skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Over the course of several years there have been countless new events and new revelations. Literally countless. Every single day every single voter has new experiences in life, gains new perspectives, and hears more of history than they knew before. It is impossible to know what precipitated any individual's change without asking that individual. In absence of that specific knowledge, it is not appropriate to criticize anyone changing their mind, particularly over such a large span of time.

Can a change in administration be the sole cause of such a change in heart? Perhaps, but it is uncharitable (to say the least) to dismiss changes in public sentiment as the product of partisan politics and simple minds. Uncharitable, and unproductive.
Once people treat them as the complicated computers they are, we can start the countdown to post-post-PC devices.

Especially because there is no reason to drop the visual slider, or to make all the visual hints on the screen super low-contrast (on the new starry sky background at least).
Google continuing to deny that their is a dragnet is not evidence that their is no dragnet. If there was a dragnet it is very likely that they legally are not allowed to admit it as per terms of the court order.

There's nothing Google could say or do to clear their name on this. The NSA, Congress or the Executive branch need to detail the level of access and the form of access that the NSA has to Google's information in order to clear Google's name. Even that unfortunately has to be taken with a large grain of salt.

There's simply too much information pointing towards mass surveillance with assistance from US companies to believe what the companies themselves say. This is a shitty position for Google to be in but consumers didn't put them in it, the US government did by admitting to the PRISM slides being correct without detailing how the companies mentioned on them are involved.
But that assumes that the tiny startup is either confident that, only 3 short months from now, they'll be able to spring for the full price of hosted CI, OR they can afford the time investment to set up their whole build process in hosted CI... and then spend the time to migrate away from it into a local setup before the 3 months is up.

There's quite a bit more than the money involved when setting up SaaS infrastructure; even if the first 3 months were _sponsored_, the precious time invested would be wasted if they aren't signing up for the long haul.

And if they are signing up for the long haul, then 3 months of X discount makes very little difference in the calculation.
I've been running iOS 7 for a day now and had some co-workers give it a try -- all of them current iPhone users -- and literally every single one of them tried to swipe up to unlock.

Unfortunately, in my experience so far, this isn't the only case of misleading and unintuitive design in iOS 7.
Why would people seek asylum from the US? Why would anyone want privacy especially when it concerns their political leanings or financial transactions? Just trying to predict the future by using the past. Then again I could be completely and utterly wrong.
If PRISM would have had to raise money
My guess is that the idea of objectivity started around the 1890's, when people like Pulitzer and Hearst realized they could sell cheap newspapers funded by advertising and do without the support of the local political machines. But I don't have any support for that idea.
I doubt they would even need a warrant, I expect facebook will roll over for even an administrative subpoena (which are signed by clerks of the court rather than judges and are essentially pro forma).
Exactly. I also read that the gov't there is currently revamping their asylum rules and that for now anybody who applies for asylum can stay until the rules are sorted out, which may take quite a long time... I don't think he's done so, but it may be a more savvy location than you'd think.
Sign the form and then donate to the EFF. Your signature matters and putting your money where you digital mouth is matters a lot (more?) too.
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The text for this is incredibly misleading, the headline of the article is the exact opposite of "Mozilla Moving Persona moving servers outside the US". This submission should be deleted.
I think it's a fairly common attitude that if you just do as you're told and don't rock the boat you'll be successful. So of course it's going to be provoking that someone who doesn't fit the mold can still make a very good living.
Passionately Driven Development
I do not believe this interpretation is correct. In a criminal proceeding in the US, a defendant--whether a citizen or not--has a right to counsel, as guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment to the US Constitution.

As this is not a criminal prosecution, the right to counsel does not necessarily apply. Under present law, border searches are quite different from normal searches, even for US citizens.
And even if you have no such intent. Hence the cautionary tale.
I guess if that's how you see it, I just have to disagree. To me, someone who voted for Obama/Biden twice, in both of those skits they do a fairly good job of making him seem incompetent, simple, and short-sighted. In the second, they equate him with their version of incompetent W - that doesn't seem all that flattering.

EDIT: Adding the 'Biden Bash'[1]

[1] http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/biden-bash/n320...
Sure, the practice is ubiquitous

Example software and policies are things like:

http://www.exam4.com/ (used by Harvard, George Washington, etc)

http://www.law.wisc.edu/help/for_students/securexam/

http://www.law.columbia.edu/academics/registrar/Laptop_Exams

https://www.law.umich.edu/currentstudents/registration/exams...

Most (all?) schools offer students the ability to take their exams on paper, but doing so is a substantial competitive disadvantage because examinations are usually timed and writing on paper is much slower, students are marked down for legibility and copy-editing noise, etc.

I don't have a citation studying it— but by all appearances it's only a small minority of students that opt out of using their laptops. ("Most Stanford Law School students take their examinations on laptops")

IIRC the California bar exam now also uses one of these spyware exam packages.

