skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So there is nothing wrong with CBP asking, and nothing wrong with you refusing to answer, and nothing wrong with CBP giving you extra scrutiny, within the limits of the 4th amendment, for refusing to answer the questions.

> It's a pretty big stretch to say that this should limit the police's ability to ask you questions

I'm not talking about the fact that they ask, or that they search my stuff when I decline to answer.

I'm talking about the fact that they then lock me in a room for hours with no food or water, send the bus without me, threaten me with arrest and prosecution, lie to me claiming that I'm legally required to answer their questions, and finally refuse to call me a taxi or tell me the name of the city I was standing in ("I don't know" was the reply of the border guard after I'd asked him after I'd been told I was free to go. "You don't know the name of the city in which you work every day?" "Nope.")

It's simple disrespect and harassment.
It's refreshing to see someone talk about this in terms of actual tradeoffs rather than fashion trends, thanks.
The made-for-hollywood story behind SilkRoad founder Dread Pirate Roberts
True. But servers have advantages, like being able to get to my email from anywhere. I remember the dark days of POP...
Poor editorial skills right there.
Heh it could be better, but the important part is that it's separate and mostly independent, so hopefully less mired in bureaucracy.
Here's some news about badgers: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-24459424
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# me> systemd-analyze

Startup finished in 2.480s (kernel) + 623ms (initrd) + 570ms (userspace) = 3.674s

Fedora 18 on Dell Precision M4700

Not quite 0.25 seconds though ;-)

Here's one way to get there:
http://www.harald-hoyer.de/personal/blog/fedora-17-boot-opti...
Exactly. When he said "laundry list", I thought he meant a flurry of words that meant Y-fronts.
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This is obvious. See also the child abuse panic of the 80s, where kids were pressured to make up stories of abuse.
And the general fact that eyewitness testimony is unreliable.
It is kind of mission critical that they don't, correct? I have stayed in one lady's place who even mentioned to us that it wasn't exactly kosher with the landlord, but she was going out of town for a conference anyway and would be gone for the week.

I see it as mission critical because it would be too easy for landlords to take that information and use it against people.
I moved out of the US for this and many other reasons. Every time I visit I have to backup and wipe my phone and laptop before entering, as the courts have ruled that not only do you have zero fourth amendment protections at the border, but also that their ability to search extends to any data you happen to be carrying as well.

It takes me hours to reimage my laptop and restore my phone each time I visit the US. It sucks.
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Ah, American exceptionalism. You're right. Everything but the US is some kind of barren desert which only exists in cartoons.

Have you ever left your home city? State?
It could be that those are the exact corporations of which I speak who control the legislature, thus creating a better environment for themselves at the expense of others.

Stick your head out of your shell, and you'll realise there's a world out there, beyond America. I know it's hard to believe, but it does exist.
Facebook abuses users, lies for money
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Great post, well written. Definitely going to send this to friends when they ask me what i'm doing this weekend.
Maybe the article just put it in your head. You can't "unsee" it, so to speak.
Why did you stick "first generation immigrant" in there. Those aren't the people who were imported and abused.
You're right. The best visualizations wouldn't care about the library used to build them. By putting D3 in the title, it becomes obvious the authors care more about the technology than the content.
One of my best technical interviews was from a lead engineer who simply asked more and more difficult questions until he found your limit (believe me, he knew more than anyone he would interview). His interest wasn't in what you knew so much as how you reacted when you hit the limits of your knowledge.

There's a lot of value in that approach. I don't use it myself when interviewing people, but I do try to accomplish the same end.
Pretty useful ruby gem if you're using Pixlee.

My lack of notable open source contributions kind of makes me self conscious; hopefully I can get over that one day!
Actually, legally, they sort of have to give up the data. They are taking a risk not handing over the data, thankfully it's the right risk to take. The law is malleable for a reason; laws often become outdated.

Business wise they should to do this, yes, but that still doesn't mean it's an easy "they sort of have to" situation.
> Corporal punishment isn't a great alternative for either. If anything, it reinforces the brutality of the existing incarceration regime.

Read the last two paragraphs. It makes exactly that point: The current system is dishonest in that it hides the brutality of the system.
Yes, I do realize what you are saying here and its a valid point.

I think I would have to have a MVP before getting any early adopters cash though, right?
I concur. The country is pushing in the right direction to incentivize alternative energy consumption and its a fantastic opportunity to try and get a head start on establishing better infrastructure. I'm surprised Tesla hasn't invested more in a nordic supercharger network yet.
Hmm the site seems to load the same for me US IP or not. You do have to click "I agree" that you're legal, though.
I would invest in refining that logo even further. I couldn't tell it was a decahedron until you mentioned it. I actually see more underwear in it than I do geometry. The small slivers and color shades also hinder its recognizability and limit its scalability and consistency across multiple mediums.
Fighting rats is part of the job. You can't just legislate rays away.

