skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes this was Rackspace.

We were proposing moving our S3 stuff over to their OpenStack stuff for inevitable security reasons (we hold sensitive contract and financial data). We were told that they could make no guarantees directly so we'd be better off going with a "locally registered company".

If you call a non US subsidiary and ask them directly about their data handling policy with respect to the US, then you'll get the same answer. With FISA, they are required not to tell you as well.
Nothing indicated that updates would be instantaneous. It can wait until the phone is plugged in. They also seem to have gone out of their way to minimize battery impact. Apps lifecycles are still controlled by the system, which can presumably decide to suspect those activities if things get dire.
It's possible to also be a hero for jeopardising national security. Bad nations should be jeopardised. It's how they become good nations. They stay bad nations when their citizens repeat the mantras they've been taught rather than thinking. Bullshit like "My country, right or wrong" and worshipping flags and all that sort of junk.

It appears that the United States is still, incredible as it seems, a country producing citizens willing to put themselves at risk when the United States is threatened (and let's be serious for a moment here - terrorism was never a threat to the United States, but this is part of an ongoing existential threat to the United States, from its own government; the very people who should be saying "Calm down, folks; times may be scary but let's not throw away our country out of fear," are instead simply competing with each other, spurring hysteria for votes and metaphorically burning the flag they bizarrely teach children to worship). Long may these citizens last.
Honestly I saw the page after seeing the 'trash can' comments and expected to be unimpressed. But I actually quite like the concept, though maybe that's the nuclear engineer in me talking.
Spreedly raises another seed round, does it all via AngelList
National security...give me a break.

"Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither." - Benjamin Franklin

Make no mistake, we live in very dangerous world but it's now clear that the danger is being generated or at least perpetuated by the US government. The war on terror is a lie. We're openly funding terror. The police state is here. The industrial military complex war machine will never stop.

The Patriot act is a danger to free people everywhere. What's wrong with getting a warrant? Due process and the US constitution is dead and you are okay with that? He is not Bradley Manning. Bradley Manning leak may have caused people to get killed. Some people don't want to live in a world where they are not free. You may be fine with that...I'm not.
Aah ... It tastes Android :)
The more I look at this design, the more I think it's absolutely brilliant. Increasingly we're seeing fantastically small form factors for mid-ranged desktop computers like the Intel NUC and the Mac Mini, yet high end workstations are still stuck in massive, ugly ATX towers.

This seems to elegantly solve the problem of squeezing components that tend to run very hot, into a relatively small space. The shared heat sync and cooling pipe is really clever.
I don't know how many known terrorist organizations would you like to correspond with on a regular basis?
How does letting everyone know the government is listening jeopardize National Security?

If anything, I expect it would increase National Security, as everyone will toe the line more and more for fear of getting caught.
Thanks for bringing that up. I'd have to agree that Glenn Greenwald is an intellectual rotten apple. You don't accuse intelligent atheists of "racist islamophobia" if you're a good actor.

That said, he might just have an irrational us vs. them "liberals vs. racists" complex and be able to speak sensibly on other matters.
Even if you think, as I do, Manning should have the book thrown at him, the Snowden case is quite a bit different. For one thing, Manning took a bunch of classified data he couldn't possibly have gone through in any detail and dumped it on the internet. People probably died as a result, and certainly it hurt US diplomatic efforts. It only takes five minutes of reading before you realize Bradly Manning has psychological problems and should never have been allowed access to anything important, and his data dump was probably more about his personal problems than it was about any kind of principle.

Snowden's case is quite a bit different. He only released details about the program he was familiar with. Clearly he broke the law and clearly he's forsworn, but IMO you can make a much better case for leniency or even a pardon.

Given the way this administration has been going after leakers (would have been the sign of Hitler's second coming had it been Bush) he shouldn't hold his breath expecting a pardon.
The limited flat/skeu vocabulary doesn't have a word for it, but it's what I'd call a depth cue.

