skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah just tell the agent when you first walk up then hold your stuff aside as needed. Mostly they totally get it but once I had a guy tell me to send it through. I told him no way because I always travel with an instrument and he backed down so I guess my situation is a little different.

Honestly I've never been made to wait more than 5 minutes and in the last couple years I've probably been on 100 flights but I have had asshats try and tell me that I'm wrong for wanting to opt out. I ask that person for the manager and the comment card every time and I've been profusely apologized to by the manager every time.
I know hacker news doesn't generally appreciate comments like this, but moving to Europe is the last thing you want to do if your objection is based on the political theory of individual liberty. Practically speaking the US is losing respect for personal freedom, but at least there's a legal framework and founding ideal for it here.
Funny that those are our choices.
Self-driving cars will kill air travel for distances shorter than an overnight car trip. Or we will suddenly find that airlines' customers are not a security risk and deserve good service throughout their trip.
Restaurants, bakeries, gas stations, and everything at airports or train stations is open on sundays in Germany.
May I remind you of the RAF(), checkpoints manned by police armed with semi-automatic rifles and the use of dragnets in the late 70's and early 80's? Our hands aren't as clean as we would like to believe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army_Faction
> you can't take your empty bottles to the recycling bins on Sunday for example

I don't know Germany but it seems you're suggesting Germany curtails freedom in the name of economic efficiency, but not as much as the US for "national security" and what not.
Was about to post the same exact thing.
> It's like stealing - stealing content for free

Blocking ads has deprived nobody of their property unless you believe that a site is owed the revenue from ad impressions from its visitors (it's not). This is the same line of thinking of the MPAA with regard to how it approaches licensing.
Potentially an interesting weekend project for someone with an Oculus Rift and a USB heart monitor :-)
Absolutely it's a violation of my rights to be patted down. I choose that option so that other people may actually see and consider the rights that they're so casually giving up walking through the scanner.
Are you going to open-source your json-rpc library? If so, is there a specific timeframe you have in mind? I'd really love to use this technology in my own projects.
I opt out mostly to make it as difficult for the screener as possible, not because I think it's particularly less of a violation of my privacy to get my nuts felt up vs. irradiated with low power mm wave. (if there were a "you can have a copy of your own scan" machine, I'd probably voluntarily go through mm wave for fun).

If people opt out, it 1) ties up a TSA agent 2) makes a TSA agent do something moderately unpleasant 3) serves as an example for others in the screening line 4) makes me feel like I'm doing something. OTOH I mostly just don't fly unless it's >800 miles.

I've always had the TSA people screening me be unfailingly polite, if a bit incompetent (not running me through the magnetometer if they're doing a hand screening actually lowers overall security vs. weapons; it wouldn't be terribly difficult to get a disassembled handgun through the hand screening.)

I used to work on military bases with a much more invasive screening (for vehicles; I was exempt personally but my vehicle wasn't). There, there was mostly a legitimate threat (although the biggest screening was in Kuwait, which had ~no risk; it was just a way to keep their combat zone pay. In Iraq, they just asked me to unload my weapon before walking on base, and in 2003/2004, just being white was enough to get on base, no ID needed.)
The gray body text is hard to read on a black background.
I bet this guy doesn't know how the Ask toolbar got installed on his computer either.
I just tried it, did not work :(. Says failed to authenticate as username. I tried it on Saturday and it worked ok. Maybe they are blocking it?
> Oregon looks like a nice place to live

It is, thanks, if you don't mind the crappy weather.
Realistically, it sounds like the 2nd diagram should have the middle section of the first diagram. As in, a single message/circle, gets "split" (or more accurately dup'd) and somewhat simultaneously delivered to the start of every 'channel'. The way it is now makes the appearance that a message isn't sent down a channel where the logic gate will not eventually deliver it. But that doesn't seem to be the case.
Maybe our advertising/sales laws prevent the same practice in the UK, but here you explicitly have to opt-in to the Prime trial in a very obvious way, and as far as I can remember it's also very clear that it will be auto-renewed at the end of the trial.
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How to Use App Store Optimization to Get Attention
I found a clear explanation of the SIMD instructions here: http://www.strchr.com/strcmp_and_strlen_using_sse_4.2 . Apparently the instructions operate on strings up to 16 bytes in length.
ZeroMQ doesn't solve the problem. ZeroMQ is flexible enough that we can build a solution. We're working on distributed routing and registration using ZeroMQ and Redis as it's data store.

