skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Although functional, the experience was subpar, because the head proximity sensor was very unreliable when next to a lens."

I turned off my proximity sensor (that's an option in settings -- "On-Head Detection") because the false positives (like turning on or off because my finger covered the sensor briefly) were more annoying than having to turn it on and off with the power button.

So unless there's more use for the proximity sensor I'd say this is a small price to pay if you want to attach google glass to your regular glasses.

One possible use for the proximity sensor, though, is wink detection: https://github.com/kaze0/winky

On the other hand, there's a dedicated button for taking a picture so winking as an input method I think would only be useful in situations where you don't want to use either your hands or your voice. And there may well be such situations.
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Sure, that's the "technically correct, but practically worthless" answer. Trigger hyper-inflation and then what? It surely won't be "business as usual" afterwards.
You're already on the list. The list that knows everything about you.
Smart response. Very smart. Damage control at its best:
"How we wish we could tell you that it's not so bad as you think it is... but government won't let us... Government, pretty please?"

They just put the spotlight on Administration, which of course won't allow it. Smart.
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Ask HN: Pivoting technologies in your projects?
In some projects there is some major difficulty, that is either solved or not solved. When not solved it often sits there until the end (maybe hidden behind some curtain). When it is solved, a solution might come from a new view on the architecture or some new technology, that plays the role of an enabler.

E.g. for a personal experience:

* Challenge: I tried to build a instant search web-interface over a large dataset with some non-trivial UI interactions.

* Things that did not worked well: jQuery, not because it's not nice, but because there were a couple of moving parts on the site.

* Pivoting technology: Using an Javascript MVC (knockout) made the interface slick and I could even implement features, that weren't on my schedule, because it was simple and manageable.

I am asking for experiences, because I observed a few teams finding such a pivoting technology in the past - and it's educational to see it in the context of their challenges.
From the page tptacek linked to:

> HOW MUCH CRYPTO DO I NEED TO KNOW?

> None. That's the point.
It's amazing how calmly he talks. Alex Jones could learn a thing or two.
FOIA the NSA (via Doctorow)
Possibly quite expensive and I'd say only for the brave (I'm presently borderline....)
but you can bet that if CNN broke the story and he went to them with the documents they would be praising him ..

i've noticed a few outlets that are usually progressive have been leaning anti-Snowden, and I can't help but feel that it is because of a professional jealousy.
I wonder if this is part of a plan to deincentivise immigration.
Can't help but think the Vesper guys wished they had waited until next year.
I wonder whether requesting the info puts you on any sort of list.
"Assertions in the press that our compliance with these [FISA] requests gives the U.S. government unfettered access to our users’ data are simply untrue."

What about the non-FISA requests, has any of them given the U.S. government unfettered access to user data?

What does unfettered mean?
"You only can access all user data for 2 hours"
"You need to specify (through tickboxes?) all the user data you wish to download to PRISM"
"You only access all user data of all German users"
NSA surveillance: anger mounts in Congress at 'spying on Americans'
> how in the hell is a sys admin contractor making $200k/year???

Bonuses for special projects. Stock options. Relocation reimbursements.

Also given that BAH is also the bad guy they will try to discredit him as much as possible (he lied is a first strike) to divert the attention from their own incompetence.
Was there a time when wars were only fought by old men?
It could also be that her Facebook profile was public and she posted public status updates (default FB privacy setting) about what she plans to do in the US. No PRISM necessary for that, just a FB account.

Just try a search on FB for a random name and open a couple of profiles. It is baffling how much personal information is publicly available.
How can a guy like that be elected? Is he in the most gerrymandered district in country?
I still wonder why humans outside the US are of less value then the peaple inside it... Or aren't we humans ?

Also where is StopWatching.eu ? Cause the site is made for us :p
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> Our lawyers were chickens and that was the last of it.

Should've leaked it. Data corruption is a bitch of a problem for anyone hit by it.
Yap most likely, NSA billed $200/year, he was given $120/year, BAH pockets $80/year.
Twice in my life I have noticed things that made me wonder. The first time I currently think was in my imagination. This time I am not so sure. I am noticing for example a cell phone whose battery level drops when connected to the charger and not in airplane mode. Google chat messages apparently long delayed. That this started after the Snowden leak makes it even more suspicious to me. I am an American citizen residing abroad.

I could just be seeing things that aren't there. However as a vocal opponent of this sort of surveillance, it would make sense that I would be caught up in some sort of filter especially as the hunt for Snowden continues.

(So note: If you are listening I think you might be. I am a patriot, as I believe Snowden is. I have not provided any active assistance for him, but I applaud those who do. My wife thinks I am too political but at some point my loyalty to my country, the United States, compels me to stand up to this sort of thing.)
A watch computer != a HUD.

