skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait, you think a little march and a couple of websites will change anything? Someone still has a some unwarranted faith in humanity!

What will happen is some politicians will make some noises from their face holes, they might promise a few reviews, or to look into a few things. These will be accompanied by rationalisations that seek to marginalise concerns and make it look like these measures are to protect the children and tall buildings.

In a few weeks most of the public will stop caring, partly because of the noise from politicians flapping their gums, partly because of a low attention span. If a review actually takes place, it will report that there was nothing wrong with what's been going on, it's all within the law. A few people will mutter about changing the laws, but most people won't care by this point and the political classes will have a new hot button talking point by then.
> remains on the radar for the upcoming election

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Democracy is not about elections, it's about representing yourself.
I'm not logged in and I see the thing. Must be some remaining cookie traces.. I guess with Google you're never really logged out unless you do it manually, since that'd just be throwing away data, right?
I, and everyone I know has had a flawless upgrade experience. There have been a couple of exceptions -- the iPhone 3G (not 3GS) suffered with some point releases, but it was a horrifically underpowered device anyway.
Growing up as a kid I always wanted to go to America. I've visited America and while I love it, I don't really care if I never step foot in the country again.

Its going down hill fast, its becoming more and more corrupt every second of every day.

This excerpt from the BBC Documentry; The Power of Nightmares, holds true IMO.

"To most people watching this dance, it would have been an innocent picture of youthful happiness. But Qutb saw something else: the dancers in front of him were tragic lost souls. They believed that they were free. But in reality, they were trapped by their own selfish and greedy desires. American society was not going forwards; it was taking people backwards. They were becoming isolated beings, driven by primitive animal forces. Such creatures, Qutb believed, could corrode the very bonds that held society together. And he became determined that night to prevent this culture of selfish individualism taking over his own country."

Also Johann Wolfgang was right when he said:

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."
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The US has been changing the rules since decades. The shadow government has adapted to those changes, becoming more and more powerful with each change. The US will pass a couple of "government openness" laws in the coming months (years?). The shadow government will laugh at that, move operation proceedings to the new release, and increase the broadness of surveillance, thanks to improvements in technology.

The only way to stop this, until privacy technology is widespread (which I hope will become a huge topic soon), is to stop doing business in the US right now.
I agree that is irrational behavior. But saying the Netherlands is tranquil in this aspect is wrong, was my point.
It's pretty well-known that CNN works with governments, especially the US government, whenever they're asked to. Former CNN reporters have outed them on this.
I don't know about Google etc., but I used to work at Yahoo, and while there were substantial security measures in place, it would take a couple of engineers with sufficient access a couple of days to put together a solution to be able to pull out a stream of user data and e-mail data somewhere. In fact, all of this data was stored in systems prepared for easy replication anyway.

Somehow I doubt it'd be all that much more technically challenging elsewhere.

It's not a hard problem if there's people complicit at the right levels in these organisations. If there are no people complicit, then it would be difficult, yes. But we don't have enough information to determine whether "direct access" would involve a handful of people for a few days or weeks to get a feed or API set up, or if it would require covert interception of data and people sneaking around at night.
May I ask why you need a 'point' to something like this? It's pretty and the technology behind it is pretty cool.
You shouldn't be scared of living in the US, because as they said, the NSA only targets non-Americans. In fact, that means you'll be safer in the US! Who gives a crap about non-Americans anyway?

EDIT: /s
That doesn't really make sense in this case. Mozilla does get a lot of cash from Google, but Mozilla has a strong enough mission (see the manifesto) to make sure it's not a Google sockpuppet.
I think I understand the language quite well and I still think it's terrible. Knowledge does not preclude disapproval.
Non Americans should be scared of even entering into US. Heck , they even wont be allowed to enter.
^Narcissist
There are nearly a million Americans with top-secret military clearance.

Let's hope this is the start of a trend, and that more are encouraged to come forth and help us figure out what our governments are doing to us.
Working in latest Firefox Dev on Ubuntu. I suspect it needs some new features not in stable builds yet.

