skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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For travel:

- Travel with wiped devices with a cloud backup.

- Restore from backup when you reach your destination.

- You could be compelled to give up your cloud login, (since you'll have to know the password in your head) so have a fake one available for plausible deniability.

- Your (real) backup needs: browser, password safe, system patches, system hardening. Anything else should likely be delegated to installing from a script, Ansible, etc, after the fact. This helps minimize history and other private information you could carry around (just in case they DO get your real login).

- Not sure if necessary, as I haven't heard stories by border agents to give up email passwords, but an extra email address for plausible deniability can't hurt.

- All (other) passwords should be stored in a password safe, so you can't be compelled to give them those passwords, since you have no idea what they are anyway.

- Passwords should always be generated and be as long as possible for a particular service.

- Usernames should always be generated and unique.

- Don't use services that restrict password lengths to 20 or less characters.

- Don't use services with a known history of hacks or leaks (i'm looking at you Yahoo/Target).

All that said, it's pretty terrible that joe user will need to know this information just to travel. I doubt many are technically capable of executing on the above strategies. Even software engineers are unlikely to have such due diligence.
For the second question: There doesn't seem to be an explicit reason for the difference of treatment. The code that does it has been there since 1996, and hasn't changed since. The only reason given is "Caching happens based on the contents of the environment variable TZ.".

https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=68dbb3a69...

I'd argue it should cache the same when both old_tz and tz are NULL (but start with an old_tz that is not NULL).

I was about to file an upstream bug, but found https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5184 and https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5186

The latter actually implies the opposite should be happening: files given in TZ should be stat()ed just as much as /etc/localtime.
Only anecdotal, but the lack of evidence could be why interviewing is such a mess for software engineering roles.
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This occurred in October, under Obama, so even if the dems were to win next cycle, there is little hope for the change you seem to be going for.
I don't think the $12.50/hour staff of Allied Barton, Securitas, etc. are SCUBA-certified.
Even if they optimize to the point of native Windows speed it will still be slower than native Linux. Its a well known fact some heavy IO programs run faster under Wine than native.
Any references to best coding practice for PS? For example is there a PS lint? (will start hunting for this)

update 1: latex http://www.latex-project.org and http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12668/where-do-i-star...

update 0:
so open tools for postscript appear to be really interfacing AGPL ghostscript (postscript) api if you can handle the ^agpl^ restrictions ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostscript
Because a healthy portfolio is distributed not only in the amount of risk (I.e. low vs high risk) but also in economic sectors (I.e. tech/futurism, health, energy, agriculture).

For any given investor, the decision to invest in Instacart or any other "crazy bet" is not made in isolation, but within the context of their existing portfolio, which means that the same investor could rationally decide to either invest or not invest, because that decision depends on the rest of their portfolio.

Back-of-the-envelope calculations on HN are always calculated in isolation.
Could someone point me in the right direction for mocking? More specifically, I'm trying to mock the AWS-SDK in a Serverless project. I just can't get a grasp of it from the documentation.
Very cool story. Love that you tried it, love that you're honest about it now.
What's your take on the story?
> and then used the tidytext package to break the lyrics into words,
> eliminate common "stop words" like 'the' and 'a',
> and count the number with negative sentiment

Is 'not' a "stop word"? How did it count negations after "stop words" removed, i.e. "I am not forgotten". Positive, negative?
Do you realize what controls "Should person X be able to do Y" implies? We don't live in a surveillance state where we control people by all encompassing surveillance. This is the status quo, and there's a consensus to keep it that way.

Even in the US where employer snooping is largely unregulated, people are still left with more than enough capability to exfiltrate information from their organisations.

Changing that would imply twice-daily pat-downs / cavity searches, inability to exit the workplace for lunch, bans of personal smartphone etc devices, regular home searches, wiretapping of personal phone/im/email etc and it would still be leaky.

I'm sure you can find instances of leaks where they happened through channels that your "DLP" product has caught, and I can see how that works as a marketing point for DLP. But in the big picture the problem isn't "TLS is secure" and outbound traffic snooping doesn't solve it.
Will Upspin key servers be operated by a non-Google entity so as to allow the global filesystem to continue to function after Google decides to no longer support the project?
Encrypt the disk passwords to your lawyer's PGP key. Give them your lawyer's business card if they ask about it.

Or don't bring your devices with you.
Not surprising for whites. D.C. Is home to many of the richest and most powerful families in the nation, most of which are still whites. It's long been studied that the rich have much better access which leads to a higher life expectancy on average.

