skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The next logical step is to expand the scope of the TSA's security—put full body scanners at the airport entrances rather than boarding gates. In the distant future, we can look forward to having periodic security checkpoints when we go out to get some lunch.

Not what the OP is talking about, but I hope the conversation doesn't veer in this direction.

Is this the first TSA casualty? Perhaps these odds aren't so bad after all. Maybe we don't need to overreact and restructure all security just yet.
There is a big difference between 'open workspaces', emphasising the plural, and 'open office plan'.

Putting teams (either functional or cross-functional project-based) of 3-6 people each in an open workspace is great for communication. On the other hand, putting a whole office floor as a single open workspace will simply kill productivity and discourage communication because either people will be isolated in headphones so they don't hear their neighbor, or people will avoid discussions there ('let's get a meeting room') so as not to disturb others.
No, I'm talking about "backing up the original copies from a user’s phone".
This summer I did several hundred cold calls and several thousand cold emails.

On the sales front, I found emailing a much better use of time. While sales were marginally easier on the phone, getting the right people on the phone beyond difficult. And even when people agreed to chat - they often bailed last minute or never called me.

With emails I found two techniques -

For sales emails, I found the best response rates when I was the weirdest. For example, in a moment of exasperation after emailing the same guy 4 times (and getting no response), I wrote "Maybe you're like the wizard of oz, everyone lists you as a media contact, but you don't exist." I heard back within 30 minutes.

For intro cold emails, I found people incredibly receptive. The more specific the emails (specific to the person), and the more concise the email, the more warmly I was received. Perhaps common sense.
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If this happens, it should be local police officers.
My comment was incomplete. Am wondering what is the best way to do secure messaging for a new system. I think PGP would be good. But will the encrypted private and public key both be stored in the database? Then using the user's password decrypt the private key. Does that sound good or is there a better way to do it?
To me, the real issue is, is this a frequent enough problem that really needs addressing. I don't believe it is.
I read through this article expecting to agree with the findings, but surprisingly my experience was the complete opposite. My mother is a teacher and my younger brother is not a very good student. I found that as he struggled more and more, there was much less focus on my schoolwork. My mother focused more on cracking down on him and let me go my own way. While I stayed on more or less the same path, he recently just dropped out of college.

Surprisingly he also scored very well when he was tested for IQ (possibly close to my own scores, I do not remember).
I was born in one of the poorest countries in Asia, so I can imagine rather low quality of life and working conditions.
And I know pretty well that people who work in real old school sweatshops will never read this article.
By other hand, inhumane treatment and faceless exploitation were ones of reasons that lead to existence of sweatshops in the first place.
When people start to accept this way of treatment as a norm, when agree to humiliate themselves, even a bit, to get a position - with time it all will lead to the next generation of sweatshops - in Western way, with white collars.
The reason behind my writing - to warn people and raise the question as soon as possible - before 10h of free work will be included as a demand for sending CV.
Pleasurable? Depends in what sense but in general and framed with the average user in mind I would agree with you there.

I have been doing a self-experiment for the last few months to use FOSS app(lication)s as much as possible on my Note II running CyanogenMod 10.1 or instead use actual websites instead of apps. I am using F-Droid as a repo, it has been great.

To say it is really easy or convenient would be a lie though, I am also missing some (mostly cloud) features I really liked when I was inside the GOOG garden, but living without Google's and other closed-source apps has actually been relatively painless for me and my data is inside my own control.

Firefox, K-9, AntennaPod, Focal, RedReader, FeedEx are a few of the great FOSS apps (just need K-9 to get a decent icon).
Lack of system-wide spell check might be a contributing factor.
The same is true in the Philadelphia metro area...getting from one suburb to another via public transit is excruciating.
The article is interesting but really if you want to make decorators easier to understand don't introduce another layer of abstraction, use a class. The __init__ function handles the decorator arguments just like you would expect from a class. The __call__ function is called when the decorator is called, just return your new function and well; your done. And it's all pretty straight forward.
> What makes having a B.A. in Psychology not a negative hiring signal too?

It is a negative signal. The BS in Symbolic Systems on the other hand, is a pretty positive one that more than compensates.
I wonder if Google going to contribute to the mayor, since Comcast is funding his opponent.
> So maybe we should take it up to them, and demand unlockable bootloaders, so we can modify our devices, instead of asking Google to turn a blind eye to Android exploits.

The problem is not "we" -- we are the ones who buy the unlocked devices already. The problem is that people who don't know any better end up buying millions of devices that they only later discover have unreasonable restrictions and become landfill shortly after the manufacturer stops issuing new updates (which is often immediately).

