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Of course the other 7.2 billion people in the world are also routinely monitored, but since this is an action on foreign territory, these 7.2 billion people have no recourse against this practice.
Rephrase it to "What experience does the author have that indicates their experience would actually scale to Facebook levels?"

Is it bullet proof? Of course not. As an easy example, there are many that are more overweight than I am that know nutrition better than I do. That said, it is does seem somewhat logical to question health advice from clearly unhealthy people.
The problem is that everyone and their dog has their grade 12. Or at least that a Grade 12 education no longer guarantees that a Grade 12 no longer guarantees basic skills in reading, 'riting, 'rithmetic and reasoning.
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If we go far back enough wouldn't native americans be immigrants, too?
The more shocking (yet totally obvious in retrospect to me) thing is that, of the 5, only Amazon doesn't have any way for me to escape their collective sphere of (direct) influence at all. I can switch to Linux on commodity hardware, use an alternative browser, use free alternatives to any MS product or service, and switch search engines, but there's no way to replace the Amazon shopping experience. I'm also not sure what I'd do about maps or phone platforms.

Even if I replaced them all directly, I'd still have to deal with compatibility issues for browsers and software, and it's hard to beat AWS. Switching to a more traditional hosting setup is s nightmare by comparison.

Can anyone here easily escape all of the "gang of 5"?
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Ah, another bureaucratic solution. As if these work?
Companies will start buying their CEO luxury apartments, yacht, etc...

BTW this has been tried before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenue_Act_of_1942

It was then, that the employers started giving free insurance to get around wage cap, and seedlings for present healthcare mess were planted.

https://www.ebri.org/publications/facts/index.cfm?fa=0302fac...
Fair point. It's plausible that the act of immigration selects for more motivated people.
This is the closest I can find:

“When two-thirds or three-quarters of the CEOs in Silicon Valley are from South Asia or from Asia, I think . . . ” Bannon said, not finishing the sentence. “A country is more than an economy. We’re a civic society.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-bannon-flattered...
Even if you ignore careers such as plumbers, dental hygienists, electrical technician, the entire construction industry, etc., ... a lot of web developers don't have one.
The linked study has one "key finding" that "The billion dollar startup companies with an immigrant founder excel at job creation" but I don't see anything in the study to indicate how the job creation at these immigrant founded companies compares to "non-immigrant" founded companies. The provided data appears to just be a table listing how many jobs were created at these companies with no mechanism for relative comparison.

Does anyone know of existing evidence to support this claim?
I think he maybe referring to this:

Bannon responded: “When two-thirds or three-quarters of the CEOs in Silicon Valley are from South Asia or from Asia, I think . . . ” he didn’t finish his sentence. “A country is more than an economy. We’re a civic society.”

http://www.theverge.com/2016/11/16/13653490/steve-bannon-tru...
Cant be any clearer http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/11/steve-bannon-racist-c...
Speaking of meta, perhaps there could be a Meta: area strictly for meta discussions, similarly to Ask HN:? Then the meta addicts could congregate and upvote all the want there? A slight modification might need to be made so that Meta: prefaced titles never appear in the regular submission queue, or if they do they start with a huge negative factor.
Also even if the moderator made that particular decision alone, he will not have to stand up for it as an individual if it gets challenged. Any sensible organization will back him up as long as he acted in good faith and did not break some basic rules. He is, at all times (except when not acting as a moderator), representing a larger entity.

(They might of course still have an internal disagreement over an issue, and maybe take internal action for bad decisions, and might overthrow that decision if warranted, but not by blaming it on one individual.)
I see some negative news about brexit plan execution, so I still think it might be possible to revert or avoid a total crash (if it occurs, maybe the world has some cards up his sleeves and things will reorder nicely) ?
France is a bank crisis waiting to happen though...
Your opinion was probably unpopular because DOJ signoff does not make good encryption with a master key any more technologically possible, and HN is a very pro-encryption crowd as a technical means to privacy. The disagreement for me is not about the warrant process but about why this warrant would be different. I think the warrant should not have been granted and needed to be fought in court. And the great thing about the warrant was, since it notified the defendant and could be eventually made public we could have this debate.

I think (hope?) we are all totally on the same page about warrants being necessary. I wouldn't hold your breath about due process coming back under trump, media intolerance hasn't changed a lot. What has is direct legal action on behalf of citizens, from states and agencies like the ACLU. I urge everyone to contribute to the EFF, and the ACLU, and let them, and your state legislature know this is a key issue to you.
Nearly lol'ed on that. I would add that if you're actually doing what the OP claims:

> I’ve personally typed and carefully went through every single email I sent.