The blacks is a head scratcher. You would expect Baltimore or Chicago to crush DC thanks to their famous gang violence but maybe those states don't provide statistics.
Interesting! You estimated the costs using a small program. Have you ever done this with other ideas? Is there some resources which teaches the best ways to do such estimates?

I've done this before with an excel sheet for a specific business my friend was enthusiastic about. It turned out he would have been alright had he gotten a loan.
You are not alone.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/20/travel/after-travel-ban-d...
In the US right now visiting, am Canadian. Was a pain, was held up over an hour at the border (via land). Apparently they don't believe there's any reason for a Canadian to visit the US as a tourist, we only want to work illegally (they're partially right, only came to visit family, our national parks are nicer).

Also, based on my family members' experiences of working in the US, it's easier to work illegally than to immigrate legally. And hard to be a tourist apparently. You guys have your priorities all backwards - should be easy to visit, hard to work illegally, and somewhere in the middle to immigrate legally.
It also requires O(k) memory which is certainly larger than L1, causing two stalls instead of one.
Opiates taken recreationally (or prescribed, but taken at doses above what is directed) can reduce life-span due to the lowering of oxygen intake, interestingly. That's ignoring all the other problems inherent in them (overdose, etc.)
It's such a good pattern, that other languages have even standardized it. Java's exceptions are basically the same thing: The stacktrace and the underlying exception come by default. Arguably, Go made a mistake here by not having featureful errors, since now each project has to reimplement them.
AWS CodeBuild now gives you per minute billing. But it has limited instance types.
It wasn't always economically irrational.

http://web.archive.org/web/20160704054747/http://www.complet...
> But then, you'd be surprised at how many highly-compensated programmers never bother to exercise their options. The same ones who then go on Hacker News and complain about bad treatment of workers, and how if only they owned the companies.

This reads like an oddly specific claim -- do you have examples?
My phone almost always costs around a thousand dollars, roughly the amount the guy persecuted by the CBP was complaining about losing on flights.

It's also instrumental for getting me from the airport I land at to my hotel, as well as remembering the name and address of the hotel I need to travel to from the airport.

I would do what you suggest but a) the Apple store isn't always open when I land, and b) I have no way of summoning a non-taxi to get there (or to where I am sleeping).
>"Nor do all cells in the body divide at a uniform rate."

Knowing that rate in the various tissues even to within a few orders of magnitude is the holy grail.
If you read the rest of the article it also talks about the higher-than-average rate of premature births. No one really knows why.

Also, whether or not you count a pre-mature birth as a "life" is only one of several differences in how counting is done.

I guess my take is that some of the difference is due to counting and some is due to differences in healthcare.
The way I read this is "the service fee is a way to give us more money, so we have more money to pay to everyone who works for us". So then why not just raise your prices and pay your employees more?

If the service fee was split across everyone who participated in your individual transaction, I could understand. Otherwise this is just a way of them saying "a service fee is a way to tip the company, so we can maybe pay our employees more".
No phone. No password. No electronic device. No problem.
Didn't GitHub update their pricing a couple months ago to make private repos free too?
It might 9.3% of their budget because their budget is much smaller. I would bet the 7.1% is possibly skewed due to a lot more people with spare cash finding better ways to fulfill the pleasure aspect (but it's probably craft beer/etc). In the end, buying soda is a combo of poor education/willpower/contemplation.

FWIW, I'm pushing 50 and besides the occasional party, I've never had soda in the house from birth to present, and I probably only treat myself to a soda a 1-2 times a month.
> For F1 budgets, this may be less of an issue.

That's the lingering thought in the back of my mind that kept me on the skeptical side. Thanks for chiming in.
My recent work on Prime Numbers
https://github.com/upspin/upspin/tree/master/rpc

The left hand doesn't seem to know what the right hand is doing it seems. Why not use another Google backed project, grpc, for their rpc stuff? I can understand not wanted extra dependencies, but then why depend on protobuf?
I attended her talk on "Containerizing Your Desktop" at LinuxCon NA 2015, and she maintains this open source repository filled with awesome Dockerfiles that can run anything from Spotify to Chrome. Truly amazing

https://github.com/jessfraz/dockerfiles
Imagine if people routinely traveled to a shop and spent 20-30 minutes collecting mail addressed to them, then traveled home. If mail happened regularly enough, this would be a very inefficient arrangement.

Why is grocery shopping any different? Most people buy pretty much the same stuff on a routine basis. Items have varying shelf-life, making parcel shipment practical for only a subset of items (not to mention the hassle of dealing with all the boxes).

Local grocery retailers are essentially market makers for the items they carry. They also provide parking, merchant processing, and a variety of other services (like store brand items, made-fresh refrigerated items, etc.)

