skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The Other" is scary.
Yeah, I would guess there is relatively little overlap between the kinds of people willing and able to pay €650k for a passport, and those who have productive skills the EU is currently in need of. The EU needs more middle-class skilled labor, basically, ranging from skilled blue-collar workers to educated professionals. It doesn't really need Dubai sheikhs or Russian mobsters looking for a passport of convenience.
I think Crashplan's software will do this without you paying them a sub.
>One of the most basic principles of system design is that there will be edge cases. Every engineer knows that. In a country with 300 million people, enough will fall into these edge cases for the ACLU to put together a pamphlet with a few examples. That's inevitable.

What if you are the next edge case in this system? with nobody to remember that you even exist, if its fair..

Just one person beiyng this edge case is enough to put the whole system down.. as every engineer knows this is what we call a bug, and can make the whole system irrelevant, and work agains its own purpose..

And that is what happens to the justice system.. the worst thing is that its all about property.. its f#$% stupid.. its unproportional, and minimize that is pure lack of humanity.. and its the real reason why things are still working that way.. because if you are not one of those "edge cases" you really dont care

And thats so many human lifes wasted, not only the people behind bars, but also their families, how they kids will grow up.. how can they support their families..
Yes I remember having to go into work to reboot our systems once back in the 80's 200/300 yards from oxford street and it was quiet as the grave.

Many cafes, bars and pubs in the city shut down at the weekend.
How many law-abiding, productive people generate €650,000 in positive externalities in 3-8 years?

This looks like a win-win to me.
Most criminal viruses want to keep your computer up and running, to serve spam or steal information.

This may be one of the first times rampant destruction overlaps with financial incentive.

We may have to finally start taking this computer security thing seriously after all.
Building a High Performance FOSS Router
Well, you learn something new every day..

It is hard to disagree with you about the third-time DUI. I guess I am against "automatic" laws in general; it reeks of populism and "tough on crime" rhetoric, ignoring the human variables - see above article for examples. Trying to legislate judicial discretion out of the equation is, to me, a foolish idea.

Couldn't agree more on the drug use issue. They should not even be in the same category of crime.

update: thanks for the link, it led me down an interesting path of "attempted manslaughter" reading. eg, from http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=645716

> in Virginia a few traffic offenses can be classified as attempted manslaughter. Such as, speeding well above what classifies as reckless driving or driving sufficiently intoxicated. I think the reasoning is that if one were to kill someone under those circumstances it would be manslaughter, and any reasonable person would know that excessive speeding or driving drunk carries a high risk of killing someone even though that person isn't exactly trying to kill anyone, therefore, even though they didn't kill someone, they still basically attempted to in being so careless. IOW, you really should be charged with manslaughter, you just were lucky enough to have no actually killed anyway

> I think different jurisdictions probably punish those actions similarly, they just may call it something other than attempted manslaughter, like maybe reckless endangerment or whatever.

Reckless endangerment - I admit that strikes me as a better term, although I now understand the reasoning behind "attempted manslaughter".
Sure, you could come at it from the other side too: people who are poor and a drain on the system can be stripped of citizenship and deported.
It's a good thing this was posted to hn, otherwise I never would have heard about it.
I am very sure. A quick Google search doesn't turn it up, so I think it must have been in the early part of Four Steps to the Epiphany. My copy of that is in storage, though, so I can't find the quote. You can see similar sentiments here: http://steveblank.com/2010/10/04/why-pioneers-are-the-ones-w...
pay for dropbox.
St. Kitts & Nevis has a similar program. It's a pretty good citizenship & passport for a $400,000 real estate purchase or $250,000 "investment"...

http://www.henleyglobal.com/countries/st-kitts-nevis/citizen...
(a) It hasn't become law yet.

(b) Lots of EU countries have (in some ways) liberal rules of citizenship.

* Ireland gives citizenship to anyone who's grandparent was Irish (even if you and both your parents have never set foot in Ireland).

* Bulgaria (EU) gives citzenship to Macedonians (non-EU).

