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I've been flying since the 1960s, and internationally since the early 1980s. I've written about this general issue (crazy TSA rules that don't appear actually to make any of us safer) for years now on Hacker News.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5216204

Here's the tl;dr version: It would be better to go back to the "old days" when we could bring all kinds of unlikely things with us onto airliners. The best way to keep the public safe is not to inconvenience air travelers but to relentlessly pursue and kill leaders of terrorist networks who try to make flying dangerous and frightening rather than safe and routine. Exercise your rights by not letting terrorists change your lifestyle, and ask your elected officials to ease up on needless inconvenience for air travelers. (Please don't complain if this is brief and doesn't cover all the details; I linked to the long version.)

Best wishes to all of you for safe and dignified travel by the means of your choice.
Use a table within Bootstrap or start nesting the grid to achieve that result.
Satoshi Nakamura of Bitcoin identified?
We have a startup who used it and raised funding with it. I would have to get permission to share their pitch deck first.
Didn't have a big enough stake in it to justify the purchase of Sun. Oracle however, did have a lot riding on Java succeeding and removing the Sun Hardware division as a competitor.
Wouldn't using a table for display purposes be an HTML anti-pattern? Also, I'm going to be generating content dynamically, so having classes would make things much easier.
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Since some inhabitants of one country think their country is the world I can imagine which one of the 194 countries you think of.

The answer therefore is yes.
They cut off data access, right? That sounds exactly what has happened multiple times with other companies to drive an acquisition. I bring up Zappos because Amazon forced a sale there. All they needed to do was threaten a "diapers.com" where they forced an acquisition in that case by (unsustainably) undercutting prices. Companies manipulate their platforms constantly to achieve their business goals.

Also, only the paranoid survive.
> But Renaissance Technologies are very secretive - they publish virtually nothing about what they do. What are the odds of them greatly outperforming the market (and always having positive returns) for all those consecutive years?

It is always possible to pick and choose your data to prove any point you care to make. But the fund you describe is one data point in a large distribution of investors and funds defined by the market averages. Please try to evaluate this scientifically, dispassionately.

> ... What are the odds ...

The odds are excellent that, in a field of tens of thousands of funds, a few of them will do spectacularly well because of chance factors. And this is the explanation favored by Occam's razor -- the idea that the simplest explanation is likely to be the correct one.

In a computer analysis described here --

http://www.arachnoid.com/randomness/#Investment_Genius

-- a model is set up with 100,000 investors, each of whom randomly buys and sells stocks, in a market that creeps up in value over time (like the real market) along with random fluctuations (like the real market). "What are the odds" for success because of chance? Very good -- essentially certain. Of the 100,000 investors with managed portfolios, each with an initial $10,000 stake, 224 became millionaires by chance alone. The top-earning portfolio returns $4,638,235.88 by chance alone.

But at the same time, the average investor with a managed portfolio (who wasn't a buy & hold investor) came out behind -- more than 2/3 of the managed portfolios come out behind the market average. And this model didn't even assess trading fees -- a more realistic model that charges transaction fees makes active portfolios look much worse.

Imagine you're a stockbroker and you know these facts, facts that put an active portfolio in such a bad light. What do you tell your clients? That having an actively traded portfolio is a losing proposition? Or that a handful of investors came out ahead, some far ahead?

The bottom line is that a successful fund, especially one that won't reveal its methods, is the result of chance -- absent scientific evidence that something other than chance is involved.

Imagine that someone throws a fair coin and eventually produces a series of 16 heads in a row. Doesn't that prove that the thrower has psychokinetic powers? No, it means he threw the coin 2^16 (65,536) times, a sequence during which the described outcome has a 50% chance to arise by chance alone.

Also read this:

http://www.arachnoid.com/randomness/#Miracle_Man

In the above strategy, a con man mails you a series of predictions so remarkable that you're certain he's a genius, but the strategy is so absolutely predictable (and easily explained) that it can be carried out with a computer and as printer with no human intervention.

So in answer to your question "what are the odds?", I have to say that all these outcomes are easily explained as chance occurrences, and that is by far the most likely explanation.
I know that bash can do completion. I just wasn't aware if bash dot '--c<tab>' completion, or if it listed possible completions for that.
ZeekRewards.com Ponzi scheme took in up to $600m, prosecutors say
What Java alternatives do we have other than Mono/C#?
Transit through navigable airspace is a right. Is transit with any cargo I choose a right? If it is, why doesn't that mean I have a right to fly with a concealed weapon?
if you want this on the JVM today and can abide Scala, see: http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/snapshot/scala/dataflow.html
Developer Freedom? Oracle Clings To Java API Copyrights In Google Fight
There's no such concept as "a privilege" in the constitution. The constitution isn't a definition of what citizens can do, it's a definition of what the government can do. Like I don't give a crap about the rest of this dumb argument, but drawing some weird distinction and calling one thing a privilege and another a right while wrapping it up int he Constitution is vapid.
A Facebook phone. Final brick in the social network’s walled garden?
Where's the print stylesheet?

