skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting looking tool, I'll definitely take a look. Finding a time that works every day for scrum becomes difficult across timezones, it seems there's always someone that "loses".
Your comment is one of the worst offenders I've seen for unsubstantiated whining. Stop posting fanboy.
Quants: The Rocket Scientists Of Wall Street
"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo...
I've also thought you could use private keys much like cash. That would be completely anonymous.

The payee would just check the balance of the associated public key before the transaction and immediately transfer the balance after the transaction.
I'm still waiting for the NSA to send me back the information I requested off of my personal dovecot installation. Hopefully they'll get around to it soon as I accidentally deleted an email and don't want to have to go through the 'Reset Password' route. :(
Maybe I have missed it, but have we heard why the NSA had contractors in Hawaii? What can you do from Hawaii that you couldn't do from somewhere else?
Oh for sure there are cases that might saturate all cores. They're just incredibly rare, even on machines that are working at "100%". The case of web servers is an interesting one because benchmarks seldom see them actually running at 100% despite putting all of their combined resources at a problem -- there is usually something else synchronously slowing the flow, or a simple bottleneck like Gbps networking. Even on virtualization servers, one generally leaves enough headroom that the machine is nowhere near saturated.
Still missing the HackerNews icon :)

https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/1197
While I agree there were some shakeups, I think it also proves my "major technological change" point. Mac OS to OS X was a major technological change. Went from a pretty, but clunky, single-tasking, OS to a quite advanced UNIX-based multi-tasking OS. UI was the smallest of the changes that happened there. There was also a major processor and architecture change in that story line. Big differences. Having a native app was mandatory to take advantage of a huge jump in capability.
Where's The Term Sheet Mother F*cker?
Not experiencing this with a mid-2012 Mac Book Pro Retina hooked up to an external display via an HDMI/DVI adapter.

I wonder if this is some strange prank designed to get people to look at a screenshot of https://optin.stopwatching.us/, esp. given the '1px reproduction' of this is entitled 'We are watching you!' If so, I really, really don't get it :-S
There is no first, second, etc. Han Solo shot, period.
The lawyer only ever saw cases that got to the point of needing a lawyer. Police exercise discretion as part of their job and I have trouble believing that silence (and the suspicion it creates) always pays off.

Example: the neighbors see/hear you having rough sex with your wife and report it as abuse. The police knock on the door, you have two options:

A) Explain (better: let your wife explain) that the neighbors probably heard you playing around and promise to be more discreet in the future. The police agree that more discretion = better and leave.

B) Wall of silence. The police take you in just to be sure. Your wife tries to testify in your favor at the trial but everyone thinks she's just making excuses for an actually abusive boyfriend (because that happens). Your life is ruined by the conviction, maybe her life is too. Even if you don't get convicted, rumors will spread and your time and money will be wasted on legal matters.

Am I being naive or was the lawyer overstating his argument? Strategy A is strictly worse than B if the case goes to court, but that still means that B could be the better strategy before you've been arrested.
Don't assume that opinion blogs on a website mean that US News reported that his girlfriend was a stripper. It's an opinion piece. People are allowed to be stupid and wrong. So, in the grand scheme of things this fall under - [citation required].
It reads well to me.
Well, we could also use twm instead.
After using it for a day --

Great: Picture organization. Airdrop, this will be big. No more search field/page when you slide left on the home screen! Slide up settings is helpful (wish they had a link to settings.app there too. Screenshots of background apps are helpful. App store is back to vertical scrolling for the top charts. Safari top and bottom nav shrink when you are scrolling a site.

Not great: New keyboard is harder to see and type on, space bar got smaller. Not a fan of the icons and thin fonts. Wish messages were more compact. Calendar doesn't indicate events at the month view (or i haven't figured out how.) iRadio is a clone of pandora that's less simple.

Also, iOS7 now pops up a "This cable is not certified" when I plug in third party lightning cables. Looks like they are stepping up their proprietary authentication. Not a fan of that.
I actually find friends who actually speak hashtags as a joke nowadays. I wonder if this will be a permanent thing say 20 years from now?
Old gradients served the illusion of a glassy material with depth. And they weren't so obvious, so it looked like sun beams hitting the icon, reflecting and scattering and whatnot. The new gradients serve no purpose, they're just gradients and they're too obvious and evoke an amateurish look.
I think the US has begun to completely ignore what is known as "Mens Rea" for regulations such as this. While for something like Murder you have to have intended to commit the crime, many other crimes require no intent or prior knowledge. (Manslaughter, Child Pornography, Possession of Undersized Lobster as examples)

http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=173 (A more entertaining description)
In all seriousness, Unity was a thing from Canonical long before anyone knew the direction Gnome 3 and Gnome Shell was heading. Canonical wanted their own desktop experience that they could drive in the direction they wanted to go, and they would have never gotten that from Gnome or KDE or any other existing project. The fact that they're switching Unity from a Gtk to a Qt backend in order to support their mobile efforts and their desire to have a single UX everywhere is just further proof of this strategy.
That's not the impression you get from people's reactions to PRISM (see "nothing to hide").
Thanks! I've not read that. I just ordered it.
Ask HN: Why isn't Google hosting Bootstrap JS on their CDN?
Bootstrap is the most popular public Github repo. Who do you talk to at Google to have them incorporate Bootstrap JS into their JS CDN?

