skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's indeed correct. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 provides that service cannot be refused* on the "ground of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin", other than that it is really fair game.

In fact it is a right for businesses to choose who they want to serve. An airline that only flies costumed clients? 100% a right in this country. They can even decide who they consider costumed and who not.

* In research I discovered that it depends actually on the type of service. In California the Unruh Civil Rights Act catches all businesses; but federally only certain types of businesses must follow the discrimination rules. http://users.wfu.edu/zulick/341/civilrightsact1964.html

Airports are included in the Civil Rights Act because "it serves or offers to serve interstate travelers".
As was noted in the article, JetBlue made that determination on their own. You can chose to believe the government told him no, but you'd be ignoring the stated facts in and just making shit up.
Supposedly the Patriot Missile was protecting Israel during the first Gulf War, but there are as far as I know zero confirmed hits (IIRC the Pentagon generously thinks that a few scuds were deflected, but Israel thinks otherwise).

The point is that just because a program is thought of as 'famously effective'　doesn't mean it actually is.
What I want to know is how he got access to the reports from all these agencies and interviews from many individuals involved with this incident. Isn't that information privileged? Did he have to file a FOIA request like morisy[0]? You want me to believe he tracked down all these documents and the very people involved in this incident in four days? Government bureaucracy works that efficiently? Who is this guy?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6281604
(just as an addendum to the above, compare: drug dogs, in theory, and in practice, in light of recent disclosures about the DEA's 'parallel reconstruction' program.
I tend to think they were strong-armed into it.
Yes, but not his apartment.
I don't know, the one that is the most empirically effective in assessing somewhere for being a terrorist?
Interesting. Perhaps if there were a term to succinctly describe a zeitgeist where participants think they are doing good but actually causing great harm in retrospect, without invoking Godwin's law. Also, any lessons or warning signs for dark periods would be helpful.
While I acknowledge that in practical terms you are sure to get more hassle for asserting your rights, they are still your rights.

Under the law you are subject to the same laws and privileges as any citizen - you are expected to obey our criminal laws while on US soil and you are also expected to have the same civil rights while here too.
Mark, Can we improve the display of open issues ? say with description of the project. You can also left align the display to make it more readable.
I am always happy to learn. I find belief fascinating, especially since I normally don't stretch much further with faith than expecting the sun to rise tomorrow, although even that in itself is a bit of a shot in the dark, especially if you try and take a long view.

I get what you are saying about the use of gentile in this context. I guess the guy is used to living around non-secular Christians in the US, so is presumably using the word to mean the non-Jewish culture local to him, rather than all non-Jews. I just found it a bit jarring because I was relating it back to my own experiences in the UK, where church going is something of a rarity, even among those who class themselves as Christian.

I know very little about Chassidic Jews, indeed I only just realised after looking it up that it is apparently the same thingy as Hasidic, which I also know very little about, though I at least knew the term Hasidic and now also now know one more thing about that, namely that it is apparently the same as Chassidic. I also think it might have something to do with big fluffy hats, and everyone likes big fluffy hats. I should probably seek to expand my knowledge in this area as it is a little bit sparse. :)

Back on the article subject, I think that for me one of the best examples of the religious scientist has to be Georges Lemaître, who really should have a space telescope named after him at some point, given that he came up with the Hubble constant before Hubble did. His arguments with Pope Pius XII over Pius' use of Georges' cosmology to try and provide justification for Catholic theology seem to be astute, especially his point that it is a very bad idea to tie your faith to a scientific theory that may yet be disproved, especially when you are the leader of that faith.

I actually had an argument about all this very recently with a mate of mine, who does not study science, but likes to take its side (I am not sure science cares for sides though). He takes the view that science and religion are rationally incompatible and that anyone who says they practice both is lying or mad. On the other hand, I take the view that anyone who says they are completely rational is either lying or mad anyway and that it is far from unusual to be immersed in religion as a faith and science as process. One is to do with your feelings towards the things you cannot discern and the other is a method of discovery for the things that you can.

The nearest I get towards spirituality is the distinct feeling that many of the complex archetypes have some deeper pattern and existence, though I strongly suspect that nobody on the planet has ever got close to working out what those patterns actually are or what they represent and I certainly see no reason to regard them as conscious, at least not in any kind of way that we know how to use the term. Then again, perhaps Philip K. Dick is right and some kind of alien-god is communicating with sci-fi authors using beams of light. I would probably bet strongly against that last one though.
Well, if you'd read the rest of the article, you'd see the procedures are designed to ensure that, if he's going to do that, he's doing it without any implement of harm on him, or least not one the TSA can find.

Also, pointing out that it's impossible to deter a truly convicted person from a heinous act does not mean all deterrents are pointless.

