skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate the sentiment here and think that tech as an industry could do with a lot more humility about its intersection with public policy. I feel like I know the people involved in this proposal well enough to say that they agree with this as well.

The point of the travel-lock proposal is that it's actually common sense. Everyone should want this feature. It is actually weird that we walk around all the time with unfettered access to decades of personal correspondence and a detailed log of every person we've ever meet even fleetingly online. The default should be different: getting access to years-old emails or a photographic memory of every acquaintance you have should be extraordinary.
Or better, switch to Matrix. Also E2E but without the lack of features (like multiple devices and a desktop app without a phone proxy) and odd obsession with phone numbers that Signal has.
It is a meaningless tautology to say the policy is only the policy until it is changed. If you can find further information, such as more recent FOI requests, that would be useful.

There is no reason to believe that CBSA under Trudeau would have dumber policies than under Harper, I fact the opposite.
Facebook is just never going to get the same demographics as Snapchat. Period. Snapchat is currently seen as something that is used exclusively by teens and younger people while everyone and their grandma is on facebook, making it "uncool". I'm curious to see what happens when the older generation moves into Snapchat.
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That's redefining coercion towards meaninglessness.
I really, really like Mailgun! and can't understand why they don't get more "press" or mentions on the forums, etc. It seems only their competitors are ever talked about.

Yet with Mailgun everything always works, the API is super simple and so is integration. And their free tier lets you handle 10,000 msg per month!!

Maybe they can use some marketing, because the product is great!
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Yeah true. Docker master has a seccomp profile that blocks this socket family though.
Incidentally, that's why I think there is virtually zero chance for these types of features to take off: the system strongly discourages early adopters from trying them.

That can be addressed by how it is marketed. Instead of calling it "Travel mode," it could be called "Work mode" or something like that. Commercials could target college students going home to visit parents and not wanting parents to see all their crap or that sort of thing.
Hey, you have any easy solution: never ever visit the US. The overwhelming majority of non-citizens passing through the border are on some kind of temporary visit, so it's relatively easy to choose to stay the hell away.
It's fun to read Mark Spiegel's twitter feed. I've never seen someone so desperately try to force a theory. I wonder why some people want to see Tesla fail so badly.
I agree with you. Non-citizens traveling to the US are in a very bad position right now.
I don't think any part of the proposal depends on it not being possible to detect whether an account is travel-locked, but I'm curious about why you think it's so straightforward to tell if an account is locked?

Surely, if this became popular, CBP would simply start asking aliens seeking entry whether their accounts were travel locked. And the standard advice would be, "never lie to CBP".

But I'm still curious about why you think this would be so obvious.
I'm torn on this. Sure it might speed up the game during intentional walks but they really aren't that frequent. On the other hand, there are numerous cases where a pitcher has a case of the yips and throws a passed ball allowing runners in scoring position to advance.
While the system itself is nothing extraordinary from a detached, theoretical point of view - we are aware that there are many planetary systems in the universe of all sorts and sizes - what makes this news so impressive in my opinion is the thrill of actually witnessing, almost tangibly, such an alien and wonderful system, excitingly different from our own (read the article in detail, fascinating stuff), amplified by the fact that these planets are relatively quite close.

Basically, the system is so peculiar and close to us, now that we have actually discovered it is difficult not to be fascinated by it, even though we know it's nothing to be perplexed with in the grand scheme.
Simply, current definition "fake news" == propaganda
No they're perfectly legal. The author is giving away the booklet for free (its only 14 pages). See the bottom half of this page: http://efficientfrontier.com/ef/0adhoc/2books.htm
Relying on dysfunctional communication between portions of government doesn't seem like a sustainable strategy.
Yes factory reset is pretty much the same thing I was proposing.

The only missing piece is a easy way to restore the phone once I reach my destination.
With a round trip parts delivery time OF a generation, and a communications delay of almost a decade (two for duplex), I don't see any reason not to classify such a mission as a short-range 'generation ship' / complete colony effort.

Getting our 'eggs' out of a single cosmic basket is really important, however I think we need to at least take the baby-crawl to establishing an outpost in the asteroid belt. That would be far closer, have far more reasonable communications/parts delays, and if we can actually send up some robots to build things ahead of us, might actually be a good manufacturing base.
This guide has been in use since 2014, including recently launched Cloud Spanner API.

Disclaimer: co-author of the design guide.
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If you're afraid of vendor lock-in, but fine with comments then you can just put all of your typing information in jsdoc comments.

https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/JSDoc-support-i...
I pointed out these perks in response to some comments in this thread claiming Thiel is anti LGBT, racist and sexist. The company profile is in fact very diverse [1].

