skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was thinking mainly about the entertainment value of using scarce recreational funds to have groceries delivered, but as someone else in the thread pointed out, there are cases where taking a taxi to get groceries (as I did in college) is actually a lot more expensive than Instacart, so I could see it appealing to an even wider range of people for similar reasons.
You don't have a foot pedal? (https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/FootSwitches)
They usually have to construct a narrative of suspicion. I don't know how not having electronic devices or a phone is suspicious.
It shows a hole in our rule of law. There's a case in front of SCOTUS, Hernández vs. Mesa, exploring the Constitutional protection of foreign nationals at the U.S. border [1]. In 2010, an unarmed fifteen-year-old Mexican boy was shot in the head by a U.S. Border Patrol agent. The boy was in a culvert jointly patrolled by the U.S. and Mexico, but officially, the agent was in the United States and the boy in Mexico.

This more proximate story profiles a single U.S. Customers and Border Protection agent traversing the personal and sensitive data of a minority (by sexual orientation) citizen of a friendly nation. The agent wields sole and arbitrary power to detain, question, seize and arrest. And he does so with impunity. (Our government declined to prosecute Jesus Mesa, Jr., from Hernández vs. Mesa, despite him having made up claims of the victim throwing rocks at him, later disproven.)

We're on Hacker News, so instead of depressed drivel I'll suggest a solution. We need legal insurance for the U.S. border crossing. Get extrajudicially harassed by a numpty? Your monthly fee covers a competent lawyer. (Maybe use the AirHelp model [2]--you only pay if they succeed.) We also need rapid data exfiltration and reintroduction techniques. Wiping my iPhone and Mac, traversing the border, and then hoping my Internet on the other side is fast (and secure) enough to reload my apps and data within a day isn't reasonable.

[1] http://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Cross-b...

[2] https://www.airhelp.com/en/
> google docs and paper

Paper?
Consequences such as Democrats ruling over the most violent and highest murder rate areas (both per capita) of the nation for decades? Along with Democrats controlling the areas of the nation with by far the highest infant mortality rates. There's no question it's a direct consequence of their governance.
What are the implications for a passenger with a poor star rating?
Hello, my name is David. I would fail to write bubble sort on a whiteboard
ok here's a quick dump:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostScript

- language reference Adobe V3 https://www.adobe.com/products/postscript/pdfs/PLRM.pdf

- postscript as programming language http://www.ugrad.math.ubc.ca/Flat/lang.html

- First guide to Postscript http://tailrecursive.org/postscript/postscript.html

- L-systems in Postscript http://www.cs.unh.edu/~charpov/programming-lsystems.html

- The PostScript programming language http://www.cburch.com/csbsju/cs/portfolio/postscript.pdf

- Postscript Tutorial and Cookbook https://www-cdf.fnal.gov/offline/PostScript/BLUEBOOK.PDF

- PDF vs Postscript https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/kssyt/postscri...

- Learn Postscript by Doing https://staff.science.uva.nl/a.j.p.heck/Courses/Mastercourse...
Integrate Aspose.Barcode in Visual Studio 2015 and MS SSRS 2016 Support
Honor+V9+Made+Official+for+China
Well now I don't feel so bad about giving them 3 stars for adequate service.
More on Mildred Dresselhaus in this IEEE Spectrum profile [1] when she was awarded the IEEE Medal of Honor in 2015.

[1] http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/profiles/mildred-dresselh...
It is most definitely not. For starters, you could also have argued that ε^2/ε = 0 since the numerator is 0.
I wonder if after training, these paralyzed users would develop a sort of language of brain primitives (almost a "thought alphabet") which are easily recognizable by the software and easy signals for the human brain to create. It may vary by user, but I wonder what the general set of easy "letters" would look like.
It says in the article:

"he was going through Customs preclearance at Vancouver airport last October"
> most people have used computers, and have already learned how to accomplish basic tasks on one of the Big 2 desktop OSes.

