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Please enlighten us on Savarkar's reaction to Ambedkar wanting to convert Dalits away from Hinduism.
Really? And how many bitcoins did you buy in 2011?
A very important benefit of college for me was not having to work a job for a few years. College was so much fun. I spent a little under 10% of my working years having a swell time with my main responsibility being learning stuff.

And they pay me more afterwards? Win-win!
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Is an armed raid on someone's house not random violence?
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"When an organized group of people uses force to take your belongings, leveraging tactics of fear for political ends, isn't that firmly within the definition of terrorism?"

No, that's democracy.

And the dumbest ideas always win, because the broadest section of the population can understand them.
How exactly is it ironic?

Google, Facebook, et al, collect data in exchange for a service. You can use incognito mode for Google, or just not use Facebook at all.

The NSA collects your data whether you want it to or not, and you have no say other than to just not create any data.

In the same way that Google has access to your data if it's in their datacenters and you use their services, the NSA assumes access to your data if it's within their abilities to get it, and they find you slightly suspicious.

It's really not the same thing and claiming it is the same thing is disingenuous.
How was that image being used was probably important in those cases.
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On it's face, this is not good advice, particularly as electronics are rather more expensive in NZ than in the states. However, it is entirely possible to sell all of your electronic gear (ebay, craigslist, amazon) and buy it again, at a cost. Of course, this is a great deal of pain to go through, and it strikes us all as egregious, unnecessary, and unjust.

It's not clear, however, why if customs can demand your passwords to your devices, why can't they demand your passwords to remote servers?

In any event, it is important to protest in the strongest possible way these encroachments upon our individual liberties. It's shocking that this needs to be repeated in 2013 in the West, but a citizen should not be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law, and mere suspicion does not constitute due process. The state cannot be allowed to continue violating these rights.

I've spent some serious time in NZ, and was deeply impressed with the humanity of it's government and it's governmental workers. It is heartbreaking to see this Americanism make its way to a more innocent land.

Don't give in to this, Kiwis. Protest. Write letters to your representatives. Keep your dignity and your common sense. Don't let your security forces (at the border or anywhere else) do this sort of thing to visitors.
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No. I appreciate the thought, but there are a few things wrong with these ideas.

First, I'm ending my (albeit short) career as a defense contractor before I move to New Zealand. While I still have strong professional relationships with my former colleagues, it would be out of line for me to ask them for help here.

Second, even if I did ask, they can't really help. Labeling or mislabeling drives, etc, just draws attention as using any kind of official labeling would make it look like I'm carrying government-owned material. I'm not, and I have no intention of doing so. Further, I'm pretty sure use of such official labels would be very illegal. If I was caught I'd be sent home where I'd expect to face some nasty fines and/or jail time.

Finally, I'm not sure what your friend's dad does for the Army, but unless his dad is an officer or enlisted service member (and maybe even if he is), chances are there's some misappropriation going on there. Either way, I'm not the kind of DoD contractor who can just call in a "hey, just stick this in a military cargo shipment" kind of favor. If I was, I'd either be much more relaxed, or much more nervous about quitting my job to move to a foreign country...
Numba is impressive! If you use NumPy regularly, check it out: http://numba.pydata.org/
VPN. You should always assume someone, somewhere is sniffing.
An armed raid on a specific person's house house isn't random, however raiding any house in a particular neighbourhood would fulfil such a definition.
Yes, yes I have. One of my all-time favorite keyboards is my IBM M15: https://secure.flickr.com/photos/obra/8410679346/

If I could get buckling springs as keyswitch units, I'd be using em.

I've tried just about everything: https://secure.flickr.com/photos/obra/sets/72157632594731205...
how does politics get to be a part of culture ?
Well, some make money in more absurd ways, like the (War)Defense industry...
Terrorism: Terrorism is the systematic use of violence (terror) as a means of coercion for political purposes.

If you define violence as intimidating (of), physical and mental torture then all governments top the list.
Well, I'm not really going to get into the underlying rationale behind security theatre, but I would imagine that such actions would need to meet a certain threshold of how blatantly political they are.
I remember fellow HN'er Steve Kablink saying on twitter that the only reason he hadn't done a FOIA request on himself is because... they probably have a list of people who have done a FOIA request on themselves (but that he'd be doing one soon out of principle).

This kind of heavy handed, precedent setting, dissent-disincentivizing move is just sad to see happen (and perhaps sadder that I feel completely at its mercy and feel it affecting my actions concretely)
I don't know if it's ironic so much as it is simple two-facedness.

>Google, Facebook, et al, collect data in exchange for a service. You can use incognito mode for Google, or just not use Facebook at all.

