skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"posted religiously-insensitive photograph" is a very vague statement. Many questions come to mind.

- What is the nature of photographs?

- Were you exposing some kind the truth and got caught up by legal loopholes or an inherently unjust law in your country?

- Did you knowingly break a law which has existed in your country for a long time?

- Does the nature of your photographs insults someone's faith and or religion directly, knowingly, or purposefully? Or was it so subtle that you could have done it unknowingly?

- Could your postings promote hatred and/or violence against a specific group of people in the society?

- Is you SaaS startup related to the exposure of photographs? Were your postings directly as a results of your startup?

Many more questions can be raised and I think not many can help you without a clear understanding of the issue. At the very least anyone who might want to jump in to help would at least want to clearly understand the connection between your legal issues and your startup.

That said, without clear understanding of what you actually did, I have no right to assume who among the parties involved is right and who is wrong.

If you are willing and if it's possible without putting you in more trouble than you already have on your hands, please share a few more details about the issue. You would be surprised how much help communities like HN can provide you, given proper details.

PS. If legal precedence from authentic Islamic history is accepted in the courts in your country(which should be). Feel free to get in touch with me privately and I will do my best to help you find authentic Islamic precedence that might help you in your case - but of course, only if you are comfortable with it.
Starbucks’ WiFi goes Google
The language used is an important part when determining user expectations. its like the old "free phone" advertisement, but which wrote in tiny print in the service contract a monthly fee. That practice is now mostly banned as false advertisement, and good riddance as "free" has a clear definition.

So yes, I think there is a clear distinction between "do not track me" and one that is limited to any specific tracking techniques.
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I won't explain it again now...

You are partly correct, but feminism brought lots of social changes that affect this.

Also, lots of feminists defend female supremacy and they are very clear on that (most infamously, Valerie Solanas).

I mentioned feminism in particular, because after its rise, rape is a crime that shifted from being almost never prosecuted to be kinda over prosecuted, with cases that involve strangers the "innocent until proven guilty" being thrown away from the window. (while sadly, rape by known people, that is still the majority of the rapes, is still mostly not prosecuted properly).

Unfortunately I don't have time now to grab the exact statistics and research, but there is some evidence that courts tend to be biased toward women, with many avoiding punishing false rape accusations (even when the accused life is destroyed).

Mass panic and mass hysteria always happened in history, feminism changed the subject of the panic and hysteria, not the frequency.
Deborah Dalelv is a Norwegian citizen, though.
How often do motions get denied? Do they ever get denied? How many years go between two denials?

Never denying a surveillance request is a whole lot different than rarely denying. One is a rubber stamp, the other is a general tendency.

Beyond that, the circumstances (all of the judges appointed by one person, no opposing advocate, no eventual public release of information, no witnesses) do not lend themselves to anything other than abuse and injustice. You can argue all you want, but the circumstances surrounding FISA court will should cause suspicion in everyone.
Right, because offending a religion is reason enough to become an outcast. What is this, the digital dark ages? Religion should be a force to unite people in something positive, not a way for a bunch of sub-groups to tell others how to live their lives.

Offense is in the eye of the beholder, what offends me is that there are people that would jail others based on insulting religions. And I say that as an atheist, my choice on that front already offends some religious people, go figure.

If you subscribe to a religion then you should live by its rules, those rules should not be part of the rules that run a country but they should allow the religious community to determine who is part of the 'in-group' and who is not.

And they should leave everybody else alone.
Oh there is a category! I never noticed - ok that explains.
You're thinking along the right lines. I'd only emphasize that one should be on the lookout for things with a personalized component. Rings and bracelets that fit absolutely perfectly. Eyeglasses that are 95% standard parts off a shelf, but incorporate three printed parts that can be adjusted to make the glasses fit your face more perfectly than any others in their price range. That sort of thing.

Designs that only 100 people in the world want are a fine thing, but they will still require design, and that will make them expensive and hard to get right. Individualized things that only one person in the world wants, but which millions of people might want a tiny variation of, may be where the real money is.
Facebook is dead to me
Here are my thoughts

1. For a period of 3-5 year, I'll proceed with the jail. I think you can have limited Internet access in jail, but this might not be the case in your country. Check with the authorities. Otherwise, proceed by selling your business quickly and put the money is a safe index fund. With a 5% return, over 5 year, this means 27% return.

2. If the period is hilariously long, like 20 years, I'll advise you to escape. There are many ways from seeking Asylum to illegally crossing the borders. Some people will discourage you to illegally cross the border, but I guess it's better than spending 20 years in some prison with no real-life contact.

