skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reading between the lines here (and as someone who has had the "pleasure" of applying for US visas) I get the strong sense that his attitude/arrogance was behind his rejection.

You have to attend an interview for a US travel visa (or almost all visas except under the VWP) they'll ask you a bunch of questions about your trip, and then ask you about your life in your home country (e.g. do you have a job? family? etc) to see if you have a reason to return (ties).

I bet he turned up to the interview, spouted off about being a former US citizen, expecting to get a free ride, pretending like the rules don't apply, and is likely "unemployed" in his current home country (since he is living off of wealth). So they of course stamped him rejected because he really is tied to no particular country, and was likely quite adversarial when questioned.

I mean the t-shirt alone (and self-describing as libertarian) suggests to me that this individual isn't well suited to the slow annoying process that is US immigration (it is like pulling nails). And unfortunately for him now he isn't a citizen they get to treat him like everyone else (no special treatment).

I think the US international tax policies are insane. But I think US citizens who give up their citizenship and then whine when they get treated like every other foreigner can piss off. You cannot have your cake and eat it too. Heck, why not use your wealth to lobby the USG to reform the tax rules?
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I am not talking about the future, I'm talking about right now, at this moment. I can't predict the future but I can give my view point from this point in time and that's what I've done. I'm sorry that's not good enough for you.
This is why I have a scratch laptop for when I travel internationally. I load a fresh OS install and only put on it what I need for the trip. Not the right answer for everyone (I'm not, for example, a journalist who might have to take interview notes), but it tends to short circuit lengthy interrogations.
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Except these are all just anecdotes. I'm in the same age group and Snapchat use has definitely fallen off considerably on my college campus and some of my high school friends' campuses as well.

The only thing that would prove any of this is real data, which seems to be lacking in every claim....
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Looks like it's being flagged left and right. Why? What if, instead of Charlie, it was some Internet startup? Freedom of speech is important to all of us.

Martin Niemoller's "First they came for the Communists...." comes to mind: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Martin_Niem%C3%B6ller
Laws against encryption will never be international. In the US it happened before [1], so there is indeed precedent. But such laws prevent a country from being competitive in the international marketplace, therefore many countries will not agree to it, just as they aren't agreeing with IP laws. And yes, I also believe that this trend on having national firewalls for censoring content will also not last for long, for the same reason.

What I love about technology is that it cannot be stopped with lawmaking.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_the...
Well, then I guess you're calling a majority of the population (including doctors, lawyers, artist, musicians, etc) "stupid".

What you really mean is someone who doesn't understand how technology (and tech companies) work.

This could easily be mitigated if we enforced privacy laws saying that if you tell someone something is deleted, then it must actually be securely deleted. They might even be on the books already, just enforce them.
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> App Engine was released a long time ago, around the same time as AWS

Two years later, actually.
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I'm still reeling at the fact the pricing incident is the only thing that sticks in developers' minds, given how easy it was to mitigate.
The satire will continue, wether or not the murdering stops. For ever. Because that's the concept of freedom of speech.
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I wonder how much the low relapse rate was linked not just to a change of environment, but also to a change from an incredibly stressful situation (war) to a much more satisfying one.

Based on other things I've read about heroin, the change of environment is the only thing that mattered here. Heroin is in a class of drugs that create strong links with experience so that, even years later, a reminder of the experience immediately brings back the craving. A sample anecdote from one book I read on drugs and addiction was a person who had kicked heroin, been clean for 10-15 years, and had become a successful executive. He then made the mistake of going to a movie with a scene of someone seeking his next hit in a drug den. Simply seeing the drug den was enough to trigger a relapse - he walked out of the movie to find some and several days later realized how much trouble he was in.

Examples like this have convinced drug researchers to conclude that long term treatment (eg taking methadone to block heroin) is the only reliable way to keep an ex-addict from being one unexpected environmental cue from becoming a current addict.
Funny we've both been seduced away from arts by programming. :)

Best of luck to you.
Submissions about this story have been flagkilled all day.

I guess that it's to prevent abuses, but as you say, we are all affected. I think it's important to have a single main thread about this.
All that proves is that his Journalism instructor told him to be sure to include boilerplate CYA to deflect criticism of his article. If he really felt this way he wouldn't be so declarative of his opinions.
Is this the course you mean: https://www.coursera.org/learn/publicspeaking

Can anyone who had taken the course content on what they thought of it?
I had a friend die from a lung infection from a compromised immune system because of leukemia.

Very glad to hear your son made it, and I echo your sentiment.
See also:

http://www.uoif-online.com/communiques/horrible-attaque-au-s...

