skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not in the domain, so this is probably naïve thinking, but it seems to me it could lend itself that direction.

Considering that many skeuomorphic designs involve a layout which spatially mimics some particular object. One can't scale that up and down in size to fit on any screen without also changing the size of the actionable interface areas (buttons, toggles, and such). And since the controls have their meaning implied/explained to the user by where they are on the layout of the mimicked object, rearranging the location of control areas takes away from the meaning that the mimicry is made to communicate. If the physical object mimicked is larger than the screen, and the layout and control area sizes must be preserved, then scrolling the entire view or something like it is needed.

With a flat interface, the actionable control areas can be grouped, for example by type (do they alter something global, domain related, context-specific, or only a single item). Membership of a control in a type could be communicated to the user by something like grouping all the controls of that type together in a box with a particular background color. Since the scope meaning of the controls is encoded by which color box they are each in, but not at all by where in that box they are, nor necessarily what shape that color box is, nor the box's location relative to any other color boxes which hold controls of different types, then the color/type boxes can be reshaped and reflowed to fit many screen sizes while keeping the size of the controls themselves constant (easy to hit with a finger, or mouse, or whatever).

Edit-addendum: Of course, this line of thinking simplifies skeuomorphic design too much. Such designs allow for more conceptual or cartoonish representations of the controls from familiar objects, so that the scaling factor used for any given control doesn't have to correspond to the scaling factor of other controls or the overall mimicked object. Still, flat design gets a great deal of rearrangement of controls for the price of the user learning to associate the box with color scheme foo as holding things that change the global context of the app. And the amount a user needs to learn can be smaller still. Even just using the principle of up-and-to-the-left is more general while down-and-to-the-right is more specific can give flat designs some structure (enough for many uses) while allowing a great deal of rescaling of the screen.
He was earning 200k right? You think they pay morons that type of money?

His education is completely irrelevant. His body odour (if he has it) is irrelevant. The size of his nose is irrelevant. if he was an axe murderer is irrelevant.

What is relevant is are those documents real. Since the government is not saying they are fake, clearly they are real.

That is what you should be talking about.
Maybe warrant-less mass eavesdropping. Though admittedly they did give everybody retroactive immunity once they got found out.
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The author's individual experience is interesting but hardly an authoritative basis for a FAQ on this topic. See Judith Rich Harris' book "The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do, Revised and Updated" for an informed explanation of language acquisition in a multi-language environment.
oops: Mea culpa.
i read 1.3B a few days ago
You are cleverly trying to shrink the domain of known and relevant information down to only that set of things which boost Snowden's credibility.

Not really. I'm just saying that some of the things that some people interpret as damaging his credibility, don't. At least in my opinion. His education, for example.

We also know about the NSA's operations from their open source projects like selinux and Accumulo. And given that context, it absolutely damaged his credibility when he suggests that there is some list of assets that he could read.

I'm fairly familiar with both SELinux and Accumulo, and I'm failing to see the connection. Keep in mind, an organization like the NSA is (presumably) fairly large, and probably very bureaucratic and probably had a hodge-podge of different rules, processes, procedures, etc. spread around. That the NSA can produce high-quality software products like SELinux or Accumulo, and still make a mistake in terms of how they grant security access (if there even was a mistake) seem like orthogonal issues to me.
Speculation is $1B-1.3B
Non-technical explanation of machine classification
I'm a software security hiring manager and will confirm that going through a course like this would get our attention.
I think it was an analogy.
The best way to learn is to measure. Try one type of ad, measure response and reach, adjust, measure again. Rinse and repeat until you see what works and what doesn't.
His questions are legit, and I have some of the same questions, but he's also doing the smearing. I don't see him being smeared.

My feeling is also that this guy leaked material that he didn't fully understand, but that it doesn't matter because he could be wrong about all of the fuzzy details and it would still be just as bad.
Absolutely, feedback is just more input for finding the right solution, and is valuable from any source.
I wonder if providing this kind of information to the public can lead to worse performance (commute time).

This reminds me of Braess's Paradox [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess_paradox
There is an enormous difference between reading about software security and actually trying to practice it.
I'm going to have to disagree to some extent in that "our generation" is not more risk-averse than past generations. Past generations had you graduate from college and success was often defined by working at one company for your entire life, possibly rising in the ranks slowly. Becoming a lawyer and becoming a doctor have a pretty set path -- if you're going to be doing open-heart surgeries I don't want you to keep "failing fast" (startup speak, I know). If anything, in this post-The Social Network world, even if some people's motives aren't there, I still think people are embracing entrepreneurship more than in many other previous generations.
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I've always felt my degree gave me a good grounding over a wide area.

