skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- Except in the bottom right corner where it will jump to the camera. Even after I'd noticed all the visual hints for this, I got it wrong for the first few times. I wonder if they should have dropped the direct camera shortcut in favour of the control panel, which is a swipe and a tap.
No, polshaw sounds like he has religious reasons against GPLv3 (as do Apple :-).

There are many people shipping Samba on an appliance containing proprietary software, there is no problem doing that with GPLv3 code.
Pandora Buys Terrestrial Radio Station in South Dakota
This is why everyone hates you, America.
NSA & Obama - Can You Hear me Now?
The entire world is a battlefield in the war on terror, even "the homeland". Which means that they can kill anyone they want anywhere in the world via secret order using secret evidence with no oversight. And terror can never be defeated so the war is permanent. This is a dangerous bullshit war that will continue to destroy our way of life until it is stopped.
Sarcasm is hard. Do you actually believe David Brooks has "Battered Person Syndrome", or do think it applies to all Americans?
Even if there is a bigger reason for wanting her out, there is no reason for them to expose PRISM that way. Immigration officers already have rights to deny anyone without explanation.

I just don't find anything about that article logical.
You know what, you're absolutely right. For a long time I've favoured OrionVM over AWS for this reason.

Something needs to change. What do you think are the chances of Senator Scott Ludlum's "Get a Warrant" bill [1] making it through before the election?

[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/11/greens-warrant-p...
Let's do away with wedding registries and give graduation presents instead
I think you're thinking of Encrypted Media Extensions https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-media/raw-file/tip/encrypted-med...
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.

How many people now hear of Julian Assange and think "he's kinda creepy and megalomaniacal?". They believe that precisely because the media relentlessly worked that image into every story about him.
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I'm now at the age when many of my friends are getting married, and they, like Yglesias and his wife, have mostly been living on their own and/or cohabitating for years. So I donate some money to a charity in their name and give them a card that says so instead. I think that makes more sense than corn holders or the other stuff that seems to get stuck on registries because, well, hey, we need something on the registry.
Did you use angular seed or did you create your own structure?
Memo from DHS on checking social network sites:

http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/DHS_CustomsImmigration_...

http://www.avvo.com/legal-answers/does-uscis-check-the-faceb...
Google to be Banned in Pakistan over Youtube
I didn't say "citizen". I said "foreigner not in the US". I was under the impression that the guy was not in the US.
That is the way subsidizing works, you get more than just the purchase price. You could subsidize production, but it is easier and has other benefits to subsidize sale.
Australian Senator introduces new Bill to prohibit warrantless surveillance
> people are more concerned with external threats than internal ones

> most people assume taht the government already has/had access to what you do on your cellphone/facebook/internet searches so actual evidence of data manaing doesn't seem all that big of a revelation.

No, you're not projecting at all, are you.
This is awesome news. We got 3 top-flight interns from InternMatch this year, so I can't wait to start hiring full time this way.
Worth noting that the lawyer says he has evidence but has not presented it, and until then it's just his word.
There aren't any. Your choices are:
1) Countries where if the US government (particularly, the bits of it concerned with national security) wants access to your system, they can hand you an order to give them access and you will face criminal sanctions if you fail to comply (i.e., the US itself), or
2) Countries where if the US government (particularly, the bits of it concerned with national security) wants access to your system, then either you will be the target of efforts to enlist your local government (if that government is one the US government thinks it can influence on the issue) or you become the target of the most powerful national security apparatus on the planet, without even the theoretical restraints that apply to that apparatus when it is operating domestically (i.e., everywhere that isn't the US.)

