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You make it sound as if Israeli security is uninvasive. I'm an American who visited Israel last September on business. The security checkpoint before getting on the plane in Frankfurt was quite stringent and was separated from all other security checkpoints with its own entrance. I had a metal detector passed over my whole body, including the bottom of my feet. When I entered the country I was asked many questions about why I was there. When leaving the country, all my baggage was opened, the contents removed, and every inch inspected for explosives. This was done in two phases, first for checked baggage and the second time for carry-on bags. It seemed like this was also done for every passenger as I didn't see anyone being passed through without having to go through this procedure. Before walking through the metal detector, I did not have to remove my shoes, but I'm almost certain I did have to remove my belt and empty my pockets, as seems to be standard procedure everywhere now.
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If you are interested in taking out 100K this year, nothing is illegal about withdrawing 2K per week as opposed to taking out 100K at once.
I, personally, don't want global legislation. I want either companies to not act like total dicks (Pricing in Ethiopia should be lower, pricing in Australia shouldn't be twice as much) OR for the AUS and US governments to make a joint agreement to, at the least, issue a large, nasty "Please Explain" from a body of authority.

But I am also coming from a background where the governmental consumer watchdog is very powerful, so that colours my opinions on what can/should usefully be done.
Economic allocation means that if you're not spending time and treasury to one end, you're spending it on another. Now, if you want to advocate private-sector spending as opposed to public, that's fine. However economics is the study of the allocation of scarce resources.

The comparison of budgets among different programs is helpful to provide perspective (though both TSA and NASA are minor components of the Federal budget overall) -- 0.22% and 0.5% respectively -- the US Federal budget is huge: http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/newsgraphics/2011/0119-...)
Believe me, this is better. The curiosity urge is what gets the phone pulled out of the pocket. From there, it's very low friction to decide to open it up and start screwing around. Separating the two acts has, for me, been an improvement.
> There is this curious, and somewhat crazy, notion that Europeans live all stacked up on each other in some imagined urban paradise (or hell, depending on who you ask), and Americans live in some sparsely-populated wilderness. Neither impression are [sic] true.

OK, let's get more specific. Here are some of the larger metro areas (bulk of the population, right?) for the US and for Europe:

New York metro area[1]: 720/km2

Chicago metro area[2]: 509/km2

Miami metro area[3]: 315/km2

Houston metro area[4]: 215/km2

Paris metro area[5]: 21,196/km2

London metro area[6]: 5,206/km2

Madrid metro area[7]: 1,267/km2

Instanbul metro area[8]: 2,593/km2

Or compare every urban area on the list in the UK[9] all of which have more than 2000 people per km2 and the list of the largest urban areas in Europe[10], again with 80% > 2000/km2--the top 10 > 5000/km2, with the largest urban areas in the US[11] where less than 5 have 2000+, and 95% have < 1500 people per km2.

America may not have invented the suburbs, but we do them like nobody else because we have tons of space. I live in Austin, TX. I can get on the road and be in the countryside in under 30 minutes--real countryside with no buildings in sight. Can you even do that in the UK? France? I have family in St. Louis. If I drive there from Austin, that's 1300km. Largeish cities I would hit are Dallas and Springfield, MO. I could go from Rotterdam to Andorra with the same distance and pass through Antwerp, Paris, Orleans, Toulouse, etc.

Even if we assumed the average American city is as dense as those in Europe (they aren't) we still have the fact that in most parts of America you have long stretches of empty freeway between major metro areas. Austin TX to Houston, for example, is a 260km (160mi). Atlanta, GA to anywhere of note is at least 160km(100mi). Even California: San Diago to LA, 160km(100mi); Sacramento to San Fransisco: 140km(90mi); San Fransisco to LA: almost 600 km. That's almost the same as London to Glasgow, and you traverse most of the UK. Further than Paris to Bordeaux, again you cross most of France.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_metropolitan_area

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_metropolitan_area

[3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_metropolitan_area

[4]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Houston

[5]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris

[6]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_commuter_belt

[7]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrid#Metropolitan_area

[8]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istanbul

[9]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_urban_areas_in_the_Unit...

[10]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_urban_areas_of_the_Euro...

[11]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_urban_are...
What makes you believe anxiety over death is socialized crap, and that total acceptance is the natural/normal view?

IMO anxiety over death is 100% rooted in our instinctive fear of death. Best I can tell, humans have been anxious about it ever since they had the cognitive ability to see it coming, and the time to stop and think about it.
... a saying which is only actually true if you first remove the frog's brain, though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog#Scientific_backgro...
The point of the TSA is that its use is in providing the charade of security because it is the only tangible proof of increased security that most people will see/experience.

