skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every time I point out that there are irreducible tradeoffs in life, somebody tells me in a hand-wavy way that some genius is all that is required to overcome it.

Einstein can't travel faster than light, Maxwell can't reverse entropy and I can't change that different people are good at different things.

Optimism is the grease of evolution and economics. Without lots of people exploring fruitless plains of minima we'd never find unexpected maxima. But almost all who try will fail and those who work with the known good maxima will probably succeed.

Convergence vs coverage -- another irreducible tradeoff.
Yeah, I think this is somewhat of an overstatement. UINavigationController? Still there. UITabBar? Still there. UIHamburgerController? Not there. Another radically different way to organize UIViewControllers? Nope.

That being said, there are a few new things that do stand out:

1) Everything is supposed to be fullscreen as often as possible, with the chrome hiding as much as possible. "Deference to content."

2) Transitioning between view controllers should ideally "zoom" in to new content. Like the calendar app zooming into a day view from a month view or a year's worth of photos zooming into a collection of chronological "collections." In other words, your transitions should communicate _how_ the view controllers relate more than just you're replacing one with another.

3) Text Everywhere. (only new on iOS)

4) More abstract but also more physical (read: mimicking the laws of nature, like physics, rather than mimicking things humans have made, read: skeuomorphism)
We need standardized privacy policies. It's too much to read.
How do you infer someone's citizenship from their FB profile?
I am not sure if there is a more effective method of spreading the knowledge however. If it was all dumped at once very few people would be able to absorb it and understand it in a timely fashion and many would probably give up and move on. Yes they benefit by drawing it out, but the same technique seems to elicit deeper impact on the public.
Great point. I'd like to see David Brooks and the rest of the useful idiots try and struggle to keep up with the releases. I'd like to imagine folks as smart as Snowden, Poitras, and Greenwald have approached the releases of these documents strategically, considering the inevitable responses from the status quo and its servants.

I'd imagine it wouldn't be hard to predict their responses to each type of revelation.

They try to downplay the scope of the snooping? Retort with documents showing the number of collaborating service providers and types of materials gathered.

They try to downplay the impact of this on innocent Americans? Release documents showing specific abuses.

etc. and ad nauseaum until the hypocrites, phonies, and apologists are exposed for exactly what they are.

I suppose only time will tell, but I know a lot of people that are getting more and more interested in this.
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That line of argument would go more like "selective enforcement".
I feel really jaded for daring to think it, but I really hope he has the releases set up on a deadman's switch.
One has to question why belief in superstitions is so universal across human cultures to begin with, don't be so quick to dismiss it as reducing your fitness. People did not have a logical understanding of why something like a rat king[1] was bad, or that lighting three cigarettes with one match was bad[2], but through the lens of superstition and "knowing" something bad would happen even without any higher understanding, it may have saved them.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_king_(folklore)

[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_on_a_match_(superstition)
Consider that for that price, the teacher offers his time to help students.

If the price was lower, it's likely he'd have more students; perhaps a lot more. The more students he has to deal with, the less time the teacher will have to help each one of them. On one side you've got private tutoring, where a teacher can work 100% of his time with one student, and at the other end are free MOOCs with tens of thousands of students, where the students are peer-graded and are unlikely to ever interact directly with the teacher.

While MOOCs are great for what they cost, it's pretty obviously not the same quality of education as private tutoring, or by directly interacting with a teacher. So for this class, the teacher decided the minimal level of interaction he thinks is necessary to make a high quality web security course, and decided the price so that he gets an amount of highly motivated students that he can manage with the time he has.
One reason why though, is that the Gestapo could rely on ordinary Germans to inform on each other. It didn't need a vast network of agents and microphones, it just needed an office to take complaints and detectives to follow up.

Unlike the Nazis, who were homegrown, the DDR was a locally administered occupation government backed by a foreign power. It was terrified of its own people and it collapsed the moment the threat of Red Army tanks rolling down the streets quit being credible.
Yes, Ross Douthat is their token conservative.
Booz Allen fires leaker Snowden
iGlasses.
Interesting suggestion - I was surprised to see such a direct competitor to cocos2d, and despite the development budget of Apple I'm a little skeptical of their commitment to building a game engine. Maybe it'll form the basis of a better set of game engines. I'm definitely skeptical of their physics engine over Box2D.
I wanted to sign a petition with StopWatching.US but then I saw that I had to agree to Mozilla's privacy statement. Privacy statements are long and they suck up a lot of time. If they were standardized, with labels, then you could read it once and then just agree to the type/label of privacy policy provided. This is hugely more efficient then having to read the privacy policy everytime.
> In API v1.1 all requests require authentication. Because of this, most JSON-P use cases are actively discouraged as it is rarely possible to perform without exposing your client credentials.