[1] https://www.palantir.com/diversity/
It's a real concern for non-citizens. US citizens can't be denied entry.
Kernel is trying to hack the human brain – but neuroscience has a long way to go
I feel people who own pets don't see things from a pet's perspective. But that's probably just me. Having someone love you based on sort of sort weird stockholm-syndrome based relationship is weird. The cat comment, as much as it's a joke I have seen most folks around me who own cats have this need for constant drama. And Goodness, no matter how much the cats randomly lashes out at these owners, the owners still love em, where's the bloody logic in that? I guess everyone on here is a S&M lover. But anecdotal evidence doesn't count for much haha
I just (trivially) opened two accounts. I didn't even have to use a proxy.

Since I have 800 coins now, where should I contact you to cash on on my day of free consulting? I've got some fun projects for you to work on.

> It does not mean that the price wont change soon;).

That's the problem though (that I'm trying to illustrate). All I'm doing is trusting that you'll want to continue to offer this trade, there's no guarantee of that. As it is, I wouldn't even pay $1 for 100 coins, even though your time is almost certainly worth more than that.
I see bunch of comments of ppl trying hard to hire her. I've been trying to get a job in devops space too, trying to get an idea what makes this person so appealing.
The only argument I would make against your points 1 & 2 is that I as a developer can't assume that a person with a rooted device knows what they are doing. For instance... I have a number of friends that have purchased rooted devices for the sake of using things like Kodi, against my advice. They do not understand their devices, or why downloading movies that hit the theater that day is illegal b/c they legally downloaded Kodi or bought a Kodi device legally. I am constantly having to fix/wipe them because they dont even understand the basics of security, ( i.e. they click ok on every popup without reading them, etc). Fortunately they pay me as I have refused for many years now to give free support, even to family. Anyhow, whenever my friends buy phones and other media devices, they almost always without fail and without asking my advice, purchase rooted ones online. Hell, for all they know, those devices could have software on them specifically for keylogging, etc.. and they would never know. So yeah, you can't assume a rooted device is in the possession of a competent user.
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this entire subthread is entertaining the notion that a true libertarian society would have no government capable of using force against the citizenry. If the "police" here are hired as a private contractor, who is hiring them? the government ? (then you have government coercion). Random small communities pooling together? (then you have the wealthiest and most powerful citizens owning the police. in other parts of the world these people are called "warlords").

edit: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warlord#Warlordism_as_the_domi...

> The other major consideration in categorizing warlords is through the lens of history. Warlordism was a widespread, dominant political framework that ordered many of the world's societies until the modern state became globally ubiquitous. Often warlord governance in pre-modern state history was constructed along tribal or kinship lines and was congruent with early perceptions of "nation." In colonial empires warlords served in both cooperative political capacities and as leaders of rebellions. In modern states the presence of warlords is often seen as an indicator of state weakness or failure. American historian David G. Herrmann noted, "Warlordism is the default condition of humanity."[5]

So, that's the highly "pure" form of libertarianism discussed in this thread (e.g., no government). A highly libertarian state is by definition very "weak" and we can observe that warlordism rises out of such states (as common sense would suggest in any case). Been there, done that.
I'd been thinking about a similar thing: a "limited access for border guards" mode.

Basically, you can turn over the phone to border guards in a way which gives them access to what is on the phone, but which logs actions, and allows you to easily revert/revoke any changes they make. (This would also be a mode you'd turn over to an employer demanding access).

Potentially this mode might also block access to certain things (secret FB groups, archives over a certain age, some chat logs), but would otherwise be fully functional.

The benefit would mainly be that all actions taken would be logged and reportable, as a way to try to keep authorities from poking in places they shouldn't. It seems they are NOT mostly using forensic imaging tools, but logging in directly on the devices, at least right now, so there would be some value.
Don't suppose you want to give more information on your personal experience? When did they last ask for your passwords? Did they give a reason?
> The real solution is a political one where we speak up and legeislate and litigate that the 4th amendment applies a the border.

Considering the tiny percentage of Americans that travel overseas or even hold passports, I'm not sure a political solution is realistic. I think we might be outnumbered by the people who don't care about such privacy issues because it will never affect them.
In an attempt to avoid the appearance of politicking, I'd offer that this is not as significant a sum as it may seem initially, viewed in relative terms to... other governmental expenditures.
I bought this book and I've been using it - but I'm writing the interpreter in Rust instead of Go. I really like it, and I think Go is actually a cool language for this due to its simplicity. I had very little Go experience but the language is drop dead boring, incredibly easy to pick up.

