skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel that all technical modes will fail.

Why?

- We first had PIN numbers. Easyily cracked/defeated.

- We then had passwords. Provide them or go back home where you came from.

- We might have travel mode. Defeated or made illegal. Go back home.

I think the only resolution to this is political. Make these searches go away - worldwide - as we near a very bad precedent.
Ask HN: Building algorithm for Trending News/Topics of a Country
How would someone go around if they want to build an automated system which shows popular stuff for the day in the country?

Like I would assume gather twitter trends from twitter all day, get all articles url from top news sites in that country and check facebook graph for that.
This is awesome news for Mailgun customers, kudos to Will and the Mailgun team for pulling this off.

Mailgun has one of the best inbound/outbound API combinations available, great for companies with a strong developer team.
So... anti-aircraft artillery, then? Or this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter_Rocket,_Artillery,_and...
Holographic 3D Printing Is Faster, Leads to Self-Replicating Machines
the OP here. as it seems there are some queries in peoples' mind re: the article's title; I am copying below the author's thoughts (from her social media feed) about the article, which I think is useful.

"My latest piece for JSTOR Daily looks at a hugely influential technologist who is strangely absent from most lists of Black inventors. Alan Emtage invented the world's first search engine -- so I look at the massive impact of search, not only on how the web works, but how our brains work, too."

P.s. Am notifying the author about the discussion here. If she has time & so inclined, to engage.

P.p.s. as for myself, I was hoping to see interesting HN discussion about search before pre-Google, & how search is affecting our brain + thinking process.
They don't have to detain you at all, they just have to deny you entry. Travel mode on? GTFO!

In fact, this is already happening: http://www.dailyxtra.com/canada/news-and-ideas/news/us-custo...

> “They said, ‘Next time you come through, don’t have a cleared phone,’ and that was it. I wasn’t let through.

Technological countermeasures don't seem to work. Sure, they work in the sense that they protect your data, but if the border guy doesn't like you, technology won't save you. You will be sent on your way.
Wouldn't that also render your account essentially useless when your trip is over? (Unless you're traveling for, what, years at a time?)
An article with an interesting suggestion and a noble goal but I'm not the first one to say it:

Technology cannot solve the problem we currently face with erosion of privacy at the border! These clever tricks trying to get around the issue only kicks the problem downfield, and likely won't effectively work. If they found out you have travel mode enabled - you may be denied entry or worse (note the comment from @mholt) - they would just detain you until the time lock runs out.
Right, the idea is that US travelers would kick-start the norm by travel-locking their accounts; they're at little risk while traveling. It might take many months or even years before travel locks were normed enough that at-risk travelers could rely on them, but that just means we should get started on these features sooner than later.
Yeah, that's what I use with Webpack. It's just one more rule on Webpack config, so no reason not to do it. There's many things that are out of scope of TS that are better handled by Babel (like embedding corejs methods based on target browser versions).
No, again, the point of the travel lock isn't that you can't use Facebook at all, but rather than your history and social graphs are restricted. For most ordinary purposes, Facebook will probably get more usable while travel-locked.
Then if border agents really want to get in to a particular individual's device, they'll just detain them (or seize their device) until trip mode automatically turns off.
Thanks for the thorough explanation! I had never made the connection between "ñ" and "nn".

Still unsure about "in English, it is also correct to spell “señorita” without the tilde" - it doesn't seem to be an English word at all, can't find many references online, Google Translate corrects it to "señorita", neither Cambridge or Oxford dictionaries have it...
i'll say it again, just in case you didn't get it the first time:

illegal aliens are different than legal immigrants, and should be treated differently under the law, and in society.

frankly, i don't care what the republicans or steve bannon think about it, that's apparently a major concern of yours, but isn't one of mine.
> TypeScript's type definitions I found are very, very poor, as a relic of the days where versioning was an issue and many have not been fixed.

I've always found it funny that DefinitelyTyped's tag line is "The repository for high quality TypeScript type definitions", but it's an absolutely disastrous system. If it's not a well-used library, definitions there will be woefully out of date. Versioning is a huge issue with it, so it's hard to figure out what definitions actually match the version library you're using. I can only admit that it's an effort that's better than nothing.

The few projects I added types to, the original project owners gladly accepted them into their main repos, which is great since types will "just work" without fuddling with @types packages.
I've always wondered why Google doesn't just slowly raise the prices on things like this until either everyone switches due to attrition and they can shut it down noiselessly, or it becomes profitable.

