skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree completely. The constitution set very serious boundaries of what the government can do and its role. It may be empowering within that role, but it certainly was a leash.
It was - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11217477

I guess people paint with a broad brush based on their experience. nginx is a pretty fantastic piece of software - it runs a significant proportion of the web. nginx retries put / post requests if the application server times out. This quirk can be dangerous if you don't know about it, and nginx really should allow you to configure it, but it can be patched, and only affects you if you have multiple application servers.
I can't.

I was just going off of what was presented on the spreadsheet. However based on my filtering, IVPN certainly seems worth checking out.
Again, I don't think you've really read what the govt is asking: yes this would set the precedent for them to request via a valid search warrant and on a case by case basis to open maybe even "a lot" of phones. My point is - grabbing the master keys would give them access to all.
1. We're of the opinion the best fintech companies win because they build great products, and find ways to transfer wealth back to the customer (Robinhood undercuts brokerages, Sofi the banks etc). To scale, we need to be a fairer deal, and that involves finding ways for our customers to save money.

2. We get folks insuring cars, homes, pets, jewelry, race horses, boats - just about anything you can take a picture of. It's not so much what you're insuring, but the experience. If you wanted renter's insurance, how cool would it be if all you needed to do was do a video walk through of your place, or snap a few photos?

3. As an independent brokerage, we'd have access to multiple carriers to make a market for most risks. Right now, we're focused on building a large book of business. In the future, we may underwrite products that are tailored to specific audiences (e.g. automagic travel health as soon as you're at the airport for frequent travellers). This we can do via an MGA relationship with carriers.
The article suggests he took the poster down with the intention of selling it outside of the country.
This is true. Although, we do like the name alot in the insurance context.
You are supposed to feel bad, because even if what he allegedly did is stupid, the sentencing is not in any way proportionate to the action.

And that's assuming he really did what North Korea says he did. It's not the first time they've made up charges, or trumped up benign accidents into intentionally malicious acts coordinated by the US Gov.
If he actually took down a poster; the description comes from the NK news agency. It seems more likely that he did something than that NK just decided to detain some random tourist, but there may be details missing.
In a field which is not programming, I've been that guy who sent that email. It is pretty easy to fool yourself into thinking you're starting to sink your teeth into something when you're going in the wrong direction entirely, and to think the time has come to reach out to people on your next steps only to receive a gentle push back towards the fundamentals.
I've tweeted at a few groups and people recently [1]. Nobody replies or communicates on that service. They just retweet and parrot their own viewpoints.

I'll give it a shot though, thanks. I'm not really a twitter kind of person so I admit I could be doing it wrong.

[1] https://twitter.com/studentrob/with_replies
Fwiw, you can ease the pain by doing git rebase --ignore-date
I've always found it interesting how US citizens can travel to NK, but not Cuba. I do realize things are changing with travel to Cuba but there are still restrictions
I bet he feels dumb. That sucks, but still REALLY? Why did he possibly think that was a good idea?
Does anyone know of a hosted VPN service that provides a firewall too?

It seems like the only effective way to control outbound traffic from my Android phone. These solutions don't work effectively:

* Detect and block each outbound connection manually: There are endless holes to close and always new ones; that is playing whack-a-mole.

* Software firewall on phone: The firewall would need to operate on a low enough level to block everything. That is a challenge for all software firewalls, and from my sense of Android's outbound data 'features', that seems especially difficult.

* Hardware firewall of my own: Because my phone is mobile, it's not always connecting through the same hardware. I could create a VPN back to my personal firewall, but then either I must share all my data with my ISP or I must create a 2nd VPN connection from my firewall to a hosted VPN service, which seems like too much latency and complexity.

I can't be the only one who wants this ... ?
I find it interesting the article uses "exchange for money" instead of "sell". It's as if the author is bending over backwards to make us more sympathetic to the student.
>this kids thinks he's gonna prove a point by taking down a propaganda poster?

I think its even worst.

"took down a propaganda sign in Pyongyang so he could exchange it for money outside the country"

According to the article he did to sell it on ebay.
How did living things get so reliable without proof?
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The Enron case was a bad analogy because only billions of dollars were at stake: assume there were details on a Dell computer that would save a dozen or so lives. Do you think Dell wouldn't help? Do you think they shouldn't?
Were they themselves corporations? Did they avoid taxes using a double Irish strategy? Do tell, this alternate history is becoming more interesting every second.
These are not complex scenes by today's standards. Geometry's no problem. The shader complexity is a bigger concern, but here it's all hard surfaces.
Wait, what? Why would any politician give this dude a second thought? They certainly don't mind incarcerating dudes who steal from the government here, why would they care about NKBK incarcerating dudes who steal from the government there? The fact that of the two politicians you mention, I can't predict which will do the stupid saber-rattling thing, seems to illustrate Trump's point, if I may be forgiven for steelmanning such into existence. (I voted for Bernie today, but I see why others vote for Trump.)
In terms of security and speed, the two 'premium' VPNs are IVPN and VikingVPN. Viking also offers fantastic customer support, but my only gripe is that they don't run their own DNS servers (they use Cisco's OpenDNS). They also don't offer any exit nodes in Canada, but the company head (Derek) says it's because Viking is worried about Canada's data retention laws.

