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Batteries activated by the device itself could work.
Like giving agreement to use/charge/manage, only when device is unlocked of course;)
That does sound reasonable, but there's already past history of The Academy not caring about customer's access to film, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_Vault

That's slightly different, because a customer could assume that eventually they could purchase a physical copy of a film. Neither Disney and Netflix were/are being customer-friendly here. If I want a physical copy of a TV show or film they created, I should be allowed to buy it.
Great note to hear that there are legitimate VCs like a16z who aren't just after their own interests. Did you work with other investors as well? If so, would love to contact you privately regarding your experiences as I'm looking to fundraise soon.
I find that I am happier when I presume goodwill and allow for the risk that I am disappointed. Most of the time people don't disappoint.
I think you left the /s from that post. I don't believe you can seriously believe such statements.
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Firefox Developer Edition has visual tools for transition functions, font tooling, flexbox, grid, clipping and pretty much every CSS nuance. It's also available for free and always will be, is decoupled from your source code (while still providing you with visually-edited code if you want to make a change permanent) and is built into a browser.
actually, most high-level tournaments use electronic dgt boards to solve this problem in a more flawless way
This assumes that he was not picked by random but instead there is some sort of list of people to check at airports that you can be put on because of your work within IT-security.

That would be a big story if that is the case.

I will offer a counter-narrative which is more in line with my own experience (from other places than the US):

The people who work at border control in particular in airports are bored.

They are also overstaffed and given extreme discretion over the people they patrol; most of whom are non-citizen and thus have basically no rights at all.

This leads to them doing work for the sake of showing they work, overreacting to the least of resistance and maybe even some games of entertainment.
So you would have no issue if your boss stood over your shoulder every hour of the day, evaluating how you spend your time?
If I have to send it this way, any out-of-band communication is generally fine with me although I do prefer phone (out-of-band verification and no transmission over net).

Assuming your no side-channel requirement means no phone call available, I'd probably send with PGP. If its a pushy vendor, I'll be pushy back (company/position allows me to be pushy, ymmv). Worst case would be resorting to something like: "Password is the invoice number from XX/YY date and the first item code on the invoice" or something sufficently complex.
Keep in mind a double failure is also possible if the AoA vanes are not treated as high priority maintenance items.
I don't think selecting the NASDAQ in 2009 is a cherry pick given that is when the first fund started and we're talking about a tech focused fund. Even if the numbers here are more accurate than the WSJ, that still indicates the first fund is returning on par or slightly below what investing in the NASDAQ would have done over the same time period.
Censorship is something that can be done by both the government, and private companies.

It is something that happens with or without a court order, to people who have broken zero laws. Yes, the government often censors perfectly legal financial transactions, to people who aren't criminals.

And crypto makes such censorship against people who have broken zero laws, much more difficult. It makes it no longer as easy as just calling up a bank, or a couple credit card companies, and telling them to cancel all of their transactions to people who didn't commit any crimes.

It makes it no longer as easy as a couple monopoly companies making a quick agreement to screw over an entity that didn't do anything illegal.
Right. They have tons of trading activities that are non-proprietary. I’m sure they can always hide some positions that are truly proprietary but largely they are not supposed to put on positions for their own gain.
Does refusing to unlock your devices trigger a reasonable suspicion?

(In Cotterman, it sounds like the Ninth Circuit said reasonable suspicion was required, but also decided on its own - despite it not being argued by the government - that an alert from a CBP database about Cotterman's previous conviction justified a search. Which seems reasonable to me, as a layperson, I thin.)
Maybe he has an escape hatch from the internet into the hollow earth, from the restroom in his office?
It's almost comic villainy - like, everything they say, do, propose, etc. is always evil in some way.

Can anyone on the inside give some insight into current morale? Is the constant deluge of negative press cutting through the indoctrination or nah?
"That said, we understand the password verification option isn't the best way to go about this, so we are going to stop offering it, now that we've been caught."

Facebook always leaves that part out of its responses to these problems.
This is the same kind of sensitization one needs to live in San Francisco. I lived in SF for a few weeks. The barrier I developed in India was no use.
Why am I not surprised? At this point I have no trust in that company. It would be very unwise to listen to them, and very unfortunate for someone like Senator Warren and those who want to break them up to adopt their policies.
Did you guys ever eventually work with VC firms who didn't understand your product? I get a sense that there might be a big mismatch but wonder how much that really affects things day to day.
How do you find a rented laptop trustworthy?
It sure shouldn’t be. Can you point to a law (it would have to be an amendment to the Constitution) that codifies this? As far as I know, it’s only practically a “constitutional exclusion zone”, not legally.
Correct. Also claiming that it's mildly secure is also inviting hackers. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
> Facebook exacerbates poisonous politics by creating filter bubbles of like-minded partisans, spreading hoaxes and inaccuracies, inducing anxiety and paranoia, rewarding clickbait and outrage, and so on