["The UOIF condemns in the strongest terms this criminal attack, and these horrible murders."](translated)
> Instead you will see key-escrow laws or even bans on encryption.

That's a defeatist attitude: "we can't win, so let's not even try".

It's not guaranteed that pervasive authenticated encryption will lead to key-escrow laws or bans on encryption. In fact, the more common authenticated encryption is, the harder is to pass laws against it.

As an example, consider how common encrypted wireless networks are nowadays. A blanket ban on encryption would be opposed by many of the wireless network owners. And that's only one use of encryption.

Key escrow has the extra problem of being both costly and very complex to implement correctly.
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Ok that makes a bit more sense. I didn't even think about how it would be if you tried to add them.

I like javascript but I don't do anything so complicated (or maybe not the right types of things) that I run into many of these situations.
Were these the first officers ever killed in the line of duty? No. It was a tragedy, no doubt about it. I feel bad for the families of these officers, who died simply because of the color of their uniform.

But has the NYPD union ever expressed any sorrow for the loss of Eric Garner? How about Amadou Diallo? Or Akai Gurley? Please read this before responding: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/179-nypd-invol...

And drop the fake hyperbole.
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I wrote that post - new GCE capabilities like pd-ssd and local SSD are very competitive for price and performance. You can review current benchmark metrics here: https://cloudharmony.com/benchmarks
For starters, we expect this to be more geared towards larger players, since we the business needs to invest in an app. Having said that the use-cases for beacons definitely go beyond just retail across various industry verticals and we expect this to be driven by developers.
Thanks! That is high praise.
Watch - in a near future there'll pop up an article explaining how you can't afford to study a little of this and a little of that. It will tell you need to focus on one thing only to be real good at it so that you can sell that one skill.
How long until someone makes a homoiconic version of brainfuck?
I'm fine, all things considered. They did a successful intervention at the hospital, using a catheter through my radial artery, cleared out the blockage, put in a stent and got me fixed up.

I started "cardiac rehab" today, which is a 12 week program of supervised exercise, done under the supervision of a exercise physiologist and a cardiologist, nurses, etc. I'll be doing that 3 days a week until early April. Once that's done I'll do another "stress test" and have another echocardiogram done, which will tell them where my heart function is at. Assuming my "ejection fraction"[1] is back to a normal level, I'm basically good to go, just needing to continue to live a healthy lifestyle (diet, exercise, etc). The only real negative scenario is if my ejection fraction doesn't recover sufficiently, they may recommend me for an implantable sub-dermal defibrillator, as having lowered heart function can put you at increased risk of developing a harmful (or fatal) arrhythmia.

But basically I've already been cleared to run, mountain bike, whatever I want to do. My cardiologist basically said "listen to your body" and "don't do anything that doesn't feel good".

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ejection_fraction
There are no physical objects involved here. It is entirely data. The only thing that can possibly happen is that you could gain knowledge of the data.

Someone could claim that there was some child porn embedded in the centre of a mountain but it would be just a claim. There would fundamentally be no way to prove that it was any particular thing unless someone admits to putting it there.

The people that invented the cryptography very much intended to create this philosophical situation. We can't pretend otherwise without breaking the cryptography.
Kinda exactly like HN works, very addictive!
I think this type of thinking and the Facebook comments show a larger problem with teens, in that people are posting crap on Facebook more for external validation from everyone to tell themselves they are cool/funny/popular/in the know etc.

I'm 35 and don't post what I'm doing or showing off who I'm with every 30 minutes, and if I occasionally post something and no one comments on it, I don't care and I sure don't delete it out of some kind of embarrassment.

Going to concerts now or looking around in bars everyone is more concerned with telling everyone electronically how cool they are more than anything else and this is the real problem.
It was go9p (https://code.google.com/p/go9p/).

But it was heavily modified (nearly rewritten, except fmt.go and p9.go) to suit my specific needs.
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I like that he does most things himself. This is similar to how we operate. Not everyone needs and wants to grow, take investors, hire staff etc. Well done, Andy!
I would love to have a visual representation of all the possible branches that can be taken in a body of C code, with an easy way to ask the program to tell me what are all the conditions that must be met for this branch to execute.
Blended Scotch is far and away the majority of the market, but I'd imagine most people still drink their blended Scotch unmixed. On the rocks, maybe. But not mixed. (I could be wrong about that, and don't want to speak from any presumed authority here.)
>"They don't see what I see,"

No shit. You haven't showed us anything.
Did you just say "immigrants"?

Many European born people are traveling to Syria to fight for ISIS. They're not being converted by extremist immigrants but by online communities and their extremist non-immigran friends.
You can get a certificate for a fixed list of domains.