Likewise, I'm not affiliated with IVPN nor VikingVPN in any way. I think both are great choices.
Yes :)

See my comments
This isn't technically accurate. Most PHP setups these days load php, keep it loaded, and listen to requests. What you describe is a process by which something like apache listens, and on EACH request, loads your php script, interprets it, and they let's the php process end. First, this is a LOT slower, which is fine if you get very very few requests, but you quickly grow out of that. Second, it's not something that is limited to php. This is how most perl site worked back in the day, and you can do the same thing with ruby and python.

Last, it really is super cheap to host php, python, ruby, perl, etc sites these days. My hobby site is hosted on app engine, and it pay $0 per month. It's been running for over a year, and gets a fair amount of traffic for a hobby site. Sure, it's subsidized, but I could run the same setup, with a bit more work on my part, on a VPS for $5/month. Yes, php hosting is historically cheaper, but these days that difference is hardly relevant.
Yes. If you ran Solomonoff induction on the world, it would generate (countably infinite!) many simulations of people in the world, each of which would act exactly as they do in the world. They would experience the same things, say the same things, behave exactly the same way in every respect. Including having the same thoughts and feelings you are right now, and typing the exact same comment.
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This stupidity is equal to bringing drugs to Singapore or trying to collar a bear cub in front of bear mom in the middle of wilderness.

You could have fun or lose your life. Make a call.

If adult cannot make a judgement call simple enough he becomes a learning statistics for others.

On the other side i think NK will keep him in reasonable conditions to leverage the situation eventually returning him back.
So you don't use Tunnelblick, eh? Not at all concerned about that? Is IVPN's client's source code publicly reviewable and/or audited?

Edit: Not being sarcastic/rhetorical. Actually asking.
No, if you comment on the commits themselves rather than the PR 3rd tabs, they disappeared (at least before this change). The only place they were left is your emails, an hardcoded URL or your feed. This was (is?) bad...
From what I've tested, NordVPN has "Double VPN" servers: https://nordvpn.com/servers/

And AirVPN has Routing servers used for double-hops: https://airvpn.org/status/
You can go to Cuba actually, I know a couple people who've been on missions with their church.
> > Drumpf

> Ha! Someone likes their John Oliver. :)

#MakeDonaldDrumpfAgain
> and then erases the signed version of the software.

And the entire development tree? The local repos on the computer of every engineer that touches it?

You realize that even nuclear secrets get stolen, right? Even the NSA's dirty laundry got aired in public. No serious product remains in the dark forever.
Fun fact, US citizens can now visit both countries.
Why isn't it as likely that they want a hostage to use as leverage? Accusing him of doing something insanely idiotic would give plausible deniability of the actual purpose.
> Was the black cat interfering with things?

If you require intent for something to be considered interference, I guess you're not much of a wave physicist.

> I never accused anyone of acting maliciously.

No, my point was that that was what you were saying the papers were doing - you were saying that the papers were injecting malicious intent into the story. Okay, you didn't literally use the word 'malicious', but I think most people would not have a problem with it, given the context you were suggesting the papers were giving ("active interference" preventing firefighters from doing their work)
Someone who was allegedly there when the kid did it commented on a thread yesterday. I doubt the NK government would be posting propaganda on HackerNews of all places, but hey, you never know.
This is the smartest, most well consider comment on this whole topic, and I'm sorry to say you're likely to be down voted into oblivion :)
There's mention of the arrest from an HN member who saw it first-hand in the thread from yesterday on photos from DPRK:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11287535
Millions of young adults do stupider things every day, and relatively few end in tragedy.
Pretty crazy to see people here justifying this ridiculous sentence for something that may not have even been done on purpose. What is wrong with some of you?
Multi-line discounts are a key selling point of going with one carrier, something a good independent broker should arrange for you.

As an insurance customer, you have the right to switch agent representation at no cost to you (generally). What other value-added services do you think your local broker could offer outside of accommodating the occasional drop-in? What would compel you to switch brokers?
All it is is commentary [and irony], not judgement. It's not wrong or right, but it does have consequences on the human condition. Some positive, some negative.

For example, human inter-relationships are full of "friction". For some people not having friction would be ideal, for others a relationship without friction is no relationship at all.