There's been a few services (Google Reader and CodeSearch) that I would have paid a couple bucks a month for.
A 4.0 GHz Ryen is faster than a 4.5 GHz Intel in single thread? At this point we might as well wait for the embargo to expire.
This is a follow-up to a post from yesterday, which had some discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13696196
Wiping your stuff does no good at all. As pointed out in the article, they know who is on the flight hours before you land. They'll know you have a Facebook profile. The difference between having a laptop already logged into Facebook and a wiped laptop with no data is quite literally the time it takes them to tell you to type in the password for them. Ignorance isn't an escape clause.

Which is, I think, the same problem Maciel's solution faces. Border patrol can possibly just see that you've enabled "trip mode" (by the anemic presence) and put you back on a plane. You're welcome to try again after your trip mode expires, but if they want to see your account, there is, as sure as mathematical logic, no possible "out". Anything you do to deny them that access can be grounds to refuse you entry (if you're a non-citizen).

You're right that the only real solution is a political one. Unfortunately, there are no political solutions to any problem anymore. Not in the US at least. The days when government was even interested in solving problems are gone and I doubt they're ever coming back.
They would be required to detain people for an indeterminate amount of time, potentially weeks. The idea is that it's impractical (and also illegal) for them to do that. If enough people travel-locked their accounts, invasive social media monitoring would be off the table.
> And why introduce graph theory terminology for concepts that not really new in the database world?

Because it's developed by Facebook, and Facebook really does view all of their data as a graph.
Exactly - the correct solution is that border inspection of luggage (for contraband) NOT be considered a legal basis for searching my information storage.

Warrantless search of gadgets / accounts should be prohibited for citizens. For non-citizens, it should require a significant justification.

Finally, NONE of the data examined at the border should be stored for longer than necessary to reach a go/no-go determination.
If you think it's real, go to a big open space where you can see lots of empty roads, and turn it on.
How can it possible be non-evident?
$100k per falcon per year? That seems a little high to me. In any case, governments have enough money to ignore these kinds of calculations.
As I've mentioned in other replies, for the same amount of dollars pumped into UBI (where it has to be distributed to the entire populace), this system can distribute that money instead to a much, much smaller segment of the population.

If, say, 10% of people opt to participate in "wasted-work", then each will receive 10x the benefit they would get from UBI, meaning that would be able to afford to save up money, or work part-time and still have sufficient money to support themselves while they pursue the "creation of value in ways that are currently economically infeasible".

UBI sounds great, but on a dollar-for-dollar basis it just seems worse than this because the level of compensation cannot be as high.
A travel-locked Facebook account should just look like a quieter Facebook account.
Politics, specifically the PTBT[1]. Otherwise Project Orion[2] would be a reality now.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial_Nuclear_Test_Ban_Treat...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propuls...
Yeah, they will send you back where you came from and you will be fucked for life.
i realize you're joking, but it made me think: i wonder if there are any correlations about "not having a pet" with egocentrism.
Rubocop-rspec
It sounds like you're talking about the Bussard Ramjet. It collects interstellar hydrogen gas for use in fusion engines. The problem is that it's unlikely there's enough hydrogen floating around for it to really work.
He's pointing out what social media companies should do, not predicting that they'll actually do it. That is not naive. Imagine what would happen to the Overton window if we never talked about what people should do, even when we expect them never to do it.
Tinkering.

However I believe that 40 weekly hours are already enough time to spend in front of a computer so reading wins most of the time.
I could sign a certificate for 'johndoe.com' without proper verification or I am using it in my local intranet. Let's Encrypt requires external verification to ensure certificates like this one and other miscellaneous certificates are issued.
This is precisely what we don't know. If you're talking averages, then sure it takes decades to observe a meaningful change. However climate change of the sort we're anticipating now isn't about averages. It's about peaks, it's about records, and possibly major shifts in equilibrium.

Basically what we witness so far and will keep on seeing are spikes in all directions of the spectrums (e.g. record high temps, but also record lows; rain in the Death Valley and droughts in formerly wet areas). More critically, what little we've been able to gather on how fast climate eras shift from one to the next, it appears that whereas in-cycle change happens rather slowly (change within an era, because averages), climate era shifts could happen very quickly (because chain of events). We're talking going from a warm era to a glacial one within a few years, sometimes months even. A high speculation is that some thongs might upset the Gulfstream and you'd observe climate evolve from year to year.
While you get to work on repealing 223 years of jurisprudence about border searches, how about we explore things tech companies can do in the immediacy to mitigate their impact?
CBP is not allowed to detain US citizens past some nebulous limit measured in hours.
I appreciate your thoughtful comment. I don't think any sane, well-adjusted person _wants_ to live that life. But I think the unstoppable forces of globalization and automation are slowly forcing that kind of life onto everyone.

