skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd rather have a Nexus 7 2012 for internet browsing than an iPad 2. The iPad 2 has a better screen and 10" is better than 7" for browsing, but the way tabs keep getting discarded from memory make it very painful to use when you have a poor internet connection.
Even simpler would just be eliminating most economic non-visitor, non-treaty-based visa categories in favor of a single, category for all non-prohibited entrants who either are not qualified for a family, political (refugee, victimization-based, etc.), etc. visa, or who are qualified for such a visa in a category for which there is a waiting list to enter and remain prior to moving to the head of the list, which carries a substantial basic annual fee and requires supplemental income tax on any wages income earned in the US during the period they are present on the visa.
Funny, I noticed that sending a color card to antarctica at $1.23 is cheaper than sending one to the US for $1.69.
Really people? You are going to give ideas to track people to the general crowd. It's not even an exceptionally technical problem.
Stick to facts? How to? When the relevant facts are classified State Secrets and the whisleblowers are jailed or pursued to the ends of the Earth... Are we not supposed to even talk about it? Should be just hang our heads lower and carry on?
I agree. The general public does not know much as much as they should about this topic, and the tech scene needs to be saturated before the information can spill out vastly enough into the general public. And there is a fundamental issue that's important to continue discussing, and that is all the logical answers to potential questions that the general public may have that even we don't have precise, logical, and unarguable answers to...such as "I don't have anything to hide, so why do I care if they're spying on me?"
So you're saying that http://close.io not only has good engineers but also is good at marketing? Maybe you should check it out if you're looking for sales software then :)
> If it is not to look out for the best interests of citizens, why are they paying taxes?

It's in the best interest of the person who has to compete with the immigrant, but it's not in the best interest of anyone else - citizen or otherwise. Immigration benefits other citizens in the form of cheaper products and services. Immigration also benefits the immigrant (if it didn't, they wouldn't be trying to get in).

This issue is somewhat personal for me because I have foreign friends who are good engineers and would like to work here, but can't because of the regulations.

> It is not protectionism at all to level the playing field

This isn't leveling the playing field, this is refusing to let other (potentially better) players on the field because we have less capable players (who happened to be here first).
Of course they are, every county has agents working in every other county. That's perfectly normal and expected.

The parent was asking about executions though.
The Council of Nicea didn't deal with bible canon - that was made up for "The Da Vinci Code". Various religious sites debunked that one during the books and movie introductions.
I consider myself in that same top N percent for technology product interest, but I'm not at all confused about the 5c. Most smartphones, even flagship smartphones, are plastic, and some have spectacular build quality. The price is extremely competitive. I think the only complaints about price are influenced by the rumor that the 5c would be the free subsidized tier. Ignoring that and looking at the 5c on its own terms, it's certainly a competitive $100 subsidized phone.
Flagged? Yes, that's a right that (some) users have after all.
Filtered? No, that would be replacing natural selection with groundless censorship.
maybe a http://nsa.ycombinator.com/ ?
same boat here. Haven't heard any such personally, but got to know these sort of stories now and then. That's the reason I posed this on HN and looking for some valuable suggestions.
Why do you assume that flagging is being abused?

That's clearly one viewpoint - rightly upvoted submissions are being wrongly flagged.

But some people would say that wrongly upvoted submissions are being rightly flagged.

I'd be really interested to see a breakdown by age of account for different viewpoints.
Any smart information sharing agreement would cover contingencies like this. Not because they know it _will_ happen, but because they know it _might_ happen.

Not making a statement on the information sharing, just pointing out that the existence of a clause within an agreement does not mean the situations that clause covers are going to happen. For example,the iTunes EULA prohibits the software from being used to build weapons of mass destruction < http://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/appstore... >
So you had two pictures? But what does this give you? Unless the second picture was available on the internet it is just the same as the first one.
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Wind farms promise electrical generation with no pollution but they kill surprising numbers of birds, including those considered endangered. Over the last 5 years at least 67 golden and bald eagles have been killed by wind turbines.
> Surely at least some of the fired could've been retrained and given a second chance?

Experience has probably shown employers that its cheaper in the long term to just lobby for an immigration-centered subsidy, so they prefer that option.
I'd rather see some kind of clustering -- I don't like seeing a NYT, Guardian, etc. article all on exactly the same document with separate comments, as none of the journalists are actually adding any value to the raw documents. It'd be nice to see one meta-story about each new revelation, with subsidiary URLs for each article about it. Ultimately I'd be happy with 3-5 stories on the front page at any given time being about NSA/spying/privacy, until it is resolved (probably not this decade).
Did that picture by include any kind of hint of a company she is working for?
If the subject is not technical, it should be removed/flagged. I'm immensely interested in the specifics of which algorithms the NSA has cracked and how, but I'm absolutely not interested in what Obama or Snowden has to say on the topic. They're completely irrelevant, and the ensuing discussion is decidedly not a technical one.

