skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh. That wasn't popular, why? My thinking was that, say, a successful headteacher could stand for a place on a national committee which decides education policy. Which would lead to an elected committee of experts deciding education policy. Rather than the current situation in the UK where we have Micheal Gove deciding policy based on whatever dogma he thinks will get him respect from the right wing of the tory party so he can get a promotion.
At this point, insisting that USG is bound by laws is willful ignorance. Small battles may be won, but even the net effect of that is to mislead people into thinking they have recourse through the system. Your share of the responsibility is proportional to how much you're still paying in taxes.
@Jon Seriously awesome work. Thank you! People like yourself raising everyone's awareness are one of the few hopes we have of avoiding the dystopian world that @ck2 and others have already resigned themselves to.
You know, all the freedom fighters have take risks. Risk to be arrested, killed, wounded, etc.

That's how it works.
You remind me of the occasional TSA "good catch" where they find some weed stashed in a jar of peanut butter. Peanut butter and C4 have the same density. Not a good place to hide your weed. ;)
Apple really should consider adding accessibility testing to the app approval process or working with a group to provide it in parallel.

Maybe it wouldn't result in the app being rejected but Apple should provide developers with feedback about potential accessibility issues.
> manipulating the court system against the TSA

Can you elaborate on what you mean?
I'm surprised they haven't built one in already.
Be sure you go outside the Basic Multilingual Plane. A lot of software runs into weird bugs when you use characters that can't be represented in 16 bits in UTF-16. Bonus points if it uses bidirectional control characters.
Well, a person can be honest, or they can just go by what a cartoon says. I guess you took the latter path.
It seems like your metal container would be a good spot to hide a doob.
...and instead, we freak out as a nation, flush our civil liberties down the toilet to feel "safe", and let our country fall apart in the wake of our fears.

"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

Bravo, USA, bravo. Osama is still #winning because we're still dealing with his terror of >10 years ago. Let that sink in for a bit....this is exactly what he wanted.
You mean a country with 100 billionaires, the second largest economy, and 500 million people (40%) living on less than $2 per day? 130x million people living on $1 per day (both courtesy of the world bank)? 50% of the population without indoor plumbing (cia factbook)?

Not hard to source the extremely dire statistics. They're plentiful.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8668086.stm

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_06/b42140136...
This is why HN is the second best community online. Authors are very likely to be here, and add to the discussion.
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The ONLY way that they've been able to sell this to fliers is that it gets rid of the existing process, and maybe some time soon we'll be able to keep our shoes on.

If they now make this sequential, then it's twice the time, twice the staff to manage, and twice the inconvenience -- you now have people queueing up between the two screens, passing one and failing the other, etc.
Needless to say, I disagree with you on this topic. I can't make a better argument than the book from which I pulled those quotations, so I'll direct people who are interested there.
Hey Ben,

A request for v2 -- I'd like more on topic branches, and good git hygiene. I usually send people to your book, and in fact, I learned my first git from it.

In the end, though, it encourages using git as a sort of backup-and-restore system, which is not the best and highest use of git.

The best and highest use of git is going to involve rebasing, collecting up and properly naming your commits, and making CERTAIN that one commit does one atomic thing to your codebase.

This just wasn't that obvious to me from git magic, but I think in the end it's the best part of git as a whole. Once I get people to stop using git reset --hard, my next training task is usually what I just described.

So, you know, pretty please? :)
When you use the word "replace", to most people, that signals that you would be changing the current object in place, not returning a new object based on the given one.

On the second line, you didn't mention at all what is passed in.

For the last two, removing the NS prefix would work if Objective-C had some kind of namespacing support. Currently it doesn't, so the NS prefix is kinda needed.
Seems like a difference in kind and not degree.
They walk around airports with drug dogs too, so the safest way would be to send it USPS since packages require a warrant to search.

REF: http://forums.steroid.com/archive/index.php/t-171885.html
This may not be the ideal forum for lighthearted sillyness, but I still think you have won 1000 internets and a life supply of adorable kittens. Well done ;)
I hate the scanners also, and I'm glad to support you in defending our freedom.
If you want a full blown IDE, WingIDE is, IMHO, the best IDE there is for Python. If you are looking for a text editor, vim is hard to beat if you are willing to put in the time to learn it, otherwise, I personally use Geany regularly.
What is really interesting is that while both Tradehill and Mt Gox heavily used Dwolla, Tradehill seems to have had more problems with it. Tradehill reports $100 000 charged back. Mt Gox reports 5000. Tradehill reports that Dwolla would try to charge stuff back in a hidden manner by changing the status of transactions after the fact without notifying them of the chargebacks. Tradehill further reports that Dwolla would completely ignore them and stone wall them when they tried to discuss the matter. Mt Gox on the other hand reports that Dwolla were very good about reporting the chargebacks and there were no communication problems.

