skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with the gist of your post, however, I found this example slightly jarring:

> except in certain circumstances (e.g. falsely shouting "fire" in a crowded theatre).

Considering it originates from suppression of wartime dissent
- https://www.popehat.com/2012/09/19/three-generations-of-a-ha...
Seems like a reasonable response to being treated like a criminal, where no crime has been committed, nor any legitimate reason to suspect. I'm not even talking about probable cause; this is happening to American citizens? Your comment leads me to believe you didn't actually read the article.

I balked when my kids' school system sent a poorly worded letter including the term "social worker" on account of my child being tardy only 5 times (mostly medical reasons) for a total of about 30 minutes of missed time. Legal action was not in my mind, but a strongly worded response certainly was.
There have been a few such stories but the people involved were prominent political dissidents like Jacob Applebaum.
I tend to disable JavaScript when reading on economist.com, just less annoying.
I'm only making fun of "thinking like a 94 year old": There is no such thing in my opinion. ( And to be a genius you only have to work on something to the point of obsession but some may disagree )
This looks really nice - great to have a nice builder for the latex. Would be cool if it was possible to add your own sections.

I've been collecting a few latex resume links for those interested:

https://www.rpi.edu/dept/arc/training/latex/resumes/

https://github.com/mrzool/cv-boilerplate

https://github.com/posquit0/Awesome-CV
You can't buy that for a home computer. It's only licensed for PLCs and other manufacturing or enterprise critical computers.

edit*: and it's extraordinarily expensive
Give me a fucking break.

You're free to move on to another platform to "express" yourself if you feel the need to. There is no shortage of sites dedicated to reprehensible content. A whole World Wide Web full of them! If you don't find one you can even start your own! You've never been able to go to someone else's property to express yourself in ways they don't agree with. They would throw you out. Nobody is forced to host unwanted guests.

IRL everyone censors themselves. I don't say what I think of my in-laws in front of them, I smile and nod and limit my exposure to them to a few hours less than once a year to keep face. Later I go to a friend's house to bitch about them. This is how a functional society works.

The idea you ever had some sort of right to use a private platform to broadcast any random garbage that comes to your head at the time is just absurd. We never put a cultural value on random mouth diarrhea. We are polite in some company and sometimes say controversial things in other company. That's a cultural value.

Having non-mainstream discussion in non-mainstream places and business restricting activity that's bad for their bottom line and/or interests is not an insult to culture, it's normal social interactions.

Personally I like moderation/censorship and it's even necessary for a functional community, otherwise all forums would degrade to the lowest common denominator, spam, memes, and shitposts, given enough time.
My plan is to just not travel with electronics. If I need it, I might pick up a cheapo Android tablet at my destination and just leave it there, but probably I'll just go old-school.
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Useful utility I remember from a few years ago:
https://www.safer-networking.org/spybot-anti-beacon/

I mostly used it to block the Windows 7 telemetry that they backported.

I don't know how up-to-date they're keeping it, though. I fear Microsoft is adding more hooks faster than Spybot can block them.
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So if I say I'm James Mattis and I think Trump is a dork I'm violating the law? Come on, no judge is gonna buy that nonsense. It's a far different to talk smack on twitter under an alt account (an UNVERIFIED account even) than it is to actually say things under the color of law like ordering a contingent of military to fire upon civilians while I'm saying I am James Mattis Sec of Defense. See the difference?
Every time US border security is being discusses here, I read comments about how things are bad at the Canadian or UK border too.

But does this really make an overreaction legitimate - That other countries are doing it too? Please think again before writing some knee-jerk reaction like "other countries are the same or worse"...

I was once treated unfriendly by Austrian border agents while re-entering the country. Yes, I experienced worse things when entering other countries. I still think that this particular incident was unacceptable, even though things are worse in other countries...
Perhaps the data was more readily available. Perhaps it made a stronger case for the comparison. Is there some drastic change between 2015 and 2016 I don't know about?
I understand that they want passwords for cloud accounts. Do they ask you for your Reddit / YC accounts as well, or just FB, Twitter and G+?
The endpoints used can be found here: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/itpro/windows/configure/...

I work at Microsoft, though have nothing to do with the development of Windows*

//edit: typo
Maybe 5 or 6 years ago I got a very unpleasant grilling traveling to the US when they noticed that I had multiple passport stamps from Turkey and Egypt.

I had to explain repeatedly why I liked Turkey in particular and kept getting asked over and over "Why Turkey?".

[NB Turkey used to be an extremely popular holiday destination for people from the UK and I've been traveling there regularly for 20+ years].
Google made a chip that is 30 to 80x more performant than Intel and Nvidia at ML
because they dont search your cloud ?
I haven't taken my smarterthanyou phone traveling in years.

Get a $70 candybar, assume it will be lost, stolen, broken, pawned while overseas.