I've worked with people with and without degrees. Some of the best had no degree, some had PhDs, some had a standard BSc. Some of the worst were in all three categories too.

But I have found my degree useful, and not just for opening doors.
>drop the real story for some gossip

You're creating a false dichotomy. NPR and NYT have consistently reported on overreaches from the government, including past bad behavior from the NSA and on PRISM (see links below). The leak itself and the details surrounding it are significant, both from a human-interest perspective and from a historical perspective - meaning, it will be in history books. I would be disappointed if news sources weren't covering it.

But my point here is they have been covering PRISM, not just Snowden.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/16/politics/16program.html?pa...

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/07/us/nsa-verizon-calls.html
“the servers” could be read many ways. Doesn't necessarily mean direct access to all their data. Doesn't mean unilateral access as alleged. The slides we have don't give enough detail to allege direct and unilateral access. Especially in light of companies, NSA, NYT sources all denying this.
What does he have done? Software isn't binary it doesn't just appear. Does he have a database developed? Does he have web pages designed? Ask to see whta he has completed. Also, sounds like you need a project plan.
The culture varies dramatically from contract to contract. I have a buddy who is an excellent developer, works on a small team, and gets stuff done. He works there.

The "butts in seats" contracts? They are always going to be bad. The incentives create this issue. I worked at a 6 person company that grew to 150 employees in 3 years, mainly on "butts in seats" contracts that failed.
Are these not fair questions?

I think most people are confused at how someone could expect to have their freedom of speech protected in a country controlled by China. Territories controlled by mainland China are not usually the first places you think of when you think "need to flee the US government".

Similarly, I think most people are surprised at the ability of someone in his stated position to gain as much access as he said he has, and also at the reported size of his salary - because they are not familiar with what the salary scale is like in the world of government private contractors.

Having questions is not the same as smearing character.
His lack of education is relevant because when you have at least some understanding of the depth of complex systems, it becomes very hard to imagine that a self-taught person has enough knowledge to speak competently about multiple such systems.

This is so wrong it's not even funny. If Peter Norvig can say "One of the best programmers I ever hired had only a High School degree" [1], then surely you can admit that your statement is wrong.

[1]: http://norvig.com/21-days.html
Someone should create a LingsCars inspired theme for Bootstrap or whatever :)
Let me repeat myself:

Anyway... not saying every detail of his story is true, but all things told, I don't see how carping about his high-school education is relevant here.

As for the PRISM slides... I haven't seen a single story stating that anybody from the NSA claims that the slides aren't legitimate. Inaccuracies in the reporting? Maybe so. But the simple fact that he produced the (real) slides, says something, no?
This morning I heard Pink Floyd's The Wall.

We don't need no education...

We don't need no thought control... (Actually, per the United States Senate Intelligence Committee, you do.)

Stand still laddie!
I'm not saying FCP X is bad today, but the 1.0 release was an undisputed flop.

A lot of people jumped ship to Avid and Adobe rather than wait for FCP X to eventually improve. Convincing them to take another look at FCP X won't be easy.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2013/06/11/watch_a_reporte...
When the guy announces his identity, do you really expect that his life won't be part of the story?

Leaking should be its own reward.
For those commenting on the price, I'd point out that if you're a consultant or freelance developer you should be able to justify adjusting your rates enough after this to make the $1500 back in a month or so, and if you're a salaried employee with a smart employer, you should be able to negotiate a reasonable raise or get your employer to cover the cost for you.

I operate on a shoestring budget, I'm just about the most price-sensitive guy on here, and I'm still going to do my best to scrape together the money for this.
Professional organizations and codes of professional standards (including ethical standards, standards for continuing education, etc.) may be valuable.

