skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The girl wanted to work illegally. That is my main point of concern in case you didn't get it.
I don't believe so. I think the entire point of doing a PhD is to gain the ability to think independently and analyze loosely defined problems. Unfortunately today many PhDs are exactly what you say: delving into something academic to the point of beating it up to death. This leads them to only think about their own problems and forget about the scope of it within their academic domain. I think that researchers should in fact focus more on what is going on in their academic region of interest.
I think it's fair; I don't think you rebuke my point. Take out the foreman, and the jury is even more lay than prior and less biased, as you point out. The very nature of juries is to "educate" a lay jury, but the lawyers aren't likely designers, nor the judge, nor the USPTO. I don't disagree with the OP on there being design eras, everyone freely building atop prior art, but laymen rule the trade/dress rulings and the sales of products. The entire hoopla surrounding Apple lawsuits has to do with them insisting laymen are confused into thinking other products are "that Apple thing my daughter needs."
This is a company that allegedly had a master password allowing employees to snoop on profiles.
Moreover, the Terms of Service almost certainly say there is automated and human monitoring of messaging. Why would anyone in their right mind conduct privileged conversations using it?
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You could put Android, WP and iOS side-by-side and they are going to look (and work) more alike than different in most areas. That's what happens when these products reach a huge mass market. There is too much risk (for established players) to diverge too far from what is familiar to so many people. Also why it's so difficult for non-established players to compete. They can't diverge very far from what people are familiar with. We're locked into basically the same SmartPhone flavors until the hardware changes so radically that the software has to change radically to accommodate it.
I do not expect to much. Our governments are extremly careful not to interfere with US interests. Stasi documents about the CIA? Unlawfully given to the CIA and not published. The man responsible is now the president. Merkel, started her career in the pro-dictatorship eastern CDU. Worked for the FDJ (somewhat GDR equivalent to the Hilter youth) as PR manager.

Not doing anything against the abduction of Kurznatz by the CIA. "Opposing" the Iraq war, but allow the US air fields to operate. It goes on and on and on. This is just a little rethorics. See also: Isle "facebook" Eigner.
Regarding your later comment claiming to be banned, I think you might've just used a word or phrase that tripped an automatic filter for that one comment. Note that I don't have any inside knowledge of how HN's banning system actually works.

Regarding this thread, it was probably time to let it die before it started. There's nothing to be accomplished by arguing over wording and metaphorical choices from five posts back.
And thus likely checked over by a real human?

That's a logical leap, I think. I can easily imagine passing private messages through a Bayesian filter to catch "inappropriate" messages, without needing human intervention. But, yes, if you are using a third-party service to communicate in plain-text, there is no such thing as "private."
If you are amused at what autocorrect does for writing, imagine the hilarity of economic decisions based on "smart" spreadsheets.
The drone strikes seldom occur on what a reasonable person would consider a battlefield (weddings, etc.). I think that is what parent is getting at.

Certainly American intelligence operatives have murdered their countrymen quietly over the decades. A big difference to me (at least) is that these assassinations are completely out in the open, publicly announced and such.
I think that this author's basic point is: "Don’t blame technology" for war deaths. Being against a specific war, or human conflict altogether is an entirely different matter.
Okay, 80% of your comment is replying to a framing that you chose earlier. You said Google should spend comparable amounts of effort on X and Y. In that context, I pointed out that no one spends even 10% as much effort on X as on Y, so why would you ask Google to, and you're being completely unfair. YOU chose this context.

And I am _highly_ skeptical about this "reconfirm your TOS, as a hint that there's an NSL on you". (I have no inside knowledge of this, and if I did I would lie to you about it.) But if any engineer did that, and got caught, they'd go to jail. Given that 99.9% of users who're NSLed will not have read that blogpost (the crazy tinfoil-hat wild-speculation one that started this rumour), what would be the benefit? No benefit, but one conscientious engineer goes to jail. Yay.

Law, in general, is just as concerned with the spirit of the law as the letter.

My whole reply is that Google is already working harder on privacy, as a fraction of total resources, than nearly anyone you've ever met, and certainly more than nearly any corporation. (Unless Google is lying about basically everything, which I can't/won't prove they/we are not). Your expectations, as originally stated, are unreasonable.

Disclaimer: And yes, I have a vested interest. Hopefully my argument stands on its own merits. Your call to action is insulting.
David Brooks is a glorified typist. What the hell does he know about anything, let alone the human mind.
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I think this is a case of a $5 wrench and not big brother http://xkcd.com/538/

when you are taken for questioning they may put you in a cell while they go trhu your stuff.

In that little cell, you are not allowed even you shoe laces!!!!

so they probably got her, unlocked her iphone (either she had no password or they have backdoors) and got the messages.
There are plenty of fundamentalists in the world for whom the reason is indeed religion.