I'm mostly amused that we have a whole information-security critical profession who is nearly required to behave negligently wrt information security from day one. :P
The similarity to Windows Phone and some concepts I first saw on Android were what caught my eye here. And do I think that's a bad thing? No.

I think what has everyone generally up in arms is that, with Apple, they never look like they're copying anyone. Until they do.

And what frustrates others is when users try to explain away how it's not really a copy, it's something different because it's done oh-so-much better.

I don't really care all that much, but one thing is certain -- the new iOS7 design looks more like designs of competitors than it does the previous iOS line.
I beg to differ.

- Bavaria in fear for five US bases

http://www.merkur-online.de/aktuelles/politik/bayern-bangt-f...

- Effects for Bamberg: withdrawal of US troops brings about employment worries

http://www.radio-plassenburg.de/default.aspx?ID=7054&showNew...

(18,000 employees and a giant market in the surrounding areas are affected at the biggest US base in
Grafenwöhr - after all, 15,000 family members of the troops live in the communities around the base.)

- Mannheim expects loss of 6 million Euro after pull-out of troops

http://www.t-online.de/regionales/id_42073640/mannheim-rechn...
It seems to work alright for the humblebundles (games)
It landed (at least officially) in Windows 7. Quite awhile ago!
Actually, Broken Sword I & II aren't free downloads; the downloads on ScummVM's pages contain the games' cutscenes transcoded from Bink Video to MPEG2.

It turns out that unlike many of the technologies ScummVM reverse-engineers and reimplements, the Bink video codec is still commercially available, and the Bink people refused to let ScummVM release their reverse-enigneered decoder. So, if you want cutscenes in Broken Sword games, you need to download them in a format that ScummVM can decode.
This is a pretty interesting way of attempting to do a poll without enough karma for a legitimate one.
Startup Suicide: A brief guide to First Mover Stupidity
Whether its against the spirit of the constitution depends on how you perceive the nature of monitoring. The "spirit" of the 4th amendment is to keep the police from invading your personal space. If you think of your gdrive as a natural extension of your desk drawer, then I can see how you could interpret it as against the spirit, because the NSA looking through those documents is like the police rummaging through your desk.

That's not the only way to view the situation, though. That's the "software" view of the world. I take a "hardware" view of the world. That data is sitting on Google's property. Its servers, its hard drives. You've given up posession of that data. Under that view, rummaging through that data is neither unconstitutional nor against the spirit thereof.

more generally, the constitution just has nothing to say about the larger issue of "tracking." The founders wrote the 4th with a specific grievance in mind: British searches of houses with very broad warrants. They just didn't address the government collecting information you left out in the world to track you.
Sure, but what does that have to do with the Hacker Bundle?
After two only days as a professional programmer the bananas were all gone
It appears to have sold out.

Is there an equivalent to sitting in the back of the lecture hall / access to an online forum of similar folks following along?

I ask because as a developer I make stuff but rarely know which mistakes I am making in the break stuff department.

And of course how do I book the next run?
Just because the NSA didn't share the data doesn't mean another government agency couldn't also request it from Facebook.
I have used VBA here and there, and try not to bag on it too much. There are some cases where using it can make sense, but in general, it seems to be a compromise.

I get a little confused about the programmer/non-programmer dichotomy. If you are capable of implementing a complex model in excel, you are probably more than capable of learning a programming language. If you are just tallying up a few numbers to throw into a report or presentation, then yeah, no need to switch. As I mentioned in another post, it probably has to do with exposure and motivation.
CircleCI costs $19 a month for a small startup (I know it says $49 value, but really small startups will be fine on a smaller plan). That's a lot cheaper than buying a server, just in raw costs, not even taking account developer time to set this up (much cheaper than setting it up locally on Jenkins).

If your tiny startup isn't able to afford a couple of hundred dollars a month for various hosted services after 3 months, then you're prioritizing wrong. You need to focus on building a valuable product and getting it to customers, not on building your own internal setup to save a little bit of money. Companies doing the former are much more likely to succeed than those doing the latter.
Translation there no good hard read to.
I am upvoting this for spite, and if David Brooks was battered he probably deserved it.
Typescript Deep Dive
That is the impression that I've been given from reading the stories about the stress of living under a FISA order and lying to everyone about it.

Which is not to say Google or anyone else is lying about the nature or the scope or anything else about the requests they have received. But the problem is that we can't ever know one way or the other, because we have apparently created a system of secrecy and dishonesty. Once you know someone (in this case, the intelligence community, and those they compel) has a history of lying to you, how do you move past that back into a state of trust?
Anyone recommend an easy way to get started with StatsD?