An analog to the Hippocratic oath (an oath which is not taken generally in any consistent form [1], which has no binding force, and the form of which that is administered is generally maintained and decided on by individual educational institutions rather than the practicing community), probably not useful.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath#Modern_use_and...
Nope, in redis v8 is faster, just because i have optimised GET/SET/INCR commands, and lua use a regular connection to DB like any other client, so in my case is no need to parse/encode redis format. And i can optimise any other redis functions for v8.
Yes of course, but NPR's ideological bent in the past was seen to be not of the "government stooge" variety.
I was surprised on the drive home yesterday when they interviewed his neighbor. He didn't win the local chilli cook-off, dude just revealed multiple gigantic surveillance operations. There's got to be someone more relevant to interview, right? Is this just a path of least resistance thing, where anybody with anything worth hearing about this story refuses to speak to the news?
It is - that's what the OP offers! Or have I misunderstood you?
I love the work on your site, OP. Did you use After Effects for that French TED talk or something else?
Large civil movement is repeatedly censored in Fortaleza, Brazil
Not in Sunnyvale.
How to share games on the Playstation 4
Designers Complaining about iOS7
It would have been interesting to see Waze remain independent and as an alternative map solution. With 34 million users, it could have been a very profitable business for the long-run.
I personally can't wait until I can get (and send) Waze alerts using Google Glass for when I'm motorcycling.
In what way was Collateral Murder, "a decidedly one sided view of the situation"? Were an unarmed Good Samaritan and his unarmed children not shot? Did the Good Samaritan and the unarmed injured man he was attempting to save not die as a result of the shooting?
A scenario beyond your imagination has no less of a probability of occurring than one within it. You don't know (and neither do I) what system(s) he had access to and what type of data he acquired. You're assuming the NSA actually uses certain technologies it has at its disposal and it does so appropriately with no means of proving that assertion. You're also ignoring that the NSA isn't a single "entity". It's instead a very large bureaucracy with countless independent workers, contractors, sub-contractors, assistants, analysts and, yes, even sys-admins.

Some level of the compartmentalization within this mess has clearly failed. His background is irrelevant to that fact.

The point is, he was in a position to have this information regardless and leaked it. That's the story. Your insinuation that his background has some bearing on the information he has already leaked, the parts those within and without the intelligence community has been able to independently verify and the parts that have been confirmed by the WH is completely speculative.
I don't think it's fair that "conspiracy theorists" will dismiss conspiracy theories when they are perceived as defending the US.
Show your working.

In particular, how are you distinguishing between

a. submissions killed by mods;

b. submissions flagged to death by ordinary users;

c. submissions autokilled due to pointing to a banned domain;

d. submissions autokilled because the submitter is hellbanned; and

e. submissions killed for some other reason?

Also, it would be interesting to know how many submissions are wrongly killed.
How do you think they discovered general Petraeus and his mistress? Someone probably had too much time on their hands, and decided to look him up in the "program".
Read the first five words of the WaPo paragraph I quoted again.
When I download the mail it says:

"Thank you for choosing Opera browser. We hope you enjoy it."

Should it be Opera Mail, not browser.
I've had one friend tweet about how he was a traitor and a coward. I'll let you guess who they work for...

...DARPA.

Seems legit.
+1.

Now, how do I kill people on this MUD?

That antique joke aside, most people don't know enough to know that they don't know. People who think Edward Tufte is a cartoon rabbit pontificating on design... is this really any worse than listening to them pontificate on Turkish politics, or the prime lending rate, or the relative merits of three star restaurants in foreign countries where they'll never eat?
Apple'z biz dev team was on holiday, I suppose?
I don't know why the NSA would need a specific children's site as a recruitment tool... with the information they are pulling, couldn't they just watch the child's behavior and identify the ones who represent the best candidates to become spooks based on their internet activity, Facebook likes and personal social network (outside FB)?

I'm disappointed that they have all of this and don't see the value in what they are collecting... Note the sarcasm
Fakeblock is real
While I completely agree with most of this article, there was one thing I found utterly repellent. This line - 'People largely stopped talking about what Wikileaks revealed years ago, & now discussion of Assange is dominated by the usual cliches about him being arrogant, a rapist, etc.'

Oh yes, those usual boring cliches - arrogance and rape. Repulsive. People talk about Assange being creepy because he has been accused of rape by two female (former) supporters, not because of a series of subtle derogatory digs in the mainstream media. And arguing that these rape cases are a fabrication to bring Assange to justice for what happened over wikileaks (which I don't believe at all) isn't an argument in this instance, because the two cases are so unlike each other it seems ridiculous to make the comparison. I'm not disagreeing that Edward Snowden is being subjected to unpleasant ad hominem attacks, he is and it's outrageous, but to compare him to the treatment that Assange has received is ridiculous.
it should guess the details correctly after you entered your address.
I would argue that they try very hard to appear "objective" and sometimes drop the ball in order to achieve this.

Whenever they mention gun control or cannabis legalization (too very liberal subjects) there is never any questioning of the craziness of the opponents of such efforts, just that it is happening.