Then I would definitely consider that cold mail, and not spam. A targeted, personal, concise email is worth 1,000 spammy emails (and perhaps approaches infinity if you factor in negative strikes against "good faith"). The difference is more qualitative than quantitative.
I have three text files: todo.txt, thisyear.txt, life.txt.
Tesla would have been stuck at level 2/3 with Mobileye. With PX2 you have enough compute power to do much more, and a mature and rapidly developing GPGPU ecosystem (CUDA for ML, SLAM, SfM etc). I do think Nvidia is going to have to bring the price of PX2 down significantly though if they want mass market adoption.
I don't understand why crypto doesn't help avoid detection?

Imagine I have a usb thumb drive with gigabytes of mp3s on it, and I devise a way to embed and extract a floppy image into the mp3s (i.e. steganography), or perhaps family pictures. unless the images are viewed before and after, it can be difficult to determine what was stored or even if anything was stored.

Of course, not impossible as their attacks that can be done on this, but I'd argue that if one is already suspected of using steganography and they have access to the device you are storing the data on, you are most likely screwed anyways, even if they can't prove it.
Tons of stories get flagged—in fact above a certain point threshold the majority do—and in most cases the effect isn't that strong.
Just what I've always wanted from my self-driving car - Mossad Inside.
People who are criticizing Mayer's deal are failing to realize that Mayer had better options than taking over as head of yahoo. She was a bright star who could have gone to any number of companies.

Nobody in the tech community would have categorized Yahoo as "ready for a turn around". Companies that large that have been mismanaged for so long are filled with middle managers that are better at internal politics than driving initiatives. The odds of yahoo turning around were extremely low. They had to put a deal together to entice someone who had a good reputation from a leading tech company to put their name on the line to go try and sort out a giant mess.

If your gripe is the difference between her salary and the lowest paid then I understand. That doesn't mean you bash Mayer for playing by the rules that society has set up. Good for her for getting paid. That makes you no different than the middle manager who isn't helping their team push forward but instead is sitting in meetings taking pot shots at everyone else.

Support a law that says the top executive can't make x times the total comp of the lowest paid. Of course every law like that will create incentives to structure companies to maximize payments to execs. those conversations would add more to our discussion than just throwing rocks.
Shouldn't the headline be that; if you have a safe system encryption can work?

Because as long as encryption that has been broken (or systems that have been compromised) is used what you are basically doing is giving mr V is a receipt that you have made a transaction...
I hear Rand Paul is a fake ophthalmologist.
To me, that would be a sign that you are winning the battle. If enough websites fight ad blockers, especially big sites, and the people behind those ad blockers make clumsy mistakes, then users will reach a point where they uninstall the blocker.
If it is used as an arbitrary checkbox, then yes, it's reverence whether everyone has one or not.
> Conservatives in general have extremely simple black and white thinking with no consideration of statistics or larger concepts. That's why they're so fear driven.

These kinds of claims on Hacker News happen to be nearly indistinguishable from trolling, and it's not OK to then attack other users when they bite. We're after civil, thoughtful discussion on HN, so please don't take us in the opposite direction.
Ships. They're ships. Ships lean away from their turns. Boats lean into their turns. Also ships can carry boats.

Source: (Former) ship driver.
Somewhere in the solution should be encouraging gap year(s) after high school.
You could read this as "America needs to get over the infatuation of entering the workforce or college immediately."

Which, I should add, I'm not against.
> the FBI seemed to have the proper DOJ signoff [in San Bernardino]

Due process means both sides get to argue their cases in front of a court. Apple chose to do that [1]. Presumably, the FBI figured it would lose and so dropped the case [2]. Apple contesting an executive branch order in a court is different from directors and employees at the NSA deciding they can act in defiance of our courts and laws.

[1] https://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/02/18/technology/apple-timot...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/28/apple-fbi...
Google makes efforts to prevent ad-blocking:

- Google Chrome for mobile doesn't allow add-ons so you can't install ad-blockers. (You can install browser extensions with Firefox for Android.)

- Google Chrome uses a dark pattern where the address bar tends to send users to the Google search results page instead of to their final destination (compare the behavior with Firefox's). That means that even if you have an ad-blocker, many users are likely to click on Google ads on the way to the destination site, even if they are blocked on the destination site.

- Android doesn't provide fine-grained permissions control or root access, so users can't block ads.

- Some of their content is designed to coerce users to buy restricted Android-based content-consumption devices. For example, you can't buy movies on YouTube and watch them HD in Google Chrome (at least on my computer). You have to buy another computer that doesn't have root access (an Android device) in order to consume the videos in HD. Once you're on the restricted device, it's harder to block ads.

