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Can someone explain the reasoning behind these recommendations?

Don't :

> Use your fingerprint to lock/unlock devices.

> Use an Android phone.

> Take the devices you work on across the US border.

Anyone has experience with their devices being searched at the border? Do they just look at your social media and let you go or do they somehow copy the data on the devices or install any software on the devices? Will the persons devices always be in visibility or do the CBP officers handle them in separate rooms?

Assuming I have to carry my laptop and phone across the border, what precautions can I take to minimize the potential privacy violations? After crossing the border, do I just reinstall my OS of choice (Ubuntu) from scratch and reset all passwords?

Regarding the browser recommendation, why is Firefox not recommended? It's used in the Tor browser and I have not heard of any major security incident recently with Firefox.
Germany doesn't, for example. You have private ensurance companies and you have to chose one. When things go bad, you bet the insurance company won't be on your side. It's all ok if you have a good job (IT or otherwise) that pays for the best, but for poorer people it sucks.
Ask HN: What happens to speeding tickets after driverless?
In a fully autonomous car you can make the argument that a world-class expert is doing its best to provide a safe ride and adapt to conditions.

Police depts will claim that traffic stops provide a preventative effect on violent crime. Activists will claim that they lack probable cause in most cases, that radar guns don't work when there's more than one car in the line of sight, or that terry stops support civil forfeiture (i.e. asset seizure).

Will the ticket system fade away? What will take its place? (video surveillance inside all cars?).
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Richard Stallman is another example of someone who gives the same handful of speeches over and over (many times in almost exactly the same words). I've heard him describe over and over again the wastefulness of not being able to write software to interact with a university printer because the printer manufacturer choose to keep the necessary details secret.
Definition of dystopia: an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one.

How is your assertion true under that definition, even if we strip out the "imagined" part?

Can you provide an example of a society which would qualify as not being a dystopia under your version of the term's meaning?
From the very beginning and during the investigation, the FBI information was matching really well with the Deep Throat leaks. The leaks were not speculation but provided detailed factual information and actually helping the FBI. I highly recommend the book "The Secret Man" about this. Very interesting reading.
I can connect HDMI and can get into UBUNTU, but I cannot get into BIOS to tell it to boot from USB. If I could get that figured out- I think HDMI will activate on the boot of the ISO, but Im not sure. I even tried VGA to a monitor, but that dont show me bios either. Dont wake up till Ubuntu starts to boot.
When people lived in slave or feudal societies, would it have been defeatist to identify them as dystopian?

Weren't there people (what we call "activists") doing something about it, regardless of whether those in power wanted everyone to know?

BTW, today's real-world dystopias require violence (or the threat of it).
In terms of results, responsiveness, and flexibility, doing it with a div (or some other block-level element) and flexbox is the best way to do it. In terms of standards and tabular data, doing it with a table is probably more correct, but I think the benefits of flexbox outweighs any concerns about that.
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Thank you for the cites.

That being said, those are politicians (not military leaders). Both of them have something to lose and a worldview that is antithetical to recent changes (Biden vs the Trump election, Araud vs Brexit). As of a year ago neither of those people would have predicted current events. Why should we believe they now know something we don't?

Brexit sucks but the UK has always been resistant towards the EU. The EU as it exists today (or did last year) didn't even exist in 1990. Nobody is going to war over that, though.

Humans are passionate animals. We will wage war for ideology. We always have. And while some will lose [economically] others will profit. War is big business.

Of course, but what specifically suggests we are in a more dangerous situation now than we were in say 1982 when we still did nuclear attack drills, the USSR was invading countries, and Iraq and Iran were in the middle of war? What makes it worse than the 1990s when places like the Russia and Yugoslavia were crumbling? There will always be wars and rumors of war.
As I said above, for Cash fixed income (bonds) it's happening today, it's trending up for sure. Technology exists for liquid swaps also, that will be next.
> 1) payment per article, at prices comparable to aggregate ad income;

Unfortunately, this kind of micropayment will not work for most people and perhaps more importantly will lead to less revenue for the publisher.

Clary Shirky has written about why micropayments [0] is the wrong model for consuming content more than a decade ago.

[0] http://shirky.com/writings/fame_vs_fortune.html
yeah, you'd have to have a visual cue.. even an option for displaying a commit message alongside the message

allow respeak an immutable quality, keep the respeak as is and have a flag signaling the original underwent an edit

the interest is in more clarity and transparency
That looks quite nice, thank you.
> I would not if the goal of a standard is uptake by OS and application developers.

