skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to put words in his mouth, but I think tptacek is referring to how credulous this site can become when it's something they feel passionate about. You said that the credibility of the petitioner here "could not be called into question" when it quite obviously can. You were just one example of this trait, but you were the highest rated one.

Also, there's this (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_immunity#Federal_sov...), which should immediately occur to anyone who follows legal stuff in even the most passing fashion. Generally speaking, you can't sue the President over anything related to his work.
IOS 7 Human Interface Guidelines
Yeah I remember using OTR on kopete when I was in college. I had one instance opened on my laptop and the other on my PC. It was pretty cool and easy to set up. What wasn't easy was finding anyone I knew to talk to with beside the few other linux nerds at school.
Rand Paul: Big Brother Really Is Watching Us
Please go back to Reddit
Australia?

But yeah, where I am I was on mobile internet for a year where I would go 2 weeks on a 2G connection and even on the 3G I had pings of 200~ to data centers in my city.
It is pretty slow.
Meteor Alert for North America Tonight
Don't let the door hit you on your way out.

I mean, you could tell us WHY you think it's a bad idea.

Informing us of that you'll leave OS X? We could not care less.
I have always found it rather unfortunate that the JVM is the best platform for Clojure, and unfortunate that interop with Java is so important. All of the blemishes on the language seem to be a consequence of those two things.
Step 1: Stash a healthy % of all income into savings.
Step 2: Live off the remainder.
I think it looks gorgeous. I can't wait to see one in person. My only hesitation about the design is that cylinders don't snuggle well with other computing equipment.
I read the first page of the lawsuit, determined it looked liked a valid filing and when I Googled Larry Elliot I learned that he is known as the founder and the former chairman of Judicial Watch, a public interest and non-profit law firm, Klayman was a prosecutor in the United States Justice Department and was on the trial team that succeeded in breaking up the telephone monopoly of AT&T - Hence this post was 24kt gold.
It certainly could be a bandwidth issue. Assuming 4K=3840x2160, that's about 12 Gbits per display with 24 bits/pixel and 60 Hz.
One thing that I find a little jarring is going from a dark background to a light background. It might not be so much of an issue on a small device / screen, but it's the kind of thing that you feel in your eyes - if say you were looking at it in the dark. I'd probably rather one, or the other. Or be able to flip between the two styles.
Damco loads up IBM PureSystems to help meet Business Demands
They could have at least added a little shadow or something, like they would usually. I don't know what they were thinking. I usually trust Apple with these design matters.
When I get an bright idea that will make me a lot of money and bring me fame, I'm sure I'll figure out a way to keep it secret when I communicate it to a few trusted advisors.
What Do You Care Most About When Reviewing Someone Else�s Code?
Correction: PRISM + WWDC + E3 -> very high traffic.
My point was that if you know ruby, and think about adding something to your arsenal, don't write off java automatically. I meant it's still relevant for hackers to learn it, even though many of us agree writing in ruby is more enjoyable.
> I don't think it'll be a one line dismissal is all.

It's worth noting that if CISPA passed, it would be. Everybody is immune for anything "in good faith" under CISPA.
Flash storage on a PCI-ex bus? Nice. I wonder which GPUs they are cramming there.

The design is fantastic. I guess it has only one big fan on the top sucking the heat of everything, should be silent.

Now brace yourselves for the price...
This concept reminds me of the old Silicon Graphics workstations. Some 15 years ago they were something I would dream of having on my desk. SGI was the symbol of performance and graphics and the computers looked very different from everything else.

Maybe this is also a tribute to Steve Jobs and NeXT. Think Different.
Thanks for that tip. I might just do that.

Perhaps reload my mac pro with snow leopard one last time, get another year or so out of it, and then "switch" to linux on an old school workstation like this.