The RPC servers register the tags and channels we distribute based on that data. Any ZeroMQ server can process and deliver any event to the end RPC server.

We'll probably do a detailed writeup when this is done. We plan on using this for all the infrastructure wiring when it's done.
That's not a solution, unless you mean 'never go anywhere.' TSA is expanding into more modes of transportation [1]. Unchecked, you'd soon see them at every train station, bus terminal and eventually intervals of the interstate.

[1]: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/06/us/tsa-expands-duties-beyo...
Exposing yourself to regular doses of unnecessary x-rays is probably not a great idea. The human [ed.: backscatter] x-ray machines are mostly phased out already, though. Millimeter wave (the most common scanners now) is non-ionizing radiation and does not have any known association with an increased risk of cancer.
I agree. When it comes to your or your family's health you will not go with "cheap" even if it is the same level or better service/outcome. This is why the entire system needs to first create a nice feedback loop. Right now there are no metrics on how well certain hospitals are doing that can drive patient selection.

Usually, the patient just ends up going to the specialist their primary care provider referred them to or the closest one home. Until the quality/outcome data is made public there is no hope in steering people to better hospitals/providers.

There are some attempts lately in freeing up this information but I guess only time will tell how effective they will become.

On the bright side, it will only take one good health insurance company (I am thinking more like the type of disruption that a "Virgin" like company may bring to the table) to start using this data and driving some meaningful change.
Yes we intent to open source all of this. No timeframe in mind. We need to get through our beta roadmap before packaging up the various pieces we plan on open sourcing.
Show HN: Scouter - Multitasking on your phone is finally coming.
So the revenue went up 3x and profit 2x, and the valuation stayed flat, and that is a failure of the company? What crazy world are we living in?
Owning a beachfront property in some countries might be easy, but there are some tricky logistics involved:

For example, there are some very cheap places in my country, Uruguay, and in neighbouring Brazil, but, are you going to pay for a housekeeper?. If you don't visit often, you're likely to find either a dismantled house or an illegal tenant.

Also, people from out of country might not know the local taxes or regulations, and you could have your house seized due to ignorance.

I think that renting is a much better solution, unless you expect to spend a significant amount of time in your beach house :)

BTW, The housekeeper is probably going to be more expensive than the house. Maintenance is often as expensive as the house too.

On the plus side, beach houses can be rented :) to get some expenses back.
During peak hours thousands per second, off hours not many at all.
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Thank you so much, that's amazing! :)
This is ridiculous. The user chose to do the free trial, which is opt-in (Amazon may be pushing it hard, but you still have to explicitly select it). If they don't remember or claim victimhood, they can't be trusted on the internet.
So do you have some incredible raking skills, or do trees not lose many leaves where you're from? Here cleaning leaves under a big tree in the fall, with or without a leaf blower, takes a solid hour. 2 if you've been lazy and not done it for a week.
Show HN: Webster, functional utilities for dictionaries
Finnish Court Censors Website That Criticizes Censorship
This is a weekend project, so any advice would be much appreciated.
Steve Ballmer and the innovators curse
Apngasm Wants To Promote Animated PNGs As An Alternative To GIFs
They have to walk through metal detectors to buy books? I thought it was only for dangerous places like schools and offices.

I can't think of anywhere in Europe we have those except for American embassies, a few courthouses, some government buildings and airports.