Yes, MUCH of what the TSA does is theater, and doesn't do much to keep us safe. Yes, much of it is theater.

But based on all the evidence provided in both his account, and the one above, the TSA acted in a completely sane way in this incident.
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No, according to the second article they made their decision based on his state of mind after the government singled him out and messed with him. The government is directly responsible for that chain of events.
True. It's a pity that Steve Jobs gets credit for essentially the revolution that Wintel brought.
C:\not\sure\about\the\rest\of\you\but\i\needed\to\see\how\long\that\is\to\fully\understand\the\implications\of\this\seemingly\arbitrary\limitation\-\to\give\this\some\context\this\path\is\two\hundred\and\18\characters\
Hunter Walk's blogpost on why this might not be the case: http://hunterwalk.com/2013/08/26/how-facebooks-shared-photo-...
Salmon is about a lot of things. It can be eaten raw, cold- or hot smoked, cured, grilled, lightly salted etc.

I prefer cured, raw, lightly salted or cold smoked.

I don't think you'll find that your particular preparation mrthod is used with salmon in very many three star restaurants.
I'm fairly sure all four players you mentioned could make themselves understood in Spanish on the pitch without much trouble. But being a CEO is all about communication and not at all about what you can do with a ball at your feet. Remember, it's fine if the CTO has a thick accent because he can back it up with hacking skills, but the CEO is a professional conversationalist.
http://i.imgur.com/BL3dog4.png

Most web fonts exhibit this behavior on Windows. Chrome does a little better with the thickness, but the rendering problems are still there.

Here's an article on the topic http://blog.webink.com/why-fonts-suck-windows-hinting/
Most of this post seems to be semantic. Aggressive versus perhaps irritated. A Homeland Security Special Agent versus what he may be recalling as an FBI agent, or Port Police versus local Police. I think the only really divergent point is the apartment search. Either he made that up, or it happened and it was covered up.
> Not just safe from terrorism, but safe from people who may be belligerent to staff, who may be loud and disruptive, someone who may not be fully in control of their emotions and their judgment call is the final word on whether or not a passenger boards a flight.

Why do they allow children to fly then? :-)
Depends on the technology you're using, for Flash Newgrounds is a great resource, even the worst game normally gets tried 500 times.
> Have you ever considered that his landlord could have come into the apartment to make sure it had been cleaned up properly by the outgoing tenants

If that's legal in the US, or something one might expect, that's almost more shocking to me than the original story. If any of my past landlords had entered my flat without permission, I would have called the police on them, with good cause.
What you describe sounds a lot like the labor-day (trudoden) accounting system for collective farms in the Soviet Union. They actually did pay wages to the workers according to the number of labor-days worked. (Note: It wasn't literally one day -- harder tasks could earn more than one labor-day per day.)

If one farm needed some temporary labor, it would've been easier to trade labor-days with another farm than to settle in cash.

I don't know about other Soviet bloc countries, but I would not be surprised if they used a similar system. 25 years ago would've been towards the end of the Communist era, which would also explain why it was fading.
But not the decision not to let him fly.

That he was agitated after the his ordeal is understandable, but so was JetBlue's decision not to let him board a plane.
And TFS can't handle path lengths longer than 260 characters.

I don't want to hear the BS about MAX_PATH. These are really annoying customer-facing flaws that scream "amateur hour".
Laravel has built-in auth support and a bunch of good Composer packages that can add more features. It's also got RESTful and resourceful controllers built in and a very awesome routing system. You can use any admin/cms package, but this one I made specifically for Laravel and the Eloquent ORM:

https://github.com/FrozenNode/Laravel-Administrator
There are tons of 0-days out there, maybe not in Chrome proper but in Java, in extensions, in flash... Multi-million is a huge exaggeration. I think market is 20k - 50k for many areas.
I thought this ad was beautiful. It reminds me of Don's "Carousel" pitch from Mad Men (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suRDUFpsHus) the way it focuses on experiences and feelings.

This is it.
This is what matters.
The experience of a product.
How will it make someone feel?
Will it make life better?
Does it deserve to exist?
We spend a lot of time on a few great things.
Until every idea we touch enhances each life it touches.
You may rarely look at it, but you'll always feel it.
This is our signature, and it means everything.

Apple is clear about their design philosophy and bold enough to state it directly. I think the author just doesn't like that they are proud of being so good at what they do.

(credit to http://curi.us for having some of these thoughts first)
When the names mean nothing, it's harder to gauge. Here's a believable directory structure that might lead to the problem:

C:\Users\reasonableusername\Documents\Work\CompuGlobalHyperMegaNet\Non-Project Documents\Administrative\Business Contracts\Fiscal 2013\First Quarter\February\Week Two\TPS Reports Cover Sheet And Memos Template - 3.xls
It's possible, likely even, but the extremely antagonistic way the article was written gives it pretty much zero credibility.

