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Fully agree with this post, even not being a programmer 8I'm slowly asking myself why anyway...) I'm not thrilled by the prospect of answering detail questions out of my head. Things like, I already hated them back in university. Nice to check if the candidat can remember the basics, but I'd actually prefer a guy who can not only remeber them but actually use them in context.
Coming more from the classical engineering fields, you don't want a guy who can write in norm script on hand written drawings, you want a guy who can use Catia (or what ever) AND can actually design good, working parts. And that actually has nothing to do with Catia skills.
Nothing different to my current field in Supply Chain Management, but there I'd strongly suggest using some basic nano questions, sad as it is.
Stand back people, TSA Blog Team is on the case!

More seriously, these jokers let terrorists waltz on board planes (e.g. The Shoebomber) and only the passengers, treated like criminals by TSA, stop them.

Time to send the rentacops back to the mall.
Nowhere is price gouging so clear as in the case of textbooks. You have almost perfectly inelastic demand, and a single supplier. You don't need to be an economist to figure out how that one's going to work out.

This semester, my econometrics professor had a professional publisher 'compile' his seminar notes into a 'reader'. This basically meant printing out the pdfs and putting them in cheap binding, the kind that you might get at Staples for a negligible sum. He was shocked when they ended up costing almost $100 per copy for the student, since there was no copyright/licensing in question - they were his own class notes.

If a college student told me that they spent over $1000 per semester in textbooks, I would have no trouble believing it at all. Used books are not always available or viable. Workbooks are less common, but now publisher have 'access keys' that they are using to force students to buy the new books. My professors have always been understanding when I refuse to do the online exercises that require the access keys (unless they send me unlocked copies), but I can imagine not all students are so lucky.

I'm also fortunate that my classes (CS, statistics, economics) tend to have one textbook per course, and they usually aren't so dependent on the in-book homework problems. For CS in particular, you can often use online books/tutorials in case of the text, depending on the class.

But for my friends in humanities-based classes, with perhaps ten overpriced books for a course? I pity the fools - or rather, I pity their empty wallets!
Which new iPad should I get?
Photoshop has a tablet app. iWork is on tablets. iMovie and avid are on tablets. You could make a CNC controller if you wanted to
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Agreed; this is not a gender thing at all.

I suffer quite continual pain in my back, and have a bad habit of working through an illness to the point of exhaustion. I know plenty of friends who do the same, rarely complaining.

A girl and her brother that I know are constantly ill - and moaning about the smallest thing.

So it is a personality issue, I suspect, nothing to do with gender.
Somehow it looks easier and clearer to use TAB over Spaces.
Now that you linked me PEP8 (First time i see it) i will start using 4 spaces.
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Every rule can have exceptions. I do not know if there is any data to back this up, though. Unless you consider that it seems women seem to visit doctors or medical institutions more much often than men (at least in the countries I know of). That could be an indication of this underlying behavior.
Nothing in the changes will do something if a security flaw surfaces again. The changes only inform you if someone change/add a key to your account while normally signed in, that is, using the standard procedure. This is why it is mainly security theatre.

A non security theatre approach would be to keep track of all the add/update/remove of the keys in an append only log and on a regular basis do reconciliation and check that what you have in practice is what you have from the logs. This is intern to the system, you do not show it, this is real added security/control.
Google Chrome’s winning streak fades at annual hacking contest
Yes it could.

The problem with that is, that it a) doubles the amount of time needed to scan one person and b) doubles the duration of exposure to radiation.

therefore, we'd be better of with metal detectors.
Aside from that, the TSA would have to explain, that body scanners are useless without scanning twice and we therefore need to expose you to the double amount of radiation...
Ask HN: Do you often see issues with Datastore writes in Google App Engine?
Logs on Google App Engine show errors with this text:

Datastore writes are temporarily unavailable. Please see http://code.google.com/status/appengine for more information.

However that status page shows 100% availability and only green OK symbols: http://imgur.com/ug3JF

Latest problems were last night, writes were not working for 35 minutes.

I have seen this two or three times in the last few months, and have worked around it with additional application logic. Luckily I am not writing anything vital. But this makes me wonder: What should I do for stuff that must be written somewhere? And how can I ever be sure of the status if such events don't show up in the status-page?

Does anyone else have similar experiences?
Clickable links: http://code.google.com/status/appengine
Shows this: http://imgur.com/ug3JF
I think you deserve appreciation for showing such patience and bravery to be programming Java in Emacs.