Anyone knows when this started in the US and when it got so widespread?
If it wasn't a unanimous board approval, it's no surprise the losers of the vote would be kvetching to the press about it.
Not disagreeing there. Fast NFA implementations are very nice for matching the regular subset and falling back to a more general algorithm for the non-regular cases :)
It's interesting that if a European uses an ethnic reference as an insult or joke it's interpreted as a sign that Europeans are more racist than Americans, but if Europeans balk at racial profiling it's considered extreme political correctness on the part of the Europeans.

I would suggest the complete opposite is true, on both counts.
NurseBuddy Raises Seed Funding And Targets UK Markets
The problem is the outflowing air. That's where the noise comes from.
I run a site that makes its money from ads, and I personally have no problem with people blocking them. I figure the people blocking them are less likely to click anyways, so I'm not too concerned. Obviously it would be a problem if everyone blocked ads, but I think that is pretty far off.

Example: I only bother to block them on my main computer, but don't on my phone, desktop, etc. Your average Joe is unlikely to start doing so soon.
It's no surprise that some Finnish imageboards using Tor are quite popular.
Ask HN: How do you 'Music' (discovery, acquisition, consumption, ...)?
How do you go about finding new (or new to you) music, acquiring it, managing a digital (or otherwise) collection, and (most importantly) enjoying it?

Interested to hear what sources, services, devices, ... people around here utilize towards interacting with music as a digital good.
Yeah, and there's no Evil at all in governments, and corporations have the Monopoly of Greed? Don't make me laugh.
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I wonder if the SIMD part of this could be integrated into D's compile time regex support. Would be neat to see.
That's not a metal detector, it's a system designed to scan for tagged items.

My problem with the scanners is that they are invasive AND ineffective. They aren't protecting me, but they do train me to complacently subject myself as an innocent, not-charged-with-a-crime citizen to pre-emptive searches. That's just not alright by me.
50% false positives is no problem at all as long as the false negatives are low.
Indeed, On Lisp has an excellent discussion of
mutation and its use in programs written in a functional style. In discussing destructive functions, Graham describes the ways in which they can be used with reasonable safety - e.g. immediately mutating a list newly created by a mapping function.

The reasons one might do so in Clojure are likely to bear similarity to those provided by Graham - speed and memory - despite the vastly greater resources of today's computers versus those of 1991.
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They're just doing what they're told. Of course it's no coincidence. I would think persons who frequent tech news are the more paranoid at the moment, so that demographic will need the extra prompting to go along with another war effort.
Stop trying to force people to like one another. Social engineering is not like other forms of engineering; it depends on values outside a count of interchangeable parts. Many of humanity's worst outcomes have emerged from such well-intentioned but oblivious social engineering.
These articles made me think that travelling (overall) and security checks are unpleasant.

The first time I travelled was to Doha through Istanbul. I was amazed at how comfortable the security checks are, and how friendly the security stuff were there.

It really frightens me to hear the experience in the US borders is quite different.
> I've always had the TSA people screening me be unfailingly polite, if a bit incompetent (not running me through the magnetometer if they're doing a hand screening actually lowers overall security vs. weapons; it wouldn't be terribly difficult to get a disassembled handgun through the hand screening.)

I have been arguing this for a long time. The removal of magnetometers is a very bad thing security-wise. I am not opposed to the use of bodyscanners where there is reasonable suspicion, but the idea that we virtually strip search everyone and omit the magentometers is just asking for trouble.
Canadians on the moon? Yes, by 2030
well, I didn't say trained in what ;-)

fixed...thanks
Really? I just made the book and ordered it last night and the cover (the 13MB png) looked like it lined up exactly. The first cover-uploader had a 10MB limit but the other worked fine (not the design-your-own, the 1-piece-cover-designer).
Stop projecting.
Hi, author here.
No. Fortunately, they don't make Ask toolbar for Ubuntu. ;-)

My point is Amazon is using deceptive practices to push Amazon Prime - which are actually very similar to to the strategy employed by crapware like the Ask toolbar.
You just don't expect that when you're making a purchase over amazon.
Well at least I never would, until now.

