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How I hate these stenographer-to-the-powerful articles.

The guy makes his money as a consultant to airlines; he here gives the official side of things under cover of perfect anonymity and official deniability. He does it while pretending to be a neutral arbiter of fact, showing no skepticism at all about official claims. And, naturally, he doesn't bother to follow up with the author of the blog post he responded to. I guess he was just too gosh-darned busy writing down what people with nice uniforms told him.

This just in: guy with hand in pocket of airlines believes airlines did just the right thing. What innovative reporting!
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This is gross. Cooking salmon is all about the crispy skin. Without that, you should just eat canned salmon. Salmon is the easiest fish to cook. Put the oven on broil, burn the shit out of the fish on the skin side with a bit of oil in a pan, then put it in the oven. The top and bottom will be crusty, and it will be perfect.

If you want the canned salmon taste, put it is the dishwasher. Then again, you could just eat warmed canned salmon.
Ask HN: How to find medical prices 
From what I've read there are more and more hospitals like that disclose prices on their website (yay for transparency). I googled around but could only find the Oklahoma Surgery Center.

Is there a better way to find medical prices on the web? Curious in finding more hospitals like the one mentioned before.
In January of 2010, I was coming back from the Middle East and landed in JFK airport after a 20 hour flight. This was weeks after the underwear bombing incident and I was expecting heightened security. I went through the cotton swab test which came out to be positive and was detained for an hour at the airport. I complied with the TSA for any searches they wanted to do on me (I was tired and was frankly a little alarmed by the positive cotton swab test).

After an hour and a thorough search of my belonging, I was rescheduled on a different flight (for free) and I got back home.

Something about the original story did seem a little strange to me. I am a text book "random search" person - born in the middle east, Arabic sounding name, frequent trips to the middle east, etc. But I always tend to comply and be honest about what I have been doing. Besides that one detention and "random" screens, I've not been too bothered by the security personal (remember, they are people too). I guess I am just used to more intrusive searches in other countries.

Edit: For the record, I am not a citizen or permanent resident of the US (work visa).
The Raspberry Pi is today's Amiga. Decent CPU for the money, surprisingly good graphics, hacker-friendly ecosystem.

The Pi just needs a decent GUI optimized for its OpenGL ES environment. X is too slow and has too much indirection, but something built using Qt Quick's direct OpenGL renderer might work great.
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Well of course the ordeal seems perfectly justified when one repeats the useless bureaucratic procedure at every turn. There was clearly some reasons that these events happened, and that is the whole fucking problem.

And please do tell, why is it wrong for one to be agitated or aggressive when being hassled by goons? Any pretense of civilized interaction vanishes the minute they threaten you into complying with their theatre.
> However,multiple statements by TSA personnel reference Mr. Mukerjee repeatedly grabbing for his bag after he was told not to touch it. When someone is acting unusual, alarms for explosives and then starts grabbing for their bag against instruction by security personnel, security and law enforcement pays attention.

Seriously? If my bag has my expensive laptop, iPad and other stuff in it I'm gonna be likely to grab for it as well. I wouldn't want to leave it with the TSA — especially when there have been reports of theft and unprofessional behaviour.

How can they possibly classify his behaviour as "unusual"? It seems pretty normal to me.
Is it just accent or that people make too many grammatical mistakes? Or to put it another way, if you had to choose between two: clear pronunciation with a lot of grammatical mistakes vs a strong accent but flawless grammar. Which one is harder to understand for a native speaker?
The burden of proof is on the person who's making the claim: if flying is a right, then surely being turned down from flying should be reason enough to call the ACLU and sue the government for discriminating against you, right?
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If you've got a better way to distinguish trace amounts of explosive chemicals, i'm sure they'd love to pay you millions for machines to test it :)
http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/tcrp/tcrp_rpt_86v6.pdf looks relavent here.

Completely skimming it, the test sites had false positive rates of 0.6 - 1.8%.

I'd classify that as "not uncommon".
How did this get voted to the top of HackerNews? It's shoddy journalism and less credible than the blog post it critiques.
I call foul on behavioral detection.

I sincerely doubt there's a way to differentiate between someone who is ill and someone who is pale and has the jitters because they're about to do something bad. I moreover call foul on the notion that there are enough of the latter set to build an effective training program to create effective BDOs.

What's actually happening here is probably that BDOs are being used to justify retroactively special treatment given to people for invented reasons. It's sort of like a false alert from a drug dog - it's a claim that you can't really cross-examine, since the supposed microexpressions someone exhibits are too fast or too small to be picked up by a camera.
Well, I can understand why he'd become "agitated" after being told his options were to leave without his bag or be subjected to an "obscene" screening.

