skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yaroze -> only for other Yaroze owners
PS2Linux -> Only for other PS2Linux users
PS3 OtherOS -> shall not speak of this atrocity
Vita -> I looked into this, it was closer to what it should be but I still found their TOS and approval process to be overly restrictive.

I really think the first true example of this was on the XBox 360 IndieGames marketplace, the threshold for participation was restrictive but totally doable for almost any developer. it's a real shame they seem to be dumping it.
That's not quite true. The exit node is capable of seeing what the traffic contains, and where it is destined for, but not where it came from. So as long as the traffic it's self doesn't contain anything that identifies you, eg posting your name on some non-https forum, then you're fine.

Unless the attacker is able to observe the entry node and exit node at the same time, and perform a timing/correlation attack.
Many of our publishers have opted to make all or portions of their real-time profiles public. See for example, gizmodo.com[0], stackoverflow [1], and Quantcast.com [2].

[0] https://www.quantcast.com/labs/real-time/site/gizmodo.com

[1] https://www.quantcast.com/labs/real-time/site/stackoverflow....

[2] https://www.quantcast.com/labs/real-time/site/quantcast.com
IOS 7: Impressions & Thoughts
In regards to the Yahoo weather app, if you look very closely in the bottom right you will see they are pretty much the exact same thing. Both taking from the same location (Yahoo Weather) and both formatting it similar to how Yahoo does already.

No sense in redoing something that is already well done.
10 Factors That Make Edward Snowden's Leak Defensible
Show HN: JWKKeyFrameAnimationView
The Six Companies Fueling an Online Ad Crisis
"almost as big?"

You're right - it's actually only 2/3 as big.

Thanks.
Who enforces that?
I once took a job as a low-level sysadmin contractor at a government office. The first task I was assigned was to create my user account on the various Unix machines I would be working with. To accomplish this task, I was given the root password to a lot of machines. I had no formal IT credentials either.

I find Snowden's position quite believable.
Doesn't the little fat kid in the beginning suggest that a velociraptor was nothing but a big chicken? Seems he was eerily close to completely accurate.
I think it'll be hard to charge for weather alerts via SMS when so many people are already offering that for free -- like me (http://www.WeatherWatcherAlerts.com).
Typed fields sound neat!
You are a Terrorist (2009)
Ah, that makes sense. I didn't think of that, though I'll note that the most popular bundle I know of (Humble Bundle) doesn't seem to do that.
I can't speak for other people, but I can perhaps share some insight from my feelings. Just to get it out of the way, it is a bit annoying to see a company that is normally absolutely obsessed with others copying them now doing the same. But as eyebrow raising as that is, its not really my main concern.

My personal issue with this design is that it signals the coming of a boring lull in mobile design. Its the death of distinction. Android, Windows, and iPhone now largely look the same (to me). In fact I think the Windows stuff actually looks better. Its upsetting because there are surely more than just two possible designs ("flat" or "skeuomorphic"). Did iOS need a design overhaul? I don't know (I'm personally of the belief that it was missing key features and services more than a new skin). But if for the sake of argument it did, then this just frankly feels lazy on Apple's part. It was the most obvious direction to go in, and its been done. Aqua and iOS 1 were different, fresh, and represented an original vision for UIs. Even if you didn't like them it provided something to contrast to. This just provides something to compare to :/
Anybody know what software is used to make those slides?
Snowden twist: disrupting secret Swiss banking cartel agreement.
Abe gave a talk at OpenVisConf about Skyline and how to make use of 250k metrics http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rij604NBXqk
To put it bluntly, if you change your opinion on fundamental issues like civil liberties based on who is currently in office, you are an idiot and are part of the problem in this country.

Unfortunately, we seem to have a lot of idiots: http://www.people-press.org/files/2013/06/6-10-13-4.png
I think this advice is correct, but if I follow it I'm going to have a hard time ever getting the most important thing done. Why would I want to work on that, when I can work on the most interested thing instead? :-)

I guess at some point one needs some discipline... but that's not very fun.
AS somebody living in the EU I'm more shocked the EU Par-lament(sic) are thinking this is new and ignoreing previous indications becasue not enough people went rabble rabble. WIth that the Press has jumped on this, forcing the consumer to be more up in arms as and fueling this to the extent that the EU mob have to play knee jerk reaction and supprise.