And I think that can extend into the physical world. Maybe I'd like to remove the friction of having to wipe after going to the toilet --but it's also a good reminder we're still part animal. So it is when we actually have to drive or cook for ourselves. We're not just commanding people or things to do the bidding for us -we have to face the "dirty work" whether it's having another human do it for us or ourselves. But automation removes this mirror.

The "reason" for it is that we could lose touch with our own humanity. It all becomes abstracted --it's a transaction, the human labor (or lack of it) are not even considered any more. I know this might sound like it's coming from a luddite, but it's not. It's just observation and it may or may not have import in the future, if we keep going this route.
Man, the comments here are harsh! Let's atleast show some sympathy for support of his parents and his family. I'm sure the word devastation won't even describe the pain and fear that they may be going through. My hearts and prayers goes out to his family, really wish him a quick and safe return.
The idea is similar but the accuracy is much better.
You're right about the upgrade cycle being shorter than I thought.

> That's still probably faster than PC as a 1000$ gaming PC from 2012 would have 4 or 8 GB ram, 1TB HDD or a small SSD, ~570 GTX 2500k CPU. Which can still play new games but your going to want an upgrade soon ish.

I don't think this is true. In 2013 [0], for $1000, you'd be looking at a GTX 660 and an i5 4430. Witcher 3, one of the largest PC gaming releases of 2015, required [1] a GTX 660 as a __minimum__, just 2 years after you'd have bought that PC. And this is a card that could handle Skyrim on Ultra settings [2] when you bought it.

To keep a PC up to date (playing new games at the quality settings you used when you bought it) you're looking at $1000 initial cost, ~$150/yr for the GPU and $50-100/year for a CPU/RAM upgrade every few years.

So for 10 years of ownership, you're looking at $1000 for the initial purchase, 3-5 $250 GPU upgrades ($750-$1250) and say two major overhauls of CPU/RAM/Motherboard/PSU ($500-$1000). Total cost of ownership is ~$2250-3250, depending how long you stretch it.

For a console you're looking at say 3 console purchases (since you keep them longer, at least one is likely to need replacing at some stage) each at ~$400. Total cost of ownership is ~$1200.

> Cheaper games

Tom Clancy's The Division, the most recent major new release I'm aware of is currently $60 on every platform [3]. This has been my experience with most major games. If you're commenting on indie games, those are available on consoles too.

> no subscription fees (X box live)

A concern exclusively for Xbox owners. This thread is regarding a Playstation announcement.

> and your going to want a PC anyway

Most people can (and do) get along perfectly fine with a cheap $300 laptop which lasts them 2-5 years depending on the people.

I get where you're coming from but I think you're biased by your personal preferences/situation/experiences. Gaming PCs just aren't more cost effective than consoles unless you happen to need a beast of a PC for other purposes (like software development). They just don't make sense for most of the market.

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20130501090947/http://www.logica...

[1]: http://www.pcgamer.com/the-witcher-3-system-requirements-ann...

[2]: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gtx-660-geforce-...

[3]: http://www.amazon.com/Tom-Clancys-Division-Xbox-One/dp/B00DD...
He got off easy, it's 60 years in the United States.
There's zero evidence of an afterlife or souls of any kind. And overwhelming evidence that your behavior is controlled entirely by your brain. You are your brain. Nothing more. This life is the only one you will get!
The Founders probably couldn't comprehend mobile phones and the internet, let alone modern corporations being granted personhood.

Keep in mind that the founders were some of the smartest, most educated and most powerful people on the fucking planet at the time - Franklin even contributed to our understanding of electricity - so I think that view is not only mistaken but beside the point. They had no need to debate the particular sophistry of our circumstances. The corrupting nature of power was clear to them and we should be thankful that for that.
This paints an unfair portrait of the average American. It isn't that they don't care, they just aren't as technologically savvy as this audience.

Take the Edward Snowden leaks. John Oliver did a wonderful segment interviewing people about NSA surveillance.[1] If you ask an average citizen if they are for or against "Section 215" or "X-Keyscore", they'll fall back on vague national security scare quotes. If you ask them if the government should see your dick-pics, then they start to understand what is at stake.

In many people's minds, what the FBI is saying makes sense. What's the big deal? They want to access a single iPhone from a terrorist.

Teach people that it means their nude photos could be accessed by any law enforcement official and I think you'll find that people really do care.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEVlyP4_11M
Nice. I had the same experience with DO last September...The same month Braintree asked me to write a ruby project that took about 3 days and then on the call only asked about python sqlalchemy database queries. I don't know what the disconnect is with these larger companies and their HR staff? By the time that third one asked me to write a node.js rest api from scratch. I just chuckled and said thanks for your time...I doubt I will commit more than a few hours in the future to any throwaway project for just a call back. Why can't we get paid for the time spent writing sample code like a freelancer...If it isn't good enough pay for my time (up to a max) and both parties can move on. Time is more valuable than the risk of getting passed that initial callback/more screens.
Once they set precedent to get Apple to provide them with the software they need, why do you think they won't later compel Apple to provide them with the keys to let them unlock any phone?

