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Can someone explain to me what happened in Australia? They've had a notable rising cost of living in the last few years.
wow, that should work well :)
I'll make it easy for you: those arguing against leaks are not real journalists. If they were real investigative journalists, they'd know the importance of leaks.
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Not upset, just tired of ignorant programmers who get off on complaining, and inventing solutions to imaginary problems (bad syntax? ooh, clever visualization!) rather than actually writing code. By the way, you didn't answer the question -- how much Lisp code have you written, "javajosh"?
No, almost any sample size can be sufficient, as long as the effect is big enough. Though in psychology, larger samples are often needed, because there's generally smaller effects.

If you want to test whether penicillin can cure a staph infection, you can get statistically significant results with a handful of tests.
If you weren't alone, maybe things would of been different?
The whole concept reminds of the Futurama episode 'I dated a Robot' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Dated_a_Robot)

It satirises this idea rather well.
I'm not really a lisp coder at all (a bit of clojure experience)

In other words, you don't have a clue. Right, thanks for clearing that up.
As part of security work i've had this article cited back to me a number of times from developers who 5 minutes earlier didn't even know what bcrypt was but Googled for a rebuttal to my recommendation to improve their existing [plain text|md5|sha] scheme.

Some might consider 'just use bcrypt' as a cargo cult, but it greatly simplifies selling a safe password scheme to the 90% of developers who aren't crypto or security aware. It is something as simple as 'check the padlock in your browser'

Having a high ranking post titled 'Don't use bcrypt' complicates and muddies the issue all over again.
What is a far from obvious, to me, is that this specific training in a specific context improves response outside of this context and for other tasks.
Really how knowing that you have to build immortals when you see roaches - or vikings when you see colossi, could possibly useful in everyday life?
Yeah, but scientific papers? Isn't that just taking the human race a giant step backwards?
When you go into the millimeter-wave machine and the TSA employee asks you to raise your arms, tell them that you can't, but don't elaborate (and they usually won't ask why).

Every time I've done this they let me go through the regular metal detector with no argument or subsequent pat downs or screening.
Can someone please explain what's wrong with going through the machine? If it means not having my balls squeezed, it sounds pretty good to me.
Ok, now I'm starting to see why Google chose a VM for its OS. I couldn't care less about support for x86 and even MIPS, as ARM was already dominating the mobile chip market, and it has plenty of competition above the ISA level - much more than x86 ever had.

But if a VM can enable things like HSA, and who knows, maybe even quantum computers in the future, that make the same Dalvik apps run on it, then I'm all for it.
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Because it's a strip search.
Don't give up. You lost once. That doesn't mean you have to lose again.
Mining boom. There are legions of cashed up FIFO (fly in - fly out) bogans that have more money than sense, and so the price of everything has gone up.
One of the lessons of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment was that people were much more likely to rebel if they weren't alone in doing so.
This is really good. Specially the real-time rendering as one changes the code. But it does not work with Unicode (I tried farsi) characters.

Why does most of things related to PDF do not work with unicode characters?
Oh I see by Ugly you mean practical. Lisp is about Metaprogramming not referential transparency. On the otherhand once you start diving in the source code of Clojure you quickly find yourself looking at javaclasses ime.

On the other hand CL has CLOS, an object system which puts others to shame. And reader macros to define your own syntax. See cl-annot to see the decorator syntax from python being ported to CL or how to give hashmaps Ruby syntax [1].

[1]: http://frank.kank.net/essays/hash.html
I just have a 30 seconds mind-trip in this dystopian universe and it was horrifying :)
I had a similar experience when traveling to the US with my German girlfriend (I am from the US). What I found even more disappointing is the way that other passengers negatively reacted to her choosing to opt-out and wait for the "pat down of shame".
I would be happy to see in the US a better public awareness of the amount of personal rights that we're forfeiting by simply passing through an airport.
Articles like this always remind me that here in the UK (or at least I) have a very different view of what 'middle-class' means compared to the US.

This article implies that middle-class means jobs like radiology technician, phlebotomist, nurse technician. Those don't strike me as middle-class whatsoever!

To me middle-class means privately educated, own reserves of money, probably a large house in the country as well as an apartment in the city, two kids, a labrador and a Barbour quilted jacket: bankers, doctors, baristers etc.