Seriously wonder if we should sack the politicians in the EU and just replace them with jornalists, as they seem to be more on the pulse of whats going on and have more control of the people.

But as no EU contry can control it's TAX then who or what gets at leaked data is no supprise.

Been enough details and facts leak out about this being in place before this PRISIM leak, still will only hurst USA based cloud providers and that is the only crux of it.
+1 for that. I would rather donate to debian than ubuntu though
The deal is curated. All the mentioned apps were either from my personal experience using it or recommendation from HN.

Great guidelines on choosing SaaS (noted for future deal curation). And you are right about the end times. I'll keep an eye on that for the next bundle.

Thanks for the feedback! It's my first time doing this, and rest assured I'm listening with all ears.
Who says that some of top Stanford CS grads are not working as undercover agents.

The way secret services are shown in movies is a little bit different than the real world. All of them recruit top students from different universities. There is no "university for spies", where they teach agents all the skills they need to get the job somewhere. It's the other way around: they recruit people who already have those skills and teach them how to be agents. That's much easier because teaching someone how to become agent is their expertise.
Just to add some insight as to why the press is doing this. First of all, there is a legitimate reason to snoop into his personal and past life: checking for source integrity. Frankly, this should end with "Did he work where he said he did, is he mentally ill, does he have an axe to grind?"

The media has clearly gone beyond this, though. David Brooks' rather pompous style could be mistaken for going too far, but instead I think he was stepping just an inch or two over this line, while other sites and outlets are mentioning things like his lack of a high school diploma casually and without any real need or purpose.

At this point in the life of this story, there is little to report on that doesn't require deep knowledge and GREAT sources. Sources are the lifeblood of journalism. Right now, there's only one, and most of the media has had no access to him. It's jealousy, I expect, that leads them to denigrate him now.

The newsroom thinking is like this, and it's not entirely a conscious level thing: "We did not break this story. We do not have anything to add to this story. We are too technically inept to comment on this story. There still exists a possibility that this whistle-blower is wrong, and that's something we can investigate because we know his name and we have Google/LexisNexis... Well, shit, we gotta have something to fill the airwaves for 24 hours!"

It's not like they're being directly controlled by the NSA, here. Outside of a few folks, like Brooks, the media is just being inept and lazy, not viscous and conspiratorial.
TurnKey Linux offers 64-bit server apps on Amazon cloud
"Ive". Pun intended?
I can't recall the study but it claimed around 2 dozen bits of information are all you need to identify any person in the world.

Sort of like a binary search on people with a Log(8,000,000,000) performance.
It's PDF/ebook :)
Or be "dissapeared"
Persona and Surveillance
Not many computers are pretty inside, and, as far as computers go, this one is not near the top of the ugliness scale.
Nobody cares about either of those things (for statistical values of "nobody").
Survey: IOS 7 Reaction
I'll post the results here
Oh, he is a unfriendly neighbor and sort of undereducated. Probably he even killed a cat when he was a child! Well, in this case I have no problem with being spied on.
I was looking at that kind of thing as well and the only thing that's worth noting is that I think a lot of video cards currently actively used are only 16x so they can be run on older motherboards with pcie 1 or 2.

It's not clear that thunderbolt 2 isn't enough bandwidth to effectively run a video card, though I think you'd probably run into problems daisy chaining video cards with video cards or trying to run two out of one enclosure.
Members of the European parliament are elected directly by the people, and their mandate is only for work in the European parliament. Most of them have no insider knowledge of what happens in the ministries of individual countries.

To give some numbers: according to Wikipedia[1], about a third of MEPs have previously held positions in country parliaments, and about 10% in country ministries.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_of_the_European_Parliame...
> But that happens now.

Obviously. It's impossible to eliminate bad things completely. They would happen more without anyone providing security.