(If you'll indulge me linking to my own article, I've tried to lay out a better framework here: http://interuserface.net/2013/05/flat-is-not-the-opposite-of...)
Why is Bush missing from this?
If you're parked in a street sweep area:

"Remind me to move my car on ___ at 2pm"
I disabled it mainly for one reason: the ill-conceived placement of the Siri button on the keyboard. I use the keyboard all the time, but I only use Siri from time to time.

When I am trying to type, I shouldn't have to worry about where my left thumb is hitting when I need the ".?123" button.

As far I know, there's no way to keep Siri enabled but to remove that button from the keyboard.
Guess they finally ran out of cats.
Quantum, Avalon and Naps Top This Week's Travel News
I've been using the hybrid native/web approach to circumvent the downloads as well. I didn't go so far as push actual UI a la HTML to load in a webview, but I made dynamic native UIs that changed according to certain responses made on startup (think sending a news update with a picture url loaded into a UILabel/UIImageView)

The composability point is interesting. I like the idea of dependencies, and I've used url schemes to do it. You can test for whether or not an app is installed (given that it has a scheme) by testing invoking - (BOOL)canOpenURL:(NSURL *)url from UIApplication. Something interesting would be for Apple to require that each app have a custom URL scheme, and possibly generate them from a unique app identifier.
Yes, magic mouse is pretty much a trackpad
What would it say if you ran a benchmark with Safari on your Macbook and Chrome on your Windows/*nix box and Chrome came out significantly ahead?
By Larry Klayman, of Judicial Watch; a fringe political group just a tier above Orly Taitz. Read his history (he was all over the spotlight in the '90s during the Clinton administration) before jumping to the conclusion that this is the start of something meaningful.
Sure. But closure of PRISM and restored rights have no bearing on who pays the $3B or the fact that lawyers will see most of it (which is the case with most class actions).
You'd be surprised at the level of intimate details discussed by street hustlers on prepaid mobile phones. I'm not sure if prepaid throwaway ipv6 addresses would be viable, but it may not hurt to start thinking in this direction.
Yeah, it's been frustrating.
The whole of iTunes Connect could use a refresh. Sales reports from the previous day are often delayed by several hours, and there isn't any good way to hook optimization tools into your app's App Store page.
Personally, I have been waiting a very long time for this. PC users need not read this. I love this company as they have revolutionized many things. Just the App Store alone gives me enough reason to be loyal forever. iOS... just beautiful. The Mac Pro... mind blown..
I'm not talking about deploying/using PGP to be secure from gov't (or Gmail) monitoring. I'm talking its use in the context of 99% of normal interactions online. Yes, we wouldn't have tinfoil-hat-level security if it was managed by Gmail, Yahoo, etc. But we'd be lightyears further ahead in our ability to interact securely with others online.
ah, sorry, got from the linked article on the bottom of the page.

can't edit... well, just let's look at the weather app then and bash apple for outright copying 100% of the app from yahoo (except the flickr photos on the background) :)
I like looking up scores and statistics during the NFL and NBA seasons via the Yahoo Sports integration.
How Star Trek Explains the NSA
That's another really baffling choice. Microsoft must be paying Apple a bundle in kickbacks in order to make Bing the default search. Trying to unite against Google? Yahoo and Bing did the same thing. I'm sorry, Bing still sucks, no matter how their commercials try to convince me otherwise.
Everyone has stupid things like that.
But the reason for hiding, is that if only your secrets are unveiled, other people will use them against you!

But if everyone's secrets are unveiled, everyone benefit's. (e.g. you might learn that your wife hates you too, and that everyone likes to pick a nose:)

The problem isn't that people loose their privacy, the problem is that government get's to keep it's privacy, and government shouldn't have any privacy in the first place!
Glenn Greenwald and William Binney interview, today.
I use it to set my alarm and call people
the animation is terribly slow on my 1mbps african internet connection... completely unusable.
Except for the minor issue that, in the context of PRISM, the NSA mostly collects metadata - who corresponded with who, when and how much.