This is a bad move, IMO. Unless I use the official Twitter widgets, I can't request my own info/timeline on my static site?
What the Framers' thought about search and seizure
Translated:

>If I wanted to know what the major cybersec/surveillence stories were in the country with defacto control of a large portion of the world's internet, a hotbed of technological innovation, and the home country of this website, I'd turn to one of the least reputable news sources in that country.
Are you suggesting that the TSA agent interviewing this woman called up some TSA hotline who called up someone at Facebook who just gave it to them, sans warrant, all within the span of a couple hours? Words fail me for an adjective to describe how unlikely that sounds.

The far, far, far simpler explanation would that she had a printout of the conversations because it had an address or directions or that she voluntarily handed over a device (or, possibly, was bullied into doing so, which is in the rights of border control to do).
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Regarding the testimony by Director Clapper: Is it legal to lie under oath if it is to avoid revealing classified information? Would it have been so difficult for the guy to just say "that's classified" instead of lying?
I came across this rather amusing discussion on google groups: https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#!topic/sci...
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It'd be naive to not think about it.
I started this project because javascript is more convenient and easier to teach (everyone knows). The fact that the V8 found in 10(!) Times faster than the native commands even through pipelining, it was found out only later. And as I said, none of my friends can not use LUA to do something serious, but easy to work with javascript. Most of what I've done is independent of the language I use a different approach to scripting the database.

Now cron can do directly in the database. The results you can obtain using REST request (with gzip is very less traffic). On the javascript there is a huge amount of libraries, such as Crypto, if desired, there will be templates to insert. When I finish the beta, it will be possible to write map / reduce function on the clusters. The differences will be very much.
Also, the incremental release strategy makes it easier to catch the government and companies involved telling lies and contradictions. Never show all your cards at once.
The Framers’ perspective on search and seizure [video]
A good way to do it would be to radically downsize the federal government and return back to limited constitutional government. The less money they have, the less stuff they can do. Return power (and tax revenues) back to the states so that the people of that state can have a more powerful influence in state/local politics instead of everyone pleading, fighting, and begging at the national level in Washington.

And since radical downsizing won't happen voluntarily, as both political parties are corrupt and incompetent, the only way I can see this happening is for the government to continue borrowing and spending money into oblivion, which will ultimately trigger an economic default. At that point, there will be no money for new secret programs.
David Brooks is a well-known institutionalist.

This is why you cannot listen to him about when the government behaves badly.
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Basic PR. Dump bad news (at a time when reporters are unlikely to pick it up), trickle out good news, and it gives you a more positive image. They are doing the opposite - trying to get maximum outrage over the stuff they leak.

That's why companies often need PR consultants. Because they are tempted to try to keep stuff under wraps, even when it's slowly trickling out. They need an adult to tell them "people will find out anyway, so just dump the whole thing in a press release on a Friday, so you get it all out in one headline". Plus, reporters will be reporting your spin on it, and you look like you've made an honest mistake and are coming clean.

The NSA should probably figure out what's getting leaked, then spoil the PR attack by coming clean. Somehow, I can't see them doing it.
No, the US Army is "occupying" a chunk of prime real estate in Seoul, in kind of the same way that the United Nations HQ "occupies" a chunk of prime real estate in NYC. Both cause complaints from the locals, but unlike a real occupation, South Korea could tell the US (and the US could tell the UN) to GTFO any time they wanted to.
Well, now that you mention it, yes. When it became around 3-5 cards per stack it was quicker to use insertion sort. I found out, that like computers, it's ultimately a tradeoff between desk space(RAM) and stack iteration (CPU) by me.

I haven't tried radix sort - I'll go try it today and see how well I do. Nope, I don't do selection sort either, since it's quicker to perform insertion sort when stack size gets manageable.
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Sure. Let's classify everything and thus subvert democracy.

A free press is essential for democracy. Who elects these idiots?
You wrote amazingly well. Should be a great asset in addition to your hacking skills.
If the Guardian didn't publish him, @ggreenwald still has some 171k followers on Twitter.
I really dislike the way Wikileaks and this journalist get huge dumps of information then trickle feed it out, and ultimately don't end up releasing most of it. It's almost like they are deliberately giving the USG enough time to shut them down. Infuriating would be an understatement.
This is pretty damning. I think the best thing US officials could possibly say, was that he is not a US citizen and therefore does not have the right to privacy in his electronic communication.

I'm from Norway by the way; this guy is a high-profile, nationally famous lawyer. He's not just some random criminal attorney.
I do not see that argument being made. Maybe he is guilty, but it was only brought to light because he did not do what the NSA wanted.
Hardware is going to be easy to copy.