This comes down to MS and Apple trying to dominate the education system. IMHO schools could teach Linux from the start, and a major part of this issue would be gone already. Closed incumbents fear that, and provide "incentives" for schools, to make sure their lock-in remains unchallenged.

> There's a reason Dell markets their Linux laptop as the "developer edition" and not the "Linux edition" or "Ubuntu edition" or whatever.

There is too much inertia there. Since Dell had troubles in the past, they translate it into present. They should just start anew and offer Linux on all their models.

> very unreasonable (for a layman) modal if it can't.

If something can't deduce security method, what do you expect it to ask? Particular details of the UI adjust to selected security method (at least in KDE manual configuration). I.e. I find it completely reasonable, and I doubt Windows or any other OS can fare better if automatic configuration fails.
It's the pre-screen areas are inside Canadian airports, on Canadian lands. Anything the us border cops can do there, they do so with the permission of the Canadian government.
Since when does the US give a damn thing about the UN declaration?
For other reasons I checked camlistore website a few days ago and it seemed totally stale.

You mean work is progressing on camlistore? That would make me a little bit happier : )
> The sun provides over 1GW/sq km when it's shining. The biology seems to get by fine with that.

The issue is the amount of heat relative to the environment in which flora and fauna have evolved to survive, not relative to absolute zero.

It's like saying that a 313 Kelvin body temperature shouldn't bother me because I do fine with 310K (~37C). It's only a 3K difference, after all.
For value, yes. If not, perhaps you don't really value your leisure time at $1000/hr.
> Anecdotally, everyone I know who is on a "self-discovery" quest never seems to discover anything or actually get happier.

Everyone I know who says shit like that publicly is like that. Most people don't share stuff like that unless they are assholes.
Over the last few years I've gone from wanting to visit the US and planning it as one of the next few holidays I'd like to do, to wanting to visit the US but holding off until 'later', to now simply not wanting to visit due to these sort of policies and actions at the border.

It's a shame; US citizens are generally lovely people, the US natural environment is beautiful and, hell, the US makes killer craft beers that I'd love to drink my way through. However, there's enough other destinations around the world to keep me busy so that I don't have to possibly subject myself to this sort of treatment, and therefore I'll visit them instead.
Are you talking about the documentation, or an app you're trying to run with Neutrino? I'm not aware of any problems with either, but if you could raise an issue I'd be happy to investigate.
Everyone proposing clever technical solutions. Burner phones and encrypted cloud data etc... you are solving the wrong problem. Instead of engineering a way for the few people who care deeply to avoid this at great effort, engineer a way for this to not be legal. Write your congressperson, donate time and money to political parties, make privacy at the border for ALL (not just citizens) a priority in every election.
Cute! But, well, this is obviously bullshit:

> the cheeriest, 15 Step

The title line: "fifteen steps and then a sheer drop". A song which makes explicit references to, well, execution by hanging is...

(And "you used to be alright; what happened?" is a repeated motif.)
Activists Placed a ‘Refugees Welcome’ Banner on the Statue of Liberty
Well, have you tried clicking "GOT IT"?
It's just a warning, not "broken"
Agreed, the GP comment is classic survivor bias, you notice successful people who are affected by ADHD, you don't notice unsuccessful people (regardless of where on the spectrum they may lie).
Remember when they needed access to our electronic devices only in "very limited cases" and then only "because terrorism"?

These "officials" are destroying their own credibility.
A new set of protocols for file sharing
Apparently the second happiest song on OK Computer is "Fitter Happier". (A pig / in a cage / on antibiotics.)

So much of Radiohead's bleakness is in their use of irony.
In some Canadian airports, there's "pre-clearance", where you go through American customs while still on Canadian soil. Right now, they can't hold you, because you're in Canada -- so if they aren't going to let you in, you can just leave, back into Canada.