Surely it's going to become a burden if the government has to go through Apple for every single unlock request - there may be thousands of them, so for convenience, why wouldn't they demand the software to do it themselves?

It seems like gaining access to this dead guy's phone is not really what the FBI is after - they can already get his call records and SMS's from the carriers, there's not likely to be any actionable information left on the phone.
5. No technical interview. I understand there are lots of fakers and people that overestimate their abilities, but all my degrees and experience should be enough for you. So lets skip to the part about whether we like each other enough to work together. If you don't like me it's probably because my qualifications are threatening to you or the expert beginner(s) you hired to be your top dog(s). A technical interview is only going to make that situation worse.
I'm not a Bernie supporter, but Bernie is quite explicit in his desire for Scandinavian style democratic socialism. Conflating it with what happened in the soviet union is disingenuous at best.
Do you interleave full-time and consulting gigs? If so, how does that work in practice? Wouldn't doing a fulltime job for a while tend to dry up your client pipeline, as they find someone else for urgent work? With that in mind, when is it worth it to even try to find a fulltime job? I'm about to start my career, and wondering how hard it is to walk the line between consulting and "regular" jobs.
Here's a video of him confessing to his crime: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYUMImDfhoo
HN really, really dislikes college kids, especially the globe trotting outgoing ones. I know because I fall in that camp of haters sometimes. Totally withhold judgement in this case, though, since we know almost no facts.
Yes, that idea is even better! =D
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The sooner they take down Apple the better. Security through obscurity is a failed strategy.
Gilbert Strang's linear algebra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK3O402wf1c

Walter Lewin's Classical Mechanics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo28HOrhipc

for the content and the delivery
Our people will get him out right? We have special operations that handles this?
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> Why would this process have any higher risk of being compromised than Apple's normal release process for signing new iOS versions?

It wouldn't. In fact, since every iOS restore contacts an Apple server to re-sign the firmware with a device-specific chip ID and unique nonce[1], all Apple would have to do is configure the signing server to sign the government firmware only for approved ECIDs (which might require some engineering effort to ensure that the internal process for adding images/ECIDs is secure and well-documented, but nothing unreasonable). Because the signing server is already connected to the Internet rather than, say, airgapped and brought out only when a new firmware needs to be signed, signing additional/alternate images wouldn't increase the risk of key compromise.

I support Apple's moral stance but hell if the "hacker risk" part of their argument isn't bullshit.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHSH_blob
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for current state of the art real-time architectural viz.
I really hope there is an option to choose if you want the curated version or the chronological one. I always check Instagram posts up until the point I left previously, and I don't miss anything that way.
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What do you consider to be the benefit of free software then? If it is freedom, then why are you watching a child give away their freedom? If it is any other "practical" reason then I urge you to reconsider your ethics. Given the fact that we know free software companies exist, then there's no valid justification (on a level of "there's no other way to survive selling my software") for selling proprietary software. The ethics questions become important when you consider the fact that most proprietary software developers do mistreat their users and the users are powerless to do anything about it.

Now, I'm not sure what the right way of introducing a child to this concept is (I'm still a teenager, so I have no parenting experience). I believe that topics like this should become relevant when the child is much older, mainly because social interaction is much more important than ethics about software at a young age.

But I personally feel worried about the fact that many children are now growing up in an age when Google has always existed and they have Google accounts from a young age (it pangs of the children in 1984 that don't know a time before Ingsoc and that planes were not invented by the Party).
They relaxed more of the restrictions on travel to Cuba just today: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/16/us/politics/white-house-cu...
We should argue this issue in terms of security and the economy. Those are the terms politicians and people understand.

See [1] [2] [3] about security

About the economy, Obama himself provides the best argument there. Last year he told President Xi that anti-encryption laws would hurt his economy [4]

I'm interested in starting a grassroots campaign around this issue. Shoot me an email at stillastudent using Google's email service if you're interested in helping.

[1] https://youtu.be/g1GgnbN9oNw?t=3h35m52s

[2] https://youtu.be/g1GgnbN9oNw?t=3h11m46s

[3] https://youtu.be/g1GgnbN9oNw?t=3h19m39s

[4] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-obama-china-idUSKBN0LY...
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So he accidentally took down the poster? How does that happen?
The "ideological nonsense" is the reason the free software movement came into existence in the first place. And it is important to recognise why user freedom is important, before talking about practical considerations (which are of a secondary concern).