That point is moot, as those platforms were designed with the express purpose of being particularly hostile regarding interoperability while forcing other corporate products as alternatives, in a well-known lock-in strategy.
Border patrol cannot force you to divulge a PIN or password. They can force you to apply your fingerprint.

Look elsewhere in this thread for "why not use an Android device."

Don't carry your work devices across the US border because they may be taken, can be taken out of your view, and may be duplicated (and yeah, you should have FDE on your computers etc., but don't take the chance).
Middle East and Russia aren't "THE" threats to the current order.

The threats are the western countries themselves, they are repeating mistakes some past empires did, and becoming vulnerable, if Russia and Middle East defeat them, it wasn't because they are the threats, but because the defeated ones let them.

Examples:

* Decline in birth rates results in strained economy, and in case you have an actual war in your hands, you might lack manpower.

* Families are weak on the western countries, some particular groups have staggering 70%+ amount of kids raised in fatherless homes, divorce is too high, marriages too low.

* The current young generation is basically "lost", with massive amounts of debt (not only in the US! this problem repeats in several countries), underemployment, few prospects for having a "solid" future.

* Too much relies purely on the governments, for example most people have their money in banks, only because central banks guarantees they will bail them out if there is a bank run, and in turn central banks are guaranteed to be bailed out by the government, if the government has a "hiccup" for any reason, a problem (for example a well planned attack by an enemy, or just even a random big company failing for a random stupid reason) might topple the whole thing down.

* Almost all western (and related, like Japan) countries have educated everyone currently alive, that the state is responsible for taking care of the older people, yet all of them don't have anymore enough money for that, almost all western countries have their social security systems going into debt.

All these countries are in a way strong, have overwhelming military (in terms of technology and raw firepower), record highs levels of safety (with record lows crime), health (with research being forced to move into new medical areas opened when people stopped dieing for the reasons that were common in the past centuries), and so on...

But at the same time, there is excessive bureaucracy, and interlocked moving parts, a combination of mistakes is all that takes to make the whole thing collapse, for example the US dollar, currently USA have a staggering amount of debt, trillions high, and there is no chance of the government fixing its balance sheets in short term, the only reason USA can keep paying its mighty military (among other things) is the fact that it can "print" virtually infinite amounts of USD, because the global trade market will absorb it. If something happens that shift the trade suddenly away from USD (I dunno what could do that, lets hope it doesn't happen), suddenly USA would fail to pay its military, and since USA military include scores of mercenaries stationed in distant countries, this might result in USA-equipped mercenaries suddenly causing trouble all over the world.
Well they both have names starting by "Hi", containing "l" and "r".
Using a socks 5 tunnel over ssh seems like an interesting ad hoc alternative for web browsing only: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-rout...

But crucially you'd want to make your browser use the tunnel for DNS as well: http://superuser.com/questions/103593/how-to-do-dns-through-...

Careful if you're using this for something dangerous. I'm not a computer security expert by any stretch and I don't know whether the people who have written these articles are. Chances are that this is completely broken and will reveal your IP address and identity.
You're confusing things. You don't break a standard when you write a function or even a whole library.
Let me know when your definition makes it into a legal dictionary.
I read most of the paper. For the most part, it struck a nice tone as being mostly descriptive and not too promotional. However, the final paragraph in the conclusion section differs:

> "For those in other organizations who are advocating for the use of a particular practice that happens to be described in this paper, perhaps it will help to say “it’s good enough for Google”.

In my opinion, this style of writing doesn't fit nor belong.

I would leave that paragraph out. Instead, let's judge on the merits and applicability of an engineering practice based on thinking, reasoning, and experimentation.

That said, as I've read various comments about Google's processes, I'm struck by the cognitive dissonance. On one hand, I see bandwagoning; e.g. "monolithic source control is nuts; we don't do that; no one I know does that". There is also some appeal to authority; e.g. "well, Google is the best, they do X, so we should too." I'm glad to see different argumentation fallacies colliding here.
> after admission often the search for truth stops

There is also a phenomenon of false confessions, which sometimes has to do with psychological factors and sometimes with incentives like people being punished less harshly when they accept a plea bargain.

Since this subthread is talking about Orwell, I can point out that in Orwell's most famous work the authorities were very keen to obtain false confessions.
Can you physically disconnect the hard drive? Maybe you'll get lucky and USB will be next in the boot order. Contrary to popular belief, you can USUALLY plug the hard drive back in while the system is running from USB without any problems.
Nice joke, but it might be too subtle for the HN crowd.
> POSIX was supposed to be popular to the point of default way that apps were written. It failed.