Also, regarding:

"There are no independent sources within the TSA or Department of Homeland Security (DHS) who can find any record of NYPD involvement – let alone a search of his apartment by federal authorities – and there is no incident report referencing any further action involving Mr. Mukerjee."

Given what we know about NSLs and such, how could we possibly believe that the lack of unclassified records is proof that no search took place?
whether it was blogged about or not, it seems like this author obtaining and reporting so much internal detail about this incident is an incident unto itself.

also, his shilling herein for TSA and Jet Blue smells like a conflict of interest:

Steven Frischling, aka: Fish, is... airline emerging media consultant working with large global airlines...
He was making a joke about kissing!
So... purchasing goods abroad which are illegal in the US, and then trying to import them into the US, may result in those goods being confiscated and you being made to pay a fine?

This is unprecedented in the history of everything!
> "This is it. This is what matters," the ad begins. Lofty claims for a suite of consumer gadgets.

Precisely. For all that Apple is, even at its best, it's just a manufacturer of consumer gadgets.

As an aside--this is not related at all to this article--I consider it a slight to Elon Musk when he is considered "the next Steve Jobs." Elon Musk is obviously his own creation, but he also has the potential of bringing more meaningful transformation. Comparing the two is facile, but disappointing on so many levels.
You don't get token karma on here for being an ass. This isn't reddit.
Thank you eranation.

I've played a bit with Scheme and Haskell. Scala is the next on the list and this course looks like an excellent opportunity to check it out.
No I don't think people are comfortable with it, but it's silly. It's not putting people at an unfair disadvantage any more than predicting using stuff like age or past history. If you are going to be do predictions at all it's pointless to exclude data that could make them more accurate.
>Prove to me they didn't search his home without serving him a warrant and then we'll talk about the accuracy of this story.

Can't really prove a negative - what would the evidence look like? The reasonable question to ask is "prove to me they did search his home without serving him a warrant."
Communication is a primary requirement in a team sport and especially football.

His own example, forget the manager, the players themselves have to be on the same page in so many levels during practice. Don't you think Messi, Neymar, and Alexis (all 3 different countries playing for Barca) would have to practice and know precisely about their timing.

I think the key thing here is the who really needs whom. Most entrepreneurs need YC/VCs and so might have to suck up what they expect.
I hardly think one anecdotal experience of 3 day turnaround is enough to call a second anecdotal claim of 7 days "BS"

For a process that sometimes takes 3 days, I can easily envision someone else having a 7-10 day turnaround. You make it sound like it's an order of magnitude off, but it really isn't.
I had a product on FB gifts. It sold great on sites like Fab, but did terrible on FB. I think we sold less than 5 units total before getting kicked out.

This tweet from Chris Dixon a year ago summed it up best for me: "It's all about the mental state. are you sharing photos online vs giving something offline. the numbers show it's hard to switch".
I popped his name into google to see what else he did. Judging from the autocomplete he appears to have pissed off some people previously.
> Prove to me they didn't search his home without serving him a warrant and then we'll talk about the accuracy of this story.

How do you prove a negative. The key for me is that he got the NYPD & Port Authority mixed up. Innocent on its own, except the bit where the Port Authority has no jurisdiction outside airports.
That's not how machine learning. I mean no one just programs "if poor_people_friends" or keeps a running score. They just feed the machine the data.
And what is the false negative rate?
I've had the misfortune to hear him give this spiel in person, it's real.
Good catch, I meant land lines.

When I said the same network, I probably should have said network provider - I meant that if a GSM network is knocked out, odds are there's a CDMA Verizon user in the bunch trying to call 911.

Good points all around.
Airport security is frequently humiliating. I myself have been nearly reduced to tears just by customs agents when crossing the border on business. However, this man set off a bomb detector. He set of the machine that detects bombs, repeatedly. After that event, nothing Mr. Mukerjee reported is particularly surprising, and I would expect to have a similar experience if I set off the same detector. I don't believe his race had nearly as much of an effect on his experience as is believed.
They also sell advanced features such as encryption and compression.
Almost.

If I build a better LAN, it might be used by companies with high maintenance corporate networks, or it might be used by high scoring gamers at LAN parties. The LAN technology does not fundamentally change, only the usage.

However, your point is well taken. As far as buzzwords go, "mesh network" is not in the same league as "cloud computing". You will not see "mesh network" in Cisco's marketing.

But was this really a "pivot"? Or is this a case of a use (corporate LAN) that differs from the original one (community LAN): what I would call an "unintended use".