* Romania (EU) gives citizenship to Moldovans (non-EU).

etc.
the interface is not too shabby
That is how you remember it when they don't work. You don't even remember them doing it when they did work.

That's why companies run A/B tests rather than trust word of mouth.
I thought of parse but I wanted to leave the option open to add on a web app later with the reactivity bits.

+ I prefer something that's open source.
I think for most people, CrashPlan to a local and remote drive gives you the most bang for back. Here is what I do...

# Principles

Back up everything. Preferably to the cloud and to a local disk. Automatically.

You should test restores, but you probably wont. Have two independent backup methods for every piece of data.

You should be able to be up and running to last day's backup within an hour or so.

# Personal

CrashPlan: I want to backup every version of every file on my local computer to a local disk and cloud storage.

SuperDuper: I also want to have bootable nightly images of my machine in case I need to restore immediately.

CloudPull: I want to have a local copy of any Google file I have (Docs, Gmail, Calendar)

IFTTT to DropBox: And whenever possible, I want to have a copy of any other cloud-based service (e.g., Instagram)

# Servers

Linode Backup: Turnkey and presumably the Linode folks are smarter than I am.

Duplicity to S3: In case Linode folks aren't that smart, I will have nightly backups of everything.
No means no. They really ought to figure that out by now.
Like youtube, they asked you to make you feel like you had a choice. (i may be wrong)
I only back up important documents, encrypted on an SD card. I estimate that the chances of fire or theft are not important enough to invest in anything more.
I'm not saying it's crazy for Facebook to buy Instagram. I'm saying it's crazy for anybody to try to start companies in the hopes that Facebook will acquire them.
The solution is written as a native Mac OS X Objective-C app, and can render all kinds of content (images, videos, html, flash, quartz composer, texts, tickers, etc). These can be mixed and combined and layered in any possible way. It is a pretty powerful solution.

Here's a really, really, old demo of the software:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSvHp1LL4Po

That was 4 years ago, and it is running on rather old hardware.
12 months ago I said the same thing. The exchange rate looked insanely high at the time.

12 months from now, what will I say? Maybe $459 per bitcoin will look insanely cheap in hindsight.

Or maybe it will be seen as an unsustainable speculative mania.
Validate.js, sharing validations between the server and the client
Google has become this unwieldily beast that doesn't care how frustrated its users become, because it knows not enough of them will leave to have even the slightest dent in their revenue.
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American's can't avoid worldwide income. US citizenship is not based on physical residency.
It blows my mind how badly Google sucks at "social networks."
every time I have to grab the hard disk to browse my family photos and videos

That is not a backup, that's an external storage. A backup should only be accessed to sync data (preferably with versioning, so the old data is not overwritten) and to recover lost data.

My computers are synchronized with a home server that has mirrored disks, then the home server is backed up to cloud and to my parent's desktop (off-site backup). The backed up data has ~2TB (mainly photos, private git repository, documents).

I use CrashPlan for the cloud and off-site synchronization. With a free account you can backup data to another computer (yours or a friend's). With a paid account you can backup to their cloud storage and you can get more things to tweak. You can provide your own encryption keys, so the data should be safer (as long as you don't loose the private key). The best thing is that it offers file versioning (even with a free account, but you don't get some of the advanced settings for that), so if something really bad happens - like a ransomware virus, that encrypts your files - you can still recover the older version. The only issue is that the application needs Internet access even when using it locally - so if something happens to your account, or you don't have Internet access, you cannot easily[1] access your data.

[1] http://crashplan.probackup.nl/remote-backup/support/q/how-to...
For the same reason you back up your data.
The web server is going to be fine. It's usually gone through a lot more testing than your display. Displays are trivially and commonly implemented as fullscreen webapps.

It's the browser javascript that I would worry about; responsiveness is always a battle.
This will really help with the anti-EU sentiment in Northern Europa.