The irony is that the media is doing this now, with respect to anything related to Facebook. Facebook is a website with 99.9% benign user generated content. The news media has been spreading outrage and paranoia and trying to get 'engagement' since before Facebook was born.
1500 (out of 1600) on the SAT, 4.0 out of 4.0 grade point average (GPA), took 12 Advanced Placement (AP) courses, akin to foundational college-level courses, while in high school. Generally just getting the highest possible marks on every typical academic metric.
> Muhh America sucks.

I do fully agree with the sentiment that people who have such a low opinion of the United States should not come here. However, that low opinion is not deserved.

> Going through customs is usually routine for me.

So this is a rare an unusual problem.

> I was eventually permitted to leave the customs area with my devices.

Which amounted to a temporary inconvenience.

> These so-called border searches are not random.

And was potentially justified.

While appreciate the desire to attribute malicious intent to people you're biased against ("my disapproval of the Trump administration"), the article makes no effort to consider whether there might have been such a valid justification for asking a few questions. Maybe the author engaged in such an analysis, but for whatever factors he may have considered we're not privy to them.

But moreover...

> surrounded by three armed agents wearing bullet proof vests.

> If the government intended to scare me, they certainly succeeded. Ever since, I travel in fear.

This is a shockingly unamerican sentiment to hear from someone who, in the same breath claims:

> When I became a U.S. citizen I swore to defend the Constitution. I’m a proud U.S. citizen and I take my oath seriously.

Then what about the second amendment? If you support and defend the fact that "a well regulated militia [is] necessary to the security of a free state... " then how is the sight of a gun so terrifying? I'm not sure what experience he has in his life, but seeing a gun is not a big deal. As the constitution says, their a basic and necessary element of free societies.

While I appreciate that a 3-hour delay is substantial, so is international travel and it's in the context of refusing to answer reasonable questions. It used to take months, weeks, or at least days. The idea that this guy in particular should be able to enter on a moment's notice, without any delay, and no questions asked is a bit of a stretch. To say he should ALWAYS be able to do so, each and every time he tries to enter without ever experiencing a delay, that's unreasonable.
Combinatorial complextity. It's impossible to foresee every possible combination of failures. There are checklists for the ones that can be foreseen (and these have often been written in the blood of those who discovered them) and maybe in theory most of those could be automated. But they cannot be exhaustive. So when all else fails, you rely on human intelligence guided by experience and training as the last line of defense. It doesn't always work, but until we have an AI that performs better, it's the best option we have.
Compliance might not be adequate? How do you figure? Injuries to muscle, tendon, and ligament are extremely debilitating and don't normally heal well. I struggle to imagine someone who can't be bothered.
Can we train AI to be funny?
Definitely a league of it's own in difficulty of refactoring
As far as I'm concerned, the Internet has and always will have only one set of rules: https://archive.org/stream/RulesOfTheInternet/RulesOfTheInte...
A 2U server chassis can fit perhaps 2x PCI cards (with riser), vs 20x 2.5" hot-swap nvme.
From the moment Hitler invaded France, he was never more then two months away from running out of oil. German railroads were gridlocked and mismanaged compared to the Russians. Germany spent more money on the V2 project then the USA did on the Manhattan project. Hitler survived a dozen assassination attempts. And then there is the fact that most of their encrypted coms were compromised. It really is a wonder that Germany stayed in the war for as long as they did.
I would LOVE to see Talkshow integrated with Zulip.
I would advise against this. It might work but there’s no guarantee, and by lying to customs you’ve transformed your situation from one where you might have to buy a new computer to one where you might be convicted of a crime.
Ok, then you assume that you have accessible water too.
Still need the Energy for electrolysis. But with solar or nuclear it may be possible.
That average broadband speed is deceptive, because it includes people who have gigabit at home. The more interesting number is the median speed. But even using averages, not a lot of countries yet have the speed to support 4K streaming[0], and like you said, even if they have the bandwidth, they need the equipment.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Internet_...
Amazon's giant 'dystopian' delivery-drone blimp isn't real yet
There are already available apps that allow cheating in more "convenient" (if I can even say that) way for cheaters. They analyze DOM and display the best move etc. without any latency and heavy processing
Great question. Next week we're rolling out the ability to attach context to translation requests, which means sending descriptions and pictures of the requested translation to the translator. Would that solve the issue, or is there something else we could do to address this problem?
I strongly suspect that CBP's "strong suspicion" is equivalent to a HN poster's "whim." I'm not insulting either party, however when anything similar to this debate plays out, parties talk past each other on this sort of disagreement.
Isn't it much easier to run the moves yourself on another board with computer help?
There isn't much to it. Windows, for example, implements plumbing as the ability for the user to double-click, in an Explorer window, on, say, a PDF file and have it opened automatically using the default PDF viewer; the command-line equivalent is the 'start' command.
And also Australia and the UK:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-08/if-a-border-agent-dem...

https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/25/traveler-who-refused-to-gi...

