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For all the mean things that border control agents get away with every day, I personally enjoy "Returning From Thailand" as my little opportunity to even the score a bit.

"How long have you been gone?"

"I don't know. A year, give or take? Who keeps track?"

"Which countries did you visit while you were away? Your landing card just says 'most of them'"

"Well probably not most of them really, but definitely enough not to fit in that space. Let's see... [followed by a complete list]

"What's your occupation?"

"I own a software company. It pretty much runs itself these days, and I just check in every once in a while to see how things are going."

"Is this bag your only luggage?"

"Yeah. I was only gone a year, remember. I find you don't really need much stuff in the tropics. I've worn this shirt 40 days running now. I think I'll buy a new one now that I'm home"

Basically, it's your opportunity to remind them that their job is to sit in a little cube talking to people who are actually out there leading exciting lives. And that their attempts to make other people's lives worse is not really doing a very good job of making their own life any better.

One day they'll quit and go find a better job. Or give up trying to make other people's lives worse, thus making the world a slightly better place.

Seems to be working. These days at LAX, it seems that one in four of the people manning those desks is genuinely friendly. And the ones that need this sort of treatment are few and far between.
Road name changes often happen at city/county lines where the roads actually changed ownership or used to be separate and ended up joined at some point. Not knowing the history or breakdown of the Atlanta area well, would this make sense there?
The worst would be for non-US citizens. My cousin got back to the US after a vacation and she had two of her kids accompanying her. She was asked to go through the scanners and though she protested, she was asked to 'follow the rule'. And thus she complied and the entire bunch went through the scanners only to find some fat slob at the monitor leering at her 12 yr old daughter. She was crying over the phone saying she wanted to get out as soon as possible from that hopeless place.
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Heh. I'm in a wheelchair. I still haven't done a completely independent trip overseas, but I'm working on it. I guess that'll be an interesting blog when I do.

Real easy is something that only happens when your circumstances fall into some kind of normal bounds.
I see where you're coming from. Reminds one of "refuseniks" and modern-day China's queasiness about its people leaving.

But there's always going to be more people who want in than out, and I don't think there's ever be point anywhere in the near future in which this is going to change...
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I think you've missed his point. I agree with a lot of what you say, but I think it's not a useful response here.

On of Osama bin Laden's stated goals was to bankrupt the US. For $1m or so in initial investment, he's gotten us to waste a trillion or so on a pointless Iraq adventure. The TSA has only cost us $100bn or so, not counting the countless hours and energy lost waiting in line and performing pointless rituals.

But more broadly, he's a terrorist. As the name suggests, the goal is to create fear. And the TSA is a giant institutionalization of that fear. It's only scared people who give up their rights. The TSA is both a response to fear and a creator of fear, and having scared this guy into compliance, they have done their job.
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forget ethnicity for a moment (there is a separate biological argument that is not sociological in nature), although we know what 'socio-economic' is a codeword for. The point is that posters above are saying things like "There is no discrimination in the public service."

You started with a comment about killing off 90% to achieve ethnic homogeneity and when pressed on the point said that the French health system can't possibly manage to treat poor people of Arabic extraction. Forgetting ethnicity for a moment would seem to be to remove the prior context that people were replying to.

Also, you then after saying to forget ethnicity start saying that we know socio-economic is a codeword, presumably meaning that you have no intention of leaving the subject of ethnicity.

Also you are claiming systematic avoidance of the French healthcare system and that it has failed in it's attempt to treat people fairly. Now, it obviously is not perfect, nothing is, however to paint that study as evidence of systematic avoidance and failure, rather than room for improvement seems churlish.

Failure is when you spend the most money, but still rank thirty eighth, rather than when you are the fourth biggest spender and rank first.

Personally I just think that you are an ideologue on this. Show me a country that gets good results from unregulated private medical care plus charities. Who builds the network of A&E departments in that case?
The story isn't gone off the US site, it's here: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/25/us-usa-security-ns...