Entrepreneurs aren't offered jobs, they create jobs.

Of course hassling from cops is trouble.
If you want a large set of general purpose RISC cores, check out Tilera and Netronome.

The Raspberry Pi GPU is actually very powerful, but not in ways that help you with CSS/DOM; I don't think there's much work been done to accelerate layout in 3D accelerators other than at the very basic level of glyph rendering and image uncompression.
Did they get God's approval?

God says...
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unknowingly begat Identification simply bridegroom pitch
livelihood believe kindle odours Guide confiding satisfied
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Seems like Airbnb wants to wrestle with the long arm of the government. This will be an interesting to watch, although the saying goes: you don't wrestle with a pig. You will get dirt and the big likes it. And Feds will most likely love to get any reason to reopen the FBI probe into Nathan's case.

http://gawker.com/5853754/the-seedy-spammy-past-of-airbnbs-c...
My FitBit tells me that my average sleep time is 7.5 hours. That's pretty good for me since I'm a light sleeper. My girlfriend moving in bed wakes me up.

Worse than that is that if I do have a lie in, or I sleep longer than 8 hours — yes, I recorded sleep before my FitBit — I'd end up with headaches all day and night, worsening my sleep the next night. 7.5 hours seems to be my perfect sleep duration.

I've never been able to have a lie in, even when growing up with my parents and going through puberty. I'd want to lie in, but my parents would have me up by 8:30 every day. 9AM on rare occasions. I wonder if that's got anything to do with it.
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CO is a product of combustion, and will therefore be hotter than the ambient air in most cases. The primary reason manufacturers say CO detectors should be a bit lower on the wall is to avoid false positives (well... not really false, just alarms for events you don't really need to worry about). A little CO emission is expected during the normal operation of gas/wood burning appliances. A CO detector at the ceiling might go off when it detects these little 'puffs' of CO. In practice, a CO detector should be averaging the level of a couple minutes, and not worry about short transient peaks (which is what I suspect the nest detector does).

If you're in a fire, stay low and get out. Source: I'm a firefighter.
I've only done that once.

The longest detentions have been when I reply with "Respectfully, you have my passport and know my identity and citizenship, and I decline to participate in any further questioning."

Also, they asked a voluntary-response nosy question. Responding with "none of your business" is valid and professional. Stand out, sure, but whether it's "in a negative way" is open to interpretation. Please don't blame the victim for standing up for their rights.
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got it running in 1 try on my BeagleBone Black following this: http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv7/ti/beaglebone-black

though i did have to screw around with uEnv.txt for a while to get it booting as seamlessly from eMMC rather than external SD card. this has since been fixed (as of 9/21) [1]

btw, it's much much smaller and faster than the distro BBB comes with, Angstrom. Arch boots in a quarter the time and also has many more up-to-date packages. Embedded nginx stack ftw!

[1] https://github.com/archlinuxarm/PKGBUILDs/issues/554

[EDIT] sorry, responded to wrong post. should have been this sibling post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6521531
> The main problem is that the developers do not respect your freedom.

Now I just feel like I'm getting trolled.

Doesn't he have the freedom to market his software however he wants? It's not like I'm being forced to use his software, I'm not even forced to pay to use his software (the trial is so unobtrusive that I used it for a year before paying).
So yes, it's perfectly safe to have spaces and other shell metacharacters in there.

You could (for instance) probe content of system files by passing

-f/some/file

And matching that to the log. If you have some control over the log, you could use this to read content from system files. Of course, it's all indirect, since the file is interpreted as containing regular expressions. But it's certainly not 'perfectly safe'.
I'd actually be pretty surprised if the Dunning-Kruger effect applied significantly to politics. There are so many tribal pressures involved that I think that the phenomena involved with Dunning-Kruger would be overwhelmed.
Listen, I'm not a robot. When I read a post, I read what is literally being said, and I read between the lines; I look for subtext, and implications. I am not going to stop doing tihs. Maybe when you write those things never exist, but I don't believe that. I'm going back with my original assumption, which is that are dodging any attempt to address the subtext and implications in your posts because you want them to go unchallenged. You are making these implications, we are challenging them, and you are dodging.

tl;dr: kelnos nails it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6520055
They used to have a decent menu-driven installer. Why they threw it out and said, "here's zsh and a wiki page, go install," is beyond me (not to mention the default environment of your installed system is pretty different from the environment on the live disc). Even OpenBSD is easier to get up and running.