I read about those laid-back enterprise shops, and think about the coal miner who just wants to live his life, mine some coal, and retire, all the while not competing with anyone. Or the factory worker who just wants to put in a solid 8 turning a wrench and go home to get on with her life, not worrying about the robot that will do the job 25% more efficiently and with 85% fewer errors. Or (very soon) the truck driver. Or (also sooner than we think) the generic white collar paper pushing office worker... Fortunately, so far software has been safe. Software does not yet write itself. But it's only a matter of time. We are all slowly being forced to compete ever more fiercely, with more people, for fewer and fewer jobs. The trend is inevitable and irreversible.

I'm not naturally a competitive person, but over the years I felt I have had to train myself to be so, and I will teach my (now infant) daughter to be _ruthless_. It's a matter of career security for me--it will be a matter of survival for her.
"... of the conical flasks was found to be deficient."

?
Are you a space activist of some sort?
> The difference between having a laptop already logged into Facebook and a wiped laptop with no data is quite literally the time it takes them to tell you to type in the password for them.

No, that's not how it works. Border agents are entitled to "search" your laptop. They can't force you to retrieve arbitrary data from a remote server.

All this with the caveat that they can, of course, refuse non-citizens for basically any reason.
It does not mean that the price wont change soon;). Or that only limitrd amount of my time will be available for that price. also since you can only get 100swifts per day you can only get one hour of my work per day. of you need something done sooner you wineed to either invite more users to get paid for referral thus increasing number of users, or you will need to buy swifts on the market somewhere. that means you build value of swifts with your fiat currency.
I might actually go for this;)
> Taking federal taxes to 2.5x their current levels takes the top marginal rate over 100%,

You are confusing "federal taxes" with "federal income taxes" and assuming the only way to increase the latter is to multiply the existing marginal rates without changing the structure; since a one portion of the drive for UBI is to address concentration of returns in high-end income and capital gains, the natural first thing to do is to uncap payroll/self-employment taxes and tax capital income the same as labor income (both the taxes on labor income styled as "income tax" and those styled as "payroll tax". That -- alone -- more than doubles taxes on long-term capital gains.)

There's also other income that excluded from taxation or taxed favorably that is concentrated at the high-end that could be targetted.
Yeah, I'm not sure that this is a fair comment: how would _you_ avoid the necessity of pandas and numpy? Besides which, in most projects where you're interested in confidence intervals you'll probably already have both imported for other functionally anyway.
I don't follow what benefits to work at a company has anything to do with the ethics of its actions.

Note that I'm not accusing Palantir of doing whatever this article accuses them of but your argument to support the company based on its perks is very moot.
This strikes me as a rather disingenuous question.
> shortage of labor and desperately need people to do work or else people will starve.

Yeah also don't forget the eternal shortage of programmers and engineers.
Don't worry, the term HATEOAS won't become trendy any time soon.
I'd argue, choose whatever format is best for your case. If its easy, chose a binary format for small footprint and a human readable format. But chose formats that are semantic and are able to drive the client. That's what the "R"epresentation is all about in "REST".
The answer is the same as the reason x509 "works" at all. The CAs don't issue invalid certs because if they did, they wouldn't be trusted anymore.

In terms of technical limitations, nothing stops any CA from issuing any cert they want. It's the business consequences that stop them from doing so.

If Let's Encrypt wants to keep themselves on the trusted-root-CA list of Windows, Chrome, MacOS, et. al., they need to keep their noses clean.
Note that CBP does not have access to all the data NSA has gathered. If they did, we wouldn't be talking about this at all; they'd already have everything they wanted.
If you're an at-risk traveler, you'd enable travel-lock pretty much as soon as you decide on your itinerary, potentially before you ever get on an airline manifest.

The thing I think I see a lot of people missing here is that travel-lock doesn't wipe or disable your accounts; it just restricts history and breadth. For a lot of people, I think these services will get easier and more pleasant to use while travel-locked, so it's relatively painless to give yourself a generous margin before departing and after arriving.
Therefore it appears as there are plenty of habitable planets out there. Numbers are big enough to conclude that other life is definitely out there somewhere so are the questions:

1. Where are they all?

2. How humanity will react on appearance of one of them? Will we finally stop our fights inside that sandbox and to focus on challenges that we are facing all together?
Lots of good reasons to establish a space colony, fleeing the earth is not one of them. By this sort of argument you actually discredit the idea of space exploration.
The moon is not that small, it is 27% of earth's size. Any other satellite in the solar system is way smaller compared to the planet they orbit. I dare to say that earth and moon are twin planets instead of a planet and a satellite.
Here is another article on it with a bit more info on the planets

http://www.iflscience.com/space/breakthrough-in-search-for-l...
They can't detain US citizens longer than a few hours.
My gut feeling is that non-US citizens are more likely to be affected by this CBP policy than US citizens. Don't get me wrong here, happy if some solutions works for some subset of people, but as a non-US citizen I want something that works for me.
Congrats on the launch guys! Bitrise is THE CI tool for iOS apps.
People who care deeply about these issues work at Facebook and Google.
Literate Programming with Notebooks is where no other .net based language comes close to F#. I will spend more time on F# notebooks, this is great!
The LEDE Community is proud to announce the first stable version of LEDE 17.01
There are serological antibody tests for T. gondii, but they appear to vary widely in accuracy (sensitivity, specificity, ppv, &c). I have no idea what they cost.
So, pretty evident from the most casual analysis.
Jet planes can also be used to destroy skyscrapers. People don't seem to get really nervous about them.
Seriously, I had to stop reading this article after the ridiculous hyperbole of the first sentence.

