skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand the basic scope of the author's intent, stop advertising fool-proof solutions to avoid vetting checked by the CBP, but their praxis comments require a bit more sourcing and evidence for some of the claims, and quite frankly, most just sound like scaremongering.

The CBP actions and incidents as described by first hand accounts do not seem to define an institutional directive guiding the decisions as to who warrants further investigation, and more importantly, who warrants having their entry denied. From the article earlier today on Henry Rousso's experience, the Immigration Lawyer that helped secure Dr. Rousso's release suggested that agents themselves are looking for reasons to deny entry rather than reasons to admit. [1]

This isn't to excuse their behavior - it's deplorable, but to suggest there is a rhyme or reason to what's happening isn't really sensible. The issues is emboldened agents abusing power, not an institutional directive.

Quite honestly, travelers worried about drawing the ire of the CBP don't have many reassurances right now since you're not looking for what makes you suspicious or unsuspicious to the CBP, you're trying to guess what makes you suspicious or not suspicious to the individual agent you're reaching.

The agents' attitude absolutely needs to be checked and unfortunately this likely means there will be more of these cases until something institutional is sent down to curb the behavior.

[1] https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/02/26/us/french-historian-de...
Cool!

I guess an over-the-air (OTA) software updater for embedded Linux devices could be considered some kind of systems programming...
From 0 MRR to “Living the Dream”
Also from Switzerland to France, if departing from Geneva. As well as Geneva airport having a dedicated section for flying to france.
Is the study finding correlations between suicide in general or suicide of gays?
I appreciate that info, +1. My main point was just if you're dealing with a repository where actors that have those 6 figures to spare to attack you (and that's a minority):

1) you've got to rely on a lot better security than the minimal if at all security provided by git (it assumes a web of trust). If people are signing off with PGP sigs but not watching diffs, you've got big problems.

2) You're probably far more likely to be exploited by far cheaper methods at this point. If they have access to a trusted contributor's keys, it's far more cost effective to slip in other tricks than sha-1 collisions right now. I'd say this is the main point so far, but admittedly maybe not in the future.

3) It sounds like Linus and the git devs have admitted they need to migrate from sha-1, but also I haven't seen any cheap, exploitable PoC for git yet based on this due to how they actually mix in other info instead of raw sha-1 hashes of the files.

4) As far as I know, and I'm sure I'm subject to correction, but there hasn't been a WebKit svn repo-esque calamity yet like what they've experienced dropping 2 sha-1 collision PDFs into the repo in a Git context yet.

Again, I'm totally open to new info, but the sky-is-falling attitude right now is what I'm mainly arguing against.
Thanks for your writeup, I'm really getting sick of the cheap stuff that is out there. IKEA has served it's purpose for me, and to be honest a bunch of pieces have survived multiple moves but they are now usually stuck in closets or in my kid's rooms.

Anyway I'm rambling on because I'm curious if there are any decent places to buy furniture nowadays, a good table for instance? I feel like when I got dragged around looking for a dining room table to Ashley's and Bob's and whatever other chain store they are all selling the same crap, just at slightly different prices. I'm honestly thinking I would rather build my own table than buy something made out of particle board with laminate on it.
>Who knows where it will be in 40 years. Look where computer technology was 40 years ago.

The Commodore PET, Apple II, and TRS-80 all came out exactly 40 years ago (1977)[1]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_in_science#Computer_scien...
Okay, to make this proposal work in practice initially, we do need some annotation service provider(s).

Who is both (a) eager to be one and do the integration before there is a market/large community and (b) is trustworthy enough to be included by default in the largest likely annotation clients such as the major web browsers?
But does anyone use them? And do they use any schemes that are not (a) a basic hash, (b) some scrypt scheme? Any reason why you wouldn't just put 3 GPUs in a regular chassis and be done for a quarter of the price?
We sysadmins don't exactly love it, either...
That is a matter of wealth preservation. What about wealth creation? How much Saudi wealth is there without stability and security?

Also, why should all children inherit equally? Marry the daughters into wealth, and make sure only capable sons inherit.
That's a far too level-headed and reasoned response for the current climate, even in HN.
>although the four decades he spent living in Switzerland to avoid Swedish taxes may also have something to do with it.

This flies in the face of what we've been told about socialism. It looks like rich people do leave the country to save on taxes. Wow, who'd have thought.
Chuck Moore's F18A Forth processor is async, and claims to execute a basic instruction in about 1.5ns, which is about 700k MIPS.

http://www.greenarraychips.com/home/documents/greg/PB003-110...
I think that spike peaks on October 12, which is when this was released: https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2016/10/12/adminis...
> What he really wants is a connection-oriented, TCP-like protocol with more flexible handling of missing/delayed packets. (As this is a frequent use-case in game development).