That's how this should be decided - would/does the ensuing conversation stick to the technical or entrepreneurial aspects of this submission? In particular, does the discussion devolve into an, "Everybody's got a valid opinion" kind of discussion? If so, drop it, and drop it fast. [0]

There's this mistaken notion that, just because a person works with computers for a living, or owns a computer related business, that their opinion on ANY political topic related to computers is a valid or even privileged one, when that's absolutely and demonstrably false. This crowd is a technical crowd, not a politically savvy crowd.

People talking out of their wheelhouses should not be promoted.

Edit:

[0] - http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html

Wanted to cite where I got this idea. This essay informs heavily on what I believe HN should be about.
We should remember his exact reason for being in Brazil in the first place, which he outlines here [1]; he would no doubt be moving to the US as we type if it weren't for the NSA stories

[1] http://ggsidedocs.blogspot.com.br/2013/01/frequently-told-li...
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You'd have to include some form of protection for the employer on the expenses associated with H1B process, otherwise it's not really worth the risk - imagine if you paid say $15k for the filing and waited 6 months. Then the person you hired comes in and asks for a 20% raise or he/she walks on day 1.
Why? Loaning digital bits literally makes no sense. That's nt a thing. It's not something the laws of physics allow. Loaning digital goods is a gibberish statement.

I obviously understand the appeal. Who doesn't like free shit? If you want to "borrow" a game from a friend just pirate it. That at least saves the platform holder some bandwidth costs.
Proof that your friends are your biggest privacy leak. People will tell just anything to anyone.
Answer 1: turing

Answer 2: bletchley

Answer 3: ?

Answer 4: colossus

Answer 5: secured

Don't feel like supporting this recruitment drive, to be honest. GCHQ appears to be the rolling data buffer for the NSA...
Very interesting. I have a somewhat related project called Herbert, which attempts to define a schema language for EDN.

https://github.com/miner/herbert
There was a story over the last few days about widespread successful man-in-the-middle attacks on SSL. this absolutely should be top of HN. It's on topic and very serious.

But it wasn't even on the front page. Yes, it was an NSA story - maybe that's why. Imagine if it was about Mafia black-hat hackers, to pick some other random group.

For links to the story, google "flying pig ssl"
Internet is still in it's very early stages.

Whatever are the laws, policies and culture that we create now can have effect that is felt hundreds of years from now.

Now is the defining moment. This issue should be pushed more and more and not just with more articles.
The stories are fine, because I don't have to click on them.

Well yes & no. When I come here, there are essentially 30 stories that I see. When every other one is something about NSA (and more often than not, it's a wild extrapolation rooted in probably-facts but is a stretch to get to "the NSA is watching everything you do"), I go to other places for news. I've read a few of the articles, but I'm sick of them now. One or two a day isn't bad, but when it's 10-15 of the front page, I get annoyed. Just my opinion.
To be novel the blog need only show one thing that isn't currently known. Generally accepted physics doesn't recognize that an unpowered projectile launched upward can accelerate away, let alone shown with generally accepted equations. The blog is novel for that alone. The blog explains the acceleration away of supernovae that is currently a mystery, so the blog is novel again for that reason. If we don't accept an advance of physics until it explains a complete set of mysteries (an acceleration profile over the universe's history, in your case), we could be waiting a long time.

The "deceleration, then acceleration" is an implication based on assumptions, not something observed. We haven't actually witnessed any deceleration or acceleration when looking through a telescope. Instead, when we look at various distances from the Earth we see various redshifts (not changes in redshifts), and then, because looking further away is looking back further in the history of the universe (a safe assumption), and based on the assumption that space itself is expanding to cause those redshifts and any changes in those redshifts, we conclude that space itself expanded in a decelerating manner and then, later in the universe's history, in an accelerating manner.

The blog implies that we should rethink those assumptions. It shows that the expanding space paradigm is superfluous. When that paradigm is removed, generally accepted equations can be applied to show that objects sufficiently far away from us (which we can now assume are receding at close to the speed of light, given their high redshifts) accelerate away from us. So when we look close to us we'll see evidence of deceleration, and when we look further from us we'll see evidence of acceleration, but that has nothing to do per se with the history of the universe. Thus the blog does explain the observations that form the acceleration profile you note.
The shame of this is
1) Turntable is still around? Holy cow
2) Never effing heard of Piki
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To kill them? Seems far fetched to me.

