skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Which means, if they're jailing you until you do decrypt the messages, you get jailed indefinitely.

Maybe, but they wouldn't be waiting for you to do something for them. They would understand that there was nothing you could do to help them decrypt the messages. i.e. your encryption worked.
Ahhh in the dropdown. Thanks
A Photographer's Interface to a Point and Shoot Camera
However, unless there is a legal requirement that you maintain the records in question, a documented habit of destroying them is almost certainly enough to get out of contempt of court for not producing them, absent some specific reason to believe you kept those special.
Let me ask you. Do you personally know anyone who lived on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain during the cold war? Were you living in NYC during 9/11?

For me the answer is yes to both. Communism was not a made up threat. Nor did it just impact a few rich people. The Soviets took control of hundreds of millions of people, and maintained control with tanks and guns. For instance ask any Czech who was around in 1968 how fun that was.

As for 9/11, someone flew those planes. (If you're one of the morons who thinks that missiles were used, then go talk to one of the millions of eyewitnesses who watched the second plane fly low and slow over Manhattan - half my workplace at the time was on a balcony and watched it.) Osama bin Laden took public credit. Al Qaeda was both real, and had appeared in lots of stuff before that. After 9/11 they had great branding.

This is not to say that the threats were considered realistically. The domino theory under which we fought in Vietnam was invalid. Supporting every anti-communist power we could just because they were anti-communist lead to our supporting everything from genocide in Cambodia to military coups in Chile.

Likewise this time around, Al Qaeda was not a force in Iraq. (Well, not until we invaded, and then people who wanted to freak us out began calling themselves Al Qaeda.) I do not believe that our response has been proportionate to the threat.

But do try to keep facts in mind. In the Cold War we did face communist countries. We do face terrorist organizations today. Those are not made up.
Sometimes I wish we had a king back. It would be more honest and less corrupt.
The solution in every generation before this one was to go somewhere else and start a new country.

Too bad there is no land left on the planet to move to. You can't try new ideas that would flip the worlds political ideologies on their head without somewhere to try it.

The alternative is what all the communist countries and most of Europe did in the last 200 years - violent revolutions overthrowing the current regime. Problem is, our regime isn't nearly as bad as those regimes were, so the pressure isn't there and it is much harder to justify.

I'm all up for a floating city on Venus, though.
This is the real method by which Team Government encourages compliance. It'd be a real shame to see that tax loophole that you rely on closed. Nice company you got there. Would be real upsetting if your new corporate headquarters construction were to be held up waiting for a permit.

Mobsters in worse suits.
OP didn't say government is doing x,y,z.

OP said, if you want to persuade people, frame this as government could do x,y,z.
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A Model Cloud Made Of Raspberry Pi & Lego
Yes, much finer optical resolution is possible if you use multiple instruments separated by a controlled interval.

In radioastronomy, there are arrays of dishes that use this technique. There are good pictures in the Wikipedia article. [0]

One military implementation was a connected three-satellite constellation, built by the US Navy for scanning the surface of the world's oceans. [1]

But those tools work in (relatively) long wavelengths.

I have never heard of free-flight multi-aperature interferometry that works in optical or near-optical wavelengths.

.

[0] "Very-long-baseline interferometry" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very-long-baseline_interferome...

[0] "How VLBI Works" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very-long-baseline_interferome...

[1] "White Cloud | PARCAE | NOSS" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Ocean_Surveillance_Syste...
Design by multiple, inexperienced, poorly coordinated committees, to be precise.

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1672819/who-designed-ios-7-s-ico...
The least of it is to not be the lowest-hanging fruit.
This looks like it's an API for ooshirts.com
I believe that this is the kind of open-ended question that Yabbly is designed to solve. http://www.yabbly.com
What I really want to know is why NSURLCache does not go to disk when it should. And also if it's fixed in iOS 7...
This work only if you have search autosuggest on, which basically send everything you type in the address bar (includeing urls) to google.
The fact that having glasses/ocular implants that embed electronics already have many negative connotations re-inforced by mainstream media [1] doesn't help acceptance of Glass either.

