skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Riding the wave of general paranoia like a boss. But, a bit too late?
Yep.

Although, if you're an Australian like I am, you must know that this is all going to get worse.

I'm sick of our Government (no matter who seems to be in power at the time) taking every single page out of the American playbook. I like our country, why do we have to try and be them? :(
Are you using the right app revenue model?
The problem I see is dropbox as a service becoming a commodity as competition in the sector ramps up. Apple is making a big push on cloud with airdrop and icloud, Tencent is offering 10tb storage.

It's heating up and it's gonna be hard to maintain a viable USP.
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That's my thought too. Spend either when you really need something, or only things that appreciate rather than depreciate - home/real estate (barring housing bubbles), education, home manufacturing (3D printing), business investments, etc. Less on planned-obsolete cheap junk.
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You don't know what you are talking about.

>naive and ignorant communist country with uneducated working class

SU was one of the most educated countries in the world at the time.

I have to stop right here. The rest of your comment is just pure ignorance. You come off as very bitter man, Mr. Shiptsov.
Try telling that to an Al Qaeda extremist! Which, by the way, is what the border agent was getting at.
62 million international tourists visited the United States last year and this number has grown over 2011. This makes me think that on average border policy is such that it is possible to navigate the system and not give up on entering the U.S. for good. Having said that, it's clearly regrettable when border agents behave inappropriately
Not necessarily, even though I concur that the UK border may be more "picky" than the US border

But for example, there used to be some contention with Brazilians entering Europe through Spain (Madrid specifically)

And there have been cases of Americans being denied entry in Europe even in friendly countries like Ireland
Or store the lexicon in a determinisitic acyclic finite state automaton. E.g. (shameless plug):

https://github.com/danieldk/dictomaton

Though, having implemented a language guesser myself, it's only an issue with very short texts (a few words). On longer texts models based on character n-grams achieve very high accuracies.
My boss (he's European) has 2 passports: one to visit the Arab world, Russia, ... and another for the US. At one point, I went with him to the US and he accidentally grabbed the wrong passport. Bingo! He was stopped and examined in great detail every time: before entering the tax free zone, before boarding, before entering the US....
It was surreal.
Alternatively, people can just download langid.py[1] and do language detection locally. This is not a particularly hard problem - I think it's doable by undergrad ML or NLP classes.

The tricky parts are usually political - are users going to be angry if you confuse Indonesian with Malaysian, or so on?

[1] https://github.com/saffsd/langid.py
Trades at the market price are instant.

Withdrawal to a bank - depends on the method you use (SEPA, wire, etc) and the country you're in. From a few hours to a few days.
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Recent "conventional" gasoline-based cars are also full of embedded software, much of it of dubious quality. Consider, for instance, this audit of the software in recent Toyotas, which found bugs that could cause the car to go out of control:
http://www.edn.com/design/automotive/4423428/Toyota-s-killer...

What may be unique about Tesla is the explicit provision for over-the-air software updates. But anyone with sufficient technical knowledge and physical access to a conventional car can do very nasty things to the electronics (i.e., deadly to the occupants).
Does anyone HFT bitcoins?

Would doing that break the block chain?
Is that your worst story? I read it like this:

Border officer didn't want you to take a car with a wrong/likely-illegal registration across the border - instead took some time and effort to clarify the details and then allowed you to continue.

In my mind that officer was doing their job well, and acted rather generously in your favour.
Only another 13 to wait, then (assuming the patents were filed after 1998).
I didn't say it was challenging. (And yes, most of the changes are actually fixing a different bug, not just adding support for the new ABI.)
Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think many cars on the market are able to receive over-the-air updates to their systems. I think that's what the parent was talking about specifically.

All of the cars I've driven have been accessible by ODB2 or something similar, which is a physical connection under the hood and/or steering column.
I've been to over 40 countries so far in my life. Be "honest", with Customs: tell them what they want to hear. Being logical, assuming they understand travel at all, is a recipe for disaster. I learnt that the hard way coming in to Heathrow!
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The Democrat party benefits greatly from illegal immigration from Mexico

Could you back up that assertion with proof, or at least with some sound reasoning.