3. I remember there was a discussion about changing one identity. It might sound like movies, but you may want to look into that. You can also just hide in your country, and keep looking for possible escape solutions/countries.
Yup, his identity is correct. Just check one the submissions he has done in the past.
I have a decent lawyer. It isn't hard to keep alive; heck, I've been running it pretty half-assed for the past almost 2 years. Still, I cannot abandon it totally.

Also, I don't think it makes enough revenue to warrant hiring anyone to take care of it, I think. I'd make a loss. And since familiarising with the current code base etc. may require a lot of effort, way more effort than anyone would care to dedicate, unless they're paid a lot to get familiar with it.

My startup is http://www.zuupy.com.

I really want to keep the startup, because it's my main source of income that pays my rent, food, entertainment, transportation, etc. It's also my first startup -- it has great sentimental value.
You guys, the 40 hour work week was fought for. Thank Henry Ford for your Saturdays off too. Your time is your time, you will never get it back.

Of course time off is important. It develops inspiration, and allows you to round yourself out in other interests.

Don't get me wrong, I love what I do and am very passionate about it. I also love my free time too.
Sweden.

Religious Muslim intolerance might not be the best asylum reason there. There are strange double standards, e.g. right now a comedian is getting shanghaied for a mild joke about Islam -- for generations many times worse jokes have been done about all other religions. Sweden is, in short, a weird duck pond which seems to have a giant Ol' Boy's network between media, politics and everything else.

But -- even illegal immigrants without papers (like failed asylum applicants) will get free school for children and free health/dental care. Some parts of the country have lots of this.

(Yes, this seems to imply that anyone which can fake not being a Westerner can get free health care in Sweden, if they don't show their passport... Time to brush up on a Russian accent for Americans that need expensive operations? :-) )

Edit: Clarity, some more facts.
This has shades of a comparison between security by architecture vs security by agreement/trust:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.governance/tMt7-amcK...
Why do we let hostile users dictate the perception of Stack Overflow?
It's a little world ;)

PS: Please, don't sue me, I'm still bootstrapping :D
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Thank you, I had somehow missed the FAQ.

That kind of completely bogus address is actually even better. If one wants to retain anonymity, it even encourages to use one-off ("not used anywhere else, not trackable across web forums") account names for the service.
Why not Texas? Or Iowa? They're all part of the US that is bound by the immigration laws of your country right? What the hell does SF have to do with it?

If only all of the world's persecuted people could move to SF!
1) Nope. I wasn't allowed bail previously, so I was kept in prison for 1 week. I know how it works there. No internet, and phone is very expensive and limited to 10 minutes a week and for only 5 preset numbers.

2) Definitely considered that, and it doesn't even have to be 20 years for me to consider that. 2 years is long enough for me.

3) I'm sorry, do you have the link?
Yes, and we all know that everything is prompty declassified after it passes its freshness date.

Eventual declassification is a pretty poor substitute for speedy justice.
While I agree that people need to look at 3D printing as it's own thing and not v.01 of a star treck replicator that allows you to avoid shopping for little plastic thing. There are still plenty of little plastic things that cost huge multiples of there mass produced manufactoring costs, aka a little plastic lever used in the trip odomitor of a 20 year old car the first 20 million of them sold out so now it's small batches pluss warehousing and shipping costs which can easily make such things cost 100+$.
It is absolutely clear which source is on the device because you can look up Kernel version, Baseband version and the Build number in Settings->About Phone.

Anyways, what I would have liked to see in this article is if the Intent they are referring to (the one that triggers the increase of the GPU clock) is only used for cheating on benchmarks, or actually a feature that is used on many apps - not just speculation/baseless accusation.
As a former Muslim atheist, Jesus Christ!

Assuming there's nothing you can do to escape your pending jail term, I would suggest getting your legal person to draw up some sort of agreement where someone can run the business and keep the profits in your stead. This will have to be someone you trust as no matter how good the contract, the potential downside for you is huge. You could structure it as selling the company with an option to buy it back at the sale price when you get out of jail.

This sucks so hard. As an openly atheist ex-muslim, I'm permanently striking Indonesia, Malaysia and more or less any other predominantly muslim country off my lifetime travel itenerary. If they'll throw you in jail for some snarky photos, my head rolling into a bucket isn't a great stretch if the imagination.
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The very fact that the website must support DNT is its only and fatal flaw. Why should we trust websites to honor DNT when we keep sharing information with them?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-23462008

In London in a year there was 214 reported cases of sexual assault by women that got into a unlicensed cab, and 54 rapes in unlicensed cabs (I did not found stuff about licensed cabs, the location I saw this was specifically talking about the unlicensed ones).

