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I was wondering if it's legal what this person did. I thought others would too. Here's what I found:

"Although some asylum seekers might enter the UK illegally, once they have applied for asylum they are no longer ‘illegal’. Anyone seeking protection is entitled to stay in the UK while awaiting a decision on their asylum claim." (http://www.asylumaid.org.uk/the-asylum-process-made-simple)
Do people even read the posted articles at all?!

From the article:

Cooper should’ve backed his work up, or known to be more cautious with drafts.
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Admittedly, not everything has vanished. The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine has saved bits and pieces of Cooper’s blog dating back to January 3, 2012, but they are just snapshots of the blog’s front page for a given date, not capturing the blog in its entirety.
Why so snarky? Don't you think it's an interesting phenomena?
In fact it could be considered a success for the artwork , it fulfilled its purpose. And got the attention it looked for.
Have you watched the movie
Well, this is only true as long as UK is part of EU. It's an EU law.
You sound like President material then ;)
> So, do you have a preconceived notion of how good or bad the “Ghostbusters” movie is going to be? Of course you do, you clicked on an article with “Ghostbusters” in the title.

I blindly clicked because of fivethirtyeight in the url.
That's easier said than done.

The reason for all this cloud stuff is simplicity! Why have two services when Google/Apple/Other combines all your stuff into one.

Almost no one will frequently use multiple services like iTunes and Google Play, e.g. you aren't going to buy a movie from iTunes then buy the same one from Google Play just in case Apple pull the rug out from under you.

Same with email: I have a few addresses but my primary one (99% of the time) is tied to outlook.com.

We have allowed it to happen: We own nothing these days, we just rent stuff.
Interactive art pieces like this are not uncommon. And there are way too many artists out there to be able to keep track of their style of work. It was clearly an honest mistake. They are pressing criminal charges "for insurance reasons", but they could have not, "for decent human being reasons".
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Yes, that is a good question. I think OpenBSD's pledge(2) is a good model for what a simple and useful privilege interface can enforce (although there is room for improvement).

To some extent, this is a question of what the requirements are. If a sandbox limits a browser to accessing certain files (a la chroot), is that secure? Or does it need to be more fine grained? This isn't something that can be proven, it's mostly a matter of user interface design.

I think there are good arguments for keeping security requirements relatively simple and coarse (including ease of implementation and making sure users can understand what guarantees are offered).
Actually, English is regularly spoken in the Philippines. They were s US territory at one point in history.

What the problem typically is is not a language barrier. These outsourced call centers are typically boiler rooms. The agents are incentivized to close the call, not fix the problem.
I just fail to understand how the BBC can portray this as something great. I mean the guy tries to enter Britain 2 times with fake passports and he was already in France. (what is he fleeing from in France?)

And then there's the fact that this guy had contacts to criminals that can create fake passports. I guess nobody did something about that too, their smuggling and fake passport business is probably still making profits!
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This January 2016 crawl of the homepage at the WayBackMachine does show an adult content warning so presumably, that (the adult content) was not in violation of Google's TOS at least at that point in time:

http://web.archive.org/web/20160125091732/http://denniscoope...
Of course it's been a complaint forever but how many flagship phones with great battery life do you count? My point is that More battery-hungry widespread applications = More pressure on manufacturers to answer to those complaints.
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I must be missing something. Why didn't he apply for asylum in France then?
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Speaking of that, what is the best way to make a backup of the contents of an email account (not specifically Gmail, but IMAP in general)?
Social services don't pay enough.
We may have reached the peak of Pokemon already: https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=pokemon&date=now%207...
But sketch also doesn't support CMYK, does it? Otherwise people wouldn't need tricks like https://medium.com/sketch-app-sources/creating-resume-in-ske...
Could you please let us know where you got that 5% figure from? I thought (according to the latest post on Ethereum's blog https://blog.ethereum.org/2016/07/15/to-fork-or-not-to-fork/) that the voting was done just on http://carbonvote.com/
What makes you think that the BBC are portraying this as 'great'? The report contains no views other than the asylum seeker himself (and of course he thinks it great, it was his aim after all!)
I agree. I find this terrifying. This just shows how easily a terrorist could have done something similar.
To be more precise: "smaller/thinner and less expensive".
Being a German myself, I think there's a joke in there somewhere about Germans and following orders.
He broke quite a few laws (and documented it), but there are strong treaties protecting refugees against some national laws. He could go to jail if France were to sue him for using a fake document, but that would not change that he's protected against deportation to Syria.
Org mode rocks! And with ob-ipython you basically get same functionality as the notebook...

https://github.com/gregsexton/ob-ipython
Oh come on, just listen to the music they overlay at the end when he has tears in his eyes because he is so happy that he made it. Sounds like a happy end to me.