There was a recent (Canadian) bill that gives US customs the ability to hold and search in pre-clearance, in Canada.
NBA Jam source code (PS1) for sale on eBay
Yeah, terrible that I give away good content for free. This one requires an email opt-in. Terrible.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-audit/2015-January/msg...

of course this is RHEL 2.6.32 and it's open/close but 200000 sc/s vs 3000 sc/s shows it has some overhead. Maybe someone can rerun that test code on git and see what the overhead is.
Xe just did mplayer as well. It calls non-blocking select(), then non-blocking poll(), then nanosleep(), in a loop.

* http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/mplayer-ktracing
In the article, even a clean phone is suspicious.

"No phone? Are you hidding something?"
Weird to see terms like liberalism, socialism, and technocracy thrown around interchangeably in this piece.

Socialism in particular is primarily about how power is allocated to labor. It has little, if anything, to do with UBI. The Silicon Valley vision for America is incredibly hostile to labor and doesn't qualify as socialist simply because it jockeys free software/is open to the idea of feeding table scraps to the unemployed.
CodeHub: Universal Windows GitHub Client
Have been using https://goodbudget.com/ for almost 2 yrs. Clutter-free mobile apps, cloud storage and free account allows 2 moblie devices to sync. Very satisfied.
Ideology?
That's how most countries are. For the most part the US is the exception for industrialized countries in that it's easy to work illegally because the gov does not enforce verification very hard and does not penalize employers often. I know countries I've been to, even if you could avoid interacting with authorities, there's no way to get other gov services while not having proper visas --ie, education, housing assistance, etc.
Ask HN: Would you change your work-email app?
Would you change your (work) email app (outlook, gmail,...) for one (with the same features) but connected to your ERP system (and/or productivity tool)?

An email client that beside calendar, meetings, contacts would also show you, projects, tasks, invoices,... yours and of your team?

Thanks
People take "short circuits" when coming to conclusions based on "facts".

Instead of:

1. I value A more than B.
2. Facts show that X tends to cause A and Y tends to cause B.
3. Therefore I prefer X to Y.

They do:

1. The facts show that Y causes B.
2. Therefore, how can you be against Y?
3. By arguing against Y, you are ignoring the facts of B.

... which is frankly a non-sequitur.

Arguing against a conclusion or policy is not the same as ignoring facts.
Retailers go where the customers go, though.

Two years ago downtown L.A. didn't have a Whole Foods Market, and Instacart-branded packages were commonplace in residential complexes. Low and behold downtown L.A. gets a Whole Foods Market. Someone at Instacart probably has the right numbers, but combined with Costco delivering more of their everyday stuff, anecdotally I see fewer Instacart bags around.
"It's early but again, we want all your and your families files and we want to train our AI from it"
I'm sure there are positive and negative consequences to both parties' governance; it would be interesting and valuable to discuss, learn about, and figure out.

That's not what the parent comment is doing, unfortunately. It's sad that yet another HN discussion is derailed.
I would say that one of the most common problems is unrealistic expectations placed on Marketers for highly technical products. Successful technical companies realized long ago that they must use teams which combine skills to tackle individual projects in Marketing & Advertising. There is some magic combination of experience, luck, and process - and usually many projects in parallel are required so that ineffective approaches can be quickly discarded and another tried. I've been involved in successful marketing efforts - and the failed ones were usually doomed from the start by executives with unrealistic expectations - resulting in process and organizations which can't work.
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A cleaned out phone is suspicious. Are you hiding something? Nope I have nothing to hide, but I still don't have a phone on me sir. This guy in the ended up with a history. That's where his problems began, after that you are fucked no matter what you do unless you play it very very clean.
Personalized, user-focused recommendations for employee information security
While we're victim blaming. His new "clean" phone had nudes of him on it.
It makes you look like you're hiding your digital profile. Which, to be fair, would be true.
It's varied over time. Sometimes I've talked to them on the phone as they shopped and it was indeed the same person that delivered to my door. Then for a while it wasn't, then it was again.

