skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cannabis being illegal is fucking insane, m'kay? Plenty of proof of it being "safe enough", and plenty of evidence that it's illegality is used as a tool of oppression. The Drug War is a complete failure that has cost society dearly.

As for guns (I'm not anti-gun), the fact that the NRA and it's cronies refuse to consider the discussion any regulation of weapons in today's society is crazy (pro-gun arguments get quoted verbatim, including the selective citation of part of the Second Amendment (you know, the part that mentions a "well-regulated militia").

That is crazy.
That's all the ads I get. I can't wait until there are ads from everyone. Then I'll stop using it.
Codecademy review
How the government outsourced spying to silicon valley
Staying warm is one speculation that I have read (think how chickadees can live in -40 so feathers must be really warm).
The main thing I dislike is the Helvetica typeface. It's such a bland conservative choice that we have seen in every magazine for decades. The Light style is even worse (less legible). I've only seen the demos of iOS 7 and I'm already sick of Helvetica.

Also it's very white. I use the black theme on my Windows phone (which itself is imperfect). I find dark themes more pleasant.

Otherwise the redesign feels more modern and clean than the current version.
It's not just snarky, it's preposterously unreasonable.

How much work do you, personally, put into making money? At least 40 hours a week, I'm guessing, plus the time you spend on managing your investments, doing your taxes, and so on? How much work do you put into maintaining your own privacy? Is it even 1 hour per week, on average? Really?

Note that Google has, allegedly, already put a LOT of work into pushing back on ensuring that due process is followed. Many engineers, many lawyers, lots of executive-decision-effort.

Maybe you don't believe anything Drummond or Page say? Maybe you think google.com/transparencyreport is purely fabricated? Maybe you think Google should violate the law and get shut down (that's what you said, actually, with "evade the letter of the law", but I find that position so laughable that I assume I misunderstood you)? Maybe you yourself actually DO spend the same time on privacy that you spend on pecuniary gain, or maybe you expect Google to hew to a higher standard than you yourself do?
Government Information Awareness
>Telling the truth' involves restating this truth in the full glare of worldwide publicity. The more they try to reassure americans that everything they did was 'legal'[1] and only targeted foreigners, the more foreigners they alienate

I'm sorry but where are you getting this from? Google has categorically stated that they do not share data without court approved mandates. There is no mass "targeting" that is going on, no matter what the nationality.
Some people "can and want to" steal cars, or commit domestic violence, or dump benzene into rivers. "I want to do this, therefore it should be legal" is not a good argument when there's a compelling argument that it harms society.
The one-two combo Sony used to knock Microsoft out of E3 2013
True. However, laws will still be passed.
Both governments want control. One is more willing to publicize that fact.

I see great similarity.
Congrats guys!

Btw - did anyone catch the Thomas Friedman article on internships yesterday. He's been crushing it recently.
In school I've been taught that companies (and government entities?) are not allowed to keep your private information stored unless they have a valid reason for keeping it, and if they do, then you're allowed to know what they're storing and have the right to ask them to delete the data.

I remember reading an article that was posted here on HN about someone demanding Facebook to reveal the personal information they were storing of him, because IIRC, one of Facebook's servers is located in Europe, so they had to abide by EU's privacy laws. He eventually got a CD containing his personal info. It contained very limited data and not as much as I believe that they would have collected, but it shows that companies in Europe have to follow these laws.
If you really want to signal your feelings on this to your congresscritter, don't write, don't email, and don't sign a petition. Call them. Speak with a human being in their office, and make sure that person understands that you're a voter, in his or her district, and that you're willing not only to vote, but to donate to or against a candidate and campaign on the basis of this issue.

Source: my cousin and his wife were both Senate staffers for several years.
What in the ever loving hell is that arrow for then?

edit: I guess it seems obvious now...
Attracting mates, scaring off predators?
Does anybody else remember this? It was meant, as far as I can tell, as something of a response to the "Total Information Awareness"[1] program. The idea was to give citizens a tool to, basically, do surveillance on the government, instead of the other way around.