650K is a low price for EU citizenship because it's being subsidized by the richer EU nations. Malta citizenship would be a lot less attractive.
I use incognito mode to use anything Google. You log in with your chosen identity and aren't nagged about merging any others.
FBI warns of U.S. government breaches by Anonymous hackers
In the case of YouTube, I agree. What good alternatives are out there that have even half the content that YouTube has?
For the same reasons why companies still use Microsoft Windows.
Are you kidding me? What do you want to do instead, cut his hand off?

If we have to pay to keep a criminal like this off the street, then I'm OK with that. We're paying for protection.

Not to mention, there's lots that could go wrong with lacking the 'impulse control' to enter someone's hotel room.
4) he lost control and the board won't let him sell. Founder surely wants to sell. Unfortunately snapchat took $800M vc money, and his new VC bosses have completely different incentives to go for a long tail outcome. Which sucks because the founder is probably a lot more likely to get nothing than he is to get a huge exit and he knows it. Though as wengsing says he probably got a bunch of cash in prior rounds so maybe he doesn't really care.
Tapping Your Inner Puppet
Unless it turns out that the statistics work out otherwise?*

I tend to think the answer is evidence-based reform. Check out what works and do more of that. As far as I can tell, the best results are had by rehabilitation type systems.

* What I mean by this is it might be a tautology that someone locked up in prison forever can commit no more crimes, but I'm not sure it's as simple as that. If you lock someone up:

a) You deprive their community of that person. Maybe their children will now become criminals.

b) You deprive their community of their spending power and work. Maybe it will become poorer.

c) They have the chance inside prison to share experiences with novice criminals and teach them how to become old hands, increasing crime when their cell-mates get out.

Now if that person is a negative on all the above values, maybe there is a point in not letting them out. Maybe they have broken homes, never work, and teach others about crime anyway. But that's not the person I'm comparing them to.

I'm saying the criminal in their community has a negative effect on society. Putting them in jail makes it zero. Actually rehabilitating them makes it positive.

If we could get rehabilitation to work, everything gets better. Personally, I think evidence from round the world suggests this is possible.
I can think of any number of civil liberties which I would associate with the "right" wing of American politics.

The ACLU, for example, was a leading plaintiff working to get the Citizens United ruling in favor of freedom of speech including corporate advocacy. The same ACLU is a strong Second Amendment supporter.

And the NSA reform bills in the Congress have about equal support from both parties.
I don't think Linux supports the 18-screen configurations that Windows can support.

http://semiaccurate.com/2013/06/13/sapphire-shows-18-screen-...
I've got my stuff on my macbook air and usb drive. I've got the drive partitioned into two, half for time machine, the other for more photos (that don't fit on the MBA's 256gb SSD). When the MBA gets full, I move old photos to the USB drive.

MBA and the data part of the USB drive backed up with Crashplan ($5/month)

Also have some stuff on Dropbox (free account) also backed up to Crashplan - it's mostly just stuff I need in other places.

All my documents on Google Drive, don't back that up because I don't think you can (the desktop client doesn't give access to actual documents). Additionally most of best pictures are either on Flickr or Facebook.
Correct. Which is the reason why the two scenarios are different.
How well does Meteor scale? Could a multiplayer game written with Meteor handle the HN crowd hitting it? I'm thinking of writing something like this and Meteor would be perfect if it's amenable to authoritatively sharing state between thousands of connections.
just flag it
Since both my wife and I use either Mac or Linux based laptops I have a quick and dirty shell script that gets fired off by hand at the end of the day. The script uses rsync and cpio to copy all files in the laptop's home directory onto a machine running debian packed with 4 1TB drives in a RAID5+1 spare configuration. The script uses hard links to keep daily increments without consuming disk space and goes something like:

# rotate daily backups
ssh -i $SSHKEY -q $BACKUPHOST rm -rf $BASEDIR/home.3
ssh -i $SSHKEY -q $BACKUPHOST mv $BASEDIR/home.2 $BASEDIR/home.3
ssh -i $SSHKEY -q $BACKUPHOST mv $BASEDIR/home.1 $BASEDIR/home.2
ssh -i $SSHKEY -q $BACKUPHOST \
"(cd $BASEDIR/home.0 && find . -print | cpio -dplm $BASEDIR/home.1)"