What I really want is the most UDP-like thing possible in the browser, that lets people build whatever higher level protocol they want on top of it, just like game developers do on every other platform.

Being connection based is important because if it wasn't then it would quickly turn into a DDoS tool, or a security nightmare for probing internal networks for vulnerabilities.

So clearly it needs to be connection based. And if it needs to be connection based, then that rules out broadcast packets too.
New Rust hash table leads Benchmarks Game
I think you're right about it having been going for a while because I used to live in Canada and visited the USA regularly and I found that in both countries not just border officials but the police behavior was incredibly rude and counter productive compared to what I was used to in London, in the UK. I could detect there was a certain glee some of these people get from treating other people badly which is actually quite alien in my experiences in the UK. I'd say it's actually a cultural difference because it's so prevalent over there compared to here.

The part where he mentions three officials immediately shouted down a man in unison after he protested about their treatment of the woman with the child is a perfect example of the cruel and over the top behavior I was witness to. It's also quite cowardly to need three people to do that and pathetic. I should say I was not often the victim, but just watching other people being treated in this way made me feel sick and I think it's something that should be addressed by the citizens, you should say denounce this sort of treatment of anyone. Anyone who gets pleasure out of causing any sort of suffering of another person should be removed from their post, based on my experiences that would require a complete overhaul from top to bottom.
There was a similar discussion[1] here about that a while back using data about different business types to assert gentrification levels.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10391753
In English you can say "as X, Y", for example "as Google, Microsoft releases code, "as last time, I was late" or "as the author, I love the US". It doesn't mean that "Microsoft = Google", or "I am last time" or "I am the author".

Google's dictionary (wherever it comes from) has

> conjunction 2: used to indicate by comparison the way that something happens or is done

I think you're thinking of

> preposition 1: used to refer to the function or character that someone or something has
> the point of what is being argued via a vis refactoring of expression trees changing calculation results

That was not a topic why the discussion started and I never discussed that here. Check for yourself. It started with pcwalton's (I simplify) "the bug is because of Kahan, see his Java paper" and I showed the opposite: whoever reads Kahan's paper can see that following his suggestions in the paper the bug can only be a bug. I also cited the exact pages.

I know there are a lot of people who would like to handle FP arithmetic identically to the integer one, but that can't work by the definition of FP. And please see my other post here -- it's surely time to continue the discussion somewhere else.
I like OwnCloud as well and use it for all my dev stuff, keeping things synced between desktop and laptop (and my hosted server).

The one issue I've had was sometimes if it tried to sync while I was working in my IDE (gamemaker studio), somewhere between saving and compiling it would lose sync and want to redo the whole folder. I tended to pause sync until I finished working. Could have been a bug that was since fixed, but I still do it just in case.
Show HN: Moving My HTTP Website to HTTPS Using LetsEncrypt, HAProxy and Docker
I don't really feel so - as long as there's overlap in reputation, the network effects would favour "HN annotation service" and "lawyer annotation service" to be done by the same provider, simply different people would annotate different websites simply they each visit a different subset of them.

Kind of like the Stackexchange network of sites - many different communities, but with significant overlap as many users are active in multiple domains.
Dammit AI people, wake up! This is SO backwards!

AI-based profiling of anything is bound to filter off outliers. Censuses are made in the field for a reason. The goal is to gather data so that you can make statistical reasoning on it. Not the opposite!!!!

Here, they just gather some car data, and infer demographic data from it. And then what? We've just created a population which matches the car sample. We can't draw ANY conclusion from that data, beyond the type of cars that are found in such and such neighborhoods.
Is 0 a Natural number?
Perils of $8 or $10/hr Development Companies
Have you been to one where it was decent? I haven't.

Every single time I've had a run-in with CBP or DHS they have (with two notable exceptions) come across as a hoard of malicious little fascists, delighting in how much power -- and how little oversight -- they'd been given over another person's life.

I was traveling shortly after 9/11 and the National Guard was deployed to many airports. Fair, calm, and respectful, they were a comparative delight to deal with.
It's surprisingly difficult to grow food at the rate of 8.5 tonnes per hectare (Belgium) without petroleum-fueled water pumps, tractors, and harvesters, natural-gas based ammonia fertiliser, fossil-fuel-obtained potash and phosphate, fossil-fuel-based pesticides. Or water and arable land.

Take all that away and you're Zimbabwe, with 0.3 tonnes.

Humans already command or control some 25-40% of all primary plant production (NPP, or the photosynthetic ceiling), much of that made possible through modern mechanised architecture.

In the works already mentioned (Smil, Weissenbacher), the immense increases in ag productivity through such advances as assisted irrigation, mechanised plows, disks, seed drills, fertiliser, harvesters, etc., etc., are addressed in detail.