Are you really telling me you think it's okay for Amazon to do that - and there's no reason to complain here?
In the end, it comes down to who can inflict a bigger booboo, doesn't it?

Can corporations? Governments? Does the military hold the "real" power and thus dictate this "evilness"?

Or is it, in words of a certain popular fictional character, "power resides where men believe it resides"...
Don’t call me that.
You're welcome here in Uruguay... but I think it's a case of "the grass is greener on the other side of the fence".

And while we do have liberal emigration policies, the bureaucracy involved cannot be underestimated.

There are another things going on that you will find violations of your privacy - Uruguay has a nationwide ID program with fingerprinting (and probably DNA in the near future).

We don't have cameras or backscatter machines yet, but the current wave of insecurity will probably make people clamor for them soon - weird statistic: you're ten times more likely to be murdered in the U.S., but almost twenty times more likely to be robbed in Uruguay (I had my laptop stolen last month, for example).

The current government isn't likely to cave in easily to the U.S. government, but what about the next one?
That's hilarious, I was wondering if my hometown (ATL) would be broken down, and it's the second one. When I moved back there after college I wanted to do some sort of study of the racial segregation in that city. It's totally along that east-west axis, more precisely at Ponce De Leon Ave. All these upper-class streets that run through the nicest neighborhoods in north Atlanta even change their names as they cross over Ponce.

God, I miss that town every now and then. I'd kill for a hot Krispy Kreme right now.
Wasn't Schopenhauer the one who noted an inverse relationship between noise tolerance and intelligence?
This is the case almost everywhere (except places where some goods are government regulated). In Russia shops with a price of bread (same or almost same) from some like 70 cent to almost 10 dollars a loaf are commonplace within walking distance from each other. They just serve different demographics. And i think this is just fine and tells more good of Russian economy than bad.
Unit counters are just heuristic, and not very good one (you can easily lose game building just perfect counters to enemy army composition).

I think the part that helps in other contexts is keeping complex structure and rules to modify it in memory, trying to predict how it will change with time and to direct that change to your benefit. Just like chess or math, but more fuzzy and in real-time.
rather funny how hashtags like #iphone4 and #iphone4s are banned, but #iphone5 isn't..
Great Responsive Web Design is a Matter of Process
I speak enough German to not completely embarrass myself when out in public, and I would like to get my Masters in Computer Science (adding on to my BSc in Computer Science). What programs would you recommend?
The Map is really cool. I wish you could zoom in more. It's hard to find my actual block on manhattan.
"Instead you spend your technical efforts going to meetups and helping others."

Do this indeed. One of the best ways to get better and encounter interesting people is to go to meet ups, user groups and "fun" hack events. You will encounter peers, newbies, gurus, recruiters, investors and all sorts of interesting people with ideas, needs and possibly money.
The Misuse of Recursion
You're joking, but there is something to it.
I am a natural born citizen and have been in Indonesia for 2 years. No complaints.
To be fair, Satan also invented Slayer, which kind of evens out the leafblower damage.
This might have something to do with USA weapons law.
I'm convinced the noise in casinos is intentional. I remember reading all the repeating pattern carpeting, garish lighting etc serves the same purpose: confusing and disorienting people in casinos in order to get them to make less rational decisions.

edit: link http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2010/09/ugly-vegas-carpets/?pid...
The best insight here is that self-worth and fear of shaming are the main motivators for not agreeing.

A weaker argument, that is less threatening to self-worth is one way of preventing that your discussion partner goes on the defense.

Another way is to make him feel safer in the sense that he can trust that you will not hurt his feelings. This can be done by affirming that you are on the same page with him, that you and him share the same goal.
You can also do this by denying what the other person might be afraid of, such as "I don't think your opinion is stupid" or "I don't want to abolish guns for hunting purposes".
These methods come from "Crucial Conversations", it goes in depth on the underlying emotional motivations of conversations. Great book.

