skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few reasons:

- They actively image your naked body. Metal detectors do not.

- They record said image of our naked body for an indefinite amount of time. Metal detectors do not.

- A human views the image of your naked body, and makes a subjective assessment of whether or not something suspicious has been detected, based on a wide range of parameters. A metal detector is a simple on/off detection based on an extremely narrow range of parameters.

In short, they are invasive because a human is involved. Let's not forget the cases (now rarer) of TSA agents guffawing at each others' penis sizes, or deliberately checking out women in the scanner, etc. My objections against the scanners would be greatly nullified if:

- All decision making is made via computer. No human ever sees the image.

- All images are immediately discarded. No record of the scan exists except the result.

- The parameters of detection are open and transparent.

The invasiveness of the scan has less to do with the scan and more to do with the tremendous opportunity for abuse it represents - both at the low level (individual TSA agents) and high level (as a matter of policy).
Green != countryside (at least not what I think of as countryside). If you look at a map of Manhattan you'll see a big swatch of green in the middle (Central Park) but that's not countryside. I've actually been to Hong Kong, and I've even been outside the city. I saw a lot of undeveloped hills. But I didn't see anything I would call "countryside." But maybe I'm just quibbling over terminology, and what the author means by "countryside" I think of as "the outskirts of the city."
Most of Hong Kong is undeveloped land (and a lot of that is undeveloped because it is protected national park). This is why you end up with such high density despite so much land with only 7 million people.
I'd like to see a similar map that explores other attributes such as income, family size, etc.
This has a direct impact to virtual reality and videogames. Imagine if we integrated this kind of emersion in video game?
>If "paleo" concepts apply to food

There is no evidence that they do.
They could see you from a satellite so you should never go out on sunny days? Where does it end?
I've been through once, because they found some substance on my person and wouldn't let me on my flight otherwise (though they were very polite in my instance). I opted out before that and still have since. They wore you out, just keep wearing them out. Call the ACLU since they made you wait that long. Continue to opt out.

You lost your "never been through the machine" badge. That sucked for me too, well, let's get over it. (At least it wasn't a backscatter, right?) This is really about raising awareness, as it were, right? Having lost one time doesn't really change that. By that measure we already "lose" millions of times because everybody else goes through those machines.
Nobody's trying to make anybody do anything, they're making a map of racial distributions. If you see that is a threat, it's because you think that some of the beliefs that you have would be seen as racist - and you're projecting onto the makers of a map.

I use white friends to make apartment inquiries for me in neighborhoods known for housing discrimination, do I exist?

150 years ago, white people were far more likely to know and live near black people. Did nature somehow change in the interim?

Separate but equal was a set of laws imposing a behavior from above. The equal part wasn't true, and it wasn't 100 years ago. It was the environment that my parents grew up in, and I went to a segregated school myself. It wasn't anything that black people had or have any choice over, or preferred.
Not really that surprising. Similar research into self-perception and out-of-body experiences has been done before, see e.g. http://www.livescience.com/9526-body-experiences-simulated.h...
No, silence is vital for hunting. Also if a possible mate or friend is talking to you, its not exactly helpful to be daydreaming about growing seeds or moon phases. If you're doing hard manual labor while visualizing a simpler way to do it, you're probably breathing too hard to talk.

I will give you credit that sometimes ancient humans probably had to think pretty hard while talking. Planning a hunt. Trying to organize sleeping arrangements. Primitive military operation planning beyond the level of a crude bar fight (so they basically stole one of our proto-cows, can we take them and how?)

(I should edit this to remove the second paragraph, upon contemplation, that's not thinking while talking, thats concentrating hard on listening to the other person in order to plan how to manipulate them, which is at cross purposes to writing great code or daydreaming as the original topic... We've had strong evolutionary pressure to think very hard about verbal language we hear, which isn't going to help much when I'm trying to debug something while some sports water cooler conversation is going on)
> it should impose a two-part territoriality regime with a mandatory rule structure for United States-based users and a permissive regime for users located abroad.

I'm pretty sure that explicitly legislating that while the whole world is watching would be the nail in the coffin for the international US cloud and online services business...
Doesn't this guy realize that asking for money they way he did with flex funding defies logic. If you only raise some of the money, how were expecting to finish the project, and what about the people who gave you money - you just scammed them. He still hasn't paid them back yet, instead saying he owes them a game!

Trying not to be harsh, but this guy is obviously clueless - built his own game engine - maybe he should've started by wiring together his own circuit boards and then building an OS.

And another thing slightly disturbing about a lot of game devs - in your teens or early twenties I can understand the desire to make Indie games, you're young and retarded. But later on in life, late 20s and on - can you not find something more worthwhile to do?