Public key cryptography is great for this, because it means if you match one person to a key, you've then reliably matched every message they sent and have fairly strong proof it's the same person.
> Laws should be about the informed* consent of the governed*

That is a huge can of worms, because it depends on being able to determine who is and isn't "informed."
This kind of sums up HN's analysis of what's happening for me: a comment that says Larry Klayman's credentials cannot be called into question.

Sorry for singling you out.
Edward Snowden Makes Himself an Even Bigger Problem to the Officialdom
This product must have been in development for years. In his biography (2011), Steve Jobs said he was working on an exciting new product, I think this was it. He also said Ive had already made the designs for the new products of the next 3 years.

That’s not to say that Cook has to prove himself, he’s already done that for years. However, this product has Jobs written all over it (he was mad about powerful workstations with outrageous designs).

http://www.forbes.com/sites/briancaulfield/2011/10/25/steve-...
I wish there was a snappy response to "but I've got nothing to hide!". This article is not it. The slippery slope/thin end of the wedge arguments rely on a potential "they will take advantage" event at some future unspecified date. And it's a matter of faith to believe that will or will not happen.

The arguments about sharing your email/going naked are missing the point - you may have plenty to hide from your neighbours, but given a level of trust in the government you might be ok with them collecting data that might help thwart terrorist plots. I don't personally think that level of trust is reasonable, at least over the next 40 years, but my conservative friends certainly do.
Sure, it's worse if you are highly likely to die. But what if you are very unlikely to die? What if you feel you have a 10% chance of dying tomorrow, but actually only have a 0.001% chance of dying?

IMO quality-of-life is worth considering in such skewed cases.
No-one is talking about a shittiest conditions contest, we talking about the ridiculous hyperbole that is used when discussing Israel.
False equivalencies, my friend.

Also, you seemed to have missed the indiscriminate nature of the intelligence gathering. There were no divisions being targeted-- it was all of us.
yeah, i felt like a bit of an idiot because i couldn't figure out how to go to the next slide. then i found that i could click the dots on the right side.

later, i accidentally scrolled and it took me to the next slide. i was all like, "ah, that's what they meant by scroll".
Ask HN: Past iOS Versions Beta Experiences
What were your experiences with beta versions of iOS in the past (iOS 4, 5, 6)? Were any really buggy to the extent of becoming unusable? Were most apps compatible?
…among a national sample of 1,004 adults 18 years of age or older living in the continental United States
Someone here said 'Champagne holder' ;)
I don't understand why everyone seems to think this is an issue. It's as though the only alternative to the status quo is local host browser-level crypto.

The implementation I'm referring to doesn't preclude Gmail from reading emails it has of yours. It just means that only Gmail can read them, because only Gmail has your private key, a private key that's associated with two-factor authentication, and a private key you could optionally use elsewhere, too.
This is one of my first posts, and English is not my native language, so comments not just on the content but also on the language are more than welcome.
The usual remedy (like 99% of the time) is the case being thrown out ;)
There's also Xabber which has OTR support (and can speak MSN, which is very helpful).
I'll have to use the UI on a device to determine if I like it or not. All the blue, pink, and white reminds me of Flickr. I'm disappointed we didn't get custom default apps or the ability to set a custom search engine. I want to use DuckDuckGo with Safari.
Certainly complimenting. By definition communication requires more than one person accessing information.

I know what I'd like to see in this area, but I don't have a good idea how to implement it. FreedomBox might be heading towards that implementation.

The idea I'm kicking around in my head for comms is something where I'd want a distributed data store (possibly just a file system) with access controls to enable requests such as "UserA acting on behalf of UserB would like to read data at /path/to/data". Where UserA might be twitter and UserB might be StephenFry. UserB can control what UserA can see and manipulate. UserA can do things that UserB cannot (such as acting on behalf of UserC)
A USB jack can fit into an RJ45.

