skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This may be paranoia, but it seems like this type of programme is a politically convenient loophole. The rich white potential-campaign-donor who's flying every week can get through quickly and easily, with the inconvenience and ignominy that the rest of us have to suffer before we get on a plane. If there wasn't this shortcut, would there be more political will to scale back the checkpoints?
Yes - re-reading that now. It came off as rude that was NOT my intention. Sorry - I apologize. (probably best not to edit it, and hope they see this follow-up?)

It was my desperate attempt to implore them (and people in general) to think through their responses before hitting Submit.

Opinion is great, but we're all too trigger happy to post our own view. Often its best if we didn't contribute on matters we are not well versed in.

I'm guilty of this myself. Not implying I'm not.

Its a futile exercise I'm sure, but somethings I feel like I have to try.
I'm from Spain and I've been running a webdev shop for 6 years now.

Things are getting worse here and the government if anything is actually just making things more difficult for everyone.

I agree with those trying to protect their privacy but for the sake of practicality they should look for a pragmatic approach.

BTW, making individuals and companies responsible for tracking cookies installed by third party platforms like Facebook, Tumblr, etc. because of this law doesn't really help us being more competitive either [sarcasm sign].
You know, when you post links to the articles you quote from, people can read them and see if the opinions expressed support your thesis. In this case you're posting an article where the NIMH director wonders aloud whether a diagnostic manual hasn't become the proverbial territory itself. Much, much less strong of a claim than yours.

Second, your original claim is that this research posted here today is empty, navel-gazing non-science. And still your efforts to show that this claim is true are also wanting, but not for a lack of heat and bluster.
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I don’t think it has much to do with OpenID – my suggestion still keeps the classical username/password tuple as credentials, but simply disallows the user to choose the password freely.

One extension, of course, would be for websites to somehow signal to browser ‘Hey, please store this password/username for this website’, but I’m not sure whether that's necessary.
This is like Deja Vu. They said the same thing about IBM last century (I was an employee at IBM yorktown for a couple years).
IBM was dying, the PC (clones mostly) won the day and was in offices everywhere. The plan was to split IBM up into lots of little companies.. They brought in a CEO (Gerstner) who basically said, don't split it up, being big is a benefit and lets leverage that. It worked, and the company started doing better.

oblig wiki page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_V._Gerstner,_Jr.
That's a circular argument--there are obviously two ways that the share of revenue from interchange fees could become higher than they are now--increase the interchange fees, or decrease the interest rates, membership fees, and other revenue sources (or both).

Higher interchange fees would necessarily "end up resulting in higher costs for consumers" only if the interest rates didn't also decrease. Are you assuming the credit card company's total revenue is a fixed constant?

Or are you just suggesting that if a very large group of cardholders collectively decided to pay off their credit card balances in full every month so that credit card companies didn't make a cent in interest off them, that credit card companies would simply increase their interchange fees to compensate? Perhaps. But then a lot of merchants would stop accepting credit cards. They could face antitrust litigation again. Perhaps they would just add/increase yearly card membership fees, cut back on rewards, lay off customer service staff, etc. Who knows? They make their money in several different ways, and each of those they are already squeezing as much money as they possibly can out of consumers and merchants.

The way I see it, as a responsible cardholder who pays my bill in full every month, merchants and irresponsible users of credit are just subsidizing my free 30-day loans, cash back rewards, and frequent flyer miles, and I'd prefer that they keep doing so.
I've found it just as obnoxiously difficult to find and install drivers in Windows 7. They all seem to have their own proprietary installer, their own crappy control panel, their own quirky bugs and insane workarounds.

The registry is still there and even more crammed with crap than ever. Uninstaller applications are still a necessity.

Finding things in the control panel is both easier (search) and way harder than before (more tabs, more drop-downs, more everything). The simple mode is almost useless, which leaves you with the ridiculous "Advanced" mode.

Drive letters? Still there. Task manager? Still essential. Programs menu? Still filled with nonsense injected there by the vendors.

This doesn't even touch on the fact that the Windows software ecosystem is full of literal junk, programs that either overtly or covertly install adware, malware, or sneaky debris on your machine, and this includes major vendors like Oracle (Java) and Adobe (Flash). It takes discipline to keep your machine clean, everyone wants to set up shop.

The only thing I'm happy about is that Windows 7 does have much better resilience against virus type programs and application level exploits than Windows XP ever did.
But they may only use the storage once consent has been given, which can only happen after a warning has been issued.

The two clauses seem to indicate that consent must be before storage, and warning before consent, hence there must be a warning /before/ the storage on the remote machine.
One minor correction, the geolocation API is available to all apps + sites, just as it is in the browser (with a confirmation)
Getting social security disability is a small nightmare and can take months. The majority of initial claims (60%+) are rejected and you'll have to appeal.