I've tried to configure/install/setup StatsD etc in the past but hit so many problems with dependencies, undocumented software needing to be installed, etc.

Any tutorial or something to get stats being tracked and graphed beautifully would be awesome.
Google Glass Teardown
Agreed that this aspect will be interesting to watch. What I find interesting are that people understand "treason" when someone in the intelligence agency turns over state secrets to foreign powers, but since this guy turned over the secrets to "the people" (I know the Guardian isn't an organ of the citizens of the US but sharing this with US citizens was Snowden's stated intent) it does play more like "whistle blower."

Its kind of too bad it came out in an off year for elections though. Next year would have been better in terms of keeping it fresh in peoples minds just before they went to the polls. That said it will be question #1 I'll be asking congressional candidates next year, "What do you intend to do about the overreaching of the Executive Branch and the Intelligence agencies?"
5 Productive Responses to PRISM
All of their beta releases have had these problems. Apple betas really are betas.
Is PRISM Precipitating A Bitcoin Sell-Off?
As a long time user of Waze, I have begun to notice that their ads are becoming increasingly annoying and distracting. For example, it will give me a pop up covering the screen asking me if I want to go to Taco Bell. While I am a huge fan of Waze, by deviating too far from being just a GPS makes it a bit frustrating at times. If they are looking to monetize the platform, there are surely other ways besides covering up the map!
I'm disappointed you upvoted my comment for spite. I'd much rather have a thoughtful reply (pro or con). For the record, I respect David Brooks as a person, have found his writing to be insightful in the past, and of course do not believe he or anyone deserves to be battered.
Yeah, I can imagine cats loved them. My brother's cat use to lay down on his laptop. While he is working.
I have been testing the beta on my iPhone 4S and the animations do indeed seem sluggish compared to iOS 6, but I don't doubt that Apple is aware of this and is working on to restore snappiness in the next few months.
Pintrest-esq layouts only work for bookmarks when you add screenshots (which don't work 25% of the time must-be-logged-in content).

Made this last year: http://folindux.com/popular
You don't actually have to do any of that to use the app.
With his column David Brooks loses his title of "The Liberals' Favorite Conservative."

New title: "Betrayer of a Genuine American Hero." And I can think of worse.
> Why are people doing so much peer level file sharing anyway? Performance? Security? In a company it would be a lot better to have centralized servers with high availability, probably with some kind of web-based CMS to store files, something like Confluence or Sharepoint.

You have to assume that the majority of Apple's users are home/edu/SMB users, who don't have centralised infrastructure.

They just want to share files between each other, or from a small NAS. Those who have Macs in an enterprise environment likely have a working solution via other methods.
> MS Excel is a masterpiece in software engineering, definitely the best piece of software MS ever created.

Won't comment on the "masterpiece" thing, but I like SQL Server better. Only their Natural keyboard and mice are better than SQL Server.

> Large pieces of the economy run on Excel, finance, controlling, etc. are unthinkable without it.

Now, that's scary.
This seems like a case of, 'easier to beg forgiveness than ask permission'.
JavaScriptCore as a public framework
What makes you assume an apache httpd install is secure simply because it is not running an "app"?

http://httpd.apache.org/security_report.html
> 100. NSA data that requires TS/SAP + full-scope poly to access.

You may be over-estimating the classification level here. The government classification isn't about protecting the secrets of private citizens, only government secrets. I have some experience in this field - handling fingerprints of non-criminals which were classified at the bare minimum for the agency. It would not surprise me if any non-specific NSA drag-net data itself was not classified any higher than CUI - controlled unclassified information.
My bad. Corrected.
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Brooks is the ultimate apologist for this kind of corrupt military, industrial, surveillance state crap. What a tool.

This article about Brooks (written by Greenwald and dating back to 2009) is pretty illuminating.

* David Brooks: our nation’s premier expert warrior
http://www.salon.com/2009/09/25/brooks_6/
> Foreigners not in the US don't have A right to counsel (which is the constitutional basis of attorney client privilege in the US).

Do you have a cite for this? I know that there's no right to counsel in civil trials, and this includes immigration courts (say in a deportation hearing), but thought that criminal trials do guarantee right to counsel regardless of citizenship.

Edit: sorry, I misread what you wrote. It's totally reasonable and doesn't deserve downvotes.

FWIW, web searching does seem to indicate that there's no explicit constitutional basis for attorney client privilege, and that it's just provided for by US (and often, state) law.
Killing is the closest thing to a "natural right" that exists. We bargain it away when we form civilized societies, but no such society binds sovereign nations together.