It seems to be mostly a Five Eyes thing.
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I'm not a cop and my job is not to be violent on behalf of the state.

Additionally, monitoring can also be exonerating if you are confident in the justice system, so I don't buy this idea that cops are uniformly against monitoring.
Show HN: Integrated env to edit ledgers, see combined reports and import txns
I agree w/ OP. Using cryptography for privacy and data control is a step in the right direction and needs some critical mass behind it for broader adoption.

Shameless plug - that is exactly what Tozny provides. An easy way to have end to end crypto with a sharing model that keeps data in control of the original writer.
Anecdotally?
I think I've heard before that cat sounds are mutually learned - the cat makes random noises until the human responds appropriately, remembers the noise for next time, repeat until you recognize that particular yowl as meaning "I'm hungry". But because of that, there's no shared language - cat owners can't understand other people's cats.
> The MCAS is designed to prevent an aerodynamic stall [...]

This has become a trope and is flatly incorrect.

MCAS was cooked up to maintain the handling characteristics required by the certification specifications.

The standard requires stick resistance to increase as the critical (stall) angle of attack is approached. The MAX violated that requirement due to the aerodynamics of the new engine cowls, so MCAS was Boeing's (?crap) implementation of "artificial feel" to meet the spec.

Yes, while the spec exists presumably to prevent the pilots from themselves taking the ship into a stall, MCAS doesn't change wing or aircraft performance in a material way that would be meant by "prevent a stall."
Turn on the printing press. As long as the debt is in your own currency it isn’t a problem.

If you don’t control your currency (think of Greece in the Euro) then it’s another matter. The same if you borrow in a foreign currency.
This is mostly a convoluted metaphor comparing data to apples. Only a single line about a mystical "data locker" type object that would store all of our data in a decentralized way.
http://www.alaskaferrycamping.com

Tents all go on deck, looks like duct tape is used.

Since the ferries travel mostly between the coast and islands, it isn’t anywhere as windy as the open sea.
Sure, but without a criminal charge there's the right of habeas corpus. (Provided you have someone who will get the legal process started for you, I guess.)
From what I've heard, they have nice cushions of dollar bills to block out any negative thoughts ..
But are relevance and popularity not related? If more people are using Google to learn about cloud computing than the clouds in the sky, I’d hazard that that would make cloud computing the more relevant result, in terms of what Google sees anyway.

It’s tricky, though, because I’d say that the clouds in the sky are more relevant to humanity as a whole. Not everyone cares about or needs to think about cloud computing.
That's not actually realistic, for the exact same reason why China is such a juggernaut in tech while having almost no human rights. If it worked the way you're implying, China wouldn't be able to do what it's doing in tech at all.

Things like this don't even remotely threaten US dominance in tech, because: 1) the US allows a lot of legal immigration; 2) US tech wages are far beyond anything you can make in those other locations 3) the US as a singular integrated market that is the world's largest economy, makes it impossible to compete with unless you're China, due to inherent scaling benefits 4) nowhere other than China has the capital markets to support competing with the US start-up scene properly and 5) the actual context - Andreas was let go after three hours, with his devices - isn't close to being bad enough to matter, in fact it barely registers these days (increasingly the era of domestic surveillence and censorship all around the world, from the UK to South Korea) as a very mild inconvenience on human rights, and doesn't impact ~99.999% of travelers to the US.

US dominance in tech - outside of China - has only increased since 9/11, not decreased. That's despite non-stop issues of this sort, the Patriot Act, NSA spying, and so on. A rogue border search, or a hundred of them, won't dent that. That's the reality.
Do we want to respect the property rights of others?
Do we want to allow people to use the results of their labors to improve the lives of their kids?

There are tons of schools where you don't buy your way in. Why does everyone want into Harvard? Because people have thrown a ton of money at it to make it great. They didn't follow the process of only admitting the best and brightest. They followed a mix of that and people that would deliver money and connections. These are the results and if someone doesn't like it they have literally thousands of other options to choose from.

I know it's trendy to hate on the rich, but they've built something and are taking a small slice out of it while subsidizing a great many. Kick them out and they'll build another place that people will be screaming to get into next week.
> That must be scary for upcoming generations.