Many times a plain PDF printed out on a stack of dead trees is still the best way to pitch. Unfortunately it's a PITA to build good-looking PDF decks in standard presentation tools... would be awesome to just edit some HTML and generate the PDF from that.
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I agree with you that this is not "Hacker News". But, this story really hit me.

I do take some opposition to your post, given the context of this thread I think that you could have raised the issue in a politer and less confrontational way. Especially since this was brought to HN by a 3rd party instead of the author.

As an additional side point, one of the HN rules is that "deeply interesting" stories are permitted. Given that OP is one of us I think this qualifies, certainly a few people have found it interesting.
I've thought this myself lately but what alternatives did they really have? The only other real alternatives are C++ and C#, which are both problematic for different reasons.

I wouldn't mind seeing a new mobile OS build around Go but it's way too late for a change that fundamental for Android. For better or worse Java & Android are married now.
+1 for the state machine reference - funny and hackerish.
Java might have been, but I am not sure about Dalvik. Without the Java language conversion, I doubt Oracle would have ever bothered to attack Dalvik.

On the other hand, so far this case has been nothing but a boondoggle for Oracle. It seems that is unlikely to change at this point.
Just replied to your email but for everyone else:

This was a side project and we really just focusing on the web side of things -- this is great to host on your own URL and send to investors/interested parties/share with people/add to your angel.co profile, etc.

We never really considered the print aspect but could be something to add in the future if people like the product enough.
Ask HN: What should I do with my Google Glass?
Just got accepted into the Google Glass Explorer Program via twitter, and am looking for tons of awesome ideas to put these to good use! Haven't received word on when I'll be able to pick up my pair, but when I do I'd love to have plenty of things to do with them / develop for them, potentially.

So, HN, what do you suggest?
Weren't you claiming earlier:

"I'm offering you a communication channel to studio executives right now."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5458900

And you say stuff like you do not have a right to fly?

Too bad there's no way to have HN not show me any of your replies (without scripting).
Thanks, Raphaelj! Pat (pfalls) will be in touch if he has any questions. Really appreciate the contribution!
I really hope the author of this great piece shares his rare copy of MacApp 1.1 with the world, so it won't end up as another piece of lost software history only alive in our memories.

This guy was incredibly lucky in finding a mostly non-corrupted floppy available for sale. In just a few years the few remaining working floppy originals will cease working and MacApp will end up as just another lost piece of software - unless pirate copies are made.

You can say and think what you want about software piracy, but it's undeniable that it has saved a lot of ancient software and games from ceasing to exist in anything other than our memories. Illegal software/ROM archives have probably done more to keep the revolutionary time of the early computing/gaming history alive than all the legal old-fashioned libraries have done combined.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/248571/why_history_needs_soft...

Thankfully there is very little enforcement of the copyright law on ancient software - and so few developers/publishers are bothered enough by the fact that someone is illegally enjoying, archiving and sharing their 10-30 year old software that they bother issuing takedown notices - that it is effectively "legal", or at least tolerated in the same way as cannabis is in the Netherlands. The fact that it won't actually be really legal until 2040-2060 is totally absurd, and a powerful testament to how outdated and irrelevant the current copyright laws are.
Or "three strikes laws" in California...
Why Saudi Arabia?
Here's a slightly different example that's still hopefully in the spirit of yours.

You're walking in a busy area and a pair of cops stops you and asks you to show your ID and the contents of your bag.

1) Show the ID (which you're required to in this country, if you're a non-citizen), but not the contents of your bag. 1a) Optionally, ask the policemen's ID and write down their names.

2) Show both the ID and the contents of your bag.

This happened to me a while ago, in Tokyo. Apparently most people do #2. The cops were very surprised that I chose option #1a. It took 15 minutes for them to give up. Apparently most people either don't know that cops cannot search you without probable cause, or they know but don't care. I don't think you need to be particularly courageous to say "no" to a cop, when it's your right to do so and you live in a place where the law is upheld.

Incidentally, I would never antagonize a TSA person or an US immigrant officer like that, as I have no idea of what laws (if any) would protect me, as a non-citizen.
Yea, different duration of copyright for software is probably also a good idea.
I'm extremely unimpressed with the software engineering coming out of Apple recently. So many of their major new iOS APIs either don't work (Core Data/Sync), are just not well thought through (Storyboards) or seemed to have been designed with much real world testing at all (AutoLayout).

