skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am betting so are the searches on Google and sales of ebooks on Apple iStore for "1984". Oh the irony!
“I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”
― Thomas Jefferson
CNN did a whole segment tonight on Snowden titled "Patriot or Traitor?"
What is a "girls perspective" ?
IOS 7 new design: Feels 1.0 and that might be ok.
The Haswell MBAs released today use PCIe flash
I recommend The Algorithm Design Manual by Steve S Skiena. It covers the important graph algorithms and it has catalog section of the important graph problems and how to go about solving them.
"All of the freedoms that we enjoy in Western democracies were hard-won and continue to be backed up by guns, bombs, codes, and secrets. It's not pretty, but that's how things are."

That's the official story. In reality, those things are used to enslave people and keep them happy on the modern plantation, looking to the master to keep them safe. Freedom is the absence of coercion, and those things have utterly failed to safeguard that, and indeed have actively warred against it.
"I developed a weather app a few months ago which was also rejected."

Alaric tries to believe that the rejection of his app wasn't because of the ios7 but considering how long ios7 was under development, I'm pretty sure they rejected it because of its similarity to ios7's weather app. Pretty sure Apple wouldn't want some indie developer to upstage the awesome devs/designers of Apple.
OH it would work. And it's nearly impossible for you to get into trouble. If all the protesters just drove in a circle such as getting on the highway at a specific ramp and getting off at a specific ramp just to get back on. They would create a massive bottle neck not only for those 2 ramps but for the roads that connect to them. There's no law that says you can't joy ride or that you must avoid congested traffic. A group of only 100 people could very easily find a bottle neck on their local highway and exploit it.
I saw the word "blanket" and cringed as well.
How Much Does the Mac Pro Need an Upgrade? The Infographic
I should add that this article was posted last weekend.
Isn't it essentially the situation we've had with Xbox Live Indie Games and most of the games in Apple's/Google's app stores?

There's a tremendous amount of trash on those marketplaces. I haven't seen any indications that it would lead to a crash.
Sources say Snowden's job pays 200K in Hawaii. I think if I was in the same position, I might have stayed the gov't shill. Kudos to the man for his integrity.
"The problem simply reduces to the same line problem with the points defined in 3 dimensions."

Except when you have overhangs.
Snowden can make it public at any time too, I suspect. If things aren't going at his pace, he can probably speed it up. It's in his interest, as well as The Guardian/WP's, to make the largest possible impact. This is his only shot.
I should add that this article was posted last weekend.
I recall him saying he has thousands of pictures he hasn't put up yet. I suspect we won't see the last of him for quite some time.
This is so sad and true. I've driven all over the US and there's such a lack of community and culture when compared to other places (Canada and other car cultures are the same though). Lots of town without a center, where everyone knows each other but lives a mile away from each other. It' like individuality taken to an extreme.
"A used game can be sold next to a new game at the same point in time and the used game will be priced cheaper."

"The shop only prices it cheaper to encourage you to buy it, because they have a higher profit margin on used games."

So why isn't it the publishers job to ensure that neither of these statements are true? That is, two months in, why haven't they dropped the price of the new game enough to make it attractive compared to the used copy? If they can't make any new sales because the used copies are so much cheaper, what's the point of maintaining that price?
Parse pitched itself as "Heroku for Mobile."

Seems to be an effective shorthand to convey what you do.
OK, so it's not a Mac Pro. It's a Mac Mini Pro.

As long as it's not too expensive, it's exactly what a lot of prosumers might want (especially those who want to ditch their laptops for iPads and iPhones, and maybe a MBA for the road- a lot of people's MacBook Pros live on their desks). I can't see a serious video editor wanting one, but they're all jumping ship to get cheaper Wintel workstations (and at some point, studios will move the heavy lifting to some kind of local big-iron server).

I can see developers who want a slightly better machine buying it, and rich people, and photographers, and so on. If Thunderbolt expansions bring down the costs of upgrades (compared to buying the upgrades with Apple - not everyone likes to open their chassis) then it might be quite attractive.
and if the government did less, we would feel empowered and obligated to do more ourselves, especially those things that don't necessarily need the barrel of a gun to get done. And if the government did less, then there would be little incentive for profiteers to try to capture government to profit at the end of a gun. I don't see what's so bad about this?
Cloud computing in general was not meant to be 'private'.
Why would anyone who worked at NSA and is publicly known to have had a very high security clearance go to Hong Kong in the first place? Wouldn't Chinese intelligence agencies love to get a hold of such a person and interrogate him?
Rocket Ma'am: SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell
What is it about PRISM that is so shocking to people?