You're engaging in wishful thinking.
What we've always done is get warrants for searches. No warrants were required to monitor someone (say, to have a cop follow them around).

At some point a difference of degree becomes one of kind. At some point, "monitoring" becomes searching.
Why Waze or Face didn't came out of India instead of Israil?
I'm just wondering why we do not hear billion dollar startup acquisition news from Indian startup? Isn't India's software industry one of the largest in the Globe?
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That's how the prequells started.
Anwar al-Awlaki was specifically targeted for assassination, not killed on a battlefield.
Hello, NSA? I lost my email password.
This particular argument strikes me as coming from people who don't actually understand that Rounded Corners(TM)(R)(C) fall in the same category.
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Why would you need anonymity to donate to the EFF?
I would say that it's a personal digital web library. You can basically organize all of your information you collect online into a searchable, sharable, resource. It's advanced bookmarking. Here is how the site depicts it.

> With Kippt you can save links, read articles, watch videos, share notes and much
> more. Your collections can be private or public, or shared with the people you
> work with.
Conversely, these stories were previously ignored because of a lack of supporting evidence. Now that US surveillance is a talked about topic, these stories are gaining traction without people going through the critical thought processes they otherwise would have.

Neither of these options are provably false.
yes, the purpose of phd is to sit around listlessly while pondering vague thoughts on someone else's dime.
Is there a reason you don't use one of the current data analysis languages like R, Stata, SAS, etc?
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And it's clearly impossible that this is simply shorthand for the most common situation Americans or citizens of a given nation that enforce it are likely to encounter.

No, clearly 3 words are supposed to accurately summarize an entire area of rights and law!
While nobody celebrates, i think you are overstating the relevance. The troops live in their own quarters, hire their own contractors and shop in their own tax-free shops. Maybe they are using caps, but the impact on the local economy seems minimal.
>Noone should see this as Apple copying anyone.

While Apple winning 600M on the same argument?
This is the same a lawyer sending private information via a post-card. Plain irresponsible.

But then again, which layer knows how to send PGP'ed emails?
It's not the view of any administration. The client was Norwegian-Chilean. Foreigners not in the US don't have A right to counsel (which is the constitutional basis of attorney client privilege in the US).

And I'd argue that's the way it should be. Every time courts declare something unconstitutional, they use up limited political capital. I don't think defending the "human rights" of non Americans is a valid use of that political capital.
...this is literally StackOverflow.
If the NSA can request data on 'suspects' at will from Google, how is that functionally different from a dragnet? Arbitrary data could be collected via phone records, then email/user data could be requested from Google/Facebook based on 'suspicious activity'.

I bet that the bombshell disclosure will be that these 'proper legal warrants' are actually just arbitrary requests justified via the Patriot Act or similar.
I'm kind of confused - if US immigration authorities are so powerful and omnipresent that they read Facebook feeds of every random German girl in case they ever want to come to the US, how comes we still have illegal immigration problem in the US? Or was there something special about this particular girl that triggered the attention of the law enforcement well in advance of her visit? Or they just took her laptop, logged in to facebook and clicked "print"? Kind of unclear what exactly happened.
True, you should strive not to develop tunnel vision. But I think you should approach your specific problem and your wider field with independent aims. In other words you should consciously create periods for yourself that alternate between narrow and broad focus.

I have found for myself that I don't truly understand something until I can explain it from multiple viewpoints. This is hard to accomplish when someone does the grunt work for you.
> Where it gets to be a concern is revoking a guy's visa because he's defending a terror suspect

Indeed. This is the kind of thing that punches a hole in the "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" argument. He obviously had something to fear - getting his visa revoked. So by the "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" logic he had to have something to hide, and that thing had to justify the negative consequences that befell him.

From the CIA/NSA perspective I am sure it just looks like he is someone who consorts with terrorists. They don't consider anybody has a "right" to visit the US in the first place, so removing that "right" cannot be a "harm". Thus there is zero loss from taking a conservative approach and just cancelling his visa. But it is most certainly a harm, probably a severe one to somebody like a prominent lawyer. So this kind of disconnect is exactly why we can't accept "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" kind of arguments.
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In other words: A Norwegian lawyer notices something weird going on with his private Facebook messages, and four days after this, his visa gets revoked. Later, after reading about PRISM in the morning newspaper, he's convinced that the NSA has been spying on him.