I know that my views on Glass (negative) would be a 180degree shift if it didn't have a camera mounted on it. I respect others' privacy and I feel pointing a camera is a form of "brandishing"

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Picard_as_Locutus.jpg
What exactly is the goal of this project?
Yes, aperture synthesis is possible with optical wavelengths. I don't know how practical it would be to actually use with spy satellites, or how much of an improvement they could see with it.

Keep in mind that there are a lot of people that track satellites, even spy satellites, as a hobby. I haven't heard of anyone discovering two or more satellites orbiting in the sort of tight formation you would expect would be required for this.
Two-Year-Old Flash Bug Still Allows Webcam Spying On Chrome Users
Shirts.io logo uses the same image as the Stripe 'cloud' but inverted on the y-axis

They also have suspiciously similar UI/UX with similar color schemes. The random green sign up button mouse over is an obvious attempt at 'throwing you off' from the idea that the design was copied.
In the morning! Glasshole was used first by Adam Curry on the No Agenda Show, even before it was used by Leo Laporte on TWiT.
It's been like this since the days of Rome. This isn't a criticism, quite the contrary; I'm saying this sort of grandstanding is Classical.
The interesting thing about glass is how quickly it blurs the definition of 'public'. I know that anything I say out loud on a street corner is fair game, and (less explicitly) in a restaurant or bar, but what about a house party? At a friends' dinner table? While watering my back lawn in my gym shorts?

Right now the obviousness of (most) recording sets the social norm at "don't point a camera at someone in most situations without consent". When the norm changes to "Always have the camera on and pointing, but please use your judgement about when to record", that will have some serious effects.
You could, but I like the idea of them having to deal with a paper copy! :)
That's sort of the choice Marco Pantani and Paul Erdős made (Pantani is the bike racer with the highest recorded power (sustained wattage) outputs in the Tour de France, and passed away at the age of 34. He is still recorded as the 1998 Tour and Giro d'Italia winner, not having been nabbed for any drug positives before the era of strict testing in the sport

http://velonews.competitor.com/2013/06/news/new-report-prese...

Erdős took amphetamines for the last 25 years of his life (he lived to 83)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erd%C5%91s
Not so long ago, one member of a family would work a 35 hour week, while the other would stay at home, doing chores or looking after the kids. Money was not abundant, but time was, so people would often repair their own stuff out of necessity.

These days it's common for both members of a family work 50 or 60 or 70 hours a week, making them extremely time-poor. With such limited free time, they choose not to spend it getting their hands dirty doing manual labor, and instead just pay to have it done.

(For the record, I'm 31 and thoroughly enjoy doing as much stuff myself as I possibly can. Last week I put a new alternator, starter and rear brake shoes in my older car for about 1/10th the price I was quoted, and it took me about 3 hours on a sunny Thursday evening after work. I can't wait to once again take a long hiatus from work so I'm not as time-poor as I am now)

EDIT: for anyone that wants to work on their own car, checkout the prices on http://rockauto.com - it's insanely cheap and they ship worldwide. I have no affiliation, other than being a satisfied customer.
How did mainstream media get the NSA PRISM story so hopelessly wrong?
>Perhaps this will enlighten you

So, something on a blog on the internet is now "enlightenment" ?

*edit. I found this link quoted in other places in this thread. Turns out all of them were you. What makes you believe that information there is fact ?
And Apple plans to make a lot of UI changes. Because this is after all a BETA.
do you think you can develop (stronger) synesthesia?
> location tracking information from our cellphones.

Here's what a smart congressperson would ask: "Director Clapper, on April 15th, 2009, there were large protests around the country. Did your agency request cellular meta data covering that day?"

It's likely obfiscated by the telco as I understand it, but imagine that freakout.