Edit: And it's really interesting too. It's great to see particle effects starting to speed up in browsers.
I recall that the current administration reserves for itself the right to assassinate US citizens (and indeed, non US citizens) without trial, and has done so. Everything else pales in comparison.
Why HTML is Not a Programming Language
Given that it's a lead gen page, you could get some solid split-test data off $100 or so of spend on the advertising platform of your choice. However, I don't know if that's something you could afford. If it is, I'd definitely recommend it, but I can certainly see why you'd be inclined to trust the experts.

FWIW, looking over the "after" page myself, I'd agree that it's a much more solid longish-form sales page. You'll probably be fine using that as your baseline!
You don't need to be logged in to see it (I was able to see it in a Firefox private window).

Here's the link without the fancy animation : http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends
Chalk me up then as the only other person who likes the corinthian leather and green baize. Sure it was totally random and a bit ridiculous, but at least you never got confused whether you were in Maps or Find Friends.

In the past I managed a few remote Windows Servers, and to keep from confusing them, I gave each a unique desktop background colour (a pleasant pastel shade) for no reason other than to keep them visually distinct.
Bitwise Lua Operations in Redis
Why would anyone believe the info they offer up? Meaning how can you prove what you don't know (ie, if they actually have more info than they let up) and why would any of this stuff about 'we want transparency now' lead to the NSA actually showing their cards? It's silly to expect an agency based on secrecy to not be secretive.

So what does one do in the face of all this? I simply don't know, aside from starting from scratch.
Right, you can get it on the very latest Macs, most of which are just rolling out now and none of which have been out for more than a year. USB 3 is old at this point; most manufacturers started shipping devices and computers with USB 3 ports in 2009. But because Intel didn't adopt USB3 until their Panther Point reference platform in 2012, Apple really didn't have much of a choice.

(Intel really, really wanted people to use Thunderbolt, even though there weren't any Thunderbolt devices available.)

It took four years from when the standard was finalized for Macs to finally start shipping with USB 3.
Exactly because it's tiny
Finite State Machines and Regular Expressions
The dutch took part in both operation enduring freedom and iraqi freedom. So you could say they did invade several countries.
Click to change the animal. Anybody recognizes the 7th one?
It would be fun to flood them with requests though. They apparently have a lot of free time available spying on every woman and child.
It just too bad there is a lot of moving parts in this setup.

Graphite consists of these three parts:

carbon - a daemon that listens for time-series data.
whisper - a simple database library for storing time-series data.
webapp - a (Django) webapp that renders graphs on demand.

And statsd is its own daemon.

That means 3 daemons needs to run to make stat aggregating.
Show HN: Border Wait Times US-Canada
A framework for building command line programs in python
I agree this is a bullshit story. They only store conversations when they have an eavesdrop approval.

A lot of people underestimate the amount of storage it would take to store all voice data.
Hey man. NSA stands for No Such Agency.

And SFTP stands for secure for NSA file transfer protocol, cause they are cool katz apparently.
I0S7 - new and those features similar to android
You might want to look into some anti-tracking software that disables that.
There's actually two relevant xkcd comics, here's the second: http://xkcd.com/1174/
I wonder, if even with this incredibly strict definition of "Software Innovation" whether anything on a smartphone might still rise to the level of innovation?

I'm thinking of the GeoLocation Applications - that just never existed before, ever, like runkeeper. Or the BodyTelemtry apps, like FitBit. I'm still trying to think if it's possible to categorize Dark Sky as innovation. Or the always-available voice-recognition of Siri.

None of it rises to the level of "Software innovation from a CS standpoint" if we look carefully? Honestly asking now.
Firefox had a problem and crashed ... version 24.0a1 (2013-06-10)
Presumably these terrorists would also be caught by the system that catches the slightly smarter terrorists that only gutted the battery, or swapped out the CD drive, or just shoved a bunch of explosives under the palm rest. I mean, those things would be picked up, right?