From conversations with the shoppers, it also varies by store chain. Different chains have different deals with Instacart as to how the shoppers can perform their jobs, including if it's the same person delivering.

My impression is that when they get what they want, Instacart has shoppers that stay in the store shopping and drivers that deliver.
This!

Also, clever technical solutions won't help when not having any data is seen as suspicious.

Like, you cannot tell them "I don't know my passowrds. They are in a password safe, and I do not have access right now". When the law says you have to hand over your passwords, "I don't know them right now" is probably not a valid excuse anyway.
it's pretty elegant.
> People who live in the suburbs without cars.

I live in the suburbs with multiple cars. That said I would love if a service (ideally for grocery and restaurant delivery) was in my area. I just don't feel like dealing with rush hour; or the time it takes to grocery shop. I have tried taskrabbit and hiring someone off craigslist. I had better luck with craigslist (for grocery shopping), yet then all sorts of legalities some up that I don't feel like dealing with either.
I'd go even further and say that even if you have learned the idiosyncrasies of Webpack, you still won't want to carry on maintaining multiple configurations, or repeat your work across many projects. I believe Neutrino can have appeal to those users as well; those that want to consolidate their work into presets and share.

Thank you for the kind words!
This person is attempting to cross with no electronic device. Nearly 100% of first world citizens own a device. What is this person hiding? It must be bad. Denied.
Go to NZ. Natural wonder of the world and the craft beer is killer. You'll thank me.
ZSH Autosuggestions – pre-emptive autocomplete for your shell
The documentation that the link goes to, clicking any of those links on the left or the next/back button does nothing. It looks like it might be cause be the company zscalar or the site, the error is:

> has been blocked by CORS policy: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'https://neutrino.js.org' is therefore not allowed access.

Either way, it ridiculous to require javascript to read a plain text site.
The DHS under the direction of the President. Are you suggesting that the US needs looser border controls and screening?
US Customs is sad that it missed a chance to start it's own version of facebook and now wants to recoup their opportunity by strongly encouraging everyone to sign up when they travel.
I'd say the primary motivation for the sequencing efforts is that we're hitting the limits at what we can detect using SNPs. We now know of many inversions, deletions, insertions which are linked to phenotypes, and often you don't have a SNP positioned close enough to detect a signal. It's just easier and more comprehensive to align the genomic reads directly to detect these rearrangements than it is to look for a null signal in the SNP dataset.
What made you reimplement the rendering algorithm and/or switch JSON libraries (eg were these changes backed by data/measurements)?
Thanks - looks like I was wrong about the etymology. I'd read the term itself was created in response to what the nazis did, a lot of which started under the guise of eugenics.

This book spent some times talking about it and I thought it was interesting: http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Gene/Siddhartha-Mu...
Small Businesses Are Quickly Adapting as Big Data Is Becoming More User Friendly
My public digital profile is available on LinkedIn and various other sites for anyone to see. I have nothing to hide. I do have some private information that I would keep to my self, according to my constitutional rights.
Here's what I want:

A way to hit a button and have the contents of my laptop or phone encrypted locally, shipped off to some secure cloud storage, and then purged from my laptop. I'll take the empty device through. I can just tell them that it's a gift for a friend, or something work asked me to bring over to a co-worker. Then when I'm on the other side, I hit the button... download, decrypt, and restore my stuff -- then wipe it from the cloud.

Anyone who makes this service, I'll gladly pay you $100 per use.

(Dear BackBlaze... I know you're close, just build out the UX and automation a bit better.)

It sucks, but I guess I'll just take an old phone and tell them I'm planning on getting a SIM card when I land... I only really need it for finding my way around anyway. I can FedEx my laptop and have it waiting for me. But what a pain in the ass all of this is.
They signed it.
> Mexico is an emerging first world nation with universal health care, one of the best run systems in the world.

