skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The majority of these untaxed profits will end up getting taxed in the U.S. as wages, bonuses, capital gains, and dividends. The money doesn't disappear into some bucket of evil somewhere or get funneled out to a tycoon living on a Yacht in Sealand's territorial waters.
I'm not sure that's really how it works though, right? It does an actual refresh of the page which is no good if you have lots of state. See my comment about (my) chromesymc above.

https://github.com/aidos/chromesync
Changing behavior is difficult. That's the reason services like mint rely on bank/credit card transactions to get the data. You may want to quickly start testing with a few university students before investing more development time.
Ne Yo So Sick
If he broke the rules of his visa, then deport him. Stick him on a plane and send him home. (Perhaps refuse him entry in the future, if that's what the law says...)

In western democracies, we have this notion of "the punishment should fit the crime". All this harassment and intimidation at the border accomplishes nothing useful. It is power for the sake of power. It is entertainment for people who enjoy having power over other people (like CBP).
It's not like you get anything if you move to US. You have to work for everything yourself. You don't even get healthcare if you can't afford it. Stop being stupid.

Salaries should be paid by how you perform not by your nationality.
Based on Chris Granger's presentation at StrangeLoop I get the impression that he's moving on to something else now? The presentation was a little scattered so maybe I misinterpreted, but he sounded like he was starting over with some other thing that he didn't really give any details on.
> It is pretty typical for an investor to pronounce one thing and then do something totally different.

They didn't do that. The original article was one of their partners saying they weren't doing as many consumer Series As anymore, and were shifting toward doing A rounds for enterprise companies and B rounds for consumer.

A bunch of commenters on Hacker News misinterpreted the article as "A16Z isn't doing any Series As", so Marc Andreessen jumped in himself to clarify their original point.

Now it's being misinterpreted again. Read the original article and Marc's comments--they've been consistent with this message the entire time.
So this is how we should treat suspected drug dealers?
How many of these do I have to read ... this is my government and I DEMAND more from it. (Of course right now they've closed every office that might accomplish something visible).

In the mean-time, I'd like to apologize to the citizens of earth for the horrible behavior of those performing in our security theater.

EDIT: My trips to Germany were very pleasant ... with the exception of having to take goods through customs (for expediency's sake), everyone was pleasant, courteous and relatively efficient.
If you take as a given that the US wants to enforce their immigration laws, allowing people to attempt to break the law with a penalty of them saying "ok just kidding" doesn't make much sense.

It's like the liquids ban at airports. If you ARE caught with liquids, there's no penalty, you just throw them away. So it's not a disincentive to try to bring liquids aboard. Just keep trying until it works.
The CS syntax is mostly just the same, you can just remove most of the {} to define the objects.
Yeah. I don't see how this managed to hit the front page.
If, for example, some pad was an inch-wide and with 1000 dpi resolution, then it couldn't ever be configured to cover a 2000 pixel wide screen that way - we don't know the specs of the controller elements yet.
It wasn't always thus: On the 6502, which the early Apple II machines were built around, it was possible to access RAM at only a one- or two-cycle penalty compared to doing everything in registers and immediate values. This was only the case if you used zero-page memory without indexing, however, so you couldn't have a lot of stuff in RAM without incurring more speed penalties.

http://www.6502.org/tutorials/6502opcodes.html

(Zero-page memory on the 6502 was the memory accessed via addresses with a high byte of 0x00. Since 6502 had sixteen-bit RAM addressing, this meant each page was 256 bytes large, so the zero-page was almost as good as having 256 single-byte registers.)
Couldn't they just have copied those features later? Sure they might have been later to the market but pushing features out first doesn't mean you will win. I understand the anger and I absolutely think it's unethical but something like this will happen as long as the other party is untrustworthy. Situations like this are like a hand of poker sometimes you have all the information you need and you can move all in confidently, while sometimes you don't and you have to gamble a bit. You were understandably angry because you lost.
Playing some music and having appreciative people feed you and give you bus money simply shouldn't be the sort of thing a Work Visa regulates. This guy was a student traveling around the US, meeting people and writing about it. This is education, not work, and he had a student visa.

He just got a different education than he was expecting.
Not sure if they promptly rebranded, but the search is called Torch actually. Here's a screen of an example search [1]. Note the query time - it's quite slow.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/4tx4nzt.jpg

Quick guide to access Torch on the Tor network:

1. Install Tor Browser (customized Firefox)
https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en

2. Extract and run "Start Tor Browser"

3. Go to Torch at http://xmh57jrzrnw6insl.onion
Well that's a tortured analogy if I've ever seen one.
Facebook login? Nope.
> And performing for free is still work.