Unless you are a chef looking for inspiration or insist on getting the absolute best looking tomato in the whole store, for most people, the time spent trudging through the aisles is mostly wasted.

In other words, the lack of delivery imposes a significant transaction cost upon obtaining groceries. Thanks to Instacart, I buy a lot more groceries than I used to, which means I spend less money at restaurants. Instacart turns grocery stores into a bigger competitor for restaurants.

Unlike Seamless where you pay close to $5 for delivery of a single meal, with Instacart you can order food for a whole week and pay not much more to have it delivered.

Instacart makes keeping the fridge in stock with just the right items significantly easier and removes the immense hassle of manual shopping/transport.
The worst part for me - places here in NZ are trying to introduce it. I've solved it by not going back, that that doesn't work if the practice spreads.
Congrats on your weight loss! Do your self s huge favor and remind yourself everyday for awhile once you plateau how easy it is to put the weight back on. It requires a systemic change to lifestyle, either less sedentary or less calories, in order to maintain your new weight.

Source: disappointed myself not once but twice before I figured it out.
I live in Mexico and pay for private health insurance because I want nothing to do with the government ran health system. Don't know what makes you think it's one of the best ran in the world.
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> "Berkely"

It would not make sense for students to damage their own campus, considering that comes from their tuition. On the note of media sources, where did you hear that rioters were primarily students? Unless you were there, your source of news is also subjected to suspect.
I've recently relocated to Washington state and am close to the Canadian border. I thought about driving a few hours to check out the sights in BC and satisfy a many years long Tim Horton's drought this weekend (I'm originally from New England where we had Tim's for a brief shining moment in time), but decided against it after reading a plethora of instances online where Canadian authorities have done the same to people at the border.

I figure if I don't get the runaround on the way in, I'll get it on the way back. Sad, but not worth the trouble.
When you start considering renting a device to evade surveillance, you've come full circle. Are you going to pry that thing open for bugs? Not if your deposit depends on it
Ok, but doesn't "straight imperative code" rely on blocking API underneath it? If it does not, the implementation has to store the current state in case it cannot proceed immediately, then restore it later -- which is a context switch.

As for state machine vs. coroutine performance, agreed. But the cost is somewhere around 10-15ns per context switch. Which may be worth paying to get a maintainable code.
It's funny, but I don't think it does much good to think of somebody as dumb. If you or I were actually them, we would be doing the same job. Everyone is getting swept up and used by processes that are too big for them to see.
I don't think the plan is relocations. More than likely, MS see server numbers growing over time, at the very least for the foreseeable future, and they'll be located once, and then decommissioned, not moved.

That may change, but I doubt there are less server farms in 2020 than now.

As a side note, isn't that also Google's plan - the server farm as a single entity, where nothing is really fixed, just turned off and eventually replaced? In such a world, where a server farm exists then dies, underwater seems a great place for them. No regulations, no repairs, locally powered via means that no one can complain about (NIMBYism is a powerful force) just run until decommissioned.
Putty is actually quite slow, due to not implementing AES with the Intel intrinsics. Trying to transfer files using pscp, or WinSCP (which uses putty) over a local network link runs into a CPU bottleneck.
I get detained and harassed at every single border crossing into the US, and I am a citizen—simply for having on several occasions many years ago asserted my 5th amendment rights at the border.

Non-US people traveling with me have been denied entry after being sent to secondary for refusing to unlock their devices (the only reason they were sent to secondary and the unlock demand made was because they were traveling with me, a known fifth-amendment-user).

US CBP are total scumbags. I've had lower level CBP insult the country in which I live, unbidden, in response to my plain, unadorned factual responses to questioning about where I live and what I do there, in what appeared to be self-reassurance about the USA's number one status. Both me and a female partner have had our genitals groped as punitive response to our refusals to unlock our phones.

The sooner we can drive this issue to a head and get all these pigs out on the street looking for new jobs, the better.
http://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/tree/arch/x86_64/syscall_...
> outrage will be generated and justice will be served.

Trump is the personification of the outrage over illegal immigration, crime, bad trade deals, and the Neocon (globalist) wing of the Republican party.

> liberal Americans trusted the system enough to stop looking to see how it was being used

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.
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A lot of things things come up over and over again that is why I have a copy and paste file of what I use often. 90% of the time what I need is in my file. Everyone should be given a standard copy and paste file with the algorithms that come up often rather then needing to be written from scratch. Also now you can save $50,000 per employee by being able to hire from lower then the top 1%
The Bill of Rights says that the government is not allowed to conduct unreasonable search and seizure. This applies to all people, not just to US citizens. Unfortunately, when you are a noncitizen at at a port of entry, the Bill of Rights is effectively a dead letter.
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I hope they make a vim plugin for the software.