https://github.com/popular/starred
If they're only using web apps, there's no need for VPN.
I was really hoping to see some sport/athletic icons... maybe next time.
Ahhh, yes. Peter "There Are Too Many Mosques In This Country" King. I'm sure his opinion has a profound effect on how NSA is managed by the administration.
Not a troll. Actually, let me host another version of the page.

The reason it's got the "We are watching you!" is because i noticed the problem while viewing https://optin.stopwatching.us/

Edit: hosted here: https://people.mozilla.com/~oyiptong/retinadisplayproblem/
Well until then we have only Occam's Razor to go on, and Occam isn't shining too brightly on Greenwald's version of the PRISM story.
Well, honestly, working past 6 all the time should be considered absurd (assuming you are arriving at work between 7 and 8).

I understand the benefit of hard work but I see too much youth wasted on free labor given to corporations.
"Expect no documentation in corporations"
-- Don't expect code to be documented anywhere, ever. It's great when it exists. Even then, don't expect it to be accurate.

"It is not what you do, it is what you sell"
-- Capitalism -- welcome to America.

"Not everybody is passionate for engineering"
-- You could probably find a place to work where everyone is passionate about engineering, but I sense that these places are uncommon and highly competitive.

"it is almost impossible to get 2 hours straight of coding for me. I spend most of my time trying to figure out how others’ uncommented/undoumented code work, debugging strange things..."
-- That doesn't count?

"The world outside is not known here a lot."
-- This is probably symptomatic of the time when Microsoft was the center of the universe. It's not true everywhere.

"Copy-pasting code can be okay. If somebody sees you doing this outside the corporations, you’ll probably get punched in the face. I’ve seen source files copy pasted across projects."
-- In college, you have to show that you can do the assignment yourself. In the open source world, you have to be mindful of copyright and licensing. Inside a company, it's all the company's code, so there's nothing wrong with it. You don't have to prove that you can write it yourself.

"Almost 90% of my colleagues use older versions of Office, Windows, Visual Studio and .NET Framework."
-- It's pretty common knowledge that that's true outside of Microsoft, but it's interesting to know that it's true inside.

"You are hired to do get something needed done. I was not expecting that. It’s hard to find a position in corporations matches what you love to do."
-- Again, capitalism. You make things for other people, not yourself.

There's always a tension between competing priorities; the thrill of engineering something wonderful, the reality of being part of an organization made up of people, and the need to keep money coming in the door. A lot of things are just facts of life, but an environment can also become toxic. At that point you have to leave.
It's not simply a contest between NSA and Snowden. Snowden has also said things that Google has contracted, and things that Obama has contradicted. The point isn't that any one of these entities should prevail on their "credibility"; it's that the lack of credibility that Clapper has at NSA isn't an indicator of how much credibility Snowden has. From what I've seen of Snowden's claims, he indeed does seem to be a bit delusional.
I don't think it would be terribly difficult for the NSA to gain access to a Twitter account if they wanted to.
there is no trick, just desperate attempts to survive.

10 years ago AMD had more efficient architecture, Intel - more GHz (remember 2.2 Athlons having 3700 "PR-rating"?). Intel's approach was commercially more successful - customers were still buying GHz, and AMD was trying to educate market about real performance while radiating impression of a looser who just can't get good process and fabs. AMD gave up and decided to pursue P4-like approach for their new architecture, while Intel hit GHz "sound barrier" and went efficiency way by resurrecting PIII style architecture which resulted in Core CPUs. AMD made a huge, strategic mistake 10 years ago. How the execs in charge of Bulldozer have been BS-ing their way inside AMD last 5 years - that is a typical everyday miracle of a big company internal life.
hashtags allow the user to describe to the machine how to categorize a piece of text. So, for example, "I just stepped in shit. #winning" is a way for a user to have the sentence "I just stepped in shit" categorized in a specific way; not necessarily the way the machine would have chosen to categorize it. You're not supposed to just hashtag every word. Optimally, if another human clicks on one of your hashtags, they get to see some thematically related content. On some networks, though (Instagram in particular), hashtags are used to game the system; since there are discovery featured built around hashtags, merely including a popular hashtag can improve your visibility. So self-indulgent teens will hashtag their selfies with #food, because it's a primitive form of SEO gaming, and they wind up getting more likes. Or like with Go, people who code Go never actually call it "golang", but #golang is the canonical hashtag because it's more specific than #go, which is ... noise.
Looks like Sidecar and Lyft are eating their market share
Good call. Moved the issue into the 4.0 milestone.