I'd recommend it.
The classic example is:

function double(x) {
return x * 2;
}
const result = double("foo");

Which passes in TS, but fails in Flow. In TS, the 'x' parameter to the double function is inferred as Any.
Good point, but it doesn't need to be anywhere near a majority. If just 1% is travelers use it, it would not trigger more than a few extra questions. Especially if those 1% are mostly computer professionals where deeper questioning hardly ever turns up anything.

One feature I'd like with this travel mode is having a log of every bit of data that was accessed during the trip. At least then I would know how much was copied. Some kind of rate limiting would be good too, so they cannot just copy everything.
One sentence in your comment is accurate. I'll let you figure out which one.
I think that would be difficult to achieve. If it's minimal enough to achieve the goal, it's minimal enough to look like travel mode.

If the only goal is to refuse them access to your account, you can do that already. Your devices will be confiscated, non-citizens will be refused entry, but you can do it if your device encryption is strong enough.

The goal here seems to be to give you the ability to get through the border without giving up your information. If it looks like "trip mode", it's failed at that goal, and I'm not sure it's possible to make it both mainstream and stealthy enough to work.
TillE: If your immigrating (this includes green card holders) to the USA, and have lived there for years, that isn't a very practical solution.
S/he's saying you need to have strong evidence for such a strong claim.
I changed jobs a little over 4 years ago and went from working from home to working for a local company. I have about a 25 minute walk each way, and like you, I find the same benefits. I "read" so many more books now having signed up for an Audible subscription. Plus the company I work for pays out a $1 benefit each way to encourage walkers/bikers/public transportation. I live in the upper Midwest so I don't always enjoy the winter walks, but I still try and do it every day.
That's a very defeatist position (not to mention that this policy is emulated, or will be soon emulated by many other countries). Isolationisms won't help neither the political situation in the world at large, nor the situation in the US right now. The US is a great place to visit, a great place to do business in, and a great place to live in. Not to mention that many, many people that are affected by this policy are non-citizens that are in the process of becoming a citizen (either formally, or not started yet). Or many are employees of some US company living in some other country.

My parents and my partner are in the US. They have lived there for 27 years, but I am not a US citizen. Are you telling me that I should just give up on my family?
General relativity gives a very solid and accurate understanding of gravity.
Silicon Psalm (1980) [pdf]
I'm not a biologist, but here's a fascinating article on the subject: http://m.nautil.us/blog/forget-earth_likewell-first-find-ali...

TL;DR is that there may exist a band around the planet where the two zones meet that is habitable. I think it's a reasonable supposition that most of the rest of the planet would be uninhabitable.
Why not go further with the idea of a Travel Mode toggle and have it be tied to the device itself. This cuts out any possibility of any data being left on the device from being analyzed easily, social media or otherwise.

Google and/or Apple could add this as a new menu toggle similar to Airplane mode. Once switched on, while in an airport, prevents the device from being unlocked. Then by utilizing geofencing, once the device leaves the airport it unlocks and can be used again.
I have a 5820K (6 core 3.3 ghz base) and using Handbrake to encode a HD .mkv file from MakeMKV, the 6 core machine beat the 7700k clocked at 4.2ghz. Once I overclocked the 5820k to 4Ghz, it was about 10-15% faster than the 7700k which I had then clocked to 4.6Ghz. So I'm looking forward to the 1700x. Not all programs scale as well as Handbrake does with more cores.
Has that affected your career in any way, especially when interviewing?

It has certainly made interviewing hell for me. "Tell me about yourself," they say. My best attempts at explaining anything I've done sound like I'm spouting off random BS, even if it's as basic as how my ride in was or what I had for breakfast.
There's also https://notify.ly/ which includes "dozens of sources, like Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Reddit, Blogs, News, Medium & Product Hunt."
Its so much worse than that. The US Border Patrol jurisdiction stretches 100 miles inland from the US border... 2 out of 3 Americans LIVE in the Border patrol jurisdiction.

https://www.aclu.org/other/constitution-100-mile-border-zone
The "strong claim" that the IOC is corrupt?

Really? Have you been following IOC news for the past two decades? Everyone knows they're corrupt, but they do own the Olympic brand. The brand is doing great, but the organization that runs it is rotten to the core.

If you really do need a URL, feel free to start here: http://google.com/search?q=olympic+corruption

How do we fix this? I really can't think of a way to do it besides abandoning the term "olympic".
why? either you think NASA is good at science or you don't, you can't pick and choose depending on whether or not you like the results
Sounds like a bug. Under normal circumstances the acme would not exist and could not be resolved, and therefore no cert would be created.
I bought an i7 desktop CPU from 2008 and have absolutely no inkling or reason to upgrade. I never thought I would be using the same CPU for almost 10 years, but here we are.
> Louise didn't warn her daughter because it wasn't in the "script" of the future.

Indeed.