Of course, how much of this is real assaults or fake accusations, is not stated either.
#if you are in for >5-7 years, forget ur startup, handover 50% stake to best guy you can find and focus on legal troubles.

#if it is only few months, and your customers value ur service, be as honest with them as you can, create a forum for them to help each other, get some friend/family to pitch in.

#little tricky for inbetween, you'll need a dedicated guy to work on it, he'll expect a substantial share, so you can just hope for best to find a talented/honest guy.
"Religiously-insensitive photographs" the OP said.

If The Onion didn't get in trouble for this one, then the US is safe. Cartoon, not safe for work.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/no-one-murdered-because-of-...
To everyone ITT who is questioning whether OP has considered leaving his country. This is a public forum. Obviously, OP cannot/should not openly solicit or respond to advice for breaking the law or otherwise give any impression that he intends to flee, or otherwise escape his country's excuse for "Justice".

Of course we are all free to give him this advice, and perhaps we should do so, but remember that OP cannot respond positively.
Open Source it maybe? Set up some small foundation to keep it running. Or, sign over rights to someone you trust while you are in prison to keep it running.

What is the nature of the service? Is it something you need strong domain knowledge in to support?

I like many others would probably be able to offer to act as caretaker providing it's all legal and it's not something that will require lot's of time to get up to speed learning.

let me know if you want to discuss anything.
Distributed Team doesn't mean a "Remote Team"
Could you share links to those projects that you are following and elaborate on the ideas that has you excited?
Business Automation vs. “Business Runs Itself”
As Wilfra stated, I mean documents stored in DropBox (Word, PowerPoint, Excel(Spreadsheets) etc)

Sorry for the confusion and the one billion typos. I was typing on a mobile first thing this morning.
Not just cartoons http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/01/14/130114fa_fact_...
I hate calling to book appointments
Calling to schedule a meeting with a school counselor, or book a haircut, is a freaking pain. It's rude businesses waste my time with that, and theirs, when there are literally hundreds of ways to handle this online.

A while back I made Acuity Scheduling to solve this -- what do you think? What can be made better?

Thanks!
Are you serious? He runs an online business, if that is his source of income it can be managed anywhere.

If I had to choose between prison and becoming a refugee the answer should be obvious. All over the world, people flee similar situations everyday.
"I think they took their trolling too far"

There's no need for "on the internet" to be different than any other part of life.

Simply walk to your local newspaper office and give a journalist the same treatment and see what happens next.

Or give a librarian at a public library a hard time exactly the same way.

Or just some random woman on the street.

We have extensive case law for "disturbing the peace" and all that kind of stuff.

This is not all that unusual. You can read about this kind of behavior and its consequences in your local police blotter, probably available online for free.
Motorola Is Listening
Enter The Brilliant Mind of David Ogilvy
The methodology behind this study is pretty shaky. Most concerning is that their main claim - that $312 is a lot more than $18 - isn't held up by much searching.

As an example, you can get a decent silicone nano wristband for $2.78 online. They listed $16.98 as the "total retail cost". Similarly, a plastic iPad stand (though of not the same design) can be ordered online for $1.27, while the study listed $16.99.

Many items' retail prices were about 2x-5x higher than they could have been.

Of course, the RepRap cost doesn't include the cost of getting a RepRap, nor the ridiculous amount of time it takes to even keep it running. And, of course, doesn't include the cost of all the failed builds you'll inevitably run into when trying to print things.
Two years later, Senator’s criticism of NSA spying sinks in
This is exactly the kind of emotional ranting, that has created a negative opinion against Muslims.

Assuming he/she is 100% wrong in what he/she did, why should the punishment be more than the crime? Why outcast? Isn't doing the sentence enough? And if it's not enough, then the damn law needs fixing.
How hard is it to get a fake-passport and sneak through the airport?
"The only surefire way to gain back our privacy is also the least likely: the citizens of all nation- states must empower politicians who will defund and dismantle the espionage machinery and instead rely on international cooperation to expose and prevent terrorist activity."
That's happening in 38 minutes. :) It took a couple weeks for us to get our schedules to sync up.
Does that mean i will have to log in with my Google account now?
HN has an incredibly liberal slant, see the front page since Edward Snowden started leaking documents. I don't think the the "average" opinion would be that someone isn't welcome here because they pissed someone off. Look at all the snark that gets thrown around.
Err, usually the slowest part of connection is WiFi. I never use wifi if I want to get reasonable throughput or ping. I don't even live where the WiFi band would be unreasonably congested. (connection 1/1 Gbps FTTH)
The common problem I've heard after 300 conversations with startups
I think it was the text that was offensive, basically saying "Why don't you break your fast by having some pork!" sarcastically. People shouldn't go to jail for being assholes, though.
How did Estonia become a leader in technology?
Wow, the creators of BWF must be celebrating tonight. Look at all this free press, now they can say they've been covered by BBC too!
Zynga has a lot of people to sue if they want to own "... with friends."