Hate to abandon all of my mac VMs, though. I don't think a non-mac vmware host can run mac VM guests... without a lot of mucking around, that is...
A fellow grad student told me once to, "Shut up and give me the answer! I'm going to get my paper and go into management!" I never forgave her.
Pandora's stock ended up 2.5% today. Perhaps iTunes radio isn't as big a threat as suspected?
The new Mac Pro looks like the part of a vacuum cleaner that stores the dust. It's going to take a while for it to grow on me, if that ever happens.
Does bitmessage have anything to do with this?
lol. For _years_, a friend and I who do the exact same thing (but escalate it to full ridiculousness), end with a proviso along the lines of "to anyone reading this, the above is in jest and in no way represents real intentions." We mostly put that in jest. Now the proviso seems less jestful.
Why aren't there more startups? (student debt and fear of unemployment)
... and those who use the comments to proxy article quality before reading.

Five. There are five crowds of people on reddit/HN. The commenters, the voters, the readers, the waiters, and the lazy. And also the submitters. Six. There six crowds of people on reddit/HN! And... ;-)
Predictive intelligence based app engagement platform, InsetLabs begins beta
The 3rd party use of Siri would be a godsend. I envision numerous use uses of Siri where I didn't need to touch the phone.

Example: Driving, listening to Audible (anyone know anywhere else I can get digital audiobook downloads at a reasonable price?), I'd like to skip back 30s. Siri integration would make it possible for me to focus attention on other things (my passengers) as they come up, then rewind. As it stands, I just end up skipping that part of my book and piecing together afterwards (or hitting the pause on my bt headset).
My daughter says, "Did it work, dad?" every time she hears Siri respond to me.
I have one :). I will say that it's surprisingly a lot better than I thought it would be.
Breakfast in Kailua is awesome. I'm a Cinnamon's fan myself, but I know a lot of people are Boots and Kimos guys.

I really love Kalapawai (both locations) and the morrocan place is a pretty nice spot. Kailuans (?) seem to have a soft spot for Pizza Bob's too.

I've sadly (and shamefully) never been to the big island so I couldn't speak to that. I've also only been to Kauai briefly to hike the Na Pali coast.

Are you talking about Ewa or just Ewa side? Ewa to me is just a bunch of suburbs and military familys. Heading out to Maile/Nanakuli/Waianae is more similar to some Waimanalo areas.
Erm, again, not quite.

I am suggesting that while the 1st and 4th amendments are very important, they alone are insufficient against jackbooted thugs; moreover, they appeal and are useful only to the relative intellectual elite of a country--if them.

The 2nd amendment, by contrast, expands the availability of force to the common man, and in so doing allows even the dullest and slowest hooligan to contribute to the process of political reform. Indeed, should the Man come calling, I would rather have a dozen armed rednecks and coon-asses standing with me than a few score of the best-spoken orators of our time.

It's unfortunate that things seem to be suggesting that this sort of calculus is becoming reasonable again.
US intelligence' cosy relationship with academia and business hard to unwind
I know one thing and that is that I would not play the role of whistleblower and it is exactly because I do not care how much the US is spying as being someone from another country. So, I can only conclude that this makes him a patriot from my point of view, because why would he risk his job, etc.!?
The devices with colored edges also say "iPod" instead of the carrier (which are now * in all new Apple stuff, probably to avoid showing carrier favoritism).
Is it not customary to use someone's full name when naming them in a lawsuit? Or are you not aware that this is the US President's legal name?
I feel like Control Center is Apple finally taking onboard the fact that SBSettings is one of the main reasons people jailbreak their phones. It's been interesting to see all the jailbreak features that came out like 5 years ago slowly making their way into iOS (e.g. multitasking, interactive lockscreen). Not that they really 'worked' on iPhone3 mind you, but they did exist.
You're going to need to upgrade, 3GS isn't supported on iOS7.
JVM crypto (i.e. using encryption libraries) can be faster than native because of function inlining (whereas in C/C++ you don't inline across libraries at link time because an update to the crypto library would require a recompile).
Be careful - what you are swearing to is refusing to hear anything that would sway your preconceived notions of what has happened here.
Yes ... it's terrible and bigoted for a LEGAL DOCUMENT to use a person's full name. That is what you really should care about in this story. Thanks for your contribution!
> But if everyone's secrets are unveiled, everyone benefit's.