While I can accept that Latinos tend to vote democrat illegal immigrants can't vote to begin with. So it certainly doesn't follow that "The Democrat party benefits greatly from illegal immigration from Mexico"

To me that sounds a bit like partisan mud slinging, I'm sorry to say.
Don't deflect blame onto the system, either. I will accept many excuses for many job choices. I will not accept any excuses for being paid to do this kind of evil. If their behavior were mandated by immigration law (and it's not), they would still be 100% culpable.
I count five failed attempts within two days (190.39.254.6, 201.209.39.192, 85.152.192.118 ,186.88.197.41, 190.200.20.207). Good to know the password -that I almost manage to forget- is strong enough.
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Spotify has since come out with a web player [1] if you are still interested.

[1] https://play.spotify.com/
> From what I've read, the Israelis make border checks less problematic. It is hard to scale their solutions to US?

The Israelis are clear that what they do is racial profiling. Kind of hard to pay lip service to equality and all that bull shit and still just harass only brown people, isn't it?
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How would I get a SSL certificate issued for an lg domain from an issuer that the LG tv trusts?
If Firefox hasn't had this since its inception, it's at least been available for the vast majority of its lifespan. Don't remember a time when I haven't used this feature (and I've been using Firefox for a longggg time). Really interesting to see someone mention a feature in Chrome as a benefit over Firefox when Firefox had it first.

I hope more people switch (back), and in turn, more people contribute.
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Eep! I might be in a similar situation shortly. A couple of quick questions, if you don't mind?

1) Did you abandon your green card app?

2) How did you move your stuff out if you couldn't get back into the US again? Were the Canadians mean to you or were they understanding?

3) If you don't mind giving some info, I'm curious what motivated your family to leave?

For us, the big reasons are we want to be close to family. Neither of us (myself or my wife) have found a job in our home country yet (have good jobs in the US) .. and I'm not doing any trips back to do job hunting because I fear I will get into the same situation as you :( So we are planning to go back home without jobs and live off of savings for the next few months. Tough beans but minimizes the chances of immigration screw ups.

Best of luck!!
Thanks for the heads up regarding the undocumented XMPP extension!

I'm sure Google chat already maintains plenty of additional signatures, checksums, etc. that stay entirely server-side; any of which would be more than sufficient to 'prove[...] cryptographically that your account sent that message' should law enforcement need to 'verify the signature is correct'.
True, and so were all the socialist regimes I mentioned. But after tens of years of propaganda by the communists, the name tends to stick. After the fall of communism, it sticks in a bad way: socialism = communism.

I think that the best people to ask are those that lived under "socialist" regimes (I'm one of them). If I ask almost anybody I know that lived under a socialist regime, they'll probably say the same.

Maybe theoretically socialism is a different thing, but practically it really isn't for a lot of people.
And what do you base your conclusions on?
What do you have to back up your position?
Impress us with how you have been extremely successful without learning how to market you skills.
Like it or not, the world highly values marketing, to think otherwise is quite naive.
From what I can tell it's active only in that it changes ride height, not actually adjusting the suspension through a corner so the timing is not critical at all.

You don't need anything approaching realtime for controlling an air-based suspension. If we were talking about the magneto-hydraulic suspensions that adjust constantly to road conditions like potholes and corners, then I would agree 100%. But the response rate of the pneumatic system will be far slower than the computer.
You've obviously never had a run in with Customs, have you? Some countries are far worse than others; those that are, aren't worth going back to, IMO.
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I am surprised that nobody mentioned that yesterday, Coinbase crossed their global "daily buy limit"! Users of Coinbase were greeted with a new interface to buy coins, prompting them to click and confirm their transactions would not be completed until Friday (the usual condition on a Monday) and that their USD-quoted price would be processed at the effective market rate at that time (if you're used to doing business with Coinbase, they mention a time but really the deal is done at the time of their choosing) on Friday.

So, you are agreeing to spend a given amount of USD to acquire BTC, but the price is not fixed and you actually don't know the number of BTC you'll be getting until their calculation of the market rate occurs, five days from now. I had the same experience as the person in Coinbase Blog, they white-listed me, now I have an expectation that they will deliver on their promises.

Before that, I don't think I ever did (or had any reason to.) Some company on the internet is agreeing to take my bank details and make a withdrawal from my bank account, but what happens next is anyone's guess.

(A thought exercise: what is it exactly about letting 5 days pass before that makes it safer for Coinbase to part with a sum of bitcoins when a bank transfer is completed? The owner of the account has had zero opportunity to contest the charge as fraudulent, and those bitcoins go "at-risk" on that day when the transaction is completed. If there is a run on bitcoins, how does Coinbase guarantee they will be able to satisfy all of the orders they've accepted?)
France actually lets you have 2 password for "incompatible countries". That's usually for Israel and Arab countries.