A watch could never do augmented reality overlays -- heck, even a phone can do those better than a watch ever could. IMO that's like saying the iPad will go head to head with laptops -- it's an apples-to-oranges comparison.
Are you familiar with ORG?

* http://www.openrightsgroup.org/

* https://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Main_Page

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Rights_Group
No, the corners aren't quarter circles. Here's a good explanation: http://dribbble.com/shots/1110779-iOS-7-Icon-Rounded-Corner-...
Or a mesh network consisting of wifi nodes might be good too. The trick is in the routing.
But is your view that small tribal societies without a professional judiciary are necessarily violating human rights for lack of a professional judiciary or even clear code of laws?
TL;DR: If the CAs are compromised, the protocols they use are compromised.
Maybe this time around they'll ask for comment or whatever from the concerned sources so that they can avoid publishing so much incorrect info this time around.

I found it really hard to get angry at the PRISM stuff considering that pretty much every major article went through major revisions over the following 48 hours. Also, the "direct access to servers" meme that was categorically false doesn't help to take it seriously.

When the people behind the scandal can spend the entire news cycle raising legitimate criticisms and contradictions to the published articles, it's hard to get mad.
before somebody jumps down his throat for saying he had a salary of $200k a year, the original part of the article is as follows:

> He has had "a very comfortable life" that included a salary of roughly $200,000, a girlfriend with whom he shared a home in Hawaii, a stable career, and a family he loves.

The $200k part isn't in quotes, so it is possible that the writer mixed up a statement on what he previously earned, what he earned in total in the last year, or something else.

The point of that part of the story was to set out just how much he was leaving behind, no doubt he had a comfortable life.

I wouldn't read too much in the discrepancy between what Booz say his salary was and what it was states as in The Guardian - except that it is a bit weird for a former employer to include in a statement about a person being fired what their salary was.

They likely only mentioned it because $200k was mentioned in the original article, a further attempt to discredit although a soft one.
The guy is schizophrenic, which explains the biblical passages. I find it fascinating that he's obviously brilliant at what he does, but it's influenced (and hampered) by his condition.
Neither. Exec user here.

$25/hr flat rate + 3% surcharge of what you buy + gas mileage where applicable (forgot the rate for that)

So for example if I hire someone to just sit there and answer phones all day, no purchases or traveling was required, its just $25/hr.

If I wanted someone to go pick up my dry cleaning, I'd have to pay for $25/hr plus gas mileage cost (from the dry cleaners to drop off point) plus whatever dry cleaning cost is including a 3% surcharge of THAT price. So assume dry cleaning was $10, that comes out to $0.30 surcharge. The surcharge is not base on the hourly rate.

Now that has been changed to $30 and 10% respectively, same rules.
Why are people focusing so much on the salary? Besides, for all we know that 122k is his base salary he got serious bonuses, stock options, etc and so he valued his annual earnings at close to 200k.
1. The machinery being put into place is a dictator's wet dream. By creating the infrastructure, we are putting a gun to our heads, and trusting the person holding it (the government) to not pull the trigger. The government may be benevolent now, but that may not always be the case.

2. Once the machinery is in place, it makes it that much easier to change directions. Just look at how all of the powers granted by the PATRIOT Act are used to non-terrorism related investigations like the War on Drugs, or the War on (Paid) Sex. Look to the censorship programs in Europe / Australia. They were put into place to block supposedly 'only' child pornography. Now they are used to block other things.

3. How are we supposed to make sure that things aren't being abused when everything happens behind closed doors, and the members of Congress cleared to see more specifics aren't allowed to see very much of hte system.
Well, I was going to one day visit the US, but I'll never risk entering with the kind of inane (but possibly incriminating) crap I've bantered with friends over chat.

What a sham.
Sure, but even with an extended battery, I'm not getting 9 hours on either windows 7 or linux on my lenovo laptop.
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Well, only 15% of profiles are by Americans, so if you have an FB profile there is an 85% chance you are not an American. That's a bit above the 51% confidence the NSA requires ;-)
Yup, the BeagleBoards do this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Package_on_package
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic. In case you're not, I've been an Android user for years now, and that is most certainly not what it shows. The vast majority of people can't upgrade to Jelly-bean, because their device, manufacturers, or carriers don't support it or won't release the update for their particular phone. For example, the Droid Bionic was on Gingerbread with no way to upgrade (without rooting) until October 2012 [1]. And the upgrade was for Ice Cream Sandwich which was already 12 months old by that time (and Jelly-bean, the next version after ICS, had already been out for 3 months by that time) [2].

[1] http://www.droid-life.com/2012/10/23/droid-bionic-ice-cream-...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_version_history#Android...
I wish I could even get that far. I hear that the WP8 app ecosystem in the states isn't that bad, but I can't experience it.

