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OK, I will play the devil's advocate.

Yes, he does not deny or dispute whether the method works as claimed.

The otherwise hip language is not helping nor does it sound sincere, I agree.

But, if we want to stay objective:

1) He describes the demonstration in the video as a "crude attempt", which is in certain ways true. Neither is the attempt too sophisticated, nor the documentation of it, or should I say especially the documentation. The video itself is lacking in scientific argumentation, and makes up for the lack thereof with unnecessary political rhetoric that I don't need to be fed to see the simple "flaw" he claims to have discovered - more about that now...

2) The person in the video may or may not be sincere about his claims, but he definitely is not the first person to point out this "flaw". It was known publicly for a very long time, and it is reasonable to assume people who developed and approved the system were well aware of it.

3) Everyone is pointing out that there is no attempt at a "scientific" refutation in the blog post. Well, he is right in stating that their claim never was that they can catch any single concealed object with the body scanner. I don't see what it is exactly that he needs to refute. It is indeed part of a layered system, and I can't see how anyone can disagree with this concept. I'm not saying the scanner is a reasonable layer or that it should stay - but if your argument is "it has to work 100% or it has to go", it is pretty weak. He doesn't really evade any serious accusation here - he simply points out the obvious and reinstates their claim: what was shown in the video is uninteresting, because the body scanner was never about catching metal boxes sewn to the side of a shirt with 98.5% confidence.

You can argue the body scanner is an economical disaster, dispute it on the basis of privacy or bring up health concerns, but I like to stay objective. There is nothing wrong with this post, as a response to the demonstration in the video, beyond the silly language.
The PC view on a PC is ugly: there's a big vertical scrollbar that you can't use to scroll. Mousewheel and cursors work fine.

I also see a horizontal scrollbar, scrolling right reveals the second vertical scrollbar.

It's a nice idea, but the usability for PC users is terrible. Hopefully you can fix that in future iterations.
They're both useful. I prefer the single site at a time when doing development since I'd rather focus in one layout at a time to optimize it.
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Well, T-Mobile prepaid has 5 GB data for $30 at their 4G speed. Also includes unlimited SMS and 100 minutes of talk. Pretty decent deal for me.
I hate the TSA as much as anyone, but this type of gallows humor is pretty common - in private, it's common for doctors to joke about dying patients, etc, because keeping things deathly serious all the time is emotionally impossible.
No dependencies but uses moment.js ?

What about I18N for months, days and date format parsing ?
The whole point is that the market can't decide if there is an effective monopoly of colluders.
You do need pro to make scene files and stuff text, but the most important thing for source control (the use of .meta files) can be enabled in the free version now.
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For anyone who wants to make this in Windows, just script it with AutoHotKey.

I have shortcut keys that send me to all of my most-used programs. For example, winkey+y moves me to chrome (if there are many open, it will cycle through them). winkey+s to Sublime Text, winkey+t to Total Commander, winkey+b to vim.

They're incredibly easy to write, and adding a refresh into it is child's play (just add a ctrl+r after moving to the window in the script).
I had the same initial reaction, but upon visiting a few of the domains the caliber of the companies became apparent.
IANAL, but the problem is when Apple says that publishers must prevent Apple's rivals from selling the books for less. Without that, the agency model is fine, but when Apple and the publishers conspire to prevent undercutting, that's tantamount to conspiring to raise prices.
Tagged this in delicious.

Wondering if it'll show up with my tags... http://delicious.com/quink

Can someone else tag it too with my tags and it might show up on their page...?
It's the standard euphemism for anonymous sources. It seems fine to me. What is your problem with it?
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Yet, Im really interessted how Apple actually deals with its suppliers. My guess is that they are not really, well how should I put it, nice? to deal with. Judging from their enourmous growth AND their steady growing profits, Apple prouved an impressive upward flexibility. To manage that you have to be a pain the ass for your suppliers, yet you have to fair.
Pretty cool how they walk that razors edge. Guess Apple dominace is a major for the competition in more than one way.
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I've created an AutoHotKey script last month about that :

http://pastebin.com/uXF5B5yy
This definitely looks like the beginning of the end for at least the body scanners.

