skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If that's true, what is the reason? Is it because roads are public spending and not private development?

I guess I do have to clarify that saying we can or can't afford it is overloaded. We may have the money to do it and still not be able to afford it for a variety of reasons including politics and higher priorities. I think it's fair to say we can't afford it when we have debt and we're not fixing the problem. All the money we have is currently going to other things.

So how do we make money fixing it? If we would make money, why are we falling behind rather than getting ahead, if it was such a clear win economically, why aren't we doing it already?

This article implies that our current annual rate of return on highways is less than 10%:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/11/15/business/deal...

FWIW, I also think it's fairly easy to look at the actual scale of existing infrastructure and come to the conclusion that the magnitude of the problem isn't something that billions or a trillion dollars will put a real dent in; it looks bigger than that to me just looking at these maps:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/maps-of-ame...
So we're ok with invading the privacy of aquatic animals now?
Guilty - I copy and pasted the spelling. I really have a hard time with spelling of English my whole life. There is no way for my brain to make sense of it. Phonics is a myth. I got straight 4.0 in college and that included thousands of pages of papers and learning Ancient Hebrew and Classical and Koine Greek.
> They go hard and frequently examine text messages, email, social, etc. for non resident entrants.

Interesting. Do they ever find anything that's actually incriminating?
If software identifies you as potential criminal or terrorist at the border, the following search is not "arbitrary" by any means. The state should not be transparent about the exact reasons why you were chosen (e.g. the social media post or phone call), apart from pointing out the law based on which they are acting.
This is the error I have:

Error 404 Vhost unknown.
Vhost unknown.
Varnish L7 server

Not sure why it would work for you and not for me. Might be a Varnish issue?
> But you have to worry about this and weight cost and benefit, it's just not worth the hassle most of the time,

Perhaps you missed that I said, "And of course those are all real issues that can absolutely weigh against any benefits." The point still stands: "tl;dr: Potential benefits of IoT, while they certainly have to be weighed against the potential issues that currently exist, are still potential benefits."

> I don't need to imagine, security, privacy, or out-of-date hardware and software is a huge problem there, too.

Sure, that certainly crossed my mind, but it's just not as bad at a technical level as IoT is right now, though as far as final impact that has to be weighted by market penetration.

I probably could have come up with a better example, but I was dead tired when I wrote that. :)
>"Ars spoke with several legal experts, and contacted CBP itself (which did not provide anything beyond previously-published policies)."

In other words the CBP were completely unhelpful and simply referred them to published legalese online rather than clarifying that legalese. It really feels like the culture of DHS and CBP views the people they are supposed to serving as adversaries.
https://reddit.com/r/minimalism

https://reddit.com/r/onebag

https://reddit.com/r/frugal

https://reddit.com/r/zerowaste

https://reddit.com/r/zerocarb

https://reddit.com/r/financialindependence

https://reddit.com/r/personalfinancecanada
Not to mention all the accounting and legal shenanigans that can be used to pump up "fair market" value. Including the costs of arbitration if the seller doesn't feel the offer is fair. Which itself gets budgeted into the price...
I'm not sure it did--many of the devs in the examples were hired as devs, if you bothered to read their bios.
The WWII is kinda complex... Don't you think that saying that Hitler didn't win the war because of one decision a bit stretched?
Social Media ROI – A Non-Boring Guide
You can see Dr Ben Ari's work on the flip here: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306452214...

I was intrigued when my son had paradoxical reactions to GABA analogues so dug more into this (also has paradoxical reactions to benadryl, which is a different can of worms).

I think ASD, ADHD etc are all linked in terms of neurotransmitters and ion channel imbalance that causes overload on various pathways.

On interesting element on auditory processing is the similarities between ASD auditory sensitivity and hypokalemic sensory overload. Anecdotally I have seen dosing potassium reducing auditory sensitivity short term for possibly this reason.
This is a good investment. Cities spend a lot of their budget on roads. A lot of cities are gridlocked with no room to widen existing roads. All he has to do is find a way to tunnel a little bit cheaper and he will find work for his tunnel machine.
Ask HN: Should I create a new HN for Technology related to Geopolitics?
Geopolitical technology may includes the advancements, innovations and misuse of technology such as:

- Synthetic soc net profiles driven by Bots, NLP, ML and some AI. New technology approaches in Astroturfing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing

- Security related to survellence, intrusion and secure information leaking.

- ML related to extracting hidden patterns, relationships, triangulation, feature engineering, synthetic data augmentation and data interpretation/visualization of these hidden relationships in the context of geopolitics.

- Suggestions?