It seems to have disappeared rather silently, however. Does anybody have any insights on why the site disappeared? More to the point, is anybody interested in collaborating on creating something like this again?

Another (old) link with some info about GIA: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/03/07/04/1313222/government-in...

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Awareness_Office
My point is that Google Mail is an insecure setting from which to deliver PGP.
It's a good thing secret courts can, then.
Is there any limit on the number of regular seats available? Trying to help my boss decide how many devs to subsidize...
Apple's note does not imply it's a design issue. Just that the software is not ready and bugs are expected.
The lack of importance of a degree in the technology sector has been discussed ad nauseum on HN long before this news even surfaced. I'm not sure why his lack of one would be considered a red flag all of a sudden.
Honestly, it's probably a flash ad somewhere.

Turning on plugin click-to-activate is good for power, too, not just security.
Undue industry influences that distort healthcare research
Am I being too optimistic in thinking these interfaces could be a lot better than they are?

It's the copying of what seems like mediocrity is what I was trying to get across.
At least they show ABP as the "most popular" add-on, and promote "Do Not Track Me" as a featured extension at https://addons.mozilla.org/

Making Tor standard is never going to happen. It requires a lot of modifications to the browser https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/#Imple... and it's awkward to use https://www.torproject.org/download/download-easy.html.en#wa...
There is, yes -- 40 seats. Currently ~25 seats left.
These sorts of anecdotes always appear. Here's mine -- Currently have a Galaxy S3 and a Nexus 4. Previously had a Galaxy S2 and Galaxy Glide. Prior to that had a Nexus One. Prior to that had a HTC G1 and G2.

The last time there was any system instability at all was early in the life of the Nexus One. The OS has been absolutely rock solid since.

Of course apps crash on occasion, just as they crash on my 3rd gen iPad and 5th gen iPod Touch. The system stability ruse, however, is noise.
As I have seen it used, "nerd rage" is really just a way of saying "if you care about this, you are a nerd", which is implicitly wrong. If the intent is to call into question the accuracy of statements, then there are better ways to do that.
Does this mean no more speedtrap data? I can see google not wanting to deal with that tangled web of legality.
"Officially the change of partners had never happened. Oceania was at war with Eurasia: therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia. The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible."

It is only evil when the other guys are doing it.
It brings up the control panel.
IOS 7 Revised - A little polish goes a long way
Which is technically illegal in most countries, storing government information on foreign systems.

Up until now, it may have been tolerated as long as it didn't concern obviously sensitive information, but you can expect a total ban in most countries on the planet, not just paranoid Russia.
I've been playing around with iOS7 for a few hours and a lot of the issues could be addressed in the next 3 months. Someone should do a redesign like that guy did for the NSA slides[1]. I think the color palette is taking all of the spotlight away from the key technical updates. Even though the updates are features that Android and WinMo users have had for a while, many iOS users are only getting these for the first time. This is a first cut and there is still three months to clean it up.

[1] - http://fr.slideshare.net/EmilandDC/dear-nsa-let-me-take-care...
Why is it unbelievable? Let me rephrase: is it more unbelievable than the regular NPR programming? I have not noticed much change, but I may be biased against partisanship.
I think "that" is supposed to refer all the way back to "right" but it's very awkward.
Thanks for this explanation. It's exactly what I was looking for.
I installed it on my old iPhone 4S. Battery life is atrocious (even with WiFi-only Airplane Mode enabled) and everything is choppy. I've had the phone reboot on me a few times. I've also read that Apple's Podcasts app doesn't work.

I can deal with all the other issues, but terrible battery life is a dealbreaker. I'll hold off putting it on my primary phone until it improves.
Timer coalescing has been around for ages. Linux and Windows both already do it. Here's a 2009 article describing it in Windows: https://blogs.technet.com/b/askperf/archive/2009/10/03/windo...