If name constraints were implemented more widely, that'd be great. But someone has to write the code, debug it, ship it, etc, and then you have to wait until lots of people have upgraded, etc, and ultimately wildcard certs work well enough.
Ha! The Windows Store is a scum-ridden wasteland. The second top result for Facebook is a fake scam app, claiming to be official. There is a fake Facebook app, paid, that claims to be published by "@Microsoft Corporation". Contacting Store support results in them telling you the app " works as designed ", and if you have a problem with the fake publisher, MS suggests " leave a review ".

Even Netflix had a hard time preventing fakes from being published. Over a month or two, Netflix had to contact MS several times, and MS didn't suspend or remove the publisher. They resubmitted and got listed again. Try searching for HBO, xfinity, etc.

MS is not interested in fixing this problem. Probably some folks have their bonus tied to " number of apps published " and that's that.

I emailed Satya and the manager of the Store, to book effect. The Store is a joke.

For this particular case, if FileZilla is popular, you'll have several fake paid apps. If you're lucky there may be av official app, with no way to verify it's the right one. For most users, they'll be rolling the dice just as much as they are now. Only if FileZilla is extremely diligent would it work. Disney, for example, is a top publisher for the Store, yet all sorts of fake Disney content is on there. I called Disney about this, and after about 15 minutes they figured out "don't go there" (referring to the Store). Even top publishers have a hard time dealing with it. BBC is another case, where top "official" results aren't.
I'll upvote something that actually discusses how this effects our freedom rather than just some "let's all be upset". As far as I know western politicians have been far more effective at undermining our freedom and increasing extremism than the terrorists could ever have been on their own.
I think the big point that a lot of people are raising, however, is that a "proxy which does not faithfully pass content" shouldn't be legal in the first place. Users don't want network operators to be snooping on them if they can avoid it. The fact that such behaviors are formally legal now does not mean that we (i.e. internet users as a whole) should just lay on our backs and let $BIGSITE have its way with us.

In fact, the uses of proxies that you seem to be pointing out as examples of why ubiquitous encryption is a "bad thing" - such as those in schools, homes, workplaces, etc. to block "objectionable content" - would probably be better handled by blocking IP addresses or domain names, rather than trying to break into encrypted HTTP sessions, would it not? Last I checked, TLS does not prevent the ability to detect when a user agent attempts to access a particular host (whether by IP address or domain name), thus allowing $BIGSITE to close off access to blacklisted or non-whitelisted hosts without needing to know the exact data being exchanged.

Honestly, and with all due respect, the idea that ubiquitous use of TLS would in any way, shape, or form stifle $BIGSITE's ability to monitor and block attempts to access "objectionable" sites seems absurd when there are plenty of more effective ways to do such things that don't involve a total compromise of privacy or secrecy.
He uses facebook as a directory service occasionally, the same way us "old people" use linkedin.

Observationally my kids are a little younger than him and facebook is dead to them. My wife is still addicted. They used to complain about family tagging them in pix (especially embarrassing-ish such as anything from when they were little) and now they don't even care, nobody uses it.

"Not too many people talk about it." - thats not pinterest, thats reddit and 4chan. Everyone is on baconreader and clover, and just like fight club, rule one is no one talks about fight club (or 4chan or reddit).
Re: "These are all just anecdotes" - yes, he made it very clear in the beginning of his essay:

"This article will not use any studies, data, sources, etc. This is because you can easily get that from any other technology news website and analyze from there. I’m here to provide a different view based off of my life in this “highly coveted” age bracket. That being said, I'm not an expert at this by a long shot and I'm sure there will be data that disproves some of the points I make, but this is just what I've noticed."
So do the β-Lactam antibiotics (e.g. penicillin), but that doesn't stop a host of unrelated resistance mechanisms: enzymes that directly attack it, mutations to the protein(s) that are necessary for entry into the bacteria, and probably the pumps that actively remove various antibiotics.

Given that this was discovered from existing bacteria, there's a significant chance nature has already done the first and last of those. The middle mechanism is likely possible for any bacteria, if you have enough to start with (there's nothing I could find with Google in a minute to describe teixobactin's transport mechanism).

In general there was a rule of thumb when I was doing microbiology of this exact nature (an antibiotic created by some strains of E. Coli), if you exposed a million bacteria cells to a generic antibiotic, 1 would would survive due to a mutation (a useful number in microbiology, likely dead meat in the body). Streptomycin was more effective, 1 in a billion.