Care to explain how?
Sorry, I could not make it through all that dense verbiage. Quick summary please ?
A Semantic Grid with Zurb's Foundation
Why I Silence Calls Even When I'm Free
Except that the person you're responding to was a non-resident U.S. citizen with valid passport and was still forced to wait by explicitly racist, undemocratic, and likely unconstitutional policies.
Disappointed. I thought it was going to be the scoop from someone who steals ideas for a living, but it's just another lecture that ideas are cheap.
Películas de horror
sitio web con noticias de cine de terror, avances de películas en estreno, videos y trailers además de imágenes y comentarios de cine.
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1994-02-22/
> "without seeing an obvious illegal alien"

Interesting claim. Can you describe them? Do they look like brown skinned native americans?
Specifically denied is "paid performances, or any professional performance before a paying audience". If there was a cover charge to get in, it counts as work.

http://travel.state.gov/visa/temp/types/types_1262.html
What about the health issues that result?
Jewish Nobel Laureates
He talked about them knowing about all his shows, stage name, and about facebook relationships. Translation is sketchy but he seems to be making a wider point that they knew about a bunch of stuff that would only be known by fairly broad and deep surveillance (as per the title of the article) and then applying a distorted interpretation.
PayPal has a micropayments account option that it doesn't publicize very well. If you set up a new account with their special micropayments link (google it) they charge 5 cents + 5%. Which makes it cheaper for transactions under $11.
Bullshit. This is someone who is on vacation, and happened to be playing music along the way. His only mistake was trusting in the rationality of people with badges. He should have borrowed a guitar after he got here.
It's very ambitious to try to comment ECHR decisions in US context, it's a very technical thing where a citizen contests a Law of his own country in front of European judges. Those decision are to be interpreted as general, meaning that all the similar cases in other countries would be ruled in the same direction.
I would let the european lawyer blogs do the interpretation.
I'm not sure if this is complete coincidence, but after using PayPal today to pay for a grubhub meal, they got rid of constantly trying to push Bill Me Later.
It's funny reading this and then remembering that on top of all this, there's paging (i.e. fetching from hard drive).

It's like registers are refrigerators, RAM is like the grocery store around the corner, and Page faults are like the grocery stores in a neighboring town

woooooo memory!
I don't mind my image used in search results. That's not what you opt out of (you've no control over that, actually). The screenshots on the page are deceptive. https://plus.google.com/settings/endorsements?hl=en The third screenshot, of the avatar icon on top of a shaded background marked "Ad" is what you can opt out of, and what everyone's concerned about.

I opted out. For me, it's not privacy. I opted out because I didn't want my face taking up more real estate on an ad and pushing result #1 further down the page. I don't like seeing ads, and I don't want to be seen in them either -- unless you're paying me, perhaps.
(You were questioning the language designer there)
Slightly better than "Not sure why this works but it does"
No, there's a cost to signing an NDA. That cost is higher for investors.
This is a set of magnets that counts down from 14 days.
How is it the Fault of Lavabit?

SSL is a standard secure communication protocol of the internet, it is not lavabits design and it is impossible for Lavabit to modify while still keep interoperability.

You do not seem understand the underlying problem, as many people are misinformed as to which key the government was requesting., They WERE NOT asking for the key of the private inbox data, they were asking for the GoDaddy Signed SSL key that encrypts the web browser session from the Lavabit User to the Lavabit server, not the user level key for the encrypted mail box stored on LB servers

This is the same protocol that HN uses for this very site, Amazon, Gmail, and thousands of other sites use every day to secure communications between public servers and the users of those servers
People keep repeating that he broke a law and was planning to work for pay, the pay being a single meal offered by his host at one of the coffee houses he was going to play some songs at.

I have not seen any evidence though that someone giving you one dinner during a trip qualifies as pay in exchange for work.

It seems to me that it is a fairly common occurrence that one is treated to a meal by a friend or associate while traveling.

Does anyone have actual references to law that make clear that being treated to dinner qualifies as being paid for work and thus triggers a visa violation and reasonable cause for deportation?
Volokh is not a philosophy site for people to opine about morality. It's a site about law, courts, and lawsuits. These things are all about process. Even when applied to new situations, the job of courts is to implement solutions consisting with existing law and legal norms, not to stray from the law to implement what they see as the more "moral" outcome.
So people decided to argue a sub-point of my question but not a single person would answer it directly? This is a community, do what you want, but I'm actually seeking your advice on what technology to use! Isn't that HN's dream??? Fulfill your destiny HN I need to decide on an IDE!
Torch is an entirely different search engine at a different domain; I run TorSearch and built it from scratch partially because of how terrible my experience using Torch was.
If the customers were paying an entry fee, a cover, then it qualifies as work. And you have to apply for a visa waiver in advance before leaving your country.
Why do you consider Uber to have the marketplace problem? If it is as simple as hiring new drivers, isn't it more of a general business scaling problem, similar to hiring more engineer to scale up more features in purely software startup?
My Streaming Data
You are right, but the problem is where do you draw the line? And once you have a small intention of working and getting some reward, there is always a chance you might be doing other paid gigs that they could not find.