That said, they are still far from perfect but preferable to most other sources.
> it's a bit far fetched to think the NSA is monitoring basically all US Internet traffic

It may be far-fetched, but this was actually revealed in 2007: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
Someone has taken it down. They managed to use an xss attack to inject a couple of alerts and then said they would try something else. Now you just get a JS 'hi' alert and it closes.
There is another reason why certain senators are very much for the NSA - they get much of their campaign funding from the contractors and other parts of the surveillance industrial complex.

Dianne Feinstein is a classic example. If she was wearing her sponsors on her sleeve like a nascar driver, the ugly things she is saying this past week would make a lot more sense to people like me.

Remember that once they get into office, they spend a tremendous amount of time fund-raising for their next re-election run, so this is constantly on their minds.

Another reason why term limits would be a good idea because at least you'd get somewhat more honest behavior from their final term.
One note I would make:

Another whistleblower, Julian Assange, received even more brutal treatment. Here’s another hit piece on him, again run by the NYT, filled with subtly negative phrases like “dwindling number of loyalists”, “notoriety”, “erratic and imperious behavior”, “delusional grandeur” et al.

Those same accusations are leveled against Assange by people who used to work with him. For example, read James Ball's account:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/05/30/exclusive-f...

Many of these 'smears' are essentially irrefutable facts ("Snowden did not complete high school"), and while I agree that many will try to smear him, regarding any negative coverage of him as an attack against liberty is not very productive.
Um, only 69%, that's not even double. I'm not even sure that's enough to day that there is as much of a public outrage over this as the tech crowd seems to have.
Influence on journalists is typically not exerted overtly. Journalists know what behaviors are rewarded internally by the media organization (which is itself influenced by the government and corporations), through things like promotions and good work assignments, and externally by the government and corporations, though things like access, social connections and being in the "in" crowd by being invited to exclusive dinners and events.

Moreover journalists at these media organizations are selected and retained based largely on whether they are going to support the organization, one aspect of which is being held in a favorable opinion by government leaders.
I know and have worked with people with little formal education that are brilliant and extremely competent.

I didn't really expect to see such a statement about the necessity of community education and the impossibility of self-education on HN. You don't need to learn in a formal group setting in order to understand complex systems.
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The questions betray a high level of ignorance, however.

Clearly, if you have a beef with the US Govt, you have to flee to a communist-country, not because you are a communist, but because those government can better resist the gravitational power of the US government.

People tend to forget that "enemy of the US government" != "enemy of the USA".

China, for all its problems, is not Hell unders dominion of Satan. Neither is the USA heaven under dominion of God.
This is great. I can finally interoperate with linux and windows.

Every time I connect with AFP, my CPU would spike to 100% under Ubuntu.
Yep, we did check it for many text boxes. Someone found a loophole! x|

On it now.
I initially thought the Apple version was on the left and was wondering why people were excited about less refined looking icons.

Those IOS icons are so inconsistent. It's like they told skeuomorphic designers to take their designs and just make them flat. This is really apparent in the gears of the settings icon and in the tick marks on Safari and Compass. Then they didn't even bother to make Game Center flat which really throws things off.

This redesign is miles away better than what Apple managed.
That makes sense. Hopefully my comment doesn't sound like I think people with degrees are worse. My point was that I feel it comes down to the person and not the source of their education.
I wasn't trying to suggest in my comment that US is slipping into a soviet state.

However, I think it can remain democratic and anti-socialist, but still use surveillance methods against its citizens that would be a Stalin's wet dream.

And you might not be moving towards clearing people for travel - but at the same time, you don't need to. If you have information where everyone is and what everyone is doing, it achieves exact same result, doesn't it? Communist government would keep your passport to stop you from leaving - but nowadays governments can do that even if they let you keep your passport. Boarder agents have access to a central database, and a single note there can stop you from leaving the country forever. US government can effectively exile its own citizens by placing them on the no-fly lists while they are abroad,and obviously no one will ever tell you why you ended up on one. US might not be literally using the same methods Soviets did, but if you think about it, the final results are frighteningly similar.
And yes, I am glad that the general populace is NOT happy with the government's actions and that there is an uproar against them. There is still hope. But I find it absolutely sickening how US is presenting itself as a "bastion of freedom" even though it still has places like guantanamo, or where journalists are forbidden from writing about some cases, under the threat of spending several years in prison. This is not how a free country should look like.
I may not know anything about design, but I know what I like.
Yes, someone just cleared the DOM using an XSS. Should be up now atleast. Found the vulnerability.
Unless basic human needs are free (health, housing, food & water), no one is working "at will".
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