On any other day, if the choice of eclipse or equivalents(IntelliJ etc) is not available it practically makes zero sense to deal with monstrosity and needless complexity Java has with a ordinary text editor. Even if that is Emacs. Emacs is still a text editor.

On any given day Java development makes sense only if done on a IDE. And that's nearly every Java programmer works. Exceptions exist, but they only prove the rule.

Having said all that, These days eclipse really does 90% of the coding. You job is only to tell eclipse what needs to be auto completed.
Very stylish, but I think this site: http://mattkersley.com/responsive/ wins in terms of usefulness.

We have that html as a development-only page in our framework, so when developing/designing a site we can go to /responsive and test it that way, very convenient.
It doesn't and I really hoped that I was clear enough in my initial comment. I know that this has nothing to do with the attack on Sunday.

But ever since that XSS vulnerability was shown maybe a year ago, I was scared that there could be another one of them as they are very, very easy to miss, especially when you have to rely on filtering instead of escaping.

Github has to because you can freely use HTML in Markdown, which is the main markup language on github.

So there we are: Relying on filtering out bad stuff from user content, instead of blindly escaping it, at least one XSS vulnerability already happened and the public key interface still allows adding keys without confirming the password.

It would really suck to be hit by a XSS attack that silently adds a key to my account, not only giving the attacker the possibility to impersonate me in commits, but, even worse, giving access to my private repositories.

Regardless of the fix for the problem on Sunday, I have always hoped Github would add the check for the password. Not to mitigate the mass-assignment problem, but to prevent a possible XSS attack from being used to deal much worse damage.

I see this package of changes that we see now happening at Github as a direct result of the Sunday hack, so while we got the mass-assignment fix (of course that had to be fixed), we also finally got the password recheck which we likely would not have gotten without the hack.

Hence my "thank you" to @homakov. Not just for uncovering the mass-assignment thing (which is a simple code fix), but also for forcing a change of policy (with negative usability repercussions and thus probably not universally accepted between github internals) elsewhere.
2 days ago, from a BusinessWeek article about the author of the blog post:

“I call it the corny dad approach. I’m basically the Bob Saget of blogging,” the 41-year-old tells Bloomberg Businessweek. “This isn’t really the most exciting subject, so I thought I should inject some personality into it.” Three years removed from working the security lines himself—he used to train TSA officers at the Cincinnati airport—Blogger Bob has clearly gained some perspective on the experience. [1]

Whether or not entertainment has a place in government blogging is an argument for another day, but I think we can all agree that under no circumstances should this type of blog post ever be allowed as an official government response.

[1] http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-03-05/why-cant-the...
only thing i notice missing is the ability to select the month/year from dropdowns... like this: http://jqueryui.com/demos/datepicker/#dropdown-month-year
Google and Facebook don't work because they utilize the X-Frame-Options[1] response header to prevent their content from being served in iframes.

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/The_X-FRAME-OPTIONS_respons...
I think I am dead, but what was up with the government not letting them do soil samples from a private company. Did they ever do it?
You are doing regex matching in the Cascading code, but splitting on a character in the pangool code. The latter is obviously much faster. I don't know that that's the reason for the difference you observe, but it certainly can't hurt to fix that and make the user-supplied code more comparable.
It's not specific to NYT, you see it in any newsmagazine type article. Washington post and Boston globe are also big offenders. I can just imagine them sitting around some pub drinking expensive liquor and talking about how bloggers will never be able to replace the sort of serious, high quality journalism they do.

The snobbery is jut dripping off every word in that article.
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Sometimes YouTube comments give me also that feeling.
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That benchmark runs xz with the -9e flags, which turn on its slowest and most memory-intensive mode. If you pass it -0 it only needs 3 MB to compress and 1 MB to decompress.

I usually use -0 with xz because it is extremely fast and memory-efficient yet still compresses better than gzip or bzip2. You can also use -0e for a slower, better compression that still requires only 1 MB to decompress. This way the decompressor can run entirely within the CPU's cache.
I'm obviously biased because I have a similar site of my own (http://areyouresponsive.com), but I love seeing new tools to facilitate building response websites.
Oh man, MyTouch was garbage. Complete crap. I test drove a Flex and was just amazed at how awful it was. No touch feedback, sluggish response, dynamic knobs and buttons meant you couldn't operate it blindly, and a milky backlit LCD screen that still messed with your night vision even when it was supposed to be displaying black. (OLED would do better here.)

I was stunned. I'm a geek and I think it's crap. I can't imagine technoluddites being any more charitable.
Fame, reputation, marketing, using 0day in pen-tests, etc.

