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There are at least four facts that should cause stuff like this to be discontinued immediately:

— It is not only possible to acquire electronic data after crossing a checkpoint but there are many ways of doing so.

— There is no possible way for the contents of a phone to be a threat to TRANSPORTATION security, which is theoretically the only reason someone should care when you’re crossing a border, boarding a plane, etc.

— Even if it were possible for data itself to be a threat (and it’s not), there are many ways to carry data. Someone could hide the data in encrypted form, or even hide it in plain sight by being clever. Also, the information crossing a border doesn’t have to be electronic at all; it could be a page in a book.

— Even if something “suspicious” is found, that is not guilt and no charges can be laid so what is the point!?

It’s long past time to shut down all of these ridiculous things. There should be a very tiny list of things that border security needs to do, and it should all fit on one hand.
Just don't give them any passwords or unlock anything if you are a US citizen. Let them try to detain a US citizen indefinitely for it.
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Demoscene moved into shader competitions on the cards themselves, like 4KB demos on the GPU.

http://iquilezles.org/www/material/nvscene2008/nvscene2008.h...
Following from this, if perfect encryption leaves a ciphertext indistinguishable from random noise, then what proof does the court expect that a given decryption is the correct decryption?

If he were to hand them an elaborately constructed fake file system, who would they be to say those weren't the encrypted contents?

(For purposes of thought exercise, mooting arguments about headers / magic fingerprints / leaky metadata)
They're just going to copy the data off and some software will look for things by hash.

It would not surprisee if at some point, if we leave this tyranny unchecked, we will all be forced to hand over our devices while deboarding so they can be scanned while we wait in line for initial interrogation.
It doesn't really matter that bush set up these rules. We will be hearing more and more about it if they're being applied more and more frequently now against US citizens, especially given the political current climate.
You have an interesting point. I think the struggle that I see as a layperson, is that the system fails hard when it fails.

Let me ask a question, is jail the appropriate sentence for a contempt of court charge? This is not the first time, reporters have been jailed for many months bc of contempt of court charges. Is this the appropriate sentence for the crime of not complying with a court order?

I don't know what the alternative would be... also, on the question of guilt vs. innocence. I can see myself agreeing with you that since the state has such a high burden of proof to meet, that the defense has a an implicit advantage, the issue is that the statistics are showing a far greater issue of a imbalance of justice being applied at different levels of society. There is no good reason that I can see where an innocent poor person goes to jail because of a bad defense, vs a guilty rich person who gets off because of a great defense.

Justice is supposed to be blind.
This reminds me of Les Earnest's story (http://web.stanford.edu/~learnest/les/crypto.htm) about being investigated for espionage as a teenager during WWII.
I'm curious, can you tell me what bad experiences EU passport holders have, or fear to have, at UK airports?
Agreed, so patronizing.
"Remote" positions where you can work from home every other Friday. If a position is under a butts-in-seats management style, the word "remote" should not be found anywhere in the description. Some remote positions have geographical limitations, which can be understandable from a tax perspective, but I also don't like to see "remote" positions open only to people in a specific timezone.
The result of stories like this will be to chill visiting from other countries (destroying tourism in the country) and likely result in the same treatment by other countries to American citizens. I can't understand why the people who decide these policies think they are harmless.
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So much top level metadata now... .git / .github, .bzrignore, 4 mercurial files and travis.yml.
But if they have a warrant (apart from possibly a FISA issued warrant) they are legally required to show you the warrant.
Apache projects are independently managed, not by anybody paid by the ASF. https://community.apache.org/projectIndependence.html
Like with all things, there's a healthy balance between simplicity and engineering for scale. Software Engineering != "Software Over-Engineering".
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Being charged, convicted, and sentenced in that way could be a preferable result – compared to indefinite detention without charges or trial!
American Spies: How we got to the age of mass surveillance without even trying
> Supper timing is majorly correlated to weight gain, especially if most of the calories are from carbs

Please cite study and total overall calories. I have no doubt that timing can play some minor role (just like some people have adverse reactions to certain diets), but overall calories in is going to play a much bigger role in weight than any other factor. Show me a person who is eating a calorie restricted diet, but only eating after say 8pm, and is still gaining weight. I would love to use this trick to save money on food while bulking.