>The NSA collects your data whether you want it to or not, and you have no say other than to just not create any data.

The contrast between these two sentences is what makes your point weak.

There might be a difference between corporate and government surveillance, but you haven't approached it.
This won't happen. The citizens of USA are in Consumer reporting DB's, ex: credit report.
This is illegal in EU.
That be the place to start.
OK, so if we're talking about $5 per bitcoin you thought there was a "very high chance" of a 200 to 1 gain and you only put three grand in?

Weird choice there.
Sarcasm, Citizen?
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a society where math is common
might build such structures without thinking too much about math. like the bridges or dams we build today.
Another way is to provide part of the key to someone that's not travelling. This person should not release the key to you until they're satisfied you've successfully completed your trip. You don't know the key, so you can't release it, and you'd have good proof to that effect.
"Being a student is a essentially a full-time job which one is compensated a negative amount."

College for me was like getting a dream retirement in at the beginning of my career.

I and many of my friends had the best time of our lives, didn't do a damn thing that wasn't in our best interest, lived away from home with partial parental support, worked jobs in the vacations, met people from all over the world, had challenging experiences with a strong safety net, were exposed to extraordinary people who were paid and predisposed to give us their time, etc etc.

I got a lot more out of college than I could ever use on an engineering team. And a lot that I can.
This guy was unfortunate in tripping some sort of alarm for them. I've travel NZ<->US approx twice a year for going on 15 years now and have never so much as been stopped. I always ask for the frisk and grab rather than the microwave scanners (I'm thinking about the TSA folks who have to work there) and have been to many 'hacker' conventions while in the US and never triggered anything. I guess I fit a profile as a 'known'... rather than unknown. Maybe someone the guy spoke to at this conference is someone they genuinely want to know everything about. This doesn't make it OK but it's quite likely some specific thing that set it off for them

All of which to say you'll probably be fine and I don't imagine being a US vs NZ national will make any difference as to whether you get the stazi treatment or the wave through.

Also FWIW I'm usually a more worried about missing my flights due to unnecessary searches on the TSA side of things (combining a special breed of stupid with a dangerous type of wilful paranoia) than on the NZ side (more of your basic 'just following orders guvn'r' type of stupidity)
If it makes you feel better, I didn't get one, either.

The random number generator must have been racist against me specifically. Yeah, that's the ticket.
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I like it. It looks a bit minimalist.

This makes me wonder what the most minimalist keyboard available currently is. The Happy Hacking keyboard, I am guessing.
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Ask HN: Take a survey if you're in SF area?
Hi everyone. I was trying to determine where to live in SF when I realized there are no late night transportation services to East Bay from SF. I thought others might have the same problem, so I'm doing some research to see if it's viable to provide a solution. I would appreciate if some people here took the time to take it, and repost it wherever it would be useful(user groups, forums, etc). It would really help me out!

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Data shows your statements are wrong. Volatility is decreasing - look at the next to last graph in this article: http://bitcoinmagazine.com/6543/bitcoin-volatility-analysis/

(Stock splits are irrelevant. Yes a split by itself does not affect volatility. I was just making a comment that, generally speaking, penny stocks are more volatile that highly-priced stocks.)
Not quite so relevant to NZ but since I'm guessing many HNers are wondering what happens at the US border:

https://www.eff.org/wp/defending-privacy-us-border-guide-tra...

I worry about this, since I travel frequently. Then again, I also worry about plane crashes. I think both are probably irrational, but having plans is what keeps the boogeyman away at night, so here's mine:

1) Remain polite and professional.

2) Decline to consent to any search. Comply with officers' demands that they tell me I'm legally required to comply with. Ask for that demand to be produced in writing. I'm willing to wait for a supervisor while they figure out how to do that, even if it means I miss my flight. I will get a receipt and/or report number and/or some other official written record of the incident if any seizure, including seizure of information, takes place.

3) Immediately after reaching my destination, file written grievances with any and all responsible agencies. They must have a spreadsheet tracking passenger complaints somewhere. Let's increment that while having someone commit, on paper, to a version of events of what happened and a legal rationale to why that was justified. This will only cost me a bit of time and money, and I have lots of time and money, but it has heavily asymmetric payoff in the event of a lawsuit or PR battle.

But honestly? Mathematically, I'm much, much more at risk of getting mugged in Chicago on my way home from the airport than getting held up by Customs. I don't exactly live in fear of muggings but I take sensible precautions like e.g. backing up my data, making sure that I can turn a factory-new laptop into a working dev environment within a day, and carrying insurance. I'm pretty sure most of these still work even if I happen to lose a laptop to Customs rather than to a mugger.
If you have backups of everything maybe you can get a decent level of business insurance that would see them replace your hardware should they take it and then take the time to wipe and replace with generic build before travelling if you are really worried about privacy?

