skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can wear the shirt, but you can't be surprised when they single you out for more security checks. (Recognition and response to specific potential threats is what critics of "security theater" want, anyway.)

Once you get the check, which was not unexpected, you should expect that if you are perceived as smarting off, then the situation will get worse. Since they have all the power, it can get arbitrarily bad.

Given that this could have been foreseen, expressions of surprise and incredulity in the post don't make sense.

There is a place for this kind of protest. But if you want to advance the cause of freedom of expression, you have to be disciplined when the process you helped start starts unfolding. Do you have a strategy in this protest, or are you acting out feelings about authority figures?

If you're just acting out feelings, you're playing into their hands. The guard will be "stern daddy" (he took this job to play that role) and you will be "misunderstood child." Everyone cries in the end, but nothing changes.

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I went to a how-to on public protests ran by an AIDS activist who was one of the key organizers of many ACT-UP protests in NYC in the late 80s. The particular protest that he discussed was the 1989 demonstration in St. Patrick's Cathedral in NYC, which made the national news, and has been a touchstone since (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS_Coalition_to_Unleash_Power...).

According to the activist, this was a protest in which the personal feelings/animosity of many activists there towards the church, made the entire action not as productive as it should have been, and just generally a messy affair. (Protesters breaking communion wafers, etc. -- means nothing to me, but to a believer, it's a big deal.)

It's a complex topic. I came out of the workshop with a greater appreciation of how much focus and discipline it takes to really bring about change.
Are you going all Socratic on us, or are you just particularly dense?
Yes the Finance class is going well for me too. I tried taking the SaaS class but I didn't like it.

The Finance professor is just right, I can watch the videos on 1.75x speed, and I'm finally getting the hang of the confusing, unintuitive and restrictive Coursera UI.
Thanks for sharing. I'm more interested in how you created the curve files?
I don't understand water alarmists, due to two simple and obvious facts:

1. Fresh water is a renewable resource. We get more whenever it rains.

2. We have a huge reserve in the oceans.

If more fresh water is needed, the free market will come to the rescue. Its price will go up until it becomes profitable to allocate energy resources to desalination of seawater and transportation of the products to where they're needed.
I use TMUX with VIM for that.
Apple changes up the featured sections once a week. And big game companies do seem to have contacts within Apple to help coordinate launches. Frequently big games will be launched on Thursday morning to coordinate with the featuring change up.

For example, Horn was released last week on Thursday and was simultaneously the "Editor's choice" for the App Store feature.
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There's a time and a place for everything, including speaking freely. As another example, the time to be vocal about your disagreement with someone's policies is not by picketing their funeral.
Desalination is massively energy intensive, and if you hadn't noticed, energy itself is not exactly a solved problem.
"His server sends a notification to every server following him or mentioned in the post with permission to see the post."

The protocol seems to have some fundamental limitations.

For my money I'd rather go with FETHR (see http://dsandler.org/brdfdr/ and this paper: http://dsandler.org/brdfdr/doc/iptps-fethr/) and its implementation - which has code available right now (https://bitbucket.org/dsandler/brdfdr/).
There's a Kindle edition at Amazon, so you can possibly get the TOC by getting the free Kindle preview from Amazon.
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This is true. They will contact you if they need "brick" sized art for the horizontal auto-scroll headline apps. They also may contact you if your app is in "hold for developer release" while they're making their decision. If you are in contact with them, I advise against releasing an update during the process. It muddies the waters with the editorial team and you really just want to make their decision simple.

Featuring changes every thursday. The week after featuring you end up in the "new and noteworthy" section which is like getting 1/2 to 2/3rds of a featuring.
While agreeing with that, Delta should still be held responsible for getting him to his destination on a reasonable schedule, the costs of his accommodations, and his and his wife's wasted time.
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This has nothing to do with that. It's like wearing a t-shirt saying "rape is underrated" to a home for battered women. It's thoughtless and selfish and not funny.

And for reasons I stated elsewhere, the pilot made the right call, especially from a business perspective.
Udacity has some challenges as UReddit too. I took a "software testing" class recently, and you can tell the instructor ended the course earlier than planned.

A 6 week class was effectively only a 3-4 week class. The first two weeks had embedded quizzes, and homework. By the end, it was watch this short video and no homework.
It's the first time I hear someone claim this regarding the US so I'm genuinely curious. Perhaps I'm dense.
Happens to me too, with a slightly modified latin-american keyboard layout
It seems like <,:, and certain other characters don't work. Also, why do you skip over white-space?

It is interesting. I wonder if I can learn to make fewer typos.
Members of the U.S. Congress[1] have looked into the privacy implications of apps which have "call home" features. Obviously, nothing was done and this is still an issue. Go figure.