There are numerous other measures in place to actually increase security, i.e., fortified cabin doors, armed air marshals on all domestic flights, anti-hijacking procedures, terrorist-wary passengers, crew training, etc., all of which have prevented terrorist activities to some degree or another.
Patterns can assignable around the users now
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If Heroku had the data needed to do minimum-of-two random routing, they'd have the data needed to do intelligent routing.

Not strictly true; imagine that they can query the load state of a dyno, but at some non-zero cost. (For example, that it requires contacting the dyno, because the load-balancer itself is distributed and doesn't have a global view.)

Then, contacting 2, and picking the better of the 2, remains a possible win compared to contacting more/all.

See for example the 'hedged request' strategy, referenced in a sibling thread by nostradaemons from a Jeff Dean Google paper, where 2 redundant requests are issued and the slower-to-respond is discarded (or even actively cancelled, in the 'tiered request' variant).
I don't understand, how is it even possible ?
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FWIW one thing I really appreciate about living in Australia is the complete absence of security hassles when flying vs. the US.

I've flown domestically within Australia half a dozen times in the past couple of years and I don't think I've been asked even once for ID.

Obviously they screen your carry-on luggage and you walk through the X-ray machine, but it's reasonable and relaxed security compared to the US.

It's fine for non-travellers to go through security and meet friends or family right at the gate as soon as they get off the plane. Very civilized.
Assuming I understand the conditions, you can apply either as an individual (in which case you have to be either a citizen or PR) or an incorporated entity.

Shame, I have a lot of spare time and I'd be up for an interesting project (not sure if this qualifies, I've only skimmed it).
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Sanity check for your argument: How many synapses are formed during the typical trip?
Here is the title of this submission: "Patterns can assignable with the users now"

Here is the title of the original article: "Patterns can assignable around the users now"

Apart from my usual advice to copy the original title, neither of the titles makes the slightest bit of sense.
This kind of whining and the comments on the page piss me off greatly.

A customer is a person who pays for a service. Someone who doesn't pay for a service (yet) is a lead. Not all leads are good business. 100TB of traffic does not sound like a good lead to me, not even at the $200 level.

Looking at the site, I see an IMGUR clone which was running for free off of CloudFlare's cache servers. I really don't understand the nonsensical comments on the article. WTF is wrong with people these days thinking that everything is supposed to be free? Are you all 16 and on an weekly allowance?

Commenter Matt had a very valid point that some sort of optimization of the stored (cached) files would have been a smart option for yourselves (less local storage) as well as CF (less to cache, less bandwidth). I'd recommend http://www.jpegmini.com/server (Oh wait, it's not free, now what... cry me a river)

I have a question for the Phobos peeps. Were you making money? Seems to me like you were... since you can afford the LeaseWeb servers. Instead of bitching publicly, perhaps you should have reached out to the company when you noticed your traffic levels were reaching antisocial magnitudes.

Grumpy Gramps
(who used to pay UUNET $6k+ a month in 1997 dollars for the privilege of hosting a basic database-driven e-commerce site for a luxury watch brand on a guaranteed T1 connection)
Is "eat" a noun too now?

What's the subject of the previous sentence?

If we insisted on only using gerunds + "do", English would be a very strange world indeed. I imagine it would sound much like Java often does: "Eating is done by me of a sandwich.". Sometimes even "An eating is done [...]" :)

PS: The author is hardly illiterate. That's plain uncharitable.
I asked friends who have traveled to Israel about the situation there, and one friend shared this recent news story, "Shocked Dudamel reconsiders Israel future after double airport harrassment,"

http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/2013/02/exclusive-sho...

suggesting that once in a while a foreign visitor to Israel finds the security procedures there annoying.

Another friend recommends giving a careful read to the United States Department of State travel information for United States citizens planning to travel to Israel:

http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_1064.html
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Agreed. My first thought was: 'what is being done to secure these instances?' Transparency in security policies would be a welcome addition to your site!
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One possibility is to inform yourself more.

FYI

The best resource I found so far is http://www.dailynk.com/english/ . At least one more story like the OP's can be found here http://www.dailynk.com/english/sub_list_last.php?page=1&...

There is an organization that tries to do something about this http://libertyinnorthkorea.org/ . They have some videos as well that are worth watching http://www.youtube.com/user/linkglobal
Anything that has any connection with transporting anything. That goes for all of the businesses that I can think of.
Luckily I haven't been groped by any TSA agents, but I did have one experience that was very annoying.