It still totally sucks though, don't get me wrong.
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This is not a competitor. Is is centralized.
Sure they do. The worst kinds of investments can go up 50x (or more) in a year.
1. The lazy/unmotivated/really stupid

2. The smart ones who realize that they may be better suited to other tasks and don't feel like starting their adult lives in massive debt.

3. People who, for perhaps social reasons, exhibit very poor academic performance early in life.

4. People with random reasons for not going.

Anecdotal, but I sure know a lot of dumb, incompetent people with degrees.
Agreed. There's a whole host of body-use things a PT can teach you that may help. Numb fingers suck; being able to function without them is awesome.
A tight slap to our rights and privacy.
If you're visiting a country you're not a citizen of, bring your data in over the Internet. (Yes, there's the NSA thing, but it's still unclear what they can break. My guess is that they have not broken the crypto itself, only some buggy implementations.) If you're a citizen of the country, encrypt your data and let the courts figure out whether or not they can compel you to provide the key. (Or, they can publicly declare that they've broken AES, and get your data anyway. Either way, it's a win.)

Also strongly agree with patio11 on getting everything in writing. This is now a criminal investigation. Make sure you have what you need to defend yourself in court.
At which point customs would permanently confiscate my things and perhaps deny entry into the country for my wife and me. The latter wasn't a threat for Mr. Blackman as I assume he's an NZ citizen. We're not NZ citizens, we're US citizens.
Easy: use cloud storage with 2-factor authentication.
You shouldn't assume the traffic leaving the VPN endpoint is any safer.
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Swaying opinion is not what the NSA does. It does signals intelligence, and propaganda production is the purview of other organs.

Going further, I doubt it does much with HN other than tracking use. HN is text and accessible directly from the web and tends toward stable content. There's nothing upon which to construct a potential conspiracy and thus justify an operation.
My understanding is that if you do not supply the key they can confiscate and destroy the media, though it will obviously vary from country to country.

The idea behind the hidden volume is that you can provide a key that works for the volume (and hopefully satisfies whoever is inspecting your data) while keeping your information private.
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Not everyone is rich. It was a very significant portion of my savings at the time.
I was not suggesting that Hacker News is particularly special. I think it's probably naive knowing what we know now to believe that the largest information intelligence organization in the world does not use part of its resources to monitor and guide discussion related to sensitive topics such as random number generation back doors.

More what I picture is that they filter the web for conversations happening of relevance and go from there. Hacker News could be one of 10,000 sites they monitor for such conversation. Private companies do similar things, so why wouldn't the NSA?
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You almost sold me on it, but the fact that I can only send photos still prevents me from using it. My girlfriend and I communicate via text a lot. If we could exchange random photos and messages through Snapchat, I'd try it out. As it stands, I have no desire at all to jump between messaging apps to talk to the same person in different ways.
I'll throw my vote in for the Kinesis Advantage along with the others. It made a huge difference, especially for Emacs pinky. The thumb keys are wonderful and make so much more sense than wasting both thumbs on a spacebar.

As a datapoint, when I switched cold-turkey, it took about a week to be passable (~40wpm) and another week or two to get up to normal speed (~100wpm). The letter keys in the bowls actually aren't so bad; the harder part for me was retraining the control keys and punctuation. It's totally worth it though, and IMHO much easier than a full layout retraining (e.g. Dvorak, which I've given up on twice).
> It's not clear, however, why if customs can demand your passwords to your devices, why can't they demand your passwords to remote servers?

I don't know that there's any legal mechanism in their favor (I'm not very familiar with NZ law on this level), but there's a simple physical mechanism they have going for them. If you refuse to provide passwords to your devices, they can simply refuse to return them to you when they're done with their "inspection". If you're a citizen and you refuse to provide passwords to remote accounts, they have no lasting leverage. If you're not a citizen, they can simply deny your entry.

Edit:

> I've spent some serious time in NZ, and was deeply impressed with the humanity of it's government and it's governmental workers. It is heartbreaking to see this Americanism make its way to a more innocent land.

Two things... First, this is the kind of thing that had us moving there in the first place [Edit: for clarity, this wasn't an initial reason for our move, or even why we selected NZ, but it's definitely in the "pros" column]. I'm displeased with the adversarial/entitled tack that my country's government sometimes takes with its people, and I'm still hopeful that this is different elsewhere.

