skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."

John Swinton, 1880 [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Swinton_(journalist)
One of the things I don't really understand about the way laws work here in the US is when something like this happens. We will declare something unconstitutional and then its like "okay lets form a committee to make sure it doesn't happen again...whats that you say? What the NSA is doing is secret and we can't monitor it? Okay, well then just go on with what you're doing, I assume you're following the constitution now"

I mean, I feel like following the constitution is probably the most important thing we can encourage, and its basically like "meh, lets hope they stop violating the constitution". I simply do not get it. Priority #1 should be making sure that the NSA is following the constitution. There is 0 point in fighting foreign wars or anything like that until this is fixed. The NSA's budget should be reduced to 0 until there is 100% proof this has stopped.
Can you find all the easter eggs?
iOS 7 is the first time that I have seen such arrogant designer elitism ever. If someone does not like the new style, they are of course objectively wrong because every good human knows that Helvetica is without fault, and so are low-contrast flat colours. If you disagree, you should feel bad and obsolete. Oh and be sure to mention stitched leather even though iOS6 didn't ever have that on the phone.

Note that many of the quoted people are not even angry. They are just saying they don't like it, sometimes giving reason. Let's shame this scum! LOL it's just Forstall posting under fake names anyway!
Ah yes, Berlin, that's a reasonable option for laptop repair for residents and visitors to Poland.
A quote by Joseph Goebbels:

"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State."

Who was Joseph Goebbels? Per Wikipedia: Paul Joseph Goebbels (29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945) was a German politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels)
Benchmark of the New Macbook Air
You need to learn more about people if you think this will have any effect on the overall ignorance of even the population that engages with your hoax. This is elitism in its worst form.
1 - Take idea from Arrested Development
2 - Make website
3 - Sell $.99 iPhone app on website
4 - Profit.
What's funny about this situation is that most of these designers have probably not even tried iOS 7 and they are already judging the design. All of this coming after Apple emphasized the fact that "design is how it works, not how it looks". I agree that there is room for improvement in the design, but I am starting to sense some elitism and bandwagoning from the design community.
But there's plenty of "practice targets" out there ;)

Jokes aside, I'm sure there's still lots of wargame websites; there used to be some pretty good ones with a healthy mix of web/crackme/network challenges.
>Wikileaks' stated journalistic method has always been to provide editorialized/pre-digested material along with complete unedited sources.

That's not a "journalistic method". I don't know that I have a name for it, but it's not journalism. I said "put out the 39 minute version as is". If I wasn't clear, that means there should have been no need for an editorialized version at all.
Ask HN: How to find a project partner with electronics engineering background?
I have a quantified self / wearable computing project idea. I am a software developer with very limited understanding of electronics.
How can I find the electronics guy? Any suggestion is appreciated.
Did you read anything about the accusations? (Like why the police threw them away, for example.)

Or, at a minimum, you should take note of the fact that Assange was not formaly accused of rape yet.
All the images that Apple has posted so far (unless I've missed some) seem to use the white iPhone, with a blue/pastel background. I'm curious to see how the icons look in different contexts.
The only real way I see of swinging the power back to the people is to use encryption in all our personal communications, that includes e-mail, voice, video. Unfortunately there is a very real possibility that the government has access to the CA keys so that it would render any encryption useless.

However, it seems that a new type of quantum key distribution system [1] may allow us citizens to share the keys such that not even the government may be able to get them. I don't really know much about this but it does seem promising. It may be the only way to ensure that only those that we choose can see our data. I would not be surprised though if the government tried to pass laws to make such technology illegal. Just like it tried to make military grade encryption illegal by claiming it was a munitions weapon.[2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_key_distribution

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy
Fair enough, but my bigger point is:

<insert smear here> could do this much damage. Well you guys hire him and you fucked up, so I'm holding your butts accountable. Clearly you can't control the surveillance monster you created.
Look at the fact that we had to rely on a British newspaper to break the NSA scandal. A foreign newspaper is doing the job that our news organizations are supposed to be doing.

Pathetic!
To do what he thought was right, Snowden was willing to give up a life with her: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQc-_zUq1JI. Now that's sacrifice.
Libertarianism in general isn't particularly pro-religion or anti-abortion. (except in that it supports general 1A, but a lot of atheists are libertarians). I think the Paul family's anti-abortion stance is their own (and, it was always kind of understandable for Ron Paul, as an Ob/Gyn, to have a strong opinion one way or the other on the issue)
I posted this theory on my G+ feed the first day it was leaked, that PRISM amounted to an automated-NSL-request-and-response management system, like an issue tracker. Click a button to mail an NSL request electronically, notify employee when company approves, go pick up the data automatically.