I suppose it's ok to stick ones head in the sand about these kinds of innovations above especially due to, what can be, a toxic relationship with politics in general. However, some of us should take the lead in not ignoring significant technology innovations AND unique applications that are happening today in the area of politics at home and abroad. Ignoring innovation, unique and powerful applications in technology is the opposite of diverse ethos of all the Silicon Valleys of the world.

If we can establish an ongoing tracking and open dialog related to the above, we'll be able to stay ahead of any surprises that could negatively impact the lively hood of most everyone of us.

Would an HN-like site work for advanced technology related to geopolitics? Does anyone have sugestions in this area?
FYI, that's a misattributed quote.
The problems with agile development
Why limit it to international travel? People can learn how to kill without leaving the country. We need random checkpoints set up on major highways (and occasionally on minor roads, just to ensure you can't reliably bypass them) to stop and search people to ensure they aren't up to anything nefarious.

Actually, it needs to go ever further. You can get up to a lot of trouble without even leaving your home. The police should conduct random searches of people's dwellings in order to combat this.

A lot of bad stuff is handled online, so of course we also need to search people's online activity as it happens. Since encryption gets in the way of this, we need to outlaw it, or at least mandate key escrow so the security services can observe the traffic.
You understand that society did just fine for thousands of years without these things right? Maybe if you are 20 the social norms have changed so drastically that calling someone is unthinkable but I rather doubt that. Certainly for my generation and above ('84) it's not required.
"Or, to simply stop traveling to countries that refuse to play nice with the rights of foreigners. "

Which countries would those be? As far as I know, every country (or quasi-country, such as the EU) asserts the right to carry out a full inspection of anything crossing its border.
They hired someone in September:

http://apps.axibase.com/chartlab/e8635882/13/

At least their traffic acceleration suggests they were able to lift off from the 10 million plateau at around that time.
I can't speak for Finland, but in Sweden I don't think there are any plans with unlimited data anymore, that weren't grandfathered. There used to be when 3G was the norm, but now that 4G is available pretty much everywhere you'll be capped most likely. My plan for instance is capped at 100gb I believe, for which I pay about 500-600 SEK / month. (This includes all domestic voice and texts too.)
I think you probably made a joke, but this is exactly what Hyperloop is.
> The design is a copycat from a 2010 design of a Spanish designer

The same artist did the work: https://twitter.com/panzer/status/832254299862216704
I don't understand America's fascination with snooping through peoples shit.
Dude, the stories you didn't tell are far more intriguing
I know this is HN but can someone ELI-don't-have-a-PhD-in-mathematics?
Ben Klemens' 21st Century C is good.
This, just so much this. Heck, you can get a pack of 12 from Costco for like $10 and that tape will last through anything but the most abusive handler. If you're worried about the package making it in one piece, wrap the whole box in 3M tape. It will be a giant pain in the rear for the person receiving it to open it up, but if you're shipping something worth $10k, it's probably worth the "hassle".
> How would you caracterize Microsoft's open-sourcing of the .NET stack

Giving anyone not on Windows a second rate experience? Core as the name says provides only a subset of the Windows .Net framework and most .Net code in the wild is written with the implicit assumption that it runs on the Windows framework.

> VS code universal electron app

Instead of making their main IDE a proof of concept for .Net Core they wrote a Web3.50/NodeJS IDE. I am very sensitive to high latency IDEs so that is something I wont ever touch.

> the whole Office 365 paradigm

Trying to keep up with the competition, Google Docs ring a bell?

> since Satya Nadella took leadership

Nadella 2014. Linux on Azure 2012. Office 365 2011. Mono based on Microsoft’s promise not to sue 2004. Open sourcing parts of .Net is really the only thing you can assign to Nadella, everything else was still done by the good old triple E leadership.
It seems like that would only work if you actually have the appropriate security clearance. And they're probably OK with letting people with clearances get through with less screening.
Solution: No Facebook (which is a solution to so many other problems too), partition and hide what you don't want browsed by some inept CBP agent, and then play your part in their security theatre. It might even be nice if someone could make some programs that offer false home screens for various devices that only open when a given password is input... your CBP "clean slate".

Don't say, "I don't have x,y,z..." accounts... have them, have accounts you never use and hand them over. Have your real identity online not be publically linked to your real identity for the purposes of something as trivial as social media.
Funny - we seem to have no problem with drones killing an alarming number of civilians with no declaration of war... I guess that's under patent law?
In that situation you could use uint_fast8_t which is the fastest uint of at least 8 bits.
Moto G4
I feel like I'm slowly marching toward a mirage. In a way, I dread the c++14/17 changes because it means that much more that I'm going to have to learn. Even if they stopped revising the language today, I'm probably going to learn my last C++ factoid on my deathbed.
> A fun prank: Create realistic facebook profiles for people you hate, and send links to CBP right before they travel.

