skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably the guy broke a rule, or could at least be interpreted as breaking a rule.

However, the infraction is so minor compared to the penalty. The guy wants to travel around the country and play music for free at a variety of venues. He can't do this because that's considered work.

That really shouldn't be grounds for detaining, rough interrogation, strip searching and finally deporting the guy, all the while not allowing him to communicate with the people who are waiting for him.

Such rules really shouldn't be considered acceptable in a free and open country.
Every now an then these kind of articles get popular on HN and someone points out that the person had done some wrong. I find it incredibly irritating. The reason why border security or any law enforcement agency exists is because we want to maintain reasonable order, one way to achieve it is enforcement of existing laws.

But somehow enforcement of rules, some of which are highly questionable has taken center-stage over creating a sense of order. It appears that US government and the security forces are operating out of paranoia, hitting those who cant hit back. This is sad.

America is a good country, many people will still give an arm and leg to get migrated to this country yet, with passage of time, while we all love America, we have began to despise the government. In the longer run it will have serious implications.
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Try Russia or Germany - neither country has border officials that could be described as "hospitable" or "friendly." They make US border guards look like teddy bears.
Well, to be fair, many Korean bureaucrats resisted using Hangul for centuries, and Koreans kept three different writing systems: scholarly works and government documents in classical Chinese, lower-level bureaucrats using Idu (a system of writing Korean words using Chinese characters with the same sound), and Hangul. I think the move to write everything in Korean only happened in 20th century. Even then, most documents contained a liberal amount of Chinese characters to write Sino-Korean words (maybe due to Japanese influence?), which could be seen well into 1980s.

(And these days Koreans decided to put English vocabulary in the position of literary significance, and some would write sentences which are just strings of English words connected by Korean suffixes. Grrrr.)

* Also one of the reason modern Korean spelling is so regular is that it's totally revamped in 1930s thanks to the heroic work of Korean scholars who considered the work as means of preserving Korean culture under the oppressive Japanese regime. It involved discarding four letters, adding a horde of new letter combinations to represent underlying forms, and a drastic shift from purely phonemic to morphophonemic script. (Something like English always using "-ed" to mark past tense even though they sound different in parted, picked, and seemed.)
Ideally it would be an inbox in it's simplest form where I can communicate on any platform from one simple interface.
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I just moved here and I haven't been looking for work so I wasn't sure. This was just the number I had in my head. I guess I work too much with US clients :)
Should the government be able to order you to give a blood sample so they can pop out a clone of you, which they can then use to impersonate you towards _anyone_, say, your spouse, in order to potentially perform arbitrarily broad collection whos scope they'll hide under the guise of national security?

They're not asking for evidence, they order the operator of the service to be complicit in aiding the government in impersonating the service towards all of its users.
Frankly, there is this nice guy in Toronto (a CBP agent at a pre-check thing), he scares me. He's always been nice (I mean chatting and stuff, recognizing me, trying to speak French, etc.), but I'm always afraid that I might give the wrong answer to a joke or something and hell would break lose.
Maybe the probability is lower because he's also a foreigner there, but once is enough to change your life. I can't help but think about the Zone Libre checkpoints when I cross the US border.
I already repeated multiple times what claim I find ordinary: that Mudd is somehow able to retain so many female CS majors simply by accepting more.

It is up to you to prove that they are able to do this otherwise.

> You made an argument by occam's razor if details are added to the argument to make it viable it make it more complex and it benefits less from occam's razor. My argument or your added details

I only explained the common sense reasoning that you somehow keep ignoring. I did not add any details the argument, merely to reinforce the fact that my argument stems from common sense while yours appears to make wild conjectures on how Harvey Mudd is better than every other CS department.
No, that behavior is typical of US law enforcement.
Wow, that was a powerful read.
Short Answer: Nash equilibrium.

But it is not really true that all payment processors charge that.
>Haskell strikes me as very clever.

It is not. You should check it out some time. For purposes of this post I will pretend haskell and ghc are one in the same (ghc is the most popular haskell compiler). Haskell is built around a very simple, straightforward core language (shockingly enough called "core"). There is massive resistance to adding anything to haskell that can not be expressed in core and would require changing it. Haskell values simple, powerful abstractions that can be widely re-used. Haskell has not taken over the world because it doesn't want to. Python has not taken over the world either, I doubt many people would claim it is because python is too hard or too complex. Taking over the world does not appear to have any correlation with being a good language.
As a Chinese citizen you can come into the US ridiculously pregnant and have your kid in the US on a tourist visa via a flight and never get hassled. You can walk across the southern border and create a human fence around ICE vans and get a slap on the wrist.