So POSIX was a long series of attempts to codify baseline Unix practice that arose because in the '87 time period there were tens of small, warring, incompatible Unix distributions ( cf. http://www.ugu.com/sui/ugu/show?ugu.flavors ), and systems software vendors could not write software that worked across all of these platforms properly.

The original post report is a cri de coeur call to action written in POSIX magazine attempting to oversell the story with a clickbait title in order to urge further POSIX work. This thread and others is loaded with people that have only read the title and have their own half-formed opinions.

There was never any idea that all apps everywhere would be written with POSIX. That's a ridiculous reading. I was there at the time. It was just an effort to get all of the Unix vendors on the same page so that the big commercial non-Unix OS vendor and their salespeople wouldn't eat the lunch of the high end workstation and server market.

And it succeeded phenomenally. With POSIX as a more-or-less stable substrate, it became possible to run, e.g., gnu's entire platform on almost anything that was POSIX-compliant or close; e.g. SunOS, Solaris, and eventually Linux, with minimal effort. It became possible for software like vi, emacs, mysql, sqlite to exist. Sysadmins could write shell scripts without anything like the kind of portability fear they had in the past.

Uncoincidentally, this continues today; all of the non-Windows software you're using is based on POSIX standards. Every phone is packed with POSIX-foundationed databases, daemons and sometimes even userlands. And of course there's Linux which, despite the continuing efforts of Red Hat, is about as POSIX as it comes.

Read the box at the bottom of page 9 of the original post. POSIX won, totally and unconditionally.
Ha, I've found printed text in dreams (or at least in semi-lucid ones) to be the most amusing source of random words, almost as if whatever level of consciousness is awake is sampling them in transit from some less-conscous level.
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I don't think I've ever actually read the standards and I've been doing this 12 or so years now. I just kind of picked up on what was considered kosher and what wasn't over time. And then when having a "XHTML STRICT" badge in your footer was all the rage, I learned a bit more by having to tweak my code to earn it.

imo, there are a lot of different paths to being a good developer. Personally I find scouring over the standards or some dry reference site to be about the most painful way.
"We do the same thing when we dream [..]"

I think you don't go far enough: We do the same thing when we are awake, too.

I tend to agree with your interpretation. This plays good also with the other post in the first page about the possibility of visual grammars ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13615273 ). If you play with your grammar you get strange languages.
Ask HN: How much do React Native developers cost?
I need to build an in-house development team for a product which was originally built in ReactNative by a consultants firm. Can anyone share their experiences, how much a ReactNative developer can cost on average?
It's already a good idea to add elements where logical, even when unnecessary, to aid styling, scripts, coder comprehension, and sometimes automated comprehension, and to reduce likelihood it must be edited later. One could argue that rows always form logical units - certainly in the above example - and thus should always be wrapped. WHATWG does permit wrapping dt-dd groups in divs.
There are great, like everyone 3b1b makes. I'm comfortable with lin alg but I'm skimming them to see what he's chosen to emphasize. I love - for example - that he points out how "span" becomes more interesting in 3d, obv with an example, and the underemphasis on the mechanical operation of matrix multiplication relative to the geometric one.

I do wish the formulas for the dot product and determinant were derived from the geometric explanation, rather than justified with it afterwards. I always appreciated that in classes.

There are some more advanced topics in lin alg that I would have loved to see get the full visual intuitive treatment when I was learning these things.

- SVD, because it's more general and less pathological than eigenvalue decomposition, and often more useful.
- A linear transformation as consisting of (I think, it's been a little while) a choice of eigenvectors and eigenvalues, "divided" by the extra degrees of freedom from duplicate eigenvalues.
- The "taxonomy" of normal matrices and the polar decomposition (obviously comes after complex matrices)

And there's a nice visualization of the mechanical algorithm of matrix multiplication that looks way more "plausible" than the normal one: draw your two input matrices and your output matrix on grids on 3 sides of a rectangular prism around a corner. Then each value in the output matrix is the dot product of the vectors that intersect at that coordinate, and the whole thing only looks right if all the dimensions match up correctly.
Wow, my Saturday afternoon just disappeared.
Sadly, there is no vaccination against stupidity
Yeah, having a car means I can walk up a mountain no one's gonna über to...
Friendly tip: if you have Amazon Prime, you can subscribe to WaPo for six months free, then 50% off after that.
I hear ignoring them is the first step.
Same here, felt like 'crying with joy'. I have been struggling to really understand and internalize eigen vectors for years now (even I used them for some of my lab work). With this visualization, I felt like it had opened another, previously closed, door for me.
I would like to donate to this author (and octave's author, on a separate note).
Legislators: “Bitcoin Has Broad Benefits for Hawaii”
Yup,

Thanks for taking the interest to check it out.