PRISM is an NSA issue tracker with auto-import essentially.

But someone else pointed out to me something more interesting. All companies which provide voice telephony, even VoIP, have to comply with CALEA, which means they have to install equipment maintained by the FBI which allows intercepts of Voice calls via search warrant.

Once Google added Voice/Video chat, they might have had to comply with this, just like Skype. Ditto for Apple and Facetime.

The Washington Post said something about the NSA tasking the FBI in this pipeline. Therefore, PRISM may be abusing CALEA devices which companies are compelled to install, by leveraging them for intercepts of voice in ways that don't fit the law.

So, revised theory:

For email and non-voice data, PRISM sends an NSL to company, waits for approval, then hits a REST API to pick up the goods.

For voice, PRISM sends request to FBI, who then commands CALEA device for intercept. No company action required?
I haven't seen this new design, but one thing I noticed with the flat design trend is that too many strong colors are used, and this causes fatigue in the long run; for example I noticed this in the latest updates to gmail on android.

But I also guess that with a flat design it is inevitable to resort more to color to differentiate your design elements.
> Look at this from Poland's side. Not building the defensive shield means that Russia has still the right to pressure the country with missiles. Russia wouldn't need to object the defense shield if they didn't want that. Pressuring your neighbors with weapons is still cold war tactics. In this case Russia was clearly the bad guy. Russia is also the bad guy when it manipulates the energy prices for Europe, but it seems that wasn't enough for them.

Look at this from Cuba's side. Not deploying the missiles means that the US has still the right to pressure the country with its military might. The US wouldn't need to object the defense shield if they didn't want that. Pressuring your neighbors with weapons is still cold war tactics. In this case US was clearly the bad guy. US is also the bad guy when it manipulates the energy prices for the world, but it seems that wasn't enough for them.
The spying will never, ever stop.

This plays out as: The NSA etc. claim "Okay, we've stopped spying!" right up until they get caught again.

Then the cycle starts over.

--

There is no technically feasible way of ensuring that you're not being snooped on. Thus: you will always be snooped on.
Some of Brooks' conclusions should have never been printed. They defy logic.

For instance,

>He betrayed the cause of open government. Every time there >is a leak like this, the powers that be close the circle of >trust a little tighter. They limit debate a little more.

Considering the project itself was a secret, I'm not sure how exposing something that would never have been exposed otherwise could be construed as damaging to "open government", a position I doubt Mr. Brooks has ever endorsed without mind-numbing qualification.

>He betrayed the privacy of us all. If federal security >agencies can’t do vast data sweeps, they will inevitably >revert to the older, more intrusive eavesdropping methods.

Gee, and I guess if Dr. Oppenheimer hadn't built The Bomb, we'd have to have used incendiary bombing to win the war.

>He betrayed the Constitution. The founders did not create >the United States so that some solitary 29-year-old could >make unilateral decisions about what should be exposed. >Snowden self-indulgently short-circuited the democratic >structures of accountability, putting his own preferences >above everything else.

So what Mr. Brooks says here is that government regulations trump individual conscience, and that Snowden should have just followed orders. I think they hanged a few Germans and Japanese for following orders too.

But before someone scorches me for DARING TO COMPARE PRISM WITH THE HOLOCAUST, to whom did Snowden really have to turn?

The Founders (Hallowed Be Their Names), maybe?
Who exactly is saying that? I haven't seen anyone say that the iOS7 design is objectively brilliant, just that it's here and everyone has to adjust to it- complaining about it is going to achieve next to nothing because Apple is rarely interested in community feedback.

In all honesty, most of the comments I have seen simply reflect the fact that (warning: generalisation approaching) iOS designers have been on a high horse about how iOS's design is superior to all other platforms, and are now being forced to re-evaluate that stance after Apple has rejected that design.
It's this fantastic project:
https://github.com/aluzzardi/wssh.
It runs term.js on the client, and talks to an intermediate server via websockets that translates into ssh.