Still, there is something of a problem in that sometimes people plug things in while the power is off, and computers are often kept tucked away in dim corners. Looking at the machine from an angle, it's not always obvious which connectors are where, especially if you're not a techy who could name ports in their sleep.
Actually it appears somewhat upgradeable; the memory is seated in standard slots and is clearly user-serviceable. The SSD appears to be as well; it may require third-party kit ala OWC (One World Computing) but oh well.

The only two remaining components that may or may not be are the GPU boards and the processor. The system seems serviceable enough so far.

But let's wait for final specs and user guides before passing judgment.
Bargaining units have been known to sue government agencies. I'm not sure whether that's under a provision of law where the government consents to be sued, or whether it's because you can sue a specific agency.
I didn't downvote you, but I don't think your criticism is well founded. For example, on the existing Mac Pro, adding a hard drive not require any cables at all. Neither does adding RAM. So it's not the case that "Apple aren't offering any of that."

I also don't see how the machine you linked to supports "chuck another CPU in". It looks like it limits you to two, which is the same as the Mac Pro.
Understanding the risk of mixed content warnings
can't force them not to encrypt emails but it can force them to give out the keys
It's funny, I've mentioned this for surveys in the past and I keep getting told I don't understand statistics.
I don't even care if it will be really great or not in the practice at the moment (even if I hope it will be great), but it is so reassuring and warm to see somebody trying new things...
It lists the NSA and DOJ as defendants only as to the tort claims (intentional infliction of emotional distress), for which sovereign immunity has been waived pursuant to the Federal Tort Claims Act. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millbrook_v._United_States. For the Bivens claims, it lists only the public officials (Obama, Holder, etc).
https://www.eff.org/action

Offline action taken. I protest and don't just sit on my ass. I spread the word. Comments on hn is just one mechanism. I fully agree with you though, get off your ass and do something.
5 was terribly buggy, 6 had it's moments... 6 I think had less beta releases than 5, but I'm not sure I'm remembering that correctly.

An awful lot of apps I used almost everyday had major bugs with iOS 7 like rdio and some apps would just refuse to open on the beta releases.

It's a risk.
Might have been CF related. I got some CF-related messages not long ago.
This is exactly how I feel about math. It's also why I love Python. Single character variable names are bad variable names. Terse method names are worse than clear method names.

Also in mathematical notation there is no concrete flow to how you evaluate an equation. You can start just about anywhere. With programming, the order in which things get done might be arbitrary (and frustrating at first) it is at least consistent.

Mathematical notation is really good, for some people, to describe, communicate, and explore relations. They can directly see that by increasing the value of the denominator the resulting value decreases. But without a tool designed by Bret Victor, my brain does not do that. I want to follow along a set of instructions, maybe iterate through a series of inputs, and then I understand how the operations applied to the input produce an output.

Math has always seemed to me to be badly formatted code.
I think a lot of this has to do with flexing muscles for the US/China summit over this past weekend.
The slow poison of the covert imagination
This whole story has had a baffling effect on HN. For the last few days 4/5ths of everything on the frontpage has been related to the NSA. I'm not saying that its not an important issue, but Christ do we need to have every bloggers opinion upvoted to the top? Even Apple was only able to make the top of front page for a short time. This is HN and Apple's latest news is not the top story. It's like I'm on a completely different site.
I would have probably said (with some imprecision):
Electrical circuits either carry a current (binary 1) or they don't (binary 0). [Ignoring the fact that you could also measure the AMOUNT of current carried here] Because of this underlying limitation in electrics you need to make do with just a binary system in computers.

Depending on the amount of time remaining I would either go into more depth or point him towards "Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software" by Charles Petzold (http://amzn.com/0735611319)
Nice design. I hope it's quiet (is the bottom air intake really sufficient?) Will it accommodate any standard parts (PCIe cards?) other than memory/drives?