Google services (search, maps, etc)? Good luck to the imitators.
I'd be curious to know what the actual numbers are...IE 7 even supports SNI, as long as it is running on Vista+. I've seen stats that say XP usage is near 15% now, and some portion of that must include non-IE browsers, so perhaps 10% might be an accurate estimate? When you "last looked", where did you find that 50% stat?

With regards to the security hole, do you mean to say that having the domain name sent in the clear before the secure session is established is the problem? Other than some narrow privacy concerns, I can't see the real issue here, given that most of the time a certain IP address implies a certain domain name, and the destination IP address needs to be sent in the clear.
To be honest, I only clicked on Fertile Ground out of a yearning for self-punishment. I knew exactly what kind of article to expect from a title like that, it's just that I like to complain when it happens that I get what I want and I also don't like what I want. The sense of superiority makes me feel a bit better, kind of like those cranky old guys that think most everyone else is an idiot. The main difference with PG seems to be that I have to read 5000 words before arriving at that all-too-familiar sinking feeling. Well, I hope I've contributed to the overall cynicism levels around here, and I wish you an absolutely rotten day.
The point that others are making in the thread is this:

If you are an independent iOS developer looking to hit a majority of devices, just develop for iOS 7 - pretty much everyone will be on that in a year.

If you are independent Android developer looking to do the same - you need to target at least ICS, Jelly Bean and Gingerbread to get a 90%+ market share. (And with Gingerbread support comes ActionBar Sherlock and other fun stuff). I'm in the middle of this right now for my app, and hating it.

When the iOS version adoption looks like the first table in the following page, then you'll have a fair point:
http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html
You realize how ridiculous this sounds to any ally or trading partner of the US, right? What US authorities are saying is basically that non-citizens of the US do not have basic human rights.
I was gonna be critical about the fact the break in continuity might affect enthusiasm, but I think it might actually lend more clarity. I might try this for a bit.
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If you were reporting on these leaks like Greenwald, wouldn't you have a dead man's switch? What does it say about a reporter's job that they would have to fear for their very lives?

Reporters are now protagonists since states spy on them and use dirty tactics to prevent them from doing their jobs. I don't think many of them wanted that role when they started.
Infrastructure changes:

1. Stash pushes git change notification to bamboo
2. Bamboo checkout git and run cucumber tests on ec2
3. Green tests means puppet changes are pushed to puppet master under staging env
4. Manual build step to push to prod env
5. All affected infra will pickup puppet changes on next run
Seems to already be fixed.
Such things can backfire:

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/wikileaks-insurance-file-decry...

EDIT: Didn't see the Twitter update at the bottom, my apologies.
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Why am I unable to change the title to remove the 'n' from 'Shown'?
The US national debt is denominated in dollars. The US government decides what a dollar is. There's no way they can default. Just trigger hyperinflation.
"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which." George Orwell, Animal Farm
It's not fixed for me. Two possible caveats: it seems only active for people who are my contacts, and I am a Premium member, which might give me superpowers that not everyone has. But it's definitely still active.
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good artists copy, great artists steal (and yes microsoft does work worth stealing).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW0DUg63lqU
Why Edward Snowden Is a Hero
I haven't heard this mentioned yet: Do we really think facebook "private" messages are in any way private, or even billed by facebook to be private? I am reading the facebook privacy policy and they do mention that they "... may use the information we receive about you: ...to protect Facebook's or others' rights or property..."

So we have rights to free speech, do we also have rights to private speech?
Former intelligence officer on the dangers of PRISM
update: In a tweet, the @wikileaks says: "WikiLeaks 'insurance' files have not been decrypted. All press are currently misreporting. There is an issue, but not that issue."
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This Ars Technica piece http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/06/the-global-influence-of... has a similar piece which is good too, pointing out that the app switcher seems to trace back to WebOS. Actually, the big, high and centred, skinny-lettered and unbordered time display on the lock screen always reminds me of some Sony Xperia lock screens, though maybe that's just me.
In Hedges v Obama [1], the trial court blocked the government's power to indefinitely detain. The ruling was immediately appealed and the trial court's decision was stayed. I take it from the government's rush to appeal that there are people are being detained right now that would have had to be released had the ban been upheld.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedges_v._Obama
As a developer who hasn't published an app in the iOS App store, I love the point that Marco's making. One of my biggest biggest hesitations in developing an iOS application has been, how the hell can I differentiate myself? By being one of the first iOS 7 apps! I don't have to have some crazy sense of design, or think too hard about what gradients I use, since my app will stand out from the start. I think that's one of the main points in the argument.