"App Nap" is a familiar concept to anyone who has ever played a game with unfocused framerate caps (like most MMOs, for example). It being enforced by the OS may be new, though. It kind of feels like a more aggressive `nice` though.
"all of the successful SaaS operators say it will result in the unhappiest customers and the lowest profit margin."

Yes all those Dropbox users with their free 2gb are constantly complaining and unhappy. They can't contain their rage.
You bring up an interesting point. I would describe the effect of revelations of this kind on people in Germany as a noticeable jump in one direction on a sentiment continuum, if that makes any sense.

The generation of currently 25 to 40 year olds here have grown up in an extremely US-influenced cultural environment. Imagine that there is this magically interesting and quite progressive place on earth and they broadcast from there on all TV channels all the time. That's what it was like to grow up in the 90s in Germany.

Having grown up with a generally positive view of the US, the Iraq war was a decisive turning point for many people of that (i.e., my) generation. By the time Colin Powell presented his case before the UN, many Germans started to feel betrayed, because it seemed so obvious that an invasion was not the right thing to do (the GOOD GUY became a mere mortal). Older people that were familiar with the political games of the cold war might not have been surprised, but the young people definitely were. Since then for many Germans, the attitude towards the US is quite ambivalent. It is possible that this in some situations leads to unfair highlighting of wrongdoing on part of the US, but I'd say that by and large the effect is primarily that there is now interest in good news and bad news about the US.

Add to that, that many Germans feel extremely uneasy about intelligence gathering in general (think STASI), and you have a reason to assume that, at least in Germany, this thing will linger in the hearts and minds for a while.

It has to be noted, however, that this also means that the reaction in Germany cannot be generalized to the rest of Europe.
> I'm still wondering when this idea of defending the people against this type of thing went out the window...

The moment it achieved it's intended political goal, I suspect.
The actual filings before FISA are secret; they're signals intelligence cases. The laws the FISA court uses to authorize surveillance are not secret.
Well, I work at a company that leverages cloud technology, and it's been the topic on more than a few occasions.
IOS 7 Thins Out
You only have to register your car if you plan to drive in on public roads. Most gun registration proposals would require registration whether or not you were using the gun on public lands. You already have to have a hunting permit to hunt on public lands (or to take publicly owned wildlife on private land) in most states. The purpose behind gun registration is very different.

If you don't think gun registries would be abused in the US- look at the State of Missouri recently leaking its CCW database to the IRS and even worse- look at what happened in New Orleans after hurricane Katrina in Louisianna, where guns were stolen by armed members of the military from law-abiding citizens.
I completely agree with this (although I did happen to exercise early this morning). Nothing is better for a long day of coding than a good ride, climb or surf in the middle. Lunch can really slow me down, and taking time to get exercise is a great remedy.
IOS 7 And The Transition To Flat
It is not pointless to run a web app for one person's use. You could probably find a bunch of people here who do just that (I'm one of them). Standardization means that it's easy to move your data to any web service you like, and you can move your web app to any hosting provider you like. Even your own bedroom.
There is nothing wrong with the fact that he didn't know it either. Only willful ignorance is a sin, not accidental ignorance. Nobody can know everything, you shouldn't judge someone for prioritizing different knowledge than you.
It's there for the quick settings toggles.
Ask HN: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who is at the top of the NSA's programs?
PRISM and its predecessor initiatives have existed for (at least) several presidential terms. Who is at the top? The NSA governance? A group of influential senators / congressman?
I find this very accurate :) [iOS7][rant]
It's interesting that you've asked this question, because I've seen an odd parallel between privacy laws and gun control laws:

There's a segment of the population that feels an inherent human right to knowledge/guns. Another segment of the population is worried about threats to their privacy/safety. Only a rare fringe argue that knowledge/guns are inherently evil, but it's also a rare fringe that admits that knowledge/guns can't be used for evil. For instance, I could use (data mining)/guns to (find southpaws to kill)/(kill southpaws I find). Those in favor of knowledge/guns tend to argue that the threats posed by knowledge/guns can really only be combated by more knowledge/guns. For instance, knowledge/gun advocates argue that the only real security comes from using knowledge/guns to (locate threats)/(shoot threats). Privacy/(Gun control) laws fundamentally restrict our ability to gather knowledge/guns.