Then beyond that people like the Duke of Westminster, Bill Gates, the Kennedys etc are the upper class - not random Google engineers who joined in the last few years like some US people seem to imply!
The only rules in marriage are the ones you and your spouse agree to. Some couples consider it cheating as soon as you simply flirt with another person, while others are OK with their spouse having sex with other people. So whether it's cheating or not is purely a function on the couple involved.
Consider the following: if that identical machine were in a hospital, it would have been required to go through years of clinical trials to ensure its safety over the long term. The machines they are using are medical equipment.

However, because it's in an airport, none of this has happened. Maybe it is safe. Maybe it isn't. It is unproven.
One of the ideas I had to do with it is convert it into a start-up kick-off resort, alternatively a hacker space. But it's far away from where I live now (200+Km). Selling it is quite painful, I put tons of work into that place, here are all the pictures of the renovations:

http://pics.ww.com/v/jacques/buildings/neatspot/dscf1316.jpg...

Driving there once every month to maintain it is quite a bit of overhead, and my s.o. is a city girl, hence the sale.
Well you answered your own question -- paywalls limit the distribution of information. It's what frustrates me whenever I see comments supporting Adblock extensions but then won't pay the fee for sites like semiaccurate...as if people will work for free.
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I think it's not those specific pieces of information that are useful, but the mental training to develop those associations and to access and put into practice that sort of tactical information on demand. It's like how lifting weights makes you better at lifting other things too.
The really interesting thing is not really Ballmers demise and who will replace him.

The really interesting thing to watch is what will happen when the new CEO has taken the helms and present the restructuring that will inevitably follow.

The board obviously want to see some pretty dramatic changes and Ballmer is deemed not fit for handling it.
Cheating does not depend on physical or lifelike.

Cheating is when you say "I love you with all my heart" but in the mean time give your heart to other stuff.
If you combine these ethical standards with the total surveillance network the government has set up with the "Five Eyes" partners [0], you know what's coming.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKUSA_Agreement
I would write to LAWA about this (even though they will just refer you to the appropriate contact at TSA & you'll get a black hole with no reply). It's not cool to wait >30 min for a "male assist".
Huh? The W Times Square has 55 floors.
I already have my cv in LaTeX so I don't think I'm in the target audience for your product. :)

However, if I were you, I would try and market this product to smaller consulting companies. They present candidates to the customer, either by sending in the consultants personal cv (with contact details redacted) or by having the consultant create a new cv using the company's word template. In either case, it results in badly looking cv:s.

Some consultancies use application tracking systems (ats) which generate the cv:s for them. But they also look pretty shitty compared to how beautiful LaTeX documents can be.
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Not just that - mining only accounts for 2% of our GDP. It's that our dollar was worth 50-60 US cents, and so all of our prices normalised to that. Then it strengthed quickly from the mining boom (somewhat abnormally) and achieved parity with the greenback. Local prices did not fall, of course...

Apart from housing, which saw some years of 30-40% increase in the late noughties, the cost of living hasn't risen much at all - inflation has been reasonably low for a while.

The housing market commentary has been pretty funny. The years of 30% increase had people going "this is pretty good". Now faced with a year of low single digit deflation, the newspapers act like the sky is falling...
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Perhaps I want someone to squeeze my balls?

I think the main objection to the millimetre wave scanner is that it's a virtual strip search.
You have good ideas. Please consider politics. There are plenty other people who could write that software.
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This table of hash functions should show you why MD5 is never to be used when privacy/security is a concern...

http://valerieaurora.org/hash.html

MD5 first started coming under pressure in 1994 and was cracked in 2004.
Have you given Practical Common Lisp[1] a try? Also SICP is a very good book, albeit a big deal time commitment. You can try Fukamachi's libraries or redline6561's cl-6502 as code bases to read and play around with.

[1]:http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/
> C++ is a wonderful language for people who like puzzles, and it's also good for making fun of know-it-alls.

Except trigraphs are another wart inherited from C (ANSI C section 5.2.1.1 A).
It's not that what he's saying actually, that all current easy-to-use systems (from Gmail to disqus) are based somehow on third parties. Your solution is the same, so the privacy breach (theoretically) is there. The good is that I don't have to type passwords and you probably should promote this persona feature a little bit more than the privacy thing, which presumes that we trust a third party while most of us do not.

Good luck anyway, I might try to setup your persona for my website if persona takes off.
Although I truly simpatize with the person ( and the political subject ), I can only express my wonder towards humans as a species: in order to survive, we adapt by overcoming our fears, then we move on, forgetting what was all about. The next challenge is waiting.