The problem: This guy doesn't serve a political interest so he gets hassled. Face it, this country is backwards and caters only to the elite.
No, but unlike a blood sample, an encryption key is "just information."
I think the primary concern is protecting the other folks who are not the target. Handing over keys allows for the government agency the opportunity to violate other users 4th amendment rights.
You could always try paying your taxes in cannoli to see if food qualifies as payment.
Ah, that makes sense.
You're right, I'm probably bringing in the wrong points relative to his experience.

However, I just feel that his experience opens up a higher level discussion of America's (poor?) implementation of border patrol.

Also, in terms of unfounded comments. There is a chance you haven't read this: http://varnull.adityamukerjee.net/post/59021412512/dont-fly-...

Race is always complex, especially because racism illegal. It becomes a subtle and hard to describe thing. Maybe "random search" is a good way to describe it.
Ultimately, it makes me feel like I'm being delusional. I hope I am.
He _obviously_ said that he was going to be paid, in tips and food.

No one here is justifying the draconian actions of the border guards. We're merely pointing out that, based upon what he said, any border guard in a bad mood would refuse him entry.
Couldn't they have just given him the option of canceling his shows? I'm sure he would rather have done that than be forced to leave the country.
the data and the context for the project are linked here: http://enjalot.github.io/bart/
They are definitely not fair game for ads. Where I live (California), it's illegal to use my likeness, name, or photo in advertisements without my consent.
I cannot speak for Russia, but Germany cultivates a fundamental mentality of liberalism and respect, for any kind. It will be very difficult to find someone in Germany that wears a badge who has less than 13 years of school education or acts unreasonably, disrespectful or doesn't play by the rules.
> But the bad part is that I'm bringing the average down. I definitely feel it in #clojure.

Me too, my friend, me too.
>But somehow enforcement of rules, some of which are highly questionable has taken center-stage over creating a sense of order.

Indeed. It is quite the serious problem.
My bet is Facebook, or other web content promoting his performances. Easily found with a routine google search.
"An artist by heart and hacker by profession" -> You are going to love Bay Area hackathons.

There are hackathons all over Bay Area almost every weekend. So pick the ones that interest you and give it a go. All good things start with people getting together at hackathons.
I agree this guy screwed up. But the fact that you can't go three hours without seeing an obvious illegal alien in the US makes this whole thing hilarious.

It's the Anarcho-Tyranny thing Sam Francis wrote about. Be a middle class, law abiding euro with some undotted i's and get instantly deported. Hop the southern border as an illiterate with criminal convictions and it's "no problemo" as an apparent matter of national policy. Hell, illegals rally on the National Mall on a regular basis. As a border jumper it appears you can often get away with vehicular homicide and still not be deported. There are multiple publicized cases.
Hehehe or maybe with eyes. Hence virtual reality :3 imagine you could just sleep in and imagine all the actions <3
> systems language => for building systems, many parts, many interconnections

So... every language?
I am one of the lucky ones as well and have been treated with respect every time. Sometimes I even had insightful conversations with border control.

However, along the increasing rejections of visa for highly talented people + more and more stories like this one are signaling a very very bad trend.

I have noticed both among my peers: visa rejections for founders with funding from US investors, befriended founders who are being pulled into second screening every time they enter the country, my co-founder being rejected to enter the country once and now also being pulled into second screening every time (despite having an O1 visa). It's degrading and simply horrifying. And most definitely not a good trend for the US.

This is a very emotional topic. I get sad and angry every time I read or hear a similar story.
I believe it is very telling that a pro-privacy company, a company that has integrity and wants to honor the commitments it has made to their customers, is now a "anti-government" company...

I see a lot of comments about how "good" this analysis is, to me it seems very weak, and only "good" if you believe the government should be allowed to violate the 4th amendment, should be allowed to obtain any information from anyone at any time, and should be allowed to get SSL Keys from service providers, without disclosing this to the Certificate Authorities and violation of all security agreements with said CA's.

If you're very much a "pro" government person then I can see how this "analysis" would meet with your approval. To me it looks like pro-government biased drivel
I didn't say they weren't respectful. I said they cannot be described as hospitable or friendly, which is true. German border guards are very professional and respectful -- they follow the rules exactly -- but they're not friendly. They're rather cold.
One possible interpretation is that they think the idea is great, but the execution is not.
Sure, I get it, but I don't think you can ignore a subpoena just because you don't trust the government not to abuse it.
Immigration wasn't restricted until the 20th century (in any meaningful way), and the US didn't seem to suffer too bad.
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I'm just a bit confused: How are an expectant Chinese mother and a Mexican migrant worker examples of the elite?
This seems to me like borderline racist generalization. I'm sure there are plenty of people getting away with vehicular homicide one way or another, and to single out a case (or several) where the perpetrator happens to be an illegal immigrant is missing the point.