Neither of these can be reasonably described as "free of US government shennanigans" in either the theoretical or the practical sense.
From Senator Ludlam: http://scott-ludlam.greensmps.org.au/content/media-releases/...
Why is everyone in this discussion assuming that the US would be attacking Germany if not for the awesome deterrent power of the EU? Seriously?
The problem with Mary Meeker’s $20B hole
I ran hosting server and Tor users are usually script kiddies trying to mess with the system.
I tired of this bullshit and disabled Tor on the level of IPTABLES. I suspect HN and others did the same, not because they are against the freedom, but just because it makes easier to conduct the business.
Isn't this an outrage. We should only be denying entry to hispanics, Muslims and darkies who we suspect of wanting to overstay their visas.

But you know, we don't have enough border security and we need more.
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Founders: Read your f**king termsheets
>I know it's Beta, but it honestly looks and feels like Android with a bit of lag here and there.

This sort of lag has been a common artifact throughout the iPhone's history. Crashing apps, lag, and outright unresponsiveness are daily occurrences on my iPhone 5. It's honestly gotten to the point where, if I didn't have an astronomical amount of money tied up in their ecosystem, I'd switch to a Nexus 4 tonight.
Pandora buys FM radio station in a wily move to fight music companies
Anyone can write what David Brooks wrote, dodging anything of importance about the situation. Here, I'll do with David Brooks what he did with Snowden -- avoiding looking at the situation, slighting someone's character without knowing anything important. I'll just work with his Wikipedia page.

Here goes...

David Brooks sounds like an intelligent guy, but if you look at his background you see his true colors. Raised in suburban Philadelphia's ultra-wealthy Main Line, he started and has never wavered from an ultra-elite, insider status, leading to today living literally inside the Beltway, the quintessential system man, his status-quo "opinions" on every issue a foregone conclusion.

His intelligence sadly belies his consistent conclusion-first-supporting-argument-second reflexive responses. What else would you expect from someone so ingrained in the establishment -- Yale, Duke, University of Chicago, Wall Street Journal, New York Times. This man may have never said a single word to someone who didn't know where their next meal might come from, drizzled with extra-virgin olive oil with a creme fraiche brulee.

This nation could use discussion of important issues, debate, thoughtful exchange. He delivers rubber stamp answers. We as a nation lose out. While he can't single-handedly deserve credit for our slide into partisan bickering and bureaucracy, he proudly contributes more than his share. And why not, with lucrative speaking fees and book options paving his way.

If you want a pundit to unthinkingly deliver a preconceived notion supporting keeping things the way they are, David Brooks is your man. Sadly, if you want thoughtful consideration of complex issues, he'll stand in the way of whoever would deliver.

---------------

There, how was that? Can I have a job as the knee-jerk conservative guy at the New York Times now?
Absolutely, as a US citizen I have no problem at all if Germans want to have a military cultural exchange program to bring some locality jobs ;)

It is not like we are in Germany to sack the villages and take slaves, or dictate policy
> If there was a dragnet it is very likely that they
> legally are not allowed to admit it as per terms of
> the court order.

In the US, gag orders may compel silence but to my knowledge may not compel private citizens to claim they are not under a gag.

> The NSA, Congress or the Executive branch need to
> detail the level of access and the form of access
> that the NSA has to Google's information in order
> to clear Google's name.

Just to be clear: you believe that Google's press release is untrustworthy, but you would trust an NSA press release about the extent of NSA surveillance?
I'm really sorry to drag this up again, but the "rounded corners" thing isn't really as ridiculous as some people made it sound. There are two important points here.

First - Samsung was found not to infringe on design patent D'889, which is commonly criticized as the "rounded rectangles" patent. Most of the patents in the case covered other ideas ('381 patent - "rubber band" scrolling, 'D '305 patent - home screen design, '163 patent - double tap to zoom onto a specific block). The "rounded rectangles" issue had little bearing on the verdict.