The issue with al awalki was that we were bound, because as a citizen he was party to our social contract. That said, the constitution requires "due process" not a trial in every case. Al awalki was in a place where we could not effectively capture him and give him a trial (he had the option to submit to process by turning himself in-- he was wanted for years).
Aren't we all just a little sick and tired of all of this 'integration'?
It's not quite sold out, but EventBee seems to be having some issues on the last few tickets for some reason. If you can't get in, refresh until the dropdown actually has tickets and you should be good to go. Sorry for the annoyance!
iPhone 4S here:

Pros ~ Two words - Control Center. I can easily change anything that I want without jailbreaking. It seems like they are moving towards an SBSettings-like iOS. For reference, SBSettings is a jailbreak-only package that allows you to change nearly every aspect of your iDevice.

Cons ~ Some apps are broken and will just not really work (ie. Alien Blue) with iOS 7 yet. Lag is very small but just enough to be noticeable. Restoring from a backup may take overnight, depending on the amount of data you already have. Some features can take some getting used to before you feel comfortable (ie. displaced 'delete' button when typing in passcode).
When I see the new screenshots, I can only think of the old, maybe 2003 era Microsoft Powerpoint themes. I haven't quite been able to pin down what about it is drawing the parallel for me, but it is.

Having an unfortunately difficult time finding a relevant link :(
As a native German speaker, I just wanted you to know, that the provided translation wouldn't make any sense, if you at least didn't have a basic gasp of the German language. The original German article does not provide any information about how HS dept got to read the Facebook messages. Further, it seems a rather badly researched article out of an insignificant tabloid.
I did not know this, no allegedly about it. (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/25/facebook-master-pas...)

but they did away with it "in favor of other, more secure forms of logging in to repair accounts"
The apathy of the otherwise good is a scourge seen across all of human history. Knock yourself out, I hope you enjoy it.
A lot of other people need to be doing it, though. Without the crowdsourced info there's no point in using it instead of Google Maps.
Of course there must be many, but the parent comment drew particular attention to this possibility. Using the Economist house style offers an elegant alternative, wherein virtually all people and organizations are identified explicitly, no matter how prominent. For example, you might see "Google, a search giant", "GE, an American conglomerate", or "Tim Cook, boss of Apple". In this case, the first line of the post could be changed to "A quote by Joseph Goebbels, Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany:", and the final paragraph could be eliminated.
USP: No safeguards! Nothing prevents you from collecting data on political opponents and vocal dissenters!
Clicky link to the actual paper (http://bartneck.de/publications/2013/agentsWithFaces/bartnec...)
It’s enormous.

No, in the grand scheme of things it doesn’t matter at all, the wider German economy would not be affected, not to any kind of noticeable degree, but for the local community it would be devastating. Akin to the bankruptcy of some huge employer.

My parents are living a few dozen kilometers from one of the bases (so actually pretty far away, all things considered) that has actually been growing (as others were closed down more and more was moved there and centralized). It’s in the middle of nowhere, there is nothing else there.

My dad, a civil engineer, planned and executed quite a few infrastructure projects for the base. The base is also notoriously short on living space, so people working there have been spreading all over the region, renting apartments and houses. Heck, new houses have been built not half a kilometer from my parents’ home to house people from the base. (My parents own several houses and very nearly rented them or apartments in them to Americans several times. For some reason or other it always didn’t work out in the end but the demand is very obvious.)

This tiny version of suburbia was also recently built (by a German company) to provide more living space (cost: €200m).

Shopping and going to restaurants is also huge. No, those people in the base do not want to stay there all the time. They will go to the next bigger city or two and buy and eat stuff there. Or get drunk in some club. Frequently. More and more city marketing in the region is specifically targeting Americans.

Where my parents live the impact of this base closing down would already be negligible. We probably know one or two people who would lose their job because of it or would make noticeably less money – but the close you get the more devastating the impact would be.

Those most directly affected by the base – those who see it every day – are the least likely to want to close it, mostly for economic reasons.
Physical security (as it relates to freedom) does not have to be provided. If I have a gun and an armored car then I have a significant amount of physical security regardless of any rules. If I have a bunch of rules but I am stuck in a dark alley with a thug then I have neither security nor freedom.
As a dynamically typed language, how does Python specifically yield fewer errors than VBA? Or even compared to C# or F#?
Mac Linux USB Loader: Tool to make a bootable linux USB drive and using EFI.
New phylum of bacteria found lurking in hospital sink’s drain
Exactly right -- please do redirect to https at a minimum for any payment pages.

The actual risk of a MitM attack is low, but it's certainly feasible; your page would look exactly the same if it were tweaked en-route to use a completely different source for the overlay iframe, and tweaking your page en-route is possible because you're sending it unencrypted.

There's also a web-standards rationale -- all payment pages should be over SSL, because it's one of the few security precautions that non-technical users can reliably verify. Any unencrypted-but-legit payment pages undermine the lesson that payment pages should be SSL-only, when we should be encouraging it.
Peer (LinkedIn + video) Launches iOS app