Asking people to turn on their computers is like a doctor taking your temperature with the back of his hand on your forehead.. right before actually using the digital thermometer anyway.
You could've had that all this time already by simply installing Opera 12.15 into its own directory and using it only for mail.
Why America need Bitcoins. The Collapse of The American Dream
It's reasonably straightforward au-pairing legally in the US. You just need to be represented by one of the officially sanctioned au pair agencies, and you get a J1 visa.

So I guess they're miffed that girls are trying to cheat the official (rather inflexible IMO) system.

There are huge numbers of American girls in Europe doing a similar thing -- legally and illegally -- and in some countries you'd get the same hard-assed attitude.

In Germany, au pairs don't need a visa at all.

France, being France, they require a work permit (unless you're from CN, NZ or AU).

Spain is easy (just apply to the nearest consulate and it's rubber-stamped) and you can work there for up to two years.

In the UK, it's super-complicated. The UK authorities simply don't want non-EU workers under any circumstances (but what's the point in au-pairing in another English-speaking country?).

However, French and German girls are awesome, so please keep it up and with any luck, more will come here to Spain.

;-)
I don't think it's a lull, I prefer to think of it as a spring cleaning. iOS 6 is great, but it has reached a visual saturation point, making it difficult to add more ideas.

Sometimes you need to step back in order to advance further. The Pentium 4 is a case in point.

I'm sure there will be ongoing refinement to the visual language, and will feel finished by the time iOS 7 ships. Then iOS 8 and 9 will be able to progressively layer new ideas into the new literal and metaphorical white space.
Taste is a different argument to your point (distinction). None the less, it is an extremely valid one. The point I'm making is that Jobs allowed some globally 'interesting' design decisions through, the 'skeuomorphic' textures being a example.
> it's just a plain-bad idea.

That's a very nice opinion, but without actually qualifying why you think that way it has nothing to do with reality.
Maybe it's not for you, but it looks to be a good intro to the GLOW library http://i-am-glow.com/?page_id=183

Oh, and it's always nice to revisit http://www.ro.me/ which is where the models come from.
Google buys Waze
Another winner from Waze acquisition: Israeli charity Tmura
When is a Dynamic Language Good?
Yes and we're tracking it here: https://github.com/mozilla/browserid/issues/2158

That list you see in Chromium (which is now also shared with Firefox) is the list of sites that come with HSTS (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Security/HTTP_Stric...) turned ON.
Same, latest chrome gives me:

GLOW.Attribute.constructor: Unreachable attribute? Please activate GL.drawArrays or split into multiple shaders. Indexed elements cannot reach attribute data beyond 65535.

GLOW.js:67
.WebGLRenderingContext: GL ERROR :GL_INVALID_VALUE : glGetActiveUniform: index out of range empaempa.github.io/:1

.WebGLRenderingContext: GL ERROR :GL_INVALID_VALUE : glGetActiveAttrib: index out of range empaempa.github.io/:1

.WebGLRenderingContext: GL ERROR :GL_INVALID_VALUE : glGetActiveUniform: index out of range empaempa.github.io/:1

.WebGLRenderingContext: GL ERROR :GL_INVALID_VALUE : glGetActiveAttrib: index out of range empaempa.github.io/:1

.WebGLRenderingContext: GL ERROR :GL_INVALID_VALUE : glGetActiveUniform: index out of range empaempa.github.io/:1

.WebGLRenderingContext: GL ERROR :GL_INVALID_VALUE : glGetActiveAttrib: index out of range empaempa.github.io/:1

.WebGLRenderingContext: GL ERROR :GL_INVALID_VALUE : glGetActiveUniform: index out of range empaempa.github.io/:1

.WebGLRenderingContext: GL ERROR :GL_INVALID_VALUE : glGetActiveAttrib: index out of range empaempa.github.io/:1

.WebGLRenderingContext: GL ERROR :GL_INVALID_VALUE : glGetActiveUniform: index out of range empaempa.github.io/:1

.WebGLRenderingContext: GL ERROR :GL_INVALID_VALUE : glGetActiveAttrib: index out of range empaempa.github.io/:1

Doesn't work in latest FireFox either (downloaded just now)
On a slightly different note, you remind me of my parents. They believe almost everything they read in the newspaper or see on the news. And yet, whenever they're directly involved in any local news, they always complain that the news coverage is completely wrong. I try to suggest to them that maybe ALL news coverage is wrong to some degree, but they don't want to hear that.