During the Chinese cultural revolution in the 1960s, anyone could anonymously post the names of "people they hated" as suspected counter-revolutionaries on public bulletin boards. A "fun prank," maybe, except that many of those reported were executed. [1]

This was contemporary with humans traveling into space. We're not out of the woods today—if anything, technology has raised the stakes.

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=AfIydrsE6aMC&pg=PA163&lpg=...
I was just in SF and had to take a meeting in San Jose. The fact that I couldn't take a train all the way down completely blew my mind. What's the point of a commuter rail if it involves an hour bus ride to the other major population center in the region?
Hi Olivier - I work in recruiting for ezhome.com and we have a 100% distributed engineering team (https://www.ezhome.com/careers/positions). I'm not sure if we have the right fit for you because we're looking for relatively sr. talent at the moment, but I still wanted to get in touch.

I second what fecak and others have said which is it's much, much better to be very specific about what you want and spend much more time on a few applications than generally put your info everywhere. You also need to be specific and tailored about your skills and the role you're looking for because it's hard for companies to know what to do with generalists.

And don't lose hope!
1. Don't force it. You can spend time grinding through something, and it's never going to be as good as if you do when you hit it fresh. You need to rest and take time away from things, then the time you spend working on it will be more productive.

2. You have to take care of yourself. Regulating your caffeine, alcohol, sugar, etc. intake is important. You don't have to hit the gym 2 hours a day, but taking a short walk or something else, really helps. If you are always tired/sick you are never going to be at your best, and you'll eventually waste more time than you are actually being productive.

3. Understand what motivates you. You can't get into something for the wrong reasons. I program, because I like programming. If you start something, because it's a means to an end (like I want to program, so I can make a lot of money), ultimately, you aren't going to do well.
They don't want you to go there. Remind who started the latest big AI Projects (Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook) and I don't think the will stop grabbing data.

I think they'll develop a hivemind, where mobile adds to the pool. In short Skynet ;)
Equating "ops" with "tools" is just another symptom of the problems I was referring to. Tools are not the solution. Tools do not replace process, practice and goals. Tools are just tools.
> For example, the aforementioned Gotthard Road Tunnel had over 875 accidents and 30 deaths in a span of just 24 years.

Pollution from congestion probably has at least a similar impact in terms of premature death and debilitating disease.

Edit. Down votes for stating that pollution from congestion causes premature death and serious health effects - yikes! Is that even a disputed fact? Google is full of academic papers on the very subject. The first result I see talks about congestion pricing having a massive impact in London. I would argue that congestion relief from the construction of tunnels would have a similar impact.

http://oem.bmj.com/content/65/9/620.short -
"Predicted benefits... were 183 years of life per 100 000 population... In London overall, 1888 years of life were gained."
I feel your post downplays the role of manager. They're needed to make sure everyone's doing their job, business needs are being met, and communication is made between the workers and executives. Having an experienced engineer play the role of management makes the communication between highly technical engineers and highly abstract executives much smoother.
Another (actually, the first) implementation of "http2-casper" (referenced in the article) can be found in h2o [https://github.com/h2o/h2o]: https://h2o.examp1e.net/configure/http2_directives.html#http...

The main author – Kazuho Oku – is to me a http2 wizard (and just now joined Fastly). You can read his thoughts on the matter: https://github.com/h2o/h2o/issues/421
I think this type of argument only comes from egocentric people. Nobody cares about what you are doing, and you will most likely not be screened. If you are arguing online about civil rights you are not exactly the type of person they are trying to catch at the border.

In my country of origin there is no way to train with military weapons. People travel to other places and learn it there, all while being indoctrinated to perform acts of terrorism.

When IT-driven heuristics determine that you fit that profile, society is better off when you are intensively screened and searched upon reentry.
Not true: they tried to create an entity and move the Yahoo! Japan and Alibaba holdings in there, which had the perceived danger of a huge tax bill. They could create an entity to move the main business in, which would be taxed as much as the current deal.
Yep. Apple needs a convention center of an appropriate size and they doubtless prefer, for their own convenience and reduced costs, to be in the Bay Area. The walkability, access to quality bars and restaurants, and general interestingness of the downtown is doubtless pretty far down their list of priorities.
I'm not traveling while carrying Google's, Facebook's nor Yahoo's servers in my baggages. Asking for login information has nothing to do with importing goods. Login and password are not goods. It's invasion of privacy, pure and simple.

