skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"App Nap can be automatically triggered if an app’s windows are not visible and the app is not playing audio..." When they say foreground and background they're taking about the GUI.

BTW, "developers can explicitly make an app ineligible for App Nap by using the existing IOKit IOPMAssertion API (used today in OS X to prevent the system from sleeping while an app is busy)."
It is funny how the typical Linux zealots answer is go and implement the stuff one complains about.

Everyone needs to be a kernel developer, a XWindows developer, a GNOME developer, a KDE developer, ... or just shut up.

And even when something is done that goes out of the usual copying existing ideas, there is the uphill battle to get it eventually integrated and accepted, if ever.

I have been coding before Linus could even think about doing Linux, and have better things to do with my free time.
You're joke is sort of correct. It does LOOK about the same as your current, stable Android phone :)
It's not curious, it's called "pinning": Articles that are tangentially related to some popular interest topic get readership for that topic as well as the subject of the article itself.
The market isn't by any stretch of the imagination mature, but my impression by watching the price these past three months is that external events do influence the price from time to time. That being said, the shifts happening lately are most likely caused by random whales cashing out.
>Snowden did have a difficult time in HS and he does not possess a formal CS/technical education. He was a sys admin, not an engineer. His claims, in that light, do seem bizarre and uninformed. I mean, ffs 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.

I don't follow your reasoning at all.

I can name a handful of people, myself included who have or do fit this description and situation.
Perceptual diffs at Stack Overflow Careers
Why ev decided to stop exercising in the morning
Funny, that quote could be said about the "FISA ruled PRISM unconstitutional" mantra that is implied in the title. We have no idea if FISA ruled about PRISM, if they feds changed it to comply with those rulings, or it was something else completely. We ought to know and that in and of it self is enough.
Or to sign petitions, organize protests, do outreach in the community or other more subversive things. Why put limits on what one can do due to the perceived (lack of) value others may give it?
I continue to believe firearms are toys for their owners. Useless other than conveying a false sense of personal power to certain personalities.
No ninja-edits from me.
>Assertions in the press that our compliance with these requests gives the U.S. government unfettered access to our users’ data are simply untrue. However, government nondisclosure obligations regarding the number of FISA national security requests that Google receives, as well as the number of accounts covered by those requests, fuel that speculation.

Sounds suspiciously like they are going to ruin everyone's nerd rage.
There is a way to finance the watching of the watchers. Replacing journalists with hackers and coders:

http://www.morganwarstler.com/post/52547186796/radical-surve...
They are the same thing.
Can a designer please explain to me what's so bad about the new iOS 7 UI?

(FWIW, I still think the IRIX Indigo Magic Desktop is pretty good looking.)
This looks like blogspam to me

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/government-says-secret...
Bump your prices up.

Imagine if some senior design guy in some digital agency making 8 figures in profit per year wants to use it. Do you think that he wouldn't get approval for, say, $500 / month if he thought it would help him work with the designers he manages or the stakeholders he reports to?

Capping out at $99 / month is leaving a ton of potential money on the table, IMO.
I think the form factor might support some interesting upgrade options, like hifi separates.
HTTP status code decision-tree
Dear NSA, let me take care of your slides.
The article talks about three technologies, and IMHO none is about putting processes to background. The first one is about compressing pages instead of swapping them to secondary storage. This should be a net gain in almost all scenarios. The second - App Nap - only applies to GUI applications, and there are opt-out controls. The third - Timer Coalescing - is the only one that has the potential to alter application behavior, and it only kicks in when the machines runs on battery.
Aggregate number of requests is one thing, but perhaps some indication of how much content is provided with the average request would be required to really indicate what is going on here?

An API may serve millions of requests per day and return single-integer responses, or it might serve one batch query per day and provide a nested document with many sub-sections.
Assertions in the press that our compliance with these requests gives the U.S. government unfettered access to our users’ data are simply untrue.

Just read the damn thing, it's not long.
iOS 7 looks familiar
Big Brother Is Watching You Swipe
Data, Data, Data: Thousands of Public Data Sources
DUI can be accurately tested with a breathalyzer. How would you expect these stiffer penalties to be enforced? I believe the current laws essentially require the offense to be directly observed by police or for the driver to inadvertently admit to it.
wot? you mean a company like Apple would take other peoples ideas and then patent the whole sphere just so they can act like a complete pain in the arse to anyone who might actually develop something new?

Can't believe that - oh wait!
Google Letter to Eric Holder
Comcast Wants To Turn Their Customers Into Public Wi-Fi Hotspots
Sadly, I will have to agree. This is whats going to happen. Its going to be forgotten.
It is unlikely Google was asking the NSA to help secure their data-centers, it is more likely that Google was sharing information on the attacks and asking if the NSA had any corroborating evidence about it's source in the People's Liberation Army.