Problem solved -- at least the phone part.
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For ShutUp10 at least (and probably the others): Yes.

Microsoft resets settings when updates happen. The application explicitly warns you about this. And indeed, I ran the application before and after receiving the 'Creators Update' in my VM & some telemetry settings had been reactivated.
Besides the tremendous inconvenience that would entail, how do you know it's not going to get inspected?
Are you suggesting they add compatibility for Win?
Passing data via props has never been a problem for me. It's explicit, the chain of dependencies explicit, the data flows in one direction, and components can still be dumb while letting us push the glue layer all the way to the top.

No one has ever approached that code and been confused or had issues tracking down bugs in my experience.

I agree it's ugly. I've found it triggers the same sense in a lot of developers that make them over-abstract code to achieve DRY at the expense of simplicity (this is just an observation, I don't have an opinion on if it's good or bad!).
Also probabilistic programming stuff: PyMC, Stan, Dimple, Church. Not sure if these are 'lesser known', PyMC is mentioned often, still much less hype nowadays than neural networks.
To do its job the border patrol must invade the privacy of people entering the country. Terrorists, drug couriers, and fugitives lie and hide things.

It's incredibly frustrating. I hate the experience every time I go through it. But I understand why it's necessary.
Are there any mechanisms in place to prevent developers from shooting themselves in the foot, e.g. unintentionally allowing access to their sensitive financial information or transferring money to someone because there's a bug in their code?
I really want to travel to Florida from London with my wife and baby for holidays. Stories like this though are big deterrent. I'm an atheist with a muslim name, and Chinese wife(a devout Christian). We've never travelled to US before and honestly don't know what to expect.
If you got a full tutorial on this, I would love to read it ;)
How could they "search your cloud"? They're able to bypass the 4th Amendment protections because you are entering the country.
Their Developers are also on point. I reached out for some help and they gave me a lot of help on this.
Unless of course having an utterly scrubbed phone (devoid of signs of normal usage) is in itself a red flag to these people.
Wunderlist is a great distributed todo list app that's not too overcomplicated and syncs well between devices.

I don't think it'd be a good inventory management system, although you could use it by adding "items to buy" to a grocery list each time an item is depleted.
Do you really need a tutorial specifically on this? Backup, restore, and wiping your phone are all well-documented procedures.
A reset phone will appear highly suspect and they'll probably ask where your real phone / data is, and detain you until you answer them (and/or send you back if you're not a citizen).
It sounds like linux breaks, but you know what happens when "stuff on windows breaks"? Well, it's the same: you'll have to fix it.

Ubuntu LTS is really hard to break unless you're constantly screwing around. The same happens on windows.

Don't complain about community-supported distros.
Buy a commercially supported distribution with long term releases, and you're set.
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For the same reason you need the 2A.

National governments have never ever historical remained on the side of "the people". They eventually go bad, more quickly so when their citizenry is impotent.

So put up the good fight. Freedom has a price, and it's not paid on April 15th
Might be some kind of spam filter, doesn't appear that anyone else posted the same link.
Can't help but notice this is an entirely different argument.
https://www.aclu.org/government-data-about-searches-internat...

>Between October 2008 and June 2010, over 6,500 people traveling to and from the United States had their electronic devices searched at the border. Nearly half of these people were U.S. citizens.

... and none of them were non-belligerent white individuals traveling to/from non-suspicious countries.

Okay, I made that last part up, but c'mon.
Angular 2 has too much beaurocracy. Perfect for a big company, but much waste of time for an individual.
I don't think there's anything odd about this at all. It will just be the case that someone looked at the figures, said "Oh, it's interesting that there were more searches in February 2017 than in 2015 overall" and ran with that figure. It's a more interesting comparison than "There was an increase of 142% year-on-year" or whatever the actual figures are.
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Ask HN: Where can you go to be alone on the Internet?
How does it happen?

What is it like?
It's public, fork and make your changes. I'm open to suggestions.

www.github.com/writecodeeveryday/writecodeeveryday.github.io

My final idea is something that allows you to pick the template at the end and uploads to Overleaf under your Google account.
QEdit's configurability was amazing. Back in the early 90s I had a completely hand built config, a feat I have never dared to repeat with subsequent editors. I wrote a lot of code in it at home, and nagged my employer into buying some licenses for the sophisticated programmers among the staff (it was a bank, so not many, but a few!). I would edit locally and FTP to the server rather than use vi directly there!

When my computer illiterate aunt decided to write a book back in the early 90s, I set her up with a minimalistic QEdit, a few bat files to perform backups, versioning, etc automatically and a floppy disk for each day of the week plus a daily backup one. Simple instructions and process, simple editing setup, and two years later the 670-page book was finished and published, and she was ready to actually learn how to use a computer.