> They haven't gained anything

Ok, fine, whatever, the world is moving only in one direction, with no nuance, no complexities, and in a very simple, easy to understand way. Nothing has gotten better for anyone.
Interesting stuff! I've actually been working on the same idea recently, starting with reading about anomaly detection. In particular, this survey: http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~kumar/papers/anomaly-survey.php

I would like to know more about the performance of Skyline in practice:

- what are the accuracy and recall like?

- what is CPU consumption like?

Regarding the latter, I had a quick look at the implemented algorithms and them seemed very inefficient. Basically recomputing over the entire series at every change. I think with a bit of work most of the algorithms could be reimplemented in an incremental way. I also wouldn't use Python for something that is going to be CPU bound. (I await the "We rewrote in Go and it's 10x faster!" blog post ;-)
It depends on what works for you. I find that working out in the morning is better just so you can get it out of the way. I tend to be the in the zone throughout the whole day when coding so it would feel like an interruption for me.
The Personal Challenge
It's reCAPTCHA, which is very popular and actually does some good (OCR help in digitizing bookz where machines fail).

http://www.google.com/recaptcha
The state of history education is abysmal, at least in the US.

I sure as hell was not taught enough (and most of what I was taught, prior to high school history classes, was whitewashed propaganda. Things like "The Russian space program was awful", "The Native Americans and settlers got along swimmingly", or "Columbus thought the Earth was flat". Stuff no adult familiar with the material believes for a moment, but that we teach children anyway.)
After a morning playing with it, it doesn't really look or feel anything like Windows phone to me. I don't have enough experience with Android to offer much in useful commentary, but it doesn't seem like the Nexus 7 I once used. Has anyone put up a side by side compare and contrast against the other mobile OSes yet? I suppose that would be against the dev agreement.
Remember when Russia invaded Georgia in the last decade? Yeah, nothing NATO can do or install in Poland would help them in that situation.
Building a Custom Shopping Cart with Stripe
The "Can't quite put my finger on it..." piece is in reference to a common catch-phrase for bloggers who have mocked Android, Samsung, and Microsoft for "copying" elements from iOS.

I agree the whole back and forth is a bit silly from both parties.

Edit: missed a word
You can fight and win. The government is not omnipotent. Just don't expect to run a company under the protection of the government.

1. Use Linux or a similar OS and use full-disk encryption. Truecrypt has a hidden os function built in (http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/?s=hidden-operating-system). Maybe the government knows how to crack it, but they won't for bring it out for minor things like kiddy porn, drug trafficking, lone-wolf terrorists. The only time this gets used is when there is a suitcase nuke en-route to DC.

2. The USA lost in Vietnam. The USA/British Empire/USSR have lost in Afghanistan. With the support of the local population, the army is useless to stop revolutionaries.

The population is not going to care about government crimes until the government is shooting people/turns off cellphones&tv&internet. When that happens you have what happened in the Middle East and might happen in Turkey.
whoa! cool design
The Rebirth of Twitter’s API (v1.1)
At a previous job, I tried to convince them (and succeeded in some cases) to build a domain-specific web app instead of sharing and e-mailing ever-changing Excel docs.

I used CakePHP, and it was really easy to whip up a complete CRUD web-app with domain-specific information and DB tables, allow people to collaborate through a web interface, and be happy users.

Some apps are tougher than others, I'll admit.
A stubborn rock called shale
I think it has more to do with the particular company. Namely, a company that brags about how original their designs/products and is very sue happy towards anyone who imitates them in the slightest. On top of that, they have a lot of fans who think of Apple as a master of UI and general design (I'm not saying they're wrong) and will associate the design Apple and not the others who spearheaded it.

I didn't listen to Apples presentation, so I don't know if they tooted their own horn on this new design scheme, but if I was a designer who had been working on interfaces similar to what Apple is switching to, I would still be pretty pissed off right now. Because, once people switch to iOS 7, the general public will perceive your design as "Apple like" or "Apple inspired."
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How does this dribble make it to HN? This article represents such an elitest out-of-touch opinion.