Most things that most developers work on are private. More importantly even when the code isn't private, the context and reasoning behind it is often far more important than the code. Resumes tell a story, code is just data.

Whenever I've hired people, GitHub has never been a significant factor. It is, at best, a minor boost (if someone has a bad resume but a prolific GitHub, I'll give them an interview). It's definitely not enough to ever get hired.

Even as someone who has been relatively active on GitHub in the past, it was never an important part of my job searches. My resume is a lot more important.
I agree that technical solutions are bandaids. However, US citizens can't be denied entry. They can be delayed for a few hours, not longer.
> cats included. It's bewildering.

Only to those possessed by cats.

Q.E.D.
Is this weird corporatist worship site actually a legitimate source?
From the fine article:

> To work effectively, a trip mode feature would need to be... irrevocable for an amount of time chosen by the user once it’s set. There’s no sense in having a ‘trip mode’ if the person demanding your password can simply switch it off, or coerce you into switching it off.
US citizens can't be detained indefinitely at the border. The limit is a few hours.
Without changing venues, other facilities will immediately attempt to duplicate the official Olympic venue in minute detail.
It doesn't just have to be common, it has to be worth harvesting.

It could be that it took them this long to locate and get to such a supply, or that they had to repair / construct equipment that normally wouldn't be expected to be used.
I knew it.
Great link, thanks.

Cant help but be reminded of the premise of the Halo games, and the objectives of the alien race.
Domain tasting? Get a cert for it, then it expires?
It doesn't even have to be a time lock, what if you left behind a key or random passcode at home that could be used to switch it off when you return?
In terms of security certificates, it is actually on the cheaper end. SANS/GIAC have a lot of certificates but run much more expensive, like $5k+
The jump from "we could not detect a difference" to "there is no difference" is so frustrating. (And this is a mistake the authors make in this case, not just the journalists.)
Still, an anti-robot eagle program would improve the population of golden eagles, and I doubt many of them would see combat. Conservationists seem to be pretty enthusiastic about falconing as a way of getting bird-of-prey numbers up; this should produce similar opportunities.
At one point making technology meant getting to the moon, now it means making adult baby sitting tools.
What is actually needed is a dead man's switch: a secondary password that, when entered, destroys the security enclave/TPM to render the device unreadable
Maybe several times over independently. Hopefully we won't have to speculate long. As Jill Tarter says, "we count one, two, infinity." Still waiting for two, and I hope it happens in my lifetime.
A colleague of mine has an insider info that the telescope was named after beer on purpose.
Crackpot alert!
>As evidence of this, witness all the left wing types who seem to believe that the American underclass would rather sit around on welfare than do the work that illegal immigrants will no longer be doing.

Also if America were actually such a terrible place for the underclass (because racism, etc) wouldn't the rational left-wing response be to try to get the underclass to emigrate somewhere where they might get "fair" treatment?

Maybe nobody read the history of Liberia...
Yes, frequentist inference only allows you to reject the null hypothesis (cats do not cause mental illness), but not to accept it if you fail to reject [1].

The abstract as written is simply wrong from a statistical point of view:

our study strongly indicates that cat ownership in pregnancy or early childhood does not confer an increased risk of later adolescent PEs [2]

If you instead adopt Bayesian reasoning, then the direction of the measured effect is weak evidence that cats cause illness later in life. Either way you cut it, the study author's interpretation fails to coincide with the actual data they collected.

[1] https://liesandstats.wordpress.com/2008/09/08/accept-the-nul...

[2] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/psychological-medici...
Closeup: Next-Generation SteamVR Tracking Base Station Is “Better in Every Way”
If it's possible to tick all the boxes by accident, then the process is utterly broken.
Well, in Lexx, there was Fire[0] and Water[1], which shared an atmosphere[2] which could be traversed with balloons.[3]

0) http://lexx.wikia.com/wiki/Fire

1) http://lexx.wikia.com/wiki/Water

2) https://goo.gl/images/xmxoJ9

3) https://goo.gl/images/oyVNF0
That is so great to hear! Would love to hear more about your story!