They'd want to recruit them - or maybe not, since an American Arab would never be trusted by other Arabs.

An American Arab would never be trusted enough to gain any useful information, so would not be of interest to Israel (not to recruit, not to kill).
Flagging on Hacker News is too powerful - I've long thought that. Anything discussing the forbidden G word is flagged from the front page in seconds - it looks like NSA articles are receiving the same treatment.

That said, I don't want all NSA, all the time. When Snowden was on his way to Russia the front page was literally over 60% stories repeating the same information. If we can settle on one article for each major news story and flag the rest, I'll be happy.
The USA have already drone-killed american citizens who were in Arab countries.

It's not far-fetched to imagine Israel could do it too (with more traditional methods)
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>FSM

His ripping of the New Atheists got to you?
>If the subject is not technical, it should be removed/flagged.

Incorrect. See the HN FAQ. Political discussions are allowed (saying only that most are discouraged implies that certain ones are. If there ever was one, this is it).
I agree. I was pretty surprised to see H1B applications for salaries of $25,000 in this post yesterday - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6361656.
I want less, but I don't want none. NSA stories should be flagged and/or filtered if they're not technical in nature.

But this has never been a democracy, I hope no one thinks that's what HN is.
Additional: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTQ1ODY
I'm guessing it has to be something to do with facial recognition, since he asked for the picture without knowing its contents (other than that it has her face in it).

From there, if he had an idea of where they went that night, a club or bar, perhaps he could do some Facebook/Twitter searching magic to search for pictures of that night, taken by other people. Then they could look for her face in the background.

Not sure where to go from there... perhaps they got lucky with one of the pictures being tagged with name. Or perhaps they identified everyone she was shown to be associating with, and found intersections in their Facebook friends list? Does it have to do with Facebook?
Of course they are afraid. 97% of their revenues were/are from search and nothing else. So, from their perspective, increasing the medium through which their search function is accessed is pretty damn high. You can see it in their target models.

Project Loon - way to push their services
Google Fiber - way to push their services
Self driving cars - way to push their services
Glass - way to push their services

Apple didn't care about search/mapping services for a while when they started out. So Google has no issues building out trying to poach Apple users.

From a MS perspective, not only do they not have competing services, they have a different cost model for their products and services and a different architecture as a result. Every user Bing picks up or MS picks up, that's one less user for Google. So, of course, they are panicking.
I'm an Australian who recently became a Canadian Permanent Resident using a "sponsorship" process not unlike the H-1B. I've also had a few work visas for the USA, and applied for a H-1B (The rules changed before it could even be looked at).

I personally think the idea of bringing in foreign labor is a very bad thing for the sponsoring country.

For example, where I live in Canada has a very high cost of living (very far North), but stupidly the minimum wage is lower than other parts of Canada. Many local businesses pay $14-$18 / hr as a starting wage for menial jobs, even though minimum is legally ~$10/hr, because otherwise nobody would do the the job up here.

When Walmart, McDonald's, KFC, Canadian Tire, etc. (who all have a pre-approved process with the govt. BTW) want to hire someone cheap, they just bring in a foreigner from a second world country. Those foreigners live 20 to a house and make $10/hr. They can't work anywhere else, and if they quit they are deported. So those business can bring down the overall standard of living here by paying less than an average Canadian would actually be willing to do the job for.

If supply/demand was allowed to run it's natural course, those companies would have to pay a little more ($14-$18/hr), their profits would go down a little, but Canadians would be employed and the overall standard of living would not decrease.

Make no mistake about it, bringing in foreigners lowers the quality of life for the original citizens, and only helps increase corporate profits.

(Yes, I know I'm not supposed to bite the hand that feeds me, but I think I have a good perspective on the situation, given that it just happened to me)
well, if they're charming, they clearly have some level of emotional intelligence that far supercedes what most of us have. Saying that they lack emotional intelligence is like categorically saying that you "lack scientific intelligence" because even though you are smashing at physics - because you couldn't find your way a periodic table.
Without a SOPA style blackout campaign by the major players, the message will never reach the masses, which is unfortunate. But this time the major players are not only in bed with the government, they've been caught with their pants down.
This is the first game indie game bundle; they've been branching out. (The previous bundle was a bunch of standup comedy videos, actually.)

But I completely agree. In fact, in the wake of Snowden, I made a mental note to pay extra attention to the next Humble Bundle charity split. I was planning to send it all directly to the EFF, but now I've realized that I can't just stiff everyone else. In the end, I paid double my usual amount.
Ask HN: When is the new MacBook Pro coming?
So disappointed with Apple's ignorance on Retina MacBook Pro on yesterday's event. I hope they release the refreshed Haswell based rMBP soon. Do you have any idea of when we can expect the new MacBook Pros?