I may be misinterpreting you, but I don't believe this is true.
It only works if you find out other's have a similar or compatible secret.

If everyone found out you pick your nose and eat it, but no one else does it, how does that benefit the nose picker?

If bob finds out his boss hates him, and his boss finds out that he has racist tendencies, how does that benefit bob?
The scary thing is that I'm not even sure I find this scary. Google knows practically everything about me. Facebook is not far off. Even my ISP and my webhost could probably easily find damning things about me.

The government is constrained by law and policy. Snowden makes the outstanding point that policy can change. He calls it "turnkey tyranny". And he's right.

But what stops Google's next CEO or CTO from doing the same?

So in some real sense we're entering an era where our privacy rights at least are at risk from multiple different parties. So while I don't necessarily want the government to have access to treasure troves, I don't mind them being as well-armed as the civilian providers who hold my data.

And as long as we're able to keep those types of NSA systems used for good (just as we've managed to maintain proper controls on nukes), I'm not even sure I'd find it that horrible.

Similar schemes were used in Iraq to help finally stamp out IED cells. They put video cameras everywhere around IED problem areas (using ground-based cameras and drones) and they simply recorded everything.

When an IED detonated, they would simply play the tape back to figure out who set the trap, and where they came from. And where they came from before that. And they would piece together entire cells at the blink of an eye.

That's the kind of thing I'd like the NSA to be able to use against the future OBLs of the world. Could the NSA use it "against" me? Possibly, but the marginal increase in risk for me is near-zero, especially if we can strengthen the transparency around the program and strengthen some of the policies that protect us into the force of law.

Because after all, if I'm willing to assume the government might go after me in an extralegal fashion, I'm already fucked.
Writing for Humans
Only c. 45% like the new iOS 7 design.
N.S.A. Leaker Is a New Kind for an Internet Age
Why not use fiber-attached storage and forget having all the drives on your desk? Lock them in a room.
I have no data to back this up, but I suspect you are wrong. I believe that the majority of American adults (let's say age 18 and above) are guilty of many crimes and that the NSA is very capable of obtaining evidence to convict them. Some of these crimes people are well aware of, like drug use, speeding, or the obvious copyright infringement, but some aren't, like tax crime or breaking safety regulations.

As the quote goes, in a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. And when the government already has all the evidence it needs to convict everyone, then anything can essentially be made illegal by selective prosecution of unrelated crimes. Have you been protesting against the government's foreign policy? Suddenly you're in jail for the mistake you made on your taxes 5 years ago. Have you been active in an alternative currency like Bitcoin? Surprise, you're in jail for that movie torrent you seeded a few months ago.
So, in practical terms, how would this be more secure than what we have now? The main crux of PRISM is that they have highly automated mechanisms of accessing user data from many major internet companies. If you store your private keys alongside that, what are you trying to protect against?
I would be somewhat concerned that NSA records could be used in employment verification (with NSA, or in government, or in general) in the future. Maybe "smoked pot" would not be a disqualifier, but what if a 22yo NSA candidate did coke at a party or something.
Don't get me wrong; I use crypto too (GPG), but NSA is not the ones I'm worried about. ;)
> just embed them in the back of babies necks Matrix-style

That's not how it worked in the Matrix... Are you thinking Left Behind style? That was in the forehead or right hand.
Ugly as shit. Completely useless for expansion. People will defend its ugliness and lack of expandability.
Most people don't make over $1 million dollars in a lifetime. I like to think the value comes from the desire to compensate a family member for a lost loved one. Some manner of putting a dollar value of the pain of the loss.

Also the greatest impact of spent dollars comes from investing in knowledge creation since new knowledge benefits everyone who will exist in the future, and we are extremely close (on the earth time scale) to our species becoming effectively permanent (space faring). So any minor new discovery can have enormous benefits, or at least benefits that are many orders of magnitude greater than stopping any number of different terror attacks.

