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Maybe because I am British I have a very, very low opinion of the media, newspapers in particular, but...

Welcome to the world of the media and press.
wtf? The OP just (implicitly) agreed that this was the case, and that nail clippers had been taken anyway... who reads the TSA's blog?
Reddit user in boston giving great updates as he hears them.

http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/1ceng3/boston_marathon_...
I don't know who does and who doesn't, honestly. I try to avoid being delinquent. I know from the last time I had to change my card that my phone provider and ISP certainly do. Anybody who charges you on a recurring basis certainly can — they just add the amount to your next bill. They won't take you to court for it, but it will be added to the amount that you must pay or be disconnected.
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As I said, nothing was done without warning. PIRA gave more then a half hour warning before bombing Harrod's despite three civilians killed. Enniskillen was aimed at a patrol of troops.

As I said, the Volunteers did not set bombs to kill civilians, warnings were given ahead of time. A very benevolent attitude I think against an enemy which invaded their country, flooded the north part with settlers, and whose army was shooting civilians in the street when Enniskillen and Harrod's happened. If England doesn't want to be in a war, the solution is simple - remove English troops from Ireland.
Well stop agonizing about it and delete it then. I'm not saying that to be snarky, I'm pointing out that it's something useful you can do right now to get it off the top of the page.
150 visitors on the site right now, so I guess it depends on your definition of "blowing up." We're getting visits from YouTube, Twitter, Reddit, etc. but I haven't dug into where exactly.

Proof: http://d.pr/i/LDao

And as to "launching" in a thread, I don't really consider this a full "launch." Our product is needed, so even though it isn't ready we pushed it live.
I believe that in an emergency the FCC reserves the right to shutdown whatever it sees fit. (Something like this was reported on Bloomberg news when AP first reported it.)
Could be either... (I like both, though Mr. Reich has probably changed the world a bit more).
It'll probably kick-start an invasive drone surveillance bill and some unrelated oil-rich country being turned into dust. I wish this was hyperbole but based on previous US reactions this makes the most sense.
This is a cute description of what it does, but it doesn't really explain the why or how.
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I so agree with this argument that I think it should absolute, ie no provisos for "The only time a house makes sense is when raising kids." Long term, stable rental income is the dream of any landlord. Families provide that. So capitalism work just fine here too.
great talk, inspired me to simplify the tech stack.

Pyres looks like a good alternative for Celery in the Python world when you don't need Celery's cron-like features.
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> check every trash can for a bomb at every big event?

Actually, I think they already do that, with bomb-sniffing dogs. But they have dubious reliability, and don't catch someone who's willing to place the bomb shortly before it detonates, as may have been the case here.
I raced bicycles in college and I can say with confidence that after a 4-6 hour training ride I was wiped out physically and mentally. Had an explosion gone off when I was in that state and only a few blocks from home I would have made sure I was OK and kept pedaling for gatorade and a shower. I don't see their behavior as terribly puzzling given my fairly extensive experience with an exhausted state of mind.
> The function being used to evaluate speakers is broken - that much is clear from the rate of women being selected.

What numbers do you have to demonstrate that the function is broken? What percentage of our industry is made up of women, and what percentage of them are interested in presenting at a conference?

> This has an obvious correction: put a counterweight on it in the form of a quota. Does this fix the illness? No. It is a pill, medicine to manage the symptoms of the illness while the illness is fought. The malady is diffused, the remedy is not, so it is easy to pick on the remedy - but it's better than doing nothing.

Why do you believe that enforcing the selection of speakers on a basis other than their qualifications is better than doing nothing?
Could you comment more on why you thought the TEK was the more comfortable one, and how does it compare to the Kinesis? I'm thinking about getting either a Kinesis, a TEK, or a Ralforce (never tried those topre switches though). I was leaning so far to the Kinesis, thinking it was the more comfortable of the three. But I never tried the TEK, so I have no way of comparing.
When did this breach occur? The implication is that it was a couple of weeks ago. As it happens my CC expired at the end of March.
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I agree totally. I'd delete it if it would take it from the top instead of leaving the discussion there behind a curious "deleted".

I've scrolled down and up-voted as many of those more valuable comments as I could. I encourage everyone who reads this far to go and do the same.

As I said, I thought this would be a "one voice among many" kind of post, not become the lightning-rod of this thread. Parent is right. Go read the better stuff.
How come we don't hear about it more?