My idea of a "pivot" is something like when some young developers want to start a company that takes orders for food delivery over the web but then, after consulting with the older folks who would provide funding, decide instead to build a news commentary blog that functions like a forum. That sounds like more than a change of usage. It sounds like an entirely different program. But maybe not. Maybe the system they create for taking orders is more or less the same one they use for taking comments on news items.

Anyway, it's an interesting story and regardless of how the stuff is being used now, it was originally used for creating "mesh networks", a type of portable network that could run with a telco. Now it is used, by Cisco customers, for creating "distributed networks".
If we take "Cloud" to mean "Computer" or rather "Disparate systems functioning as one", then he's almost right. How many people use AWS or Google Apps now?

If it's true that more and more services are moving to the cloud and this trend won't change, there may well be "Approximately 5 computers" some time in the future.
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I'm one of those entrepreneurs whose startup is destined for the Internet trash bin (or whatever that was).

Yes, Facebook is a behemoth in the photo space. But there are many facets to people's photo libraries than mere sharing and collaboration. I've actually been happy to see fellow photo start ups tackling some of hose more interesting problems.

No doubt this solves a pain point for many. But I don't know if I see it as crushing many startups. The thing with Facebook is that people will come up with ways to work around the limitations of the platform. It's got that much momentum.

Photos are a big space and I'm happy to see other companies tackling more than just the social sharing problems that in my opinion have largely been solved already.
I regularly do 20+ table joins.
It would be fine to just have the feature so .oninon sites are accessible. To get more than that requires education, much like an aircraft pilot. One small mistake and you may literally get yourself and others killed. Even Tor Browser can't be trusted, due to bugs. A bare beginning solution is a firewall to block non-Tor connections:

http://www.reddit.com/r/onions/comments/1l15hx/10_steps_to_m...

Without that, you're just the Titanic happily floating across the ocean without making sure you've got enough lifeboats if something goes wrong. Should failure always mean death? Is it too much to ask to insist on a firewall safety net to block non-Tor connections when the next bug is found in the Tor Browser Bundle (or whatever)?

I'm all for making .onion sites reachable, as long as that's the only thing this new feature promises to do. It would make *.onion sites mainstream, which is good for everybody. Strength in numbers, heard immunity, get lost in the crowd - that's precisely what Tor relies on to achieve its most basic goals. Taking Tor mainstream with support in Firefox would mean there would be more Tor users for the seriously privacy-paranoid to hide behind.
Your not making your case at all. It's like saying "yeah we violated his rights, but we had our reasons" if the whole world ran on the reasoning of one person or organization it's usually considered authoritarian. Which is exactly what's happening in the US
Just double checked. It's own occupation for 24 months, then it becomes reasonable occupation. I have a feeling that that term is something that when 24 months approach, you want a good lawyer for.

Still, considering I'm paying less than a coffee per month for LTD, and personally knowing someone who was once working as a top tier developer and got into a serious biking accident that left him with brain injuries, I'm going to buy into it. Next year I'm going to push HR about that 24 month clause.
And who ever grabs an EXPLOSIVE bag in the first place?
I had much the same feeling about silly mobile apps with ridiculous filters prior to actually using Instagram, but the truth is that (when used appropriately) those filters do actually improve the aesthetic quality of phone photography.

It's easy for some people to go overboard or act like they're a deeply intellectual thinker just because they've taken a brooding selfie in black and white, but misuse shouldn't be conflated with uselessness.
Flagged due to behavioral traits, seen to exhibit assertive behavior, ratted out by a robotic terrorist detector, etc. These are not good reasons to detain someone for an extended period and to deny them the ability to travel. These are the hallmarks of a society slipping into statism and subjugation.

Where is the presumption of innocence? Where is the protection of the liberties and rights of the individual? Where is the responsibility and accountability of the agents of government and the officers of the law?

Nowhere to be seen here.

These are not the sorts of trends and behaviors on behalf of the state we should be defending.
Hook the drink cooler up with an arduino, temp sensor, power switch and an heating element and you'd be able to maintain that temperature as long as you'd like.

http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2013/07/16/back-in-stock-sous-v...
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If you cannot leave, are you not detained?

"This is absolutely correct, at this time he was in limbo, he was not being detained, but he could not leave. A person cannot simply leave the security area of any airport once they are on the airside but have not satisfactorily completed screening. Once a person has passed through security, but is not cleared to fly and then chooses to leave, such as Mr. Mukerjee, s/he must be escorted out of the secure area (and usually the terminal)."
"After he was grilled for three hours by a dozen different officials, he got the time wrong by 20 minutes! He's definitely unreliable!"
The double-negative is bad style, but the fact is actually reassuring. It means that the typical TSA agent sees a ton of positive results each week and has never seen a valid result. In other words, the agent is not fussed at all by the positive test outcome; they just have to double check to clear you.
The biggest problem with the story is the INSTITUTIONALIZED FEAR. From the account, you could tell just about every agent after the first was wondering who was wasting their time. That's why they kept going back to the test that failed (he didn't leave the room, so why would they get a different result... Institutional insanity)

Ts not enough for the agent to recognize his time was clearly wasted.. There it 0.0001% this guy might really be a terrorist because somebody else said so. They kept pouring resources into trying to prove him "wrong" rather than verifying a threat existed or not.