This isn't new, security companies have been paying contractors for unpublished advisories and exploits for over 15 years now.
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I have come to believe that a decent programmer can and should be able to work well enough without an IDE. Presence of an IDE should be a sufficient condition not a necessary condition and I see so much of the latter.

I have come to believe that a decent marathon runner can and should be able run well enough without shoes. Presence of shoes should be a sufficient condition not a necessary condition and I see so much of the latter.

You can run for like 50 meters without shoes. But you need shoes to run a marathon.

It makes zero sense to be developing a very big Java application without IDE's. And any one who is doing is simply for no reason under going self punishment.
nit: that's not unique in the class
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If it's true that apple preorders one year in advance, it really gives them a big advantage in terms of procurement. And here I'm talking about better prices, prefered customer status and guaranteed material availability. Add to that the huge quantities, and you get a really nice position for Apple.
What really impresses me, beyond the near-perfect marketing they have, is the way they clearly are managing their supply chain, down to the very end-costumer. For, Apple may easily become the SCM benchmark Toyota used to be a decade ago.
The idea of a dystopian state was already old in 1949 (when the book was first published).

Wikipedia lists literature back to 1835, though I think ancient Romans would have been able to write awesome dystopian literature: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dystopian_literature
The iPad is losing market share.
Ask HN: How did you become an fluent(expert) in Python?
Please suggest any advanced tutorials/videos/books or code you studied to learn everything about python.
What makes you think the US government doesn't approve of Facebook? Facebook is a gold mine for agencies that specialize in surveillance. Yeah, people sometimes organize protests on Facebook, but the Feds would probably much prefer them to be organized on Facebook than, let's say, on an encrypted foreign website that is more difficult to monitor. Or even Twitter, where people don't post nearly as much personal information as they do on Facebook.
If there was any doubt as to whether the original technique described in the original video worked, this blog post has just confirmed it.
I thought there where some states where it was not allowed. If I find time later I look it up.

Anyway would anybody clame that the US is the show of stat for seperation from churge and state?
haha, thanks bloho! been fun watching your success in the app store :)
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But remember!

If you joke about carrying a weapon, about violence, or anything the TSA does not like...

Immediate grounds for (at best) a thorough pat-down. Or being added to a no-fly list. Or being tossed out of airport security. Or being detained away from your family.
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Can the OP edit the title to say "for Mac OSX" please?

What a rollercoaster of emotions you put me through
Unfortunately, the idea that there is a controlling mastermind using 1984 as a guide book is only nice insofar as it makes the dynamics of large groups of people and emergent behaviors seem controllable (or at least fixable) without long painful attempts to reshape the fabric of culture/society. The reality is that books like 1984 are commenting on human tendencies. Tendencies that would exist regardless of the existence of the commentary.
I use an IDE--and for many languages, ex. Java, Scala, and C#, would say I have to--because my time is worth something to me.

For the languages you've mentioned. Java and C# do you really have any other option, but to use an IDE? Its like, goes without saying and assumed that you are and every body is programming with an IDE.

In case of Java. You must know eclipse today is nearly a part of the language and not a separate tool.
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My bad, tried to resist, but just couldn't. Won't do it again, know it degrades the conversation.

However, I'm not feeling too bad about it. I'm disgusted at the US government bankrupting itself partly by enriching its revolving-door cronies in the security industrial complex [1][2], who in turn give us security theater in order to justify the government bankrupting itself partly by enriching its cronies... ad infinitum.

And the casualties are our rights and civil liberties and ultimately a potential currency-centered financial crisis that could make 2007/2008 look like spilled milk. What's going on is not sustainable in any way, shape, or form, and cannot end well. If Anonymous, Wikileaks, or anyone else helps shine light on this insanity before its too late, even if they have to be a little naughty but not truly evil to do so, then more power to them.

1. http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/

2. http://projects.wsj.com/surveillance-catalog/
I agree your's is much more productive.
If you're not aiming to build a complete system for every day use, the book still teaches how to bootstrap Linux.

So if you know how to build and install regular software, you might still be interested in cross-compiling and creating a tiny Linux kernel and rootfs you can boot in an emulator like qemu. You can either use glibc and GNU userspace or use ucLibc and busybox, or perhaps glibc+busybox.

If you already know how to bootstrap a Linux system, then you can go through the book and build a few dozen packages by hand and sooner or later you will learn to appreciate the efforts of Debian (and other) package maintainers go through.
To all those arguing for custom design:

Sure, having a killer design is first prize, all other things being equal. However, in a lean startup resources aren't infinite - you have to decide where to put your time and money.