The Reuters website is terrible. Half the time the article content doesn't load and I just get sidebars. (They make money selling their feed to news outlets, not by attracting visitors to reuters.com.) Occam's Razor suggests someone fat-fingered an update, not a conspiracy.
Refinement of video embedding would still be ideal in my opinion. Isn't APNG lossless? Something lossy but low-resource (an older compression format, in other words) embedded as the full file (instead of streaming) would be deal - like dumping a little MP2 in place of a GIF.
I wanted to follow you on Twitter so I get updates about your product, but you don't seem to have one :)
With a higher-end stretch goal of $20,000: Python native extensions, it is apparent someone doesn't understand Python. On a humorous note, isn't import apngasm part of the batteries included?
I am not sure why you comment was down voted. I never said they had the monopoly on it, simply that are are the very forefront of it in this country.

The Government is blatantly controlled by special interest groups. All one has to do is follow the money....

My main point was that it was the lax oversight and enforcement of rules meant to check large corporations that has led to our current predicament. There is nothing new to see here as we laws on the books to keep companies from getting to big or mixing certain types of activities, yet we/congress gutted most of those so here we are...
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If "paleo" concepts apply to food, why not thinking?

Its very interesting that we've existed as thinking animals for a lot longer than "office jobs" have existed.

From an evolutionary perspective, our best thinking was almost certainly done in near perfect silence or at most calm animal noises. Hmm, we're tracking that yummy large mammal and I'm hungry, whats the next move? So I hear my neighbor chipping away quietly as I think up the best way to whack this rock to make it a better arrowhead. How do I cut this tree down so it doesn't land on my head? So I'm staring at these wheat seeds, thinking about what would happen if I buried them in the dirt and came back later. So looking at the position of the sun / moon / stars, is this the time to plant the wheat seeds?

I don't see an evolutionary example of hard successful thinking in an intentionally noisy distracting environment. In fact if its noisy its because the lion is roaring at us trying to eat us, so deep thinking is probably not advised compared to fight or flight. I guess fight or flight style coding exists at places swirling the drain. Finish this report or we're all on the unemployment line next week. Um, OK, crank up the death metal on the speakers and see ya in twelve hours with a finished product ...

From an evolutionary standpoint we should be able to do our best, deepest thinking/coding on a bench at the zoo by the "food" animals, or perhaps sitting in a cow pasture. In (rare) good weather, I've had decent results with a laptop sitting in a covered (dark-ish) park rain shelter.
NSA named their tumblr "I con the record"? What the hell.
Actually, the prices are right on target for Seoul, South Korea.

Unlike most websites of this sort, I'm surprised to find the information accurate.
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The OP didn't say gone he said swapped and judging by one of the other comments it appears to be true.
From the page: "For conversion purposes, the necessary server-side conversion happens on our secure servers in Germany / Europe."

So I think it's not 80+ file types managed by the application, it's more "80+ file types we can convert to something usable".
Can you point to sources that answer any of these questions:

* What mechanism does this racial separation take?

* What sort of evidence shows that skin color or other ethnic identifiers in genetics are the thing that causes tribal separation vs them just serving as a simple proxy to more complicated factors?

* What explanations of exigent factors are there... for example why are there black and hispanic republicans, or white members of traditionally "black gangs". How do these less common (but not rare) group membership issues override the claimed genetic selection?

* What genetic factors explain the fracturing of groups within groups of seemingly genetically similar (at least on a racial/ethinc level) people?

The claim made here doesn't actually answer any of those questions - I'm not sure the validity of "separation of races is coded in our genes" makes sense given the scenarios highlighted in my questions.
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Hi there. We're leveraging our existing conversion infrastructure for supporting those 80+ filetypes.

The Pro Upgrade removes the limitation of 2 remote conversions/day.

You can read more about it on our blogpost: http://blog.doctape.com/the-future-of-doctape-where-do-we-wa...
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Also, I sincerely doubt that those of African and Arab ethnicity are over-represented in all crime categories...tax fraud.

[Citation needed]

Oops, statistics are secret. Doh!
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I wouldn't consider that to be a huge barrier, necessarily.

The best way to learn a language, and overcome language barriers, is just to move there. Not to wait until you've got the language. Because, honestly? - If you're not speaking it every day, maintaining reasonable fluency is very difficult. You can't get to that sort of skill just putting in a couple of hours here and there in a piecemeal fashion. Even with the best of intentions, how many hours a day do you speak your new language?

The same factors that work against you in your own country work for you in another's though: It's not that hard to learn a new one if your old one is not particularly dominant in your life. When you, by necessity, go from practising a few hours a week to 12-15 hours every day; while being exposed to excellent speakers of the language, while being heavily incentivised to advance (because, hey, if you don't you'll be lonely and vulnerable) ; you get better at what you're doing very quickly.