Now for those of you that do not know: Mt Gox is the leading bitcoin exchange that does most of the business. Tradehill was an upstart that tried to compete with Mt Gox and even when active only did a small portion of the business Mt Gox did. Furthermore, Mt Gox does so much business that they were reporterdly Dwolla's top client for a while and that may still be the case.

Please feel free to provide your own speculations as to what all of this means.
If you're knowingly using inflated figure for raising investment you need to be very careful you're not committing fraud.
Ooh, and it's not just the USA that will shit-list you for life. Read about what happened to Jake Applebaum here: http://174.120.17.199/index.php?topic=5698.0 , but TL;DR they detain him and hassle him every time he flies now.
Yep, look at this guy who was arrested for his criticism of US Foreign Policy:

http://www.salon.com/2011/09/04/speech_23/singleton/
It's a little bit like the cookie-situation back when the internets were still young.

Many people (including myself) would swear by leaving the cookie notification on and confirming every. single. one. of. them.

That has long stopped being feasible and I assume it will be the same with NoScript in a few years.
Forgive me if this information is not correct, but wasn't their latest attack of Stratfor exactly such a hack?

I recall that Stratfor kept a lot of customer information in plaintext, including CC's.
Every time I've gone through the new scanners, I've had to go through a metal detectors first, which would pick up this object. Anyone know if there are actually airports that use only the new scanners without a metal detector?
The iPhone anecdote is such an important one. Probably the most important lesson I learned working at Apple was: people don't remember that a feature was missing once you implement it, but they remember broken features long after you've fixed them.
if looking for an IDE, you might want to give Ninja-IDE a try as well: http://ninja-ide.org/
For a moment I thought Google was getting into gaming...

Hey, after Valve's Steambox anything is possible, and if rumors are true they are trying to emulate Android's model with OEMs.
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Or paste this in your browser to fix it before printing.

javascript:document.body.contentEditable ='true'; document.designMode ='on'; void 0
I too miss the ubiquitous beige--frankly, I think today's glossy black plastic and brushed metal (real or simulated) looks like crap compared to the good old beige of an early 90's PC (or Mac!)
news.yc appears to dislike self promotion - go into your profile and turn on ShowDead and you can see that of the seven links you submitted, four were flagged and killed.

If it isn't self-promotion, then you would be better served by submitting the original story link rather than the excerpt surrounded by ads that links to the original story.
This is awesome. The time/cost of legal battles deter most folks, so I am glad you are doing what other people can't.
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They have been blogging about it...

http://tsaoutofourpants.wordpress.com/
Haven't had problems like this since WinXP.
I signed up for almost all of them too. It's hard to choose which ones to fully dive into. I guess since they'll probably offer them again and again, I'll take one/two at a time.
TSA should use MRI scanners - no radiation exposure and no metal objects are allowed.

As an added bonus they can use fMRI mode and ask following questions:

1. Are you a member of a terrorist organization?
2. Where is the Weapons of Mass Destruction?
Dropped right in. You can see it here: https://skitch.com/cwsaylor/883te/font-awesome-phonegap

To get it looking really good, I'll need to play with the button padding and the font size. This is using mini buttons with large icons.

I also noticed that the thumbs up/down next to each other has the optical illusion of not looking centered.
So does law enforcement. Apply to be a cop, as my son is doing as I type this, be prepared to hand over your passwords so they can check your Facebook page out.
> We'll never have more rights than we have right now, it's all downhill.

I really dislike this rhetoric. There has always been a certain levels of "bad" in the world that swing like the pendulum. It's not constantly descending into oblivion. Try to see the good in the world.
Yes they definitely do exist, but I am referring to the ideological types not the straightforward crime for money. Also need to consider the fact that resources brought against Lulsec etc were orders of magnitude more then what normal credit card fraud criminals have to deal with.
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That's a deficiency of the iOS platform, not the ObjC language. It's just that ObjC is brittle and tricky enough that there's no longer much reason to learn it unless you're working on iOS (or possibly MacOS, if you think that'll stay relevant), though GNUstep is portable if you really want to.
For the sake of honest debate... how do you know what exactly it is Osama wanted? Maybe all he wanted was to kill people and didn't care about liberty because he does not know what it is! or he wanted to send some kind of a message to westerners or something else... we will not know.
Sure, liberty seems to be lesser in airports...but connecting that to what Osama wanted is a big stretch!
Great job! I wouldn't mind using this for legitimate reasons. I use custom share buttons on one of my sites and I hate having to use a popup. It's a hack. But this is a sexy hack with better integration.
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I deeply appreciate your effort here. Is there anything that we could do directly to help you? Maybe a Kickstarter to help with some legal costs?
You can avoid blocking by running SQL.js in a Web Worker.
It would be very nice to offer an option to buy away the need for attribution without needing to do so as a one-off request. Glyphicons offers a no brainer price point of $25 to make attribution go away.
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We know. Well, a lot of us do at least. I can only choose to live my life without fear and do my best to influence others to recognize real freedom is more important than a false sense of safety.
This - is totally the text editor I used to learn Python, now I'm using it for jQuery tutorials.