Which, you know, is no problem at all if you're actually so injured you can't work.
My wife and I did pick the doctor (of 4 pediatricians) that was recommended to us by friends that had a good care and delivery experience.

BUT ... there is only one hospital here and all of the doctors are part of the same system. So, although we could "comparison shop" for our physician, this had no effect on what we would (potentially) pay.
Agreed. An excellent use of time.
Google basically just made Chromecast less useful than an Apple TV,
The reason so many in the media have had a viscerally negative reaction to Assange and Snowden is that they completely ignored this delicate back and forth, skipping straight to full scale publication. In essence, they did not follow the media establishment's rules for responsible journalistic disclosure.

That's not really true of Greenwald working with the Guardian, the Guardian editors have run each story past the authorities prior to publication, according to Alan Rusbridger and Janine Gibson. And the stories have been heavily redacted by them and Greenwald. I think they've been quite responsible, and Greenwald certainly has had editorial input from the Guardian, and is far from the only reporter there on this story, I think I've seen at least 10 other bylines. See this interview with Charlie Rose for details from the editors on their process:

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7pdzzZB7Xgo

I think it's more that the traditional press sense the end of an era and with it a huge erosion of their power and prestige - their monopoly on news is simply vanishing, and that creates some hostility to these upstarts who don't understand the rules of the game like Greenwald, wikileaks bloggers etc. and who are willing to completely forgo any access to government sources, and thus are in many ways more independent than the White House press pool.

It'll be great to see the nytimes running with this now that the guardian is giving them access, they did a really detailed synopsis of the story so far anchored on Laura Poitras recently which is really worth reading. I'm also really interested to see what she does with her film, perhaps it'll come out just in time for the elections!
Yea, the typical HN response in often highly critical and even quite discouraging at times.
I've always been fascinated by "made it big" stories. It doesn't really matter which genre - every story is unique. From a band that goes from playing in dive bars to playing in arenas to a web startup like Facebook, it's interesting. And it's really cool to see things like this because it's history. Maybe it's also a reminder that you don't have to be a corporate team with focus groups and handsome funding to make something that people want.

Even if it's extremely unlikely, it still gives the same feelings that a vintage "Radiohead - playing tonight in Mickey's Beer Cave" poster inspires in a struggling band. They were in your shoes, and they made it big. Maybe you can too if you work hard enough. Sure, there was a lot of luck involved... but it's possible.
I hunt and peck at 80 WPM :-).

Yours,
A Happy Pecker
If you really want to be alone and isolated, Alaska http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Proenneke

A far better choice would be to bike around Europe, goto Africa, drive the USA, something. See the world, experience life, live slow. Don't just go hide, that's easy and lame.
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I am surprised - isn't this what we want? Instead of secrecy, governments warn everyone they are being tracked online. And we moan about it. It wrecks the UI, it is annoying. Folks - this is the Snowden debate, but without the security services.

Yes they should have got into the RFC / IEEE debates (which are fast becoming laws of their own), yes they should be doing it better. Yes they should stop monitoring everyone.

But they are at least starting the debate. And not on an obscure tech forum, or in dusty volumes of proceedings, but right there, in everyone's face.

And until we find a way to make privacy and surveillance and technology triggers in every politician's Skinner box, then its probably the best start we can get.
You guys should really change your name.
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I don't think while I type. By the time I start typing I know what I want to write.

When writing long blog posts I go through a couple of revisions, but that's not so much typing as it is editing which is much slower.
When people talk about segregation in Chicago, they are mostly referring to the black south and near west side, and to a lesser extent the hispanic near-southwest and Little Village areas.

Look closely at the map on this thread, and match it up to a Chicago neighborhood map. Look at the border between Beverly (where I grew up) and Gresham and Brainerd. Look at the borders around Hyde Park. Look at the border between Austin and Oak Park (where I live now). For that matter, look at Lawndale vs Little Village. The borders are sharp, they follow regular lines, and generally involve a 90+% majority black neighborhood on one side.

There are a bunch of reasons this happened:

* The Great Migration, during which Chicago was a giant magnet for rural black southerners

* Redlining, the overtly racist/segregationist practice of refusing home loans to black families in "non-black" neighborhoods

* The construction of the Ryan, which displaced black families who ended up moving to places like Englewood

* The construction of the CHA high rise housing projects, which were concentrated in areas that would eventually become majority-black

* The subsequent flight of white families from places like Englewood, which went from 10% black immediately after WW2 to 98+%(!) black in 1980

It's important to note that with the possible exception of Beverly, which really is a white Irish enclave, the non-black non-hispanic neighborhoods in Chicago aren't intolerant, and have black representation roughly in line with their representation in the population as a whole. If you live in Avondale or Rogers Park or Lakeview, it probably doesn't look at all segregated.