Second - Read patent D'889 (Please note that it isn't a regular patent, rather, it's a design patent). The patent specifically (and only) covers a touch-screen handheld tablet shaped like a rounded rectangle, with a thin bezel, edge-to-edge glass, and minimal extras, a charging port at the bottom and no stylus. It's hardly as simple as a patent on "rounded corners" - it's a patent on very specific design features, and if a single one was changed, the patent wouldn't apply (and it didn't!).
If someone posts about doing food preparation while driving I'm sure they'll get called out on that, too.
go Ofer! go Carl!
One possible explanation - because thorough usability testing with outsiders would have led to leaks.
Apple Should Adopt This Stunning iOS 7 Concept
I wonder why Greenwald and the Guardian haven't released more information yet. Maybe they are waiting for all the tech news to die down? Are there any other major things happening this week?
Google's Real Secret Spy Program? Secure FTP
Its not a matter of it being a lesser or greater country. Its the matter of it being a different country. There is no "murder" in the state of nature. Nothing limits our use of force other than our bargaining away that natural ability when we form societies. But the fact that Americans have bargained that away with respect to each other does not mean we have done so with respect to non-Americans not on our soil.
If what is happening today is worse than anything ever, including the Holocaust you are referring to, then where are the facilities where the US is slaughtering women and children of ethnic minorities in order to eliminate them from the earth?
Interview with Steve Wozniak on innovation (starts at 1:06) [video]
I would spend some time and find out where your target users are hanging out online. Then, assuming the places they hang out are not competing websites, figure out how to advertise on those places.

How? Perhaps try surveying completely random (non-friend, non-related) people (at a cafe or perhaps a wifi park. Say something like "Hello, I'm John. I'm conducting a survey and I only need __ seconds of your time. <Show them a tablet/laptop/internet device> If you wanted to compare <name of two hotels> what would type in google/bing/duckduckgo/whatever?"

Be sure to record what they search for and look for trends.

2) Ask a follow up question, what site(s) do they go to when they're preparing/researching for a trip.

3) Thank them for their time!

It'll cost you an afternoon or two but you'll definitely gain more insights than looking at google analytics.
I submitted a better link yesterday:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5859658

It is "better", in that:

1. It goes to the original source, not a blog post giving a five-line summary of another blog post.

2. It is relevant to the acts of which the NSA was recently accused (specifically, the collection of Verizon metadata) and not about some other vague undefined activity that the NSA has already been forced to stop doing.

3. It discusses in detail the Constitutional issues involved and the history of related court rulings.

4. It is the actual US Supreme Court ruling on the subject.
It's not my startup under discussion, actually (I wasn't the first commenter above), but to be fair the first choice for a tiny startup might well be "stick with the shell scripts and dead-simple architecture for now" rather than any CI at all, hosted or not.

Thanks for putting up the more relevant comparison price point, though, and I do agree with you that outsourcing non-core functions is essential to getting real work done on the actual product.
i'm with you on this. i was just about to work on something like that as a side project.
Flat design has been around for a while. I remember seeing them on phones before iPhone 1, and also on various Linux desktops. People says Microsoft or Google did this first hasn't been around enough.

Personally, I like previous version better.

As for other features, iPhone jailbreaking community should take more credit then Google or others, quick access to wifi and other settings. I remember seeing them on jail broken iPhone way before Android.
From a self-study perspective, the Coursera (online course) offerings around Algorithms may be worth a look as well:
https://www.coursera.org/courses?orderby=upcoming&search=alg...

Robert Sedgewick (Princeton) and Tim Roughgarden (Stanford) run independent 2-part courses that are pretty comprehensive, and both have upcoming sessions. Robert in particular provides many thought exercises to clarity and reinforce understanding.
I'd sacrifice a lot to have that be the default, just out of charity for everyone elses' benefit.
Senator says NSA conducts pattern analysis on phone records
Mind expanding on other US wars against non-state actors? I assume you are not talking about "The War on Drugs" or referencing the Civil War.