https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22*%20with%20fr...
Sudoku in Coders At work
I've always been quite impressed with how fast, low footprint, and solid Dropbox is given that it's in Python.

The problem with VM languages (Java, Python, Ruby, all of them) is that the VM itself and its libraries constitute an enormous dependency that you must either manage compatibility with if you are to use the natively installed one or ship with your product. The latter offends my personal aversion to bloat... I hate shipping something where there's 100X as much data in dependencies than in the product itself. "Here's my 2MB app and its 120MB of VM bloat..."

Python has some decent tooling in this area, so that helps. But VM language authors take note-- this is a big problem that needs to be solved.

Also why I find Google Go interesting: it's compiled as far as I know, and requires few dependencies to ship. (A few libs? That can probably be static if you want?)
What's the period? If it's 2-5 years, please proceed with jail. Know that there will be deer consequences for attempting something that illegal. Your case is even harder as you got public coverage, so I guess your face is well known to the public/officers.
For what it's worth, that's a nice startup!

Best wishes for your outcome.
Using an unknown 'purpose' to justify being a selfish jerk to someone won't make you any less of a selfish jerk.

If you really want to be a jerk to someone, stop looking for ways to justify it to yourself and just go own your actions - go be your jerky self.

I've personally regretted this every time I've done this (and I've done it more than once), but maybe you're wired differently than me.
Yes, from an Australian company run by Lars Rasmussen called Where 2 Technologies.
Seeking asylum in Canada would be a gamble right now, unfortunately... Our foreign service is in the middle of a labour dispute.
From iPhone to iPad
Agreed. You need to leave. Now.

Sell your stuff, get currency, use your international connections. It's going to be the hardest thing you've ever done, but liberty is the most important. Who knows what will happen in prison and for how long they will detain you.

Also, depending on how technically competent your government is, you need to get all your services offshore now: Wuala for storage (like dropbox - based in Switzerland); Runbox for email (based in Norway); servers in somewhere like Europe or other nearby friendly countries that provide sufficient bandwidth... Burner phone, TOR, careful about your online presence, etc. In the meantime, move locally and rent a place cash under the table where address won't be registered. Basically, become invisible to your government.

Then you want to move your business domicile and bank accounts elsewhere if feasible so your local government can't confiscate your business once you do leave. Read into the 5-flag theory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_traveler

You're entrepreneurial, intellectually curious, freedom-loving - rotting away in prison would be a waste of great talent and not to mention a human rights violation. Starting a startup is hard enough as it is, it's important. But not as important as liberty. If you plan correctly, you can have both. Obviously, I (or likely none of us on here) cant fully empathize with your situation - best of luck!!

Edit: Are you in Singapore? I know Singapore is socially strict, but I thought it was secular. If you're in Malaysia, it's a different story. Moving your domicile and bank accounts to Singapore might make a lot of sense if you're in Malaysia.
Is the IT field more nasty than others?
This bit both somewhat limits the impact and makes Greenwald et. al.'s claims that most everything is being Hoovered up a lot more credible:

"The XKeyscore system is continuously collecting so much internet data that it can be stored only for short periods of time. Content remains on the system for only three to five days, while metadata is stored for 30 days. One document explains: "At some sites, the amount of data we receive per day (20+ terabytes) can only be stored for as little as 24 hours.""

Of course, as the article goes on to detail, anything that's found to be of interest in that window can be saved permanently, and NSA analysis do that a lot.
What a bunch of establishment hacks... technological workarounds to political problems is politics. The current regime put this here, they're not going to remove it because we ask politely. That's a childish hope.
you had no reason to offend another religion. you take religion lightly. you should be educated on other cultures. it is not smart to see people dying for their religion all around the world, and then go around offending them claiming that it is your digital right. that is extremely apathetic. im against you being jailed, but i am with you being outcast from society until you appreciate other people's cultures. You don't seem to deny offending another religion, so i assume you have been rightly convicted.
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