That said, I still contend that pacman is hands-down the best package manager in existence. I just prefer to use it on Frugalware nowadays.
My British in-laws always have a good laugh when we go by the "Frugal Fannies" store in the States.
I've recently installed Arch on two different laptops.

The first one was an old netbook. I hadn't done an Arch install in a long time (I've been spoiled by the simplicity and convenience of the Wubi installer) and wanted the learning experience. I also wanted the HDD to be encrypted using dmcrypt and LUKS.

The main problem I had was wrapping my head about the various partition schemes. This was made more difficult by my insistence to have the HDD be encrypted which meant I needed a separate /boot partition along with the special 1MB linux boot partition required to use GPT with BIOS (I missed that in the instructions and it tripped me up for quite a while). Altogether, it took three fresh installs before everything was exactly the way I wanted it but the last one was quite quick and was really on a fresh install because I wanted to make absolutely sure I had everything nailed down.

The second laptop was a midrange, 2 year old HP "media"-style laptop. With my new knowledge, partitioning and installing was easy even while maintaining an existing Windows install. But this laptop has both Intel and Nvidia graphics shared via PowerXpress whereas the netbook has simple Intel graphics. I still haven't taken a stab at the proprietary drivers but using the open source intel and nvidia graphics in tandem (after some fumbling around but it seemed counterintuitive to simply install both drivers side-by-side) it works well enough for what I'm using it for. I don't really relish the prospect of installing the proprietary Nvidia drivers, though.

I've probably spent 20 hours installing Arch on both of these machines but I've learned a lot in the process. It's been good.
In his speech at the 1974 Nobel Banquet Friedrich Hayek stated that if he had been consulted whether to establish a Nobel Prize in economics he would "have decidedly advised against it"[23][27] primarily because "the Nobel Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man ought to possess... This does not matter in the natural sciences. Here the influence exercised by an individual is chiefly an influence on his fellow experts; and they will soon cut him down to size if he exceeds his competence. But the influence of the economist that mainly matters is an influence over laymen: politicians, journalists, civil servants and the public generally."[27]
Steve Blank's UCSF course tests "evidence-based entrepreneurship"
Note that you can use it to your advantage too. Bad allergy? Sleep less, it'll raise your corti??? and reduce the effect of the allergy. Not a long term solution, but works well when you are at the pick of it.
It must be blocked by AdBlock, because I've never seen one.

I'm realizing now I'm missing a pretty large part of the web, by using AdBlock and Ghostery: most social share buttons, ads, Disqus comments… I should probably go on the unadulterated web one day a month, just to see what it looks like.
I don't think a $100 premium is worth that especially considering placement can solve many of those issues. What WOULD be worth the $100 premium is if the sensors combined with the Nest thermostat could give me a better picture of my environmental health settings in the household or workplace. However, I don't think Fadell & co are prepared to launch something like that yet. I'll pass on the Protect and wait for something else.

The nest thermostat on the other hand is one the top of my list if/when I get my own long-term home.
These are really, really newb level "tips" here. I'd consider this more of a "welcome to bash" intro. Are there really people on HN who don't know this stuff?
Sure. But its not so hard to come up with a question that sounds pretty stupid. What is Monday? Can I eat your shoe for lunch? Why do you have to interview me before hiring me?
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There are some products out there that attempt to measure sleep quality via leaving your phone on the bed, or wearing a bracelet. I'm not sure of the accuracy, though.

I hope these will get even better (maybe a non-intrusive headpiece that can measure brainwaves?) in the future.
Interesting post on reweighted score voting. How would that work in practice for sorting comments? Would you have people rank the top-level comments in the order they agree with?

The strategy I had in mind for comments was to create a column of arguments for and against, and to only allow users to vote on comments in the column where they've placed their opinion. That way the strongest arguments from both sides would be shown.
Protection for the hotel industry?
If anyone is interested, there were several great posts on Hacker News a while, these are packed with useful UNIX commands [0, 1, 2, 3].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6360320

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6046682

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5022457

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4985393
> and they're honest about this just being about boot time.

reboot, not boot, boot was already a non-issue after booting into sh and removing most of the services.

The later posts deal with shutdown, mostly by removing sleeps... which are there to wait for lying hardware to finish flushing its caches. So some of TFA's fixes are really recipes for data corruption if you're not using a readonly FS (which TFA is, so it's no problem for his precise use-case).
>believe me, he knew more than anyone he would interview

He wouldn't really need to. By asking questions about very domain-specific knowledge, he could still achieve the same effect with anyone who didn't have a freakishly similar set of expertise.
Is it possible to make an SSH client in HTML5?
Yeah, I don't do that. I know I'm unimpeachable unless they make up something, and I know that they have to let me in. I look them in the eyes, I smile, I attempt to establish rapport.