Instead we keep hearing the old "Wind and solar will never work because base load" garbage.
Culprit (Saudi national?) may have been found. http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/authorities_under_susp...
Plastic has got a lot better, remarkably in the past 20 years. The new ones are probably much more resilient.

fond memories of disintegrating rubber and plastic from the 90s
We did not have a knee jerk response to the Oklahoma City bombing? What would you call this rights-contracting law then:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiterrorism_and_Effective_De...
> What could we learn from this -- check every trash can for a bomb at every big event? There are an unlimited number of places you could hide a bomb.

France, in response to terrorist attacks in the 1995 mandated that all public locations have transparent bags held by posts [1] [2]. I don't think that's a unreasonable compromise, considering the alternatives.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_container#Media

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Trash_bin_in_Paris.jpg
This is essentially the same argument as "You can't arrest me — I'm the one who pays you." It's facile and will not get you far in the real world.
SMS will probably not go through at the moment: "Cellphone Service Shut Down in Boston" http://bigstory.ap.org/article/official-cellphone-service-sh...

"A law enforcement official says cellphone service has been shut down in the Boston area to prevent any potential remote detonations of explosives."
I checked it out, and it's a cool product. I agree with somebody elses's comment--this is a useful thing to have in this day and age.

Out of curiosity, how are you picking which things to feed? Your ticker rate for tweets seems fixed, so you are discarding some things, right?
This is incredible.. but at the same time you've exposed me to the multitudes of people that are just so hungry to make a "viral" image. I can't believe it.

One of the many:

http://distilleryimage7.s3.amazonaws.com/a9ba58b6a61111e2901...
I'd say mostly BS, unless the bomber is a technical idiot. If any random cellphone freq can set it off, it could be set off before the bomber drops it.

Being detonated by cell phone, maybe setting all numbers but one to a ringer of silent and then using the speaker would seem more plausible, but figuring that out probably takes more time than they can spare right now.
The Red Cross already does this. It's called Safe And Well. This is one place where we definitely don't need fragmentation.

If you need to check on someone in Boston, I recommend Safe And Well. Just please don't go to the site unless you actually need to check on someone. The servers don't need the added load (which I guess would be a reason to want to use Google, but they aren't going to be on scene like the Red Cross will be).
I think the key here is "Hopefully you don't incur any late fees while you're going through the process!"
The NY Post is the only one reporting this, and they're not exactly known for accuracy.
I'm glad people are posting photos like this - I hate how traditional media almost always post 'clean' pictures and video taken afterwards that make it hard to discern what actually happened.
I would like a way to filter out everything that includes the word "pray" in it unless it is from a respected news source. 90% of what any person ever says in response to everything that happens in america is "pray for it". It's sort of muddy to look at.

Actually it's just completely obnoxious. I like the site though.
Thank you. I was literally about to post the same thing.
This was submitted before that. I know because I was the guy who submitted it.
Whoops I looked it up and apparently a "mall" in boston is what the rest of the world would call a boulevard or parkway. So they're actually evac a street lined with trees. My worry was it they're shoving people in immense lines thru the doors of what the rest of the world would call a "mall" making a tempting target for the opfor.

I am surprised its verified to be packages and not dudes wearing vests or whatever. There's no way to avoid the issue that getting the crowd to stampede means certain targets of opportunity will be very busy. If I were in Boston there's no way in hell I'd set foot on any mass transit until the evac is over.

The original point still stands, that people mostly sittin down can't get into too much mischief, "everybody get up and run around" results in huge opportunity for chaos, because not just the good guys, but the bad guys too will be up and running around.
Because most people think violent attacks on high-profile innocents is more meaningful than, say, the merits of blogging without an audience.
The Boston Globe has uploaded a footage at the moment of explosion at the Boston Marathon. This one shows how the moments panned out. The best I have seen so far.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=046MuD1pYJg
Just learned about google person finder.

http://google.org/personfinder/2013-boston-explosions/
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If anything a successful terrorist attack should be a condemnation of the freedom-sacrificing mechanisms that have been put in place like the PATRIOT Act. They just failed.
Ask HN: Kickstarter etiquette on living expenses?
To use an example: what if Sal Khan of Khan Academy wanted to raise money to make more videos (assuming they didn't raise money). It costs him basically nothing to make them. But to do it fulltime, he'd need enough money to pay the bills.

Would it be acceptable for him to use Kickstarter to raise X dollars to live while he's doing the project?

Ditto for any other project that basically costs nothing to make, other than time.
The Red Cross link:
http://www.redcross.org/find-help/contact-family/register-sa...

> Due to high volume, Safe and Well is experiencing slow page loads at this time. Please continue to check back.