- Google introduces projects like AMP that try to convince webmasters to restrict their monetization options and make it easier to appify the WWW. AMP even serves your content from Google's servers. The more control of the content they have from server-to-eyeball, the more options they have for stopping ad-blockers (and the worse it is for open technology).
Isn't there another factor on rank based on ones Karma or is that a per account thing?

Aka, I've noticed that most of my stories I submit never reach the front page, but a nearly identical, or sometimes the exact link will make it to the front-page. I can only speculate that there is some high karma aspect to the ranking algorithm that works against high karma HN users.

Kind of seems opposite of how it should be but maybe there is a good reason for this approach that the mods can share.
I'm in no way affiliated but I think it would be to cut down on what "shitposts" that are just meta-related and are low quality posts. While this one seems to have interesting theories, over on Reddit there is a scourge of highly upvoted posts that do little to nothing to motivate discussion or contribute to the community.
"Hopefully it finally gets shut down during the Trump administration, even if merely because the media seems far less tolerant of his transgressions."

I haven't seen any indication that either party is looking to end these practices. It's hard to shut down "big brother" when it's your turn to play big brother. Furthermore, this doesn't exactly seem the the administration that's likely to dial-back intrusion into people's personal lives:

"U.S. House bill threatens employees with fines if they refuse to undergo genetic testing"

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2017/03/13/gene...
Interesting that the future CEO will work out of NYC (presumably the 229 West 43rd Street building) rather than the Sunnyvale headquarters.
I am wondering whether the prices will go up if the Highwinds acquisition is finalized. But true, generally speaking all CDNs are relatively similar.
The irony here:

Some people see studies like this and think, wow, think of how much we'd lose if we didnt let in immigrants. Our economy would be smaller, we'd have fewer jobs, etc.

Other people see studies like this and think, wow, only us locals should own, run, and be employed by these Billion-Dollar Startups. Bannon has explicitly noted this as a goal!
And this matters because individual productivity is a log-normal distribution, like VC returns. As a country it's a good investment to invite millions of immigrants trying to find the next major inventor.

I suppose this also relies on national productivity being the product of, not the sum of individuals​ productivity.
> 100 years from now, it's highly unlikely that the screen-and-keyboard model of data ingestion will be regarded as anything but a historically important link in data evolution, cast away in favor of more tactile, neurochemical, and cybernetic interfaces.

Very imaginative and sci-fi, but not likely. Just because we've advanced this fast in the past 50 years doesn't mean we'll be able to keep this rate up. There are physical limits to the things we can do, even if we keep gaining knowledge at the same speed. We'd have to break a lot of very big scientific barriers before any such technology would be both practical and affordable.
this is also called the slippery slope fallacy.
> No one is trying to stop legal immigration.

You know, except for all of the legal visas and green cards for Iranian citizens and citizens of the other 5/6 countries.
If Scotland were in the Eurozone yes. Getting them to do that while applying to join, while also potentially giving none too subtle nods and winks that you don't actually intend ever adopting the Euro is stretching credibility.
I have to admit to doing as little as possible from web browsers on phones, but on the desktop I rely extensively on uMatrix + NoScript (don't know if adding PrivacyBadger on top would buy me anything). However, NoScript for Android seems to be moribund and I don't think there is a uMatrix for Android either. DNS-based ad-blocking seems very 90s (i.e., designed for an era that's less invasive than today), and there's a ton of javascript content that really needs to be filtered as well if you want to counter all the ads + tracking. Is there any equivalent to NoScript + uMatrix on Android?
Politicians and their staff should not be ignorant; they ought be very acutely aware of the risks and that they are a target, and ought be highly motivated to fix this for themselves by securing their own systems.
Fair, but both are significantly more free than others.

Rent is not really heavily regulated outside of California and New York. Similarly, banking is indeed regulated in specific sectors, but not really across the board
Probably that he was running for president and wanted to appear on the side of the security services? Then when in office it clearly must be a useful tool to start build profiles of everyone and be able to mine their activities.
The same reason someone in finance reported Bitcoin "plunged" last week on a <2% downward movement that corrected within 24 hours. It's opinion, and it's biased.
I think pi-hole will at least partially block such things -- it intercepts at the network level. I guess you could have the app break itself if the ads won't load, but you can (mostly) do that in a browser.

I guess, for network level ad blockers, I'm not seeing obvious advantages to a program written as an app vs a program written to run in a browser.
Unfortunately I have found that most people aren't shocked when I explain this to them. Most commonly they just say That their life is boring and they've got nothing to hide. Additionally they think that it may be worth the invasion if we can catch the 'bad guys'. I'm not sure what would need to happen to change this sentiment on a large enough scale to get people motivated into political action.
So nearly a $100M pay cut from the original exit package valued at "up to" $110M[1]. I still think she is the perfect pick for COO of Uber.