The US treats people suspected of being illegal immigrants pretty badly. Heck, I'm a US Citizen, born in California, but raised in Australia. When I moved to the US in 2002 I had to wait six months (and provide all kinds of ridiculous documentation beyond my birth certificate and valid US passport) to get issued a SSN (and thus be able to work). Why? I was in Arizona and look kind of vaguely Hispanic.
This is very impressive. Kudos. It seems these days people can do anything in Javascript. I've never been a Mac guy but I recognize this as a classic program, presumably the inspiration for MS Paint on Windows which I have used a lot (for "programmer" graphics). Recently I bought a Mac with a view to maybe transitioning from Windows to Mac, like all the cool kids these days. I was rather surprised (horrified?) to find there is no standard simple Paint program shipped with the Mac these days (I don't think).
I'd wager that A: the disparity between countries is larger and more well-known now, and B: the ease of physically travelling to the US is far easier now.
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The email encryption was not in play here, from what I understand the end user was the only person with the key to the email "inbox" encryption

What is in play here was the SSL Key that is used to encrypt the browser traffic between LB and the user. No differant than the SSL Cert used when you make an online purchase

It technologically impossible/impractical to have a separate SSL cert for each user, that is just not how the HTTPS protocall was designed

This is not Lavabits doing, that is the work of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
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Oh boo hoo. I went to Japan for extended periods a few times and they made me get a complicated visa, questioned me on entry, and made me register with the police as well as carry an alien registration card. Fucking good for them. It's their country and their right to control who's in it.
Fair enough. They are cold or better 'neutral'. I'd take cold and neutral any time over judgmental and degrading.
I'll do you one better and invite you to Google it yourself. Teach a man to fish, as they say.

Perhaps you've heard of Facebook and the Winklevoss twins? Maybe you've heard of Samsung and Apple?
Facebook for Android has over 1 million beta testers, starts alpha program
I built a game that uses JSON for metadata and config files.
Actually I was surprised that the article doesn't see the harm in "The Subpoena Argument" which although not overly burdensome, is both abusive and oppressive. The abuse and oppression is happening to the business and to the clients of that business. Lavabit was willing to provide the records for the account in question so the issue of providing SSL keys is moot. Add to that the Feds wanted live surveillance so Lavabit offered to do some coding for a fee of 3500 and the Feds refused. All in all Lavabit was compliant with the letter of the law. The ruling against Lavabit seems to have been expected to silence the owner but it backfired against the Feds.

I'm all for going after the bad guys but sometimes law enforcement agencies don't make themselves likable, especially when they can force someone to comply with what they want.
This is what happens when soccer moms and helicopter dads run your country. Selfishness and paranoia rule the day, all behind the guise of good intentions, fairness, and security.
- compilation speed is not as impressive. To me this is imho the biggest pain point with C++, bigger then memory unsafety.

- I missed templates based on any value/symbol, it forced macros on me in my very first try. I don't think it's a problem once you know Rust, but having to write macros was too intimidating for a newb.
If your landlord only had a master key to all apartments they could use that as a reason to refuse to turn it over for access to one apartment?
Are there any other good in-person programs like this around SF that anyone could recommend? This one sounds great, except that I am a male which is not allowed apparently.
The only "extreme" part is that we're deciding this guy is "innocent" and not worthy of the level of scrutiny. Being interrogated and searched is very commonplace. So you'd need stats that somehow report how many people they interrogated and searched that they didn't consider to be suspicious. I doubt they'll report a very high number, of course.

Best stat I can think of is "how many strip searches resulted in allowing the person to enter the country", which is also probably fairly low. By that time, they've probably decided to deny you entry.

Neither shows or prevents mistreatment that the CBP deems OK, which seems to be the case here.
And I'd wager that the cost of living is higher now, relative to the other countries.
Oh wow there's a couple of us? Are u in the bay area? We should get in touch as well and share stories and our ambitions!
Oh definitely it's possible for many microcontrollers. DFU is very handy during development. I was just reacting to this statement:

Nothing is stopping a compromised host system from flashing the microcontroller on the USB stick to make it lie to you.

Nothing, that is, except possibly a complete absence of such a facility! It depends on the microcontroller and how it has been wired into the USB device.
I can't recall the last time I saw an "obvious illegal alien". What makes them "obvious"?
There is a big thing with US travel: ESTA, advanced passenger information, and the airline thing whose name I don't know (when you check in, they already ask nosy questions about your travel and your girlfriend). So they had a lot of opportunities to stop him before he got in the plane without putting up with the burden of a US visa. They chose to let him come knowing they would refuse him.