> I listen to NPR every day and it's almost insufferable to listen to when they talk about the NSA leak.

To me, NPR is insufferable to listen to 99% of the time. Just Sayin'.
Oh, how much I hate websites that invite me to download their stupid app. And to add insult to injury, whenever I tried installing their stupid apps, it's usually just a glorified, broken and slow embedded browser.

I also hate websites that give me a commercial that I have to skip to get to the actual content. The invitation for downloading their stupid app is just a use-case for such commercials.

Google should penalize all websites that do this and I would love them for doing it.
On Android innovation: How temperature & humidity sensors made it into the S4
I'd love to know if anyone has any other stories of changes that were adopted by Android following submissions to the Android OpenSource Project by third parties.
I think it's dangerous to go on record beforehand claiming something is "bullshit". If I've learned anything over the last view days it's that reports like these should be taken seriously and no stone should be left unturned to find out the truth. We can't just assume intelligence operations can't; we need to know they can't. Let the House of Representatives proof it's nonsense. Also, thanks for adding the bit about CIOT.
Common Lisp has quite a few equality functions: eq, eql, equal, equalp

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/clm/node74.html
Good, it's about time this happened. There's little more frustrating as a website user than attempting to visit a page that precisely matches your query, only to be forced to try and navigate there from the home page. Awful, awful UX, and in some cases it is literally impossible to view content on a perfectly capable device without switching browsers or UAs.

Ideally everything would be nice and responsive, although in some cases we've found that the requirements of mobile users can be very different from those of desktop users. Still a bit of a tricky nut to crack.
Seal: http://empaempa.github.io/GLOW/examples/complicated/Complica...
Think it is the seal..

http://www.ro.me/tech/
re: "That is absolutely, utterly subjective and anecdotal."

I'll see your anecdotal and raise you a citation.

http://www.ibtimes.com/apple-ios-6-adoption-rate-soars-follo...

"The Dec. 12 reinstatement of Google Maps on iOS has apparently been enough for some of those reticent users to finally make the upgrade to iOS 6. After achieving 10 million downloads in the first 48 hours available, MoPub, the San Francisco-based mobile ad exchange that monitors more than 1 billion ad impressions a day and supports more than a dozen ad networks and 12,000 apps, says there has been a 29 percent increase in unique iOS 6 users in the five days following Google Maps' release on iOS.
"

BTW, not "blaming" Google, if anything, I would be blaming Apple for having a sub-par map application (As a frequent international traveler, I can tell you it's still not up to par with Google's maps) - but I'm not blaming anyone. Just recognizing it was a pretty significant issue for many people.
They just announced that Opera 12 will be discontinued, with Opera 15 being a Chrome fork in which they will attempt to reimplement features from Opera 12. They also announced that several features which people liked a lot will never make it into Opera 15. And to put the cherry on the top: The very first feature that they announced removed were "Bookmarks".

In other words: They're very busy alienating massive parts of their user base.
The statement that Mozilla should have issued:

"Some have claimed that we should move Mozilla out of the US. Unfortunately, for reasons of connectivity, workforce, ties to US market, legal issues and restructuring costs we are not able to do that.

Current (recurring) developments in the US have shown that our government can not be trusted. No amount of legislation is going to achieve a fully accountable government.

Because of this, we are unable to guarantee that Persona is or will be exempt of data requests from one of the government agencies. Even worse: we will not be able to tell you when / what data has been requested. We are and will not be able to confirm or deny data requests. It can be that future legislation forbids us to even make the statements that we are making in this paragraph, so this is maybe the last time that we can tell you this.