What we should be demanding is that Google not allow the Google apps to be installed on devices with a locked boot loader.
This isnt EC2 but I'd imagine they have the same limits with pricing vs hardware vs options

http://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digital-ocea...

"Unfortunately given how physical resources are segmented if we gave users the ability to arbitrarily select CPU, RAM, or HDD independent of each other they would actually end up paying more for this 'custom' plan than using one of the pre-defined plans.

As I'm sure you are a well aware the resources are not equal and are not priced equally, it's cheaper to get more disk, than to get more RAM, which is why we've done our best to cut it up into units and provide the best cost savings to our customers."
It may not be a bad thing.

The security theater is a on downwards slope, and it has too much momentum to be slowed down, let alone be stopped or reversed.

Let it go faster. The sooner it crashes, the better.

--

Actually, I'm on the fence regarding this line of argument, but I think it had to be made, as a counterpoint to the backlash seen in the other comments.

When your adversary's worst enemy is its own weight, you're rarely in a good position.
I've read some of the article and some of the comments, I still don't know what an MBA is. It's really horrible practice that a writer uses an acronym throughout an article about an acronym when the first instance of it isn't spelled out to the reader.

That's just MOO.
why don't you put it somewhere else?
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Title says it all. If you haven't noticed them already just search for 'ruby developer' in Google images.

It seems to be most pervasive among people in finance, followed by the startup crowd.
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Specialise in C# .NET full-stack including MVC, WebAPI, SignalR, TDD, BDD (Specflow) and many new technologies.

Also working on Python (Flask/SQLAlchemy) and Ruby/Rails in my spare time.

Have around 6 months experience in Angular.js commercially.

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You haven't heard that they're already collecting data on anyone who books a flight? Supposedly so they can clear them in advance. At least metaphorically, what you're worrying about here has already come to pass.
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How about actual police officers, instead of the Dominos Pizza Box Brigade we have now?
We surely need checkpoints before those checkpoints to counter that threat.
why stop there and not have security checkpoints outside every home,apartment and office building? better yet- let's have every man woman and child followed by a security officer 24/7. this will solve not only security but also unemployment. and if we still are not safe and we still have large unemployment let's have security officers assigned to security officers.
Does anyone else think their branding choices are a little immature/unserious? I mean a cat...?
That's good advice. If I'm not in a super huge rush I'll ask the first cab if he wants to go to Queens/Brooklyn/wherever before getting in. It has a ~80% failure rate.

They're not allowed to refuse a destination in the 5 boroughs full stop but if you're not inside the cost of refusing is trivial (just driving away).
You will still need a wrapper function and update it's metadata. Which is even more boilerplate. Or you can hide that in base Decorator class, but then we'll back to another layer of abstraction.

So it's either more boilerplate or more abstraction. Choose exactly one.
I took the G 4 miles. It took 47 minutes. I am not exaggerating those numbers for comedic effect.
I tried grep first - at 10-12mg / sec disk io it was taking too long... This scans the file in about 10 - 30 sec depending on whether your email is near the top or bottom... Obviously if the emails where sorted we could do better...
Fair enough; I'm looking at it more from the Canadian perspective with Québec thrown into the mix, which hasn't always been an enthusiastic partner with the rest of Canada. If the U.S. hadn't been a single nation, I personally believe that the regional differences between east and west would have resulted in different nations being formed longitudinally split roughly along the Mississippi river in what is now the U.S. and somewhere along that same longitude in Canada.
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Rule is straightforward – if there is stuff one indentation level deeper, prepend parens.
He obviously doesn't have a child and likely is one.
The next step for the Transportation Security Administration is to be at every transportation checkpoint. They've already experimented with that, but I assume the only reason they haven't moved faster with that is because they haven't received the necessary budget, and there may have been some local outrage where it happened.

But don't for a minute think they haven't thought about expanding themselves like that, and that they won't keep trying.
I've had some success with cold calls.

I'm uncomfortable with the scattergun approach, so I research the business before calling and use LinkedIn to see who I should be talking to. I use the call to ask them about pain points, and while talking try to figure out a solution tailored for that individual.