What timing does help with is controlling hunger and thus limiting snacking throughout the day.
I did not know about this...looks like Amazon's version of BigQuery. Fantastic!
Lived under a rock for the last year? Rowhammer is a thing now.
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> I'm really not sure if I want to visit the US at all while Trump is in powe

I don't fancy Trump anymore than the next guy, but this started long before he got elected.

This is driven by the intelligence community for their own power grab and is 100% independent. It would be pushed through no matter who sat in the presidential seat.

Let's just say that if you try to oppose it, in the current (intolerant liberal) political climate someone has enough data on you to ruin your life and career as a politician no matter who you are.

That's a massive amount of power. Seeing how the head of NSA openly and repeatadly lies under oath to no consequence what so ever, I'd be surprised if it's not a power being misused regularly.
I read somewhere that people catch a fly ball in the same way as that bird in the article caught its prey -- by feedback control, not by calculating the trajectory even subconsciously. (Citation needed, yeah.)

Math education could be so much better, when you compare school to self-directed learning with knowledgeable peers. I went to a good high school by U.S. standards, and tested into the advanced freshman math class at Caltech, and still had to ask if the roots of a polynomial with real coefficients came in complex-conjugate pairs -- I wasn't sure. (Maybe nowadays with math circles and the web, the frosh are a lot better prepared?)

I think there's also a problem with the culture of math writing undervaluing things like examples and motivating background.

http://worrydream.com/KillMath/ talks about going beyond the limits of paper for media for doing math.
It may also interest you that Kallithea, an open source fork of the GPLv3 release of RhodeCode and member project of the Software Freedom Conservancy, was in the running at some point. From the same blog post:

"... PEP 474 ... Nick proposed moving to Kallithea ... Nick Coghlan subsequently saying he would rather back GitLab over Kallithea (due to maturity issues of the projects) ..."

https://kallithea-scm.org/
Ask HN: Would you be interested in a design sprint course?
I'm looking at putting together a 5-week hands-on design sprint course.

Focuses being:
- Ideation
- Prototyping (proto.io, invision, framerJS)
- Usability studies

Is this something that would be useful for you? What concerns would you have?
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But then you have to maintain ansible/puppet etc scripts to keep things in order... and when one machine doesn't work right, you have to figure it all out, often searching through stack exchange sites/answers... let alone getting answers for other distros, or even other versions of your distro than no longer apply.

That doesn't even consider hardware variations and compatibility issues with drivers.
Amtrak doesn't own the right of way for most of their routes.
No idea.

They don't know anymore if ANYONE decrypted everything.

They would do whatever they do right now when they don't know things - about anyone.
Does it sound like a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant name to you? These border cops aren't exactly the cream of the law enforcement crop, if it sounds foreign, time to search! Because ISIS will of course send people here for terrorism named "Achmed al-Jihadi" and not "Bob Smith".
The documentation that comes when you are compelled to give over keys mentions that they will retain complete copies of any disks, drives, flash card, any piece of data until it is no longer relevant (read, forever).
Reminds me of Tegmark's Mathematical Universe Hypothesis, which would say (I think) that entities can do math or perform math because they are math. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_universe_hypothes...
Does anybody know if the Ryzen CPUs support the equivalent of VT-x and VT-d?
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or ninja.. haha
But in some circumstances it's not necessarily that the consumer is trying to cut time and effort.

For instance, if I'm out and about doing stuff and happen to want some sliced mango. It's not that I decided in advance not to buy bulk mangoes and slice them at home, I just decided spur of the moment to get some.

Of course there are people who don't like slicing mangoes themselves, so for added convenience they will buy pre-sliced mangoes and bring them home or wherever specifically to eat them.
Because none of those companies actually care about privacy? (sans maybe Apple).
Good advice. What is spec work? Read the term somewhere recently, but forgot what it means.
I have all the same problems but my neighbors are college students. Gentrification is a bitch. I'd say even 1-year residents are a detriment to the community.
What are the categories you're looking for? Do you mean Ask HN, Show HN, jobs, and general submissions?
Pro:
- What tech you actually work with. Don't list equivalents. If the people knew the area they would already know if they have equivalent skills.
- Salary range and years of experience.
- What kind of actual real world user problems are you solving?