Some apps like the Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn apps would upload the users' address books, scrape calendar information, access email/SMS, etc.[2] I think that has changed from "industry standard" to "frowned upon".

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/connieguglielmo/2012/03/22/congr...

[2] http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/14/2798008/ios-apps-and-the-a...
Every time I see an article like this I want to encourage people to support the good work that City Harvest do in NYC. They save 115,000 pounds of food daily that then goes to the needy.

It's a shame that there aren't similar programs across the country.

[1] http://www.cityharvest.org/
You may want to check out the Reading Materials section on https://stripe-ctf.com/about.
Not quite as important, but it seems that Caps Lock isn't being registered either (did the Rails demo and some of the constants would be rather tedious with only the shift key).
As with any medium, you have to apply filters to experience quality. The basic experience of television goes totally against this, though. You turn it on and get a constant stream of whatever is on at the moment. If you don't like it, you can change streams. It's dazzling and more than a little hypnotic. The radio is like this too, but less engrossing since there's no visual stimulus.

I prefer on-demand media to this kind of streaming media. With a record or a film, you get to actually choose what to watch, and this makes all the difference. You can apply filters. If you're just sitting at home channel surfing, you're going to end up watching a lot of crap you wouldn't have bothered to deliberately leave your house for.

This isn't to say there's no good TV content, just that the traditional medium of TV is better suited to deliver metric tons of total crap. But this content still ends up on on-demand media, and frankly a lot of TV content is best watched this way anyway. If "no filtering" is the primary problem, this is the solution.
I don't understand. What does this do that vim buffer windows don't already manage?
Congrats, it looks very polished. Couple of questions - How many months and how many developers did it take to build this? And how do you plan to monetize this?
Who says they have to be? That's a design decision. There is literally nothing (besides maybe inertia?) that enforces that "rule".
Fields medalist Terence Tao writes about earlier Fields medalist William Thurston, "In addition to his direct mathematical research contributions, Thurston was also an amazing mathematical expositor, having the rare knack of being able to describe the process of mathematical thinking in addition to the results of that process and the intuition underlying it. His wonderful essay “On proof and progress in mathematics“, which I highly recommend, is the quintessential instance of this; more recent examples include his many insightful questions and answers on MathOverflow."

Besides "On proof and progress in mathematics,"

http://arxiv.org/abs/math.HO/9404236

which I also highly recommend, I especially like Thurston's article "Mathematical Education,"

http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0503081

which is full of good advice about thorough development of budding mathematicians.

From Tao's blog, another link to a remembrance of Thurston:

http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=5059
Very much agreed. I remember once going through airport security (in New Zealand) and the guy said, "Could you please take off your jacket." So I did, then remembered I'd put on my "DANGER, EXPLOSIVE" T-shirt that morning. I looked down and said, "Oops, that was kind of a silly T-shirt to wear, wasn't it?" "Sure was," he said, "Now zip up your jacket and get on the plane!"
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The problem isn't that cows might get heart disease if they were allowed to live into old age. The problem is that these bad diets make them sick while young, often requiring that they be pumped full of medicine to be "healthy" enough to be eligible for slaughter. This affects the quality (culinary and nutritional) of the meat for humans.
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Hrrmmm... I'm not the biggest fan of Indian food in general, and definitely not a vegetarian, so I'm not really in your target market. But, if we generalize to include "food I like" then it becomes:

Would I want freeze-dried, high-quality instances of specific foods delivered to the office?

Well... You have something going with the delivery option, as I don't always think to go to the grocery store and stock up on pre-prepared lunch items, and sometimes find myself at the office torn between "go out to lunch" or "work through lunch." (Ordering pizza or something and having it delivered to the office is not really part of my normal workflow for lunch).

I think to really make this work though, you'll have to deliver a food experience that's better than the frozen entrees you can get at the grocers, or are more appealing in some fashion. Maybe you could do it just on variety, but "better tasting" and/or "more nutritional" would be good.

Are you planning a subscription model, with continuous delivery until the sub is canceled, or discrete "$25 for 5" orders placed manually? Will the customer get to pick which dishes they get, or will it be decided by you? I can tell you that I'd be more likely to do this if I were picking the dishes, to avoid the possibility of getting something that I happen to dislike.

In my specific case, you'd probably only land me as a customer if you had meat containing dishes (not sure that is even practical in the model you're talking about, so maybe that's a non-starter) and maybe some Thai or Chinese dishes. But that's just happenstance. If there is a large enough market of people who want veggie Indian dishes, this seems like something that could work.
Presumably only the arrangement and sizing of windows. I.e. you don't have to :split or :vsplit manually, just create or delete windows and they'll be arranged according to the layout algorithm.
It forces a tiled layout that helps productivity by:
- keeping all buffers visible
- making jumping from one to another very easy
- driving focus on the main buffer

The advantages are well-known and demonstrated by dwm from which this plugin is inspired
I use XMONAD with VIM for that. :)
Yep, that's even better said
Right, just like those uppity negroes deserved to be put in their place back in the day.
A few years back, I started getting interested in a similar idea. I'm definitely intrigued in seeing how well it goes. Good luck to you.