We could pull our batteries out in 2003, but we don't have that feature anymore.
From what I can remember (not all of these are about being too low level):

* Pointers, dereference, pass by value vs pass by reference

* Creating maps with "make" is weird, in Java I would just call a constructor

* I'm not a big fan of the type system, it somehow doesn't feel robust and full-featured. Making Go good for OOP definitely wasn't a priority.
> Imagine if police searched houses randomly but "weren't allowed to use what they found unless they got a warrant."

The main remedy for illegal police searches is exclusion of the evidence if, and when, the government attempts to use it in court (and then, usually, only if they attempt to use it against the specific person whose rights were violated by the search, and not always even then [e.g., good faith exception, and other exceptions to the exclusionary rule].)
Can I ask how you manage to use the web ?

Because Apple's use of colour to identify links is identical to 90% of the sites I visit daily.
Hm, but with angles, distance matters to right? Bending light 10 degrees will mean a much bigger difference light-years away than a couple hundred miles away. That said, I could easily be missing something...
It took three tries, I was about to tell you that that it was perfectly readable. I was only seeing slide to unlock and the top icons, I'm guessing that proves your point.
Overly sensationalistic and exaggerated "reporting". There's no support given for the claim that they are waiting to fix the bugs. All that is known is that they tell some government agencies (and also some large private customers) about new exploitable bugs before they have released a fix for them.
I'm familiar. There's a big difference between "optional key escrow with a service I have chosen to trust" and "mandatory key escrow" though. Most importantly with regard to the ease of mass surveillance.
It should be www., generally, unless you're a huge site and then you can do whatever you want (cf. Twitter)

The reason I say this is for smaller operators who may not be running multicast'ed servers in 3+ geographical areas, then you'll probably want most of your traffic pointing to a CNAME of a CDN or at least a cloud-hosted load balancer.
seriously. the guy just enjoys literature and words. anyone who writes a sentence with a structure like "this was always work that needed doing, and has value thereby" is not automatically pretentious...they are just probably a writer.
It is! It's said that on their footer :)
The title confused me: It was redefinition of a GC related function that lead to the bug. It has nothing to do with the existence of a GC on iOS.
Not exactly the same thing, but this reminds me of advice from my own grandpa, who was handy with tools on his farm. He saw me straining to loosen a nut with a wrench. "Don't use force, just get a bigger hammer," he said and handed me a pipe to fit over the end of the wrench to increase my mechanical advantage.
Marching Ants Along an SVG Path
FISA requests may be public soon - Google, FB pressing hard.
Good catch, suspiciously similar.
Did you even read the article you linked to ?

Allegedly, the branding/marketing teams first designed the icons and the other teams coordinated their designs based on those icons.

I don't know if you've actually used iOS7 but there is quite clearly a direction. It's a little unfocused in places but it's clear.
"Are our shirts any good? No. Our shirts are fking great."
I used this effect in a project that had hi res data and low res data, I graphed the low res data as marching ants to show the path while the hi res data loads and eventually would replace the marching ants line.
My home setup is 2x 24" IPS displays at 1600x1200. At work, I am running a 27" 2560x1440 along with a cheap 19" to the side (hoping to eventually replace the 19" with something else). At a previous job, we ran a 30" 2560x1600 with a pivoted 24" 1600x1200 on the side (matching the 1600 pixels was essential).

After all that, I would say, go as big as you can. Going to at least the 2560x1440 27" monitors can make a huge difference. If you can go all the way to 30", even better. Personally, my first choice (aside from waiting for a 30" 4k monitor) would be 2x 30", followed by 30" + 24", followed by 27" + something (ideally, another 27").
Panspermia is an interesting hypothesis (and I would be delighted if we could find traces of life, living or fossilized, on Mars that we could discover shares a common ancestor with us), but I think the reason most people don't generally take it to be a serious hypothesis is because space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space...
Talk about a title that misleads completely with the word Fear added. The majority of people do not fear this....
>57% Fear Government Will Use NSA Data to Harass Political Opponents