I went through the scanner and my bags did as well, but I forgot to empty my water bottle. In the past, TSA agents have asked if they could empty it for me and rescan it. This time the TSA agent said I would either have to throw it away or leave the gate and reenter the whole security line.

I'll admit that I should have dumped my water, but I was bewildered by how aggressively the TSA agent told me my options. This may sound like whining, but I've never had anyone talk to me like that. I asked if there was anyone else I could talk to and she said no. Not wanting to create a scene, or be taken away by the TSA to be questioned, I left the gate and reentered the security line.

I started talking to the person next to me in the security line and explained the situation, and for some reason, the TSA agent came over and basically yelled at me to empty my water bottle. I hadn't even gotten to the trashcan to empty my water bottle. And it is entirely unnecessary for a TSA agent to scold a passenger. At this point, I felt relatively shaken up by the whole ordeal. In the grand scheme of things, it wasn't a huge deal, but, man, I really hated being basically yelled at in front of everyone and having the TSA agent go out of her way to yell at me in line again.

I should have filed a complaint, but it seemed pointless to do.
My memory's pretty shit, but didn't Gaben at one point say something like, "the Playstation is the biggest piece of shit ever made"?
I would like to see why actually Heroku fell back to random routing. It doesn't really make sense. Of course this all routing stuff is really tricky, but on the other hand there is a lot of work done (look at TCP agorithms).
When I was studying ZeroMQ routing based stuff for one project, I came across "credit-based flow control" pattern, that could make perfect sense in this kind of situation (Publisher-Subscriber scenario). Why not implementing such thing?
How is what possible? The Germans put all Jews on, even pregnant ones. His mother gave birth in the cattle car.

He was lucky. They survived. Most of his relatives did not.

He is an observant Jew. Follows all dietary laws, goes to Temple, observes all religious holidays, etc. He does this as a strong assertion that he is a Jew, he will not let anyone take that away from him. Ever.

He just doesn't happen to believe in God.
Thanks for suggestion. I changed the title.
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Ugh, I should have ordered during the Kickstarter. I was literally at the billing info page when I decided to wait until some reviews came out.

I was bought one as a gift, and still haven't received a billing notification yet. :(
I would agree. The Atmel multitouch system seems to involve the other 4 chips in that zone, so this processor is probably working with the output and doing some of the work that a kernel driver would normally do (dejiiter, smoothing, track ID matching) before presenting it to the host.
My comment:

Simple solution and nobody ever wants to talk about it. Sure it is more towards the long game but perfectly valid. The TSA budget is $8 billion, we should quit funding all of these crazy government programs. With a federal government budget of 1 trillion dollars, of course they are going to abuse their power. Iraq war, don't fund it. Afghanistan war, don't fund it. Drone operations, don't fund them. TSA, Department of Homeland Security, don't fund them.
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From experience, this is an incredibly effective way to DoS yourself. It was the default behaviour of nginx LB ages ago. Maybe only on EngineYard. Doesn't really matter as nobody uses nginx LB anymore.

Even ignoring the POST requests problem (yup, it tried to replay those) properly cancelling a request on all levels of a multi-level rails stack is very hard/not possible in practice. So you end up DOSing the hard to scale lower levels of the stack (e.g. database) at the expense of the easy to scale LB.
It's sad that now the descendants of those European Jewish victims are forcing Palestinian mothers in their own land to give birth at checkpoints. Since September 2000, 68 pregnant Palestinian women gave birth at Israeli checkpoints, leading to 34 miscarriages and the deaths of four women, according to the Health Ministry’s September report <quoted from a 2006 article>.

http://electronicintifada.net/content/pregnant-palestinians-...
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...or you could just set custom notification tones and vibrate patterns/intensity levels for specific apps/contacts/labels/anything (on android)
For what it's worth I'm a brown man with the occasional beard and I've never felt singled out or degraded when flying. I've been selected for pat downs and further screening surprisingly infrequently, and the TSA have been nothing but professional. I miss the pre-TSA days as well, but I'm no more hassled by it than the average non-brown guy.
Sadly a group of backwards people stopped WebDB just because SQLite being fast, fully featured and in public domain was not enough for them.
This is a very good point! Thanks for sharing this info, I guess when you're working for as long as you have on this project you tend to overlook "the initial" understanding of a new user and how they might perceive your product. I've signed up by the way, very cool tool!
Assuming by intelligent, you mean minimally loaded, choice of 2 requires less bookkeeping than this. (choice of 2 requires only local (per-node level) info, where as most other intelligent load-balancing requires global info ie. the min, etc.)