Cons:
- Anything about culture (it's always bullshit), team player, or being emotionally mature
- Useless fluff about "loving to work in a fast company", or how you were #1 2012's disposable ezine of the week's company to work for.
- Not saying what the job is, but just saying what tech you will be using, as if that is enough.
- You can't tell the description is any different between Intern/Junior/Senior/Architect level roles other than "years of experience"
Better than nothing - which is what these apps offer now in terms of incognito sessions.
I'm half surprised they didn't try switching to o365 for their users, while keeping the linux desktop distro, and allowing for exceptions for specific use cases.
Okay this seems like a good alternative. I just renamed the repo. Renaming it on npm...is a bit cumbersome :|
Yes!

I quite like the idea of "centralizing" development on GitHub, or similar services. It makes it much easier for everyone to fork, test, make a pull request, merge, etc..

For example, one reason why I gave up contributing to OpenWrt was their absolutely legacy contribution system [1], which required devs to submit code diff patches via email (good luck not messing up the formatting with a modern client) on a mailing list. It took me an hour to submit a patch for three lines of code. It seems like Python wasn't much different. [2]

[1] https://dev.openwrt.org/wiki/SubmittingPatches#a1.Creatingap...

[2] https://docs.python.org/devguide/patch.html
The Republicans labeling the affordable health care act "Obamacare" and attacking it from day one was a significant propaganda victory, as we can see. In fact the law is very pro-corporate and could have been written by a moderate Republican - was very similar to the Massachusetts health care program instituted by Mitt Romney.

Another very significant propaganda victory, about half of people in the US who think global warming is not caused by humans, or not happening.
The same here. The reputation of USA changed really a lot since the end of communism and the nineties. We really appreciated their involvement in dismantling the Iron Curtain. We were also fascinated by some western goods :-).

Nowadays, people see USA as one of the superpowers in the world who influence or intervene in other countries for their own benefit. If I had to choose, I'd still prefer to live in USA over China or Russia. But thankfully, these are not the only options.
There's a lot of people who fork who really shouldn't be who use it like the "star" function.
Having a requirement for knowing utility libraries. i.e. jQuery, underscore.js, MooTools, etc.

I understand requiring frameworks (i.e. Anguar, React), but jQuery? Come on.
The Curry-Howard isomorphism[1] is usually described as a correspondence between computer programs and mathematical proofs. What they usually mean, but don't usually say, is that the actual correspondence is between computer programs and proofs in intuitionistic or constructive logic[2]. (Natural deduction is a lovely example[3].) The important difference between constructive and "classical" logic is that in the former you cannot use the law of the excluded middle or double-negation-elimination.

One way this difference shows itself is in proofs of existence: rather than just demonstrating that something exists (by virtue of it not-not-existing), you have to create an example of it. This is similar to a program, where you cannot demonstrate that 2+2 has some value and then print "4"; instead you have to calculate 4 before you can print it.

Another weird place it shows up[4] is in Prolog, which uses classical first order logic by the closed-world assumption[5]: anything you cannot prove is false.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry%E2%80%93Howard_correspon...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intuitionistic_logic

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_deduction

[4] At least I thought so, one morning in the shower.

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed-world_assumption
ECC doesn't completely mitigate against rowhammer style attacks, it makes it more difficult in some cases and prevents single bit flipping attacks but multiple bit flipping attacks against a single ECC domain are still possible.

That said if you want hardware level attacks then attacks against the cachelines of the CPU are considerably more dangerous and reliable and there is very little one can do to mitigate against those.
Eh? I would think any agency that can detain people, can detain employees of other agencies. And priority would be resolved contextually ("jurisdiction") and through "professional courtesy" cooperation - your standard town cop and the CBP thug both believe this terrorism delusion.

My point about the ownership of the phone is that I would think NASA would be in less of a position to discipline its employees for property being stolen, especially if it were stolen by USG.

I'd encourage the same tack with private employers' phones or your own burner. But most people don't have burners and a private employer can baselessly discipline an employee for disobeying "authorituh" (although if one's IT department has a clue, they'll fully support maintaining security over saving a few hundred dollars).
how about defining normal as "what humanity ate when it was developing"?

Even just to say whole plants and animals, in about the proportions that they were naturally available about 40000 years ago.

There's no reason to expect this to give you increased longevity though, dying was adaptive to early humans.
You make good points about community.