If that video brought on so much heat that they had to respond like this and drop the ball so much, queue more public outrage and major back-pedalling in 3.....2.....1....
Or it could be that women are more often targets of violence and are more prone to medical issues due to reproduction.
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OK, this is the most shocking thing I've seen in a while...

I've never seen anything so awesomely refuted. Even if you don't speak German, watch it. Basically, they do a scan of the man, who claims to be carrying a swiss army knife, and only find a mobile and the microphone transmitter on the back that's inevitable since they're on TV.

However, the man is carrying thermite (three vials), an igniter for the thermite, a vial that can contain even more explosive and a normal igniter.

They claimed that in an airport situation he'd be wearing the jacket and that they'd also have done a side view. Which is funny because these scanners can penetrate clothing while showing skin - that's the whole point of them... and a side view wouldn't have helped much considering that he was carrying something in his mouth and near his lower back.

They take the stuff (which is made from materials available in any pharmacy for a 'few cent') outside that he carried in his lower back area and set it on fire, which melts through the pan.

One of the body-scanner people calls the whole thing 'limitedly funny'. Then he says that "I don't know if we're well advised if we say 'look how stupid the terrorists are' if they'd do it like a professor advises, 'then we could bring down a 747'".

The professor moves the pan a bit and the whole thing ignites a bit more. The whole screen turns white before the camera person decides to move back a little.
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It would be good if he explained somewhere why (from a user perspective) this sucks less than the alternatives.

It seems very little different from what Dynarch's calendar offered in 2007 (the new version is still self-contained): www.dynarch.com/projects/calendar
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> Difference was that back then a game from start to end lasted a whole lot more than 4-8 hours.

RPGs, maybe, but you can certainly beat Super Mario World or Star Fox or whatever in less than two hours.
This is such an interesting article about how useful, mining social media data can be. Its a pity the headline is so link-baity and barely related to the content.
It's weird that they would introduce the Medium instance as "new", when it's actually a return -- they used to have Medium instances a couple years ago, and retired them.
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Thanks so much for the kind words I really appreciate it.
Perhaps this would be a good place to tie into the "Accept:" request header? If it says text/html in Accept:, you're still going to return JSON, but you can use this as a hint that it is probably being read by a human, and you can pretty print it.

But if you see application/json in Accept:, then you assume it's an API call from a phone or script and you minify it instead.

Edit: however, that requires cooperation from others, so is prone to failure. Perhaps also take hints from the user agent string?

Edit 2: drat, someone already beat me to this suggestion. However, I'll use this as an excuse to pimp my last weekend hack: adding an Accept: decorator to itty.py http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3665743
I hate to state the obvious, but the quote you gave actually talks about 3 people.
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Posting this to raise awareness. No need for hare-brained schemes like encrypting the swapfile. Just don't write sensitive data to it in the first place!
re 1), we use the 3taps API (http://3taps.com/) to pull listing data. We had to roll our own login system for grabbing a user's listings, which might run afoul of CL's TOS. Will definitely have to explore options for the long-term.
64-bit small instances are perhaps the best new announcement. We now have two different builds and AMI's for all our different node types, just so that we can use a small instance when necessary and a large instance otherwise. We can now drop half of our images and use 64-bit everywhere.

The medium instances are also very welcome, since previously the gap between small and large was quite big (4x the memory for 4x the price).
Don't worry about users like me.

Make your content load, but anything above that, users are on their own if they decide not to enable JavaScript.

In this age, with all of the rich user applications, JS is practically a requirement.

For my startup, the frontend gracefully fallbacks to a working version for users.

For the backend, they get a blackscreen saying JS is required. If users are going to use my application, they should expect to have JS enabled for the best possible user experience.

Don't worry about it is the upshot!
I found this post on SO quite enlightening:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/101268/hidden-features-of...

It now also has many links at the top to other SO answers on various topics - this is amazing.
I'm not sure how bad Ford's touchscreen was, but this problem isn't unique to them - car UIs in general still feel way behind what we are capable of. The touchscreen on my 2011 Lexus is pretty disappointing - not very intuitive and often really slow - and feels like something you'd expect from a 10 year old car. I can't imagine Ford's offering being much worse.