The only solution to a private internet is to fully embrace cryptography for all our communications. Until then, you can use Persona at your own risk."
It would be an interesting experiment to see if using something like this actually makes people more careful about using Google/Facebook etc.
Heard about it in the Google IO, I wish there was a NodeJs SDK for app engine to be honest..
Democracies have emerged from scandal and abuses of power before, so it not actually insane to believe that it can happen again.

Believing that the outcome will be a perfect fairy-tale land of milk and honey, on the other hand, not so much. It's important to keep in mind that victory in this case probably looks a lot like better constitutional oversight of the FISA courts.
Newstand one is the crappiest icon ever made. And Game Center one too, someone explain me what those bubbles does mean.
Any idea when Google will be downranking sites that pop up 'download our app' alerts?

Also those annoying sites that load content using 10 second javascript loading circles?
Wait, you think a little march and a couple of websites will change anything? Someone still has a some unwarranted faith in humanity!

Organizing and demonstrations can make a big difference.. for those involved in them :P That is to say, it sometimes just plain feels good to see you're not alone with being fed up -- or even better, that you're not alone with the things you're for, either.
Oracle Officially Launching Java EE 7 and Glassfish 4 Today
Not if you live in the Middle East :p
Not happy with that decision. (We don`t do redirects)

After working for some time with iOS we recognized that an "app" suites our customers on mobile better than a "site". So we have a classic website for ecommerce, and a rich client application for mobile devices (HTML5, Angular). Both have very different domains and layouts, there is no 1:1 mapping possible except for the most basic features. The RIA page is optimized for gestures, orientation changes etc.

Contrary to mainstream opinion we believe mobile (for ecommerce, where people interact with a site, not newspaper sites etc.) is different from desktop (mouse, keyboard, large screen) and not just a "responsive" small version of your site (or desktop just a larger version of your mobile first site).
"(ESTA is only for personal visits, not business IIRC)"

It's for both both business and pleasure - says right there on the ESTA home page:

https://esta.cbp.dhs.gov/esta/

"You plan to travel to the United States for business or pleasure."

NB I've travelled a few times the US over the last few years on business using ESTA so you had me slightly worried there!
Amazon CloudFront now supports Custom SSL Certificates and Zone Apex
I'd be interested to know of other stories of submissions to the Android Open Source Project buy 3rd parties that were adopted and became part of core Android. Anyone?
True actually. Ironically, a call itself is much more expensive than storing it for 20 years would be.

They do have a lot of eavesdrop approvals though, or so I heard from a colleague. (But that still doesn't mean they capture all the calls.)
THREE.DragControls
Nice!
The Ultimate Setup Guide: Ubuntu 13.04 in Virtualbox 4.2 on Mac OS X
Doesn't work for me in Chrome. Firefox displays a moving square made of triangles and "particles".
The newspaper that published this, 'Telegraaf', is notorious for publishing bullshit. The article is very short, the journalist wouldn't be able to check if it's true, and the newspaper hungry to publish anything that attracts readers. Offline version of link-bait.
Love the comment before including the Google Analytics code in the source:

<!-- Yeah, this is pretty ironic, but Google tracks you anyway, right? :-) -->
Carefully censored to exclude anything related to sex and possibly the NSA scandal ...
What a load of FUD.

If they want to be able to store a bit of customer information that they don't have to pass over to the US government then they just have to move the company and their servers out of the US.

Why would a company that has nothing to do with the US have to warn employees that they could get arrested if they visit the US?
Why We Get the Police State We Deserve. And What We Can Do to Fix That.
I think you missed the point.

It's not about defining what experience people get, it's that as they are coming into your site, they get the right experience for your content on their device, regardless of whether they were given a desktop link on a mobile device or visa versa.

As demonstrated in the diagram, this is punishing people who strip the tails off incoming links so the link example.org/stories/good-news-everyone gets directed to m.example.org and the user is left with the mobile experience, but the wrong content.
I'm pretty damn confident that the internet decades from now won't be a flat box on a rectangular display like it is today. ;)

In 2040 the net will at the very least be seamlessly integrated into our eye sight though lenses (or even digital eyes for the hardcore geeks), maybe even directly feeding information into our brains.
How green is the Internet?