Traditionally the Freedom of Assembly is a Right guaranteed to US citizens by the Bill of Rights, on par with Freedom of Speech. I recognize in modern history (post WWII) people were tried for their association to Communism, but even then people were "tried" by courts of law not subject to extra judicial killings as enemy combatants.
I suggest you change your statwing demo to something more positive.
Have you tried S/MIME instead of PGP? S/MIME support is built into desktop mail clients like Thunderbird, Microsoft Outlook, and Apple's Mail.app.
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What is confusing to me about this idea is that it would seem as if Google would then only be passing over past data for the requested account.

Since FISA is all about active surveillance and wiretaps (of phones when it was written in 1978), wouldn't the government also want a way to watch activities in online accounts in realtime?
FYI: Booz probably hired him not because they trusted him, but because he possessed a Top Secret/Secure Compartmentalized Information (TS/SCI) Clearance, along with experience for the CIA. People think the CIA is very selective with who they hire: they aren't. As a guy whose former company used to make me go to career fairs every now and then to man the booth in the DC area, I was shocked at how many cocky, CIA employees looking for a way to cash in their TS/SCI clearance at a contractor would show up and have AWFUL education credentials (colleges with reputations as being diploma farms with dorms, weak majors, etc). The CIA is more likely to hire someone who went to a "joke" party school with an A average than someone who went to a difficult school with a C average.
I can't speak for Snowden's skills, since I never knew him. I will say this: he worked IT security for a while. The Federal Government, and particularly IC and DoD IT security has no middle class. It is made up of the teeming masses of talentless certification whores with zero coding skills and a complete lack of offensive hacking skills. They rely on their Security +, CISSPA, etc certs, which are obtained with cramming courses followed by incredibly easy (for people who are smart enough to code) tests. Then there are the "red team" folks. These are the bad asses, the small minority who often have weird, unconventional backgrounds, write books on penetration testing (Violent Python for example) and laugh their asses off at the whole joke of a security apparatus that is the CISSPA paperwork paradigm.
The Google Music Manager program just transcodes FLAC to 320kbps MP3 before uploading.

https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/1100462?hl=en
'Citizen Koch' censored in fear of angering major PBS donor, David Koch
So they are mad why? They didn't think of it first or that all this exposure of the US version might mean someone will expose theirs?

To be honest I am not sure if any of these governments is trust worthy in this regard.
it's a balance. By preventing people to point guns and make demands (to a certain extent), you (for example) allow for more freedom to walk around at night without a fear of getting mugged.

Everything is a tradeoff, saying 'tramples other's rights' is misleading because it doesn't indicate which rights. Some rights are more valued than others to people (I'd gladly trade my right to kill myself for my right to free speech, if such a tradeoff existed).
The Stasi weren't involved with that, as they did not exist until 1950.
Fair enough, we've spent a lot of effort at Blekko (also a search engine) at being conscientious designing ways that we can dis-associate data from users in order to protect our users from data that can be tied back to them. Since our taxes are reasonably straight-forward at this point it is entirely possible that we've invested more time in keeping peoples identities protected in our data than we have in minimizing our tax burden. We are a prima facie example of "someone" who has spent more effort on X than Y. But arguing exemplars misses the point.

I am sure that Google is a much different place than when I left it, hell it was different between the time I joined and left. That said ...

The comparison I was trying to make, and I grant you that it is imperfect, is that Google, like Apple, has billions of dollars in free cash flow and in legal testimony lately they have shown great creativity in ways to shuffle that cash around so as to avoid being required to hand it over to various revenue agencies. Google is also has billions of data points about all of the individuals that use its services. If those data points were dollars, and the revenue agencies were intelligence agencies, what creative ways might they come up with to disassociate which data point belongs to which user such that they could still use the data but not be compelled to hand it over. Just like they use those free cash dollars rather than hand some percentage over as tax.

I've got nothing but respect for the smart people at Google, and still have friends that work there (and folks who used to work here and are now working there :-). Perhaps I'm misreading your tone but it sounds like you want to pick a fight.
> Google continuing to deny that their is a dragnet is not evidence that their is no dragnet.