For an IDE suggestion, I'd vote for PyCharm once you're developing more complex stuff http://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/. Most worthwhile $100 I've ever spent when I compare the number of hours I'm on it with its purchase cost.
The data on that graph looks bogus to me. I doubt they'd be able to assess per capita GDP year to year so accurately for the years before 1900.

Take for example the Taiping Rebellion which was from 1850 to 1864. Described by wikipedia: "About 20 million people died, mainly civilians, in one of the deadliest military conflicts in history."

Yet according to that graph is had little to no effect of the per capita GDP.
I heard the best term for these Anonymous crackers by someone interviewed on NPR today. "Lynch mobs". Very apt. He was describing them as people who go out to lynch those they don't agree with.
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Airport security is a stupid idea, it's a waste of money, and it's there for only one reason: to make white people feel safe! That's all it's for. To provide a feeling, an illusion, of safety in order to placate the middle class. Because the authorities know they can't make airplanes safe; too many people have access. You'll notice the drug smugglers don't seem to have a lot of trouble getting their little packages on board, do they?......

—George Carlin, “Airport Security"
Publicly supporting anonymous isn't illegal.
For an iPhone app, would a link in the app in an about page work?
So what would happen if they had a wire mesh (chicken wire, for example) for the background? An interruption in the wire mesh pattern would indicate an anomaly. They could change up the pattern every so often to thwart any attempt to match the pattern --even if it woud be difficult to match up.
The supposition here is that since magnetic scanners are being removed and replaced with xray scanners, which do not have the feature of detecting metal with magnetic fields, the new machines are more ineffective than the old magnetic scanners. This therefore single-handedly invalidates the xray machines and they should be removed.

The entire video is produced in such a way as to say this is a major discovery and that it will single-handedly trigger Congress and the TSA to backpedal on what they've been for the last 10+ years.

I disagree.

To state, I do not like the TSA. I do not like Congress very much. I have very little respect for the people that are commonly elected to government
because of the long history of ineffectiveness, ignorance, and stupidity that continually seeps out when they talk and make "decisions". The best I can say about our government is that it mostly keeps the really bad people out of power. The kind that become Caesars and Napoleons and Hitlers and Pol Pots.

My issues with this video are that its too filled with a political tilt. There is a clear play on emotions and rhetoric with less emphasis on the purported vulnerability being shown.

Further, the actual nut of the video, i.e. the demonstration of the vulnerability, is so underwhelming that its impossible to take the video in its entirety seriously. First, the most important part where the speaker is actually going through security is sped up past the point of being intelligible. That's the part that might actually get some interest.

If the speaker just showed that clip in its entirety, demonstrating how to attach the pocket and further how easy it is for him to get through the scanners, and providing pure technical notes as to the background color and such, it would be easier to take seriously.

As it stands, any reasonably competent person's first thought should be "So we just put a magnetic scanner before or after the x-ray scanner. Ok, problem solved." Other thoughts might be, ok so make people stand sideways, change the background color, etc. Obvious tweaks to the system to patch over this problem.

The video doesn't address this simple point and goes on to argue that no metal detectors invalidates the entire concept of xray scanners. Its a very bad premise to base such an argument on.

The argument against xray scanners needs to be based around the already-proven points:

*Violates people's privacy
*Security theater (which the Pocket Problem falls into)
*Possible negative health consequences for passengers and workers
*Over-reaching government bureaucracy
*Etc.

So in summary, I don't like this video because it shows nothing really new, makes a large claim on very little foundation, focuses attention on the wrong things, and is counter-productive to the task of convincing enough "policy makers" to start doing the right thing.
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This is the case with drug tests currenty, in a lot of industries. Submit to a wholesale invasion of privacy or don't work. I understand Silicon Valley is pretty hip and savvy, but this is the reality for blue collar industrial jobs, retail, government work and, perhaps in the near future, welfare.