It's obvious! After all, spy rule #1 is "make sure your subject knows he's being spied on by marking his messages as 'infringing or spam'". And it's totally impossible that the visa thing coincided with this.
When Apple patented Rounded Corners(TM)(R)(C) and declared it to be theirs.
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Ok can anyone who reads Norwegian actually translate this properly? Because the Google translation certainly doesn't capture the nuance, and their are some notable inconsistencies in it - namely, why is someone's lawyer "no longer in contact now that their Facebook profile has been deleted".
I'm an avid user, and my main complaint is, precisely, the UI. Sure, some of the main functions (e.g. traffic report) can be done fairly easily with one hand, but almost everything else is terrible:

- Choosing a navigation destination (slide, pick one from the list, wait not this list - my favorites, search - wait, that doesn't do what I think it does, scroll scroll scroll...)

- Closing those damn popups with the tiny X that is almost impossible to hit (at least on my 3.5" iPhone)

- Pretty much anything involving panning around the map or zooming in/out. It's like the gesture experience is way worse than anything else on iOS, and you definitely feel it.

And some others I can't think of right now. So if one good thing comes from this acquisition [1], I hope it's a massive UI overhaul.

[1]: I'm dreading it, and I fear what will actually happen is the integration of the social network into Google+, and the death of the product itself, somehow subsumed into Google Maps.
remind yourself of that next time you are surfing facebook at work...
What they did with Biden was to do a good physical imitation, but to have him act uncharacteristically as a spoof. What they did with Palin was to go after her in as cutting a manner as possible in order to take her down as a credible candidate.

Here are a couple of examples off of Youtube. The first one, they went out of their way to make Biden look large and in charge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl8LcbtQ75A

This second one, Biden is commiserating with George W. on being second in command. So even when imitating Biden, they make sure to really make Bush the butt of the joke.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lyZrtd83Mk

The SNL folks have long admitted that they used their skits to push a political agenda:

http://www.worldtribune.com/tv/videos/as-stupid-as-he-acts-c...
"Good artists borrow, great artists steal." ~ Pablo Picasso

All these interfaces are pillaging the Bauhaus! Shame on them! Shame Shame Shame! (-;

http://www.effectiveui.com/blog/2013/04/26/an-historical-per...

In all seriousness though, there isn't any original design. To think that the goal of design is to snatch something from thin air in moments of lighting like brilliance is a gross misconception. Designing is solving problems.
Put the iOS images side by side, shit even ignore the ios7 images, and the difference is gloss(and button shape). My point is that layout/placement of elements seem to be a constant, while it is actual dress that is the differentiator. Functionally it seems that iOS hasn't changed. The lock screen looks different, but seems to behave as it does now (the bokeh effect is the only thing that compares from this article). And I can't fault them for taking WebOS' multitasker, every small-screen os should use it.
Someone make this but with Docker instead. Linux containers start up in seconds, but you'd probably have to consider security a lot more.
Yeah but anyone who creates a startup has to take marketing into account.

You could have the best website in the world but without marketing or driving traffic to the site makes it a lame duck.
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iOS 7 (beta) seems just as fast/stable as any previous beta release. iOS 4 was completely unusable on it's first release.
This story seems pretty carefully thought out in its analysis. I wonder if some of the claims in it are true. That would be somewhat interesting, although I'm still stuck on the more important issues of the PRISM revelation (the ease of the potential for criminal spying on anyone, especially Americans, the lies told by American companies to Americans and foreigners, and the damage caused to those companies and their clients by this forced compliance). We've already dropped Google's services. It looks pretty clear that the original articles on PRISM were technically inaccurate (wrong) in some relevant (if not important) ways but I'm less inclined than most here to look for the most charitable interpretation of the words of those who have just been shown to be lying to my face so vociferously. Reality probably does not include an NSA that can access anyone's servers but we've known for years that, here in San Francisco, there is an NSA room to which feeds for some of these sites are duplicated. Many seem to believe that this must be for ease of returning search results to the feds but isn't a simpler explanation that it houses a mirror of commercial servers (so that they could continue to legitimately claim no access to company servers and produce no load issues for engineers to find)? Many here seem to believe that the access could be real time. They read "watch your ideas as you type" as something magical but isn't a simpler explanation that they meant what most near-lay-people mean when they say that... that it has capability like google's autocomplete (which also lends credence to the mirror idea)?
Hate to leave irrelevant comments, but gawd Wired is annoying on mobile. That header just continuously jumps in and out senselessly as I consume the article, very distracting.
As it turns out I'm reading Washington's Crossing (http://www.amazon.com/Washingtons-Crossing-Pivotal-Moments-A...) and at the point where I'm at the Hessians are not enjoying the attacks they're receiving from the locals of occupied New Jersey (plus some raids from across the Delaware). Seems their thorough plundering wasn't well received....
The key phrase in tptacek's comment would be "by default."
UFO sightings often correlate with reports of alien abductions. Correlation does not imply causation. Meaning, people are more likely to link personal experience to a news event.
In the current title, should 'Shown HN:' be 'Show HN:'? I am unable to change the title, but it looks like someone has edited it for me.
Apparently, you're the less learned one. Hong Kong was a former property of HRH and still maintains, both culturally and politically, the civic values from their predecessors. As a matter of fact, judging from what I saw last time I was over there, one could reasonably argue that they handle civil dissent much better than us here in the states, both on the protesters' side and on the government's side.
I see it - sometimes hacker news is a little buggy when it comes to seeing your own updates.