I basically took the democratic approach for this release by hitting the issues with the most +1s.
coming from the same company, here are my few thoughts
when I was joined on Day1..i hated that there is no documentation, but learnt about system by talking to people mostly. and infact no one has given me time to learn. right now for the stuff I have been doing, i dont have time to document them. in Agile, my managers are not expecting me to spend time on that. once some user story satisfy biz. req. they dont want to waste spending time on making absoutely beautiful code or at least they move to technical debt and never look at that again.

code reviews can be skipped sometimes, usually I too go by offline review and checkin. even the people I work with don't give a fk about open source, HN/reddit or about competitors. at our level we are there to develop what we are told to. If you are interested in something you have to spend time after 6PM at home which is reality in most agile teams.
to end 'LIVE WITH IT'
I should hope so. At a minimum, even in a time of peace between China and the United States, the United States should be aware of what online vulnerabilities China has, whether to advise China on how to reduce those during an alliance, or whether to make use of those during a conflict.

(After all, it is plain enough that China looks at the issue as one such that it has to find out what vulnerabilities the United States government and private businesses have.)

From the article: "Snowden’s claims could not be verified, and U.S. officials did not respond to immediate requests for comment."
I just want to say a big thanks to everyone! I was completely taken a back by the reaction, and the fact this hit the front page astounded me - thank you! If I have not replied to you yet I will try to by the end of the night, I have been swamped. Thank you HN!
The other problem is departments which are net revenue generating (e.g. USPTO) who can't apply their revenues to operations. As a result, they end up underfunded and underresourced, causing both negative externalities (3 year wait for a patent, shitty patents) and a lack of net revenue to the government.

It sucks when a department has some negative externalities (LEAs seizing assets in drug cases...)
While its impossible to say what exactly his motives are here, there is definitely some civic value in having this information out there. The tremendous growth in the 'cybersecurity' apparatus - a massive hiring boom for contractors and military personnel, the development of an entirely new military command structure, a raft of new legislation - is justified by the enormous threat supposedly posed to U.S. infrastructure and national security by Chinese hackers. If it turns out that we actually have parity - or an advantage - then the justification for massively increased military budgets and authority is diminished.

It's like Kennedy and the non-existent "missile gap" that was used to justify a hawkish defense policy in the Cold War.

Furthermore, cyber-attacks against civilian infrastructure veer into the realm of "acts of war", depending on what they're trying to accomplish. If the NSA is mounting an aggressive paramilitary campaign against Chinese infrastructure that's definitely something that should be made known to the American people.
What does it mean to be inactive? For example, I have an old yahoo email address that still receives email when I interact with some non-yahoo properties. I haven't logged into yahoo in many years. Is my account active or inactive?
If our UIs get anymore modern we're not going to have any UI left.
This isn't even that much of a reveal by Snowden considering 1) the Chinese would already know about this and 2) a lot of details about NSA's TAO group have already been published (http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/06/10/inside_the_...).

So now he is using the secrets he learned to buy favor from the Chinese government?
I don't know if they penalize it but they recommend against it:

App download interstitials

Many webmasters promote their site's apps to their web
visitors. There are many implementations to do this,
some of which may cause indexing issues of smartphone-
optimized content and others that may be too disruptive
to the visitor's usage of the site.

https://developers.google.com/webmasters/smartphone-sites/co...
Do you also giggle at the name "Johnson?" I mean seriously, "cock" is widely used to refer to male birds. Yes, I would have laughed hysterically at this in middle school but we all have to grow up some time. Here is "cock" in an appropriate context:

> At this stage of the chicks' development, the cocks usually has begun to enter the nest to help his hen in caring and feeding the chicks.

http://greatbudgies.webs.com/aboutbudgies.htm

"Cock" as a word is no different from "bitch" or "stud:"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cock_%28bird%29

http://classic.akc.org/breeders/resp_breeding/Articles/carea...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stud_%28animal%29
I don't hold people responsible for their actions until they've been exposed to an argument against them. E.g. ancient doctor is not responsible for not using antibiotics. But if he does not use them when he knows about them (and they are accessible), then he is responsible.
Dribble Crowd? Yep, what the world needs now is yet another cultural stereotype.
I'm working to climb Maslow's hierarchy and achieve self-actualization.

If managers and stockholders benefit from that, that's cool with me.
Exactly. Google at least has some room for transparency in all of this. Not to mention an economic incentive to get an accurate picture of this out in the public.