When designers forget that users or potential users are the final authority that matters, they're walking the path of irrelevance.
EFF case first on public docket in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
Hide Menu Bar in OSX
Welcoming Namely
* Correction, 110 VDC, 15 amp household circuits
Scenario 1: NSA loses, People wins, Lawyers wins

Scenario 2: NSA wins, People lose, Lawyers wins

Now, who's the smartest?
On my box, Mail.app is currently using about 8% and eclipse is using about 8%.
That's right, it's one of the greatest violations of liberty in American history. What I said is correct, and I did speak with intentional precision.

McCarthyism doesn't even remotely come close to this.
I remember Connectix RAM Doubler, trying it and feeling how painfully it slowed down OS 8. I believe it used virtual memory, (it had that goofy little slider that let you "double" your ram) . I doubt it compression. Man, I almost forgot about RAMDoubler
Harm online security how?
While you're correct as a matter of legal theory, this doesn't happen in practice. Aside from Felt and Miller who were given small fines and then pardoned, can you name another precedent for prosecuting government employees for overreach in intelligence and security matters? Is there even a single example where a meaningful penalty was dispensed?
Knowing that Hitler heavily leveraged propaganda to further his cause might be of use to an individual. I don't think knowing Goebbels' name is necessary for learning such lessons though.
"there will be exceptions"

Yes like every project that gets designed.

Start thinking real world. Feedback comes from everywhere. A website for example can represent every aspect of a company and stakeholders who will view the early phases, either for suggestions or out of team respect will provide feedback. Doesn't mean a designer responds, but sometimes they have to suck it up and change it, even when they don't think it's better.

And stop talking like just because UX is in front of a title gives somebody special power. It doesn't. Work with a few of them and you'll realize it.
Because it's a website?
Germans accuse U.S. of Stasi tactics before Obama visit
That link says that Christianity is 40% larger than Islam, so it is significantly larger.
Traitor or not, you can't argue with the fact that Ed Snowden just gave Google, FB, Yahoo, MSFT, etc fighting ammunition to at least address these issues with the government publicly, and for that I am thankful.
I forgot to mention. I don't have Flash installed on Safari.
It's supported by ScummVM (name is deceptive, supports far, far more than just SCUMM), so the module for that game could surely be compiled.
You should educate yourself on Perfect Forward Secrecy and pinned certificates.
Sure. I'll definitely expand the page out as I go. I just wanted to get everything I have to do recorded.
Rotting Apple
Back in the early nineties I worked at Miramar Systems on an AFP server and actually a full AppleTalk stack that ran on Windows 3.11 (VxDs!) and OS/2. Macs could run full AFP and whatever the printer protocol was called to a network of PCs.

IBM sold a version of our stuff that was called LanServer for Macintosh so back then Macs and AFP were covered!

It was quite a popular product at the time. Although I never enjoyed working on Macs I thought that AFP was pretty cool. We all had "Inside AppleTalk" pretty much memorised - what a great book.
No, I very much think they could be better :) And tbh, I'm not all that much of a fan of the iOS7 changes, but I'll have to wait and see how it all works together. Screenshots are usually poor examples of a system as a whole.

As to copying mediocrity, what's the best flat style out there now? Or are you referring to flat styles in general? I would expect improvements through iteration, but I can't recall seeing any great flat-ish UIs. I think Windows 8 / phone 7 has some great concepts (live tiles) but poor execution (live tiles, button == label visually). Android is overall decent (though those neon underlines are a bit odd) but they're not very consistent. Individual app implementations are sometimes awe-inspiringly well done but don't necessarily scale up to an OS as a whole.

I'm not sure there's anything but mediocrity right now, similar to when Apple got into the phone market (with something relatively mediocre).
ScummVM supports Myst. Now that would be interesting in a browser.
Except you said earlier

"just as long as there's a verification process to ensure that only designers are giving design feedback"

You can't have it both ways.
There's a reason why the NYT is known as the Pravda on the Hudson.
When it comes to CAs: Trust, But Validate
Hobbes had said that humans give up some of their rights to be protected by the government. That's what the western philosophy is built on. You may try to deny it but needing security is already a loss of freedom.