Drugs are about as easy to quit as Facebook for some people...
I wonder to what extent collaborative consumption will unveil the true cost of expensive items. That is, the cost of a car = car + maintenance + gas + parking + ... When people buy or use a car, most do not hold all of those costs in their head at once. Same goes for houses or other "shared" targets, but the cost of sharing is readily apparent at the moment you do it (having to find your car not where you left it, trading keys, etc).
I've traveled extensively since the scanners have been in place and I've never gone through a traditional detector before a new scanner. They're almost always side-by-side.
We know what Osama wanted, he's made many public statements. He wanted the western world to stop interacting with the Muslim/arab world because he thought the west was a corrupting influence on traditional Islamic and arab values.
I used to build a detector for explosives in academia that is now being marketed to the TSA. To get funding for these projects, its pretty standard to rip another technology apart, point out all of its flaws, then argue why yours is better. But every technology has their drawbacks and ways of skirting around it. Today, most technology deployed is more as a deterrent and less as a counter-measure.

You want to know another way to hide illicit items in those body scanners? Surround the items in water.

There are also certain materials that give off false positives and most likely the software will scan the image response against a bank of known materials. I wrote pattern detection software that did just this. Oddly enough, cheese is one of them. So stick your knife in a nice big piece of cheddar and you might make it through just fine.
On March 1, the agents obtained a court order allowing them to use a "pen register/trap and trace" device that could reveal only "addressing information" and not content. In other words, if it worked, agents could see what IP addresses Hammond was visiting, but they would see nothing else.

The FBI describes its device as a "wireless router monitoring device” that captures addressing and signaling information and transmits it wirelessly through the air to FBI agents watching the home. It was installed the same day and was soon showing agents what Hammond was up to online.

I'm curious about this device; it would have to be able to fully decrypt 802.11 frames just to be able to see the layer 3 IP information, so in theory it is able to see all of the traffic but the agents aren't allowed to look at (or use) anything beyond the IPs because that would be considered wiretapping. I have to imagine the guy arrested was technically competent enough to use WPA2 with a fairly strong non-dictionary-word key, yet this device was able to crack that key in a short enough amount of time for this sting operation.
I think it's pretty clear that Osama wanted the destruction of the US. There's an old adage from the cold war that "You cannot show weakness to the enemy." Study how the Cuban Missile Crisis was eventually resolved, and you'll see this doctrine at work.

The funny thing is, liberty shows strength. Take one country that makes a law against criticizing the government, compared to one that professes free speech on all topics. The country with free speech is saying, in effect, "Say what you want! We're stronger than your words."

So, as the US continues to give up its liberties, the rest of the world is watching, and they see this for what it is: the US is showing its weakness.
> It shows how surprising well Ruby semantics maps onto the message passing semantics of Objective C.

This is not surprising given that both Ruby and Objective-C xeroxed their object models from Smalltalk.
My guess is in the future...you will have to walk through both metal detectors and body scanners! I am not sure, if they will dump the body scanners based on this video!
I honestly got reminded of the quote from Futurama.

And I honestly don't take Ayn Rand as a definitive resource on much beyond her own ego. She claimed that her philosophy was unique, other than a sole debt to Aristotle. Aristotle of all people. The guy who can't even count the legs of a fly and who thinks that menstruating women cloud mirrors if they look in them. So sorry if I stoop to ridicule if you worship her turgid prose, but really.

[edit] Also - as to her definition of table that you gave, well it could just as easily be describing a shelf. And the idea of the definition of table being some absolute thing based on shape is preposterous. I do wish these philosophers would have a chat with some designers before waffling on about platonic forms of household objects. A table is defined by usage, expectation and personal perception. In weightless environments, the concept of table could easily be a clear, easily accessible floating box kept in the middle of a spacecraft's living space, for instance.
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The scanner images both sides of a person at the same time. To add a background, you would have to have two poses from the same side, effectively halving throughput and complicating the imaging procedure.
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As far as I can recall, people were not required to go through the metal detectors at these airports: MIA, FLL, BNA, EWR, PIT. MIA (at least last time I was there in December) has some lines that do solely metal detectors and some that do solely scanners. That is, until the scanner lines start to get long and they start putting everyone through the metal detectors.

I've always opted out (except once at EWR when I was with a large group and the screener took longer than the 5 minutes I was willing to wait) and about half the time I've gone through the metal detectors. In fact, last week at PIT, I tried going through the metal detector on my way to the pat down area and was told to go around it.
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It is quite possible (I would even say likely) that they still run on bots mostly but buy a couple of ads here and there to make it look like they are sending you legitimate traffic. I am sure the LA times are not the only ones to figure out that you google things to see where your video is being promoted.

If these services actually relied on ads and real people, then they are doing some amazing work. Getting 20K people to click on a video for $46 is amazing given current CPC rates.
No, your account is not banned, your submissions are just low quality and are getting killed by other members flagging them.