When tech companies face a coordinated foreign attack like this, they are looking to share attack data with one another, as well as the government, in order to form a complete picture of the attacker.

Let's put it this way. I could let you sit at my desk, give you my password, even let you edit code and try to submit it, and you would not be able to do anything harmful except perhaps get some of my personal data off my own hard disk. I'd even let you install a keylogger and it wouldn't help. You might be able to see internal design docs of unreleased Google products, but you would not be able to invade user privacy. That ship has sailed.
For any road that has a mix of self-driving cars and human driving cars, there are too many variables. Then you have to take into consideration how these are insured in case of an accident.
Yeah, not sure what I should think about HN when NSA surveillance threads had more points, but Apple announcement thread (MacPro) had more comments (and typical fanboy and haters comments).
This is the kind of response I was expecting from tech companies. The mistrust of the government has extended to this industry and we can't simply rest on a simple denial of the accusations. Many people now believe that companies like Google send a complete copy of their entire customer records to the NSA. That is a dangerous belief and like discussed on other threads here, it could really damage the long term viability of the tech industry. This is at least a start to try to change public opinion.
You've got that backwards, your consumption of Chobani obviously caused the PRISM leak.
Then it wouldn't be the same business model as this (conversion to paid customers for services bundled) and it would probably not work out really well.
truth. should update to "most people outside of this conference"
Your "joke" would have some element of humor to it if there were any instability at all with current (or last year, or the year before) Android phones. Amazing how that little bit of irrelevant swill diminishes an entire post.
What about contempt of court?
> Only they couldn't do 1/100 of what they can now.

Again, true but rather beside the point. I want the limits on intrusive government power to be constitutional, not technological.

> How is it better?

There's a lot that can be said about this, but short answer: a lot of the things they're doing are (thanks to the Warren court era's findings regarding civil liberties which I mentioned) actually unconstitutional under the law. There's a reason why they keep these programs so secret and it's not that they don't want "the terrorists" to know that we can listen to their phone conversations. It's because they know they are, to be generous, pushing the envelope of what is legal.

I see a lot of hopelessness regarding these topics right now but there shouldn't be. If people keep shining light on these secret programs, there will be reform.
Noted. Any particular apps you'd like to see? (please send an email to me cheng.soon@hackermonthly.com)
I'm only upvoting this not because I have much loyalty or trust left for Google, but because I want many other companies to follow their lead and flood the Administration with such requests.

I still feel this does very little, though. They need to be asking them for much more. They need to ask them to end the spying. Until then I'm still hoping Google, Microsoft, Facebook and others will suffer greatly for this abroad, and lose a ton of business and customers, both small and major.

Maybe then they'll start doing some real lobbying to the government to end the madness, and maybe the government will stop thinking all the spying is worth breaking all international relationships and hurting the US economy in the process.

Until that happens, if Google cares that much about encryption and their users' privacy, they should show me they are willing to implement OTR, ZRTP and PGP in their services. The same goes for Microsoft and Facebook. Otherwise, this press release means nothing except for showing that "they are doing something".
Would you rather die than kill? Would you rather let someone else die than kill?

I know good people who would answer yes to both, so I'm not judging - just asking.
Fake Snowden Twitter Account
Reflecting on PRISM: The Institutional Failures that Led to Surveillance Culture
Cool, but the question for me is what advantage this has over screen sharing. Perhaps this is meeting a need that I don't know, though.
From the article: "We therefore ask you to help make it possible for Google to publish in our Transparency Report aggregate numbers of national security requests, including FISA disclosures—in terms of both the number we receive and their scope"
The new design cues are more of a technical issue to me than an aesthetic one.

Darker themed phones consume less energy...on more modern screen hardware. While an LCD backlight draws the same power regardless of the colors on screen, AMOLED does not. In fact, AMOLED and a red only profile grants you an amazing device for night use; be it astronomy, reading, etc. because it does not dilate your eyes.

Not only that, AMOLED is the current frontrunner in engineering design to allow for an "infinite bezel" where you aren't sure where the screen ends and the edge begins.

By switching to this bright white look in IOS7, Apple has all be publicly admitted that the next several years will continue to be dominated by LCD technology that drags the progress of screen technology and cost down.
Audio production and engineering as well. The more plugins that can be run in real time (rather than baked) the less overhead in managing the ever growing complexity of modern electronic music projects, especially with ever increasingly CPU hungry plugins. Take Diva[1] for example - amazingly resource intensive analog simulation, but it sounds incredible! Currently on my top-end-2011-era macbook pro I can only have one of these going dynamically and then must bake and unbake different channels as I continue to experiment. Being able to run a number in real time would really speed up the work flow.

