skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The SODIMM factor is useless without a carrier board. And I can't see the pricing on the carrier board except for the combo which is being sold for "$59 in volume".

The $27 price is also for the 275 MHz part in 1000s quantity, not the 600 MHz part. That's $34 (in 1000s?). Good luck running any kind of desktop on 275 MHz, much less Android.
I suppose it would be nice to know how many FISA requests there have been, but what does the number of requests have to do with the core issue? Is the number of FISA requests in proportion to the amount of data being shared? Does it tell us the nature of what is shared or how it is shared? We still know nothing about the contents of legal FISA requests and therefore can't really say whether a single request violates our rights or not. Publishing aggregates tells us essentially nothing because we still don't know the limits of a request, or at least I don't.
Cached: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:chris.m...
Wise discussion, I think. We're also testing Stripe for planza.com right now.
Should there be an apostrophe in this title?
For people who think that lawsuits can't do anything:

In the 1970's and 1980's, the courts were extremely active in policing the government. It was by all measures a much scarier time. Obama has a few drone strikes--Reagan was funding revolutions in other countries. It was the height of the cold war and the threat of nuclear holocaust, and the palpable fear about communism paled anything we see today over terrorism. Even in the early 2000's, in the throes of the aftermath of 9/11, the Supreme Court forced the Bush administration to dramatically adjust its policy on giving legal representation to inmates at Guantanamo.

Since then what has happened is a process of delegitimization of the judiciary. And both sides of the aisle have been to blame for this: from the right's talk of activist judges to Obama's physically menacing over the Justices during his state of the union. The judiciary has been at fault too: having overextended itself in the culture wars of the 1960's and 1970's, it very self-conciously adopted a mantra of extreme judicial restraint.

What you have left today is a judiciary that might no longer be able to effectively police the government. I've made it clear elsewhere that I don't think the current surveillance program is illegal, but it might not matter one way or the other. The judiciary's role in our system of checks and balances is ultimately rooted in faith in the legitimacy of the institution, and that faith has been dramatically eroded over the last two decades.
ACLU NSA Lawsuit Complaint [pdf]
I've never considered donating to the ACLU before this incident, but I've never considered them ambulance chasers either.
Not A/B test. I just use jQuery to shuffle the order. Inspired by Stripe's team page I guess: https://stripe.com/about
> it started just after the NSA hit the fan.

IIRC this was longer the case.
Woe is me, Apple didn't come out with an iWatch that has been rumored since the first iPod nano came out. Waaaa.

I would call all day (12hours!) screen on time with 30day standby on a laptop pretty fucking awesome. Especially on that has a real processor in it instead of some crappy Atom SoC.

I'm also very happy that Apple is going to be catering a little more to its poweruser base while still making that accessible to my grandma (Granny understands what tags are and she understand what better graphical performance looks/feels like, even if she doesn't know that its OpenCL that's doing it).

This is just yet another blog bemoaning that Apple hasn't given them the reach-around
I've also submitted this to Github as a feature suggestion. It's great for fixing typos while doing code-review.
There is something you can do. Give the ACLU some financial support for this fight.

https://www.aclu.org/donate/join-renew-give?ms=web_horiz_nav...
by saying "anywhere", aren't you dealing in absolutes?
I'm using Google Analytics for www.planza.com and was thinking on using Kissmetrics. How is Quantcast different?
I really don't see Google incorporating all the Waze functionality. Waze is pretty bandwidth-intensive. And I could see some liability issues with presenting crowdsourced data directly on Gmaps.

I feel like this was simply a "keep Waze out of the hands of our competitors" move, and now it will die a slow death like most other Google acquisitions.
Cynicism ahead: periods of strife and conflict are among the best time to be a lawyer. The job isn't fun when everyone is happy and cooperative and agrees on everything.
Err, yes I did. Thanks.
Yes, that is the correct plural of a single lowercase letter.

Mind your p's and q's.
What do you mean by "ambulance chasers"?
Prism is critical to programming, hacking and startup because it reflects the immense geopolitical power struggle going on in this industry and what you are getting involved with.
Then you run the risk (as it just happened) of having the program losing efficacy if knowledge about it is leaked. Compared to a hypothetical program where knowing of its existence doesn't weaken it. Whether such a system can be built is debatable (something like the universal eavesdropping in 1984), but not a priori impossible.
I love to make anti-lawyer jokes as much as the next guy, but it's just not true for the ACLU, EFF, and other public interest organizations.

ACLU lawyers make a fraction of what they could working for private law firms.

