skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wrote my undergrad thesis on conspiracy theories (in Turkish politics)[1], but it includes a section reviewing academic literature on conspiracy theories and a lot of resources in the bibliography.

Karl Popper wrote briefly about conspiracy theories in "Open Society and its Enemies."[2] It was part of a larger argument about emergent vs. planned orders, but I think it's a very good point: many conspiracy theories arise "from the mistaken theory that, whatever happens in society – especially happenings such as war, unemployment, poverty, shortages, which people as a rule dislike – is the result of direct design by some powerful individuals and groups." It's simply hard for us to accept that improbable, harmful events are the result of lots of unplanned actions rather than one malevolent design.

[1]: http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/bitstream/10150/14...
[2]: http://ovo127.com/2011/01/24/sir-karl-popper-the-conspiracy-...
That's a valid point, but isn't this a forum of mostly developers and tech-savvy people? While your point stands, I have a feeling that a lot of readers of HN will be looking at this from the OP's point of view.
A lot of people prefer indiscriminate leaking, and feel that any national security cost is worth it. Just because Snowden thinks of it differently doesn't mean that we now all have to think of leaking that way - that's tribal.
In a world where self interest drives most survival, conspiracies exist even in small areas like groups of people at a job, committees, small tribal groups, wall street, corporations (enron), even reality TV shows. Add power and lots of money to that and you get more.

By nature/survival people try to get ahead by cheating. The one thing is for sure, the word 'conspiracy' shuts off people's brains, they don't have to be massive.

If I ever committed a crime with a small amount of people with a big payoff, I would hope that it seems like it would take a massive amount of people and that it be classified a conspiracy. It would be so much easier to get away with it. Even feeding into it being a conspiracy to encourage people to look the other way.

Yet on the flipside we can believe a group of terrorists conspire to take use down from shadowy caves like a comic book or some government organization is targeting us. Everyone believes in some conspiracies and usually it is relative to cognitive bias.
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The idea of a barebones programming sandbox attracted me to this, but then reading through the rest of the site I felt like it was an attempt at sublime evangelism using Biblical passages as allegory for programming philosophy that then rambles on into a testimonial blog post.

I like resources such as the source code by address page, and the lack of complicated structures that get in the way of kernel programming, and I think it would still be fun to dig through the I/O and process management code when I have time to translate the naming paradigm so I can follow it.
Perhaps I just read too much HN. ;) I'll see if I can dig up a few examples.

Edit: After 15 minutes of googling, I'm unable to find an example to back up my assertion; I withdraw it. I'm still pretty sure it's out there, but I won't ask you to take my word for it. :)
Because they're right? Have you heard of PRISM?
Design always looks easier than it really is. Even the most shanzhai designers must work very hard to copy a design given other constraints (cost) they are limited by. And the imitation often misses many details.
That sounds a lot like Linux kernel development.
No slight intended to Mormons in general, I have a number of Mormon friends... but: I live in "Mormon-ville," and there is this weird thing about Mormons: they have a lot of bankruptcies. It seems to me like a lot. I am just the onlooker and have no evidence, but it appears to me that 1) get loan from national bank branch staffed by Momons, 2) default, 3) go before Mormon judge, 4) get lenient bankruptcy terms, 5) get another loan again soon from, you know, a Mormon lending officer... sooner than I could get it anyway.

My personal observation is that there are a lot of people in on the conspiracy or whatever you want to call it, and that as long as it stays within maybe "statistical anomaly" levels, it is a good income generator for the people of Utah.
I'm hoping this results in vastly improved SMB support, which I am in full agreement with other commenters, has been infuriating since Apple decided to roll their own. I frequently hop to my Windows machine to manage my Windows Home Server even though I'm just doing simple SMB communication and file cleanups that should work fine in OS X, but don't.
I generally wait for the new hardware. Never have had a good "iOS upgrade" experience.
Hehe, I love it. Translation: believe this because it will get you laid.
Frankly, I'm hoping that they can come up with some, and some other people can come up with ways to make such measures socially accepted and encouraged. The examples he gives are specifically the kinds of things that there are social solutions to - eg making it Not Socially Acceptable to wear mobile face recognition systems around in public.

If you're going to devolve into a DDR-style police state, there's very little technically that can prevent that from happening. What can happen is that you force an enormous investment of resources to maintain it, instead of giving the ability to a tiny cabal. If you're forcing the recruitment of a demographically significantly portion of the population (somewhere 2.5% to 7% in the case of the Stasi) in order to maintain the security apparatus, there's much more room for debate over whether to build it or dismantle it than if it just requires a few billion dollars and a fistful of NSLs.
Switching from high-level programming to assembly
Make sure you're marching is very peaceful. Don't want the government to label you a 'terrorist'. You may never seen sunlight again.
I haven't heard that name in a long time. That is some freaky stuff.
Considering iOS 7 is a 'flat' redesign, it's hardly surprising that it bears stylistic similarities to other flat mobile UI designs.