Second, I find it really sad that you'd label this "Americanism." I don't think it's entirely inaccurate to say that this is becoming a part of our culture, but there is still tons and tons of good which can be ascribed to that label as well. I hope that the bad isn't dwarfing the good to the extent where the term "Americanism" becomes synonymous with "McCarthyism."
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Is this the same Duke and MIT that are vastly oversubscribed? And he has tenure? There is almost nothing he can say in this context that affects his compensation, his status at the university, or the demand for Duke degrees. That's what tenure is for, and that's a key benefit of elite universities. Faculty can speak very freely. However cynical your stance, there is a real difference between the Apple employee and tenured Duke professor.

If this were not the case, people like Noam Chomsky would not survive to contribute as they do.
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Once again I'm left with a feeling of "well of course they have this information". What I'm shocked about is the fact that not ONE new bill, legislation, whatever has been passed to curb NSA activities. No one has been fired or resigned and not one of the NSA officials who lied before congress have been held accountable.

So much for hope and change. So much for democracy.
Secretary-General Kofi Annan actually tried to define terrorism at the end of his tenure... He suggested : "Any action constitutes terrorism if it is intended to cause death or serious bodily harm to civilians or non-combatants with the purpose of intimidating a population or compelling a government or an international organization to do or abstain from doing any act."

That would make the bombing of Dresden and Nagasaki (and any other bombing under the 'strategic bombing' doctrine where the objective was to drain the people's will to fight) to be terrorism, though. It would make some of what the ANC did terrorism. This, however, would not be terrorism.

I think Kofi Annan was bang on the money. About time we had a workable definition of the word (beyond just 'whatever the other guy does'). However he didn't get very far with it at the UN level.
The HHKB (on which I type this) is kinda minimalist but it's still a "60%" keyboard (no numpad, no functions keys and no arrow keys for the HHKB but some 60% have dedicated arrow keys). There are people who have custom 40% keyboards (you simply use a modifier to access the "missing" numbers row).

The most minimalist has way less keys than that and is probably the DataHand (or something close to it, like a one-handed DataHand if such a beast exist?).

I like the look of the keyboards he realized, reminds me of the ErgoDox. Not that contrarily to the HHKB the keyboards in the blog aren't "staggered" and are all split. The HHKB appeals to many because it has incredible switches (Topre) yet stays very close to traditional keyboards that people have been using for years and years. It's not easy to adapt to a non-staggered layout and some people are allergic to split layouts.

If you're into that sort of thing, GeekHack.org and Deskthority.net are good places to hang out on.
Given the recent Snowden leaks about the NSA collecting information to discredit "radicalizers" that is pretty funny. The NSA very clearly was holding information that they did not want getting out such as back doors in encryption chips. Why would you believe that they would not monitor and anonymously involve themselves in conversations happening around the web by people who may have been close to discovering their back doors?

http://warincontext.org/2013/11/27/top-secret-document-revea...
And why shouldn't you be able to sell your browsing information for $30/mo?
why only fiction?
Really? A lot of the official criticism in the NSA scandal seems to have come out of Germany. I'm sure German government has their fare share of hypocrites as does any government, but I always thought of them as one of the better ones when it came to privacy issues.
"If it was a free-market enterprise, you would have reasonable prices and services. As proof I submit certain areas of Europe where companies are required by law to lease the last mile"

Did you read that before you hit submit ? If you're pro-regulation that's fine and if you're a free market fanatic that's fine too ... but what you wrote is just pure gibberish.
Indian culture was always inclusive in nature right from its point of origin.but now we only see it becoming exclusive and narrow concentrating only on the Hindu side of the culture.
How do you identify your leads?
Sorry if I wasn't clear.

The difference is that Google, Facebook, et al are opt-in. The NSA offers you no such choice.
That's a good point and the other side of the coin is that it seems very likely there are people on HN that work for the NSA and just read HN in their free time for fun.
At the US border, the "border search exemption" enables warrantless bypassing of the 4th Amendment's restriction on search[1], and US vs Ramsey extends this to mail/parcel.[2] There is an EFF guide on the topic here for anyone interested, with more particular advice:

https://www.eff.org/wp/defending-privacy-us-border-guide-tra...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_search_exception

[2] http://www.casebriefs.com/blog/law/criminal-procedure/crimin...
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Ask HN: Why does the new Dropbox app need contact access?
It seems like every app on Android requires access to more and more things that I'm hesitant to upgrade.

What does Dropbox do with this additional information?
Many gamblers know the numbers fairly well. The problem is they let their heart convince them that the Gambler's Fallacy doesn't exist for them.
Shoot me an email and I can put you in contact with someone who should be able to help or who at least can give you a solid recommendation for a specialist. (doubtful that's needed)