Another, cheaper tactic is to acknowledge positive characteristics of the other, making that person feel better about himself. This way, their self-worth is less vulnerable and they are more open to arguments (although this frequently fails because people distrust compliments from people that pose a threat).
My point is - why is anyone printing anymore? Everyone can get their hands on a tablet these days
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=hong+kong+birth+rate
> I've witnessed more poor kids rebelling against the relative sources of control in their lives, which are often good (things like church, father figures, mother figures) and partaking in cultures that promote almost the opposite of most of the values that they maybe should learn (of course, pinning down what people "ought to" learn/believe is crazy-dangerous territory).

Exactly my point.
No, he means 40 square feet. As in about 4 square meters.

Note that the average size of these arrangements, from spacehunt's link, is about 2.8 sq meters per person, so about 11m^2 for a 4-person family. And some are presumably below average.
> Ralph Lauren jeans has plenty of competition and the customer is reasonably well informed

This isn't true at all, not even from a standpoint of brand and marketing. Most people cannot tell the quality of a garment by comparing alike items. Most people are not aware of fashion trends outside of what they see for sale at stores in their price point.
Air travel is bad for the environment, but only because the distances are long compared to driving. The fact that planes take lots of energy to propel through the air is defrayed by the fact that you can pack a lot of people on a plane - both typically consume on the order of .5 kWh of energy per kilometer of travel. Rail and buses are, of course, an order of magnitude lower.[1]

You can talk about all the other energy costs surrounding air travel, but you can do the same thing with cars. Really, they're small potatoes compared to the costs of the fuel for vehicles and in the case of cars the cost of building all those roads.

And then there's the fact that flying a distance is much safer than driving it even on distances as short as a couple hundred kilometers. The diversion of people from flying to driving after 9/11 causes on the order of a hundred excess road deaths each year.

[1] http://www.withouthotair.com/c20/page_121.shtml
> They want as much people as possible to use the extension so that more advertisers are forced to pay to adblock itself to allow the ads through.

Is there any evidence of this happening?
Cops are 9-to-5ers as well. Should we not trust them to do their job and keep us safe? They didn't walk on the job with no training - maybe the ex-pizza dudes got trained as well. Also, comparing security photos and helpdesk tickets is a bad comparison, regardless of the similarities.
I'm sure they're both familiar with those issues, but given Matt's history of activism and activist movies he seems more invested in them.
If that's the only thing you can find to criticize, OP's done a good job.

I really like it. I couldn't seem to get the pausing/unpausing to work with my trackpad, though.
So paper is the final frontier?

Hundreds of years old tech is the optimum and 21st century tech like tablet computers is a step backwards for humanity?
Somewhere in the Amazon jungle there's a tribesman, wearing a vine-fiber thong, who's taking a break to looking up at an airplane flying overhead, and then getting back to hording all the bone-hammers, and plotting how to sabotage that ascendant hunter who everyone is starting to like so much.
The rampant xenophobia in Japan is what keeps me from moving there. You mean even if I becomes a naturalized citizen (an ordeal in itself) that most places will still treat me like a foreigner? No thanks.

The US is occupied by an enemy force that they supported and elected. Every time another basic human right is violated by the legislative and executive branch those cheer. Does it matter that drunk driving kills more people per year in the US than acts of terror? Does it matter that more people die from prescription drug dispensation mistakes? Not to the mind of the scared American.
spared?

Really? Where I live they don't give the race of the assailant out, but its assumed and unfortunately all too correctly as to what it is.

I am quite sure a few high up in Washington would like it as such here in the US. Two in particular, our President and Attorney General, seem to go out of their way to jump on racial issues as if its some type of popularity thing, they unfortunately come across as desperate.

Spared my butt, we just do our best to tune it out because its bombarded at us through media and government daily. Like the boy who cried wolf, when you cry wolf so many times when there is none no one will listen when there is.