Also, Chicago isn't the most segregated city in the US.
Some people will pirate anything just because it's available

So they wouldn't have bought it anyway? Whats the fuss about then?
I work at Stripe.

The post has since been updated, but I'll just copy it here: This isn't about actually coming in on a Sunday (most people don't) — it's to determine if this is someone who is so impressive and so nice that others actively want to be around them.

Also, as mentioned in the post, usually just the interviewers attend the meeting to make a hiring decision. In the case that someone didn't interview a candidate, but knows him or her in some other way, we want to make sure this person can also join in, if wanted.
> I feel like I should have taken drama instead of band when I was younger and I'd have reached this point sooner.

I took drama lessons when I was a kid and have never regretted it. It's helped me in interviewing, meeting and greeting customers, giving presentations, providing training, all sorts. It's always hard to consider hypotheticals like how would I have fared without the drama training, but I have no doubt it has been a huge help. I'm encouraging my kids to do the same.
Does this impact only sites hosted in EU? Or with a domain from an EU country?
No, you shouldn't. Cops are not there to "keep you safe." They are there to enforce the law. Never talk to cops without a lawyer. This lecture, by a law professor and former defense attorney, explains why <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc>
The short (and unhelpful) answer is that I didn't intend to move here.

I came here for a long vacation of sorts (quit dev job in Ireland, swore never work in IT again, first stop on taking a year out to travel the world...).

I was at a point where I'd over-stayed tourist visa and was getting ready to move on and then I met a girl...
How would you feel if this anonymity were built into the networking protocols from the beginning?

When the non-anonymous web first became popular and was used for child pornography and money laundering (as it still is) - did you object to using it? USPS or FedEx can also be used to (trivially) ship contraband material, even anonymously.

I'm far more concerned about companies like Facebook tracking and recording my every activity than I am the NSA or law enforcement - I'm boring to the NSA, but my product research and online purchasing behaviors are pure gold to the corporate world.
Mentioned in the article: Spanish business using Facebook pages could be non compliant to this law. Same with others using wordpress, blogger, tumblr and so on since tracking cookies are been installed without a previous user acceptance. Also note that the business is liable for this, not the hosting service provider.

I wonder how far hosting provider definition goes. If twitter is used in a company marketing strats, is it liable for the cookies installed by twitter? I don't see it different from the facebook pages cited example.

The only practical option given this is to stop using those providers.
The joke actually makes the opposite point from your point that agreement on substance is easier after agreement that a range exists.
Note that I didn't chose the worst case for grep. But probably not the best either.
First thing I tried just now:

$ time grep -R "yoyo\|regexp" linux-3.10.6 > /dev/null
real	0m2.138s
user	0m1.875s
sys	0m0.252s

$ time jrep -R "yoyo|regexp" linux-3.10.6 > /dev/null
real	0m0.411s
user	0m0.135s
sys	0m0.270s
can you please explain a little bit more about this cookie law? the only one I heard about was the UK cookie law and it was abandoned months ago.

which websites does it apply to? websites hosted in Spain? websites of commercial businesses operating in Spain? any website with an address in Spain?
That doesn't prevent the 99% of Tor users accessing hidden services exposing the location of the service to whoever is operating the majority of honeypot nodes.

It also doesn't prevent owners of relay nodes from construing the origin of traffic. It may not be as accurate assuming the user routes their traffic through uncompromised entry/exit nodes, but given the resources certain agencies have they can cross reference ISP etc traffic logs to determine the identity of tor users.
The "Sunday test" is no different from asking "Would you go to Mars with this person?". If your first response is to rant about how you'd never visit that rusty planet -- especially not with a coworker -- you're missing the point by 158 million miles. It's a thought experiment which proposes a hypothetical scenario and asks what your hypothetical response would be.

While some may choose to work weekends (or go to Mars), you shouldn't confuse the consideration of a hypothetical scenario with an implied workplace policy.
On the one hand, I agree that these machines are unlikely to be a public health risk, and I further agree with you on the real problems here.

On the other, I think that that it's misleading to compare risks you choose with risks that are forced upon you. That's part of what has people up in arms here; it's clear that the TSA didn't really care about safety or privacy when they started with this, so I'm ok with people being deeply suspicious about the "no, really, it's all safe and private now" shtick.

Also, I think this is dangerous: "By analogy, you don't need to study the health effects of every single x-ray machine because we know what x-rays do. You just need to know the machine's dosage and wavelength."

It's worth considering the THERAC-25, a device with software bugs that killed 3 people: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25

There's always a difference between what a machine is supposed to do and what it actually does. None know that better than HNers. Given that this is a novel technology rushed into production using giant government contracts to satisfy the security theater apparatus, it's reasonable to worry whether corners were cut, worries suppressed, or facts buried.