Now, I'm not arguing that what the NSA did was right. I'm pissed that the NSA spent my tax dollars collecting this beautiful data sent and won't even let me read it. I want to start data mining every e-mail you've sent, every website you've visited, and every location your cell phone has been. If the thought of me doing that makes you uncomfortable, you now know how I feel about your guns.

Of course, I don't begrudge you your guns. Just because they make me feel uncomfortable doesn't mean that you lose your rights to own them. In the same way, I hope that you respect my right to gather your personal information, even if it makes you uncomfortable.
I did a double take when I saw the date of that quote. I couldn't believe it wasn't from a contemporary author.
While I'd like to know how many secret requests are being made to whom, why should I ever believe any numbers?

We're living in crazy-town, maybe we always were. What is to stop the A.G. from publicly saying "Yes, disclose away!" and then to privately send one of those magic-do-anything-we-say requests saying, "Don't disclose X, Y, and Z."? Or if we are given an accurate count today, what is to prevent the government from in the future secretly retracting that privilege?

I think in the end we can be satisfied by nothing less than some sort of "Too Many Secrets" Constitutional Amendment, stating clearly that no private citizen can be required or compelled to partake in a "National Security" cover-up, so that everyone currently bound up in the web of lies could speak up without fear of persecution.

That is what galls me as much as anything. If the government wants to gather data and keep secrets, let them gather and keep them themselves. Drafting people against their will into compulsory service in signals-intelligence, forcing them to lie to their loved ones and the world, and persecuting them for honesty, is absolutely amoral.
I agree! This opens the door for new services based in countries like Iceland to compete in the international market.
I'm surprised libertarian minded investors like Peter Thiel have not began a fund in some of these countries.
Even signaling such a move would give Google, Facebook, etc. strong argument to fight off NSA's broad requests and we all win!
I am starting to sense some elitism and bandwagoning from the design community.

Starting to? That's kind of what the cutting edge of design is all about. When a design advances past certain middle of the road thresholds of usability and tolerably it become more and more just a matter of personal taste. When a bandwagon (or pieces of it) has appeal, it becomes a wider trend. It's still a bandwagon though, styles in the 1980's are(/were?) the go-to example of things that appealed to tastes at the time but are laughable in retrospect.

Design is important in giving products pleasant appearances and interactions, but it's also capable of turning people insufferable. http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57508907-71/at-apple-hq-ey...
You'll probably never get it without an exorbitant amount of money.

Try looking for a similar name plenty of people use search engines and bookmarks so a domain like thexxxx.com or getxxxx.com isn't that ridiculous.
Abuse abuse abuse. If I can spinup 35 minute servers for bad things, how do you keep me from doing it again without tying in billing information?
Apple did unveil a few new features (some derivative, some original), but the consumers have focused entirely on the interface, and particularly the icons.

If that's all anybody gets concerned about, where is the pressure to deliver product innovation?
Or if you have two.
You don't have to bring your own theories to point flaws in a particular one. You just have to point at an inconsistency. iOS7 has plenty.
Do you mean that I should, or are you asking me why I am uncertain? If it's the former, you don't know my rates, maybe they're already too high (they're not) :p

If it's the latter, I have no answer.
Right here in case anyone wants to red it: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/09/opinion/sunday/the-interns...
Most users are going to have a Mac and a Windows machine, SMB makes far more sense. You're going to see NFS in enterprise situations and Apple does not really aim there target there.
White House trying to clear the forest of 'patent trolls'
I just want to echo the sentiment that Cody is a great person to be offering this.