Taking the case of minimally loaded, you need to keep track of how many active requests each node/replica is serving, as well as globally keeping track of the min. (which past a certain load, will suffer a lot of contention to update)

To do choice of 2, all you need is to keep track of active requests per node/replica.

Under spiky workloads, there is also a problem with choosing minimally loaded. The counter for numRequests of a node might not update fast enough, so that a bunch of requests will go to that node, quickly saturating its capacity.

Choice of 2 doesn't suffer this problem bec of its inherent randomization.
It seems to me like what we need is a massive pro-nuclear (power, not weapons) political and advertising effort. "It's not perfect, but it's the best we've got" or "hey, it kills fewer people than coal!" aren't particularly rousing calls to action, unfortunately.

Without fission, the Malthusian doomers are, well, they are right. And that's going to make for an unpleasant world to live in.
Google Tech Talk about Shin's story
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms4NIB6xroc
As a dark-skinned man who oftentimes sports a beard, I'm treated like a terrorist every single time I walk through security. To them, I'm a second-class citizen - no question about it.

I travel frequently and I'm on the other side of the spectrum. I'm younger, caucasian, dress professionally when I travel and have never been searched and haven't seen anyone get through customs faster than I do. I'm practically invisible to airport security. I don't think I do anything differently than anyone else other than I'm probably a little more hurried than others because I've been through it many times so I want to be efficient. But I've heard and witnessed others having troubles many times. They must be profiling people on some scale that I just don't register on.

I'm not sure how much value this comment adds to the discussion other than perhaps adding a point to validate your comment from a different perspective.
Why did the title get changed to "psilocybin" when the article is clearly about both psilocybin and MDMA and even mentions the original LSD title?
I'm having trouble finding in-depth information about what a Modified Ehrlich's Reagent LSD test actually tests for. Would you mind telling me where you learned they test for any tryptamine, and any more information you might have on the matter?

Edit: This PDF: http://www.bvda.com/EN/download/np_instructions_2002.pdf says the test indicates the presence of ergot alkaloids, not tryptamines.
Investigating this approach now. It won't fix the problem, but will certainly reduce the occurrence of blocked dynos. Thx!

EDIT: will need to look into our memory perf though, looks like we'll need to do some work to get more than a couple of workers.
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I believe the Java equivalent is something like

passableF = new NotAClosure() {
public void execute(int i) {
return f(i);
}
}

But maybe someone knows better than me. I've had thankfully little to do with Java recently.

EDIT: Which I guess defeats the purpose of "without an object", but...
It's not standard procedure in Israel. You were scanned by local airport security personnel, and each place has its own procedures. I had to go through something similar when leaving on a direct flight from NYC to TLV - additional security at the gate leaving to Israel. Those are probably in place because Israel is considered a high-risk country at the moment - but they have nothing to do with how airport security is handled in Israel.
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I believe the article is saying that this wait will only occur with Rails due to it being single threaded? Reactor pattern frameworks like node don't suffer the same issue.
It's not the same as reading, though. I've done that in the past and it worked out like this:

"Oh, I know exactly who is texting me. They are a high priority person in my life. Let's make sure they're okay...

Aaand it's a cat gif."

The text display is the game-changer here.
Simulation author here with some additional analysis using a faster distribution of request times. If you use a distribution with median 50 ms, 90th percentile 225 ms, and 99.9th percentile 898 ms, then you need 30 intelligent dynos to handle 9000 requests/minute without queueing. In the same scenario with 30 naive dynos, 44% of requests get queued.

Animations and results are in the explanation at http://rapgenius.com/1502046
Side Bar: Can anyone provide some context/background/explanation about the north korean name / south korean name?
It is pretty fascinating. For a man not particularly known for his humility in office, the paintings show a lot of vulnerability. I'm hoping this isn't a prank.
Being Watched While You Watch TV: What’s So Creepy?
The balance of a subjective, sensationalist headline with objective statistical simulation was impressive.

I'm a huge Heroku fan using Cedar/Java, but can't help but wonder how many optimization options remain for Rails Developers, assuming nothing else changes on Heroku:

* Serving static HTML from CDN
* Unicorn
* Redis caching with multiget requests
Indeed, but where the downside is getting an unwanted dose of something like DOB it's advisable to err on the side of caution.
Not really interested in Motorola phones since they screwed me over with no Android update for my Photon. I'll be looking to Samsung 4, I think, since my wife has been happy with the III.
Does it come with its own random load balancing, too?

Sorry, couldn't help it ;)