When you try to go to the US, you have to get in some kind of trap (there are those stupid questions which I guess are a framework to make you a liar to a federal agent if you get caught later), drop all your privacy (that was probably gone anyways with facebook and gmail), and they have ample means to close it on you without being an asshole.
Thank you, I just deleted my plus profile too. I didn't know I can still have gmail and youtube without having gplus.
Just so we're clear, you're against strip searching anyone for anything, ever? So, if someone was smuggling in rare species or ivory or other contraband, the CBP should do what exactly?
Often people behave very ethically without supervision.

Individuals yes, absolutely.
Organizations no, never.
And why shouldn't they be able to do so? With a guaranteed income they would still be actively participating in the economy and whatever work niche they had inhabited before would be freed up for more motivated individuals to perform.
Win win.
And that would be just as horrible an experience as current joystick style controls are on touchscreen smartphone games.
It's not the law - it's the way somone who broke that law was treated like a suspected drug-dealer. Sure, technically they had the right to deport him. But doing so in this case was heavy handed, and adding strip-searches and refusing to let him contact his girlfriend was purely obnoxious.

Although not directly linked to terrorism, this kind of behaviour is condoned now because the fear of immigrants generated by "terroism".
They are not the elite, they cater to the elite and special interests goals. China has 60 per cent of its $3.5tn foreign currency reserves invested in US assets. A housing program that offers green cards to foreigners who buy $500,000+ houses. How about the money going to US universities from 194,000 Chinese students. The $8.2 billion Chinese buyers spent in the 12 months to March 2013 of $70 billion on real estate. China will biggest economy in the world and we (USA) needs access. Migrant workers expand the population, provide cheap labor, and consumption A.K.A. grow the economy. They also vote.
I tried Clojure out for a while. It's my favorite language.

But I went back to Ruby and Rails for my recent projects and I'm just way faster at it. It's so much easier to use and the way the gems glue themselves and integrate with my projects saves so much time.

If there was a way to get something like this in Clojure or Common Lisp (I haven't tried Common Lisp) then I'd go back to it.
That is a poor analogy.

By turning over the SSL Key the FBI using the Pen Trap Device would capture in real time all data of all users and be decrypting it in real time.

Turning over a Master Key to a building would not give the FBI instant access to all apartments simultaneously, nor would they have the ability to go back in time to look at previous data, nor thousands of other problems with this analogy

People are attempting to conflate physical keys with encryption keys simply because years ago the mathematicians used the word "keys" as analog to explain things to the general public. This does not mean there is, in reality, any analogous relationship between encryption keys and physical keys
I completely agree.

When I get a chance, I am going to attempt thing that are impossible with SASS and LESS. There are things that are impossible such as using multiply and screen to create a button of an arbitrary gradient and color that looks good.

This is the first preprocessor that is capable of doing something other than just saving keystrokes.
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A customer is a customer!
Maybe it's something with Apple and the number 7. Bring on iOS 8!
It's kind of neat the way that google translate includes the german accent.
COCK Tail Sort is the best! Didn't even know it existed, and I've been coding for like 10 years now!

Starts at 4:18 in the video. Enjoy!!
Of course this is meant to compete with a mouse. It's intended to let people play mice based games, such as FPS and RTS with a controller.

It's intended to take the gaming pc (and by, extension steam) out of the man-cave and into the living room to compete with consoles. This requires providing people with an ability for people to play FPS and RTS decently with a controller, rather than a mouse, or they are going to stick with their man caves and mice.
Emails are expected to be private. Publicly shared posts in a social network are expected to be public, so I would not be concerned that someone is reading them.
Emphasis. A good number of those defending Google are saying they can do whatever they want with your reviews because they are public.
I agree. Although I'd like to point out that it may not make sense from Amazon's perspective for them to be DRM-agnostic. It would completely suit their business interests for Kindle media to be a locked ecosystem. If Amazon just sells ebooks that work with any device, their business is less defensible.
> If they're working as hard as I am, then they should get paid as much

Yeah, and everyone should get a free house and a puppy.

Now back to the real world.
So you think that the elite in the US _want_ more competition from rich Chinese people in the US real estate market? Pretty sure they'd rather have that to themselves.

The connection between Chinese currency reserves and pregnant women giving birth in the US is... what, exactly? You think that the people buying those reserves (Central Committee / PSC) like the idea of their citizens holding dual US-Chinese citizenship? Riiiight.

And if this US elite were so hot on immigration (and influential), the US immigration system wouldn't be so insanely restrictive.

US policy is dictated by the lowest common denominator.
I never claimed there was a good solution, because the point you make is very valid.
I write reviews because I want other people to read my opinions.
Front page placement on google seems like a great deal to me!
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How would they know if it's not on the internet?