I'm happy to trust my dentist's x-ray machine because he's a licensed, trained medical professional who's focused on healing, and who plans to stand right next to it for a couple decades. None of that applies in the TSA situation.

I think the TSA scanners are probably fine anyhow, and I've used them happily when I don't have time to be obstreperous. But I don't fault people who refuse to trust the TSA on this.
I guess on a completely personal note; in school I took French, German, and Irish classes.

I suck at all three.

My English is also terrible before that first cup of coffee in the morning too.
One of my UK employers was quite large and had particularly good disability benefits because a small number of staff worked in physically dangerous jobs, the union wanted those staff treated really well if something bad happened and so everyone in the entirely company was covered for 80-90% of their wage.

A new desk-bound sales guy started and had a stroke before lunch time on his first day and was going to be out of action for a good long while - perhaps forever. A serious stroke is bad news, but he was sure lucky that it didn't happen a few hours earlier.
You are wrong. Suppose you are payed $350/month. Larger part of that money are gone spent for apartments and food. Still people do purchase $350 tablets because it's entertainment they can afford (they buy it for few years and don't change it to newer model until the one they have is broken/no longer fast enough for new software). Now would you like to buy movie and games for $5 or you will download them by clicking links on local forum thread?
cygwin98 did not introduce the "evil" terminology. Google introduced the "evil" terminology.

Do you really think that the phrase, associated with Google, was intended to mean "We're not going to commit any war crimes?"

If you dislike hyperbole, that is fine, but blame the people who are actually responsible for introducing the hyperbole.
NSA leaks: David Cameron's response is intimidation, says world press body
Silicon Valley “other-shoring” jobs to Boston?
Really? I would guess substantially less than 1%.
>Since you have transparency, you can make each frame transparent, and lay them on top of each other; which allows more efficient temporal compression.

There is simply no way that you are going to achieve more efficient compression with that crude technique than with the algorithms used by modern video codecs.

I also think that losslessness is probably relatively low concern with an animation.

The transparency thing is important, although that is achievable with video as well. WebM is apparently going to support it directly one of these days, but the cross-browser way is to store the alpha channel in a separate half of the frame and combine them using an off-screen canvas. (Edit: see this demo: http://jakearchibald.com/scratch/alphavid/)
It certainly wasn't socialism, but it wasn't exactly slavery either. The "labor tax" was 2 years of labour (out of your entire life).
https://maps.google.com/?ll=51.30615,3.609695&spn=0.283743,0...

Another one like that. Only since the tunnel is open can you get to this part of NL without going through Belgium first (or take a boat).
Yes, where would this be? Central what?
They perform a meaningless task with no purpose other than to instill a certain emotion in their audience. Lots of job titles fit that definition, I like to use the word "clown."

Edit for a slightly less flippant response. I do not respect the job these people do, and I like to degrade their position of authority. I like to make them hate their job, which is one of the reasons that I opt-out of the naked scanners and wish more people would. I want to tear the TSA down to where it was pre-9/11, and I think making people realize that the job these people perform is pointless security theatre ("clowns" performing dumb and silly actions like groping my testicles) helps do that.
Follow the frog https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iIkOi3srLo
Does this account for the fact that you type slower as you get older? What about typing less?
It seems to read that way, but the doctrine has been applied to the Fair Housing Act and more.

http://www.propublica.org/article/disparate-impact-and-fair-...
Please also note that according to the post if the sites are hosted in third party platforms like Facebook, Tumblr, that install tracking cookies the owner of the site can still be sued, even if it's without his control.

In practical terms this means that any individual or business hosting having a Facebook profile page or blog on Tumblr could be sued.

This is just Spanish law at it's best (I'm Spanish, too)
>People don't fight hard against invaders if their "home" rulers are dictators--World War II provides other examples of that principle.

You don't think the Russians fought hard?
Agreed, there is nothing strange about the Incan system. It is one of the oldest forms of taxes.
try with multiple languages: I do French and German on a regular basis (more or less).
BTW Kindle is technology. You'll have to leave that behind.
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Do people pick their dwelling by racial mix? I would expect this to be much more of a function of income and means.
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Hubris? You're paying what you and the insurance company deems a fair price to ensure that you and your family aren't screwed if you become disabled.

Screw adjusting to circumstances, if there's a fair, legal way to keep my kids from being homeless, why shouldn't I take it?
> Docker added metadata to describe how to build images; if you want to change the components (AFAICT) the "right" way is to change the metadata and then do a full rebuild.

Correct. And Docker implements caching of build layers, so you get the semantics of a full rebuild, but in practice are only rebuilding the interesting parts.