To be honest, I'd rather see more investment into Siri-like voice capabilities in a car, rather than improving the touchscreen. Some navigation tasks might be a little tricky, but I think most car-related tasks lend themselves well to voice interaction, and it is certainly less distracting than messing with a touchscreen.
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This is exactly what I needed.

I'm currently using the Rackspace VM that gives 4gb of ram. I wanted to switch to EC2 after they dropped prices, but I would have either had to drop down to a small (1.7gb - not an option for my workload) or up to a large (7gb - costs over $50/mo more).

With all of these improvements Amazon is making, Rackspace's VM offerings are now horribly overpriced.
Their "20 layers of security" reminds me of your usual "7 proxies" and "over 9000": meaningless over-the-top numbers with no relationship with reality.
Home network. It may differ in larger towns like Auckland or Wellington but the city I live in is hardly small either.
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The spelling and grammatical errors tell you within 5 seconds that this person is not very intelligent.

For obvious security reasons, we can’t discuss our
technology's detection capability in detail, however TSA
conducts extensive testing of all screening technologies
in the laboratory and at airports prior to rolling them
out to the entire field.

This is a run-on sentence.

Imaging technology has been extremely effective in the
field and has found things artfully concealed on
passengers as large as a gun or nonmetallic weapons, on
down to a tiny pill or tiny baggies of drugs.

"on down" is faulty parallelism.

It’s one of the best tools available to detect metallic
and non-metallic items, such as… you know… things that go
BOOM.

Two ellipses in one sentence? Leave aside the "BOOM".

With all that said, it is one layer of our 20 layers of
security (Behavior Detection, Explosives Detection
Canines, Federal Air Marshals, , etc.)

Extra comma and the capitalization feels bizarre.

and is not a machine that has all the tools we need in one
handy device. We’ve never claimed it’s the end all be all.

The phrase is "the be all and end all" or "the be-all and end-all". One can go on, but almost every sentence here displays this person's low level of intelligence. Leaving aside the content, it's just poorly written.

The punchline is that the TSA's budget is double that of Facebook's $3.7 billion in revenue. $8.1 billion in tax dollars for a gang of complete morons.
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Astonishing blog post.

Imaging technology has been extremely effective in the field and has found things artfully concealed on passengers as large as a gun or nonmetallic weapons, on down to a tiny pill or tiny baggies of drugs.

This reminded me of part of the recent TSA Fail post by a former FBI agent.

Civil libertarians on both sides of the aisle should be appalled at an unauthorized use to which TSA is putting their screening: Identifying petty criminals--using one search method to achieve a secret goal. This is strictly forbidden in other government branches. In the FBI, if I had a warrant to wiretap an individual on a terrorism matter and picked-up evidence of a non-terrorism-related crime, I could not, without FBI Headquarters and a judge’s approval, use that as evidence in a criminal case. But TSA is using its screening devices to carve out a niche business. According to congress, TSA began to seek out petty criminals without congressional approval. TSA have arrested more than 1,000 people on drug charges and other non-airline security-related offenses to date.

http://gmancasefile.blogspot.in/2012/01/tsa-fail.html
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Hi!

20 year old finnish (soon to be)University student here!

I've got some experience with C -based languages from vocational school, but thats pretty much it, so i figured i should come and ask from the experts as i really didnt get a clear image what different languages are used for(about any other languages besides C & C++ atleast) from the classes i attended at vocational school

my main interests reside within games and systems they run on, as well as platforms, so my 3 main subjects will most likely be