Edit - This was a joke, but I do wonder if command/movement style interfaces would be much better for this type of thing than a keyboard interface.
GP was quite specifically taking about chemical corrosion, not bio-fouling. Even if the marine industry conflates these (I can't tell if that's what you're implying in the last sentence), we don't have to.
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Right clicking is one click too many. Wouldn't it be better to get the binary securely in the first place?
I'd avoid traveling to Canada as well.[1][2]

[1]https://www.cnet.com/news/man-charged-for-refusing-to-give-u...
[2]http://www.macleans.ca/culture/crossing-the-line/
Limited to around 11 character words/phrases. You can do better.
US has denied my 70 year old parents visa to visit me because they think they intend to work or stay in USA when my own visa expires in few months!
Jess has a passion that is rivaled by few, a truly inspiring engineer. Keep up the awesome work!

P.S. Her twitter timeline is a must-follow - https://twitter.com/jessfraz
Don't know if you are allowed to comment but:

Is this an early sign of Google going back to its "not evil" roots or do I read too much into this?

Edit: for context, I used to be a google fanboy and I still to sone degree recommend some of their products. I just got a bit fed up with the butchering of xmpp and possibly a few things I can't remember right now.
That goes for citizens within <x> miles of the border as well does it not?
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Argh, you couldn't invent this kafkaesque stuff:

"When he went through secondary inspection at Vancouver airport, US Customs officers didn’t even need to ask for his passwords — they were saved in their own system."

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

--

I know that US/Canada privacy laws might not give people protection in this situations, but what about universal human rights? UN Declaration of Human Rights and other binding international agreements recognize the right to privacy.
Suspicious foreigner. Back you go.
Can be done for example by having a address allocation daemon running in user space. The socket library would create an IPC connection to the daemon and ask for an address/port. The daemon would reserve the address/port and pass it back. The daemon would have to health check the applications so that it can return the addresses back to the pool in case of failure.
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Do you know the details of that? On their site they talk about balancing in terms of queries per second on big query. What is that equivalent to in terms of Gbps?
What operating system do these agencies use? I thought some hardened Unix, but "domain controller" sounds like Windows network.
I do.
I love it actually. Separately they make good software but using multiple atlassian products together makes it amazing software.

Jira, Bitbucket, Confluence, Bamboo all amazing tools
Do you believe it is possible for something to be wrong yet legal?
yeah, i was paraphrasing a bit. how the actual interview went was i was asked to simply find the missing number, i came up with the log space solution pretty quickly, the interviewer then asked if i could do better than that, and it took me a bit of thinking to come up with the constant space answer.
My hand is cramping... I volunteer to write the emacs one first.

But really, this is something I dream about as a spinal disease survivor.
ETH is not a comparable university to Stanford. It has neither the international reputation & network (which is part of what is being purchased), nor the output (in any regard: science, technology, alumni).

There are several public universities in the US that would however be comparable to ETH: UC Berkeley, UCLA, UVA, UNC, etc. ETH still isn't on the level of even a Berkeley when it comes to science or technology output.
Scientism is evil. Science isn't. [0]

Yes, no amount of link throwing can change your opinion if it is based on your values which cannot be changed by any new facts.

[0] https://mises.org/library/scientism-and-values
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Another example: use "tcp_connect" instead of "transmission_control_protocol_connect".
The President has significant influence on how border security is conducted, as evidenced by the recent effect of Trump's executive order which has been covered extensively in the news. Many/most readers will associate this event with Trump.

Incidentally, how do we know when this event happened? The photo is labeled December, but its essentially a stock photo.
Sadly, yubikeys don't work everywhere and can't store more than a couple traditional-style passwords last I checked.
The interesting question here is: Once we have flush() function does that means that protocols are allowed to delay data indefinitely if flush() is not called?
Just be aware of how you function and work around it. At 32, things are still stressful, but I manage alot netter and have developed a sense if humor to help cope. Read books! Learn jokes and Ice breakers!

The challenge in the end, I suppose, is to overcome yourself. Being 10, you're only starting, and things will get better, especially mid-twenties, so you've a good road to walk. Step by step :)
Honestly, as a moderate, I feel as if this country has turned into two divorced parents who are willing to sacrifice the future of their children just to get back at one another. At the moment, people seem to be voting for the candidates that's the biggest "fuck you" to other side, neglecting the fact that a country is best when the interests of all its citizens are put at heart.