difficult to really understand the world around you without a decent grasp of history. In neither case does Wikipedia really cover it; I think that a level of internalization of such things is necessary (it becomes harder to evaluate political statements without at least a high-level understanding of where they come from, which has driven my own recent forays into economics and sociology).

For similar over-focusing reasons, I'm generally but not completely skeptical of the "don't go to college" argument sometimes espoused here on HN; the focus on matters of immediacy--the get-a-job skills--strikes me as a good way of turning out someone with a few strong skills in a few areas and a generally fuzzy understanding of topics unrelated to their focus area. I am, however, even less fond of the idea of "max out your subject matter, take the bare minimum outside your degree area"--I have a hunch that a self-directed person is more likely to stumble into well-roundedness than somebody whose academic drive is constrained to do-your-job topics.

[1] - Not to say chemistry's a useless subject by any means, I actually draw on it sometimes in my day-to-day life. But knowledge of the hard sciences, physics possibly excepted, are a little less impactful overall.
It would if they checked your name against a database. But all TSA does is verify your ID is valid and matches the name on the boarding pass, nothing more.
That's exactly the type of verbosity in Java that new languages should avoid. I'm a bit disappointed by Kotlin in general to be honest.
There have been people like Peter Schiff warning about the recession and specifically saying when it will happen and how long it will last, and even politicians like Ron Paul warning about the housing bubble since 2003. They just refused to believe it, and I guess everyone in the Fed fell prey to group think. They couldn't admit to themselves that their strategy was failing, and even worse, that they were responsible for the economic failure through their policies over the past few years.

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The vast majority of HN users are aware of SOPA/PIPA so it wouldn't have almost any impact. There's no need for HN to go dark. Sites where most of the people are not aware of SOPA/PIPA, like wikipedia, facebook, twitter, google, youtube, maybe 9gag... should go dark, at least for some hours.
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Poorly implemented solutions are security theatre at its best. Well, almost. They're second best to "The wrong solution for the problem" approaches. Take the school in Texas this week where one kid shot another [1]. The school's solution is to make everyone use completely transparent backpacks, nevermind that:

1. You could fit a gun inside a zippered/covered binder or expanding file folder and the backpack does nothing.

2. The school already has metal detectors, so the backpacks aren't actually adding any detection.

3. They don't even know if the edge case where their current security failed even involved backpacks.

[1] http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Teen-shot-at...
Showing a 'Please activate javascript' message is indeed a good idea. A complete HTML only fallback is impossible since everything happens in the browser (JSONP API calls).
I'm not sure if I could see who purchased through my site, as far as I know shopkeepers see it. There is no sort of affiliate program. So I don't see any monetizing options for this moment.
It's hard to understand why you're going to such lengths to defend Microsoft in this case. Hejlsberg and a few other Borlanders received justifiably high bonuses, but the absurdly rich enticements were extended much further down the line.
As an ex-Borlander at the time, I heard all kinds of inside stories about the Microsoft offers. For a compiler engineer, the bonus represented a life-altering financial event that Borland didn't have the resources to match. Many never had their heart in the move to Redmond and left Microsoft after a few years. If you understood how Borland's culture of software craftsmanship compared to the churn of second-rate engineering packaged and sold by Microsoft on a regular basis, it's no surprise that the flight of talent wasn't driven by the dream of working on Microsoft products or exposure to Microsoft's business culture.

On a brighter note, Borland may have lost but silicon valley ultimately won when Google's incredibly fast growth prevented Microsoft from pulling a Borland on Google's search engine team.
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Only if every TSA agent has the list memorized.
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They definitely don't look. Several itineraries have multiple legs, and the TSA only ever looks at - much less scribbles on - your first leg. Even that aside, you can easily get a boarding pass from an agent inside the terminal, without it ever having been checked by the TSA.

I've actually gone through TSA with one boarding pass on one flight, and boarded a completely different flight before (not just a separate piece of paper) - back when I could book flights for free on JetBlue and had already booked another flight that night. I merely decided once I was in the terminal that I'd hop on a different flight I had also checked in to.

I do a lot of flying and have long though about this. It's total theatre. They could fix it by implementing some cryptographic code that's scanned at TSA entry points, verifying the actual document (boarding passes are a far cry from a verifyable document).
Pre-caching JSON results is something I'm testing with, expect it within a short time.
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Every time I visit Canada, I'm required to show my ticket and my passport (which is printed in both Arabic and English) when leaving.
Yes, obviously it's impossible to be curious if you attend a typical school.
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That's an interesting proposal. I wonder whether it is against the law, or just against terms of service to do so.
you can break out tabs into a separate action bar or use scrollable tabs. You're using elements from another platform your users don't use. You're just going to confuse or annoy them.
More specifically, the problem of trying to write a binary compatible java implementation of a neatly optimized solution written in C. So, the program in question is executed, reads a whole bunch of binary data from a whole bunch of different files, does some calculations on that data and then exits.