It's Kaffkaesque at its best... I'm scared of you because of my training, so it's your fault what you did to me that makes me scared. If it wasn't FOR REAL, it's so absurd to be a comedy skit.
By the time they were active in the east, their western border was "The English Channel". This was the one they built before the outbreak of WWII.
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The effect on the country of these people moving into leadership roles may be extremely destructive.
In their defense there's no good software out there that hooks into a vendor's fulfillment house. FB created a proprietary order system which sent emails to the vendor when an order came in. Then the vendor had to create an packing slip or send the order to their fulfillment house on THEIR proprietary shipping system.

There's so many shipping systems out there and none of them talk to each other. If someone were to create software that integrated every vendor with every distributor I think they would do very well for themselves.
The problem here is that he was pre-selected by the Behaviour Detection Officer (BDO) while in line and then the TSA claimed he rang their bell for explosives.

We can't assume that government agents are on the up and up. Their word is open to question if they have no proof of their claims. Since they don't deny the story, I tend to lean to Mr. Mukerjee's perceptions as a more accurate account of the day.
"I know many people want to believe in TSA and national security conspiracies."

No, I think most people just believe the TSA to be completely inept and operated without much oversight or coherence. Complaining about (repeated) bad treatment doesn't make it a conspiracy.
Care to explain why it's shoddy journalism?
Yup, compiling and installing (in a distro-friendly manner that smoothly integrates with the rest of the system) your own kernel on Debian is almost trivial using "make-kpkg".

Most people don't have the need, of course, but if you do, it's not hard.
"Export f*cking UIGlassButton. Not that big of a deal."
Making any decision with the potential to damage society and perpetuate class divisions, without 100% accuracy, is wrong. Because human lives are more important than maximizing profit.
> As for permissions, its better to let the OS handle that than some half-baked database permissions system.

Sorry, but that doesn't make sense. For example: if you want your application to be able to add new rows, but not delete them (for audits actually) you cannot do this with OS permissions. Only database-layer permissions will make it possible.

There are many other examples of such use-cases. You simply cannot use OS/apparmor/selinux/whatever external to the database to grant/revoke per-table access.

> Root accounts/passwords are a wtf in a production environment because they destroy auditability.

On this side however - why would anyone know / have access to your root account? Applications should never have it. Servers should never have it (in a form different than the hash). Only people should have it.
+1 thank you
Tim Sweeney (Unreal Engine) has also written about haskell and specifically STM (http://www.st.cs.uni-saarland.de/edu/seminare/2005/advanced-...) and more recently on dependently typed languages (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1307.5277v1.pdf).
People aren't "at risk" of defaulting. Either they have, or they haven't. Risk is entirely a calculation of the lender, and any miscalculation thereof leads to a vicious cycle of repeatedly shafting the unlucky.
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Verbing? Let me google that...
This is complete bullshit. "Limbo" is not a thing. Either you are being detained, or you are free to leave.
> Asserting my rights is not something the system makes easy to do, EVEN FOR A LAWYER, once the situational triggers of law-enforcement occur

Since it's apparently impossible to prevent the abuse of our rights, it seems the simplest remedy is easy-to-claim compensation after the fact, right out of the department's budget. Unjustly detained for 3 hours? That's a payment of say $500 (professional hourly rate plus extra for emotional distress). Denied your usual food/water/bathroom/medication? Physical distress add-on. Laptop stolen by goons at the border? Replacement value of laptop plus several hundred dollars for setting it up. Court acquittal verdict? Reimbursement of all lawyer fees + payment for your time spent in court and/or jail.

Until these agencies are no longer able to externalize their damages onto the public, they have little reason to lower their false positive rate.
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Most people don't build big and complicated programs.
There's some info about behaviour detection here:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictive_profiling

It's been used by Israeli airport security and, if done properly, isn't based on ethnics or appearance. I don't think it's a bad thing as long as it's just used for screening.

However, the original account indicates that the questioning went far beyond "non-intrusive questions".
Salmon isn't always all about the crispy skin. Ever had sous vide?
It sounds like what you want is to run a tyranny. Freedom for you, damnit.