You also have biological terrorism to worry about. Both natural (new severe viral outbreaks as in 1918 virus) and man made threats, which are not included in any estimates of the toll of disease.
The idea that the biggest reason to have PGP is to protect ourselves from some nefarious gov't entity is silly, though in the longer-run it can definitely help make this happen. PGP/PKI affords incredible technological advantages. If webmail providers offered it, OpenID (etc., etc.) would become quickly redundant (e.g.).
These internet-governments already exist, but we hardly think about them as governments because they are built upon our national governments.

Companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon all count. I am looking at the following corollaries here:

- Has physical dependencies (devices)
- Has citizens & well-defined relationship (users & tos)
- Has economy (app & e-commerce stores)
- Has communication (has APIs)
- Has higher-level information (surveillance & analytics of users)
Not liking the design...

It looks like they were peer pressured to make something bland, and now iOS looks too much apart from Mac OS. Throws away all learnability.
Hong Kong is not controlled by the USAUK intelligence corpus so they would probably respect diplomatic privilege and allow him to leave for Iceland as long as he does so under diplomatic protection.

It is probably also the case the UK wouldn't arrest Assange if he left under diplomatic protection, despite their claims that they would, since it would be a gross violation of diplomatic protocol. Remember that a Libyan opened fire on a crowd of Londoners from balcony of the Libyan embassy with a sub-machine gun, killing a young police woman and the UK still allowed the shooter to leave the country without charges. Diplomatic protocol is one of the strongest traditions of nations, breaching it is a serious blow to international perception of a nations trustworthiness (think red wedding). The UK is likely bluffing but Assange doesn't want to take the chance. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Yvonne_Fletcher

Hong Kong is unlikely to threaten gross violation of diplomatic protocol over a mere extradition request.
>Look at the SDK icon. That is ugly.

It's ugly because nobody gives a fuck about the SDK icon. It's not even an icon anyway -- there's no "SDK" app.

It's just a picture they put on the slides to represent the new SDK.

Don't you think if you want to make sweeping statements you'd better start with the icons people will actually see everyday? How about the home screen?
So, no Haswell for Macbook Pro, and no Retina Display for Macbook Air. Seems like neither laptop is built to be everything for anybody.
As a developer, it is now time to encrypt everything you possibly can
Clearly nothing is protected from prying eyes. You now owe it to your clients to encrypt everything you possibly can, especially including your cloud servers file systems, but you should go further. Every element of your system you should now ask "can I encrypt this?".
Gotta say... best post title I've seen in a while.

But still a very valid point. I would really support legislation governing online marketplaces, so that this kind of abuse couldn't take place. A company shouldn't have to be a monopoly, for anticompetitive behavior to become illegal.
Drug war far and away #1. Gambling and tax evasion might be #2.

Child porn is probably morally abhorrent enough (and genuinely rare; if >1% of people out there wanted to fuck 4 year olds, I'd probably try to nuke the planet from orbit) to not be an issue.

Maybe terrorism, if "terrorism" is badly interpreted enough to mean any contacts with terrorists, or advocacy of extreme political viewpoints.
Apple Announced iOS 7: Here’s Everything You Need to Know
I was surprised how bad it works in landscape orientation on their own ipad devices.. Alignment is wrong, scrolling is not smooth.. Overall, just bad. I could understand if I was browsing from an android platform..
Additionally, an updated AirPort Extreme and Time Capsule were announced.

http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_mac/mac_accessori...
The idea here is any video card you might want you can just plug in to a Thunderbolt 2 port.

Six of those, which can be chained, is way better than having four internal slots.
Because binary allows for exact copies.

Imagine copying a cassette tape or VHS and then copying from the copy. Eventually you have noise. Same for photocopies, and obviously all of these are somewhat dated.

This property of noise rejection gives digital computers a significant advantage over analog computers.
If you use oh-my-zsh try disabling some plugins as usually one or two turn out to be the culprit.
My understanding is that the API presented control of all desktops to one application. An app could address displays individually and make full use of it.