This takes much more time per prospect than cold emailing or phoning through a list, but figuring out something for each target already narrows the field down a lot and increases your chances.
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I see three of my email addresses in the list 2 are no longer valid - I imagine because of the number of invalid email a addresses in the list any spammer attempting to use the list would pretty quickly be shut down . But surely someone smarter about email delivery could comment
The nexus devices do not support verzion's lte network, so in the end you are left paying 650-900 for a developer version. That's fine for me, I'm a mobile developer but not many who aren't directly making money off of the device would be willing to make the same choice.
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> slower feature velocity

I wonder if this is not a positive thing after all, for a mature project. I do not think KDE should add new features at 200 mph speed. I think Ubuntu is actually going too fast.
This is really useful.I'm sick of all those online apk downloading blogs full of spam.Thank You.
> Or we could dissolve the TSA and homeland security theater while we are at it.

excellent idea. i fucking hate the tsa and couldn't possibly give a shit about one of their ppl getting killed after all the bullshit i have had to go through just to travel in the US.
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Not true. Google updated a lot of stuff for AOSP 4.4, such as the e-mail app (which I also thought would never be updated again), the Download app, the Gallery, the photo editor, and a few others. The point is that Ars author's theory hasn't come true yet, and it's actually be contradicted by the KitKat version in many ways.

Look just what a big upgrade the photo editor in the open source gallery received:

http://www.engadget.com/2013/11/03/android-4-4-kitkat-comes-...
That I will agree with. I highly doubt that Font Combiner could beat a font manually hinted by a trained fontographer though.
The answer is Usability. It's a pain in the butt for someone like my Mom, Dad or most of my Friends to setup. Most digital security measures have a pretty high usability tax. I used to build out PKI systems and that was a nightmare to build correctly. It was costly to setup, develop and maintain, but it was secure.
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Ah, you are correct! I keep forgetting that because I think the summer time standard is way better! Who needs sunrise earlier than 6 am?
This gets at the big problem with arming TSA agents. Even well-trained police officers with decades of range practice screw up from time to time.
I adore Golang, but I would not use it to build a database-backed web application, and would look funny at anyone who did. Golang is a painful language to build conventional web apps in. Stick with Django for now.
I was addressing your comment, that Android is not open-source anymore, with which I disagree.

Your argument above is in the same line as people claiming that end-users do not benefit from open-source. In some sense it is correct, as end-users do not have the technical know-how to assemble their own operating system, to make changes to source-code, etc... But practically speaking, end-users don't have to do it by themselves just like they don't have to fix their cars by themselves (e.g. I helped friends install Cyanogenmod on their phones, which is a PITA to deal with, but once done, it's done).

The power of open-source is in the ability to fork it. Not all people or companies can do it, but if there's demand for it (e.g. Google's stewardship goes awry), then a successful fork will happen. Building an operating system from scratch is hard. Having stock Android available as a base for new operating systems is an incredible gift.

In the meantime, yes, forks of Android are only for hackers wanting to play around. But if this leads to the rise of alternative marketplaces, like F-droid, then this will benefit everybody. Not sure if you notice it, but the biggest problem that Android has in terms of openness and lock-in is Google Play. Fortunately Android allows installing software from third-party sources, but unfortunately there aren't many alternative marketplaces out there.
Armed security officer is not the same as a police officer.
the tsa has never been about security - it staffs its checkpoints with rude incompetent dimwits. the actual agenda is and has always been smuggling.

some crazy person can pull out a gun _anywhere_ you go. that does not mean that there needs to be armed guards everywhere. "why do we have an armed guard at this coffee shop?" "oh, some dude got shot here 6 months back."
> i fucking hate the tsa and couldn't possibly give a shit about one of their ppl getting killed

I sincerely hope that someday you will be ashamed for writing this.
> Note that a mass casualty event at a checkpoint, where hundreds of people are concentrated, standing around exposed, hasn't prompted called to eliminate that structure for checkpoints.

that an incident like you describe hasn't happened is an indication of the fact that terrorism is really a spectre and not a real threat. dumb people will claim "this hasn't happened because the nsa/cia/etc catches all the bad guys!".
That, or give the benchmark game a separate config to allow googlebot greater/faster access.
While the intent is laudable, this is ridiculous. If you are serious about Internet freedoms, then act serious about it. Take example on the EFF.

Information freedom is a major social and political problem --I would say it qualifies as a civilizational problem, and one of the biggest of our time. And this kind of attitude and branding make people that much less likely to consider it seriously.
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The next logical step is to expand the scope of the TSA's security

Your sarcasm is spot on. The first time I flew after 9/11 and had to stand in a 4 hour line to try to get through security I thought to myself, "If the terrorists want to get us, why don't they just kill people waiting in the security line?" Which obviously means we need a checkpoint before the checkpoint. Which makes that first checkpoint a target, so we'll need a checkpoint before that one and then it's checkpoints all the way down.