You are joking right? Have you ever set foot in an IMSS Hospital? Describing it as a third world health care service is being generous.

Source: I'm Mexican.
I can see members of congress agreeing to privacy right at the border for citizens --only a very few would support the same for non-citizens, even Dems. There is no political upside to that position and it serves a very small percentage of Americans, indirectly, so, that's not going to fly.
> Trump is the personification of the outrage over illegal immigration, crime, bad trade deals, and the Neocon (globalist) wing of the Republican party.

Exactly, it's the system working for the other side of the country. They didn't have nearly as good of a grassroots outreach mechanism, they finally built one.

The two sides cannot agree on what justice means. That's ultimately a national question and so it had to be settled in the election. It's the Republicans now that get to decide what justice means, and liberals get to lick their wounds and retrench.

The direction the world is moving in is liberalism. So this can only be a minor setback.

> Umm, what? For over a year, liberal Americans were aghast at the rise of Literally Hitler and made no bones about sharing their opinion on the matter.

Right, they pressed the outrage button thinking it was going to fix the problem, like it usually does. It didn't because Trump outmaneuvered them.
Beyond the obvious privacy issue, there is a more general worrying pattern here. The fact we give mediocre, frustrated, under-waged people, some power, with minimum control. This is not a condescending remark, and I truly think the root of all these incidents (and this also include other abuse of power) lies here. Think of sadistic guards in prison, think of police officers coldly killing black teens. These all are patterns where mediocre and frustrated people have finally a chance to get a revenge on their meaningless life by using the only relevant element they have: their power.
This. It is harder and harder to use and trust anything from google besides email and search.
Hosting companies would be either adding capacity (new locations, new land, new construction) or filling existing capacity. Once capacity is full at a location, then what?

The marginal, incremental value of adding a single server once capacity is reached is currently quite high. Using bogus numbers, lets say a location can hold 100,000 servers, then the marginal cost to add the 100,001st server will be very high, and might cost millions. These costs include:

- Cost of planning - when? Which countries? Which locations? Do you serve Kenya out of say South Africa? Or do you need to go to the mountains of Kenya where the air is a more consistent temperature?

- Cost of finding locations - doing deals to get the land for server farms is likely costly.

- Actually buying/leasing the land - how in advance do you do this? Years? Months? Weeks? Leasing land that lays dormant for say 18 months is wasted money.

- Getting approval to put in the required infrastructure (data cables, electricity, redundancy etc)

- Engineering/architectural costs to design buildings each and every time for varying sizes, in different regulatory environments.

- Cost of construction.

- Wasted capacity. There may be a need worldwide for say 50,000 servers, but with multiple continents, that may equate to several locations with 100,000 capacity.

All those costs add up.

Compare that to the marginal cost is adding a standard pod, with a lower server numbers per pod, mass manufactured in one location and shipped to a regulation free spot in the ocean. The marginal cost is not millions to go from (bogus numbers of) 100,000 to 100,001, it is the cost of one additional pod, at a much lower number, e.g. to go from 10,000 to 10,001 costs a fraction of the 100,000 to 100,001 example. The waste is also reduced, as multiple countries/continents can have say an additional X% capacity, added in smaller increments, rather than huge leaps in (initially) wasted capacity.

Now, is that overall cheaper? Maybe, maybe not, who knows? But many large hosting businesses might prefer say a 10% increase in theoretical cost per server added in smaller discrete numbers of servers. Factor in adding capacity in smaller increments with less capacity waste, less need to acquire the rights to land in advance and it might be cheaper in aggregate, even if it is theoretically more expensive per server at currently active locations.

Incidentally, that is the core value proposition of cloud computing like AWS - that you can add capacity incrementally. Despite there being theoretically cheaper options running your own hardware, this is larger capital outlay, with longer turnarounds to add capacity.