Examples of peaceful countries like sweden or switzerland can be given, but what did they do to stop hitler?
Poland started to crack the enigma code and later turing with his friends in secrecy completed it in England.

What we need is people that can be trusted to be in power. The voting system in America is just plain wrong.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw2z9lV3W1g
They might want to reconsider the name:

http://www.gibraltarsoftware.com/

Their monitoring solution is also called Loupe.
Yeah, actually I don't have a good solution here. But better an open source platform than one written by Apple.
I think that we may discover the same thing humans discovered in Battlestar Galactica, no networked computer is safe.
Misconception: You should study the successful if you wish to become successful
You probably meant to say "Columbus thought the Earth was flat".
I don't really see how this is a huge step up in terms of usability...
Full-stack web developer at Thalmic Labs (YC W13)
In your hypothetical, yes, the Supreme Court can do nothing to stop this law until one of the (many) people harmed by this law brings suit in federal court.

You're right, it is a bit awkward. And I'm sure we could debate the merits of whether such a system is a good thing as a matter of policy.

But the "case or controversy" requirement is written in the Constitution, so it is probably here to stay.
I'm really trying to sign up for this course. Every time I try to pay for a ticket, Paypal tells me they're experiencing difficulties and I need to try again later. Is there a way I can sign up?
Based on the top replies to the top comment, I believe it's way less than 95% and, like, I certainly hope so.

Your request, moreover, seems very difficult to meet. What about the lady who wanted fresh cream cheese on her bagel while driving, and who doing so killed a man? Shouldn't she say, "well, invent a robot who can feed me while I drive"?

I guess Google's self-driving cars will ultimately satisfy all of the above requests.
German Girl Turned Away at Border Due to Private Facebook Messages
Short Explanation on How zfec Does Its Magic
ACLU & EFF, moving our society forward.
Why we use Stripe payment integration for our shopping cart
I'm still wondering what happened to the anti-war Democrats in the US...
ألبوم شيرين في عيد الفطر
> Google has nothing to hide.

Strange phrase to put in there.
Good point. If they can force companies to lie about the existence of FISA requests, why wouldn't they force them to lie about the number of such?
Can we stop posting Prism related news/blog
Can we get back to hacking, start-up and programming? It's tiresome seeing Prism related news/blog flooding the front page. Can we get back to what this site is about? I'm here to read about programing, hacking and start up. Yes, it's shitty that NSA is spying on us but come the fuck on! It've been none stop Prism posts for the past couple days.
Ideally, people would not drive when they are fatigued enough to fall asleep at the wheel.

I do realize that the reasons for it are often quite complicated, I don't mean to be dismissive. Such levels of fatigue are something society should be taking a closer look at.
Ask HN: Why are you blocking users from the Tor network?
When accessing the Hacker News through the Tor network, in the vast majority of cases (exit nodes) you will get "HTTP/1.1 403 Begone!".

I'm not suggesting anything, but the timing of this restriction is not very good: it started just after the NSA hit the fan.

HN, if the reason behind this restriction is that you sipmly don't want anonymous postings then let us (Tor users) just browse the Hacker News at least.

Thank you.
The "discussion" this comment is part of is one step away from "wake up sheeple." Comparing PRISM, about which we know very little, with the propagandists of the third reich is disingenuous, unoriginal, and unproductive.
> I can say with certainty that as of 6 years ago, 4473 checks were not retained in any way by the ATF or the federal government.

To clarify, are you saying that no government entity retains either the 4473 or the NICS check records, or are you only speaking about the 4473 itself?
>That sounds like an absolute disaster from a security, maintenance, and resource usage perspective.

Installed and available are a huge sight different from running and exploitable, though. I can have a completely unpatched Apache from 5 years ago, it's invulnerable to foes up to and including the NSA unless the app is running and listening on a port :)

Would be trickier, but not impossible for more system-level apps like Cpanel/Virtualmin.