Maybe they will allow it for Arab countries and US too if this goes on.
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Counting the average size of black-colored connected components would work as well.
> I want the web to work like it’s intended to 99% of the time and I know how to control my privacy the remaining 1% of the time.

I want the absolute opposite, is it just me?
Yes, most people aren't Nick Winter, and shouldn't be doing 60 hours a week. He is a self-improvement machine. His ebook "The Motivation Hacker", which I highly recommend, explains how he does it. http://www.nickwinter.net/the-motivation-hacker
Generally insanity seems a requirement for anyone to be in Congress.
If his dad was of Jewish ethnicity he should just have said he was part Jewish but did not identify with the religion.
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Hi, I'm Budi.

I spent the last two months writing the most extensive guide about Soundcloud ever. It's called The Soundcloud Bible, and it just launched.

I actually run a record label and manage artists, and decided to do this once I had discovered that no one had published anything that really covered everything about the subject. Seeing as I have been working with electronic artists on a daily basis for the past two years, and have been using Soundcloud to market them, I had a solid base of experience and insight to work with.

The result is a 100+ page book that covers not only Soundcloud, but also how how to leverage it to score label deals and get blog support. A valuable guide for both musicians and industry professionals alike.

You can find a sample chapter of the book on the launch page.

And you can find the launch page here:
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I'd love to hear your thoughts and will answer any questions the best I can.

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I just bought a TV. I bought a 720 'cos it was cheaper (because, really, who cares about "picture quality" except nerds?), and I was really impressed with the software - it can do DLNA streaming, Youtube pairing, and Netflix and none of that was even mentioned on the box! Means I don't even need to bother gluing a Raspberry Pi to the back like I planned. Awesome! And so cheap!

(In case it wasn't clear... you are not the only market segment. Neither am I.)
It doesn't hurt that the acting is also phenomenal.
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I think he'd be certainly More effective than the idiots running the show now.
If the maximum block size limit ever constrains the volume of transactions, what will happen to the fee people decide to pay?
Best case is, they left the "--no-check-certificate" option on for debugging purposes.

Or maybe you can import a certificate somehow.
There are plenty of reciprocal visa policies; I understand that China charges US visitors a fee equal to the fee the US charges Chinese, and Brazil's horrific bureaucracy is also just trying to match what they feel Brazilians have to go through if they want to enter the US.

The concept sort of makes sense; I can envision a situation where tourists are appalled by visa procedures (especially if they're going to Brazil) and pressure their politicians to lighten up. The major flaw there is that most americans will never want a visa anyway, so it ends up being a largely invisible protest on the part of the other countries.
Author of freegeoip.net here. It uses the db from MaxMind.
Worth mentioning that the system is not only free but also open source, available at github.com/fiorix/freegeoip (currently written in Go)
Oh sure, it 'stands to reason' that anyone someone must surely be aware of was also intentional, noone is ever surely aware of anything that was not planned that way. What?
"Problem there is that the US loudly and fundamentally claims to be a democracy."

That is part of the overall problem currently in the US. It is not a democracy; it is a constitutional republic. The representatives are elected democratically, but the whole point of the constitution is to limit to the powers of the government. It seems that 99% of the government has neglected or forgotten that, and sadly most of the general population has as well.
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The first point is planned for 1.2 which i hope to launch by years end. It also has annotations and more sharing+storage options. Plus iCloud with an iOS app so you can access the snaps on the phone.
As for CMD+Q, you're right, it needs quit protection - added to list for 1.2.
I think it's doable by undergrad ML or NLP classes.

In fact, we had a course for high school students where they learnt how a language guesser works and where they had to change a language guesser. A simplistic method that already works very well is:

* Create an n-gram fingerprint for each language by making a list of character uni-, bi-, and trigrams ordered by their frequency in a text. Retain the (say) 300 most frequent n-grams.

* To categorize a text, create a fingerprint for that text. Then compute for each language the sum n-gram rank differences. If an n-gram does not occur, the difference is the fingerprint size. Finally, pick the language with the lowest sum.

Of course, you can do fancier things, such as training a SVM or logistic regression classifier with n-grams and words as features, etc.

An interesting variation is to be able to distinguish different languages in a text. E.g. a Dutch text with English quotes.
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Wasn't in the original comment... yet another example of why HN should not have edit.
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Seems a bit like setting an anchor for a buyout. I have a feeling a 4 billion offer by Google/MS/Amazon would be accepted very quickly even if it was very little cash/all stock.