Google has motivation to bring clarity to their role in all of this. The NSA would rather keep everything secret. I'd believe Google more too...
Grant Edward Snowden Retroactive Immunity
It seems to me that if you've got double the clock, the likely explanation is that half the transistors are switching per clock

Suppose CPU A has an adder, that takes one clock cycle to run an add instruction. When two registers are being added, the instruction goes thru the entire adder in one clock cycle and affects on average some % of the transistors.

Suppose CPU B has a pipelined adder that takes two clock cycles to run an add instruction. When two registers are being added, the instruction goes thru half of the adder in one cycle, and the other half in the next cycle, and affects about half of that same % of the transistors each time. BUT! This is a pipelined adder, and doesn't just do one instruction at a time. During the first cycle, when our instruction is in the first part of the adder, some other add instruction is still going thru the second part of the adder and affecting the other half of whatever % of the transistors. And during the second cycle of our instruction, the next instruction is going thru the first half. So even tho any one instruction only affects half of the adder at a time, the entire adder still gets affected every clock cycle.
I think there can be good reasons to choose mature library that solves complex problem (even if you don't understand the code) instead of writing your own code.
I find writing a simple wrapper around big libraries a good practice, it should limit the external library features to what you really need, give you more control on how it's used and allow to switch to other library or even write your own code with much less effort.
I love my family, my health, and life more. Work, while important to me, isn't even near the top of my priority list. I work so that I can do the things and be around the people I truly care about.

My only real life regret is that I didn't realize it a bit sooner.
I totally agree. I only work past 6 if I came in late. Otherwise there are plenty of hobbies to catch up with. Mine is making a nice dinner for myself at the end of the day. In that way you also get more time to work on your personal/side projects or even contribute to open source.
What percentage of these 'complaints' are just anxieties being surfaced? I for one am completely intimidated by the new iOS7 design paradigm: kerning? ligatures? color as a call-to-action? Rounded-rectangle buttons dying an untimely death? Man am I in trouble...

(I can almost hear Sir Jony hisself saying, 'keep calm, and carry on')

Just signed up for HackDesign and hope to hell they have an iOS7 focused segment soon!!

http://hackdesign.org
1. configuration options are usually a symptom of a bad UI. But sometimes they are necessary.

Personally I get why Gnome 3 or Unity developers have cut down on configuration options, but on the other hand, for example it's really frustrating in Unity not being able to move the left bar to the right. On OS X or on Windows (7 at least) this is extremely easy to do, as you can place that bar wherever you want it, to the left, to the right, at the bottom, wherever it feels more comfortable to you.

So it's good that Gnome developers strive for interfaces that work well out of the box, but some choices have been rather dumb.

2. developers do listen to users, but unfortunately every user is different and have different preferences and needs, so whom do you listen to? Also, users aren't really aware of what they really need, so you have to read between the lines. This is a sixth sense that many of us lack.

You need to have a strong dictator with good taste to drive good design. It's pretty sad that we don't have a dictator like Linus Torvalds for Gnome. Now that's a guy that would have driven things forward.

3. it happens with us technical people that every time interfaces change, we bitch about it. Well I decided to embrace change. I like Gmail's new Compose. I like most UI decisions from Ubuntu/Unity. There I said it.

Good design doesn't necessarily feel right from the start, because the lack of familiarity gets in the way. But the ultimate pursuit is that of simplicity, composability and usefulness. So from time to time, we should sacrifice familiarity for the mentioned purposes.

On the other hand, there's no excuse for releasing broken interfaces. Gnome fell in the same trap that KDE did when version 4 was released - as in barely functional software getting released to unsuspecting users.
Good points, but how many people really use private groups? Aren't your friends more technically able than most people?

Personally, I connected to a lot of people of facebook for political discussions, and in the end that detracted a lot from the effectiveness of FB as a mean to stay connected with my family and closer friends...
Nifty. We are still doing scrums as an ad-hoc thing, and some tooling might make it easier. Since I'm on the far side of the world, Scrum time is about 22:30, and I can't always be online then, so something to let me "jump in" from anywhere with an email is nifty.
Yeah. I was like okay lets pull my records, it'll be interesting. Then I thought okay maybe they pull them, it gets sent through some automatic scanning process, eg "Why does this person want their information pulled? Lets put it through our automated scan-for-suspicious-behavior machine. Oh what's this? The subject was in the neighborhood at the time of an unsolved case, lets bring them in for questioning and generally disrupt their life in a horrible manner"
>The cornerstone of liberal democracy is...

For the love of god or anything you find holy, STOP insisting we live in a democracy!

I stop reading any article that asserts we live in a democracy or should strive to live in one.

We live in a republic. http://www.c4cg.org/republic.htm

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Edward Snowden interview: 'Let Hong Kong people decide my fate'