Beyond that, the fact that a crazed lunatic armed to the teeth could only kill 1 person in a crowded airport before being shot by police kind of says that there was adequate security in place already. What does the TSA want - the ability to stun everyone in a 300 meter radius anytime someone looks at them funny?
If only there were other places to locate web sites on the Internet...
I agree. For me (OS X, Chrome, rMBP @ 1920x1200) the kerning is much worse for Font Combiner. The letter "l" in Varela Round, for example, has far too little space after it.
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Looking at this strictly from a user (not developer) POV, I searched for some of the apps you mentioned. OsmAnd looks positively terrible from a UI/UX perspective, and seems borderline unreadable[0].

I'm actually curious as to why F/OSS applications that aren't extremely high profile or commercially backed (Firefox) seemingly tend to have UI/X as what is probably the last possible priority ever.

[0] http://osmand.net/en/screenshots-menu.html
I wish the talented team behind Replicant would choose to put their energy toward something that will actually be useful, because as it stands right now, Replicant is guaranteed to never go anywhere.

The main problem with Replicant is that it's solving a problem that users don't have. Ask any phone user (any, not just Android) if they care whether their phone is running on free software and either they will have no idea what you're talking about or they will tell you "Not really, I just want my phone to work".

The Replicant team (like the FSF) is trying to solve a problem that only they have.

Naïveté about how the world works is only cute for so long.
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The belief that police officers are necessarily well-trained is overstated. I wanted to be a cop for a while and I went through police training. I'm sure it varies by jurisdiction and that many agencies have their own stricter standards, but basic standards for police marksmanship aren't very high.

Based on the training I experienced, I'd expect the average police officer to be able to hit a stationary, isolated man-sized target with a pistol most of the time from up to 75 feet.
This day and age people tend to get easily low on their morale for every little reason. I wanted to help them quickly recharge themselves with some great quotes that inspires and boost them up, most of the time.

In that process I'm working on my iOS app Quotegram, which is now available in the AppStore. It's one of the best looking apps on the Quotes niche on the AppStore.

AppStore Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quotegram/id705700846

It's cool because practically it has helped me recharge myself in a couple instances in the recent past and I'm sure it would help those in need of a quick recharge.
That would make for nice iconography - public keys being open padlocks, private keys being keys and encrypted things being closed padlocks.
Great, mall cops with guns. I feel safer already.
A taxi refusing a fare at all (inside or outside) is against TLC rules and the driver will be fined / have their license suspended if you report them.
>> i fucking hate the tsa and couldn't possibly give a shit about one of their ppl getting killed
>I sincerely hope that someday you will be ashamed for writing this.

i'm sure the tsa sheds a dramatic native american tear every time they hear about someone else getting injured or killed on the job. people die every day and the fact that it's a member of the tsa changes the general feeling of indifference into amusement because the tsa actively reduces the quality of my life on a regular basis.

if it was me that died and all you know is that i'm some member of a group that is generally shitty to you on a regular basis, i don't think you're going to be all emo about it. grow up
There is nothing simple about this plan. Here's a simple plan to fix DST: stop observing it.

Time zones solve a different problem than DST. Abolishing one shouldn't affect the other.
Reserved instances are most likely for people not like us. You should be modeling your apps to take advantage of spot pricing not reserved.
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It's important when adding a layer of abstraction like this to consider both how much it makes this simpler, but also how much you're going to use it. While it makes some common decorator patterns easier, your code really shouldn't have so many decorators that having to understand this library is made up for in the number of places it simplifies the code.

If I'm writing code and using a lot of different decorators everywhere I take that as a sign that something is probably wrong.
One reason: a PDF feels like a "finished publication". While HTML can be dynamically updated, a PDF is the equivalent of something "going to the press".

Another reason: for whatever reason, if you're selling your content a PDF has more intrinsic value for the end customer. It becomes "a thing" instead of just being "content that should be free". It's very odd. People like the idea of owning digital goods, but only as long as they can download them and store them on their own hard drive.
That's a good point. A lot of the changes in python start off as alternate packages though, and as package== more popular--> more users --> more features--> included as a part of stdlib (e.g venv). And python's modular structure makes it quite transparent what outside stuff is being used
As everyone is pointi ng out, usability is too low. A good target for usability would be TextSecure, the OTR for sms Android app (why I'm sure everyone is using).

Essentially, TextSecure works because:
1. It reverts to completely normal behavior if the recipient doesn't use TextSecure.
2. It automatically sets up keys if it recognizes the recipient uses TextSecure.
3. It never asks you for anything besides a password when you start the app the first time.

Point 2 is the difficult one for email, as is the the fact that people use email on a variety of devices, requiring syncing between computer/devices.

I would suggest emails get a X-smtg header which advertises the sending device is PGP capable, and the email client prompts the user automatically to set up key exchange. Remains syncing, which afaik isn't the hardest part.