Maybe my sense is very wrong but it seems like a decent time to get bought out timing wise.
Not yet, due to a cunning use of flags. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTduy7Qkvk8
I think you need to read the article again, you were rolling your eyes so much you reinterpreted according to your own bias ...
Shares and currencies...

In theory, analysts and professional traders incorperate everything they know into bids for shares, so that the current share price 'prices in' everything publicly known about a share at the current time.

I quite often talk to people who have a share portfolio, and buy mining shares because they think international demand for mining is going to rise. But the share price already reflects that because pro investors and analysts though to it first.

So really, when you buy a share, unless you have some extra information, you are making a bet on variations due to things no one knows at the time - it's simply a gamble.

Don't get me wrong, it's not a terrible idea to buy shares - if the economy grows, the FTSE grows with it. If you buy luxury goods manufacturers and insolvency companies, you can hedge. But if you, as a private individual, think you can make money day trading (in your lunch break) against the highest paid experts in the world, well you are kinda nuts.

A friend put together a database of tick data for every currency pair in the world, for a spread of different brokers. He examined the data, and found that at last in the 3 hour / day interval, it appeared statistically random. You can bet on a random variable if you like, sometimes you will make money. I prefer to put what little money I have in passive funds, and hope it beats inflation^.

^That said, I'm cashed out and 400% ahead following this bitcoin bubble. lol
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> Australia under Tony Abbot runs concentration camps for victims of famine, civil war on Nauru

They are called "refugee camps". And Australia has a reasonably high refugee intake. Unlike most countries, though, Australia resettles most of their refugees, so they aren't classified as "refugees" anymore. It's a pain finding the numbers, since everyone wants to talk about "refugees per head of population". There's hundreds of thousands of former refugees with PR or citizenship who aren't counting in Australia's "refugee population", because they've actually been resettled.

Though you'd be perfectly justified in pointing out that Abbott cut the refugee intake, quite dramatically. Or that beating up on "boat people" was just making them a scapegoat, trying to placate the wider concern about overpopulation and immigration in general (which politicians won't touch, because the Treasury Intergenerational Report says Australia needs lots of young immigrants to keep the economy going as the baby boomers start going gaga).
ElasticSearch is actually designed to scale to petabytes and beyond:

http://elasticsearch.com/product/ ("petabytes of data with ease")
Thanks for this post... I noticed that there were several things I had neglected to turn off on ghostery and I went ahead and added them.
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Mapping your SkyDrive as a network drive in Windows 7+, should fairly work for linux distros if they support webDAV

http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-57347395-285/how-to-map-...
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I don't think this is true at all. There are huge network effects because of folder sharing. I've gotten at least a dozen people to sign up for Dropbox over the years this way. It was tough at first, but the adoption rate is sufficiently high now that in a group of 5, there may be only one person who hasn't got an account already. And when they're the odd one out, the peer pressure to sign up is so great that it forces even the latest of late adopters to give in.

Apple is irrelevant because they're not cross platform, and no one will trust their data to a Chinese company, particularly the businesses that actually pay for Dropbox.
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If the border patrol agents use a person's presumed Jewishness as part of their rationale to deny them entry, they should indeed know what they're talking about. It's not something that they were forced to deal with; it was a reason they manufactured themselves (out of whole cloth, as it so happens).

Not being familiar with religious customs is not a crime, but then you shouldn't use your ignorance to adjudicate a case.
i m flabbergasted at the amount of money there is in this service (and related ones) - is it really that useful? I had a dropbox account since the early days, and i have hardly put any use into it.

What do people actually use it for? Share files? Backup solution?
I've had UK and Australian Customs officers be similarly incredulous over places I've visited. Honestly, those jobs don't seem to attract the "best and brightest". Nor attract those who even have a passing familiarity with geopolitics and geography. Sigh
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Am I missing something here? The author seems to be relying on an assumption rather than just Googling the same terms to see if any ads are shown. I tried that and didn't get a single ad either.
His father wasn't Jewish, either.
I'd buy it, please post the link once its done, or if you want any proof readers or people to type in the code to check for typos I'd be happy to help.
Wishing you all the best for the biopsy. Being young and living in a place with good healthcare mean that there's every chance that you'll live a long and meaningful life, regardless of what they find.
All the politicians are thinking "A completely anonymous way to get campaign funds? This sounds incredible!"
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Many Israelies are brown too. They do profile, but not quite this way.