"Feat that it Will"??????? It already does.
My wife and I bought a fixer-upper house last year, and I've been really enjoying working on it. But I always keep in mind that kind of work is more of a hobby than a financially savvy thing to do, since I can hire someone else to work on the house at less than 1/4 of my software consulting rate!
To be honest, I always felt the same way about both Ruby and Python, the level of intuitiveness seems the same to me.
The call to action lands me on a sign up form. Apparently I can get only very limited information before I sign up.
Brightness isn't the problem. I never change it from default. These new 'airy' layouts are just plain harder to read.
Era of persistent and escalating conflict:

Why spy?...the arrival of a new "era of persistent conflict" due to peer competition for "depleting natural resources and overseas markets" fuelling "future resource wars over water, food and energy."
Getting Out Of Your Head (and iOS 7)
Ah! I see where my confusion lies. As others have commented, it sounds like you're talking about using a tool that does dependency injection for you; perhaps something configured in XML. I see how a tool like that would subvert a compiler's type checker.

My mental model for dependency injection is a little different. I think of dependency injection as a technique instead of a tool. The only tool I used to do DI is a text editor.

Here's an example of how I would use dependency injection (manually) in Java:

interface Dependency {
void doSomething();
}

class Foo {
Foo(Dependency x) { ... }
}

new Foo(new ConcreteDependencyA());
new Foo(new ConcreteDependencyB());

Both instances of Foo receive their dependencies at runtime, but the compiler is going to check that (1) the concrete dependencies are subtypes of the abstract dependency, (2) the concrete dependencies don't throw extra checked exceptions in their doSomething() method, and (3) the dependent class (Foo) only uses the interface of the abstract dependency. I gain the advantages of dependency injection without undermining the language's type safety.
Yes, replaced with white because it enhances contrast, to liven it up a bit (also the white portion is somewhat an inversion of the orange buttons). The overly saturated colors look too bright and intensive, they overpower everything else.
It's just not pleasant to the eye.
AL GORE: NSA's Secret Surveillance Program 'Not Really The American Way'
He has revealed criminal hacking of civilian infrastructure in Hong Kong.

"Snowden said secret and illegal attacks on Hong Kong computers by the US National Security Agency, which he said had been taking place since 2009, had recorded a success rate of more than 75 per cent. One of the targets he identified was the Chinese University of Hong Kong, home to the Hong Kong Internet Exchange - a central hub of servers that most web traffic in the city passes through."

"Political pressure is mounting on the government to demand answers from the United States over how and to what extent Hong Kong has been targeted by Washington's top-secret cyberspying programme, exposed by whistle-blower Edward Snowden."

"During an official visit to London, Legislative Council president Jasper Tsang Yok-sing became one of the city's first top political figures to comment on the hacking allegations.

"Hong Kong people will feel worried if the allegations are found to be backed by facts," Tsang told the BBC's Chinese Service, adding: "The Hong Kong government should launch an investigation."

"What will the government do to ensure it will not happen again? Will it take action against the US government or demand remedies?"

http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1261179/hong-kong...
Copyright Industry Demands, Gets Levies For Every XBox, Playstation Sold
I agree. Would be nice to stop having to worry about this crap at every turn when developing on iOS.
Why is blog spam so poorly written?
Here's a documented API for the Radio Thermostat company's line of Wifi thermostats (such as the Filtrete 3M50)

http://radiothermostat.com/documents/RTCOA%20WiFI%20API%20V1...

The RT line isn't as pretty as the Nest, but it's way cheaper.
I think that's pretty much spot on.

What I would like to see is coordination between the two by delaying the release of the comic and/or Tycho submitting his piece sooner so they're released in unison.

This is going to sound extremely unreasonable but whenever I read the comic and click to the article only to see what Tycho wrote about the comic of two days ago, I find myself thinking "Gabe's done his part! This art didn't draw itself! Where's the accompanying essay then?!".

JD(GM) out.