I'm also running that server at term.isv.io if you need to ssh into any server a pinch, but of course running your own server is the more secure solution.
This theory supposes that Bitcoin is mature enough to respond to outside influence. The market isn't stable enough to endure events inside of the market: major exchanges getting hacked or experiencing downtime on a frequent basis, "banks" getting "hacked" with little explanation, and whales causing major price shifts by spending a few hundred thousand $ on a big buy or sell.
Hmm... does the NRA keep a registry of its members?
It's already illegal to use a cell phone while driving in Ontario, Canada. Hands-free devices are still okay, however (I disagree with that part).

http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/safety/distracted-driving/
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This is pretty cool, I think its going to be a hit. Great job!
Has anybody familiar with Waze's monetization system?

I used it with a client and saw absolutely terrible metrics. We burned through a ton of cash and got almost zero results. To be fair: I've only had one client try it & I'd argue that they weren't the best fit, but I'd be very interested in seeing what other people's results were here.
Since I am making one, I would have to go with the last option. (Caveated, of course, on which specific self-driving car it was).

:-)
Well, I always reserve the right to change my mind when the facts change, or my understanding of them does. I don't like to think I'm locked into a certain viewpoint or worse, that my viewpoint changes to be what's most advantageous for me personally at any given phase in my life. And I do think I have a good understanding of history.

But at the same time I think that a good understanding of history's past failures can enable you to essentially "try again correctly" in the future.

I think all of us agree that civil liberties are important and that a government's protection of its citizens is important. I see it as an area of tension, but not as a bloodfight like some on both sides of that issue.
Slight nit-pick; you need to pay use tax, not sales tax. Sales tax would be an illegal state regulation of interstate commerce.
Even if I could hear a difference, I'm certain it would be drowned out in "real life" situations where I'm listening to music.

Riding my bike or walking down the street, I'm not going to notice tiny artifacts in an mp3...
Forecasts Achieve High Throughput and Low Delay over Cellular Networks
Installing Chrome for Android on an Emulator
Woah! That's super awesome! Thanks!
> Also, I wonder if Waze will become irrelevant if Google happens to productize self-driving cars (which can presumably talk to each other).

Eventually, probably, the front-end will become, if not irrelevant, less important. Of course, much of the back-end could be kept with incremental improvements to handle new forms of data.

That's also a pretty long time horizon.
"whats up, my god, this image has been, screwed up, faggots"

Is all I see posted in the chat on your live demo[1]. You might want to have a little more control over this, seems like you've been infected with a few teenagers/morons already.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/uunBhwX.png
Flac is genuinely great, but I don't see the problem with people using mp3. I use Flac for my meditation sounds because of binaural tones encoded into them, otherwise for music mp3 is just fine, I am just enjoying it, not producing.
Russia isn't worried about America becoming too powerful. Russia's stance is that your country should worry about itself, and leave other countries alone. Putin has said many snarky remarks in this respect.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Vladimir_Putin
I double-checked if I misunderstood the blog, but this interstitial & the "about" box makes it sound as if everyone who dislikes iOS 7 couldn't do it better anyway and should be publicly shamed for thinking they could:

> C’mon, all you talented mofo’s… We all know you can do better than ol’ Jony boy. Send in your screenshots of the best iOS, OSX, WWDC and general Apple bashing tweets by using the submit link over there ——>

> I CAN DO IT BETTER THAN YOU!! (even though I've never done that specific thing, ever)
Is this credit card info input secure? The credit card form comes up, but i'm not seeing any https listed in the browser url.
Feature Wars
Sometimes I wish whomever downvotes/moderates submissions (not comments) would post a note about why they are doing so. This submission has a 20.86 score presently but it's in position 11 on the home page. The article seems a decent piece that links to some interesting sources. No better or worse than the average submission in my estimation.
He pretty much "is" the voice of the establishment.

If he's saying it, you can bet the military industrial complex shares his opinion.
Apple is very much interested in getting more valuable routing/traffic information! Microsoft and Samsung, too!
Ball's credibility is questionable. At a high level it seems that he was trying to advance his career and leveraged his Wikileaks access to do so. Part of that appeared to be feeding information and possibly documents to David Leigh who he later wrote a book with and helped him secure a job at the Guardian.

http://justice4assange.com/IMG/html/gibney-transcript.html#4...

As a counterpoint to the Shamir story:
http://wlcentral.org/node/1412
http://wlcentral.org/node/1186
Well, so long as we aren't planning on SSL/TLS to keep us safe[1].