Sure, a side hobby making games, or your main job working as a game dev to pay the bills, but for that be the focus of your life? Can you not open your eyes to the multitude of problems that exist out there, in the REAL WORLD, and fix those?

You could say the same about other artists like writers and musicians - and thankfully, almost all of them suffer financially for their insanity. As time progresses, Indie gamers will also realize that they are just the starving artists of modern times (minus the groupies that writers and musicians get).
Its pretty rare that a file converter does a decent job. ie if you want to know what a PDF really looks like... use Acrobat. If you just want a glimpse this might be ok.
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>It's a strip search.

No, it isn't. When you're in a back room with your clothes on the floor, being asked to lift your scrotum and spread your butt cheeks, you're being strip searched.

The MM machines are annoying, invasive and potentially harmful, but saying it's analogous to being strip searched doesn't help the cause. You'll believe me if you're ever actually strip searched. It's a far worse violation.
Sometimes I wish there were an article like this on HN every day.

The relentless upbeat-ness of the startup world can get to be too much, and it's healthy to hear humbling stories of reality.
A population that believes this strongly in liberties then surrenders after a single 30 minute inconvenience is a greater danger to liberty than the TSA.

Seriously, you have shown you are willing to make zero sacrifice in fighting for your rights. You don't believe in anything. This is the problem with armchair libertarians. You sound tough them surrender at the first sign of difficulty. This does more harm than good.
This is a copy of the original post about Linux by Linus Torvalds, back when it was his toy pet project.
How about the border between EU countries.
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QOTD - "just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu"
Reminds me of this guy writing a small web crawler in Java a couple of years ago:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.lang.java/aSPAJO0...
The drive doesn't have to be blank. Just put on a fresh install of an OS and don't put on any personal files. Then reimage after reaching your destination.
You lose all credibility when you refer to TSA agents as "clowns"
I couldn't agree more with your "first principle" approach.

However with regards to "...this reverses vs. the abortion issue regarding political lines", I'll just gently suggest that you reconsider what your first principle question is (without trying to make this a political debate). Is it possible that your assumption that the political lines are illogical is invalid?

A thought: coming up with the right questions is really hard and maybe arguing about the questions will fall along "political lines."
Dang. I have been looking for a GIS/BigData project, and this was one of my ideas.
If you would read the footer, you would read that I am using the ColourLovers API! I would not rip this off. But ColourLovers is too messy for me.
the numbers for my country (argentina) are at least 7 years outdated.
>On a final note. I'm Irish and lived (US) here 12 years. My family and I can move to Ireland at any time without worry for some of the larger barriers; visa and language.

An aside, but why did you move from Ireland to the US? I'm semi-seriously considering moving to the UK or Ireland, not out of any "argh america is literally hitler, i'm out" impetus, but to be closer to my girlfriend's family and for adventure.
Can I ask for more context?
Did you have a question?
No, you shouldn't. Because the job of police officers is not to keep you safe. In fact it's quite illegal for police officers to keep you safe, because keeping you safe is something that must be done before a crime is committed. Police are there to help clean up after you've been hurt in a crime. They only keep you safe in the very stretched sense of the language by hopefully preventing future undetermined crimes by the same person after they've already harmed you once.
I prefer Oren's approach: writing about the experience—provoking discussion, even outrage, and eventually change.

I've lived overseas many times, but my simple advice when making life choices is to ask yourself wether you are running _to_ something (an amazing opportunity) or _away_ from something else.

Advocating for change takes stamina and patience. There are many good reasons to leave the US. And, like other nations, the US has some large and seemingly unsolvable problems. I just don't believe that the current state of airport security is immutable.

I'll concede that 9/11 had far-reaching impacts, predicated on our own fears and overreactions. What I won't concede is my home.
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Most local businesses don't, but high-value targets like government office buildings, financial markets, museums (especially Jewish history and Holocaust memorial museums), and iconic monuments all tend to.
I had the same experience at LAX recently. It seems they are doing this on purpose to inconvenience people who opt out. When they ask me about the machine and why I don't want to go through, I simply tell them that I worked at a company that made machines like that (true) and I don't want to go through.
Mainly for enterprises who want to keep control over data and IP assets. You will be surprised to know how many enterprises need a solution like this.
> ALSO (jeez) don't send your stuff through until you go through! I have been told this repeatedly so most agents actually know this already but even the ones that won't prompt you to do it won't prevent it either.