As far as politics, you're playing that game of false-equivalence that I thought we'd kind of moved past. Pro- and Anti-Trump aren't just two teams with different uniforms.
If you need to cross a border, you will find that the border agents think they have the right to compel you to boot your laptop, including entering any secret or attaching any device required to do so. I doubt that they could ultimately stop you returning to your own country if you held out, but they could stop you leaving, and they could certainly make your life pretty miserable.

In my opinion you'd be much better with a laptop that booted to windows and looked like it had some simple things installed under a password you don't mind giving them. Then they'll probably never get around to asking you about the usb stick your tailsOS is installed on.

You can now get extremely large usb sticks in very small form factors. I have been toying with the idea of creating something that looks exactly (and nonsuspiciously) like a usb 'charging cable' but with built in memory. Ideally if it's plugged into power or a laptop, it just appears as a normal usb cable, but if the microusb end is not plugged in, it shows as a large memory stick you could also boot from.
"Don't ask for too much money"
Or "Unicorn"
Pro: link to company career page with overview of hiring/onboarding process.

Exaggerated, but not by much is:

Con: Blanket requirements of conflicting language paradigms. Like, expert in (enter no less than 6 JS frameworks and build tools), also python, ruby, C#, and some Erlang is a plus. Oh, you also know AWS, and every RDMS and noSQL technology, MS SQL Server experience a plus.
Unfortunately, some people are going to read this wrong. For example: I know some folks who have "second dinner" after 8 pm. Their children are definitively obese, and I can see them citing this study as a reason to keep eating "a meal called dinner" after 8 pm.
50" is about normal. US northeast corridor is 48 inches; China is 49.2". Japan's Shinkansen is 49.2" EU high speed rail is much lower, requiring bogies between cars.
A few years ago, for foreign travel, one used to buy a new SIM card at one's destination. These days, I'm thinking I might just bring my SIM and buy a new phone at my destination.
The only way that can work is if you switch to a niche market (organics, fad produce) with higher margins. When those cease to be niche the margins shrink and you have to find something else to grow. Much easier to just scale up and make the difference in volume.
4 cores / 16 threads?

Does clock speed matter if IPC for your workload is good at a lower frequency?
I don't think it works like that.

Agriculture can't just un-commodify itself. A large portion of agricultural output is always going to be commodity-market goods. Even on a local scale, this lends to price volatility. Global prices will always have an effect, but even if they didn't farming would still be risky.
If a position's salary varies from what is typically expected in the industry for an area (roughly different than the average salary found on Glassdoor, just as an example), then the salary or a warning should be listed in the description. Nothing pisses me off more than going through the motions only to get a lowball offer by a company hoping to rip me off. It is super demoralizing, even when I have other offers that are good.
But one could reasonably suppose there is a continuous transition between here and there? So going 1/10 of the way should still bring some benefits.
That's not exceeding the speed of light. That's changing the distance you need to go so that you can get to where you want to be at sublight speeds in reasonable time.
Can you completely recover after a stroke like this, or is the brain permanently damaged?

What causes these to happen? There's a photo of the author in the article, and she appears visibly healthy. How can you reduce one's risk of having a stroke?

Strokes are scary. Aneurysms seem even more terrifying.
> BART uses 5'6" rail gauge. Standard US rail gauge is 4'8.5".

Interesting. When I saw this, I wondered if it was to match another standard gauge that was judged to be superior. But, looking at the list of rail gauges on wikipedia[0], 5'6" is the gauge for railways in India ("Indian broad gauge" to be specific). The initial BART rolling stock seems to have been build by Rohr, Inc.[1], which is based in California. So it seems unlikely that they were benefiting from any economies of scale from Indian rail construction. Rohr also seems to have built rolling stock for the Washington, D.C. metro, which uses a near-standard 4'8.25" gauge[2].

Perplexing.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Track_gauge

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohr,_Inc. (you'll need manually add the period to the end of the URL, because of how HN converts this into a link)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Metro#System
Because the cause of obesity is not that simple to diagnose. There are many factors that contribute to obesity. Over eating is just one.

But I do agree with you that exercise has little to do with losing weight and can be counter productive when trying to lose weight.
Possible on consumer chips, or possible? Because Intel and AMD have both shipped 6+ core parts for some time now, just usually not targeting the consumer segment...

IIRC when asked, Intel folks say they haven't make a consumer 6+ core part because there's little benefit/demand, but I can't find a citation for that. [1] is a nice discussion about why we haven't gotten more than 4 cores in consumer parts yet, though.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12304046