So a big thank you for creating such an excellent tool!
PySolFC – A collection of Solitaire games for Python
This most definitely doesn't seem normal. Problem is so many are looking the other way thinking "well I don't look like a terrorist, so no one will search my phone"
PySolFC (previously known as PySol) is a multi-platform collection of over 1000 solitaire card (and not only) games with a rich feature set that can rival commercial solitaire packages.

Unfortunately, PySolFC is getting old. To bring it up to date and make PySolFC compatible with modern operating systems, it has to be ported to Python 3 first — so we desperately need Python programmers.

JOIN PORTING EFFORTS AT: https://github.com/shlomif/PySolFC

You can also help by spreading the word. After we finish porting PySolFC to Python 3, new features will be added, we also aim to refresh the app’s look.
This title is extremely clickbaity. Think like a 94-Year-Old? Any 94-Year-Old? Couldn't they pick something that is relevant to the article about Goodenough's new battery research? He is the exception, not the rule. Mainstream media makes my brain hurt.
What would they do if you just don't carry your phone with you when you fly? One could ship their phone or put it in checked luggage.

They are not just looking for data at the border, they are imaging the phone and keeping those records for god knows how long and with what level of security. That is a level of privacy I'm not willing to give up, let alone the risk of having company confidential data end up in unintended hands.
A friend of mine was questioned at an international airport because he traveled from Europe with only hand luggage (he was only staying for 2 days).

So, i guess, not having something with (electronics, luggage, ...) you can also cause problems.

But yeah, this is only one anectote, so travelling without a phone / a laptop might be fine...
I would be very cautious with that. Crossing border and going through border control (in this case TSA and they've got a reputation...) with a phone back to factory settings and no content doesn't look like something border control would just let pass. I can't believe they wouldn't find that suspicious and go to even greater length to control and search you just on that basis.
I had a similar experience two weeks ago. They asked for my iPhone's passcode when I went in to have my screen replaced. This was apparently going to be stored in a database — I saw the form field on his iPad.

When I refused to give it to them, on the basis of privacy, the employee said that Apple could not provide the service. He backed down a little when I asked to speak to his supervisor, but then said that not providing my passcode would void my iPhone's warranty. Eventually they performed the service without my passcode and had me perform the functional testing myself before walking out of the store.

I wonder how many thousands (millions?) of iPhone passcodes are stored in Apple's database? And of course the average owner probably doesn't think to change the passcode after the service is completed.
I'd also suggest trying Google Music. I moved to it originally simply because I could upload my existing music collection to it, and listen to it wherever. Then Google gave me 3 free months of the subscription service - and I'm seriously considering paying for it once that's up.

It runs in a web browser on Linux just fine - and I find a lot of their suggested artists/tracks are closer to my tastes than I got from Spotify.
Does anyone know whether travelers are required to facilitate these phone searches (e.g. enter encryption password at boot and disable screen lock)?

Edit: Found relevant article at https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/02/what-could-happe...

In summary, yes. It is a misdemeanor (subject to a fine of not more than $1,000) to refuse to provide assistance (e.g. translation or decryption). Assuming you refuse, they will likely seize the device and detain you for some unknown period of time.
Just print it as pdf. :)

There's a media query stylesheet for printing.
How do you envision 'morality' working in the corporate context for an engineer, then?
Do you fault them for not asking their boss each time they are assigned some work how it will be used, with what presets and so on, and refusing to do it if it doesn't meet their standards?

I don't think I've made any mention of the work I do nor will I; I'm just trying to understand why you think the buck of 'morality' even generally exists in a corporate context, let alone why it stops at some likely mid-level engineer, who likely was just given a vague usage model of a mechanism to build without the 'need to know' information that would raise the moral dilemmas.
Walt Mossberg is retiring in June
http://www.metafilter.com/166166/Og-to-til-javanissen#698551...
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I mean, maybe, but there's no evidence yet to support this conclusion. I'd be a little surprised if the TSA/CBP clowns have any idea what they're doing, they're mostly just there for intimidation and data collection.
I don't think that helps. People are terrible at assessing risk. Just look at flying. There are people who are afraid to fly, some to the point where it's impossible. Compare that to driving, which is far riskier yet where is the equivalent phobia?

I think there's two reasons for this:

1. People trust the familiar.

2. An event with a plane is likely to be catastrophic.

Both of th set factors work against nuclear power too. Between Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima, no one is going to trust it or want it in their backyard. That's a problem because nuclear plants need water and that puts them near people.

Then add in distrust of companies to run them properly, th spent fuel storage problem and this logistics chain that creates the opportunity for malfeasance (i.e. Terrorists getting their hand on materials for a dirty bomb) and its almost I,possible.

So it doesn't matter what coal does or doesn't do, people are used to it and catastrophic failure scenarios are greatly diminished.