As a developer who has friends who have developed "non-trivial" iOS apps, damn. This is pretty spot on exactly what happened (happening still even) on Android with pre/post 3.0 applications. Making sure that the UI works on both categories of devices is just awful. There are a few projects out there to help (ActionBarSherlock, HoloEverywhere), but it takes a lot of diligence, ESPECIALLY if you're trying to do combination tablet and phone apps.

A lot of the posts I've read on this thread are missing the point of the post. It's not just about change, its not about fragmentation, its about the excitement for newcomers to join an ecosystem that has felt super saturated for years. It may not actually shake the foundation of the app store, but it at least allows for new talent to enter on the same playing field as those who have been developing iOS applications for years. That's just exciting.
This is going to be about a redefinition of privacy.

It was ok for governments to spy on other countries governments (and so their citizens). In this name we put satellites over us all. The problem with this is the satellites spied on everyone, and governments were supposed to ignore the right bits.

But now if a government wants to spy, it mostly needs to watch what people do or do not do online (I will bet real spies have some really odd online "tells")

So if its ok to spy on another government, it's going to be necessary to spy on everyone everywhere, and then ignore certain bits. Like satellites but much more finer grained. Oh and if you want to catch a spy in the USA, you need to spy on all US citizens to watch for those "tells".

What we want is not for governments to pretend the Internet does not exist, but rather to ensure that they cannot use the information found for anything we do not specifically legislate.

I am pretty sure this is something like an extension of the fourth amendment in US terms.

It's a redefinition of privacy - not that no-one knows, but that no-one is allowed to make use of knowing.

That's the trade-off we face. We get the Internet, we give up what we currently think of as privacy.
Looks like it's applicable for non-US citizens as well.

However, for most people this would probably be nothing more than a great way to put yourself on the proverbial "list".
It's still a form of ad-hominem. Ignore the messenger, evaluate the message.
Mozilla loves all. See the Mozilla Story. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmk43_2dtn0
Youre probably just being obtuse, but: he just means the principle of things coming from somewhere or going to somewhere, as someone once put it. Reinforcing conceptual relationships via physical movement and manipulation that mirrors how things may behave in the physical world, to some degree. See zoom-in/swim-into interfaces, or the way screens transition rather than just blink into view, etc.
>It's simple: it's an easy way to belittle him. It's part of the broad character assassination we always see when somebody tries to make waves.

Sex scandal accusation is in the works I'm sure.
One story here is about what a “hacker” is. What the word represents, what people who identify with it value, and what role those people play in private industry, in government, and in the military/security/intelligence world.

Here on Hacker News, where most of the top stories, threads and comments are favorable to Edward Snowden, you might have the impression that there's some unspoken “hacker code” just below the surface, encompasing ideals like sharing source, promoting freedom of expression and privacy, understood by anyone whose work closely concerns the internet.

When it comes to the intelligence community, this impression would be sorely mistaken. If you are a regular on hacker news, NSA types already have a stereotype for people like you:

“Remember, folks, IT weenies are the code-clerks of the 21st century”
https://twitter.com/20committee/statuses/343812020992372736

After this incident, they'll probably step up efforts to keep people who sympathize with these sorts of values away from classified information. They'll find plenty of other able candidates who don't share these values.

http://qz.com/92509/edward-snowdens-lesson-to-both-businesse...
Here is a similar story from one year ago:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2093796/Emily-Buntin...

This case was public twitter messages and not private facebook conversations, but otherwise similar.

There's a lot of skeptics in this thread whether the US immigration would actually snoop through social networking sites. But if these two cases are true as reported, it seems there's some level of semi-automatic filtering of social media accounts for people entering the country.
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Wow, no kidding. Why the heck could it need "Administrator level account permissions" (both on OSX and Windows [1])? I guess you could run it in a VM and wipe it afterwards.

1. https://www.examsoft.com/dotnet/Default.aspx?f=mtlaw
<Personal opinion> No example, no About page, anonymous subjective quotes,... Less superlatives and more details would make it look more like a genuine service and less like a scam.
Even before that we had "Enemy of the State", which clearly showed the direction this whole thing is going, albeit in a fantasy holiwood setting.
If everyone started encrypting everything, it would matter less. Simply encrypting your email doesn't obfuscate everything, though, since subjects and recipients are still visible. But it's a start.

Until they put you in prison for not turning over your private keys.
Is there any sense of the law which would allow US authorities to seize or otherwise prohibit these additional documents from being published?
Nice site. How did you get all that content? Kind of reminds me of booking.com
I wonder how often freedom works (the infamous tea party group supposedly funded by the koch brothers) is listed right next to greenpeace and on the same list of supporters as the PCCC and moveon.org. It can't be often