Really, all I want is a phone that will upload pictures directly to Facebook.
AKA, "Start a dossier on me if you haven't already. If you already have one, please select me for further scrutiny." 1st amendment is so toast.
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>Also, the "direct access to servers" meme that was categorically false doesn't help to take it seriously

I don't think this was ever determined. The documents specifically stated that access to the servers is "direct," and Glenn Greenwald seems to be sticking to his guns on that point.
Seems a bit single issue ?
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I have my own pet conspiracy theory and that is that the people (I don't know who, the usual conspirators?) are creating crazier and crazier conspiracy theories to discredit the declining percentage of conspiracy theories which are actually true. For example, there is a conspiracy theory that CIA knew about 9/11 to some detail and just decided to let it happen, which may hold some merit (i.e. while crazy it's the least crazy) and doesn't require thousands of people keeping a secret. And then there are the others - it was a controlled demolition, the plane didn't even hit the buildings, it had a massive bomb on its underbelly and even more unbelievable crazy stuff
I have heard that "digital signature" was clarified at some point as literally being a digital scan or photograph of your signature, but I am unable to find a source for that right now. YMMV
There's also this: FBI agent for the second time says all communications are recorded. "No digital communication is secure" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt9kRLrmrjc
There were some notable changes in the Classic-to-X change. Quark XPress replaced by InDesign, BBEdit replaced by TextMate. Probably a few others, too.

Adobe's tools stood unchanged in the X switch, in no small part because they got X versions out pretty quickly that felt relatively at home. Quark, IIRC, took forever to make an X version, so Adobe was able to bring out an X page layout app and eat their lunch. Of course, it didn't hurt that everyone pretty much loathed XPress, especially its heaviest users...
I believe, if it continues as it is currently, the numbers are government requests, and how many users effected. There is no check or distinguishment in whether the government and the user's country match.

They also publish non-us government requests as well.
While it seems to be working, the worse they make him sound the more foolish they look for hiring him in the first place.

They are just further ruining any remaining reputation they have for being able to keep privileged data secret.
AskHN:Does monitor size influence your performance when you code?
I use Eclipse as IDE.On my Dell Inspiron laptop computer,I often have to hide some windows to see the debug information properly..I have heard that many programmers use multiple monitors -one to code and another to view docs while coding.Sometimes I think I should use a bigger screen.. but this is less practical when you move from one place to another.How do you guys deal with this?(ie,if you think this affects your performance)
Apologies for not closely following the thousands of different UX improvements / add-ons / tweaks available for Android. I wouldn't be surprised if it was in Cydia as well.

But that's not the point. The point is Samsung will copy it. Just wait, I am pretty confident here ;) I mean they could just buy that existing app but something tells me that they won't... past behavior and all that...

Frankly I don't think Apple is taking any design clues from anywhere. They don't care what Android is doing - they do their own thing. And with iOS 7, they have revolutionized iOS. That's a fact.
We do a similar thing at my work. Mondays and Tuesday's we're maintaining our existing platform, then the remainder of the week we're excitedly developing a new one. We're a small team, and it's worked really well for us to keep focus.
I would like to sign up for this service, but I am unwilling to until it shows me examples of what emails I will receive.
BoingBoing points to Muckrock (http://boingboing.net/2013/06/11/howto-foia-the-nsa.html)

But it seems like Muckrock has done this sort of thing before, and the take-away I am getting is:
----make sure to request fee estimates before completion of request ----

$1,200 bucks for records of parking complaints @ NSA HQ! - get outta here.
https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/nsa...
"Why be you, when you can be new."
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Exactly. War can happen without it being declared. Now that's scary.
It doesn't really seem to matter where you live, if the government of the USA decides that it doesn't like you.
Repeat as you maybe missed it the first time around: "Design is not how something looks; design is how it works"

iOS 7 doesn't change the looks. It changes how everything works. All the built in apps have been changed completely. The entire OS layer has been changed completely.

A revolution is not poetic - it means a significant change where all the old paradigms are thrown out and replaced with new ones.

I was up until 1:00 am yesterday night finding more and more features and changes, and I am still finding more changes. I know it's not technically but it certainly feels like iOS has been re-written from scratch.
Please describe (in a sketched terms) a technical method by which anyone could get "direct access" to the user-data servers of Facebook, AOL, Google, etc.

Remember that each company has its own homegrown user-data data storage format, homegrown distributed data storage system, homegrown datacenters(!), and firewalls. These companies aren't running MySQL or Oracle, and these systems are constantly being updated with new features and data model migrations.

Does that seem plausible? Contrast against what has been freely admitted since NSLs started appearing:

Each company sets up a "safe-deposit" server for delivering specific one-off subsets of subpoena'd data, and the company's engineers deliver data to that server upon demand.
How long have you been doing this for?
> dictator's wet dream
I expect the same was said about satellites, telephone tapping, etc
Our defence against dictators does not lie in technology but in the ballot box.