Wait, how do you do this? Do I wait holding my stuff until the assist comes up, and then make them wait as I put my things on the machine? Do I get to "cut in line" and put my stuff in front of everybody else's stuff on the conveyor?
I ask them to guard my laptop, which they usually do since I suppose they will get in trouble if it's stolen. Actually maybe the fact that I'm asking them to watch over my laptop expedites the actual patdown, because I never have to wait long.
I believe someone posted a link to Speedata tool which uses LuaTeX. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6273668
I agree with you that moving to another country is not simple. But I would like to offer some experience which might be encouraging to those who decide to do so.

1. I was able to happily work and live in Spain for couple of months with no knowledge of Spanish language whatsoever. It certainly limits your choices to a certain degree (I worked for one UK-based company which sent me to Madrid and it would have been difficult to find any Spanish-speaking job if I had to) but it's easier than you would think.

Now I live in the Czech Republic and I regularly visit 'English meetings' (imagine weekly organized party where anybody who speaks English is invited) and I know many foreigners (some of them are my close friends) who happily live here for years without any knowledge of Czech language.

2. Children - oh, how many times I was envious of their incredible adaptability. If they are younger than 10 - wherever you go they will have new friends in two weeks and they will speak fluently with no accent in 6 months. I had seen it many times with children of my Czech/Slovak friends when I lived in UK and I can see that now with children of my foreign friends living in the Czech Rep. 8 years old daughter of my Spanish friends speaks Spanish, Russian, Czech and English without any noticeable accent - her family moves a lot and I believe she will benefit from that tremendously. Children are so good at this that they don't need language lessons - they just pick it up from their peers while playing in a sandpit.
> I give up. The terrorists have won. I'm sad and I'm angry, but the perpetual wearing-down works. I won't be opting out again.

Time for "Freedom Flights"?

The airport is one place I can think of where you are presumed guilty and have to prove your innocence through unreasonably search as well as seizure (I've had a couple of nice Swiss Army knives confiscated simply because I forgot them in my laptop bag).

Perhaps it is time to start organizing "Freedom Flights" between major cities. By this I mean that a sizable group of people book seats in a flight, say, from SFO to LAX, and every single member of the group would absolutely refuse to be searched or touched by TSA.

Every single person would be armed (yes, I said armed) with a piece of paper containing language developed by volunteer attorneys. Something in this vein: "My constitutional rights state that you cannot touch or search me and detaining me without cause is unlawful. Please get out of my way."

The idea would be to make a point. Nobody should expect to get on a flight, at least not before a few tries. Conventional and social media channels would be alerted in order to get coverage. I can't think of a better way to raise awareness and make a point.

We are being treated like criminals, all of us. This has to stop. Enough is enough.
Why bother with research when everything can be explained by the natural tendencies of the blood? Research just perpetuates racism by allowing for the possibility that it may exist.
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Do this and then stretch your arms, or give someone a high-five. I wonder if they would do anything.
Sorry didn't see this comment for a while.

I ran a black-hat collective between the ages of 13 and about 17. That led to getting lots of offers to hack for money, and through discussion with the people making those offers, eventually to getting interested in document security. I developed a way to replicate the UK driving license with all security features using commodity hardware. It fooled police officers and every official that ever looked at it. I sold the licenses to fund my desire to improve the design and manufacture. People used them for, among other things, fraud. 'conspiracy to defraud' was the crime.
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> I give up. The terrorists have won.

Or maybe you could recognize that flying is a privilege, not a right, and that you have other options if you want to make a stand in your beliefs, such as picking a different airline, going to your destination by some other means or, you know, not traveling.

These entitled smug conspiracy theorists who act like prima donnas irritate me.

"The terrorists have won" because you had to go through a machine? I think it's time for the OP to step back, take a hard look at their life and wonder if they have their priorities straight. There are much more interesting and worthy things to worry about.
I still cannot believe that TSA personnel don't wear radiation dosimeter badges. It's absolutely absurd. In any other setting, OSHA/CDC would be going crazy.

From 2010: http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/travel/flights/2010-12-06-tsa...
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Scratching an itch that doesn't exist, with a name that makes it impossible to have an intelligent conversation around.
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What I would love to do is to get stamps from the 'axis of evil' all on one page of my passport by visiting Iran, Iraq and North Korea, then travel the the US. Maybe I can get them to also stamp that page :)
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Cities aren't "tribes," they're far too large. In fact, they're tribe destroyers. From an evolutionary perspective, interaction with other people was meaningful: either you were interacting with a tribesman (basically a member of extended family) or with an outsider. In neither case was "indifference" a desirable response (outsiders evoke competitive fear or interest). In a city you interact with so many different people on a daily basis that almost all human interactions are, by necessity, marked by indifference.

We're not designed to simply ignore people. However, more and more that's what we are required to do.
There are no borders. You just drive along and next thing you'll get is a text message that you are in a different country informing you about roaming prices for your cell phone.