[1] http://money.cnn.com/2015/12/07/technology/marissa-mayer-sev...
Houston, Kalanick and Zuck walk into a headline
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/steve-bannon-disgusted-a...
Mark Cuban: The world’s first trillionaire will be an AI entrepreneur
As much as I love this place, every time I find out more about how the sausage is made, I lose faith in HN a little bit more.

Look at just the stuff from this case - heavy handed uneven constant moderation (you claim moderators dont see a bunch of stories, but those that you do see like this one, often get adjustments), misreporting, questionable transparency, too much hardly visible power of flags, etc.

I know the rules, but It really seems like at best we are a few moderator changes from having this place turn to something that wouldn't be valuable to people like me.
.. but the British government is the one triggering Brexit. It's a one-player game of chicken. The UK government has had plenty of options to say they want to try to retain financial passporting.

"Starting a chain of events which will likely lead to financial services having to move out of London", then.
Liberalism is based on an egalitarian society, if that is not upkept it's plutocratic capitalism (aka aristocracy).

Liberalism capitalism is good, but not on all of the markets.
> How is your German? Speaking the language is permission to play in most workplaces unless you are in some sort of ex-pat environment like the US military.

This is contrary to my personal experience.

English was absolutely the lingua franca.

At my last jobs (I'm a freelancer, so I get around), Germans were clearly the minority. The language environment tended to be very fluid; people joining or leaving a conversation would cause a switch in language, sometimes mid-sentence.

I currently work with 3 Russians, 1 Pakistani, 3 Germans.

> Without language skills you are likely to remain an outsider in non-work situations as well.

If you're thinking of outings with the team, if they are halfway decent they'll take you under their wing.

If you're thinking of day-to-day situations, it'll be harder of course, but absolutely feasible. Many people speak reasonable English.
I don't get it. This would not increase trust since we can not check if the source actually corresponds to the binary in the processor. It would need to be repeatably build-able with the result matching the signature of the default blob.

They could release a signed NO-OP firmware that is so small it would be easy to verify as benign using a disassembler. Potential of more secret code is always there, but being this malicious would be highly damaging to the company.
I would expect better of HN. The casino comment is pathetic. Native Americans have founded many businesses despite the many problems with dealing with banks from a reservation perspective.
Unless she's been very active behind the scenes, and we find out later, I think she'll go down in history as one of the worst British monarchs ever. Even as a constitutional monarch, she has influence and she has some reserve powers, but from what I've seen she hasn't used any of it to prevent the disasters of the past half-century of British history. Yes, if she exercised some of her power it'd probably spark a constitutional crisis and she'd probably be overthrown — but that's her job, to act as a last-chance sanity check when the people, the aristocracy and the government itself have all gone mad.

It's very, very sad. She seems like a nice lady, but she has (apparently) been extremely ineffectual.

Like I noted, maybe someday we'll discover that she's actually been extremely involved, preventing one disaster after another, and that Britain's fall would have been much worse without her expert guidance. I don't expect that's the case, but maybe it'll happen.
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Because health insurance is not about scarcity or moving goods across state lines. Setting up insurance is much more complex than that and I think that is why people get caught up in thinking that allowing insurance to be sold across state lines will help.

When an insurance company sets up in another state, they have create a network of doctors, hospitals and medical providers. The doctor network does not just pop up over night.
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The primary difference seems to be that the real videos have '/watch?' in the URL versus the ad videos.
Some of these entrepreneurs actually abused their visa, so technically, even tech founders often are illegal immigrants.
Just change it to be less effective as it becomes more popular.

There's no reason to have a 'flag' link once a story hits the main page, for example.
Steve Bannon quote:

"When two-thirds or three-quarters of the CEOs in Silicon Valley are from South Asia or from Asia, I think [...]" he didn't finish his sentence. "A country is more than an economy. We're a civic society." [1]

[1] https://politics.slashdot.org/story/16/11/16/2331221/steve-b...

My problem with Trump administration rhetoric is there is this assumption that non-white == immigrant. Many Silicon Valley CEOs and entrepreneurs are second (or even third) generation Asian-Americans. And let's not forget the first generation Canadian or European founders. The fact that he singled out Asians in particular shows the undercurrent of racist ideology driving Bannon (the primary hardliner influencing Trump).
83% of finalists of the 2016 Intel Science Talent Search are kids of immigrants [pdf]
Shifting people onto E2E encrypted VOIP as we move off analog phone lines would be far easier than moving peoples existing email to PGP. Much like how it was pretty seemless for WhatsApp to turn it on.

Email is a special case because of the various semantics like searching and federated clients.
This particular public forum also has a lot of people who know that a lot of "100% legit" digital-only crap sold on Amazon and eBay is anything but. Does that describe your product? Only grandma knows...