Edit: Also, I hate to bag on anything disaster-relief related, but it's not very useful even when it is working, as it returns results from what looks like the Red Cross's entire database of these records, rather than those scoped to today.
Ah, well, this sort of explains a method of mine.

When I get stuck on a problem, I get the dog and go for a walk. I can then mentally give the problem a sense of freedom and let it sort of wander round my mind. The problem get mental time, and mental space. 9 times out of 10, the solution appears. The trick then is not to forget it by the time I get home!!!!

With out doing that, I would never have passed my degree.
I feel I'm not that familiar with the matter so I would be able to make a real case.
And what was Drogheda, when the English massacred an entire town? Or shooting up the crowd in Croke Park? Or Bloody Sunday? The English have carried out terrorism against the Irish for centuries. It's an English war of choice. The English stole my family's land, gave it to settlers, and now English troops still march up and down Belfast. If you choose to go to war with a country and try to subjugate their people, expect the consequences. Don't cry that some of the war of your choice blew back to your homeland.
I do believe public emergency transponders and radios use a different spectrum (independent of the spectrum used by the general public for cell phone calls, etc), but am unsure if that's still the case for making a 911 call. I don't believe it is... Thus, if cell towers are disabled, and hence, your phone doesn't work -> you won't be able to make emergency calls. Someone please correct me as I don't want this to be true.
I'm not sure about this. Plants synthesize a whole lot of biochemicals no animal does, for example, including a lot of amino acids. They can't run away from insect parasites or swat them with their tails, so they have to be able to poison them — without killing the plant or, say, the birds that spread their seeds. There's a lot more phenotypic complexity in corn than you can see without a chemistry lab, probably including things we haven't discovered yet. Do you work in botanical bioinformatics, or are you just guessing?
You're absolutely right. "Pray for boston" is trending on Twitter and Instagram right now, so it really muddies up the feed. We'll get a way to put negative search terms in there.
I think the IRA harmed a lot of innocent people, harmed their own cause, and that bombing civilians, warning or not, should be condemned. However the poster did mention that warnings were given if bombs were placed near civilians and your own link for the Warrington bombs does confirm that.

I also think if you played the loudest instrument on earth while marching in circles outside David Cameron's church you'd be arrested.
Women who choose to have children, and anyone, male or female, who chooses to take more than six months off for just about any reason.
Last time I used that (a year ago)- didn't get replies from many people. It seemed like a zombie app to me.
I've used the BoA and it's fantastic for one-time purchases. Like another commenter mentioned, it's only good for 1 year and you give a global cap. It would be nice if it was more permanent and allowed for a weekly or monthly cap so you could use it with subscription services or something like Amazon.
Link: http://www.redcross.org/find-help/contact-family/register-sa...

Also the city is doing the same through the Mayor's Hotline: 617-635-4500
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One thing to note is that the irc channel if that is what you mean by chat, is mostly populated by non linode staff. And many of us there tend to be sarcastic as we idle there and chat about all sorts of stuff while we are bored at work or whatever. Unless it's someone with ops, you aren't getting an official reply and even then for something official they usually refer to ticket system.
Knowing what their motives were is likely to speed their capture. Most terrorists have trouble keeping their mouths shut.
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I disagree. The function being used to evaluate speakers serves is NOT to achieve an arbitrary percentage split on genders of speakers, but to select the best speakers for a particular topic. If that happens to render a 100% female panel, so be it.

Having said that, a human bias in gender does need to be removed if it exists. If this bias is for or against the inclusion of women, it should be removed.

Applying a counterweight to achieve some superficial quota based on a societal demand just degrades the quality of the function and it's integrity.

How ironic it would be to apply such a fix for a 'tech' conference.
A friend of mine worked on a consulting project that tracked how hiring managers looked at resumes for high-volume positions (defined, at that time, as 100+ resumes per opening -- probably a very conservative figure today). In interviews, they claimed they looked at everything. In eye-tracking studies, they basically spent about 30 seconds per resume, and they looked at education, companies, job titles, and dates. Almost nothing else on the page mattered.

I'm almost positive you could have inserted complete gibberish into every other line of the accomplishments/bullet points, and still have passed muster if you'd had enough big names on the page.