Edit: And he is no asylum seeker in my book. He was in France so what is he fleeing from?
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This would be a totally awesome feature if the quality of a truncated FLIF came anywhere close to files tailored to that size in “real“ lossy formats. Unfortunately, according to that example page, truncated FLIF falls far behind. It might find a niche where data reduction and scale reduction fall together (the last example)
No, it's directly Geneva Convention. There are some EU specific things, like the country of entry is responsible to handle the refugee status application, and the European Court Of Human rights is merciless with States giving in to their instincts on refugees, but the base principles are linked to the big treaties on war.
Because a single architecture change will solve all our issues and not cause countless others (if only!).
I’d happily have a 1-2 inch thick well made premium phone with a battery that lasted days.
you cannot know it really. The Seagate one is really thin, every "normal" USB cable you buy should be thicker. Btw. I used an old USB 3.0 cable from a broken Western Digital 2.5" drive, it was thicker.
It's essentially psychological, the UK is more popular amongst refugees, and they natively speak english, the 2 other big countries speak either French or German.

I forgot to add: when the application is done, he's legally pinned to the country.
From listening to him, he speaks excellent English - I might also assume he'd find it easier to settle here for that reason.
Because the whole 'refugee crisis' is planned. Just look up what are the EU's objectives, who were it's founding members and their agenda. It's purposeful relocation, that's why gov. officials do not care.
I haven't watched the video, but it would more likely be things like already having a basic grasp of English, being more familiar with the culture, etc, that would make integration easier.
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RE: what is he fleeing from in Franch?

Maybe he doesn't know, and doesn't want to learn French?

RE: something great or terrifying

Classic case of "do the ends justify the means." It's not a simple thing.
> And then there's the fact that this guy had contacts to criminals that can create fake passports.

The fact the you are reading this on HN probably means that any one of us could have contacts capable of creating fake passports. I am certain that most tech savvy people with the right motivation could easily learn to use dark net tools and purchase fake documents within a few hours. This is 2016, contact with criminals no longer means hanging out in seedy drug dens or back alleys.
I'm glad to see that problems with Anker USB 3.0 Hubs happen not only for me. In my case, the Wifi became unusable once the Hub was connected. Quite a shame for a nice looking, affordable device to have a breaking issue with shielding.
thatz a much better way of hitting the home run on

If you have nothing to lose you have nothing to hide

If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear.

my moto from the pre snowden/opm hack days.

quite nice that it doesnt get me downvotes anymore.
Not really, it seems just like any other fad. The technology involved has been around for a while, and nobody paid much attention to it before.

I'd be interested to see articles detailing technical difficulties that they may have overcome, but I've seen way too many articles just saying "Pokemon GO now has more X than Y".
Wow, that's an insightful bit.

I always try (and fail) to explain to my friends why Conceptual Art can at times advance the state of artistic inquiry, even if the material product is on itself quite unremarkable.

Labeling it as "literature" may shift the frame of reference, and make people realize its value. I'll try that trick next time.
Get rid of copyright law, then everyone can have the data. People keep ignoring the fact that you can't just release data like that all over the place, because researchers often do not have the IP rights to do so in a general way (whereas within the field other researchers probably do have IP rights to use the same data).
I believe it does traditionally, yes. Your data plus two backup copies. Personally I'd say no though, just for the sake of having more backups (3 2 1 is minimum, not strict!).

Partially unrelated I consider "cloud" as its own media type to avoid the pedantics of me storing files on a spinning disk and the cloud provider does too. Chances are they have server grade disks and their own backups. On that note, their backups are not my backups. Their backups are never my backups.

If they save my butt one day, awesome. But that day was already terrible if I'd managed to lose all of my backups.
I can never understand why people don't host important stuff/stuff they care about themselves. Webhosting and domains are cheap and even someone with little technical knowledge can create a website. There are tons of options to do that.
This strikes me as an interesting case of failing communication in museums and art galleries. How is a visitor supposed to tell if something is supposed to be interacted with or not? This is not much of a problem in any museum with antique art — the common mantra being „touch nothing; at all” — but with contemporary art the lines often get blurred. Some pieces do explicitly invite viewers to interact in some way, but how is a visitor supposed to tell which installation is interactive and which is merely using inviting descriptions?
Oh, come on. I learned "the metric system" in elementary school in the United States of America nearly 50 years ago. I was in no way confused when it appeared in the movie Pulp Fiction.