My point is that if she made a meaningful choice to make the phone call and find out the term "non-zero-sum", as manicdee was claiming, then surely by the same token she also made a meaningful choice not to warn her daughter.
In order to establish a "one account per human" rule, I think using some form of biometric identifier will be inevitable.

My first attempt would probably be a 600 DPI flatbed scan of both hands, palms down, with a nonce written on them with a marker. But since I am a stinker, the nonce would be a procedurally generated phrase similar to "22Feb2017 @randomhandle 03D6A9C1 #RateMyHands", and my trust would wither in the ensuing user data privacy scandal.

I'm sure someone more mature and responsible than I am could do better with that idea.

If you can determine that a new account has the same hands as an existing account, you can stop depositing into the old one, and continue with the new one. You can start with human eyeball inspection, and work your way up to automated hashes of extracted features.
Scientists understand gravity very well, pick up any book on general relativity.
A significant part of why things are bad for non-resident aliens is that protecting your social media accounts is abnormal, so doing it flags you as an anomaly.

But that's not because people don't want to protect their social media accounts. You could probably make decent money with a "travel lock" product that groomed your accounts this way, in fact. The reason nobody does it is that the big cloud services don't offer this as a built-in feature.

So this is a case, it seems to me, where helping citizens will have a knock-on effect of also helping non-resident aliens.
This is such a double edged sword - GitHub as the central node in the network of trust, means GitHub has unprecedented control over developers in that network.

Someone doesn't like you or your repo, and can convince GitHub to evict you - you're off the network, and all your contributions are gone.
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Isn't becoming part of the target population essentially the same thing as signing up?

If the cost remained exactly the same, then either you spread similar benefits across a similar group size, or you spread greatly reduced benefits over a much larger group of people, to the point where it's no longer a living "wage".
Fitbit paid just $23M to get its hands on Pebble
I was quite delighted with the Rio Olympics in terms of accessibility: streaming gave on-demand largely/completely commercial-free to some 6,000 hours of content (live & replay). Only quirk was having to AirPlay it from my iPhone to my Apple TV, and it may have leveraged some rights with AT&T/U-verse for otherwise free viewing.
Thankfully, as US citizens we are free to establish a norm of using features like this, with no fear of deportation.
> Good god.... I love GitHub and what it allows for but let's not paint this as the "commoners" knocking down the walls that protect the "elites" in their ivory castles.

If you're able to fuck around with projects on Github, you are the privileged elite.
> They're a continuation of endless, open, 'possible', unfounded allegations, questions, and speculation.

I'm not entirely sure what this means. My intention was to better understand your mental model, which appears a bit sloppy, or at least more concerned with its conclusion than with its integrity as a rational process.

I guess what I'd say (constructively) is that if it is too much work to articulate your argument as a tree of probabilistic scenarios to each player and strategic moves which themselves have probabilistic outcomes, then I think that might be a clue that your might not actually believe your own argument.

One example I'd offer about how I think we can understand ourselves better by using probabilistic reasoning is this:

We routinely make important decisions based on imperfect understanding of our own motives or preferences. This is why the technique of flipping a coin to make difficult A vs B decisions is so powerful. The decision was difficult precisely because we expect to be equally happy with either outcome. Thus letting the coin toss result make the decision preserves our utility maximization (to the best of our knowledge). At times, if it lands on heads, we may feel regret, which can indicate that we actually preferred the other outcome. The practice is very illustrative of how opaque our own uncertainty can be to us.

So we should assume when considering the decision-making of those who we can't ask directly for details, that there was nearly always a fair bit of uncertainty behind every decision. The more external evidence there is that the person is deeply rational (as world leaders nearly always are) the more confident we can be that the decision was not guided by a deluded sense of outcome probability.

Thus, for actions that involve many steps taking place blind (without an eye on the outcome) we must assume either that the actor is indifferent to the outcome, or that there is some benefit to outcomes other than the most desired one, and that the potential costs are well understood.

We don't need to know everything about the actor's decisions or expected probabilities to reason about his actions, since we can learn a great deal by outlining the things we feel confident about and determining whether the other pieces of our theory seem to fit. This was the intention behind the questions I posed, to help us both scrutinize your view more thoroughly, since if you are right I'd very much like to agree with you.
I read a lot of resumes, and interview a lot of developers.

The times I've looked at Github it was either "meh, this doesn't tell me much" or "Holy shit, run away". And about 5X in favor of running away.

So it's been useful, in a sense, but not as a positive signal.
People get upset by the 'superhero' status of Elon Musk. Nerds everywhere worship the guy, buy his cars, watch his SpaceX launches.

But honestly, let him have it, I say. He's earning it. He's taking huge risks and succeeding where others weren't willing to try.