# backup
TMPFILE=`mktemp /tmp/excludeXXXXXXXX`
cat << EOF > $TMPFILE
quota.user
.cache
EOF

rsync -Lazv -e "ssh -i $SSHKEY" --update --delete \
--exclude-from=$TMPFILE $HOME $BACKUPHOST:$BASEDIR/home.0

rm $TMPFILE
That makes sense to me. The shell is fundamental to the system, and is so heavily intertwined with readline that it is very sensitive to ABI/API changes. Consider: if you upgrade your readline without upgrading bash, or vice versa, you lose the ability to fix the problem even in single user mode. Having Bash control its own readline usage seems like the safest option, though conceptually a bit more complex.
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I pay ~$4/m for CrashPlan.
I keep all my data - all of it - on one desktop PC (including periodic downloads of remote data like emails) and all my other devices (laptops, smart phones) contain only some subset of that data passively synced with the desktop, E.G. using Dropbox.
I do incremental backups down to 10 minutes to CrashPlan's cloud and to a local external HDD. I remind myself to replace the HDD every 3 years.

I've got terabytes of data and it works great. The only thing I want is a third, off-site, non-cloud backup. I don't have a solution for that, but having my data in 3 places, one of which is the cloud, is good enough for me for now.
This.

And stop asking if I want to download the youtube app every time I go to youtube.com in mobile safari (It is the pop-up banner of this generation.) That goes for all you clever scripting savvy marketers, I fucking despise you.
The author explains how they took these photos: http://blog.roberttimothy.com/2013/05/Deserted-empty-London-...
Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't know that the fictional characters were using real money, I should retract my statement.
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The stuff that the average Android app does is significantly more invasive than the things we called spyware and adware in the past decade.
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Exactly. If there's any lesson people should learn from Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat, it's that these users are fickle. Valuations based on long-term growth and long-term exploitation of those users are somewhere between very speculative and outright fantasy.
I think the flaw in this thinking is that it's emotional. An alternative would be to do things that actually reduce crime statistics as proved by evidence, rather than things that people instinctively think might work.
"The fact that he was completely wrong"

In making any business decision you are also looking at the downside vs. the upside.

On "Let's Make a Deal" [1] there was always "door number two" or three and you had to decide if you were going to take the chance or not. Now it's one thing to pass up some "Furniture from Broyhill" and another thing to pass up a billion dollars or any large sum.

Now most of us don't know what "door number two" was so it's hard to say. So of course people are going to comment on how they view the situation from what they do know.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let%27s_Make_a_Deal
Its really annoying since you know its a script and it can just keep asking you again and again. Sometimes it asks me my cell number while trying to check my email (even on my paid google apps account!)

Facebook has taken an interesting more sneaky turn recently with their messenger app. Since now they can collect phone numbers without explicitly asking for them.

Once it's given to them just once.. Its with them forever.
Cool idea! I will look into it!
How far do these seeds wind up distributed geographically? Tens of miles from the launch point? Hundreds, thousands...?
Finish pls.
That was my issue. G+ isn't much of a hassel to me as I avoid it but its practically impossible to stop using youtube. From the another thread here are two semi-solutions for now: http://fixyt.com/ and http://www.youtube.com/feather_beta,

Never really thought about it before but Google definitely has the video market locked. Vimeo, dailymotion, liveleak, et al don't even come close in terms of content.
I was all enthusiastic about G+ for about 5 minutes - until they wouldn't allow my wife to sign up without giving them her phone number, and proving that it was hers by accepting a call from them. Just who the fuck do they think they are??

There is no way I could suggest my friends and family sign up to such an intrusive service, so I quickly deleted my own account.