According to this article from 2007, a job at the ACLU will get you $59k starting wage vs. $160k working for private law firms. Note that these folks have the same college loans to payback. I think we owe them our respect and gratitude.

http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20070311/SUB/70311015
Someone wrote an abusive distributed crawler that got a lot of Tor IP addresses banned.
I feel like your argument basically distills down to: "All flat designs look alike."

Surely, that's not the case. And as I've been messing around with IOS7, I'm noticing a lot more than just a graphical redesign. This is also a usability redesign. Little things like including a contact button at the top of the Messages app itself rather than at the top of the message view. IOS7 is full of these little tweaks that have been standard fare in the jailbreak communities.

To boil it down to "a boring lull in mobile design" is to really ignore the quality of the IOS7 redesign.
http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/ling-valentine/b/a49/2ab
All About UEFI
SnapChat
How do you intend to handle the limits of LocalStorage size? 5MB is not enough to hold much git history and associated files.
Not the target of a teacher that is asking for this price. There are plenty of teachers out there that can, presumably, teach the same material just as well for probably less cost to the student, however it's not the OP's job to find those alternative sources for you.
Author here. Accuracy is okay - we err on the side of noise, but it does routinely pick up anomalies. It doesn't currently account for seasonal trends, though.

We aim for 100% CPU consumption. Analyzing is very CPU intensive process, and there are two parts in particular that are expensive: decoding the Redis string from MessagePack to Python, and running the algorithms.

As for the algorithm inefficiencies, pull requests encouraged :)

Rewriting it in Go is a plan for a rainy weekend :) The problem with Go is that it doesn't have as great statistics support as Python does.
The key to converting clients lies in how you follow up
I've heard the blackmail angle on this whole thing as a recurring thought experiment, but I'm not sure that it works out that well in practice.

First, while the whole data collection capability was fairly secret, attempting any blackmail comes with a big risk that they'd pick the wrong person, one who doesn't feel that the cost is worth it and decides to try to make a buck spilling to the public what they are trying to do. Maybe they could cover one or two of those up, but I have to think that after even just a few failed blackmail attempts, they either have a large body count or enough evidence that people decide that these reports have some fact behind them. At that point, it seems to me to come rather quickly to two choices, public outrage that results in repeal of those acts, or total dictatorship where the public outrage is stifled and ignored.

It is a little different now that the secret is starting to slip out of the bag, but the end game still seems to be pretty much the same to me. They say it is okay because they aren't abusing the data in this manner and they won't do it. If they try to start abusing the data and blackmailing / recruiting, etc. Then again, the failed attempts lead to a body count or eventually incontrovertible proof that they are abusing the power.

Please note that I'm not endorsing their collection or use of this data in any way. I abhor it. I am just not certain that the whole blackmail of any random person they want can really play out well.
The legal battle over the future of the billion-dollar Call of Duty franchise
You can turn Excel spreadsheets into web applications quite easily with Google Apps Script. We wrote a REST interface to a massive multi tab Excel file recently and it only took like an hour, as opposed to days of reverse engineering the calculations (the client did not know what the equations in the file were because the employee who created it left).

Basically I'm saying it will get much, much worse before it gets better.
Not to cause offense, but I find that, in general, leftists are more likely to speak against "their guy", and conservatives usually support "their guy". Not sure why, but it's just what I've observed through the years.
There is also 7 years between those polls, so there are a lot more factors than just 'who is currently in office' that may have impacted the results.
I found that most of the time it's prompting you when you're stuck in a traffic jam. It auto-detects that and asks you why you slowed down. Since I was already slowed to a crawl, interacting with it (via voice or tapping a button) wasn't much to ask. It's not like it prompts you every half mile with "how's it going?" or something inane.
Did you switch over to insertion sort once the stack became more manageable?
Personally, I would have used radix sort, while keeping the stack size manageable. This would mean less comparisons, manageable desk space and less effort. Plus selection sort (which is very intuitive when you aren't bound by array/list constraints) becomes really easy.
real world example:
Before we could set down for a game of poker; more often than not, my friends and I would have to form a complete deck from the many mixed up together. While quick/merge are the fastest comparison sorts, we would prefer doing a radix sort on the suite and then selection sort until cards of the color are sorted out.
I think similar strategies would work here as well!
There can be only one country to spread democracy.
The characters are trademarked. That's disappointing. They would be much more useful in the public domain.
"When designers forget that users or potential users are the final authority that matters"

In the case of Apple, I disagree. Apple doesn't need to impress these users who bitch about their products, yet use them anyway.

