skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's this about a student visa?

A student visa is a completely legal way of entering the US.

PS. Post the Boston bombings the immigration officials at the port of entry are required to verify valid student status before letting students (F1 visa holders) into the US. This means the chances of people entering the country illegally through a student visa are slim to none.
very good points. check out guardianproject.info ... their whole mission is exactly this.
> I think HN is seriously at risk of having jumped the shark for good. This NSA thing blew the lid off - the front page is completely full of articles about politics, with more each day about all kinds of different things.

I share your caution, because I remember that for better or worse this is how reddit started changing back in the day (late 2007 - 2008), by focusing on politics (and then there came the memes and all that). But, one can sort of feel that all this is way more technology- and consequently HN-related than what Obama or Hillary Clinton had to say back in the day.
A Small Company’s Reality Is Altered by ‘Shark Tank’
I've been thinking about reducing trust in a post-PRISM world a bit today and while switching doesn't help here currently, open source projects are at least theoretically able to prove their trustworthiness by publishing audit tools.

Say for example a distro publishes build scripts which download, verify, patch, compile and package some software using a specific toolchain, anyone could audit this via a simple hash check.

Apple and Microsoft could never prove themselves this way because they need to keep their source code a secret.
This is my constant advice to my startup-hungry-friends. I constantly tell them: "Coding it should be the last item on your list."
If you are sending email to people in the US, i'm sure they'd be able to interecpt the messages so it's a moot point. Most recipients are using one of the big mail providers like gmail or yahoo, which, if the reports are to be believed, are under the purview of PRISM.
Only a Donald Knuth-level computer scientist would be able to reverse engineer OS X to assembly, and try to figure out any backdoors from it.
This wasn't supposed to be read as a bash against apple or the iphone, just an observation.
When the original design was done, the world was a very different place where apple was very clearly ahead.
With this UI it seems to me that the differences between ios android and windows phone are pretty minor. I used to tell people that you'd get an easier experience with apple, and a better experience with the right android phone. More recently, I've found myself telling people that it really doesn't matter as they are all awesome phones, but if you could get an iphone at the same price as others, it's probably worth it to you. Now it seems like that last clause isn't true anymore, at least not to me.
I've come to a similar conclusion but I tend to think of it as solving little problems with the simplest solution possible. Don't pre optimize and don't pre abstract.

This is a thought process I think you arrive at when you're running your own business or in some sort of managerial role. You start realizing the constraints (time, budget, resources, etc) involved in building software.

When we first come into the world of software we just want to write awesome code. But to truly evolve as a developer you need to start asking real questions regarding what you are building.

Are we making the budget bleed by spending 3 weeks on making the most beautiful piece of code possible for a feature when it was originally estimated to take two days? Can an open source library be used instead of us trying to build something from the ground up? How does this feature add real value to the users of this product?
Interview with co-founder of Muse on the future of thought-controlled computing
At least from what I have observed in my Intel CPU with TurboBoost, it spends nearly all of its time in the turbo modes. It's only when all the cores are being utilised, that it starts reaching its TDP limits, and throttling down. Keep in mind that, due to I/0 (like memory), the cpu isn't always in its active state (c0) even if a process is using that core 100%.
Is there a good WhatsApp alternative? I mean a messenger which is Open Source; secure; available on Android, iOS, Linux, Windows, OS X. At best, even the little features like group chat.

http://www.kontalk.net/ seems on the way, but not immature so far.
I think you mean "hare-brained" although I admit, the patent we're talking about now could also be called "hair-brained" :-)
Yes, though I'm a little unclear on how the following technologies might work together to ... save us ... from the disastrous CA FUD:

http://curvecp.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cjdns

http://www.waterken.com/dev/YURL/

I'm looking into cjdns, but I'm sure it's a lot of work establishing a peer network.

YURLs look very promising, if browser manufacturers would get a clue and support it (tho the CAs would surely howl).

I realize that "most people" want to type simply "bankoftheuniverse.com" and know they're at the "real" site, but I think Zooko's triangle has something to say about that, and those people may need to grow up a bit and just bookmark a yurl or something. Besides, many people will find bankoftheuniverse.com through a search engine anyway, and as long as they sign up at the real site the first time, they'll be fine thereafter (i.e. the ssh model).
High five grammar nazi!
First reaction to iOS 7 presentation on stage and web screenshots: ugh.

Reaction after using it for a day, then seeing all these alternate designs: "I see what Apple did there."

After using it, I think there are subtle decisions being made over at Apple about these icons based on how end users perceive, differentiate, and use them not on a slide but on the screen, and how they will transition to them.

I think many of these design comps miss those experience and engagement rationales.

That said, I don't get Game Center. :-)
Announcing the IFTTT Apprenticeship
It gets me closer to adding value directly, instead of shoehorning my preferred
solution onto a problem.

But shoehorning my elaborate solution onto the problem is the funnest part. Providing value is easy and boring...
Samsung's Galaxy S4 Zoom official: 16-megapixel cameraphone
The backgrounds they're using in these promotions are what get me. Chill with the abstract colors fields. It looks like they're trying to imitate the prototypical android phone.
We have full-featured instagram (3rd party app call led instance), we have a Facebook app and you can definitely upload pictures, and there's even a snapchat client too. But I agree, the app situation is undoubtedly worse on WP. I don't use very many apps personally, so it works for me.
English Police and protesters
This is not in Taksim, and not shown on CNN for 9 hours.
Obviously. The thing about America right now is that there's no one city or even state that is representative of the country. The country is experiencing a cultural and political deadlock which can sort of be generalized to a divide between the coasts and the south. If you live in Cambridge or SV or NYC you get angered by issues presented in the OP, why shouldn't this brilliant student be allowed into the country? That's not my America.

Then immediately someone responds that where we live is not representative of America. Though let me remind you, if you believe the "real" America is the people in Alabama or the bureaucrats creating asinine policies that keep out brilliant foreign students, think about how much worse things would be without those of us in places like Cambridge to actually speak up and vote for candidates like Elizabeth Warren and say we don't like the way the other side is trying to run the country.
Let me turn this around.

Most feature requests arrive from a user telling you how they think you should solve some other problem. If you can figure out the real problem and solve it better, that will be an improvement over delivering the exact request as given. (If you can't solve the real problem, though, or you misunderstand it, that's worse.)

For example at one company I was asked to speed up a report. The problem was that it was running too slowly and was timing out in the browser. Instead of tackling that fun optimization challenge, I built a feature that would cause any report that took more than a minute to run to be emailed to the current user. My manager said that he received more thank yous for that feature than for everything else the team had done in the previous 6 months.

At another company I received a request to add a feature that would prioritize pushing specific pieces of data to the website. (We'd had some stability problems, and they had no visibility into what was happening.) I knew that adding this prioritization feature would further destabilize the data transfer logic that I was trying to make more robust, talked to my manager, and refused the request. The senior executive requesting the feature tried to get another co-worker to do it instead, that one asked me innocently how to go about it, I got him to push back. Several months later I got enough of a break from other projects to consider the prioritization feature and asked the executive whether he still needed it. His response? "It has been months since data took more than 5 minutes to get to the website, I'm fine."

Also it can help to generalize your solution. At a third company I built a reporting system where instead of just plugging inputs, every form field could template the SQL that was being used. So a report could also generate drilldowns of itself, and you could combine these in a very flexible way. After a while over 2/3 of the special report requests that I got could be immediately resolved by showing that it was available if you combined two features that had been added for other users doing something else. (My turnaround time for other requests tended to be under 2 hours - and the features, documented, were available for anyone who needed them.)

Programmers do not provide value by writing code. We provide value by solving problems more quickly and cheaply than the alternative. The better you solve problems, the more value you provide.
Code is not an end in itself, only a means to an end.
Wow, it's interesting how such subtle changes make it look so much better. This looks like the iOS 7 I was expecting to drool over.
Try Foucault.
"Dear Mr. XXX, this is the NSA. We'd like to use the image we've found on your homepage as the logo for a secret massive surveillance and spying program called 'prism'. Could you please sign the attached 20 page license and send it back to us: NSA, Maryland. Thanks in advance, Mr Smith, Chief Officer for Domestic Affairs."
It probably depends on what's more likely and less desirable:

- one lets others know about one's personal problem, and for some reason becomes enough of interest for some entity to bring up corresponding records;

- one doesn't talk and eventually attempts suicide, or continues to be sexually assaulted (and abuser never gets caught, if subsequent victims are silent as well).

(I personally at this moment would agree with belorn on this.)
Anything better than Ubuntu?
powder of cockroach's crust
many. PMs on several projects I work in do regularly
Having been through the system I can probably guess what he did wrong. F1 status requires that you show no intent to stay. If he had declared that Microsoft was sponsoring an H1B prior to re-entry and we as attempting to enter with a F1, then he broke the F1 rules.

If you break any rules you are pretty much SOL.
Ah, I only have experience in the US store where there is Facebook, Skype and a ton of other good stuff. I suppose its only a matter of time, but for now I agree that is kind of unacceptable .
Sure, donate to the EFF. Write to your senator. Try to keep it in the medias' eye.

And I know you were "kidding" about the "debt to China" part, but the economy doesn't work that way.
US Navy drops all-caps communication requirement
The only safe way to social network without eavesdropping is through encrypted private messages. A public post on Diaspora is still public.
Tons of Android Device News - June 12 2013
Being a dumb service works because you're acting on behalf of someone else. Someone has to order the data to be copied, and they are the ones responsible for ensuring there is sufficient licensing.
Security through obscurity is never a great mindset, but neither is the mindset that security doesn't come without significant tradeoffs, tradeoffs that may reveal you inadvertently.

And you misunderstand the analogy. They don't need to watch you having an affair (through the windows). They only need to see that you're driving to an out-of-the-way B&B. They don't even have to interrogate you directly, just any one else who comes out of that small venue. Ergo, the "haystack" is smaller.

To use another analogy: what do you think former CIA director David Petraeus was done in by? The fact that he used GMail and that activity on his account triggered an FBI omnisearch? Or that his mistress engaged in illegal activity and did not take the steps to separate her real-life identity from the anonymous GMail account?
The claim is that Americans don't want anyone to come here. That is utterly false and it is fully supported by this data. Your point might have been valid if the topic at hand were different.
Is Hadoop Enterprise Ready?
Constitutional politics to evolutionary psychology in four comments: this is why I keep coming back to HN.
Office worker uses Google Images to find photos for a Powerpoint. News at 11.
I am not US citizen but visa policy is virtually same for any issuing country. Getting visa (any kind) is privilege not right. Government has full discretionary right to refuse entry to anybody whom is not citizen.

Not saying it is fair system but it is what it is. Except full open border policy I don't see how you can fix system.
Not that I approved of what happened under the Bush administration either, but it's important to note that it's not the same thing either.

The public was specifically told during the Bush administration that only specific international calls were being monitored to suspected terrorists overseas.

Now we have a blanket collection of all phone call data foreign and domestic. This is definitely worse than what was happening under Bush (as far as we were told).
That’s why it was left to wizards, who knew how to handle it safely. Not doing any magic at all was the chief task of wizards—not “not doing magic” because they couldn’t do magic, but not doing magic when they could do and didn’t. Any ignorant fool can fail to turn someone else into a frog. You have to be clever to refrain from doing it when you knew how easy it was. There were places in the world commemorating those times when wizards hadn’t been quite as clever as that, and on many of them the grass would never grow again.

- Terry Pratchett
Working or planning to work? There no devices yet.
If there's no one trying to compete with Intel, I would guess that gap would close fairly quickly.
I wrote all 130,000 lines myself. I hired an artist for $3000 for some work.

You would be advised not to fuck with me -- God is right here and will send you to hell.

God says...
Foundation floating parched Ask thats_just_wrong comely
guidest employ formlessness sigh -not definite so_let_it_be_done
distances paper God_smack recite
finally, angry birds will be totally responsive!
New Layer of Human Eye Found
I read a comment on here a fortnight or so ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5761783) about how all-caps messages send faster over slower systems. I thought it was interesting that the US navy has recently dropped this requirement.
It's almost like that example Doctorow gave about false positives when you're searching for very rare events... now HN is "flagging" every government screw-up involving non-Americans as being due to PRISM.
The first model should be named Hiro.
That is sadly a very apt analogy for the current patent situation in software.
Here is adobe's guide to self-signing documents: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/acrobat/using/WS58a04a822e3e5010...

This generates a .p12 file rather than a typical .pem file to be shared.
No it doesn't. It only matters if a student's spouse is an US Citizen. F1 is a non immigrant visa and student is not allowed to have an immigrant intent.A student can no longer prove non immigrant intent if you are married to USC (Note: H1B is a dual intent visa and it is perfectly legal to have an immigrant intent). Therefore a student on F1 can be denied entry at POE if his/her spouse is USC.

Solution: Enter on fiance visa or a Green Card.
Decentralizing Trillian
Is this a remote position?
Being an Entrepreneur When You're Not Extroverted
This is spot on. Every time you solve a problem without writing code, you avoid possible bugs, future maintenance, and legal issues, and you don't spend time. The second-best code, after code you avoided writing, is code you can delete and as a side effect solve a problem. The less code, the better.
Unfortunately, though, plain DHE is really slow, so it's pretty hardware-intensive to do it at scale, and to keep latency manageable. Google made a big deal out of moving to ECDHE the year before last, and part of that was that it allowed them to get perfect forward secrecy without sacrificing performance.
Ah yeah, it's definitely not a documentary, sorry I was unclear. Pgeorgi has it right - I meant that it was interesting more from the standpoint of what having something like the Stasi around does to people.
The CA doesn't have/or need your private key. It works by signing your public key with its private key, thus affirming that you are whom you say you are. Think of it as getting a recommendation letter from your professor with his signature. Public and Private keys are also cryptographically related to each other, so a change in one will affect the other.
I am talking about using a student visa to get in and then stay and work permanently and not study. In other words, using the visa fraudulently. If you want to stay and work go through the proper legal process and get a resident visa.

Again, legal immigration.
Can't believe they would do something like this, maybe the author is credited on the final slide of the presentation?
the fact that H1B yearly quota is used in hours ?
Juan Cole is a top American expert on the Middle East (Arabic, Arab Spring, Islam) - very well grounded researcher, speaks Arabic.
Clojure Cookbook is now accepting contributions
Ah, here's the link I was looking for: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Install You can install it right now, it supports 4 current devices.
Etsy releases a tool for graph anomaly detection
All positions are based in San Francisco, California.
I'll second this. I've picked up a couple of Thinkpads like this. Just make sure to read the description carefully. (Too many are sold without a HDD.)
www.flippa.com
The author of the slide deck had successfully sold that solution to the NSA. I wouldn't hurry to call him an idiot.
It's fairly common to come in on a "Student" visa to study at a community college or take night courses while also holding a full-time job. It's also common to skip the facade entirely - Use visa to gain entry, take job on forged credentials, stay past expiration. The student visa does allow the holder to work, but it is intended to be secondary to the education, and history has shown that it is not.
How I use Python at our startup
I worked at a school with a high percentage of foreign students on F-1 visas. The visa-granting process is much more arbitrary than you imagine. The supposed "strict procedure" is actually filtered through many layers of several partially-communicating bureaucracies. An embassy in particular can approve or reject visa applications without recourse or oversight but Homeland Security can also erect inscrutable obstructions.
Generally such businesses get sold directly by the owner approaching interested parties (companies in the same space, competitors, etc.).

If they end up on a public market it generally means that no-one in that space was interested in it, which is a huge negative flag (i.e. strong indication it's a dud) which drives the price down so much it's often not worthwhile doing the sale (i.e. handling the legal, accounting cost and processed aren't worthwhile).
Yes, but mundane things are mundane because they are easy to do. Like using a cloud service to handle your reminders, navigation, etc.

Once you use an off-beat service, you force changes in your own behavior and the behavior with everyone you interact with. In the worst-case scenario, this may cause you to make a grievous human error, such as forgetting to keep up to tabs with critical updates on your burner laptop. In a less-worst case scenario, this extra work takes attention away from other more obvious attack vectors (such as social engineering). In the more mundane case, your entire life may be disrupted, on a small scale, preparing for a scenario that for you, personally, is probabilistically unlikely, but more importantly, you may be preparing in ways that wouldn't have helped from worst-case scenarios, if they even occurred.

I'm not suggesting apathy or fatalism. I'm suggesting to be even more cautious and introspective than the pat suggestions offered by the OP.
> "Snowden’s case showed that the US was applying a double-standard on human rights and freedom when it criticised China on the same issues."

I couldn't believe the irony when I heard that an American privacy advocate was taking seeking asylum in China. How has the land of the free fallen to such a low?
I notice your website has a projects page, but it's empty.

Can you tell us about anything you've worked on in the past?
US based Rackspace cloud down for the last hour (next gen)
Parrots as pet
> which had already attracted the best researchers.

Giving the funding to second-tier places and hoping for first-tier results is certainly a strategy.

Another might be to note that there is a difference between self-reinforcement of politics and self-reinforcement of first-tier universities. Clearly, we've made a choice as to which one is deserving of self-reinforcement.
eGallons: How much does it cost to drive on electricity compared to gasoline?
According to my understanding, for passport control flights, the airlines are heavily fined and have to bear the cost of return flight if a passenger is denied entry.
If majority of us are using open sources alternatives, we will not be outliers.
Its more complicated than that, in fact. The likelihood of the US sharing data about a Saudi citizen and the Saudi gov acting against said citizen is less than than the likelihood of the us acting against a US citizen. But the consiquences are far worse for a Saudi. So the risk could in fact be higher. But you're right, we dont know what the US shares.
My strategy is to just read news on Fridays. If anythings important someone will let me know during the week.

Until then I try to only look at stories that aren't 24 hour news cycle stuff. And this one is actually a useful thing for an ios developer to know.
Theft & Iteration (How I Learned Web Design)
If you don't get a response, there is always odesk, freelancer, guru, etc..
https://github.com/mozilla/browserid/blob/dev/lib/db/mysql.j...
I'm curious why I haven't seen any talk about porn.

Wait, seriously. Come back for a second. Porn.

We all know a significant fraction of internet traffic is porn. Most men probably watch it. Perhaps also a large fraction of women.

How much you want to bet the NSA knows lots and lots about people's porn habits. Maybe they know exactly what percentage of men and women watch it, browse it, and/or read it.

After all, if you want to threaten, embarrass or otherwise manipulate somebody, knowing their porn habits would probably be a good start.
You can run, but you can't hide... Especially because they can access most of the internet hubs.
I see it mentioned on the Jobs page now; but at first, looking at only the detail page (which this is linked to) nothing is said about it.
I’m afraid I can’t help you out directly but I wish you best of luck!