Just take my money and get me the damn laptop I want. Are you insane Apple? Google released a few today and all the other brands have one out there.
Again, third-party doctrine. The US Constitution as read by the Supreme Court does not protect communications carried by third parties. NSA surveillance is legal and Constitutional.

You are unlikely to find a technological solution which prevents a sovereign government from doing something it is entitled to do. If you find one, its use will be criminalized.

We can talk all day ever day about how disappointed we are in our technology companies for obeying the law, but realistically we can't stop them. We can push for more awareness and respect for privacy issues and try to push Congress to give electronic communications the protection we think they deserve. But that's not what we're doing here.

I like it when we get new information, but I can't stand that we spend all day talking about how cloud computing is idiotic, sharing I-told-you-so blog posts, and rehashing our displeasure with Google, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft ad nasuem for their cooperation with binding court orders. Badmouthing manufacturers every time they make a new product that dares to touch the network in any way, shape, or form.

This site used to be about making; now it's about impotent rage against government. I miss the days when the first comment on everything someone created wasn't "You shouldn't have made this because it makes it easier for the NSA."
Alternatively, only allow one game to be played at a time. Not ideal- I can't have family play one game on one computer, and myself play another game on another computer- but a step.
Gracias, fixing now.
It's not incorrect that I feel that way about this specific story, which is the question being asked.
Sounded like a cool product as I read this, but alas, foiled. Not available in Canada.
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ignore those unconcerned people with short attention spans

This is what I would like to see less of... the pointless name calling. Saying this is no better than someone else saying "ignore those paranoid people with tinfoil hats." Not everyone is at DEFCON 1 over this. Some people are just as informed/intelligent as the others yet make the decision that they are not concerned (or just less concerned). It doesn't mean they are simpletons with short attention spans.
The stories aren't so bad, but the paranoid comments in every single thread are becoming too much.

If you have info, then fine write about it. But we don't need a comment wondering what the NSA will/can/did/does do in every single story.
I do not think the opinion of a person who works with computers for a living has a more privileged opinion than anyone else.

I do, however, enjoy coming here very day and reading the opinions of that subset of the population. That's why I continue to upvote NSA-related threads and voted "I wanted more."
Tattoo your whole face for love??? idiot
There are so many games being released that I appreciate a game that I can play through in 10-20 hours and then put aside. Speaking of Mark of the Ninja specifically, I thought new game plus mode was fun because you can use abilities unlocked later in the game in the early levels, and there's a DLC coming soon.
testicular elephantitis
Treason.
I've used the Jetbrains products for a few years, and in general they all work well when your codebase is small and manageable.

Unfortunately, if you have a monolithic code base, you'll see the memory consumption climb and it will slow to a crawl pretty quickly. This was true in Visual Studio/C# and I've found it to be true with Ruby/Rails apps too.
My guess: someone on the team met another girl at the bar which happened to know her / attend the same event.
The thing is, people forget very quickly, when things like the latest iPhone happen.

Also, people have to understand this:

With the government spying like this, there will be no democracy left, very soon. It's as simple and frightening as that.
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My main concern is that they will use this data to target people who are pro-Palestine, or just plain anti-Israel, in America and subject them to scrutiny or worse. It makes you wonder what they give us in return. .
I'm glad things are moving in the right direction. Yet there are a few things missing in the current BrowserApi to really enable new browsing experiences IMO, such as network delegates, acces to cookies and local storage.

Still really awesome. Thanks for sharing that. Are you involved with this?
So you know the school and you have her picture. By her picture you can make a guess about her age. Then you search the web for graduates for particular dates from this particular school. It doesn’t have to be a yearbook or a class roster, people on LinkedIn mention the schools they’ve attended. Sooner or later you’ll find someone and then you can narrow the search. Even simpler, once you find someone you simply contact him with a fictional story as to why you’re searching this woman. From there on it just takes some old good fashioned social engineering.
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I have not, but anecdotaly it's one of my own main concerns for being able to join a startup. If/when health coverage follows the person wherever they may work, it would make moving jobs a lot easier.
You can always launch Steam in offline mode.
Thanks for the replies guys and those who emailed. Working hard to make this service better.
Not true, unless said "better" players have Green Cards. And there is already a process for that.

The only purpose of H1B the legal construct is to erode workers rights.
Yes, I understand that, but if you have 2 passwords, each of which unlocks different plaintext within your encrypted conatainer, then theoretically you could never be found out... (but as you saying, assuming the implementation is correct)