2. Again the ballot box is the defence, but the reason it gets used is people are educated about the technology and the implications of abuse. I doubt that a US to ernment that took away a right to silence would suffer a few outcries from geeks. They would get roasted. (Unlike the UK)

3. Secret courts are banned for that reason. I think I would like to see a definition of national security like "ten thousand dead" or 3 % loss of GDP. Then when. That gets invoked we can make a sensible guess about how often it's likely. Otherwise, you put it in open court

Individuals are not the only ones to lose privacy in the coming years. Go ernment a will lose more
Sounds crazy but the US has plans to IN-f*cking-VADE Germany's neighbour, the Netherlands if they were ever to do a crazy thing, like arrest US soldiers for war crimes and bring them to the International Tribunal.

..."The Hague Invasion Act,[3][4] since such freeing of US citizens by force might only be possible through an invasion of The Hague, Netherlands, the seat of several international criminal courts and the seat of the Dutch government."

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Pro...
On the other hand, trickling it out keeps the entire issue at the fore-front of the public's attention rather than burning out in a week and being done with it. Also, as some have said, it allows those involved to come out with statements which may later be contradicted by further releases of evidence (i.e. giving the government a chance to hang themselves).
I am excited by iOS 7. It's like discovering a whole new OS.

I am actually thinking it's kind of shocking to do something as radical as that. Is my mom going to get it? She's barely gotten used to the old iOS.

And for the jailbreak sentiment: iOS 7 finally has the ability to block calls and messages. So now I don't need a JB anymore.
That's why they do it progressively enough so you dont see prices jumping up too fast. But be sure that they do, from year to year...
Myth status: BUSTED

Illegal immigrants pay more into social security than they take out. I don't even live in your country and I know this, come on - read a book.
The government has more resources than common citizens have. Sure the government is losing privacy, but citizens can't be invasive of the government's privacy in the same way that the government is being invasive of citizens' privacy.
You're absolutely right. Much of the caterwauling hasn't been fair though. This isn't a final release we are discussing. It a beta. It's a redesign that has been on the boards for less than 7 months, and it looks that way. Does it need more work? Yes, absolutely. I don't thing a single engineer or designe at Apple is sitting back in their chair and thinking "job done". What it is is an interesting direction. Accusations of 'missteps' are off the mark. It's difficult to have a sensible discussion as the signal-to-noise in any Apple discussion is just awful. Criticism is good, however most are utterly incapable of doing so constructively, which is plainly bad.
He's showing his sympathy for things liberals care about. He takes great pains to sound evenhanded. It could be because he's trying to win over liberal NY Times readers, or, it's possible that he's unaware that he's a conservative.
As I follow what has been going on in greece and turkey, I wonder when/under which circumstances we will reach our tipping point?

Maybe when MQ9's start patrolling the skys regularly state side, someone will intercept and take control the line of sight feed and send a message to the individuals sitting in their desks in Washington that the chickens have come home to roost…
I am a "big data" engineer, and I have no idea how they could do something like this. However my inability to theorize a potential method of collecting this data is not evidence for/against its existence. Remember the NSA employs some of the most brilliant software engineers and mathematicians on the planet whose job it is over the course of years to figure this sort of stuff out. I'm sure they've got a few tricks up their sleeve. Time will tell of course, and more revelations are reportedly "imminent"
I haven't found device fragmentation to be much of an issue in practice in Android development. Admittedly the apps I've written so far haven't really been pushing the envelope but aside from some hassles with older Kindles I haven't had to spend that much time on device-specific bugs. Not much more, in fact, than I've had to spend getting apps that run fine on iPhone 4+ working on the 3GS.

It's even less of an issue if you can afford to target only 4.0 and above, which is an increasingly reasonable choice for a lot of apps.
They probably had these papers already prepared. It's not like people get their visas one day before departing to the US.
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He's obviously talking about "the list" where a human takes a closer look at you, and actually looks at the information that they've pulled on you. Maybe they also send out a few NSLs for even more depth on you.
I have thought about it. We can't make use any more of Google, Microsoft, Yahoo Twitter and FaceBook. We need a new system, one built with anonymity and lacking a central point of failure.

Let's say we invent a protocol and write some software clients for it. It should do anonymous search, browsing, messenging, social networking, video calls and video streaming. It would hide the origin of a request and make it uncertain about who does what.

For example, if 1000 people use a common VPN server to access Google, and they all come out as the same IP address, it can become more difficult to know who searched for what. All that is needed then is to browse in Safe Mode without logging in.

This kind of ideas and other (distributed hash table, using bittorrent like systems for moving data around) could make a nice private communication tool.

We just need to make a clear separation between what can be said on FB and what can be said on Anonymous net.