Clearly that wasn't the right approach, but it wasn't as blatantly broken as everyone makes it out to be.
You're stretching the risk portion out quite a lot more than the other side. A better question would be would you rather feel 99% safe and have a .001% chance to die tomorrow, or feel 0% safe and have 0% chance to die tomorrow.
Maybe this will be the kick up Agilebits' ass to fix their Windows and Android apps, and perhaps even deliver a Windows Phone app as well. The Android 1Password app in particular is embarrassing.
I still remember the shock of first encountering someone who was not naturally good at math.

If I had one piece of advice to give, it would be, "Only ever try to teach one cognitive motion at a time." Divide the circumference by the diameter? No. First teach how to measure the diameter. Verify that this skill is being practiced correctly. Teach how to measure the circumference. Verify that the skill is being practiced correctly. Ask her to divide the two. Verify that the skill is being practiced correctly. Then observe that the result is always pi.
I'm a bit confused. Are you not paying for this, somehow? I expect it will add up fairly fast, yes? 35min @ 0.060/hour is $0.35 per user. 100 users/day * 31 days/month = >$1k/month. So even at a small scale this will cost you a fair bit, won't it?

Don't get me wrong, it's pretty slick!
You must be talking of the Old GRE.The current GRE Math section is computer adaptive and getting a perfect score is no longer as easy as before.
I believe the excuses names were Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan...
Every time articles about a language "still being relevant" pop up, my first thought is "oh, it's down to that stage already". Not sure what this article is trying to accomplish.
You guys. Almost had me goin for a second.
Edward Snowden 'missing' in Hong Kong
What astounds me is that the mainstream media is not similarly in uproar. People don't seem to understand what this means: the government is spying on us, it is lying about the spying, and now it is telling us to not worry about it, to just move along, AND WE'RE DOING IT.

This is the most alarming thing I've seen in my adult life.
Wow -- that does make me happy. Thanks for the link!

(Also: Pascal?! I guess I can't complain -- I'm just glad this exists :)
Just to make it known, this particular set of tools isn't chrome exclusive and Firefox also has these features.
Unfortunately, this isn't the first time this happened. This also won't be the last time either.

When you build apps on a platform, be ready to run into brick walls if you start to enter (or have already entered) areas that the platform wants to get into -- that goes for Facebook and Twitter as much as it does for Apple as well.
So now breaking laws and committing treason is the new "patriotism" - I'll make note of this. Bradely Manning and this guy belong in the same jail cell or executed prefer the latter.
OS X Mavericks - Advanced Technologies
>Run away. Fast.

Towards an Applestore? I've been using an iPhone since 3GS, and this is the best release ever. Both in features and looks.
It's great at known words per se, it's HORRIBLE at looking up street names/businesses.
I think it'd be hard for me to call them out with much harsher words, if that happened to me.
This stuff is as unfair as it gets, but then again, that's the norm today ain't it?
Apple Fan on iOS 7
In the U.S., a 'hidden' economy for those without a university degree
The latter. I agree it's a terrible stance.
No but be careful. People round here dont seek to be informed of such.
While I totally understand why you're angry, I'm almost certain Apple's app review team does NOT have access to pre-release versions of iOS, so this probably didn't happen because Apple was working on similar functionality.
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The new design might bring some improvement on cooling a lot of powerful hardware stashed inside a small space while keeping the noise level to a minimum.
>They tried to get away from skeuomorphism, but still some remains. Just look at PassBook or the ugly 3D browsing through tabs.

What's ugly about those tabs?

And what's ...skeuomorphic about them? They remind you of real life huge rectangles with webpages on them that you browse through 3D space at home?
A job application for women from 1961 (before the Equal Pay Act)
He doesn't live in his own country (his fact not mine) and the one he chose (his fact not mine) has a violent history of torturing innocent animals that continues today. Yet he saw fit to criticize the US.
HTCs custom Sense UI had this all along (even on Windows Mobile, I think):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlTOI7ZUziQ

It's, uhh, not exactly novel.
That is because the NSA's spying program only works against those that believe they "have nothing to hide". Terrorists or whistle blowers that take even moderate precautions are immune.