Especially with nitpicking like pointing out it was Port Authority police rather than NYPD - it was an irrelevant correction, as the point is he likely saw shields, and most people would have no clue about that kind of distinction and would simply assume NYPD, given that it is one of the best known police forces on the planet.
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But how do they release an ad campaign if it tests so poorly? Were they so reliant on Steve Jobs' design and marketing savvy that they have no culture of testing things first?

This particular campaign seems almost like it started out as a video that you would play at a general assembly of Apple employees. Good for them, but for the rest of us?
Be careful when going client-only (Firebase)
I agree, it's easy to say that someone became verbally aggressive and agitated after the fact. It doesn't excuse poor treatment, and it's probably not even true, since it's a judgement call and impossible to disprove.
You can have CLOS in Racket, too. And Macros.

What's practical about a Lisp-2?
Is reducing beta waves actually a good thing? It might allow for focus and relaxation, but I wonder if that might do something like clear your working memory and make you less able to make connections between things. Could anyone that has a good grasp on this comment on whether this might be true?
MAX_PATH, bane of my existence. I cannot count the times a customer did not find a document in search because Windows decided to throw this limit in our faces. It can pop up at the weirdest places ...
Good work.

Great claims require great evidence. It could be a jilted lover or frmr business partner.... Who knows. Are there any public records which support this counter-blogger's claims?

The other thought is: does the original blogger have any hard evidence beyond nitpicking and counter-claims provided by JetBlue to trash our traveler?
This is one of the major problems with unregulated and unsupervised NSA activities (and other agencies). We've seen them blatantly lie about their actions, to the public and to congress. They've lied under oath without any repercussions.

I don't know if I can believe any official reports. They say the FBI wasn't involved, and I believe them but "they" have proved unreliable in the past. This is the fertile soil for conspiracy theories and it's the governments own fault.

We're left with Occam's razor. Mr. Mukerjee was probably feeling a little hot-headed that day and maybe he mouthed off to the first TSA guard who placed him on some list. He probably doesn't like or trust the TSA since he opted out of their preferred method of scanning. It's pretty believable that the agents don't know much about hinduism since they are not targeting potential hindu terrorist, but extremist muslim terrorist (if you consider terrorists true muslims which I don't). It seems likely that he set off multiple security alarms. Police TSA aren't going to know about venture capital or care about your job. They are just asking to see if you slip up or act nervous. Israeli security simply asks "how are you doing today" not b/c they care but b/c a persons reaction tells them a lot and they will drill down if you get agitated by their questions.

In the end, Mr. Mukerjee did nothing wrong. He got agitated by something that would anger all but the most patient individuals. That's actually the scary part. Al-Qaeda and other terror groups have shown again and again that they are VERY patient and persistent. One of their agents would probably have gone through the main scanner and if detected remain very affable and friendly with the TSA.
Fortunately that's one horror that didn't survive the boat trip across the ocean.

Actaully, Phrenology enjoyed brief but widespread popularity in the US: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrenology#United_States
The hot new trend among CEOs is to retire
You mean finite, not discrete :-)
And even with tab completion that path shows why only a masochist with OCD thinks paths that long or deep are needed.

People who name their folders "Documents and images from the conference in August with CEO" deserve what they get.

Although 260 characters does seem like the Excel team think more like me than the rest of (more reasonable) MS.
This is a brilliant idea.

If postgresql could have a single file, embedded mode, then it could replace sqlite.

The advantages of such a design would be:
1. All the optimisations and transaction guarantees of a full-featured DB
2. All the conveniences of a single file DB
3. Better utilisation of open-source resources as the OP points out.

On the other hand, the postgresql system might be bigger (in terms of code size and heap usage) than sqlite. So it may not be feasible to use in all embedded applications.
Interesting, I watched that episode in the UK and both the cooking on the car and cooking with the dishwasher parts were in there.
Either he was detained or his bag was seized, or both.

Keep in mind that if you are pulled over for speeding, you are technically detained for the duration of the traffic stop.
Your video uses phrases which are not standard English. The phrase 'a spaghetti' is not used. 'A plate of spaghetti' might be used in that context. Additionally the phrase "Would you please bring some water" would only be used if you have just asked "What should I bring to the game?" or something like that. In the context displayed 'ordering food' you would most likely say "Could you bring me a glass of water?" or "Could you please bring us some water?"

I fully support your effort and think this is a great tool.
You might really want to not cache everything coming back into a never ending python dictionary. Lookup memory leak on wikipedia ;)
Let's just take a step back and breathe deeply - it's just a shit ad from a company that usually markets things really well to the masses. They'll do their research and find it doesn't jive, then change their tune to something that does.

