A couple of maths professors I worked with had very poor spelling, grammar, etc. Good luck with your approach, if you are trying to hire a specialist in an area that is not middle management, HR or marketing. Let alone if you need people do something in the physical world such as building, cleaning or moving things.
Wow! Not using social media and avoiding your photos from being publicly shared is what distinguishes a North Korean hacker?
I see how ex-CIA guys would expect to get a profile on everyone and know what color toothbrush they use.
I am lucky that I can refer to media publications citing my name in a professional context. But it's a creepy world where the employers' expectation is that all your personal information is public.
Great fun with the autocorrected Unicode double quotes.
A customer of mine got bitten on a preproduction server because of a copy and paste from some blog, where ASCII " were converted to Unicode (slanted) "
There is a point in moving the FROM ahead of SELECT and getting sensible auto-complete suggestions from your IDE as you type.
LINQ, however, attempts to solve a much bigger problem:
Use consistent code to process data and don't worry whether it is in a remote database or in a local array.
If you manage to do it in a way that
- integrates seamlessly with e.g. Python IDE and I don't have to pass and parse strings
- allows me to access graph, document and relational data
- allows me to pull and process the data from REST APIs, [O/J]DBC and straight from my RAM
- and maybe even includes deductive (PROLOG/DATALOG) features
To skip TSA nonsense you just need to skip TSA nonsense. Outside of the US airtravel is still relatively similar to rail. You have to be on time, you have to handle the baggage, but you can walk through xray and security within minutes and only need to show the ticket on your phone.
An electric wing-in-ground-effect aircraft still looks like an airplane and might still fall under the same regulations as any other airplane.
In any case TSA objectively does not add much security[1] and does cause issues e.g. for people who have names with similar spellings to those on a no-fly-list [2].
But that aside, the technology is great for short distance travel. Climbing to 2-5 thousand foot to travel some 50 miles is clearly insane.
> Outside of the US airtravel is still relatively similar to rail.
I live outside the US and this is laughably wrong.
How can you collapse the entire world down to "outside the US".
Israeli airports are exactly the same as Zimbabwean airports in your worldview?
I live in SE Asia and no country around here has air travel "like rail". I cannot get through xray and security in minutes. I cannot just show a ticket on my phone.
In Australia domestically,you can show your QR code on your phone or print the ticket at home (or even use the kiosks at the airport to print it out). You still need to pass through one set of security screening, but expect the queue (away from holidays and peaks ) to be around 15 minutes.
> Outside of the US airtravel is still relatively similar to rail. You have to be on time, you have to handle the baggage, but you can walk through xray and security within minutes and only need to show the ticket on your phone.
Same if you have Pre and Clear. I usually get to the airport 30-40m early.
That said I'm usually at the train station 10m before departure with bags.
Clear doesn't let you skip security. It basically just allows you to cut to the front of the line for a fee. You still have to go through the x-ray machines, etc.
TSA Pre actually does reduce security requirements (e.g. you can keep your shoes on...) in exchange for, I've always assumed, a mini-background check when you apply for the program.
> mini-background check when you apply for the program.
You'll get fingerprinted, etc., and while it's nothing like a serious security clearance, they do look you up rather thoroughly.
Note: my only direct knowledge comes from applying to Global Entry, which is a pickier program, but Precheck does collect biometrics (at least facial and fingerprints). Global Entry was around 15 minutes for the interview process (both formal and informal; I knew the two guys outside the interview and fingerprint room didn't really just want to talk to me to pass the time), but that was a decade ago.
One interesting anecdote from my interview is that I was told that the #1 reason Global Entry applications failed at the time was that one of the questions was whether or not you had ever been arrested - not convicted - and people would say no. Not an auto-disqualifier to have been arrested, but lying about it was.
> Outside of the US airtravel is still relatively similar to rail.
Not China, I usually try to get to the airport 1 hour before take off. But for the train, 10 minutes is enough.
While I agree it's nonsense, I'm curious what would change without harming the personal security of everyone involved? I mean this system has many flaws but no one can steal a plane again and crash it into innocent people right?
In the past quarter, TSA intercepted an average of 16.8 firearms per day, 93% of which were loaded. I'm quite happy with that many less guns on my flights (imagine what it would be like if there was no check - this is just from people who forgot that carrying onboard is not allowed).
People forgetting they are carrying a loaded firearm into an airport feels like a pretty US specific problem, and there are ways to screen for guns without the massive inconvenience that is TSA. Other parts of the world still have security checks at airports, just a lot more efficient.
Even if that’s true, which I’m very skeptical of, the TSA has little to do with that. The armored and locked cockpit doors? Sure. Air marshals? Possibly.
But the TSA has absolutely no bearing on whether or not a plane gets hijacked. It is far too easy to circumvent.
As someone who carries a 20 cm metal rod through airport security every time and has not seen a single warning light ever popping up because of that, it is quite difficult for me to understand how the airport security is supposed to add safety against anyone who is willing to spend any time working around it - and who is motivated.
(For the curious, there is a titanium plate in my body due to an accident)
Most roller bags have 20cm rods built into the handles.
The TSA explicitly allows hand tools up to 17cm (7 in.)
I think that at this point the TSA is more interested in explosives since hardened cockpit doors, and passenger willingness to intervene have pretty much killed takeover style hijackings.
That's why they use the full body scanner at most airport security now. One of those detected a small piece of scrap paper in my back pocket that I had to pull out and show to security. They showed me the image and even the shape of the paper was clear. For sure those scanners can distinguish between metal in your arm and taped to your arm.
> Wikipedia is nothing but a superminority making the website their playground, though[0].
It's more like the minority of the minority does a lot of spellchecking and editing, but it seems, much more plausibly, that a group much larger than a minority does the bulk of writing.
Any discussion of Wikipidia on HN is incomplete without a reference to Aaron Swartz's analysis of how Wikipedia is written:
"[He] concluded that the bulk of its content came from tens of thousands of occasional contributors, or "outsiders," each of whom made few other contributions to the site, while a core group of 500 to 1,000 regular editors tended to correct spelling and other formatting errors.He said: "The formatters aid the contributors, not the other way around." [1]
Why not call your children John or Maria Smith at birth then? Wouldn't this guarantee almost full anonymity in most contexts?
The typical security precautions are very hard to maintain in real life.
e.g. should your child win some spelling context or a regional crosscountry run or whatever, how would you explain to them that their name and photo are not appearing among all the other winners?