The simple fact is, if they have and reason to suspect you might be doing something a little wrong, they will deny your entry. Every country can and will do this. This is not an innocent until proven guilty option, this is ANY suspicious activity. You don't have a right to enter any country except your own.
Streaming music payments: how much do artists really receive?
If that is their job then they fail miserably
But it's not presenting them in search results. What you opt out of isn't search result featuring, but instead featuring on a little shaded section of the page someone else is paying for. That's money Google collects because I'm the product. And in this case, they're cashing in twice -- featuring my smiling face, using one product to sell another. That's too much. I care about other people's search experience and I want them to have less ad space on a page, not more. So I opt out so my friends can more easily ignore ads and focus on content. If I recommend something, social search should mean it appears in search results for friends anyway, why should I give Google extra cash for using my face to advertise to my friends if they're not paying me?
Alaska isn't up there alone, you know. It would come with its own set of drawbacks, but Canada has three territories up there in similar conditions...
Some additional data:

"Streaming music payments: how much do artists really receive?" http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/aug/19/zoe-keatin...

"My $treaming Data" (from Zoe Keating)
http://zoekeating.tumblr.com/post/16086277627/my-treaming-da...

Total streams for 1 month: 6926

Total amount earned: $32.07

Average price paid per stream after CDBaby’s 9% cut:

Spotify $0.003339
Rhapsody $0.0091
Napster $0.015224

Rhapsody has a fixed stream rate. I don’t know the respective formulas for Spotify or Napster, but price-per-stream varies:

Napster: $0.01658813 to $0.01721973
Spotify: $0.00102187 to $0.01158124

Some prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4330920
He's not performing at his Aunt's retirement home. He's getting on a stage in a bar, at a predefined date and time, with those dates advertised and promoted on his blog, in front of paying customers, entertaining them. Some musicians get paid for that, and some do not. He's hoping people will tip him or feed him. It's work.
> You prefer 50/50 but you have no evidence to even suggest that this is the "best" distribution for CS let alone any other major.

50/50 is the default with out additional information. Again I am not trying to statement my preferences.

> Why can't you accept the possibility that females do not like CS as much as males do not like things like nursing or human resources?

I did not say I can not. Like any idea I want good evidence and solid understanding to make strong claims.

> If there is a social stigma, should we really force people who normally wouldn't choose it so we can have a 50/50 ratio just because that is the probability to be born as?

I have not seen anyone make the argument to force people to take CS courses.

> Who are you to say that they are happier doing CS instead of what they would've chosen without all this influence?

Trying is better then not trying. Influence exist weather intentional or not. Unintentional influences are not inherently better then intentional.
I can work under TN visa which is very easy to get.
This said, you can't opt out of being featured on search results. If you +1 a webpage, it will show up more in friends' search results when relevant, and your name and face will appear under it with your endorsement. That's not going to change. All the opt-out does is stop this same placement from occurring when an advertiser is relevant -- it stops your face from appearing in Google's ads, formerly known as sponsored links.

I don't mind appearing in search results, as that's just useful to others. But ads, by definition, are less relevant to a search result than the search results themselves. I don't want my recommendation appearing where a sponsor dictates. That said, I personally wouldn't mind as much if Google was paying me and shared the stats on when my face showed up ;-) (Wouldn't that change the nature of Google+ though...)
> operating out of paranoia, hitting those who cant hit back

It's "anarcho-tyranny." The paradigm governs much US domestic exercise of power. John Corzine walks free, but sellers of unpasteurized milk to willing and informed customers go to jail. Self admitted illegal aliens write op-eds unmolested, but a zero risk short term visitor is denied entry.
this site sucks so bad from a phone. every time i scroll i get some sort of context ad that covers half my screen. not you Vice.. not you :(
That is usually an indication of someone knowing what they are talking about: they know there is no black and white easy answer to most issues (not always true though: they may also be a politician).
This is a "by country" thing, there is no European constitution and all European law is aimed at countries, not people (but some stuff is redacted like: "countries should have a law that does this or that"). Quite a lot of nazi comments (nationalist stuff, the idea of having been wronged in the last war, the idea that your race is superior, etc.) would probably fly in many countries I think.
It's mostly the call for murder or physical arm that would trigger sanctions in many countries. And also groups with history of violence (like violent soccer fans or political activist whose demonstration always turn violent).
I'm unfamiliar with Alaska's situation, but some cities in Manitoba, Canada tried what they called "mincome" for a while as an experiment by the federal government.