Also "drivel"
Please also request tagging for each of the requests. e.g.

2013-07-12
Foreign National
Drug Related - Cocaine
2013-07-18
US Citizen
Drug Related - Marijuana
Request from FBI
2013-07-22
Foreign National
Terrorism Related
2013-08-01
Foreign National
Industrial Espionage

I think it's really important that we know how many of the requests have to do with the existential threat of terrorism, since that is the example the administration and Congress keep using to justify these actions.

The more metadata the better. If they want our metadata, it's only fair that we get their metadata too, to be able to keep tabs on their actions.
Will the videos be recorded and published? I am currently employed full-time and I will find it very difficult to be online for a live video...
Yes. When asked the reason for her visit she said it was to visit family, friends, and do an English course. Her Facebook "private messages" showed that she was there to be an au pair, which means to do housework and child-minding in return for money.

In short, she was lying and got caught. And after all the recent brouhaha, are you surprised that the authorities had access to her "private" Facebook messages?

Added in edit, since most of the replies to this comment are saying the same thing, so I may as well reply to you all at once by adding my reply here: I put the word "private" in quotation marks. What's the odds that at least of what she posted was, in fact, public? Just how careful was she about privacy settings? Just how careful was she not to post anything at all that was publicly viewable? I'm not at all surprised that she was stopped, and given a second interview, nor that they checked social media.

I guess next time I put something in "scare quotes" I should spell out explicitly that it's a term that just might not be literally true.
haha didn't think I'd see anyone I knew on hacker news. good job Owen.
Rackspace: Official PRISM Response
Apple's Declaration of Values: Simplify, Perfect, Delight
Drip Email Campaigns: What You Need to Remember
It's a colloquial term for sleazy lawyer. Specifically, it's a lawyer who seeks out people who were injured, so that they can be that person's lawyer and sue whoever was responsible.
Well, Quantcast is free, unlike kissmetrics. And it offers demographics information about visitor composition (ie age/gender/income/etc breakdown), unlike Google analytics (as far as I know). Many companies use both Quantcast and other metrics/analytics services for the differing types of information they offer.
How many should have been rejected, given proper scrutiny?
> Their flat buttons give little information on their state, the sliders are incredibly small...

What? The states are literally black and white...

Also, the volume slider is the same size as the old "double tap home button and then swipe right twice."
SanDisk CF Cards
Not precisely a rebuttal (you missed my point) but an interesting point in it's own right which I read was "Can you evaluate dollar value of privacy using the dollar value of your income stream?" And doing a sort of solve for X thing where you end up with hours invested in maintaining privacy becoming valued at hours invested in generating income. If I misunderstood please let me know, but assuming that I got the gist of it...

For me, I don't believe there is even a piece wise approximation between time investment and privacy value because the tools are so much different and the available actions being constrained. To illustrate where I get hung up on that reasoning, if you build a phishing page setup and contract a botnet to spam few hundred million people with phone phish-spam, you might get a lot of "income" for a relatively small time investment, similarly you can get greatly increase your privacy by investing in forged identity documents. So at the least we would have to constrain the hours invested in legitimate ways to enhance ones privacy and legitimate ways to enhance one's income.

Next there is an issue of facilitating the effort, so when company A sells me raw materials at a modest markup they facilitate my ability to make a living using them to provide said raw materials.If instead they were to charge an extortionate mark up, I might still be able to make a living but I might find the effort to do so requiring many many more hours of time investment. So at what point do the actions of my raw materials supplier work for or against my efforts at generating income. Similarly the provider of my tools can make it easier or less easy for me to maintain my privacy, so for example a Google Drive plugin which let me keep everything on their servers encrypted. If Google provides that then its a small number of hours invested to enhance my privacy, but if I have to rely on a third party who is acting without support from Google, then it takes many more hours for the same level of enhancement.

Given these built in and essentially intractable forces which affect the efficiency of hours invested needed to achieve the desired result, I am not persuaded by your claim that I can evaluate the 'worth' of privacy using your proposed reasoning.

Google can, and apparently does, to things like warrant notices where if you are suddenly asked to reconfirm your acceptance of their terms of service it's a signal that a warrant was served to them that they had to turn over your data. I think these sorts of things help them in the eyes of their users and are not illegal. They meet the letter of the law and so are not actionable, just as their transferring of rights around amongst their national subsidiaries is a completely legal way of not paying more tax.