So, I wouldn't be too bothered about getting the language particularly nailed down before moving somewhere - provided, of course, you don't immediately need to be working or something. If you do, then hiring a tutor and drilling the basics of the language in first is a good idea - you can get vastly superior results that way than by taking classes with others (who may not be as serious about it as you.)
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Because arguments often end up being proxy battles for social status, and we're hardwired for those.

The book that really opened my eyes on this was de Waal's Chimpanzee Politics. And, perhaps just as importantly, a book about acting: Johnstone's Impro.
Please do a writeup when you've done this - would love to read about this - very relevant to my work as well.
But isn't gif sufficient for that? apng is obviously technically superior, but gif is already supported everywhere. It's one of those cases where "perfect is the enemy of good" IMHO.

Don't forget that we now have javascript, CSS animations, canvas and webgl in addition to good old gifs to deal with animated features. Do we really need apng on top of that?
>hey UK, how are those surveillance cameras?

The vast majority of CCTV cameras in the UK are privately owned, on private property. What is the problem here? I don't know where this "surveillance state" idea came from but it's largely a myth.
When you control for income and other social factors, it turns out that race is not a risk factor for committing crime.
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> Your landing card just says 'most of them'"

I'm so sorry for not contributing anything of value to the conversation, but that's the funniest thing I've read all week! I've gotta try this next time I don't have a connecting flight!
I'm not sure your examples of our most demanding thinking are accurate. Mightn't those historically have been social? In which case voices might very well have been part of the environment.
A cease and desist order from the company that owns the server pretty effectively illustrates that it is indeed "against the will" of the server's owners. I'll wholly concede that the server itself doesn't have a will of its own, but otherwise, server configuration is not of any legal concern.

It's worth noting that this is different than just misconfiguration hacks, where somebody gains access to something completely private because the server allowed it. I agree that in those circumstances, no culpability should be found on the part of the 'hacker'. However, in this case, Amazon said "Hey you. What you're doing? Stop it."

Moreover, they did so with a letter written by their attorneys. Not legally binding, sure, but at the same time, a pretty clear illustration that the access wasn't wanted.
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Not really. In the scrypt paper, cperciva recommends parameters that allow it to do a single password hash in 64 ms, and in the process use only 4k of RAM. Nowadays, as processors are faster and ram is cheaper, you'd probably want to up the parameters a bit, so that the encryption time will be similar (between 50-100 ms) on modern hardware, and the RAM usage will scale proportionally (probably 128k, based on the ratio of RAM prices between 2002 and now). That means that you would be able to handle 10-20 logins per second per core, using no more than 2.5 MB in the process (if they were all run in parallel on separate threads and so all of that memory was needed at once; that's obviously a worst case, most likely they would be scheduled more sequentially and use proportionally less RAM as you would free the memory after finishing an encryption). On a 12 core machine, you might wind up using 30 MB at at time, to support 240 logins per second.

If you need to handle 240 logins per second (which presumably means many many more requests per second, as there are usually many requests per login), 30 MB of RAM is the least of your worries.

Note that these numbers are simply extrapolations from the ones in the original scrypt paper, I haven't actually tried this on modern hardware. Regardless, there are parameters that allow you to trade off CPU time and RAM usage, so you can tweak it to provide the level of performance that you require (with the understanding that the faster it is and less RAM it uses, the faster cracking it would be).
I can't answer your question without reading further, but I note that Cheerio is a dependency of Noodle.
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Assuming from your profile that, like myself, you live in the Netherlands, I'm pretty sure you have no objections to our land borders... Of course, yo have to pay attention to actually notice those as you cross them.

My point is, those borders are still very real, they have great social, cultural, legal and economic significance, yet they don't serve any of those three purposes.
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Reminds me of a similar thing in developmental biology, where if you have two populations of cells, each having a slighly higher affinity for other cells of its own type, then they will very efficiently sort themselves into separate compartments. This is thought to be a pretty important mechanism in the formation and maintenance of structures in the body.

In case anyone's interested, here is a nice (if now rather old, although to be honest scientific writing was so much better back in the '90s) review on the whole business:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867400...