Of course, that was 5-6 years ago. These days, we also have computer filters to deal with. To some extent, these filters can be "SEO'ed" with the right combination of keywords, and the right percentage of linguistic overlap between job listing and resume. But on the flip side, they're almost certain to be very harsh and uncaring to employment gaps, unknown companies or brand names, and non-standard job titles.
Recruiters work for the company, because that's who pays them, and because companies tend to be more selective but also more stable as clients (i.e. you'll lose a worker after 2 bad placements, but usually not a client).
A simply awesome article, that I would refer to back and again, can someone please refine this with his comments as well. I mean it would be really helpful to point out any mistakes Pinterest did, at any point, what I want to know is, what could they have done better. Also, business is a dynamic environment, so somethings might have changed, so can someone please also point out, if something was right when pinterest did it, but now there are better alternatives. Thanks a lot in advance. I would be really reading many of the comments properly.

~Rika
I didn't read it as attention whoring. I'd be inclined to think that the relatively few (but nevertheless very visible) harsh responses you've received are at least in part expected, valid, and understandable reactions to the possibility that you might just be right. After all, we don't want to believe that a tragic event like this might be used to tighten the noose of security around our collective necks. But what if it does?

Given recent history, there's little reason to feel that it won't and plenty to worry that it will.
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Interesting, The Wiki says up until 1963, didn't know they changed the formula at all. Be interesting to see how well ones from before and after the change held up comparably.
how does that help? You could still stick a bomb in amongst the trash. Ok, it's no longer enclosed in a container that will make the blast worse but you could stick plenty of malice into a bomb the size of a football which would easily go into that bag.
Interesting; but with nothing to test, it seems like vaporware.
FWIW, watch out for the Бостоне ("Boston" in Russian/Cyrillic) trending topic on Twitter. There's at least one extremely graphic photo of a gentleman who has lost the majority of his left leg. After seeing that, I'm opting to avoid further photos.
The going rates in NYC/SF also have going rates for living expenses. A single person might not mind having a small apartment or sharing with someone - people with families or other priorities can't live like that.

It doesn't have to be telecommute - mid-senior developers can get jobs making $70-$80k in many major areas around the US (Minneapolis, Raleigh, Atlanta, Nashville, are just some I know of off the top of my head). Junior devs with no experience would probably be hard pressed to start off much over $50-60k in those areas, although there may be exceptions.

Consulting may be 'unstable' in that you'll have periods where you're not billing - at first that'll be because you have nothing else lined up. Later, it'll be by choice - you'll scheduled out breaks between engagements, and have a bit of a life in between. And you'll have charged enough, and budgeted your earnings enough such that it won't matter to your day to day living.

I would suggest that if you do the consulting/contracting route, that you be willing to travel. I know people can't always sell a house and move, but most people can get a car or plane to visit clients on a regular basis - it helps a lot to solidify relationships. And I'm surprised at how many people who want to do independent consulting remotely focus way too much on the remote part and not enough on the independent and consulting parts, then wonder why they can't find clients.

Keep your eyes and ears open for opportunities - they sometimes come up in places you wouldn't expect (both geographic and industry).
Credit card numbers are of pretty low value. Like way less than a buck in medium volume and still just a few bucks for the super premium ones. And there is way, way more inventory of them than interested buyers. The likelyhood of a coordinated break in of a large hosting service with the intention of stealing credit cards is pretty low, and the chance that they'd be exploited so quickly is even lower.

Unless the attacker dumped them all (semi) publicly, the more likely explanation is that the breakin caused people to check their accounts and a statistically normal percentage of them showed fraud from another origin. But anybody who sees it will be sure to get online and find others in a similar situation.

Everybody would be doing themselves a big favor if they stopped treating CC info as the #1 scary OMG data theft. The banks programmed you to care because congress made sure they're liable instead of you. Theoretically you might owe $50 due to fraud but practically you never pay a dime. Sure it's a bit of a pain in the ass to get resolved, but it's not worth stressing about until it happens.

I'd be way more concerned if my hoster lost my contact info, ip logs and identity challenge questions & answers.
Why would you use an HMAC for password storage? It's not like length extension attacks are relevant in that application.
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Yeah, like I said the product is brand new. It discards everything with "RT" or "Retweet" as well as a few other things in it (if it weren't finals week it would discard everything with "pray," but we should be taking our exams right now). Soon it will split up different tweets and show them to different people.
This is missing the whole point of the parent post though.

The OP's point is that even if you can ensure 100% of the trashcans dont contain bombs for a reasonable cost, the terrorists will now just put them somewhere else.
what he says actually makes perfect sense. thousands of syrians are dying everyday, and I don't see much mentions about them on HN for example. yes you will feel bad, but you will quickly move on and forget about it as long as it doesn't relate directly to you.
That's because the mods keep removing it -- reddit will have some contract with telegraph.uk or other such websites (they pay reddit for the higher traffic)