GDP, and economic prices generally, are exceptionally poor measures of net contribution and value. (Or of true real costs.)

Northwestern University economist Joel Mokyr, otherwise quite a technological optimist, discusses the failure of GDP to capture the true impacts of, say, antibiotics or vaccines. Their price-based contributions to GDP are de minimus, but their impacts on overall well-being are tremendous.

http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Agriculture/C...
Good read about a contrasting scientific view of dark matter.

I also found this quote very relative to this age.

"Why not? What’s the big deal? If something doesn't work, fix it. I wasn't trying to be bold. I was very naïve at the time. I didn't understand that scientists are just as swayed as other people by conventions and interests."
I worked on a financial product based on one of Intuit's. I was shocked to realize that this Intuit product was impersonating people (using their username and password) to log on to their bank accounts and download all transactions - which our product was then analyzing. I was sure nobody would allow that; who will give a third-party their bank username and password?

I was extremely surprised to find out that the answer was "at least tens of thousands of people".
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the wiki page is about Java the country, not the programming language. Haven't found any relevant news around that time though.
Do not come to the US for any reason. Also, request that your government treat all US visitors exactly the same as this. Until people start to see how awful treating people like trash is nothing will change, it will only get worse. My job depends (somewhat) on foreign tourists coming to the US, I would rather lose my job than read these embarrassing stories.
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>If people are forced not to be able to use money, I don't see how that's free.

This along with other things are oft-repeated myths about Communism. The goal is to eliminate money by eliminating the need that creates it: that is, wage labour and artificial scarcity. You are free to use money. You are not free to exploit people. That is to say, you would not be allowed to profit by the work of others by collecting their surplus value. It is equivalent to stealing (unless both parties give informed consent).

However there would be no need for anyone to engage in wage labour, because people would no lonver be forced to work for their survival.
This is a fair point, although it should be noted that 19 states legalized gay marriage in 2014 compared with only 16 states in any of the prior years examined. And 8 of those 16 were in 2013. So, 27 out of 35 states examined legalized same-sex marriage either in 2014 or within one year prior. I would be interested to learn just how much the data from those other 8 states affect the weighted average the authors used to identify the association.

By the way, if you look at the accompanying figure 2 and figure 3 in the JAMA article, you will see just how noisy the data is for both Wave 1 and Wave 2 states, as well as the relative lack of post-2014 data points. Honestly, just looking at those two charts should be enough to give you a healthy skepticism about the conclusion, whatever your ideological views.
A new app will flag immigration raids in Trump's America
/please ignore:
Oracle & Prophet. Oracle sifts through signs but Prophet has a line to the larger picture. I suppose the next 'product' will be called Messiah to complete the picture.
And don't forget that you still have a switch statement with multiple branching operations that pick out this code among the various options of hash table size!

This is something where function pointers / overloading would likely have even better performance than direct switching - when the hash table size changes, switch out the function from modulo_by_511 to modulo_by_711.
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I mean, yes it may have a lot of references to Boo.com but as I've never heard of Boo.com I think that your parent comment probably has some validity.
This other Prophet has also been around for a while: https://github.com/Emsu/prophet
I don't see how this is specific to open source software.

Would you feel guilty if you were absent from some other activity because of family?
Games have been spamming UDP packets over the Internet for the last 20 years and the Internet seems to be doing OK.
It needs more realism, for example by incorporating a minimum braking distance (better: maximum deceleration), and a maximum acceleration.

Also, the cars need to learn to drive on one side of the road.

Also, it would be nice if people could upload their own javascript to the environment (i.e., like JSFiddle but with car-simulating capabilities).
Is Elixir's Nerves project using anything like this?
In my experience, history is a far more robust guide than hand-waved speculation or assertion.

China did invent the modern world (mostly), by the way. They just decided not to go the full way, though for reasons not entirely clear.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_and_Civilisation_in_...

Simon Winchester's biography of that epic work's creator, Joseph Needham, is highly engaging, and also recommended. It's a lighter read than most the other works I've recommended so far:

https://www.worldcat.org/title/man-who-loved-china-joseph-ne...
The association between same-sex marriage legalization and reduction in suicide attempts was also significant for teens who identified as sexual minorities. For this subgroup, there was a 14-percent relative reduction in suicide attempts after the passage of same-sex marriage laws.

So it would seem that the drop was more pronounced among gay people.
It feels like the age of the US is nearing to an end. I am not looking forward (on behalf of my children) for the transitional period that will follow.
Driving Is Social. Autonomous Cars Aren't, Argues Computer Scientist
Will other countries begin to reciprocate? Will other countries/institutions begin demanding compensation for wrongful detention/deportations?