Of course, as ideas go, I allowed myself to think further into the possibilities, and found some interesting avenues.

For instance, why allow the facebooks, twitters, etc to own domain over our content? Let people store their own data, and offer API endpoints giving facebook, twitter, etc access. They essentially become frontends and search engines to our shared content. We get control of our own data (and privacy therein), they get to provide an interface to that data in a way that fits what they're trying to offer their "customers".

And then if you take that even further, why allow anyone control over your data? Why not store all my purchase data and credit info on my own servers, and allow authorized companies access as needed? Census time? Popup shows up on my phone asking if i'd like to allow the government access to some of my data for census - I pick what data is allowed, and it's done.

Electric company's system automatically logs in to get my electric usage. Phone provider does the same. Publishing a book literally allows access by readers to your own servers. Releasing an album - same deal. We still have "stores", but those stores are merely search engines offering a service to both the content creators and consumers.

It went further, and weirder (in interesting ways). I'm not sure such a system would truly be beneficial, but I love the idea of allowing people to Truly Own their own data.

Apologies for the tangent. Good luck to you. I'm a fan of the idea as it's presented and I hope you're successful.
Ah, it helps automate the maintenance of that particular window structure. Nice.
I'm sorry to send a very dissenting opinion there, but it's not about a broken window fallacy, the economy, the environment, obesity or anything else - it is just morally wrong.

I know we make enough food to feed anyone on the planet, but it doesn't mean throwing away food is morally acceptable.

Call it a taboo or whatever - I still remember when as I kid I was invited to a friend birthday and we ended the party by running a burger-thowing contest. It felt wrong then, and it still does now.

Even if we make far more food than we could possibly consume, food like water and oxygen is something special - something we humans require to exist. We can survive without shelter and medicines. We can't without food, something which certainly helped giving it a "special place" in our list of taboos.

Considering it as something just like any other good does not resonate with my values - even as a hacker who would otherwise consider that a non-issue if applied to say mice and keyboards.

We are the most spoiled 1% of the humanity and we act like we don't care - that might be acceptable depending on one's philosophy, but NOT for the crucial things mere survival depends upon.

Sorry, but it's just plain wrong.
We seem to be discussing pros and cons of nuclear. But is this assertion of reasonably extractable uranium from sea water even true? Considering the source to be theregister, what I would like to know is whether the energy available as per the paper is really as big as claimed? or is it just clever math? Keeping aside the issue of waste disposal, are the costs really that low or is the cost cleverly buried elsewhere?
Can we seriously stop with this stuff on HN...
Some still farm that way today. I know my great-grandfather was using tractors by the 40s, if not before. We still regularly used one of his old relics when I was a kid. The oldest tractor we still use today is from the 60s, purchased by my grandfather.

I don't really know much about the farm on that end before that though. I should do some asking around.
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In other words, he trolled them successfully and they displayed the unprofessional, dumb conduct he expected.

I'll give him the benefit of doubt and assume he was not trying to provoke anyone, even though he could have expected the paranoid reactions of some passengers (probably a small minority that needs professional help, let's be honest).
Perhaps. But it still is a lot more fun than doing the "same old" for that month.
Wearing a sarcastic t-shirt is equivalent to the Westboro Baptist Church protestors trying to shout down a funeral?
I think you're ranting, and did not actually read the article. This guy clearly did not have the objective of "getting in the TSA workers' faces"; the article clearly states that he had already cleared the TSA checkpoint without incident, and was then challenged by a Delta supervisor.

It sounds to me, based on all the facts we have available, that someone got in this guy's face. Not the other way around.

So basically, you are making up your entire argument.
What are you going to do with my email address?
I'm digging this!
"but I thought it was well-accepted that at "small scales", the universe is very non-continuous and chaotic?"

It is and the funny thing is this guy has a funny definition of "now" considering Max Planck discovered light travels in discrete quanta. In 1900. Around the time of Einstein submitting his first paper and before his paper on Special Relativity. I would imagine whoever signed off on the PR copy is aware of this as well as other inconsistencies. Makes you wonder.
I don't know if this counts as a "tool" per se, but I would absolutely pay a substantial portion of my billing rate (I'd start the discussion at 33%) to get an agent who found me suitable jobs and kept my pipeline full. I'd much rather get 80 hours of work a month at 2 * $RATE / 3 than get 20 hours at $RATE because I didn't have the time to go after business the way I could if I were a strict freelancer. At the going billing rates for skilled software devs, I'd be shocked if someone couldn't make it worth their while to provide such a service.