It's not like Americans don't know the metric system, it's that there is no political will to change.

But it really doesn't matter. Large parts of industry in the USA are already "hard metric". Anybody in STEM certainly knows metric, because that's often what they exclusively use every day.
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> i'm not. all of it makes me nervous. even package managers with supposedly cryptographically secure verification make me nervous.

Android and Chrome for example are really ahead of this in my opinion. Apps are sandboxed and you know uninstall clears up traces of them. Obviously it's not perfect but it's miles ahead of installation scripts and binary installers which can do anything they want with your system and might be hard to get rid of.
You'll probably get downvoted but you are correct. As an Arab it sickens me how these "refugees" are choosing what country to stay in despite the fact they say they escaped war and torture. It saddens me how they are giving us, potential future immigrants with degrees and a desire to be functional parts of society, more bad rep.
"Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think a story is spam or off-topic, flag it by clicking on its 'flag' link. If you think a comment is egregious, click on its timestamp to go to its page, then click 'flag' at the top. (Not all users see flag links; there's a small karma threshold.)"

Just hide if you're not personally interested. IMO flagging that would be an abuse of the facility and just wasting moderator time.
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Ask HN: What Are Your Approaches to API Monitoring and Infrastructure Monitoring?
Hello all,

I'm building a web-application using a micro services based architecture.
And, I'm keen on learning the recommended approaches towards monitoring such systems (uptime, latency etc.)

So far I've been using tools like nagios/ ganglia/ bosun.org and pagerduty.
and specifically ask, below are some of the questions I have,

- Which tools do you use for monitoring your infrastructure?

- Which other metrics must be monitored in addition to uptime and response-latency ?

- Do you use same tools for API Monitoring & Web Monitoring?

- How do you monitor api performance degradation?

- how do you track effect of a deployments on application performance?

- When is it wise to build internal or custom tool chains towards this?

Thanks!
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Indeed. When people talk about whether something "is art", they're usually using that phrasing as a proxy for discussing whether they think something has artistic merit. But as a result, more often than not people end up in pointless semantic arguments about the definition of art instead of discussing their opinions of the artistic merit itself.

One may think a piece of art is worthless, but saying it's "not art" is rarely a useful way to express that.
Not sure if it's the best way or not, but I use offlineimap...
Ideally every website or tab would have their own sandbox.
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Absolutely not what was stated. Being able to create a fake passport or contacting someone who can do it is in no way comparable to actually doing those things.

It's 2016, where engaging in criminal activity is still a crime.
Well, let's hear what you would do if you were in a war torn country, if you had to fear for your life, if you were tortured by horrible people.

There are so many innocent people, who has nothing to do with the violence. Show some compassion towards your fellow man, please.
These are some of the best repos actually about Pokemon

https://github.com/pret/
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No, it's in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights article 14.1:

"Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution."
Ask HN: Why not more SaaS are “Pay when you're ready”
I'm pretty sure the answer is a combination of:
- Creating certainty in WHEN you will cancel or upgrade, easier stats.
- Creating urgency for you to use the product.

But it's incredibly frustrating for me to want to check out / use a SaaS product and have my "30 day free trial" start running out even if I'm getting zero value from the product in those 30 days. Don't even get me started on companies that charge up front (money back guarantee instead of free trial)...

What I mean is, if I sign up for something like Basecamp, yes, probably as soon as I start creating projects and tasks, it's fair to assume I'm getting value. A normal 30 day free trial applies. But for something like Mailchimp, I should be able to use the product as much as I want until I'm ready to send a few emails (ideally, more than a 'test' threshold, like 10 emails). So I can take my sweet time checking out the UI, creating all my email sequences, customizing templates, etc. Or if I sign up for Squarespace or Wordpress.com, again let me write and customize my site indefinitely until I'm ready to "publish it" for others to see.

What ends up happening is I run into a certain product I like and since I know I'm going to be in this anxious period of "I need to make use of this NOW or I'm going to run out of my trial since I don't have time to focus on this if I sign up now", I just don't sign up at all. I guess you could say they're also qualifying customers by only getting those actually ready to get value from their product right now to sign up vs those just wanting to kick the tiers, but I personally believe it's a lost opportunity to engage with me. Maybe once I sign up they can create an email sequence to educate me on the product, or use onboarding techniques to get me to use it.

Any thoughts or examples on companies that do this?
There is no right for asylum seekers to pick and choose where they want to live once they are in safety, not even by UN and human rights conventions.

I couldn't care less if he doesn't want to learn french or hates baguette, what kind of ridiculous excuse is that?