Marketing has a concept called "point-of-parity/point-of-difference" [1] that I think might be useful here. Bootstrap without any customisations gives you parity - your design doesn't suck anymore. Once you've achieved parity and your customer feedback indicates that design is hurting you, iterate the design.

Building a todo list for designers? Pay lots for design.

Building a technical app for builders? I suspect once you have relative parity they'll buy based on how well you target their needs.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Points-of-parity/points-of-diff...
Adn they ruined it hence my original point.
Nice design. I always like people who contribute back to industry.
If you just use A-Z, a-z, 0-9, you have a password space containing a little over 95 bits of entropy (log2(62^16)). A randomly chosen password should be reasonably secure against most attacks.
I wouldn't want to be saved by them :)
Number of terrorist attacks detected and thwarted by TSA measures since 2001: Zero

Number of terrorist attacks attempted since 2001 over US airspace: MORE THAN ZERO
many mobile execs don't seem to 'get it' with respect to mobile data.

I'm pretty sure they 'get it' just fine, but did the math and carefully worked out exactly how shitty service they can offer at what price without making too many people cancel.
This. Pinterest is like saving/sharing a visual bookmark rather than just a text link. Even /r/pics creates image thumbs similar to Pinterest. People on Pinterest are 'pinning' stuff they found that they like, just like users do on Reddit, or here on Hacker News, for that matter. What's the difference? Bigger thumbnails?
Four words: "You shouldn't have to".

Unfortunately, due this responsibility being approximately 5% of my time, I don't have time to invest in to-and-fro with Atlassian. I expect something to work (ironically like Trac did - its predecessor).

On the positive side, we're upgrading to latest versions soon.
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> Let me finish on some faint praise: they are by FAR the least worse of all the 'enterprise' software we use :-)

That's like saying "they're the least bad rapist".

I do agree though!
Take Trac, stick that in jpython on top of the JVM and you're done!
Doesn't the current scan take 3-5 seconds, and then you have a wait upwards of 20-30 seconds to get the "all clear" from the TSA agent in front of you who was radioed from the agent viewing the body scanner image? Ridiculous.
Looks shorter, i need to learn what you wrote and tell you if it is OK or with bug.
Anyway thanks for dropping your comment
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> Whoever wrote or approved this post ought to be fired. Fast.

Thus solving the problem once and for all.
Is the Fed reading your tweets?
Go 64-bit!

A medium instance is actually a very nice option for small deployments.

Micro instances are throttled -http://gregsramblings.com/2011/02/07/amazon-ec2-micro-instan.... I, personally, do not maintain any 32-bit AMIs. The offer gap between a micro and a large instance for 64 was large enough for me to feel it.
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Apple ditches Google Maps
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For a sandwich sure, but if I'm paying $100+ then I think regret is a perfectly fine word, not just for 'losing' the $100, but also for the lost opportunity that I could have gone somewhere else and had really good food instead, especially if going out to eat is a rare and special occasion (as it is in my case, since I have a young child).
Pie in the sky here, but I never understood why we didn't just drill big holes in the sides of volcanoes, drop a boiler in it, and stick a turbine on top with a radiator/condenser outside. Seems like a pretty easy source of "free" electricity.
Alright, even if everything you said what true, how would you know it's not a market bubble that could be disappearing for good 5-10 years down the road ? My point was that it's too fast to call something like this transformative. That's a difference between fashion and actual change. Fashion fades and disappears while it may seem like the most popular thing ever at one point. A transformation happens when you move from point A to a point B and the market stays at point B for a long time.

I agree you can say "transformative" for smartphones, because they did change the market and there is no way it's coming back. As for tablets, the fact that only the iPad is a tablet market (and nothing else in tablet form is successful) tells me we should be careful about calling this a revolution, and wait to see how things will turn in a few years, after the 5th-7th iteration of the same concept.
Put your mouse inside the viewport and try again.
I immediately thought of the phrase "twenty herbs and spices," and that product doesn't even exist here.
Blogger Bob is just another part of the TSA's layered approach to bullshitology. I'm glad it's transparent to all, and thank you again for covering this issue.
Pretty awesome. It even works with port numbers, but only if you use it directly in the URL (entering :3000 into the top right address bar doesnt work). http://responsive.is/localhost:3000

A bookmarklet would be great too
Why Not iPad 3 or iPad HD but just “The New iPad”?
It seems they don't watch German television shows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrKvweNugnQ