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I was on the other end of of one of these campaigns. It was extremely distressing, having fictional articles pop up every other day. The dispute was over a post I made outing a scammer. In the end (2 months and 50 posts) I folded and removed the post.

After I made peace with the scammers I was then contacted by a reputation management company that tried to extort more cash from me and started posting more articles. Thankfully it ended when I didn't respond.

It's really the lowest level of entrepreneurialism and one that should be shunned. When I have some spare money I will tell the internet that i'm an astronaut just to prove a point.
Hong Kong says Snowden has left for third country
I get the impression that these people are fighting for the right to have more decent lives and better schools. If so, organized cheating is a cost of the unequal system they live under.

Reminds me of Basho's chief architect (the Riak company), who advised at Ricon's closing keynote that you should lie and misrepresent yourself to anyplace doing interesting things, as he did at Apple (where he got to write a distributed filesystem), Akamai, etc.

Once in "the real world", we discover that corporations and governments routinely lie, cheat and steal. Because it's effective. Does anyone honestly think Steve Jobs was averse to sociopathic behavior, or went unrewarded for it? We live in institutions which reward such sheer winning over obeying rules. (Regardless whether those rules are important or terrible.) The people who make the rules themselves are subject to such pressures. The mass of cheaters here on HN simply are too wise to speak up and admit it.

I say that as someone who never cheated on a school test or homework. I don't begrudge those who did, because the mainstream educational systems are disgusting. I have no fear that a cheater will make my worklife hard, because that's what interviews are for. I'm more concerned about play-by-the-rules people who've stuck to conventional wisdom all their lives, and defer to bosses.
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I like the idea of using the interview as a screening process, just to make sure the candidate didn't lie on their resume, and that they are a socially competent person who can survive in a team environment, or better yet, improve the team.

But, you should also carefully examine the past code that the candidate has written (that he can legally disclose) and also design a programming test for candidates to complete.
You're basing all this on a sample size of two.
I think it's wrong for people to jump on the band wagon. It just adds to the problem instead of making it a minority thing which can be easier to deal with.
I agree, and disagree.

Having recently been a student in an American university, I found that in a number of my classes, having a wish to acquire knowledge puts you at a disadvantage. When the majority of your peers are "working in a group" (read: academically sanctioned cheating) and you are not, your grade is likely to suffer. I was able to grasp and learn the material better in the long run, but at the cost of not having a great GPA.

This situation forces any student interested in maintaining a high GPA to focus more on the grade and not the material. The delicious irony being that students who are most eligible for graduate studies are those least intellectual.
So we are assuming he was Mexican, moved to the US either staying at that address years ago or using it as a home address for records but not staying there. Worked as a travelling worker, somehow lost memory and either got lost or was abandoned by a group of others?
I'd like to see what your actions would have been if you were facing life in prison under solitary confinement like Bradley Manning does (or even worse - torture & execution)

Any government that isn't a US adversary would surely extradite him, so it seems reasonable to me that he was in China and now travels through Russia.

Chinese dissidents do the same thing, they flee to Chinese adversaries (like the US)
That says nothing about search history, and "stored" could only refer to the "Web History" feature itself.
Closed after noticed the page will scroll up/down automatically. Quickly tried SVG version and my browser (latest Firefox) skyrocketed CPU.

Guys, please make your pages usable since (we), users, are not interested in you-think-it-is-cool effect. I'm going to avoid this page like plague until author fixes it.
Iceland hasn't exactly been very vocal about supporting him, so Ecuador might be the best choice. Russia I think was pretty vocal, but maybe they just wanted to make fun of US, and aren't really serious about protecting Snowden. Plus, they support US's surveillance state, so there's little reason why they'd want to protect him, other than being vengeful against US for whatever reason.

Ecuador so far has been pretty good for Assange, and they might continue to want to be seen as "the country that stood up to US", but nobody really knows how far they are willing to go to do that. At least Assange hasn't even been charged with anything by US, yet.
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I just posted one Snowden link, I guess it's over covered.. :)
How many famous whistleblowers are there?
I'm not so sure. Consider the case of Birgitta Jónsdóttir.
Republican media: "Now he's aiding all the enemies, not just China!"

Because in their minds China and others are actual "enemies".
Having to pay a substantial fee for a certificate that assures you own a domain is insane.

This technology needs to be improved. Encrypted and authenticated HTTP connection should be a default not a premium feature that site owners need to pay for.

Why wild card certs are so much more expensive than single domain certs? From CA's infrastructure and verification point of view there shouldn't be any additional cost associated with issuing a wild card cert.
Wow, I bet Hong Kong is thrilled that a technicality allowed Snowden to leave their turf and free them from a potential diplomatic headache... meanwhile defending the right to privacy of their citizens...
I've done interviews before. I think that there are still many older people, and young people who do not have accounts on sites like github, they have nothing to show. But may be reasonable candidates to hire because of their technical talent. I think it's appropriate to ask questions to an interviewee based on the domain knowledge you'd expect them to have during an interview. These involve little things that are very typical of day-to-day work. These are the type of things I'd ask over the phone or email. Once you determine they are not blowing smoke up your rear, ask them to come in for a more formal person-to-person interview.

I then ask them a fairly broad open-ended set of questions to see how they describe the process of solving said problem.

This usually involves talking about tools, their process, their libraries of choice(something more generic here for other fields) and generally helps to assess their personable skills.

If I like them, I will ask them if they have any personal projects they want to share or something they are enthusiastic about in their domain of knowledge.

I think the biggest thing is that a lot of companies doing technical interviewing only reserve a small period of time to determine their new candidate. For people long in the industry, their resume should speak for itself. For younger people, it's kind of like, would you sleep with a woman you just met? How does that experience usually turn out? It's a 50/50 or worse chance you end up with a nightmare. Spend some time to interview your candidates, or end up with the one-night-stand.
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Possible private plane arrangements?

Also: He might have had to get on a plane IMMEDIATELY which probably limited his choices.
Or watch it live here:
http://www.flightradar24.com/#!/AFL213
My immediate, and admittedly puerile, thought was this sounded like the title of another 'scary creature runs amok' Hollywood blockbuster.
I was considering paying for the book (and still might if after reading I decide it was worth it) but Leanpub is giving the author 40% of what I am paying them. I don't really like to give 60% to some publisher when I essentially just want to tip the author.

It's like buying someone a beer. That is only less than half full, because the barkeeper drank 60% of it.
You are not alone. Successful flat design requires intelligent colour choices and good typography. The referenced hack simply removes some decorative features. The end result looks boring and unfinished.
Translation: "Fuck You"
We should take whatever "big name" that publicly opposes the surveillance state we can get, but let's not fool ourselves here. Bill Clinton is only saying this because he wants his wife to be seen as "against this", when she runs for president again - just like Obama in 2008.

In reality, I'm 99.99% she's going to continue Obama's surveillance policies if she becomes president. Bill Clinton pretends to be surprised by this, but Carnivore/Echelon started under him. Plus, Bill Clinton has basically been one of Obama's mentors since he became president, so I doubt he was unaware of what Obama was doing.
The pairing of the statement about Snowden with an inquiry into government sponsored hacking is telling about their attitude and reasons for not being super cooperative.
Putin didn't really say they support the US's surveillance state, he said surveillance is necessary but you need a warrant.
You could consider using Clojure, it has a huge community, one principal implementation, a lot of documentation and you can access Java libraries if you want to. I think at the moment it is the most "approachable" Lisp.

Though unlike other Lisps, it does have a functional focus. That is very fine with me, but YMMV.
It's not a fad, it's a return to Swiss design: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Typographic_Style
This is really interesting. I wonder if the existing California Highway Patrol practice of swerving around the highway[1] to slow down traffic can be used to create these "anti-traffic" gaps during rush hour?

[1] http://articles.latimes.com/1996-08-12/local/me-33464_1_traf...
I believe they are paraphrasing Rage Against the Machine:

Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me.

edit: It's also a brilliant commentary on the rule of law, and due process rights.
Is Iceland definitely his final destination?
Even if there was not a technicality, HK would have invented one to allow Snowden to move on. Read the release, HK is now asking for clarification about the hacking attacks against HK by the US. Looks like the really wanted him to leave and did not want to assist the US.
Let's not get cute here.

If the United States wanted him extracted (on the way to Hong Kong) or worse, killed during his sojourn in HK, Snowden would have already faced a fate several orders worse than Alexander V. Litvinenko.

It isn't a huge tab for the U.S. to foot in the way of deploying deep cover teams to "take care" of Snowden - for what had been alleged to be the biggest U.S. intelligence leak in a generation - in the least suspicion-arousing manner long before Greenwald ever published his story.

For a nation that outspends the next ten defense budgets combined (even with the off late sequestration cuts accounted for) this is not much of a task.

The top brass could have taken care of this in a manner several orders more believable than the 2006 killing of Alexander V. Litvinenko in which the uber rare, and thus strictly available to only government bodies, Polonium-210 was used.

They could have made it seem like a forlorn affair of unrequited love with that dancer-acrobat girlfriend of his.

It is acutely nonsensical to assume that movements of sensitive personnel, like Snowden, are not tracked, especially to far-flung locations like HK given that he is not a field operative of any kind.

The NSA and other assorted intelligence/military organizations probably have a protocol for dealing with these things,in conjunction with the Justice department.

If they didn't before, Manning's case would have elicited the need for one.

Source:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/03/world/europe/03russian.htm...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvinen...

http://nation.time.com/2012/09/25/comparing-defense-budgets-...

http://www.forensicmag.com/articles/2009/06/polonium-210-and...

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mbvd/this-might-be-the-girlfriend-ed...
New Zealand doesn't recognise software patents. If I were you, I'd call a lawyer in New Zealand for advice.
> Once in "the real world", we discover that corporations and governments routinely lie, cheat and steal.

Really? I'm not sure I've experience of this. Might be a geographic/cultural thing, I guess, but business and governance in the UK doesn't seem to be particularly corrupt.
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If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

I might agree that this may not apply to all threads about this subject. But it also doesn't apply to so many things that are regularly posted here and nobody ever hears a peep about, often minor iteration of some shallow cosmetic "technology", and generally ads thinly veiled under bad writing. I mean, if the standards are that low, why not simply declare that humans are biological machines, and therefore all human interest stories are technology stories? But don't pretend there is consistency and actual adherence to the guidelines, I just don't see it. Maybe the problem is that it would require us first to define "good hacker". What is that? I'm thinking of the Chaos Computer Club guys, or Cult of the Dead Cow, not of Silicon Valley. But surely that isn't it, so what is it...?

I would love to see a "main section" restricted to big ideas or questions, instead of news of the day, something that strictly tries to adhere to those guidelines -- but I would still want to have an area where we can discuss Snowden, or some random thing that existed for ages predictably being converted to js now, in a format that is purely focused on the words, and with people that are generally extremely smart. And if we can't do it here, I wish we could make that place, instead of just shutting up whenever it gets remotely serious.
This story is part of the ongoing propaganda war between the USA and China. The only thing we know for certain is that the Chinese say he has boarded a plane to Moscow, he may or may not have done. He may or may not still be alive. The Chinese may even have secretly handed him back to the Americans. We don't know and it is probably best to be sceptical about everything you read until a journalist and film crew meets him face to face.
I edited my comment to include all of Moscow's airports, not only SVO. Although transferring airports, meaning going through Russia's border police and entering that country, seems an even stranger idea.
Snowden running is not something to be confused with an admission of guilt, but at the same time, it does prove that he is not a patriot. With his worldwide recognition: the safest course would be for him to publicly turn himself in to a US police station or deliver himself to a courtroom. He would have a very public trial and would have an even farther reaching message in this country. By running he shows that he has no faith in this country and no longer considers himself a citizen. Not only that but he opens himself up to a ridiculous amount of risk by being wide open in foreign countries where things are semi-expected to happen to travelers by this country. If something happens to him while he's in the legal system of this country, the people responsible for him would be crucified by the media and everyone else. Granted he could be silenced and have his reputation destroyed by the media while incarcerated in this country but I believe a patriot works with the system or fights within it, only a coward runs.
Furthermore, in Russia, he will have to go to the Danish embassy or consulate to get asylum in Iceland. I am not sure how this helps or disadvantages him, but I thought I'd mention that Iceland themselves don't have an embassy/consulate in Russia, but is represented by Denmark.
Only thing I could find quickly (2012-05-12):

http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/12/snapchat-not-sexting/

Spiegel is also developing an Android app. And of course, they’re looking for a way to make some money off the app. While he said they don’t currently have a revenue model, Spiegel said they are “having ongoing discussions” about it.

“We didn’t think we were ever going to raise venture capital so we were planning very early on to generate a revenue plan,” he said.
At this level, some might say "Cheating is an art", the more crafty and resourceful you get the more you'll go farther!
This is only for Sheremetyevo, at least Domodedovo also has international connections.
“As the HKSAR government has yet to have sufficient information to process the request for provisional warrant of arrest, there is no legal basis to restrict Mr Snowden from leaving Hong Kong.”

I think Washington will wake up with a bitter taste in their mouths…
You make good points. Like I said, I support a Mars colony under the right conditions. I say it's myopia to ignore a much better investment. All the benefits you name pale in comparison to the benefits (or loss savings) of paying down the debt. If we proceeded on a Mars colony now, the US would likely slip into a Greater Depression before we could reap a benefit large enough to prevent that. Due in part to those wars we're too close to the abyss. The best choice is to get away from the abyss before focusing attention elsewhere.
My comments would be limited to "FUCK YEAH!"
You could have just left this at 'american media'
But that's exactly the point. For Brazilians and Turkish people, those were the tipping points. Where is America's tipping point? Haven't Americans had enough of government corruption and abuses of power already? Confidence level in Congress is at the lowest levels ever. So where are the mass protests, in the land of the brave?
No. Nothing has been reported that claims it is definite.
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I love living in this time where most countries can tell USA government, to go fuck themselves. This wasn't always the case.
I agree--a reason could be invented. If you read between the lines, they seem pretty pissed at the US about the hacking. Letting Snowden catch his flight is payback.
Safari 6 and iTunes 11† already use CoreAnimation for scrolling. Mavericks "merely" extends this to other apps.

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This is cool, but wouldn't it be a better idea to reimplement the interpreter from the ground up on a solid platform such as pypy?
They want him extradited, they don't want him killed so I'm not sure how the rest of your comment about a different government's actions is relevant.
I believe that this is what it says, in no uncertain terms.
Exactly. The only way this could have read more like a "Fuck you, don't hack us and then ask for our help" is if they claimed there would be some delay in arresting him because they have taken a lot of computer systems offline for a comprehensive security audit in light of the revelations.
Yes, but his plane arrives at Sheremetyevo. However, he could still go to Domodevo, but this might be risky for him.

Maybe he talked to Russian representatives before flying to Russia. This might buy him a few days.
Ironically, in this case, the Chinese students who demanded rights to cheat were about to compete opportunities to enter SPORTS, MUSIC and ARTS colleges.

The way many things work in Chinese societies is deviated far away from common knowledge, moral standard and laws. It is an eternal mystery how and why something is done for anybody outside of certain society. Although schools I attended never encouraged cheating, but the teachers did mention that gaps existed between the social reality and textbooks.
Two thoughts: Russia has already offered Edward Snowden asylum. And we don't have independent confirmation that he's on that flight that lands in about 4 hours; we have just the SCMP report, and the destination isn't mentioned in the HK government statement. I wouldn't be surprised if some if it were misinformation.
Full discussion & original link here --> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5926668
Dane here. Our politicians will hand him over to the US if they can, but by law they can't if he faces the death penalty or if he is likely to be treated inhumanely.
You may need to get out more

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

See "Money Laundering".
Your suggestions are far too cute, actually. By going public, and periodically reminding everyone that he could be targeted for assassination, Snowden has created a strong incentive for FedGov to keep him very much alive.
It seems he's definitely left HK - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5926668
A lot. He doesn't need another assitant for the camera. Also he might be able to communicate with another doctor while in operation and have better control of the video.
What a wonderful press release. Compare this to the UK government's small-dog-loud-bark assertion that Snowden "is not welcome here... you know, just in case he was thinking about coming..." and the relative certainty that he would have been arrested instantly upon arrival here. What does that say?
The US government is letting this turn to a huge trainwreck for them.
Imagine how things might have turned out differently for Bradley Manning if he had a day or two to get out before his arrest.
Bradley Manning’s inhumane treatment would set a precedent in these matters I guess.
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Yes, but I am also convinced that Denmark (I am a Dane myself) must respect Iceland's wishes when they are representing Iceland. Besides, Denmark can make no arrest of him in Russia. I imagine the worst thing that Denmark can do is to simply deny him access to the premises.
You have to own the towers to have real encryption over the cell channel.

If you can encrypt the audio, and play that through the phone, that would be your best chance. Without the telco implementing encryption it's nigh impossible.
The US can guarantee to waive the death penalty in exchange for an extradition. I've read some lawyers think the US is likely to try this.
I suffered harm from a negative SEO campaign like this.

I was in a relationship with a young woman, whose father is a wealthy CEO of a public company. I will never be able to prove it, but he arranged for my name to be smeared. He ensured that when you google my name, "arrested" showed up in Google instant search. Needless to say, my clients were not thrilled.

He also got the local newspaper to carry a story about an anonymous person in a very specific field of work (mine) who allegedly was being reported for sexual harassment. Again, I can't prove anything, as no names were mentioned, only very direct hints. The newspaper article cost me more than a few friends and who knows how much business.

My lawyer advised me to avoid this guy and recommended that I terminate the relationship with the young woman. I did, and I never told her why.

I have since made several attempts to contact Google to get them to remove the negative search results, but so far I have not received a reply.

I am slowly gathering a pile of evidence of major tax evasion towards her father and his off-shore accounts on Cyprus, and one day revenge will be mine. Justice I have no hope for.
Thanks ! I will see for the "discover touch". :)
Thanks for that link. Seem to be a few flights out to Havana. That would be an interesting destination.
if you are only doing 'print $1' you should be using cut. but whatever.
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