EDIT: It's show HN, not shown hn as you have to answer your original question.
Well … to be honest I consider 1990 the year in which occupation ended and Germany got its full sovereignty back (with the 2+4 talks and reunification).

Technically that doesn’t matter at all because all through the cold war West-German and US interests were very tightly aligned (and when interests diverged a bit the US did give West-Germany enough freedom, though they hardly ever diverged much).

I mean, West-Berlin was most certainly occupied until 1990. It’s just that that was an occupation hardly anyone had a problem with.
Slowly? They have been closing US military facilities in Germany for decades.
Does a process that's running intensively (say, a python script in the shell) still be limited, or does this only apply to NSWindows (or something similar)?
I don't expect a center, but I welcome consistency. If I know the spin, I can try to unspin.
I respectfully but strongly disagree. There is a chasm between Excel formulas and general-purpose programming languages. Very many (even very sophisticated) spreadsheet users have no interest in crossing it. These are the users I was talking about. They're not programmers-in-waiting. They think in spreadsheets.

The difference between the two paradigms is much deeper than data import/export, and exposing most spreadsheet users to scripting languages (even with good import/export) won't convert them, it will just turn them off. I know this from hard experience, having built a domain-specific scripting language on a previous project that was trying to make software for petroleum economic modelers (i.e., sophisticated but non-programmer business experts). Every feature request we got boiled down to, "make it be like Excel, complete with an interactive grid UI".

It isn't short-term thinking that drives this kind of user to build complex models in Excel. It's that Excel fits how their minds work. Partly that's because spreadsheets are intuitive for many people, and partly it's because spreadsheets been mass-adopted for so long that they're utterly entrenched. Trying to get spreadsheet users to think more like programmers is a sure way to keep them stuck on Excel forever.

Here's an example of how different the thinking is. In a programming language one first builds a computation abstractly (code), then instantiates it on concrete data (input) and looks at the results (output). Spreadsheet users don't do that. They start with a concrete example, build the formulas they need to get that particular example working, and then (if they need a similar example) copy what they did and tweak it. In other words, a spreadsheet user is never looking at a pure abstraction; they are always looking at a concrete example, even when the computations they're building up are complex. If you showed them all the formulas at once, they would recoil. I think this low tolerance for abstraction is one reason why spreadsheets fit the minds of non-programmers better, and also why it is so difficult for those of us who are comfortable with abstraction (and thus with programming languages) to appreciate how different spreadsheets are.
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There are subscription services that do all the dirty work for you. Like beenverified.com (However that explicitly "forbids" its users to use it for employment verification. Pinky promise!)
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Chris, I'm not really invested in any of that, and this is hardly the right thread...
Apple clearly took ideas from Google/Android. However, Apple's offerings look to have a level of polish that the Android ones do not have. Each and every comparison on that page looks like Google's engineers' visuals vs Apple's artists' -- thats the thing that "regular" people will instinctively gravitate to -- the one that is pretty.
It may not be "illegal" per se, but I would certainly say that it's either unconstitutional or at the very least against the spirit of the constitution. For whatever the hell that's worth...
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No, I haven't tried beta releases before. I'm sure they'll get rid of all minor annoyances such as bit of lag or weird layout reflows. It was reported that they are working on the new design behind schedule, so I think this release was made in a bit of hurry.
This isn't how you do polls.

news.ycombinator.com/newpoll
Agreed...
It was an interesting discovery that Google Music allows you to upload FLAC, though. While I'm pretty sure actual playback is something lossy, at least it prevents them transcoding lossy format into another lossy format for streaming... (or so I heard...)
Perhaps the same thing that seems to have convinced most every Apple user that their products are magical and categorically superior to every other product in existence: good marketing paired with illusory naivety on the receiving end.
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Makes sense, and it would taint any evidence discovered using that information... provided you could prove it. Unfortunately, doesn't stop them from playing visa games.
Yeah, I don't know where that 'Shown' came from. Somebody else edited the title and I am now unable to update it?
Yemen, lacking an effective civilian law enforcement system that could give him due process was itself a battlefield.
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I tried - not enough Karma (19 short). Could you do it?