It's an unlisted YT video, so that's why it might be hard to find.

Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc0hPGerSd4
Did you ever watch the cartoons growing up, like _Hey, Arnold_ on Nickelodeon? Remember how Arnold's family ran a boarding house, with shared common spaces and bunch of people renting rooms (for years at a time!) and a diversity of humanity to provide Humanity, different perspectives, and other such forms of Color for the show?

Did you ever stop think about how weird that arrangement was? Do you know anyone who owns, operates, or lives in a boarding house?

And yet it's not really all that weird by historical standards. It's only in fairly recent times that cities decided to get all Moralistic about how Home, Family and Neighborhoods Should Be Structured and started imposing zoning restrictions with super emphasis on homes, waging war against boarding houses and residential hotels and flophouses and other haunts of the poor and lower classes in the name of Progress and Class Warfare. Can't quite afford a place that meets the minimum square footage requirements independently? Well, don't worry, we can find a place for you in the crime-ridden public housing projects or on the streets. Kiss your remaining independence goodbye and welcome to the Bureaucracy, because you're never going to be able to get on the bus to a new town with $100 in your pocket and find a place to crash for a few nights until you get a new job. Who would rent you a place like that anymore? There's the YMCA... and that's about it, _period_.

(Hell, a lot of the debates about AirBnB "abuse" end up rehashing these same problems.)
Add SSL. With LetsEncrypt, it's table stakes.
> Humans are passionate animals

I'd say passionately irrational..

Great content. Thanks.
I use the initramfs method to put an small ssh server in that I can use to unlock full disk encrypted headless boxen, so I could see initrd in the kernel being used in a similar way.
Predicting and Mapping Arrest Types in San Francisco with LightGBM, R, Ggplot2
Excellent question by the OP. Civil Forfeiture is an issue when not done for the right reasons.
If compliance is made absolute by driverless cars for the rules of the road( traffic based) then apart from not needing traffic cops is the least of our worries.
I would suggest reading cory doctorows work on this subject.
http://this.deakin.edu.au/culture/car-wars
You are right to worry about constant surveilance.
Who controls the ID layer to activate these cars will be paramount.

there might be an ID check everytime someone enters a self driving car, which lets be honest will be shared most of the time. So it may be sold to us as an easy payment system. Frictionless as the SV people say.

Absolute compliance with a set of rules will bring about change in the way we think about results of non compliance
Occam's razor is a guideline, not an immutable law.
Before you freak out about these recommendations, please take into account:

These instructions are written for unsophisticated users, particularly journalists and activists, and were written with feedback from those users. So, for instance, the steps you might take to arrive at a secure Firefox or Android configuration are probably fine, but not workable for the audience these instructions are intended for.

We're simultaneously working with the airport lawyer groups (there's a huge one at ORD). It's been jarring to realize how many compromises are required to make things workable for groups of non-experts to use. Just getting software installed is a major hassle, so anything you install or customize needs to be really worth the effort.
I don't know who I've offended but I hope it wasn't the developers. I genuinely think this is very cool, and if I can get my boss on board I will try using it in my class.
'Cheapen' might not be the right word but it wouldn't certainly tend to hijack it. As soon as you get specific people start debating the specifics.
In the west minorities and outsiders are treated as morally superior to natives. It's a pathologically "benign" civilization.

How long do you think an Arab would last in Han dominated China if he constantly criticized the Chinese for "Han supremacy" and called for an end to their way of life?

How long would a Han Chinese survive in Qatar behaving the same way?

Ironically, the openness of western society has led to its constant attack by disgruntled minorities. Who realized long ago that complaining loudly wins them resources and privileges.
You could just keep adding spatial dimensions until 12 fingers are predicted by the theory. Of course, everybody knows you have both 11 fingers and 12 fingers, depending on how the hand is observed.
Ask HN: Why is the GitHub header black right now?
Is there any sad incident? death? attack? I am worried when I see black in somewhere like this.
This. I'm kinda surprised there isn't HTTPS with HSTS already.