If you happen to use a navigation system, it might say something like "Welcome to Italy". But that's it.
> and your fingerprints taken

Actually, they are not taken. They are just copied. ;-)
This whole rant hasn't been true for over a year. All it shows now is a generic block body, with an indication of an area to check if the COMPUTER decides it needs to be checked. For the majority of people, it doesn't even show the body. It just flashes "OK" on the screen.
Which one?

Between .ch and one of the surrounding countries?

Between any two Schengen countries?

Between a Schengen country and a non-Schengen country?

What kind?

On an airfield, a shipping port or a land border?

How are you moving?

With a vehicle or just you?

Who are you?

A Citizen of a Schengen country?

A Citizen of the EU?

A Citizen of the United States, Canada, Japan, Australia or New-Zealand?

A Citizen of another country?

What do you look like?

All have different rules governing what border patrols can/may/must do and the other variables determine what you're up against depending on the can/may bit. Hard to know your rights (sometimes the guards don't even know...), and your obligations.

Amongst what you could encounter:

- fixed stop-all checks

- mobile checks

- abandoned borders

- randomly manned borders

- nothing at all

EU border strategy is pretty messy. Even on the outside borders of the EU it is very much dependent on where you are what you'll encounter.

Some borders are so porous they might as well not exist, others are so locked up that even though technically cross border traffic is open in practice it's just like it was before or worse.

If you want to know about borders in the EU: become a trucker for a few years.
In my last job I had to lead a team of people and I had one developer in his 50s and one in his early 60s. They were fine, I loved working with them. The guy in his 50s was just a awesome engineer who could code circles around me and everyone else on the team and was still getting better every year. The guys in his 60s wasn't as good, but he was on his second career after going back to school for CS. So his technical knowledge level was about the same as a 26 year old.

Now I work with an engineer in his 50s who did not know what a VM was before working with me and still writes everything in procedural C. Our product still has a serial port on it because of this guy. So it goes both ways.

I would say hiring a bad older engineer is actually more harmful than hiring a bad younger engineer because your team might subconsciously give the older person more benefit of doubt, and go along with more of their bad decisions. The solution is to not hire bad engineers or to fire them quickly.
Honestly, if there were a minimum IQ rating of 25 at DHS to be considered for employment, most of our problems with that agency would evaporate overnight.
Actually I accidentally overpassed the trial, then just canceled for next month... and I got an automatic rebate having not used the subscription

Amazon has amazing customer service , at least in my experience
I like Baldrik's definition of irony: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awD1gtpdWIA
A baseless, sensationalist headline about a spacecraft able to maneuver from one orbit to another, as many U.S. spacecraft have been able to do since 1965. The difference is this craft is unmanned, controlled from the ground.

Imagine the Space Shuttle being described as potentially a "dangerous new weapon" on the ground that it's able to change its orbit, approach other spacecraft, and has a manipulator arm.
Reasons why you might need encrypted passwords:

1. Your password database has been stolen
2. Your password transmission is susceptible to viewing/sniffing by 3rd parties

Reasons why you might need password encryption schemes that are difficult to crack:

1. You might not know when the password is stolen, so you don't know to change it
2. You know the password was stolen, but are not sure if someone could feasibly crack it
3. You reuse your passwords and one password being cracked means all of your accounts are owned
4. Your password is not complex, or you don't know if it is complex
5. You rely solely on passwords for authentication

Ways to mitigate requirements on password encryption:

1. Don't let the password database get compromised
2. Secure the transmission of passwords
3. Require strong passwords
4. Don't rely on just passwords for authentication

Note that this doesn't take into account things like phishing/social engineering, brute forcing, hijacking sessions, or exploiting the application. In general, strong password encryption is only useful to prevent bad public relations from too many users getting hacked at one time. For individual security, a strong password encryption system is effectively trivial to bypass.
Hehe, I think it works, it's making me seriously reconsider the life I'm living. Thanks for a good laugh and best of luck with your life-style. (to borrow a bit from DNA).
First of all I would have to say that's really harsh, both on the industry and the developer. He may have been a bit delusional and not thought the plan through but he learned why he was wrong and got better from it.

Calling game development "useless" is a stretch however, they have always combined math,art,computers,music,... into one single piece. They have also personally broguht me into the world of programming.

Saying writers don't have a purpose is also a bit over the top. Some can be reporters, others send ideas to people who otherwise wouldn't have even considered them.

Games are a firm example of entertainment, and people get joy out of seeing people loving their product. Can you honestly say you want to live your life without TV, movies, games, music, writing, art, stories, dance?
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