Why are the broder patrol not simply asking for login credentials straight out? Why carrying or not a phone has anything to do with asking for credentials? It's absurd.
Great. I think you should consider Let's Encrypt as well.
I've wondered the same. What if you just opt out of 90% of everything? What are the implications of not using social media?
I think he's attacking the mentality a lot in silicon valley have more than Apple specifically. He's using their marketing slogan as a stand-in for the whole ethos.
Moto G4 Play if you want something that's not totally disposable but is also sort-of an OK phone, by cheap Android phone standards. ~$130, which is pretty cheap for someone from the US on HN, most likely. You'd be sad to lose it but not that sad.

If you want an Android smartphone that's really cheap go to Wal-Mart. Unlocked Android phones south of $60.

If you can do without a smartphone you can get a dumb or feature phone for ~$10-$30.

There might even be better deals on Aliexpress or somewhere similar if you shop around.
I think it has more to do with memory use. See for instance the "65535 interfaces ought to be enough" thread. If you allocate a bazillion of a certain structure, then using the shortest allocation unit for its fields can make a difference, especially if you have a lot of these "small" fields.
DC's certainly seems bored—and some are extremely deep and therefore must be. Stations might be cut and cover but are arched to match.
You want to bet on that, with the Trump administration? I'll say an 'ave' for you.
genuine question then: why do this on citizens then? what are they expecting to gain? are they just casting a wide net to catch dumb extremists?
For what it's worth, I switched to DDG some time ago, and it took some time to get accustomed to, but I know find most of its results to be better than the ones of Google.
Maybe except for one search or two that involve special chars, such as an error message. But I'm impressed, overall.
Plus, it's not completely unlike Google with the resources it had a few years back.
Because there is money/power involved for them.
It's a proxy war in a battle between industry sectors.

> Telecoms unsurprisingly object to the rules. They feel they're subject to more stringent regulation than many of the websites you visit, and believe that an opt-in requirement hurts their ability to target you with personalized ads.

Silicon Valley would similarly chafe at the idea of opt-in requirements before being able to use customer data. You can raise the competition issue, and that's fair to a degree. But I have more realistic choices for say my cell phone plan than I do the search engine I use. And I have every little choice in, e.g., whether or not I send emails to gmail/yahoo/etc. users.

As for why Republicans take up this particular mantle, there is a cynical take and a charitable one. Telecom companies employ hundreds of thousands of people, and are geographically dispersed. Silicon Valley is highly concentrated and doesn't employ that many people. AT&T, for example, has thousands of employees in Tennessee. Google has a few hundred. Does Facebook have any?

IMHO, everybody making Internet infrastructure should be required to get opt-in consent before using private customer information.
You're clearly talented. Why do you need a job? Why not build your freelance practice?
Nice, that's pretty much what I had identified too. I had been focusing on the full Moto G4, which is like $200, hadn't realized the G4 Play could be had for $130 no contract.

I would call neither _dirt cheap_ for _my_ budget, but that is what I had arrived at as the cheapest possible that is still usable too. "Dirt" cheap, not for me, or probably most Americans, but what can you do.

(FWIW, I think it's no longer possible to get a dumbphone that will work on AT&T for $10-$30, now that AT&T turned off 2G and requires 3G even for voice. More like $60-$80 at the very lowest end that will work on AT&T. Don't know about internationally. :( )
Try startpage.com, it gets Google results and claims to be more private.
Using a UI or ncurses?
When I'm traveling (which is often), I NEED my "good" phone. Maybe a cheap Android phone would be feasible for occasional recreational travel, but this is not a solution for many.

Better to have easily restorable backups and just wipe & configure as a "new" device (not connected to cloud services) before entry. Restore from backup when you get home.

This is actually pretty painless these days. Sad that it's necessary.
Because that's where the money is.
Ridiculous arguments don't foster rational debate. We know their are training camps abroad. We know there are no training camps within our borders. What if space aliens are controlling our leaders brains?
When you arrive at the border, it might be too late to get privacy-conscious and refuse to unlock your stuff. Unless you're using non-American devices and social media, your data probably gets inspected anyway when you apply for a visa, and might be monitored at other times as well.
A bit off topic but why does OkCupid use C++? Seems like a odd choice for a website and two mobile apps.
The 2010 poster was Rocio Ballesteros work
http://www.rocioballesteros.com/home/13-festival-de-cine-de-...

UPDATE: Apparently she did it inspired by Geoff Mcfetridge's work, SO we have a circular reference lol
Yep, the story is totally different for non-citizens.

My plan, if this ever comes up, is to refuse to unlock the device, ask for a lawyer if they hold me, and wait it out. I already make sure to power down my device before I hit customs just to be sure they can't compel my fingerprint.

I couldn't advise my wife to do this, though. It's likely that they'd revoke her green card, deport her, and basically wreck our lives. At least she (probably) has nothing to hide....