♬ Like an angry English teacher getting in a strop at a student for not bringing his coursework to class on the day I made them all write in their planners weeks ago.
I don't even think that unnecessary complexity is the issue. If the icons were consistently complex, it'd be fine!

You have a wildly varying base palette, a wild variety of light sources (that's what a gradient indicates, remember!), and a wild variety in complexity (contrast "phone" with "settings").

The net result is an icon package that feels haphazardly thrown-together by multiple teams of wildly variant skill levels who didn't communicate at all.

Even if all the icons looked like Passbook or Safari, it'd be better than the current setup, because it would at least be consistent.
Well, rationality can't be irrationality, and vice versa, so that's why scare quotes are necessary.
Apple did not invent gloss and aluminum, but they give them their special style. Also flat rectangles look like... em... typical windows :).
:p no worries. It's true though that some of the real world icons are still necessary for the quick mental connection with the apps purpose.
Interesting! Great idea, I think I'll hack on it a bit over the weekend.
Hey Silicon Valley, the British are coming
When drugs are illegal, the economics of an illegal market tends to push them towards more concentrated highs. When heroin was legal people took it in pill form, which is much safer than "shooting up" but is a relatively inefficient delivery mechanism so you don't use it when the chemical gets to be really expensive per unit volume.

When alcohol was legal SOME people went for the harder stuff but beer was a lot cheaper and more common; under prohibition, whiskey was cheaper than beer. If you are selling an illegal product, your legal risk is generally proportional to the volume of product being smuggled or kept so you want to maximize the number of effective doses per unit volume. The economics thus favors high-concentration forms of whatever drug. It also favors faster, more intense highs, in that if people are going to all that risk to get something they want to be sure the payoff is proportional and can't afford to wait around for the effect. So cocaine becomes more available relative to pot, and becomes available in more concentrated and more convenient forms as technology permits (versus the old way of making tea from cocoa leaves and using it as a pick-me-up beverage)

So yes, "crack cocaine" was the result of prohibition. Yet even crack could be used responsibly - it's exactly like regular powder cocaine or caffeine in that regard. But responsible use is more likely if it's legal.
I was going for more of a sly joke with the title, but it appears to have not gone over well. I now regret my decision.
I have not seen any statement that MS does not also provide this same info to other governments.
Static type system over dynamic language - short stories.
Smartphone app turns tone deaf into music makers
Show HN: test node-minimatch globs in your browser.
I had a very hard time making guesses at how to write (and test / verify) my complicated node-minimatch globs and patterns.

This tool will help you.
Angel Investments See Early Stage Pre-Money Valuations Climb
An API for general printing (e.g. business cards, letterheads, brochures, posters, etc.) is desperately needed. I can't seem to find any commercial printer that offers an API.
I don't like this. We, in the UK should be doing more to support and improve our entrepreneurs. Not sending them off to America.

As the article says, some of the students will find ways of staying.
Well, the melody of "happy birthday" is written in the treble cleff.
It probably was that you can see newsprint, not read it.
PDF of first comment: http://muri.lci.kent.edu/Publications/Papers_KSU/PPM_PRL99_2...

The strange symbols appear because LaTeX use strange fonts with strange encodings, so the formulas look nice in the pdf but if you cut and paste them, and use a standard font to render the symbols then they are mapped to random characters in the standard fonts.
> 57% Fear Government Will Use NSA Data to Harass Political Opponents

The other 43% know it will.
Long ago, for many games, Activision would award an embroidered patch to any player who beat a certain score. Usually the player would photograph the screen and mail it to Activision.
If you scroll down a few more pixels, you'll see links to the API documentation (https://www.shirts.io/docs/overview) and their capabilities (https://www.shirts.io/capabilities/)
Men are 60% more likely to complete a survey
Disclaimer: I just made that up
Only 57%? We are doomed.
I welcome this. The current way of setting an element to position: fixed with javascript after scrolling to a certain point is ugly and prone to issues. This is more elegant and also opens up some even more interesting use cases.
I wanted to play with Fabric.js and may be sell gravatar tees.