Do we soon have to enable refugees to live in Monaco, Disney Land or Hawaii just because they feel like it?
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Some motivations for travelling on from France to UK (as mentioned in various news media over recent years)

Smugglers telling people that it is better to live in UK (the smuggler then gets to charge for the trip).

Easier to get work without papers

Community of people from same country of origin

More generous welfare provision (UK still gives 'normal' accommodation, other EU countries are re-purposing non-residential buildings to house asylum seekers)
> I am sorry, security guys, but unless it's military-grade software, security is just another feature. And it is not a highest priority one.

I completely disagree: security is the foundation of any software system. Without security, the system simply cannot be trusted to do anything correctly, not even add 1 and 1 together. For far too long we've relied on our systems being accidentally correct rather than deliberately secure; we need to fix that.

If something's mathematically possible, then it will happen. We need to build systems where security flaws are impossible, because then … they won't happen.
No, it's part of the UN convention on refugees: http://www.unhcr.org/uk/1951-refugee-convention.html
Western Countries could change their foreign policy.
Computing power isn't the bottleneck of fuzzing. It's being smart about choosing your targets, tools and seeds.

My rule of thumb: It's very rare that I see any results beyond running a fuzzing job on an average machine for a day.
Thank you for the explanation. Your signaling argument sounds an awful lot like security through obscurity[1], which I do read a lot and sympathise with to an extent, but unfortunately it can also be easily debunked.

Pragmatically, security needs to match the circumstances in order to get a fair balance between usability and security. For most people, hiding inside the noise is "good enough". However the issue arises if any one person gets the limelight thrust upon them for whatever reason. And we've seen examples of this with the phone hacking scandals in the UK and how some journalists also search social media accounts of previously unknown individuals who might hit the headlines. In situations like this, you can no longer hide your signal amongst the noise of the internet as you're not being specifically targeted.

So I guess the point I'm trying to make is the signaling argument only works because the odds are in your favour. But like with any game of chance, there's always the slim chance that you might be unlucky.

At least with stronger levels of security, your comms might be more visible in some circumstances, but at least very little can be ascertained from those comms. Generally speaking of course. However going back to your VPN vs Tor argument specifically, I do agree with you that the security benefits of Tor are largely overstated, so it's not something I use personally myself either.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obscurity
Not really. There are reliable ways to collect evidence that might still be illegal.

For example it might be illegal to search a diplomat in the same way as would be legal for an ordinary civilian. But there's no obvious reason why evidence gathered from a non-permissible search would be less reliable than from a permissible one by default.

Likewise although it is true that torture is not a good means of gathering intelligence or extracting confessions (because there's a clear incentive for people to make up things just to stop the suffering) if the information can be verified it could still reasonably be considered evidence that the tortured person possessed perpetrator's knowledge.

"Evidence" is never absolute. Even if you have a video recording of a suspect shooting and killing a victim and then walking into police custody that's still not a 100% guarantee. Evidence is however cumulative (beyond a certain threshold anyway). You rarely base a conviction on a single piece of evidence alone.
Very interesting article, thank you very much!

I spent about 9 months in total in a mainframe team during my training, but that team mainly took care of hooking up the mainframes to the corporate network, so I did not do any coding except for small Perl script. (I came close to having to code in REXX, but I dodged that bullet. I played around with REXX at home and did not like it very much.)

But it was very interesting to see all the examples of parallel evolution in the mainframe world, at least where the terminology was concerned. A reboot was an IPL (also used as a verb), the OS kernel was a nucleus (a term I really liked), they also had a term for network interfaces I forgot about.

A strange but interesting world, it's a shame those beasts are so expensive.
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Smuggling tip: On a Slavic passport, if your last name ends in ova, it says you're female.
Moreover, one could consider that uncertainty itself to be part of the art.
People in all sorts of desperate situations find different ways to get their needs and goals met. You might not think that you are a theif, but go hungry enough and you might change your stance. Simply being on such a refugee journey can get you certain contacts for this sort of thing, I'm guessing, and as the previous poster mentioned, the internet and technology makes things much easier.

In addition, folks work and walk alongside criminals (who may or may not have gotten caught) every day, and they don't realize it. Stereotypes generally aren't true, and some have less truth than others. Not everyone is doing technically criminal things to hurt others, nor are outwardly bad folks.
Last I checked, France was not a "war torn country".

He was already in France, then obtained a fake passport to illegally cross into the UK.
For what it's worth, I think OCaml's syntax is one of its weakest points (not to mention syntax extensions...) and I have been writing OCaml 3 years longer than I've been writing Standard ML.
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