I have a day job, a wife and a daughter. I want to put in about 20 hours of time a week (mostly nights after the kid's asleep) padding the emigration fund. I do not want to spend that time writing proposals for ill-specified projects. I do not want to spend my evenings talking on the phone about how I'm really not looking to leave my day job to write dairy-farm management software full time for $40k a year. I don't want to argue the terms under which I work (I work from home after hours and send daily status e-mails). I want to pad my emigration fund by doing what I do best: writing code. I would gladly pay someone to take care of all the ancillary concerns, and I don't really care if I'm not maximizing my take-home because I'm certainly not maximizing it now.
The message google gives when trying to log in is really poor: "A third party service is requesting permission to access your Google Account.Please select an account that you would like to use."

What do you mean "access"? Do you mean "authenticate as"? Do you mean "go screw with my email"? I seem to remember that I sometimes see specific access requested, but this one is vague. Possibly this is the result of requesting sign in with no permissions at all.
Or fly naked.

http://articles.cnn.com/2012-04-18/travel/travel_oregon-airp...
I will! =)

I just checked my comment history and about 50% of my comments have been related to this issue. This is the first one that is complimentary.
You can try typing.io without signin in by clicking the demo link below the blue button.
i really like it, but one thing disturbed me. why do you skip the comments?
Tend to agree... I go to reddit to waste time reading about this sort of thing...
Are you saying that the company you work for is OK with you doing non-work development tasks, but only if you do it on off-hours when you aren't being paid?
As groundwater aquifers are depleted in several of the most active regions of agricultural activity, farmland and the food it produces will be more scarce. If water usage could be reduced by 25% in these areas, the impact on their aquifers would be significant, potentially extending their lives by decades.

http://academic.evergreen.edu/g/grossmaz/WORMKA/

http://www.meteor.iastate.edu/gccourse/issues/society/ogalla...

http://www.utexas.edu/news/2012/05/29/groundwater/

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v488/n7410/full/nature1...
The worst drought in 60 years and there is still enough fresh clean water that I can dump it on the ground twice a week so my grass looks nice. So I doubt dense has anything to do with it.
"You can wear the shirt, but you can't be surprised when they single you out for more security checks. (Recognition and response to specific potential threats is what critics of "security theater" want, anyway.)"

What? No. No, no, no. What we want is recognition and response to actual threats, not knee-jerk responses to anything unusual or non-conformist.

A shirt like this doesn't indicate a threat. Smart security would not single it out.
> energy itself is not exactly a solved problem

Yes, it is. We have solar panel technology. It works. It's just too expensive. Which means that right now it's just more efficient to keep using gas and oil.

If the price of water keeps going up due to steadily increasing demand, eventually it becomes profitable to burn oil to power desalination. If we use enough oil to make a dent in its supply, then the price of oil will go up too, until oil-based power sources are more expensive than solar panels, at which point people will start building solar panels to power desalination plants. Since solar panels are mostly made of silicon (the second most common element on Earth) we're probably not going to run out of them anytime in the next few hundred years, at which point we'll probably be mining asteroids and switching to cold fusion power. Problem solved.

On a forum whose main topics include entrepreneurship, it's somewhat amazing to see how all understanding of basic economics often evaporates if its logical conclusions disagree with a person's political position.
I would imagine that even if for some strange reason the Secret Service (who likely would investigate something like this) didn't pick up your claim you would still have grounds for a civil suit. Just insert sympathetic jury!
Now this is what happens when you do: dwm.vim < vim < tmux < vps < ssh < tmux < gnome terminal http://i.imgur.com/WR9JC.png (courtesy of romainl on reddit/r/wim)
> But if that shirt represents the attitude he held in the whole encounter, it's no surprise things went to shit.

It's not surprising, but it's also not right.

Cops who don't know how to deal with an antagonistic attitude aren't really useful anywhere that deals directly with the public.
Looks awesome! Very cool idea.

Edit: Awww, have to enter CC number to try it? I'm afraid I don't know you well enough.

Edit 2: Oh ok I just tried logging in and it worked. No idea why I was asked for my cc number?

Edit 3: Ok sorry I'm confused, this isn't a service I signed up for? I read that, got excited and went straight to 'sign up' at the bottom. I can now see it's a regex open source list. Still useful though, thank you!
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Drag the Lake is a quick weekend project to store articles worth reading.

http://dragthelake.com
Fair enough, I assumed you were trolling. Apologies. WiseWeasel has your answer.
Here's a screenshot as well http://i.imgur.com/TKL4i.png available on the github of the script https://github.com/spolu/dwm.vim
I don't think it's a fallacy when you extrapolate the slippery slope from watching the political establishment slide down said slope continuously for the past decade.