They have a great foundation in Obj-C/Cocoa Touch but I'm very quickly losing confidence in their ability to move the platform forward.

Android is much less mature in many ways but seems to be under much more expert guidance lately, both architecturally and at the UI level.
> Privilege is not a false concept just because you don't like it.

I didn't say it was a false concept _in general_. For a kid to get an allowance is a privilege. What I should implied (and should have have said explicitly) is: the relationship between people and their government should not be governed by a notion of privilege.

> Whether or not you agree with the policy, you can't just ignore the existence of Supreme Court jurisprudence because the SC is the arbiter of these questions per the Constitution itself.

No, morality is the arbiter of these questions, and the government either acts in line with morality, or it does not. In this particular case, the Constitution has taken the right moral stand, and the rest of the government has ignored the Constitution.

> Your claim that a constitutional violation invalidates the entire existence of government is just not anchored in reality.

I don't know why you keep talking about this. I explicitly stated that I don't support rebellion. I think we should try to work within the legal framework we have to change things. So we have no practical disagreement. I just think that a government that does not follow the rules of the Constitution is not a _legal_ US government, because it's acting _illegally_, in the same way that China taking over the US by force would not be legal under the US constitution, and would also therefore be illegitimate.

This is not the same thing as severability. Severability comes into play when part of a law is deemed illegal. In this case, the law (constitution) is illegal, and one of the parties to the law is breaking it.

> Please, read the whole constitution

Your presumption that I haven't read it is ridiculous.
Did you read the link? If you think all of these things "suck", why would you be opposed to

FOIA for essentially all of the TSA's policy & procedures documents

which is what he plans to do? There might be no legal remedy, but certainly a "public opinion" one.

He also doesn't want to pursue anything on the grounds of their procedures or policy, but the ADA / Rehabilitation Act, and this is where all of us need to excuse ourselves into IANAL.
The legal precedent if the case is reversed on appeal potentially extends beyond just Java; the article is essentially about the ruling that APIs can't be copyrighted, and that numerous amicus curiae briefs argued in favour of APIs being copyrightable.

If APIs can be copyrighted, it would seriously harm interoperability. For example, if the ruling holds, someone could make a payments service which replaces Paypal so seamlessly that to integrate it you can just change the 'paypal.com' string for 'competitorsbrand.com' without redoing all the work you did for Paypal integration. This would be bad for Paypal but would be great for making the market far more efficient. Similarly, if it is reversed on appeal, Wine and Mono could be considered copyright violations and sued by Microsoft.

If it extended to non-software interfaces a reversal could be even worse - imagine if the idea that turning the round wheel in front of the driver causes a car to move in the corresponding direction was a copyrighted interface? In that particular case, Copyright in the US wouldn't have expired until 1985, so other manufacturers would have needed to come up with different interfaces, and switching makes would have been hard.
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This is a nice anthology of concepts. I remember learning many of these piecemeal from various sources and most of them were mind-blowing on first encounter. Reading through them again reminds me of that sense of wonderment.
At the risk of philosophy there is a difference between expectation in terms of a demand, and expectation in terms of an assumption. There is no naiveté in understanding the common outcome and seeking an alternative one.

I learned a lesson recently about having faith that the status quo can be changed from the tactics of the GLBT community. I had assumed that the only way to create real change would be to force change through radical action, but they expected people to act like rational caring individuals if they just went door to door, introduced themselves, and explained their way of life. This has been (to me) shockingly successful. It seemed naive, an absurd assumption that people would listen and act rationally, but to a staggering extent it has worked.

Perhaps you think our legal system is too far gone to be given the same faith, and held to similar expectations of decency, but I would disagree.
These articles remind me of the the Malcom Gladwell book(outliers?) asking the question if this is because of all just genius or right idea right time
I get the guy was standing up for his rights and all, and I am all for human rights (especially those with disabilities) but you have to admit the guy was baiting them quite a bit. I felt as though he was intentionally trying to take it as far as possible. The guy was trying to take a 2 liter bottle onto the plane, I understand he needed it, but where was he going that required a 2 liter bottle of Aloe Vera juice? If it's the sugar, could he not have sufficed with sugar mixed with water or perhaps some kind of confectionery on the plane to tie him over?