Of course it is. It's not proof, but it's evidence. It shifts the probability towards "there is no dragnet" by some amount. Maybe it's not significant, but it's there.
I find it quite unbelievable people are buying into this story.

Border guards have access to private email to catch people who possibly might work on the wrong visa, sure....

And boarder guards have kept this secrete for years but the leak came from within the NSA.

What is wrong with people. This is why the governmenat walks all over you, there's just no common sense amongst the masses.
Microsoft and Palm have been building full-face touch-screen mobile devices since the late 1990s. Full-face Touch-screen PocketPC phones started coming out in 2002ish.

Yes, they were resistive rather than capacitative touch-screens. That wasn't because it didn't occur to anyone to use a capacitative touch-screen before Apple, it was because the technology wasn't mature enough before around 2006/7. And if even you want to make the (silly) argument that whichever manufacturer happens to be the first to bring out a full-face capacitative touch-screen phone can somehow claim to have invented the concept, that honour goes to the LG Prada.
If a bank loses your money, you can sue them. Can you sue google if they lose your data? No. So, no, its not the same. They have very few legal obligations with regard to your data (otherwise, instagrams recent copyright policy change could be considered the tort of conversion: the illegal use of someone else's property for personal profit). One can imagine a legal regime wherein a gdrive is "your property" like a safe deposit box, but that's not what exists right now.

As for how Google isn't a modern mailman: its not an organ of the government (4th amendment protections apply only to postal mail, not say UPS); and it reads your mail unlike the postman.

Its pointless to speculate what the founders would have done had they addressed the issue. They didn't, and there are crucial distinctions that make the protections they did address inapplicable to online data. Given that, the solution is either a privacy amendment to the constitution or sweeping legislation.
>you could almost say that's what GitHub (or open source in general)

Yes, but that's only for developers (or, in some cases, designers). With OP's idea, it could be anybody... music composers, film editors, developers, historical experts, etc.
Simple theory may explain dark matter
Wouldn't bitcoin go up?
I'm also filled with nostalgia ;). According to this post on the Ambrosia SW page (more nostalgia!), Ram Doubler used both VM and compression. The piece is light on technical details but fills in a bit more of the picture.

http://www.ambrosiasw.com/ambrosia_times/january_96/3.1HowTo...
You may want to look at those US population numbers again (slide 7). Prism’s ‘market size’ is a lot larger than 2.82 million people.
Yes, it is. Don't I know it :-)

I do not believe that David Brooks has clinical BPS. But, the arguments he makes in his opinion piece display the exact same form of backwards logic that are commonly heard from victims of long-term abuse.

Make no mistake: Surveillance is abuse. Over time it will fuck with your mind.

Long term mass surveillance is always a destabilizing force upon society, never a stabilizing one.
>I don't believe that the majority of people want to commit serious crimes but are only held back by the fact that if they did, they would be punished.

What is your definition of serious? Sure, most people don't want to kill others, but what about non-violent crimes. What about fraud? Not paying taxes? Although you might argue that taxes are usurping our freedom somehow, I like having infrastructure.
Well this just makes me want Glass even more - I wouldn't be able to resist taking it apart!
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The argument would be reasonable if Apple hadn't exacted hundreds of millions of dolars from competitors for "copying" superficial and trivially obvious UI elements from iOS.

No one is arguing that this sort of copying is wrong. Instead, they are merely identifying the inherent hypocrisy and irony in Apple's actions over the past year.

I agree that patents are imbecilic and Apple v. Samsung was one of the lowest points in the industry's history, but it just seems absurd that Apple can lament how other's have "copied" them, only to turn around months later and "copy" wholesale many features from other platforms.

Can Apple take elements from Windows Phone and Android? Yes, that is reasonable and benefits the industry as a whole. Do I, as a current Apple user, benefit from this process? Yes; good design trends make for a better experience. Does it seem dickish? Yes.
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Don't forget the first company signed up in 2007 under Bush's watch.