The only people they found that were less represented in the work force were teenagers and new mothers (in my opinion, people that could do without being in the workforce for a while...). Hospital visits decreased (with socialized healthcare, this is a good thing financially). Crime went down. Kids did better at school... Really, the effect was a pretty clear net positive.

(It's important to note, however, that as you earned your own income the money was subtracted from your 'mincome' at half that rate. There was never a point where "working more" or "earning more" would equate to making the same or less money. Something missing in many current social programs.)

The program ended because of a shift from a more socialist party to a more conservative one, not because of any intrinsic issue.
I suppose it might be google translate, but this seems like a guy lying on his visa application, being rudely called out on it, and letting his fierce sense of entitlement take over.
I'm interested in the fact that it seems that low level border flunkies have access to the email of anyone they're interested in for work violations.

Not terrorism or anything. Another example of security state mission creep. Download all your emails now.
One problem: the standard doesn't say whether the names in an object should be UNIQUE.
Absolutely. There really needs to be a treaty between all friendly countries that says artists are allowed as tourists as long as they don't make more than X amount of profit.
It's interesting -- how does Google actually measure quality? The naive approach would be to measure the number of clicks an ad attracts, as an initial indication of usefulness is how many people click. But that encourages ads that look like search results, frankly. Or ads for products people would have naturally found through organic searching. And Google's never point-blank asked me if I found an ad useful, though perhaps they could time how quickly I clicked another link from the same search result, and how often advertisers themselves keep paying for the same keywords.

Ultimately, ads need to make more money for a company than they cost to run. And my main issue is I'm being sold twice here -- first by being shown ads, and second by being featured in ads. This "double dipping" seems a bit much to me, so I opted out.
"I guess we'll never obtain a perfect alternative to the mouse"

Because Valve's first effort doesn't completely replace a mouse? That seems a bit defeatist.

"control the cursor with only your thumb rather than your full hand "

Control with the thumb vs hand isn't the problem so much as that thumbs are not pointy like mouse lasers. Valve should look at adding a tiny fingertip digitizer.

Of course they are still lacking proper text entry and sitting out motion input (i.e. the big innovation in the last 10 years), voice input (the big innovation over the last 5 years) and telepresence isn't going to be a core feature unlike all the competition. And of course they are going to be the most expensive option with the least bang for the buck.
I'm not sure what you intend to say here. Reductio ad absurdum is a legitimate rhetorical mode.
Mark Cuban: Don't Follow Your Passion, Follow Your Effort
What does it matter if they tried to continue on their path? They tried finishing up ConnectU after Mark had ample time to get TheFacebook farther ahead and then launch beforehand. Not sure how that makes what I said untrue. I can't remember the source, though I had read an article from someone that was ~20 pages long. It went in-depth and included 'leaked' conversation of Mark's. In it I believe it even had him roughly saying that he's trying to get TheFacebook done so he can launch before ConnectU - and purposely is leading them on to be able to do that - because as I said before, he sees there not being room for two versions of what's being made...

You say it's not true though - how do you confirm that? Other than referencing the movie wasn't accurate? If it wasn't, why didn't Zuckerberg sue for defamation?
> compilation speed is not as impressive. To me this is imho the biggest pain point with C++, bigger then memory unsafety.

Compilation speed remains a work in progress; it's improved a lot in recent versions. Note that 80% of the compilation time in rustc is actually in LLVM passes (the same used by clang), which are mostly optimizations, so turning off optimization helps Rust compile times a lot. LLVM as a backend does many more optimizations than DMD (and 6g/8g for that matter) and runs slower as a result.

One issue is that Rust currently does not do incremental compilation below the crate level, so you will need to use many crates if you want incremental compilation. This will possibly change at some point via a ccache-like mechanism.

If memory safety is not important to your applications, though, then Rust may indeed not be the right choice. Rust requires you to make sacrifices (a learning curve and less flexible unique pointers) to ensure memory safety, and if you just want to write "new" and "delete" then Rust isn't going to be the best language for you. (That said, I think there is a strong argument to be made that for many classes of programs it is worth some pain to eliminate memory safety problems, because memory safety issues frequently lead to security vulnerabilities. For us as browser manufacturers, memory safety is so important it is worth sacrificing literally everything else except maybe performance in some cases.)

> - I missed templates based on any value/symbol, it forced macros on me in my very first try. I don't think it's a problem once you know Rust, but having to write macros was too intimidating for a newb.

In general you want to use traits instead of macros to write generic functions. There are some current limitations with traits but I think they're a more scalable approach than ad-hoc templates. It'd be helpful to know exactly what limitations you were hitting.