[1] http://www.u-he.com/cms/diva
So you'll be happy when the US ends all foreign signals intelligence? Or makes the Internet a safe haven from signals intelligence?

Also: by offering PGP in GMail, Google would harm online security. If you want PGP, install it on your computer. Google won't do anything to stop you.
download and try - available on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
Show HN: Ruby app to find photos you haven't uploaded to your Flickr account.
I never watch football, or any sports for that matter, and I do watch movies silently - would be rude to my fellow moviegoers to do otherwise
congratulations. don't like ios7. dont buy it
Can you explain the argument of how the killing of the man in the bongo truck is not murder and a war crime?
Use ReiserFS
Obama speech from August 1, 2007:

http://www.cfr.org/us-election-2008/obamas-speech-woodrow-wi...

"This Administration also puts forward a false choice between the liberties we cherish and the security we demand. I will provide our intelligence and law enforcement agencies with the tools they need to track and take out the terrorists without undermining our Constitution and our freedom.

That means no more illegal wire-tapping of American citizens. No more national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime. No more tracking citizens who do nothing more than protest a misguided war. No more ignoring the law when it is inconvenient. That is not who we are. And it is not what is necessary to defeat the terrorists. The FISA court works. The separation of powers works. Our Constitution

works. We will again set an example for the world that the law is not subject to the whims of stubborn rulers, and that justice is not arbitrary.

This Administration acts like violating civil liberties is the way to enhance our security. It is not. There are no short-cuts to protecting America, and that is why the fifth part of my strategy is doing the hard and patient work to secure a more resilient homeland."

I'm still wondering when this idea of defending the people against this type of thing went out the window. . .
Agreed. The icons are easiest part of a redesign to redo and implement tho, and designers on Dribbble have already posted versions that are significantly better. Apple's design team has a few months to fix things up and I'm confident that they will.

http://dribbble.com/shots/1109343-iOS-7-Redesign/attachments...
As a build/configuration management specialist, I'm boggled that continuous integration is STILL a controversial subject, and that so many developers have never been exposed to it.

But, such is the sad state of our industry.
cute.
Great pitch.
"millions of requests per day"?! the number of FISA requests since 1979 is just short of 34,000: http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/06/fisa-court-nsa-spyin...

Let's try and keep the speculation to a minimum.
Hopefully not, but I have stopped being surprised by such things.
Here in Belgium it's brushed up as an Obama blunder and an american-only problem that only affects social networks (aka facebook). Online press gigles about pictures of Obama looking at computer screens.
This is a criminal government!
CALEA is not only for voice. Broadband providers are required to be CALEA compliant. Basically they have to be able to delivery data in a specific format to an LEA.

These devices are not (normally?) under LEA control. The service provider would receive a warrant/court order that says "send data for customer XYZ to this CALEA capture IP". Even if the LEA had direct control of the CALEA device it would need the assistance of the SP to know what data is coming from what customer.
From Novice to Protégé: How To Onboard a Developer at a Startup
Kickstarter of the day - The Big Fix - A Noir Card Game
> you're away on vacation with your family, and someone calls you because company the CI server is down

This is a general problem with any kind of maintenance or setup that you might do. Did you write a diary of how you went about setting it up ? Did you communicate to the rest of your team how it's supposed to work / how you suspect it might break ?

If not, don't be _too_ surprised to be The One Person who gets called about that thing.
Obama does. He uses it as toilet paper.
Hey guys, this is something I built in an evening. It needs some more work (ability to upload straight from the app would be nice), but it's already helping me to find hundreds of photos I failed to upload to my Flickr account.

Feedback (and pull requests) welcome.
Loaded up my gmail in it. Then went to attachments, documents. Lots of hits from my gmail spam-folder. This needs work...

edit: the basic mail function looks okay. looking forward to testing the linux version against exchange.
"the first time that I have seen such arrogant designer elitism ever"

You must be new to the Internet. Allow me to show you some pictures of cats and a video of Charlie biting a finger.

I saw the term Neotribalism on HN this morning. This perfectly defines much of the designer elitism that runs rampant throughout the design community.
International Energy Agency finds cost-neutral route to major CO2 cuts
There are plenty of people all over the world who would not recognize the name. They might even express their appreciation for his sentiment, as well.
you're right it's not any worse :(
Being worried about unauthorized access to your server is not a new worry and is not limited to this topic. So if that is our only worry, then this whole thing is a non-issue.
Interesting, there are still correctly attributed points that fit this whole debacle:

"But the most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly and with unflagging attention. It must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over. Here, as so often in this world, persistence is the first and most important requirement for success."