Is the "one fan" concept patented?
And likewise there's a big difference between being inflamed about the issue and actually wanting to see the guy get punished.
So I should have made a comment that had a greater depth of thought to it? If you want to tell me that I'm wrong go right ahead. But could you at least tell me why I'm wrong?

EDIT ADDED THIS:
Also I guess I think that his credentials -- in this case -- are a big deal. Anyone can sue anyone for anything at all and it's up to the courts to quash all the bullshit lawsuits. Since lawsuits cost money to file (if you're not a lawyer) or time (which is money if you are a lawyer) the millions and billions of frivolous lawsuits that could be filed generally aren't. Obviously this guy could be filing a totally bogus lawsuit just for the publicity but that scenario seems much more likely if he wasn't a former DOJ lawyer.

EDIT AGAIN:
Just saw that this guy's deal is nuisance lawsuits. Bummer. I was hoping this was a real thing that would get legs.
I think the replies are symbolic of what commenting on HN has become in general.
This is exactly why I want SIRI. Only for those two uses. More is bonus.
Some of that text is so hard on the eyes. How could they not have put a shadow behind the white text?
PhotoDrop is a side project I've been working on with a couple guys in the office. It's an app that allows you to connect via video and share photos with people at the same time. This is a minimum viable product with no real UI effort, but I'd love to get a bit of feedback.
"46 points in fifteen minutes and not a single comment?"

Keep in mind also that when someone submit the same URL as already submitted it increases the count. So someone reading that article and not checking that it's already been posted counts toward that 46. I'm only mentioning because I've done this and I've had stories upvoted to, say, 10 that never were commented on.
The point is, focusing on that 1 poisoned meal can be misleading. You might think, "How could we ever allow a poisoned meal!?", but if you are serving 900 million meals each day, it may be unavoidable. You certainly try to reduce it as much as possible, but you should not look at the 3 poisoned meals you serve out of 900 million and exclaim how the world has lost its morals and good heart, and Mankind is taken by the Devil.
Thanks for pointing this out.

"In 2012, Klayman filed on behalf of a Florida resident an unsuccessful challenge to Barack Obama's placement on the primary ballot and claimed that the latter is not a natural-born citizen."

What a hero.

"In April 2011, Klayman filed a lawsuit against Facebook, accusing the social media website of "negligence" for not responding quickly enough to calls to take down an anti-Israel "Third Intifada" page and demanding $1 billion in damages."

A true defender of the bill of rights.
He is a patriot, we are all responsible if he is wrongly prosecuted.

How long until they start committing citizens Judge Dredd style?
Most Germans, when the 30's progressed, thought that Hitler was a good idea.

Just saying that the majority of people are suckers that have lifestyles which made themselfs dependent on the ruling authorities.

Nobody should be surprised by this outcome.
The U.S. has waived sovereign immunity in a number of contexts. In particular, Congress has broadly waived sovereign immunity for contractual claims (subject to their being brought in the Court of Federal Claims).
If that bothers the taxpayers, then perhaps they should be more careful in the voting booths next time.
Let's say you witnessed your boss's wife killed a man in a brutal murder.

Are you going to call the police or pretend nothing happened so you can reduce the risk you would lose your job?

What are your morals?
The even crazier story is this: In 2006, 61% of Democrats thought it was unacceptable, and in 2013, 34% of Democrats think it is unacceptable. I vote as Democrat as the next guy, but that's some crazy double-think going on there.
yep, that's why I said it's hard to tell, not impossible;)
We are talking about the same Larry Klayman[1], right?

1. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Klayman#Lawsuits
Yep, that's much nicer. :) I always forget about recursive grep.
Aero Glass showed exactly why UI translucency isn't a good idea. It made every single window title bar noisy and hard to read.

At least iOS 7 cranks up the blur radius.