1.Programming/Software Developement

2.Electronics

3.Economics and Enterpreneurship

Sooo any thoughts?
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This makes me feel so sorry for HardHat and the others, I don't think I could ever pull something like this off. One good reason to stay away from EVE in my opinion.
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Ha! I used the same example in an earlier thread
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Whoops, I need to check the logs! Thanks for the heads-up. We do plan to keep SnapStore.me running. Currently deciding how best to divide our time between our two projects.
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Are you sure that's a reasonable comparison?
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This is a great news. Before that, if you start with a small instance, there is no way to upgrade to higher instance since they exclusively support 64-bit. Now you can upgrade smoothly from micro to any instance.
I read the first paragraph, scanned the rest of it and assumed that it was satire. Checked the url, that looked right so I thought maybe they got hacked. It's unbelievable.
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Today, I am not proud to be an American. Thanks TSA.
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AND when you tried to pull, which broke my current project's build. First time I've seen current news directly affect my work...
Shocking because it will produce extremely large amounts of data, makes the logs extremely security-relevant, and probably breaks all kinds of privacy laws. E.g. in the EU a user has a right to request that a company delete all data they have collected about him. So you'd have to go through your logs and purge all request data from that user - possible, but likely to be overlooked.
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I saw the screenshots and demos and immediately disliked it. The default should be that the week starts at Monday. The default String representation should not be `m/dd/yyyy` but instead `dd.mm.yyyy`. There could be additional examples that show the date formats that are used in the usa, but not the first and default ones.
In the language of science, they are acting on a hypothesis. Theory does not mean the same thing in science as in ordinary language - in science it typically refers to a well tested model which is capable of making predictions with a high degree of accuracy. It is far-fetched to call most things in modern psychiatry theories. The models are still underdeveloped, bad at making predictions and fail at treating ailments a lot of the time.
I'm aware of those, thankfully the things I set wont change within the life a single environment, a single variable to say dev/test/staging/production, could easily set in bashrc & wsgi script.
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I am looking at going with IntoVPS as they have a good price range and locations that suit my needs. Their plans are similar to Linode's, and you get a bit more traffic and disk space in comparison.

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> It's one thing to find something truly damning in a TOS and something else entirely to nitpick standard boilerplate legalese meant to protect companies from the very same people who nitpick the TOS in the first place.

If "we have non-exclusive rights to use and sell everything you post on our site and you take all responsibility if infringement does occur" is now "standard boilerplate legalese" then actually yes I do think people should be complaining, and not just at Pinterest.

I suppose ultimately they could be going for the YouTube style model of stimulating large amounts of infringement, and then making DMCA compliance easy, but also offering content owners the ability to profit from advertising along side that originally infringing content.

I don't think that model is inherently a bad thing, but it can make life very tedious for users and for smaller content producers so people should know what they are getting into. The history of YouTube monetization has been a total mess for a lot of people, and it seems to regularly go through new rounds of turmoil as they tweak their algorithms or more aggressive content owners join the market.
Pinterest should buy Flickr to resolve this, then it would need to copy and would legitimise large parts of its content.
While i understand the despise of IDEs somehow, after working with Visual Studio on a big C# project i cant really think how efficient refactoring would work without the IDEs features for just simple stuff like renaming.

Even if you have Unit tests for everything, it would still be alot more error-prone and require manual work. Where in a good IDE its a press of a button, without one i would think twice about renaming something and probably not do it at all.
As you're interested in electronics you may be interested in Arduino, which you can program in C (and perhaps some other languages too). If you do decide to pick C, I'd really recommend picking up a copy of K&R's "The C Programming Language": http://www.amazon.com/C-Programming-Language-2nd-Edition/dp/...

You're also interested in games, so you could consider Python and the PyGame library: http://www.pygame.org/
Or if you want to go with C, try the allegro library: http://alleg.sourceforge.net/index.html (Learning this library was what taught me C, after picking up the basics of C I picked up the rest as I went along).

End of the day though, just pick something and learn it. It's better to be learning than worrying about what to learn.
Great idea and neat execution. If the site provided even more politicians' stances, it would be useful for state elections too.

Another thing to potentially offer would be the ability to weight each issue, like "I don't care about this at all" to "This is a crucial issue".
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Can someone post a link to the viral video they are referring to? I can't seem to find it (I live in a cave).
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the tone really got me.. it's like an alien infested corpse trying to mix with normal humans...
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I'm not a lawyer, but this is practically impossible without funding. Also, it matters what country you're from, so you should mention that.