The flat trend in web and app UI design has been building for the last couple of years. We're at a point where flat is simply the present zeitgeist of UI design.

However, 'flat' largely covers superficial aspects of design. Where iOS still differs is in the actual meat of the design; the interactivity and user experience.

Also, as the page was down for me, here's the Google cached page: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:FATZrqh...
This is more or less Gramsci's theory of hegemony. Hegemony, distinct from coercion, is the production of "spontaneous consent" for the policies of the "ruling class" through the means of civil society, intellectuals, and culture. By shaping how people perceive their interests, there's no need to coerce behaviors or acceptance of policies.
Call this a vote for Ansible.
I've reached a very similar conclusion and for smaller pages that don't need frequent updates I usually go with static HTML if possible, pre-rendering the static HTML from templates during the build phase if there are many pages with similar layouts. If the site really is meant to grow (lots of posts, many items in inventory, etc) then a framework like Wordpress still makes sense, but for a company landing page or a vanity site I don't see the need.
What about the new MacPro?
This Website is the Result of a Broken PalmPilot?
I'm young, foolish, and I honestly don't care if I'm labeled a terrorist.

Although, my ethnicity doesn't particularly help my cause...
A variant of this theory is significant in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash.
I have one that I would be happy to trade for your iPhone 5. While the nexus is a great device, it has tons of lags, and hangs. Android seems to be an amalgamation of rough edges - and I love google! For goodness sake, to add a telephone number to a contact you need to select 'add field' and then select the field type before you can enter the value. Okay, I'll stop with my rant, but seriously, I would live to trade. The screen and FF of the nexus are perfect IMHO.
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Twitter breaks their own search page with API Deprecation
Not totally sure of your point, but yes nature documentaries are pretty much always lies in the local footage sense and global scientific sense.

But it does lead to the interesting question have people who have subverted the true science of animals and nature like David Attenborough do harm or is it for a greater cause. Half relevant XKCD here http://xkcd.com/397/
It's not like your device will stop working the day iOS 7 is released. Your phone won't have any features taken away and you can keep it using until the hardware fails. (I'm still using my Nokia N900).
Google uses Perfect Forward Secrecy: http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2011/11/protecting-...
In case someone at Twitter actually fixes this tonight, here's a screenshot: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/117450/twitter-search.pn...

Embarrassing.
Motive and deterrence are orthogonal.

Nobody said anything about motive because there is no realistic motive. These 'assumptions' you're seeing are wholly in your own head.

There is, however, real deterrence, and it's interesting to explore its shape.
Google: We’re No NSA Stooge and We’ll Prove It if the Feds Let Us
Founder Potluck - startup founders talking shop, Thurs at Twitter
Not too many Silicon Valley software companies on that list
Excel will always be used BECAUSE its so free-form.

http://readwrite.com/2013/06/11/excel-is-an-art-form-these-b...
It might be worth reading "Why Orwell Matters" first. It's not a large book, and having a map helps.
Couldn't they do it with 1 IP and use anycast instead of DNS to route to the edges?
Thanks for the reply. I had no idea this website was actually run by the names behind it. The site looks like some opportunistic person put an email form on a page and tried to collect email addresses. There was a hint of something legit with the Mozilla terms but it was more confusing than reassuring.

There are a lot of big trusted names behind this project, it should be made clear who the creators are.
Umm it is beta, ios 6 was painful to use until about beta4. Even then the GA release had all that removed.

I'll bet the entire os has debug symbols and other things turned on that never reach production.

That said, the jerky animations are annoying in use. But its mostly spit and polish things nothing overly broken. I did set this up on a 4s with a new install and not restore (i'm not putting a beta on my main phone).
I'm a big fan of the general visual appearance and behaviors of ICS and Jellybean! After Froyo and Gingerbread, it was a relief. With all the Project Butter work, Android has become much better. I wish they would block carriers from messing up the UI.

iOS is a lot different than Android. I don't think people realize how conservative Apple is. In the olden days, Apple was very late to the table with basic OS features like memory protection. I don't really see iOS7 as fragmentation as much as a Gingerbread->Ice Cream Sandwich transition where Apple realizes they were off track and needs to correct.
Which they have done repeatedly, as in the case of the "Total Information Awareness" program.
"Let America Be America Again" by Langston Hughes (1935)
http://askakorean.blogspot.com/2008/09/why-do-koreans-compla...

http://askakorean.blogspot.com/2012/12/quick-thought-about-p...