Adapt or die ( figuratively speaking )!
Maybe an 'anyone opting out on my flight' app would be a good idea. Although writing one would probably get you put on the terrorist watch list.
He did a bit of that routine on the same stage as her once [1].

I don't buy the above theory because if looks could kill, that would have been the end of Ed Byrne.

[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/3678531....
If anyone is looking for houses in quiet locations I can recommend mountain bothies in Scotland - these are open houses (they are completely free to use) in some amazing locations:

http://www.mountainbothies.org.uk/

Power and internet access are slightly problematical but to read and think they are great.
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I don't trust them to not save the images, I don't trust them to not get hacked, and I don't want some random black hat to have images of my body over time.
Ah yes. Adding a US government owned and operated platform to your product for "anonomity."
Further to that, once you can no longer travel in your own country without being strip searched it means, as the article puts it, that the terrorists have won. It's a test and a defense of freedom.
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In the study the casual game alternative (Sims) didn't provide the same effects. I play team games often because it as easily accessible way for me to have fun competing, just like any other sport in fact. It's a flow experience and has the nice side benefit of completely putting my mind off of other things. I can't get these things from other fun but casual games, that provide very few benefits (not even taking into account the possible boost in cognitive fitness).

I think playing starcraft as part of an active, diverse mental life enriches is particularly complimentary as it a sport-like game that is challenging in many aspects (you need to multitask, think strategically, react quickly and control with great dexterity) and team games also open the social aspects. If it is not done in moderation then yes, you have to wonder if your best mental efforts during the day would better be directed at something more productive. Not for the sake of productivity, or for some moral reasons. Only because it might start to hurt financially/socially/healthwise etc. In the end, there are no skills particularly relevant in the grand scheme of things, we live, we have experiences, we die, universe goes on.
What is this YC EU headquarters you are talking about?
Please don't give up. We all have to value freedom more than to abandon it after half an hour apart from a laptop if we want to be free.
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The next time you see a cop, take a photo. You are bound to get in trouble for that pretty soon as the cops don't like it and many don't seem to be aware that it is perfectly legal to do so. I wonder if it would help? You would be harassed a lot but you would prevent photographing cops from becoming de facto illegal.
That would be nice; you could actually have people on multiple flights opt out because there's a single security checkpoint for multiple gates.
Sure, that's what I'm saying too, though. Persona isn't a step backwards, because, at worst, it's equal (and a bit better, privacy-wise) than what we have now. Otherwise, you can set up your own provider and not need to trust anyone else (except the domain provider, I guess, sure).
It'd be interesting to plot Distraction vs. Noise Level, because while it's clear that Zero Noise maps nicely to Zero Distraction, I've noticed that Near Constant Noise also maps to Zero Distraction.

I used to live on Plaza del Castillo in Pamplona, backing on to one of the main bar streets in town. Friday and Saturday nights were pretty loud, even after closing time, with random whooping groups wandering past at intervals until nearly daylight. We had a windowless room in the center of the apartment we'd dubbed "The Bombshelter" to sleep in on nights like this.

But during San Fermin, things would kick up a few orders of magnitude. The party would crank up on a Sunday and go non-stop for 8 solid days. There were no more random groups to be identified, just a constant insane roar. I recall seeing three marching bands collide in the midst of a swarm of thousands of people directly under our bedroom balcony, at 3 in the morning on a Wednesday. They were playing but you couldn't really hear them from 20 feet up from all the other noise.

You'd think that week would be impossible, but it wasn't. Quite the opposite. I slept like a baby (even on the nights when I hadn't spent any time down among those crowds yelling and spilling wine). The noise was constant and even. No spikes could penetrate it, so the mind could relax and sleep soundly. It was actually kind of nice.

I notice the same thing on planes, and in loud, crowded coffee shops. There are lots of people talking, but little risk of anybody talking to me, so it's all just background noise. No spikes, so my brain can filter it out. I've done some of my best work in those places.

Strange.
1. My subtle way of fighting back is trying to keep
my face off cameras everyplace I go. I stopped
going to stores like Home Depot who have you on a
cam the minute you walk in.