The problem is that thugs with guns who are used to acting with impunity are enraged when people quietly, demurely, and professionally stand up to them.

It never ever happens because everyone has somewhere to be, a schedule to keep, and knows that they'll be on their way quickly if they "just answer a few harmless questions". They're cops with guns, after all.
I am a British honky, that is true. But I also don't give them any attitude.
Like the UI! Looks great.
I work at a company that does applied machine learning and health care is the #1 source for prospective business. The hardest part isn't the analysis - it's getting good, valid data. Health care data is so sparsely collected, poorly structured (if at all) and the privacy issues surrounding gaining access are very strict (perhaps rightfully so).

The key, as IBM is doing, if working with a large HMO or health care network who hopefully have switched to a sensible EMR and have built up a good amount of historical data on patients.

I'd add one last key to getting this right isn't only the breadth of the data, but the depth. Knowing some superficial aspects of a person (age, weight, habits) is too naive. You need family history, you need psychosocial aspects (nightmares, trouble at work, marital problems etc.). If you can get that, then you're cooking.
Sweet! I love magit in my Emacs and this looks very similar. It certainly makes me want to try giving Sublime another whirl.
A huge added functionality they could have implemented would have to roll in a home security function in there too. If they notice that someone has entered the home at an irregular time the app should send some kind of notification to the owner.

Maybe there should be an API for other developers to add that in?
Completely missed that reply, sorry for the delay.

Well, I've been raised on classic French literature since I could read, and I agree with you.

I read all the time. I'm afraid I am biased towards dead writers and philosophers, and not much of a "modern" or "polar" genres.

You're right. It gives you a certain subtlety that I found people who are not well read terribly lack. I have always been staggered by how most people couldn't pick cues in a person's behaviour that were so clear to me.

It also helps in rhetoric, and helps tremendously in conversation and understanding. You're right. Sorry for the delay.
What provocation do you refer to?

Surely you can't mean exercising basic constitutional rights to silence when questioned by police.
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Check out kaleidoscope if you've got a few minutes to try out a new tool. Blew P4Merge out of the water for me. And BeyondCompare if you're on windows. Linux; sorry :(
I have an pretty standard Arch Linux installation with an SSD and my boot time is 1.5 seconds. My MacBook with an SSD takes nearly a minute.
I find it interesting that there's a whole section on creating bash aliases for git commands, completely ignoring the [alias] section available in .gitconfig (see https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Aliases for details and a variety of contributed examples).
I am thirsty. Are you?
ghein- I think a comparison of margin/profitability metrics would be interesting as well. If you find any data on that, please post.

This analysis is geared less at understanding profitability/valuation metrics and more at operational and modeling decisions around growth, like headcount needed to support revenues in high growth companies.
The more I think about it, the more programming (and computers in general) frustrate me. In the non-digital world, the general rule is small mistakes lead to small consequences (for example, overcooking food will result in it burning and getting worse over time).
I just thought it was a Cluedo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluedo) joke.
Is this about re-inventing the wheel again?

http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/ does encrypted p2p for "email"/chat/VOIP/file sharing/forums/etc.
I could never find more details on the actual implementation, they gave a presentation at a meetup in Feb that I attended and I was amazed. I know that the main controller had ways to prioritize/manage the stack that requestAnimationFrame looped through and they would do things like push UI events to the top of the stack and Ajax requests later, etc. It was really cool stuff from a programming perspective
And what if they don't have a contract, either because the interaction was nonconsensual, or because it is insanely impractical to negotiate a contract when buying a stick of gum?

Political scientists aren't all idiots, people. Social contract theory exists for a reason.
I'm confused, what do you mean "demo it using a microcontroller?"
Even without the article, first thing i saw: Y-front. PS: I'm from Italy. Maybe it's a Europe thing.
Does Links count? :)
The link goes to page 3, here's page 1: http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/10/how-the-bible-and-yo...
That's the PR response. While there is truth to it, surely there is an element of entrenched industries using their money and power to protect themselves.
Do you mean that airbnb giving this info to the attorney general would make it public?
> But the problem is amongst the general population

Do you imagine a scenario where I'd be the only guy getting assaulted? Must be an exceptionally safe prison then! Otherwise, I'm sure I could convince my fellow assault-victim inmates, and we could come up with an amicable solution.

It's easy to pick on my ideas. I have never been in prison. I don't know feasible alternatives. I can't come up with solutions that please everybody. I already told you what I'd prefer if I were there. Why don't you propose your own solutions, instead of just nit-picking mine?