Renewable sourc s that create fuel you can use elsewhere are currently cost prohibitive (i.e. It's more expensiv than drilling for oil or digging up coal) but the cost is co,king down. This provides a ceiling on just how expensive traditional power generation can get.
Full Quote:
"But cellphone searches by the Department of Homeland Security have exploded in 2017 — DHS officials searched more phones in February of this year than in all of 2015. (Four members of Congress introduced a bill this week that would require agents to obtain a warrant before searching a U.S. citizen’s electronic device.)

President Trump’s new security regime wastes yet more of our time and our taxpayer money and shows outright scorn for the spirit of the 4th Amendment."

The article is making it look like this is due to Trump, but if there was an ongoing increase for 2 years under Obama that would be manipulative.
Yup. Got a 1050ti sitting in my machine right now. That was the only thing holding me back.
I'd rather not treat this as a forgone conclusion and would like to see some data on how often these invasive measures actually yield results.
Canonical employs dozens of Debian developers, whose work goes to both Debian and Ubuntu. ;-)
One might say... yin and yang, my friend, yin and yang.
>Terrorists, drug couriers, and fugitives

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyp...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-risk_bias
You can create your own private websites. Other than that you'll be going to content other people created/maintain.
I am still surprised Tesla led with a sedan instead of a small CUV. The CUV craze is in full force and it would be a much better packaging. I know there is a rumored "Y" model coming which might be the 3 on a CUV platform.

We don't know what version of the 3 we are seeing here, is this loaded or stripped? I am really really curious how much content is lost to meet the 35k price point or if they will even bother trying to meet it.

Still a good looking sedan from certain angles. I am quite happy with my Volt and like the REX option I get because I still don't feel BEV even with 200 mile range are a full alternative for a single car family. As a commuter and within range day trips sure. Planning around SC, took the lesson my friend gave me to heart. Just no.
Man that is brutal. Hurt back? TOO BAD!!!

Recently worked with explosives haha, she buys fertilizer on the wrong day.

I'm pretty ignorant, I hope our country works itself out, would be a pity to go down after winning WW2 sure 70+ years later

Oh well... Like the Romans I guess

Edit: I really am ignorant to the world, busy being poor, chasing the dream of "entrepreneurship" 30% of nothing is nothing. Too scared to use the bike rack on the public bus so instead I'll walk for 1.5 hrs (6 miles) home. Scared of bums asking me for money.

Oh well, 1 in 330+million, some people will save us hopefully. It's just hard to see the bad stuff to me because I'm in my own little peasant world. Am I losing my rights/internet privacy problems? I don't know... I don't feel free that's for sure just because of finances but that's not permanent/my own fault.

Ahhh well live or die my life was alright, I was privileged. A bag of meat on a rock.
Ambiguity is is the bosom buddy of petty tyrany
It's infuriating that I'm still paranoid about what my paid for Win 7 OS sends out, despite hiding updates and trying to keep on top of it.

Then again, with IME etc, who siphons more? We've gone wildly wrong somewhere that this is the norm. Wildly wrong.
I don't know. It is possible, but it is strange that we would have this monthly number, but not have it available for the last year, but then have the previous year.
new phone who dis.

But really you can spend 30 minutes loading some apps and games, copying over a few dozen pictures, contacts, etc.
Glad to hear it helped! (I'm one of the devs at Overleaf.)
> No one has really broken net neutrality principles yet.

Whew. It's good to know that mobile carriers aren't charging more for access to video providers than their own offerings. I knew that was all heresay.

Or limiting Netflix bandwidth (while promoting their own pay-2-view channels) while blaming it on Level3.

It's great to know such rules are not necessary.
Put up the good fight, and never stop. It's a fight against entropy.
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Really nicely put.
The Zuckerberg line about younger people being smarter is the dumbest line in history relating to this industry. It makes Gates' claim about 1MB being all anybody would ever need look like beautiful wisdom in comparison.

However, you don't need to be 94 to be brilliant either.

When you're young you have fewer commitments, more time, more energy, and an ability to recover from marathon slogs to get work done. Your lack of experience may hamper you in some fields, but it also allows you to see the World from a different angle which might, given your field, be an advantage.

When you're older, you will have far more experience, insight, and the ability to allow your subconscious to bring together disparate experiences and thoughts into new ideas. However, you may be cognitively locked into seeing things a certain way, you will more likely have other draws on your time and you're less likely to be able to do (or recover from), 100-hour weeks.

Both groups have something to offer, but the idea that one group is better than the other is ludicrous.

Young people are not smarter. Old people are not wiser. They each just have different life experiences, abilities and ways of prioritising time.
Ha, exactly, but it's all good :) One guy actually made an LDD model that would require no cutting. I'll post it as a follow up on my blog.

Also to everybody reading this: I'd respond to the other comments but hacker news doesn't let me ("you're submitting too fast" even though I didn't write anything since half an hour or so)