Perhaps my biggest concern is this: How long until this pushes someone over the edge? It's precisely this kind of persistent harassment that can convince an angry, disaffected young man that, yes, the system really is rigged against him.
> Don't think it's fair? Interesting feeling, eh. Not very nice, eh. Be glad you haven't suffered it for literally your entire life.

unfortunately, positive discrimination also are discriminates against people who are negatively discriminated against, like asian men trying to get into college or get a good job.

but you probably don't really care about that because it doesn't fit neatly into your oppressor/oppressed classification system.

hey, at least you're honest about throwing people under the bus to further your social justice agenda though. i appreciate that.
UPDATE: "It turned out this whole story has nothing to do with Egypt or Holocaust. Historian claimed that he would give a speech for money. Incompetent CBP officer incorrectly concluded that its a work without a proper work visa."
Cool demo, I would like to see different applications for AI not only self driving cars.
11% still in use?
This has been the case for a decade at least.

My understanding -- reading between the lines -- is that if someone has been to the US on a J1 they are more likely to return and work illegally.

CBP screen based on this. It sucks, and has for a long time. I've not personally experienced any change post-Obama. The major variability is in the CBP agent, not in top-down policies.

At the end of the day you have to choose between open and closed borders. If you want to close your borders then screening is a tough business. The main difference between the US and the rest of the world is scale and desirability. A lot of people want to go there, more than any other country in the world. That makes it difficult!
Hence the authentication on the web backend and the unique 64bit client id.
I've never been to an Ikea. Until recently there wasn't one in my state. Because of this I'm always amazed that so many people seem to have this fascination with it.
Yes but the title make a claim that it's the fastest.
No no no! Why did you have to do that? Don't you know they scan HN for easy to memorize one-liner questions to add to their question bank? Now those who enter the US are really doomed! :-)
I wonder what portion of cross-border travelers make transport decisions based on immigration concerns? I sincerely doubt Jay Inslee's feasibility study will look realistically at the role immigration plays in cross-border travel decisions. I was denied entry into Canada in the past few months, while holding an airline ticket from Chicago to Victoria. My Electronic Travel Authorization (eTA) was not approved by Canadian authorities. This left me with no other option other than to change my air travel to fly to Seattle, rent a car, drive across the border to Vancouver (during a blizzard) and catch the ferry to Victoria (all at great extra cost, but otherwise without incident). I was told by several airline staff on different airlines and by border officials themselves that this was all too common. The Canadian eTA web process is broken (I am still unable to upload simple PDF files to my application), and I can only assume such a Bullet Train would require eTA approval.
How to stop your career stagnating like Reggie Perrin's
Touch Devices Should Not Be Judged by Their Size
> "If Newtonian physics can’t predict the fixed curves, perhaps we should fix Newton, instead of making up a whole new class of matter just to fit our measurements."

I've always felt this way about dark matter, but as a lay person with no background in physics, it's an opinion I'm hesitant to express.

if you have a model that predicts something, but the prediction is off by several orders of magnitude, the model is wrong. no other field would invent invisible stuff to explain that the model is still right. (well, maybe finance)
I just decided not to go to the US this year. I should have this April but really, I don't feel like it anymore.
That's kind of a worthless article. What's the solution, then? Just accept that all of your private data will be copied by the government? Don't travel at all?

Edit: Also, the same guy explicitly encourages lying about your social media accounts two posts prior to that one. Which is it, chief?
Isn't that like reading a crackpot's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, pointing out a mistake, and him arguing "Andrew Wiles already proved this theorem so why are you arguing against it?"

The truth of the conclusion seems irrelevant.
by definition plastics are recycled crude oil, they'd only end up burned if not turned into plastic.

the way we recycle is still broken, we separate it from our garbage thinking it'll be recycled but it's still burned.
As long as the unit is IEE754, results are expected to be exact to the last ulp [1]. There might be issues in the lowering of high level languages to low level assemblers, but that's a different story (i.e the implementation is not IEE754 compliant).

[1] transcendental functions IIRC are not required to be exact to the full precision and historically they aren't. But there are (portable) math libraries that guarantee full precision.
I am very white and a native English speaker and I can attest that there have always been rude and overzealous immigration officers. Heck they are rude to me when we cross the border from Canada with the wife and two kids in the car and in-state license plates.
In my parts of the world (Eastern Europe) you can infer a lot more about the people inhabiting a certain area by looking at the cars they drive, I mean, compared to census and income/tax data. That's because there are lots of way of not telling the authorities how much you earn, but once it comes to purchasing a car you leave aside such niceties and you get the car that best fits your real economic status (with few exceptions).
Briefing: the legal status of EU citizens in the UK
It's cheap and they have some products that are remarkably solid. Others and cheap and fall to pieces or sag quickly.

Caveat emptor always applies at IKEA!