ADDED: it's implied by the Nature abstract that the researchers have tried this general approach, that they were not able to find spontaneous resistance mutations in a couple of the standard nasties. But extending on the above thesis, ecologically, there's a respectable chance some bacteria out there have developed defenses. It's a jungle out there, and e.g. in your gut, that's why fungi and bacteria developed antibiotics in the first place. They aren't expending resources just to allow us to kill the inconvenient ones.
Realistically the easiest and simplest way for anyone to cook is with a crock pot. There are a million recipes out there for basic crock pot cooking.

I largely agree with this. I love my crock pot. Very easy and simple to make very tasty delicious meals. And you can leverage the timing by doing things like turning it on before leaving for work in the morning, and then come home to a hot, tasty, home-cooked meal.

(This is assuming you're comfortable leaving a heat based appliance turned on. In the case of a crock pot, I am. YMMV)

And even better it lets you make large enough batches for multiple days.

Exactly, this is a great feature of slow cookers. I bought one of the larger ones for this exact reason.
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Bunnie Huang used an FPGA on a pretty fast bus to extract the XBox's ROM. Granted, that's no longer a "modern" CPU, but still interesting.

See the "Update on ROM extraction and decryption" section here: http://www.xenatera.com/bunnie/proj/anatak/xboxmod.html

More info here: http://www.xenatera.com/bunnie/proj/anatak/AIM-2002-008.pdf

And in his book: http://www.nostarch.com/xboxfree
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Somebody's got to store the number eventually.
Having worked a lot in assembly and C and such, I imagine it'd probably be a lot easier (and more performant, probably) to write something that translates x86 instructions into x64 instructions. This is really interesting all the same, though, because it enables you to potentially support as many targets as your C compiler supports.

I once did something similar by converting the Minecraft server to .NET with IKVM and hooking into its terrain generator.
I imagine Texas is a lot like Oregon. Super Blue in the cities, and super Red when you drive out. But really it's hard to characterize an entire state, especially the 2nd most populated one in the U.S.
When I'm considering tweaks to IAP strategy, any ideas that entrap the user's data are non-starters. The user owns that data, they should always be able to get out what they put in.

Supertop's Unread also has a great (similar) take on IAP:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/unread-rss-news-reader/id911...
> Negative karma after working on positive for two weeks...I create a single use throwaway account, say whatever I feel like, and then log out.

> HN is very much a hivemind. It's easy to see when you're not worried about your negative internet points.

The problem isn't HN and the hivemind. The problem here is you. You still care about the points (or rather the consequences of them) because you take the trouble to create a throwaway account, so that when your post is upvoted, or downvoted, you don't feel tied to it.

If you truly didn't care you would either:

1) stop posting on here altogether
2) not care about what others thought of your comments, and stop using throwaway accounts.
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> that's very hard to prove without creating resistant bacteria

Which is something easily (and safely) done in the lab and is part of testing any anti-biotic.
I've seen this press release all over the place, but nobody has shown an image other than this single-color (red and shades of red) display panel. Is this really multi-color ala Mirasol?

And showing a wall from the tunnel in ORD Terminal 1 (circa 1985) doesn't count. That's lazy.
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Yeah, except that is basically saying his analysis is worthless, in my honest opinion. Combine this with the fact that he is clearly biased towards Snapchat (just look at his personal Twitter and blog), yet doesn't disclose that fact, and you get a bad article that is taken way more seriously than it should be.

Its similar to that fake radar app that claims it detects police radar from your smartphone then at the bottom of the description says "Does not work".

edit: (To explain, I don't think the author was malicious or really at fault. I think everyone trying to draw sweeping conclusions about our generation based on this article are ignoring the "Does Not Work" warning, when it comes to the fact that there is zero sources/data behind this....)
In Germany, a retroshare user was found guilty of distributing copyrighted material when encrypted traffic went through their node.

Lots of things can go wrong in such cases, but in both directions.
If that is indeed that easy - everyone should be aware of this.

Assuming sourceforge will not get rid of that feature after too many people start using it.
Hi there, I'm one of the engineers who worked on AT-AT.

Shapefiles are useful when we export data, but because we want to give our cartographer the ability to continually edit neighborhood boundaries, we store these as polygons in PostGIS. Hope this addresses your concern. Feel free to ask for further clarification.
Well, more strongly than that, I don't see where there's any "problem". Police agencies can now issue warrants to force someone holding encrypted data to decrypt it. I've not seen anyone seriously claiming that there's a problem with people opening data that's been requested in this legal manner.

They're trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist, and paying for their solution with our privacy.
I had a different experience on the bourbon trail. Both the tour and tasting at heaven hill were so-so, but both the tour and product at Willett, around the corner, were awesome.