The questions are, if you had to develop a distributed version control system in java: a) would you solve it the same way, b) would your solution be faster or slower, and c) would it take more or less time to write it and be easier to maintain?

Clearly you would not solve it the same way, for example it might stick around in memory as you worked. Could it then appear faster, from a user's perspective? Possibly. Might it be easier to maintain. Also possible.

Pretty much by definition, if you are writing it in C, a binary compatible solution is not going to run as fast if you port it to java.

I don't think that is a conclusion that has much value.
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Try getting your editor to find that definition of method "accept_language" or "cache_control". :-)
That's true, although arguably it's just because adults are better at hiding it, whereas kids/teens act more overtly.
If they were really to "get us", we would have something like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beslan_school_hostage_crisis

(But then they know that response would be really asymmetrical).
I also vividly remember when Greenspan stepped down - the government and the media was effusive in praising the guy. For an area of study that stresses the importance of lagging indicators, most economists were content with immediately solidifying Greenspan's legacy. Looking back on that period of calm before the storm is really interesting.
You are far too pessimistic; a few very simple heuristics would work great in most cases. It doesn't have to be perfect. Something imperfect would be miles better than nothing, which is what we have now for dynamic languages.
You're missing the point - the TSA watch list is checked with the name you bought the flight under. You can then change that name to the name that matches your ID. The TSA does not check your name against the watch list when you go up to their booth; they only verify that the two documents match (where one of the documents is essentially fabricated).
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It's not a legal requirement, but most airlines have required one for years to prevent secondary sales of tickets.
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But switching paid search platforms is considerably hairier, especially if you have a large Adwords account with well built out campaigns. There's no way to drive anywhere near the volume of Adwords on Bing, especially once you're running at the margins. So unless you're willing to take a huge hit to business while moving some or all of your ad spending to another engine, there is no real choice to switch.

This is both the beauty and terror of Google's business model. Don't be evil?
I agree that having parents with a broad base of knowledge is a hugely positive influence--but I think you're misattributing the genesis of that base of knowledge when you refer to "academic experience". The rarity of those people, I think, is tied more towards (smart) people's willingness to over-focus. If, like a lot of computery folks I know, you choose to devote your time almost exclusively to computery stuff, you're going to be limited outside of that area--but you can choose not to do that.

I found it fairly easy to avoid over-focus by seeking out new stuff to learn about. I'm 24, with a bachelor's in CS from a state school, and I went to a pretty normal high school; the works (and in most cases) lives of each of those people listed in your quote are pretty familiar to me, though some more than others, and I could recall offhand enough of substance to at least be able to hold my own in conversation.

I think three things in particular helped me. I credit a lot of it to my dad taking away my computers when I screwed up as a kid. It forced me to entertain myself, and a lot of that was going to the library and reading everything I could get my hands on. Another factor was that (against my parents' advice) I explicitly refused to get a B.S. in CS in college. Instead, I took a B.A. so I could get out of the CS building more often. I hung out in the honors college of my school, which was heavily humanities-focused and where the students skewed towards the humanities and towards real engineering degrees (zero other CS students). I had to broaden my horizons just to keep up. The third helpful factor was that I started programming computers when I was about eight years old (I started in on C around 11 or 12), which provided much more to get good at what I do while still leaving a lot of time to follow up on other interests.

(I am skeptical of unschooling largely due to what I see as the predilection of very smart people to hyper-focus--unless a child's parents are sharp and have a broad set of interests, the child seems incredibly likely to become one of these hyperfocused people. I can see it being really valuable and effective if parents have that baseline broad-scope curiosity.)
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Legally you are correct, but I've tried this, and been unable to manage it. Despite asking politely in a couple different ways, the TSA agent would say no words to me except "You need ID".

I'm told by people who know that it possibly would have worked to lie and say I didn't have ID on me, but I didn't have the guts to try lying to federal agents.
I've read only 1 of those (out of 500+ books I've read). Oh well, I guess I'm not intelligent.
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I think that is more to do with SSH than screen or tmux. I just tested it on a SSH session across the Pacific. No difference whether it is a straight xterm or if it is within a screen session.
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