Not on long time scale, I think.
Services will disappear, disks will be reformatted, bit-rot will erode archives.
I was once randomly selected for screening at Chicago Midway, that quickly became shockingly specific: "Do you know that professor at DePaul that teaches Python?" "Do you mean Massimo Di Pierro?" "Yeah, I think that was his name." "I've met him a few times..." At this point it all seems very surreal. "He was through here a few weeks ago and had stickers on his laptop that were like yours." Ooooh...
Everything is a tradeoff.

You say:

> sometimes you don't have a name ready and it's actually better to defer naming the thing until you know what it is

You can do that without this feature; you can use throwaway variable names like "x" and "y".

Taking an example from the post:

> (1..9).each_slice(3).map { |x, y, z| x + y + z }

vs

> (1..9).each_slice(3).map { @1 + @2 + @3 }

The shorthand saves you 7 characters in the rare case when you truly have no idea what to call your block parameters (even a single-character name can be descriptive, eg if x and y are coordinates). That seems minimally useful.

Meanwhile, you've made your block parameters look like instance variables, and everyone else (including all tools that work with Ruby code) has to learn why they aren't.

Seems like a poor tradeoff to me.
> The most likely source was a sheet of frozen methane beneath a rock formation

While it is certainly pretty likely, it isn't necessarily known that this rock is part of methane generation.

If it's coming from the ice directly, the ice sheet 'location' doesn't explain whether the methane was from a biotic or abiotic source.

It probably eliminates the already-small likelihood that it is coming from still-extant microorganisms, but it doesn't eliminate their possible involvement in clathrate formation.
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“It was a mistake, and we’re sorry.” Repeat in an infinite loop because the collective media and societal memory is similar to a concussed bee’s.
Yes, on a flight to and from New Zealand with a refuel/crew change in LA I was fingerprinted, retina scanned and asked about my personal business despite being held in the "secure" zone.

This was 2005 so they didn't have such a hard-on for electronic devices back then. Seeing as the US has upped its game quite a bit since then, the likelihood of me ever visiting the US is now zero. Sorry my fellow US HN'rs.

And you know it's such a shame because I had a trip to Boston in November 2002, and even with it being only just over a year since 9/11, my passage through customs was friction-less and the staff were delighted that we'd come to visit the US. No fingerprints, no eyeball scanning, no interrogation, just a friendly "business or pleasure, and enjoy your stay".
> 3 button mouse chording

This has never given me an impression of a good UX.
Thanks. That wouldn't either I'm afraid because our firewalls are locked down too.
Congrats!

Something I was looking for that you could work towards adding is a demo video showing how this might be used / what the experience looks like. I know I can sign up for free to try, but I don't even know what I'm signing up for.
It's a lot better now. In the past we had usenet, public forever. Now our wall gardens give ability to share semi privately and hide most info that hasn't been leaked yet.
"If I do {@1 + @2} exactly once is that really harder to read than {|x, y| x + y}?"

It's certainly no easier. "{|x, y| x + y}" immediately clearly conveys "this is a block taking exactly two arguments and returns their sum". Adding syntax for "@1 + @2" adds an entirely new construct for every Ruby programmer to learn and recognize as a pattern, in addition to the full block syntax form, and their brains to be able to switch between pattern matching for either pattern to quickly parse what the code is doing.

All for zero benefits.

String enough of these arbitrarily different syntactic variants for the exact same thing, and you end up with C++.
> Gal said the agents did take away his Global Entry pass, which allows express entry through customs, as punishment for not complying with their demands.

I wonder about the legality of the CBP punitively confiscating his Global Entry pass.
Japan is unusual in that most of its debt is owned by its own population. This makes it difficult to inflate away.
Okay. But you have shitty border controls, I've heard.
Maybe they're just trying to make flying so annoying people don't do it, to help with global warming. Just video conference, easier, faster, better for not drowning.
I’m not clear that this makes Burger King any more ethical, or less unethical. You wouldn’t praise a prolific serial killer for letting the odd victim go. Besides, fast food has a lot to answer for besides animal welfare.
The first of its kind was the LG Prada, which came out slightly before the iPhone and sold a million units. The technology had all come together just enough to make devices like this possible, and they were starting out at barely good enough.

Batteries, screens, CPUs, all of those were advancing rapidly whether phones used them or not. And 3G was spreading rapidly. Even if it took two more iterations of moore's law, the market was growing more and more feasible every month. Even half-baked attempts 2-3 years down the line could easily have been more compelling than the original iPhone.

I guess a chunk depends on how critical the operator-independent apps were, but let's not forget that the iPhone was ATT-only for years.