2. I'm glad you held out as long as you did.
An episode of South Park comes to mind 'The Entity',

"Despite this unorthodox control mechanism (which is uncomfortable to the citizens of South Park), "IT" is still considered better than the airlines and Garrison is a smashing success".
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I'm interested in knowing how they'll message the ad campaign.
Common lisp is strongly typed, everything is of type t[1]

[1]: http://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/3284289178877169KL2065E@...
Be sure to read Moxie Marlinspike's comment (the first comment on the page) there.
FWIW, I wrapped the c scrypt in go with the adaptive mem/cpu selection for parameters N, r, p. The standard go crypto scrypt library is not adaptive.

https://github.com/steakknife/scrypt
Even something as outlandish as that has been already envisioned by the extremely offensive Sexy Losers comic.

This is potentially NSFW, so proceed with caution: http://sexylosers.com/199.html (WARNING: If you browse any of the other comics in the archive, you will soon encounter 100% NSFW material.)
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I think we will need to do this in the future. I'm thinking
of front and rear cams on my car. It just might come
in handy if I ever need to fight an illegal pull over.
If we ever reach that point, i will happily throw myself into a volcano.
PS: Michael Chertoff, the former Secretary of Homeland Security, represents scanner manufacturers. So the whole thing is a massive conflict of interest if you ask me.
Probably the same people that think hashing a message and a secret key together is a secure MAC (sans Keccak).
I don't think it would be that hard to invent. What's hard is making it silent and compact.
Also worth noting: Belgium was traditionally neutral, having been set up as effectively a buffer state in the wake of the Napoleonic wars. The bloody quagmire First World War was in no small part precipitated by Germany's violation of Belgian neutrality, which brought Great Britain into the war on the Franco-Russian side -- the UK had committed as a guarantor of Belgian neutrality. So despite strong misgivings about German revanchism during the 1920s and 1930s, Belgium was also historically somewhat ambivalent about joint defense projects with foreigners.
If you've ever known a nurse who worked in an accident & emergency department then you've probably heard stories about how people already have sex with all manner of strange things.
Right, stay away from the "Bubba 2000" model unless you want to use him as an enforcer, twisted prank or house guardian.

ETA: What? You find it annoying when my dog humps your leg? Just wait until you meet my robot.
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Oculus Rift/Google Glasses + Robots = the next level of masturbation?
Do you have to wait 20 years for that?
Isn't rt and presstv reporting exactly this today ?
readers are brilliant, and I much prefer taking a device than a book when I travel.

but the legal stuff is annoying. when I die my books are legally dubious - do they get handed down in my will or does the licence make them non-transferable. and removing drm is a criminal offence.
Yes. They should have and they did. Now, move along and go blog about something else.
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I liked AdBlock up to that point. What are the alternatives?
Some people are really unattractive. They will spend the rest of their lives alone no matter how long they look online or offline. So what's the big deal if robots satisfy their needs?
From where I sit, Google and Apple have been steadily hemorrhaging enthusiasts with their creepiness and arrogance, respectively. They're still the least worst options in their fields, but they no longer seem like the golden saviors they did in the early 2000s.
> The main drawback of this type of robot is that they have a very short battery life - they only last for about 20 minutes.

Who wants to have sex more than four times anyways?
This makes a perfect sense actually. 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. The ethics on the other hand on such a moves are questionable, since it makes ordinary advertising either obsolete or makes adblock the bottleneck of it's effectiveness.
The article mentions " I was told yesterday (by Bruce Schneier, so I trust it) that the noise pattern from a device’s antenna can be used to fingerprint it, a side effect of high-precision wireless transceivers."

My quick attempts with Google did not provide any good results. Does anybody have pointers to research about how feasible this fingerprinting is for example against modern cellphones?
one of the main problem i felt is that once you become more lonely, you ability to socially interact with people reduces.
Given people are nowadays already having sex with plastic dolls, rubber vaginas and in extreme cases other dead people, any realist sees that sex with robots will happen. And it will probably during your life, so maybe you should withdraw the volcano statement.
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This happened to me at Heathrow in London, except there's no option to "opt-out". You either do it, or you don't fly. It's randomly selected, so although I triggered no safety protocols, I was picked out for backscatter.

I was a hair's width from turning around and flying from Gatwick instead at a few hundred bucks cost (nothing compared to observing my rights) - but the engagement was too important.
From the article - "we would be having sex with robots in five years - and be capable of falling in love with them within 40 years"

Let's start the "Human-Robots Marriage Rights" petition now... might take some time for society to accept it!
I'd understand the use of adblock that only blocks annoying ads, like pop-ups or animation / sound. But why would sane person block regular ads?
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