Taking a 2 liter bottle onto the plane of store bought juice is silly no matter which way you look at it. If it were a prescribed liquid, they would have let him on no questions asked. But as far as the TSA or "their representatives" know, he's just some guy with a bottle of juice and camera. I know someone suffering as equally medically and they don't try and carry 2 liter bottles of juice onto planes, they always have backup sugar pills for when they need them and if he was nice and made his needs known to flight staff, they would have been more than accommodating to his needs on the plane opposed to risking a potential PR storm if there were to be an in-air medical emergency.
Check if this can help.
http://suprb.com/apps/nested/
More headline noise and fanciful speculation in the article body without any actual evidence to support the claim the title claims to investigate.

Additionally, if an article's title ends with a question mark, you are almost always justified in assuming the answer is "no".
I'm getting one as well and curious.

I'm in the midwest and my buddies and I are talking about flying out to SF and then road tripping back home and testing glass out along the way.
spam site if you look beyond the article
very nice indeed. make a Steam theme from it, will ya?
The usual one I've seen is that it's hardcoded into a system in some way that, while changeable, nobody wants to touch for fear of collateral breakage, which is a variant on the "don't touch the ladder" argument given by the first response.

This is usually something like a fixed width database or file field that works with code written a long time ago...

Does it suck? Yes. In nearly all cases, Authentication, Authorization, and Access should be separated in ways where they don't interact/overlap other than at an absolute minimum.
Exactly. Once a method to significantly lengthen human lifespan is found, the challenge then becomes: where do the natural resources come from to support such an expanding world population. When that day of great scientific discovery arrives, we may all be on a calorie restricted diet, whether we choose to or not.
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Hey Apple, why don't you get to studying on good old Lotus Notes? Multimaster, highly replicated, non-relational, conflict-reconciling, document-focused storage for what, twenty years?
Wow, looks great! What tool(s) did you use to create this?
The FOIA request and the threat of lawsuit are very different things. He's using TE former to attempt to bolster his claims for the later (which, if he can get the info, is a good strategy).
Article I Section 6:

The Senators and Representatives shall receive a compensation for their Services, to be ascertained by Law, and paid out of the Treasury of the United States. They shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place.

Article I Section 9

The privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.

Article IV section 2.1:

The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States.

Amendment XIV:

Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State [...]

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I personally don't care for textualist arguments, but the concept of privilege is explicitly mentioned 4 times in the Constitution.

EDIT: I'm getting downvoted for pointing out a fact, with citations. Impressive.
Link on your name at the bottom is broken.

Nice work otherwise. The text is sometimes a bit fuzzy, but I'm guessing that's from Photoshop's wacky sub-pixel rendering.

Just FYI: dribbble might be a better audience...
Looks nice. I guess right now Valve want a consistent experience on all desktop platforms rather than custom per-platform UIs but maybe they should change their collective mind :).

I feel like the "shopping cart" item (which isn't actually a shopping cart) isn't very readable at first glance.

The link to your e-mail address at the bottom is broken (mailto: missing)
Few thoughts:

- Loading splash is very nice.

- Grid view looks good. Would like to see your take on the "list view," which I generally prefer.

- The chat seems to waste a lot of space, especially with the top bar. The current Steam interface is much more information-dense, which as someone with a 1280x800 screen, I very much enjoy :)

I'd love to see your take on a redesigned storefront and community sections, too. I don't really have any issue with how Steam looks now (just how it functions - the OSX app was broken for so long in so many ways!), but I like the visual refresh you've made!
https://bitbucket.org/zaphar/dotfiles/src/6ce04e6c7bbb03b21f... shows the current setup.

It's gotten more sophisticated over the years. I can probably clean it up some but it works so I haven't touched it :-)
I think this could have some other benefits, like population centers re-balancing themselves out rather than having the gross concentrations of otherwise unnecessarily dense capital the way we have now - SF is the perfect example. If you had a guaranteed 15k a year, you could not only take more venture risks, but also live pretty much anywhere and work without the dire need for the profit motive to feed yourself and pay absurd $2k a month rent on a 10x10 room because you have to live in SF or NY to get ahead.
He was clearly looking for a fight, but I wish everybody would do what he has done. This security theater wouldn't be feasible if everybody took a stand.

I just hope he is correct in his legal interpretations.
Looks like an awesome concept, and well executed as well!

Since the GamePress arcade lets you play any GamePress game, you could even publish top games as standalone apps running on your engine (if the creator wants). But more interestingly, you could provide some "edit" functionality in these apps, so that players can modify their local versions using the GamePress editor (either the full or a simplified version).

Angry Birds is cool, being able to build Angry Birds is cooler, but being able to customize your own version of Angry Birds is the coolest. People love sharing things they make, so that could be an entirely new growth avenue.
It's my understanding that this project has been superseded by ePMV (http://epmv.scripps.edu/).