In which we find a paragraph describing this process:

"The selector genes do more than specify the pattern and the structures that the compartments will eventually make—they also specify, indirectly, a surface property. This property has been termed cell affinity, meaning that cells that share the same affinity, owing to the same binary code of selector genes, will intermingle during growth. There are a number of different experiments that lead to this conclusion, but perhaps the simplest is the observation that when the selector gene engrailed is removed, in vivo, from a posterior clone of cells in the wing, those cells gain anterior affinity: they now sort out from posterior cells and, if they are in contact with anterior cells, will sort into and mingle with them. Cells from neighboring compartments will have different affinities and tend to minimize their mutual contact, so that where the two compartments abut, there is a relatively straight line across which the cells do not stray."
Uhm, in light of those, isn't it risky to enter US with encrypted digital storage too?
This may not be key to your argument, but keep in mind that there's no working definition of terrorism.

Different nations, even different bodies of the US military use semantically different definitions. Resolutions to decide on a working definition of terrorism are regularly shot down in the UN by security council veto. It's not meant to be a real word.
And always have good backups, especially when traveling. Loss and theft are serious risks. There have even been anecdotes of people having their laptops confiscated for long periods of time by government employees at borders for the silliest of reasons. Hardware is replaceable, but all the projects, notes, and things you've been working on for possibly years are not.
I saw that lecture also. Wish I'd had more time to go further with the Modeling class, it was really cool.

Anyway, the equally interesting alternative to what you explained is what happens when everybody actually is super racist. If every person's requirement is that they refuse to live near anyone that is different, then you actually get a weird pattern where things are as mixed as they could be. The neighborhoods never stabilize, because there's always going to be border areas where each group can't help living next to a different group.

Actually, it just occurred to me that the model might not be accurate at that point, though, because people can't always move away like the model implies. Instead of people moving around chaotically, I wonder if the real result is violence intended to force the others to move.

EDIT: changed 'counterpoint' to 'alternative'
> PKDF2 is worse than bcrypt (by roughly a factor of 5)

Both Bcrytpt and PBKDF2 have security parameters. You can make them whatever ratio you want.

(also scrypt)
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So, they do not have a token system at all? Almost every other airport has a simple tokened system where one gets a token for their belongings, goes through the checks, reaches the other end and hands the token back and collects their belongings. Such a simple thing. Seen it in Changi (Singapore) and KL. The TSA dudes never thought simple thing?
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I was once a great fighter for freedom, democracy, and civil liberties. I battled the system long and hard. Then one day out of a hundred similar travel days, I had to wait 30 minutes for a TSA pat down, probably because a single TSA manager was not following procedure. I realize some great freedom fighters would at least file an official complaint, but I also realized that if one manager one time can make me wait 30 minutes, the terrorists have already won. I surrendered my principles to the police state.

If I had known how hard this fight would be, that a mere mortal man as me would have to wait 30 minutes for a pat down, might even have to miss a flight or submit to a scan and then file a complaint, I never would have become such a great freedom fighter. Fortunately, my ignorance of such trials allowed me to boldly enter the resistance, even if my warrior days were cut short and I failed to fight past 30 minutes of standing on a mat. 30 minutes - what man could be expected to endure this in the name of human liberty?
So invasive you'd rather have a guy grab your junk?
What does exploiting a situation to aid a launch have to do with winning/losing? I led a team at one and coached at another and couldn't agree more with your reasons for doing it.

My stance is in this case, by turning it into a publicity stunt it detracted from all the good stuff you mentioned. I'm sure no one cared too much as they got to meet Ashton/Demi and the saw all the glitter of a hot startup being launched.
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All the more reason why the "standard layout" of cubicle farms in modern offices really, really sucks for people whose jobs involve continuous, unmolested concentration. Sure, there are benefits to being in close proximity and to collaborating. But sometimes people just need to focus.

While it's not exactly cost effective or feasible to give every programmer, designer, writer, etc., a private office, it should be a priority to have designated quiet spaces. Something as simple as a conference room that you turn into a quiet zone, almost like a small library.
You think the NSA pressured Reuters to swap two URLs in a ham fisted attempt to... what exactly?

Someone with access to the full feed could probably answer this better, but my guess is that "U.S. spy agency edges into the light" was written first (the dateline seems to confirm this) and the "NSA bugged UN" story was originally an update to that story (wire services often put out updates as a story is breaking) before Reuters decided it was important enough to spin off as a new story at a new URL.