It's an absolutely stunning achievement to create a web-site that's even more offensively intrusive than Facebook. I hope Google are proud.
Dual citizenship does not need to be kept secret in the US.
Arq -> Amazon Glacier
Great thought! I will do it!
>longer usable life, less maintenance

I'm not aware of any evidence of this, and I don't even remember any of my Apple fanatic friends even claiming this. Any references?

>Are you suggesting that all these people, many of whom are in countries with lower wage standards, pay “extra” just to have a shiny apple logo on their desk at home that no one but them sees?

This is a dishonest way of having a discussion.
The main issue is Google will only drive a small minority of it's customers/'products being sold' away. If you have a problem with Google's current approach, you may want to consider leaving, not to "stick it to the man" but to not have to deal with their services anymore.

I recently deleted everything on my account (G+ & YT included) and it feels great to be free from the constant harassment. I only have Gmail active now. I'm still looking for a new mail provider but once I have one, my relationship with Google is over as far as I'm concerned.

It really depends on how much you need to use Google's services.
Quite certainly considering that Matt was the first employee of 37signals.
I complied with everything they ask and they no longer bug me really. But still Google+ is unusable, it constantly uses 40% of my processor just to have that tab open in Chrome/Linux. Facebook runs lovely in comparison.
It helps to know the founders and internal metrics, which nobody here does. I honestly don't know if Snapchat is worth $3B or not, but I certainly wouldn't dismiss them.
> biases towards the left wing

The ACLU Is a Conservative Organization - Noam Chomsky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tebAFbBb0gQ
Constructoras en mexico
Constructoras en la república mexicana, planeacion de construcciones, etc.
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But is it worth it if visits are not in millions?
from wikipedia:

"Outlook.com has promised to respect user's privacy, specifically targeting Gmail's privacy practices.[45] Outlook.com doesn't scan emails or attachments for advertising information and personal conversations are ad-free entirely"

I find myself thinking two things - one, that's great I'm sold. And two, is this really how low my standards have become for my email? I think I'll give it a try and meanwhile keep looking into hosting my own. Problem is I've had my gmail account forever so it takes a lot to move away from it (updating resumes, cover-letter templates, letting people know it's changing....)
To upload all the pictures I click automatically to Google's server. What's up with that? Stop, asking.
The whole phone number thing is an attempt to solve a very hard problem.

Most people have terrrrrrrrrrrible password practices. Absolutely abysmal. And they are keeping extremely sensitive data inside their email as well as using their email address as the key to accessing many other websites and pieces of sensitive data. Think about how screwed you'd be if you lost access to you email address. Now think of how many people DAILY probably loose such access. Phone numbers are an easy, mostly reliable way to identify someone and give them access back to their email address without an investigation and without human intervention.

Plus, let's just get reasonable for one minute here. Google already has your phone number. Ever given it to someone via gmail? Someone else ever given your phone number to one of their friends through gmail? They're just asking for permission to send you a text.
I use Amazon Glacier through FastGlacier. Pennies a month, and I'm reassured.
I'm saving up to upgrade my PC (AMD HSA on Kaveri + DDR4) because of SteamOS (amongst other things) instead of getting a next-gen console. And I know a few other people doing that as well.
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More options do not equal happiness
with meteor 1.1 the devs wan't to add the posibility to use sql and other dbs.

I never run into SEO issues. With iron router you have normal routes and with the spiderable package google finds everything very well.
This guy makes some good points about the unfairness of how DUI suspects are treated: (full disclosure, he is a criminal defense atty) http://www.duicentral.com/dui/the-dui-exception/

TL;DR Breathalyzers are based on dubious science, system is unfairly tilted in favor of conviction. Guilt is presumed & punishment issued even before trial.
There's no reason to think that they're planning to build a real business. People build companies to flip all the time. Sometimes they turn down offers because they think they can get a better deal later. Sometimes they're wrong, and end up deeply fucked. The stakes here are higher than normal, but the patterns are the same.

Note that they don't have to be mentally ill to turn down a big offer. They could just be young, foolish, and arrogant. College-age entrepreneurs are known for many things, but humility and wisdom are not items typically mentioned.