My call to action was to try to think of ways that would make things like the PRISM data not useful to the NSA and yet meet their obligations under the law. I mentioned one (in cloud encryption with client side decryption) but I am sure there are others.
What if she was lying on FB?
That's all I ever do.
I work with an army of very smart people who need to build incredibly complex models to drive our business. Like most companies, we turn to Excel. It's the only widely used application with a low enough barrier to entry that "non-technical" people can build legitimately complex (if not always robust) models.

But the problems with Excel and general spreadsheet modeling limitations offer such a great opportunity for improvement that would impact just about every business out there. I wish I saw more people tackling this, or I had a great idea to do it myself. The problems I see are around barrier to entry, in that it must be usable in just a couple minutes, simple enough for non-programmers to learn, and equally or more efficient to get a basic model functioning. Otherwise I just don't see wide adoption despite possible maintenance, accuracy, and reliability benefits.

James Kwak has written some smart stuff about this (http://baselinescenario.com/2013/04/18/more-bad-excel/), and I'm interested in what Data Nitro (datanitro.com) is doing.
> Do you know the cause of the 3k requests which Vista made? Do you have a sane theory why these were occurring?

Backwards compatibility and layers of indirection.

Microsoft has always made great efforts for backwards compatibility - Raymond Chen's blog is a good source of stories. Quite simply if you upgraded Windows and apps stopped working then you'd blame Windows. Of course it is almost always the apps relying on undocumented behaviour, ignoring documentation, relying on implementation artifacts etc. This means a lot of code to detect and work around problems in other components. For a networked filesystem client the simplest way is sending lots of requests and picking results of interest based on what comes back. Networked filesystem servers also work around client problems in various ways - eg they may return smaller block sizes than the client requested because it is known to have occasional problems. All of this builds up layers and layers of workarounds, workarounds to workarounds, having to test against OS/2 etc. SMB2 was an attempt to wipe the slate clean (no more OS/2!) but of course the crud starts building up again.

Explorer isn't a program that displays files and directories despite appearances. There are layers and layers of abstractions, parts provided by COM etc. The code that knows it wants to display the listing of a zip file is many layers away from the code that generates network requests. It is always easier to write code that does more than strictly needed than the absolute minimum necessary.
It also is true that (as far as I am aware) Solaris never had lots of 32-bit customers running applications and drivers that neither Sun nor those customers could recompile for 64-bits.

That is definitely not true. In fact, many of the binaries distributed with Solaris itself (even now that it has a 64-bit kernel) are still delivered as 32-bit because there's no need for them to be 64-bit (yet).

The world is so much simpler if you can force al your customers to recompile their applications. If you doubt that, ask Microsoft or Intel why Itanium didn't even get a chance.

Except Sun/Oracle (Solaris) never required that. In fact, Solaris is famous for its backwards binary-compatibility. In fact, on Solaris 10 you can run binaries that were compiled decades ago without issue.

So I'm not sure what your point is.
I'm curious how much value there is in knowing the infrastructure side of security as well as appsec, vs. being a really good developer and knowing appsec. The overall quality of appsec expertise seems highest from people with stronger dev backgrounds, at least from the ones I've met, in practice. Infrastructure and appsec (and compliance/policy, and theoretical math/cs/cryptology) seem like quite different worlds.
Great. I thought, after 35 years with this language, I would have finally would gotten to the end of inconsistent rules that favor what looks/sounds/feels right.
Apple’s Declaration of Values: Simplify, Perfect, Delight
Sorry, it might be an americanism: A lawyer working mostly for profit rather than principle.

#3 definition is probably the closest to common usage: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ambulance%20c...
Our demographics are the best out there- you can figure out age, income, race, etc of people coming to your site.

We also offer an API where you can call out and receive info on the general demographic profile of a visitor (likely male, likely makes between 50-100k, etc) and then modify your pages in response.

And of course, a sweet real-time lobby display for your website ;)
I only get about half the offers above the fold and some obviously look more interesting than others. I'm wondering if it would be valuable to know which offers are correlated with higher purchase rates?
It isn't very relevant whether a person nearing 30 graduated from high school or got a GED. Actually it's not even that relevant for a 20 year-old. Unless the story is about college admissions or something related, what reason is there to "want to describe someone as a high school dropout"?
> in the United States only Congress can declare wars

Declaring wars is so old school though. Now we just send drones wherever we want.
If you put the tags on your site, you can actually go to the real-time page right now and see the results- no waiting!
That’s a real possibility, as that Russian (or Polish, depending on who you ask) joke had been making the rounds for almost 30 years when Smirnoff moved to the US in 1977.

http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/unde...
No, it should be: Two "i"s