Yes, the US are in fact occupying South Korea, and South Korea does not like it.
Why would they? That's incredibly risky from a legal point of view.
1. What if the source code that does this isn't checked in? You would need to verify that the runtime matches the source code. What if it's not spread across Google's entire codebase, and is just in one of the pieces of infrastructure that almost all of the data hits? (eg. map-reduce clusters)

2. The link out to the NSA would need to be massive as well. Would be very difficult to keep that secret. A 4G modem is not going to cut it.

3. Sure, but I imagine the NSA would be happy to put in the maintenance effort required. The data would have high ROI from their perspective.
He's got his three like any other citizen. They could hunt him if they wanted.
نتيجة اعدادية الشرقية 2013
I may be assuming unfairly, but the than/then confusion referred to is a problem I have seen almost exclusively in native English speakers who try to spell phonetically. Non-native speakers have other problems, which I generally gloss over.

It seems a fair assumption that mattermill is a native English speaker when he's on a primarily English-speaking site, committing a primarily English-native grammar error, and echoing some very American hubris (not saying Americans are all terrible - I am one - but we do have a certain characteristic braggadocio).

You can make something pretty without the ability to clearly communicate and a strong attention to detail, but you can't effectively design for information and interaction purposes without those skills. Anecdotally, most of the excellent hackers and designers I've met have had excellent communication skills, and those native to English usually speak it impeccably.

Also, the kind of absolute mastery of UX design he claims (the ability to out-design all the best in the industry on his own, based only on screenshots) would require all but perfection of all the attributes of a good designer. Such a trivial mistake would not pass the muster of such a demigod of design.

Regardless of whether I'm right in that argument, it's still not an ad hominem, because there is an argument present, not a simple dismissal of everything he has to say because he made a grammar error. It's a challenge extrapolated from his grammar to his implicitly claimed mastery of UX design, not a dismissal of his ability to participate in the debate.
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Good point, and one I missed. Thanks for helping clear things up.
Google's own apps keep up with the infrastructure changes. Why would an NSA backdoor be any different to just another Google app?
No. That is a definition of "conspiracy" that is rarely thought of any more. It is usually the last in the list of definitions in dictionaries.
The most understood definition is to work with other people, usually in secret, to do something "evil".
Interesting sentiment, and I can't help but think this is why the government seems to fear the youth the most/ships them off to wars in other countries.
Creating a mesh network using the unused analog TV frequencies probably would be nice and useful
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Or rather, enough members of the public believe in the lumb-of-labour fallacy to make these kinds of policies fly.
You actually buy into the conspiracy theory that the government is in bed with corporations and storing and combing through tons of our own data that we trust with these companies? Hahahahah! You're a real conspiracy theorist believer!
Just tell me what kind idiot would use Facebook for a private conversation.
This is great! Are you thinking of making the list of offers available via RSS or an API? We would love to link to them from our web app directory at https://starthq.com
Less talk and more publishing. The longer they discuss just how great the additional documents are going to be, the more time the NSA/USA has time to try convince the guardian not to publish...
As I've mentioned in another comment I just posted (after your comment, that is), it's not an ad hominem regardless of whether the "poor grammar -> poor design" argument holds, because there is an argument present, not a simple dismissal of everything he has to say. It might be wrong, but it's still a valid argument, and not an ad hominem.

The example you show instead points to an attribute of the speaker to imply that what he says is categorically untrue, regardless of whether it's relevant or not. In this case, an attribute of the speaker is used to refute a specific argument of his (that he is such a demigod of UX design that he can design better than any of the top teams in the industry), while still allowing him to participate in the debate.

No argument can be made connecting someone's poor grasp of logic to the taxonomy of weasels, but an argument can be made connecting someone's poor grasp of grammar to that same person's ability to design.
Extremely sketchy. Not illegal.
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I think it's funny that this was on the front page this morning, and with "Mozilla, EFF, and Reddit" in the title, the TechCrunch article about it blows straight to the top.

Titles matter y'all, titles matter.
Or, in the six months before the new shiny iOS appears, every single dominant or near-dominant application on the app store decides that it makes more sense for them to build a version that targets the other ecosystem.
That's fair. See my replies to your comment's siblings for a further explanation of how this isn't an ad hominem.
1. Build the debian package
2. Add to private repository
3. Trigger apt-get upgrade on all the servers via any tool or method of choice.
The CIA wants to spy on you through your TV (March 2012)
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I do agree with your arguments, yet they do have a patent on "Slide to unlock"
It's beta 1. What do you really expect? The lag is because the code just isn't done, let alone optimized. I'm using it on an iPhone 5, and it doesn't feel like any Android I've ever used, and I was in the Android world from 1.5 on a Sprint HTC Hero through the Nexus 7. This feels like the first seed of every beta - there are problems, and they will be addressed.
It is disappointing how news organizations seek to gravitate towards making themselves the center of whatever story they're telling.