I had the experience of being interviewed by him a while back, and he made what could easily have been a very intimidating (especially as it was a long interview in a series of long interviews) technical interview both immensely enjoyable (by the end it felt like being part of an exciting conversation), and actually went out of his way to explain a bunch of stuff to me.

I wish there were more things like this.
You can also disable the whole thing by typing in

defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAppSleepDisabled -bool YES
s/discovered/suspected/

You're right about the freaked out part though...
Should Some Crowdsourced Apps Be Considered A Public Utility?
They always can just add banner asking for donations on top of the browser window like Wikipedia did.
Exactly, that's all the MBA refresh was - much to my girlfriend's disappointment - no retina display (but if the Air got a retina display, there ends up being very little to differentiate between the Air and the new Pros).
It's not clear those are similarly dangerous behaviors. Talking to passengers can prevent falling asleep at the wheel, which may be a bigger net danger than conversational distraction.

But the larger answer is perhaps that if you are driving poorly you can be ticketed regardless of the underlying reason.
Exactly. Instagram is share-by-default (reinforced with the acquisition by FB), Photostream is share-by-invitation.

I'm not an angst-ridden teen, and I don't want my kids' pix shared around any more than I have to.
More info here (entire Sca): http://balder.org/articles/hatespeech/Big-Brother-Sweden-Den...
Disclaimer: I work at Google.

I'm working on the client-side (Chrome) and my knowledge in the server area is therefore limited, but from my understanding this would be really hard.

1. Googlers have access to almost all source code. It would be difficult to hide code that just sends data to an outside entity.

2. Google continually monitors its (internal) bandwidth. This is done to optimize traffic, and detect intruders. A rogue Googler would trigger the same traps that are exist for potential hackers.

3. Google's infrastructure changes. You can't just install a gateway to the NSA and expect it to continue working for a long time. It's not as if user-data was stored in simple text-files.
If it worked the way I wanted, I'd probably pay $70 for a self-hosted solution. If it were absolutely what I needed with upgrades included for 2-3 years, maybe I'd pay up to $150. And if certain feature updates were intriguing enough I might pay another amount to get 2.0 version and so forth.

I use pancakeapp, I love it. I bought it and then bought the upgrade a year later. The price is fair, the software is great, very useful.
I really meant use - not just few hours of interaction, if that.

I'm honestly curious if other people share the author's sentiments; a yearning for "state of the art" icons like the old Safari icon. It always reminded me of the Netscape Navigator 2.0 splash screen.
I'm thinking about in the enterprise, not on the internet. I've seen supposedly adult engineers argue that establishing a repeatable build process will slow them down or cause the sun to set in the east or some such nonsense. And those are the senior people. There are a zillion junior programmers out there who have never discovered there are ways to build Java apps that aren't exporting a war file from Eclipse. :(
lol? This comment is a little confusing considering Opera is based on Norway. And as far as I know Opera is probably one of the better ones in regards to NSA said stuff.
How a Non-technical Solo Founder Got Into Y Combinator
Pardon now
Yes and no. Example from the German government (10 Aug 2010):

"Germany's interior minister said that politicians and senior civil servants in government should avoid mobile devices such as the iPhone and the Blackberry, citing security risks and increasing hacker attacks.
(...)
ministers and senior civil servants have been told to rely on the German-made Simko2 gadgets, on advice from the German federal office for information security (BSI)."

http://digitaljournal.com/article/295798
A Sewage Blunder Earns Engineer a Criminal Record (2011)
I was doing this for a while. I used to go after work, then started going at lunch.

But the place I go doesn't have a shower, so even after I dry of with a towel and take a hobo shower with some baby wipes, I'm still kind of icky when I get back to work. I don't really like being even a little bit stinky out of respect for my co-workers.

It also causes me to take another 20 minutes for lunch or eat at my desk, and in the summer it takes me a good 20 minutes for my body temperature to come back to normal.

It works but as always there are compromises to be made.