"War Propaganda", in volume 1, chapter 6 of Mein Kampf (1925), by Adolf Hitler

I'm referring to the constant reuse of the term 'no direct access to servers'cough propaganda cough
In expressing his view that Google is being harmed by USG's lack of transparency (combined with the godawful operational security of the contractor-run intelligence agencies), is Google's chief counsel here starting to build the standing to sue the government?

If this whole debacle sets up an epic confrontation between Google and the DoJ, I may have to reevaluate how irritated I am at how "Prism" has been reported. More Greenwald agita! Let's see if we can pick a fight!
The standards are SSL and OS based key escrow for password protected archives. That is all consumers "get". PGP, now GPG, has been around for 30 years and Joe Sixpack still doesn't use it.

Why this is so is left as an exercise for the reader.
Pretty sure he was just giving a generic example rather than specifically talking about this case.
I think that the capitalist part of anarcho-capitalist implies minarchism, as how can you have capitalism without private property?
Thank you for posting this. I posted the exact same speech yesterday on another thread. The reason why this statement by Obama doesn't jive is because he's not working for you and me. He's working for people who put him in power. You, me, your mom, your dad, we're all being lied to by our government. I'm mad as hell...and I'm not going to take it anymore!
No matter what browser I am in, I can't purchase this. It just says it can't verify my card information. Chrome and Safari on Mac. I checked the card 3 times and just used it a few minutes ago.

Edit: Lim instantly reached out to rectify the issue. Turns out my bank (Chase) flagged it for fraud. Cleared it with them and now I own the hacker bundle :)
Generosity of Perspective (Re: iOS7 Design)
It seems the EU has better privacy laws, but it would be foolish to think that there isn't any surveillance and spying being done here.
The developer documentation goes into more details:

> App Nap reduces power consumption by completely suspending your app’s execution when it meets certain criteria. This ensures that your app does not periodically wake up to do unnecessary work. An app is considered to be a candidate for sleep if:

> * It is not visible—if all of an app’s windows are either hidden by other windows or minimized in a hidden dock, and the app is not in the foreground

> * It is not audible

> * It has not explicitly disabled automatic termination

> * It has not taken any power management assertions

> When all of these conditions are met, OS X may put the app to sleep. While asleep, the app is placed on a scheduling queue that rarely gets actual time on the CPU.

There are also new methods provided on NSProcessInfo to temporarily prevent sleep and increase scheduler timer precision.
It seems less like speculation and more an example of how raw number of requests doesn't mean a whole lot in and of itself.
The Digital Music Grand Canyon
ignoring the real questions. nice job. Of course it was politicized. It's a political issue. don't be stupid.
Good article analyzing what was said and why it's not cool
http://gamersagainstbigotry.org/2013/06/why-just-let-it-happ...
Circumvented loopholes in the Constitution?

Only insofar as breaking and entering is "circumventing" a "loophole" in the lock on my door.

There is no slavery. There is virtually no indentured slavery, named or in practice.

I take it you're completely unfamiliar with human trafficking and the sex trade.
I'm pretty familiar with the attitude among hiring managers that certifications generally don't signal anything useful; my boss and I also hold that position (I hold an MCTS that I was forced to get so my employer could get a better partnership status with Microsoft). So I'm curious why holding Cody's certificate might actually mean something where a more established cert would not.
> you need to remember ${process} again

That's why sysadmins should be encouraged to never configure systems directly, but use write-apply-observe-refine cycle of Puppet/Chef (or alike) declarative configurations.

Sounds like a hassle (and sometimes it is, especially in cases where to-be-configured software has Turing-complete configuration files), but in my own experience actually proved very helpful.
I'm so uncool! I have no idea what any of the included services are. From what I can gather, it's SaaS stuff. If it had included a free monthly neck beard shave, I might have purchased. I'm sure this package is useful to some of you out there, but honestly, I don't know one person that I consider a "hacker" that this would appeal to. Nice marketing use of the term "hacker" though.

Excuse me, I have to get back to yelling at the teenagers to get off my lawn.
In my humble opinion (and I'm stressing that, I'm not a historian and I haven't studied the subject), successful revolutions that create a lasting, peaceful and prosperous society are mostly the ones that are not won with weapons. Examples include India (Gandhi as the quintessential peaceful revolutionary), the whole Eastern block (East Germany, Romania etc.), South Africa.

On the other hand, revolutions fought with weapons tend to lead to long simmering civil wars (Afghanistan, many African nations), or oppressive governments (Cuba, Libya, Iran).

Sure, there are counterexamples, the US being the main one, but I think that is a somewhat unique setting (emigrant colonists).