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/03/13/cryptog...
Ask HN: Were you against gun ownership? Opinions changed lately?
I'm a gun owner. Have been for many years. And it always pains me when I see people telling me that I _should not_ have the right to own a gun. I see it as short sighted. Now that it is clear the government is spying on pretty much everyone, without permission. I'm curious: Those of you who didn't believe in gun ownership... has your opinion changed at all? Knowing that things aren't always what they seem and that maybe we aren't that far off from other countries where we may need to overthrow the government some day.... would you feel better if you had access to (and it is your constitution given right) firearms?
A smartphone-controlled cyborg roach at TED this week
SolePower – Charge Your Phone While You Walk
"And now bills were passed, not only for national objects but for individual cases, and laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt." —Tacitus, Annals, Book III, 27.
Protect Your Kids From The NSA – Teach them To Code Early Here
The US is about as Democratic as Iran or Russia. Let's face it, in the US, no matter who is 'officially' in power, it's still the same institutions, the same people in charge.

Dissent is censored by a creating a consensus in society, which itself is a product of indoctrination and propaganda. Examples would be the communist and Muslim scares.

The American population is not only powerless to stand up to their institutions, they have convinced themselves that the very institutions that oppress them are necessary. The 2 party system, and various security agencies are examples.

Now the 'average law-abiding citizen' is going to convince themselves that the NSA is preventing 'terrorism' and that Snowden is a 'traitor', and eventually, by demonizing the anti-surveillance elements of society, the US will become even more oppressive, with the full support of the population...
So? Inspiring confidence in the government is not my job, defense of the nation is.
>he seemed to insinuate in the Guardian interview that the NSA keeps a list of undercover assets and he had access to it!? These are the people who created selinux -- if I extend him some credibility, I doubt greatly that he had any real idea what it is he was looking at.

You realize that the CIA accidentally sent North Korea a list of all it's covert operatives real names and in a separate incident sent all their deep cover operatives the CIA's new diversity policy using letters that had the return address as CIA (citation p. 178 The Human Factor http://books.google.com/books?id=cVt9yg52bhoC&printsec=front...)? Intelligence agencies tend to be total crap at protecting that information.

The reason that for 20 years HUMINT sources lasted a week or two in the soviet union before being arrested was lots of people had access to that information and at least two of them, but probably many more, gave the Soviet Union real time updates on all active HUMINT sources. I find it completely believable that many IT workers at the NSA have access to that sort of information. The people the KGB loved to recruit employees that worked in the copyroom or the mailroom because they had the most complete access to intelligent with little to no oversight.

Additionally information exists at the edge or leaf nodes in most organistions as you increase in position, rank or grade you lose access and get siloed. Highly skilled low level workers have all your secrets, some of them are not trustworthy and work for foreign governments.
I use GitLab extensively and it has an acceptable level of friction:value for me.
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It seems really redundant for Google to buy it. Wasn't google using andiod directions to feed traffic data back? I guess the more data point the more valuable the more people use it.... and so on.
If I have choice, I trust ONLY a self-driving car.

Oh, one condition: it's does not have windows or android as OS. No, I'm not apple fanboy :o)
Ironic as one of their member states (Sweden) has a potentially even more wide reaching program. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FRA_law
The deep, dark secret of SEO
Having played around with iOS7 a bit, I can say that I mostly like the new interface. Even the new icons if you ignore the Safari one - something really must have gone wrong there - it feels totally out of place for me.

OTOH, this is the first beta out of probably many (considering how stable thing thing currently is - jokingly I'm telling my colleagues that it's as stable as the average Android phone now), so we might still see some changes there.

Of course, the thing that sold iOS 7 to me is the fact that you can finally place the unused and empty newsstand in a folder :-)
China launches Shenzhou 10 into Earth orbit
A hostile entity owning the public CAs doesn't render "any" encryption useless--just PKI that trusts those common CAs. We could revert to the PGP signing parties of the 90s, or a variety of other key exchange protocols... just no more relying on a certificate because Thawte, Verisign, or (ha!) Comodo say it's good.
There's nothing in the US legal code that creates consequences for disobeying the judicial branch's judgement.

Obeying them is a strong suggestion, and disobeying could conceivably be used as evidence in an impeachment trial, but that's about it.

This isn't a new issue either. It's over 150 years old. Andrew Jackson didn't even get a slap on the wrist for not enforcing the Supreme Court's ruling in Worcester v. Georgia.
Stitched leather did make it onto iOS 6, by way of Find My Friends.

I'm not overly for flat design or overly against skeuomorphism, but Find My Friends was horrendous.
I can't upvote this enough...
Attributed to, but disputed in its authenticity.
they look really good.

$namespace: '.button'; //prefix for all classes

you made my day, sir. was just about to complain that .button may collide with Zurb Foundation's styles (unless buttons not included), and I saw this. +1