Isn't the role of narrator an incredibly important enough part of every tale?
I suppose it's not a coincidence Apple showed off how many users are running the latest version of iOS vs the latest version of Android.
The timing of this article, especially given the tone of NYTimes' coverage of the PRISM event, is highly suspect.

/tinfoil
Everybody takes their own path.
Ideal for those who always dreamed of becoming a spy (or Stasi informant). $1500 gets you a stealthy camera with NSA uplink.
I'm not necessarily going to defend waxing poetic, but the visual changes (which everyone has been harping on) are being driven by some pretty significant changes in UIKit that really are a revolution in how iOS apps will be written and used.
Isn't NYT a quasi-PR-department of US government? See Judith Miller. Expect more damage control articles from NYT on the current fiasco.
You just open sourced Google's IP related to Hardware Design of Glass. Now just waiting for cheap knockoff's from China flooding the Walmart's of the world or flooding eBay catalogs.
At this point in the history of the CDDL, it's very much open to question what anyone's motives were at the time it was written. It is likely that the various parties involved - even within Sun - had varying motives: Sun, like any other large organization, was not monolithic in its opinions nor even its behavior.

Whatever the CDDL was designed or hoped to do, the ultimate question of what it /will/ do may someday be decided by a court. In the meantime, Oracle - which is notoriously well-equipped with lawyers - apparently believes that the CDDL-vs-GPL question does not prevent it from porting DTrace to Linux. If someone disagrees with them strongly enough to… well, do what, exactly? …that will be entertaining.

In the meantime, why does anyone bother to argue about whether Danese wrote the CDDL, didn't write it, knew what Sun was really after in writing it, or tap-danced naked down Sandhill Road while writing it?DTrace is coming to Linux, CDDL or no CDDL. That ought to be cause for rejoicing, not flogging the dead license horse.
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2010 Conspiracy Theory: The US government is intercepting every online and cellular communication of it's citizens.

2013: Conspiracy Fact: The US government is intercepting every online and cellular communication of it's citizens.

Sometimes theories prove to be true.
It's an extension of the Animistic Fallacy[1].

Flash of lightning, rumbling thunder: Zeus threw a thunderbolt. Same thing scaled up -- we look for one or a few humans causing events.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animistic_fallacy
(and as an extra thought) you do not need to go far to imagine what apps with these new functionalities will be like - Android had them for a long time and Android apps are basically very similar to iOS ones.
>'oh by the way, I carefully chose specific things to leak as I didn't want to risk national security, I just want to help my country'

That's an interesting quote from him, seeing as he has apparently provided thousands of documents to Greenwald:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/11/us/how-edward-j-snowden-or...
Lest we forget, Reason nailed Brooks already: "Do something. Is there a two-word phrase in politics more loaded with disguised ideological content? Embedded within is both an urgent call for powerful government action and an up-front declaration that the policy details don’t matter. The bigger the crisis, the more the urgency, the sparser the detail."

http://reason.com/archives/2011/11/22/the-simpletons
Mirror anyone?

Edit:

Text:
http://chris.millr.org.nyud.net:8080/ios-7-looks-familiar-ca...

Images:

http://chris.millr.org.nyud.net:8080/wp-content/uploads/2013...

http://chris.millr.org.nyud.net:8080/wp-content/uploads/2013...

http://chris.millr.org.nyud.net:8080/wp-content/uploads/2013...

http://chris.millr.org.nyud.net:8080/wp-content/uploads/2013...
Comprehensive numbers and analysis for those interested here: http://www.asymco.com/2012/06/12/the-ios-app-market-sales-ru...
I'm really excited! I like the incremental release, I think it builds momentum in the way that a full dump could not. Just as one story has been thoroughly explored, the next one comes out.
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Some other legislation, like EESA, gets passed while 99% of constituents oppose it. These same constituents then proceed to re-elect basically everyone.
Brooks, Friedman, and the banal authoritarianism of do-something punditry (2011)
From a strategic role, what Greenwald's doing is a smart move. If they were to dump everything out in the public in quick succession, the news cycle (and, by extent, the public) would absorb the information and move on. Timed releases would continually stoke the fire and prevent people from forgetting about it.
Twitter @ejosephsnowden impersonating Edward Snowden
Jonyiveredesignsthings.tumblr.com
companies should never have to lie on the spying statistics (but maybe need to hide some specifics)
Wong Wing v. United States, 163 U.S. 228 (holding that noncitizens charged with crimes are
protected by the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments)

Fong Yue Ting v. United States, 149 U.S. 698 ((concurrence arguing that noncitizens are protected by the First, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments)

Almeida-Sanchez v. United States, 413 U.S. 266

Bridges v. Wixon, 326 U.S. 135, 161

etc.
The only holding otherwise is the 4th amendment one of a number of appeals courts.
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