Watch the masses lose their collective bowels over the new products that are going to be released over the coming months. You know - that season when people drop a lot of cash on things. This idea that if products aren't updated bi-annually the company is going down the toilet will go away.

I don't live in California but I suspect that a lot of people who do might take some pride in it (think sports teams) and when they make something cool, it's nice to see their home state on there and not just an FCC badge and "Made in China". There's nothing wrong with being proud of your work. The same applies with the "Assembled in USA" badge you might see on an Apple or Google product - be proud.
As a fan of cooking without fire, I like this.
I totally agree, I was thinking entirely of the former. The state knows it needs some of those people to go forward. But they will produce no matter what. Limiting the number of people on the second set is of little detriment and actually what I think is the goal.

Yes the total creative output is lower, but control is still retained. The state maximizes for control, not creative output or liberty.

It is really sad the NSA thing existed in the first place. A waste of intellect, creativity and resources on all sides. All those TFLOP years of computation for what?
Is HN really turning to conspiracy theories now just to justify any "TSA bad" stories that make the frontage? Lets stick with actual evidence, which for the break in there doesn't seem to be any actual reports or proof of this happening.
It's also problematic for enterprises trying to roll out sharepoint. Site addresses tend to be pretty verbose so I can't see that playing particularly nicely given this limitation.

Extra points also for the super helpful error messages it throws.
If I ever had to live and work in a foreign country, I'd be proud to speak their language so fluently they couldn't quite detect an accent. It would be a little different moving to another English-speaking country, but lots of people end up picking up a slightly different accent after living someplace for a long time. It doesn't have to be a matter of identity unless you choose to make it one.
Apple brought on the personal computer revolution long before Wintel. Wintel innovated and monopolized.
In that case you are detained. Temporarily, but you are still detained.
Yep, that's the sort of project path structure which was causing me grief. Excel then gave me a warning with a list of 6 possible issues, none of which mentioned the 218 limit.
That does not mean he wasn't detained. If you aren't free to go, you are detained.

If you are pulled over for speeding, until the officer lets you go, you are detained.

So not only was he detained but his bag was seized. Now arguably everyone is briefly detained by the TSA on condition of travel, and arguably all bags are seized briefly. However, that is why there needs to be scrutiny on these practices.
would you have the same reaction if Microsoft/Apple actively blocks a user functionality that the device and software is capable of... official or unofficial the developer demonstrated that a scenario can work..why go out of way to block it.. looks like this is a new trend for Google - maps on Windows Phone, youtube app on Windows Phone....
> The burden of proof is on the person who's making the claim

Exactly. Prove your claim.
Regardless of what chemical detectors he set off, and what suspicions they had, it was disgraceful that he was "detained" for such a long period without being provided with food and water.

Do you really think it is appropriate that such interrogation techniques are used on travellers after they have been cleared of carrying any sort of explosive device?
I agree. Ludum Dare teaches you YAGNI. I built a better screen engine during LD in a couple hours than the bloated disfunctional monster I was building for my hobby game I had spend a dozen hours on. "First make it work, then make it modular" and "Create something small that works and then iterate" are now my game design commandments that I constantly have to repeat.
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/10/hallucinations/

seems to debunk

"The logical conclusion is not that meditation specifically reduces brain activity, it's more that any lack of sensory stimulation will cause brain activity to slow down because less neurons are firing"
oof. If you're trying to be secure, why oh why would you use a phrase popular or common enough that you could think of it off the top of your head. Think, people.
Accessing external APIs with Angular.js
I'm happy to be corrected, but mass access to computers was something that came not from Apple, IIRC.
> There are some pretty goddamn good reasons why the bag of a dude who tests positive for explosives has to be cleared before he's given it and allowed to run around an airport full of people.

If so, there are some pretty good reason why, if they consider that threat even remotely real, they should clear the area.

A good indication that the actual terrorist threat is absolutely vanishingly small: If there were lots of terrorists around, one of the easiest targets these days that'd maximize the amount of terror, is airport security screening areas. If they get through, they could defuse the bomb and blow it up on a plane instead, if not, they could let it go off on a timer and take out both a lot of passengers and a lot of security people.
>But that's like saying, every time you are going through security in any airport, you are detained, because - you could not - if you so wanted, simply go back through security again

I am not a lawyer but I think that the line drawn at detention is whether one is effectively told, under the color of law, that one is not free to go. By this standard, I think it is pretty clear that everyone is briefly detained when going through airport security, and that all bags are briefly seized.

If this isn't a detention or a seizure, then you are free not to put your bags on the conveyor and walk back out and the most they can do is say "you can't go further in." But if there are threats of fines, etc. then it is a detention.
Can't load them either, I guess. When I tried to open an Excel file directly from Sparrow I would get a "path longer than xxx" message.
Saving it to ~/Downloads and then opening it worked just fine.