This (knowing the NSA/CIA can and may actually listen to, record, and data-mine ALL electronically mediated communications) has been the default condition since the late 90's when CALEA came about.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5858538
I'd say a lot of people actually prefer it that way. A lot of people complained that the initial WikiLeaks releases (the cables, specifically) were too "dangerous" -- many names belonging to American servicemen, etc. It was only later when the NYT, Spiegel and Guardian versions, which redacted a lot of information, did the anger subside. IMO it's not so unreasonable, though this case is not identical to the one I cite.
That's hardly a good way to bring innovation to your system. Sounds like "Me too, Me too!".
Presumably knowing his little sister for his whole life? He's in a much better position to judge than you are.
"Serious accusations were made, and have been roundly denied by the implicated parties. There is no aspect of this story more important than finding out which account is accurate."

Unfortunately, the "implicated parties" in this case include the US DoJ, US President, NSA etc. How do you determine truth when the parties accused of lying are those that are mandated to find the truth?
Most of the stuff you're probably thinking about is fine as long as you own up to it up front. It's when they catch you in a lie that you're going to have a lot of trouble. If you tell them you never smoked pot and they find a picture of you inhaling on Facebook you're in big trouble. Even then you might get a clearance, though you get the treatment first.

The hassles go up as your clearance does. Depending on what you're doing you may be precluded from travelling to anyplace on this year's list of villainous countries.

I found the biggest problem with DoD work came when I left it and started interviewing for jobs in the commercial sector. I couldn't tell them what I'd been doing for the last eight years. I could say something like "I worked on a large project written in C", but anything more than that was verboten.
Mr. Snowden said he could read any citizen, even the presidents, email if he new the address[1]. Theres a number of ways this could be accomplished, hopefully the technically details of which will come out eventually, but theres no question he saying its being accomplished.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2013/jun/09/nsa-whistl...
You can check out more on this here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5858172
Now 177%. Here is the reason: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ALN7L...!
Ex-US security official: Prism 'fully authorised by US law' [video]
My hard drives are reasonably fast, so even with a quarter million files it doesn't take long to scan the filesystem. I have other backup software that scan the exact same folders and finish in less than 30 seconds. So I suspect that it's your journaling/unserializing system that takes up the bulk of the startup time.

Fortunately, I only need to start up SpiderOak once in a while, because nowadays I put my computers into hibernation instead of shutting them down and starting them up again. I also noticed that the more often I use SpiderOak, the less time it takes to start up, presumably because there's less delta to process. Also, as you said, once SpiderOak is up and running, it's relatively fast. Rest assured that the performance issues, although annoying, have not dissuaded me from renewing my SpiderOak Plus (100GB) account once again last month.

I also like the fact that SpiderOak's "Queue" and "Log" screens tell me exactly what it's doing at any given moment. Waiting becomes a lot more tolerable when I know what I'm waiting for. I hate backup tools that assume the user is too dumb to understand what's going on behind the scenes. Even Wuala's Upload/Download queue never seems to work properly.
If you honestly believe life begins at conception and should be protected, you believe the civil rights issue at hand is the right to life of the unborn, which may, in your moral estimation, supersede a woman's reproductive rights.

A person acting against that belief in order to satisfy your own personal beliefs would be a hypocrite, no?

My overall point is there is no conflict in accepting his good faith position that you agree with while rejecting his other good faith position you don't agree with.
Some unintended consequences of playing the video backwards - when I go in reverse from slide 9 (Fan) to slide 8 (Thermal Core), the arrows indicating air flow and thermal flow are animated in reverse :-)
"I can't see a serious video editor wanting one, but they're all jumping ship to get cheaper Wintel workstations"

Is this actually the case? I don't know anything about that segment of the computing industry, but I just assumed that FCP was the industry standard.
I'm going to assume you meant this as an aside, and not in response to my comment, as to do otherwise would be... uncharitable of me.

I believe there are interpretations of the OP that are not discriminatory or sexist, assuming you believe there can be any difference in the point of view of a particular gender given the culture they are brought up in.

I believe it's our responsibility as participants in the discussion to attempt to understand one another before levying charges, not only because it's the charitable thing to do, but because I wholeheartedly believe it leads to better, more rational discourse.

To do otherwise leads to, to paraphrase you, a gender-troll breeding ground unworthy of our time.
> It's a shame, but automated testing is not a common practice in our community.

Seems like an overreaction and over-generalization. Maybe it's a reaction to the fact that the author writes no unit tests? Such statements can be made about anything. How about "Coding style is not a thing in the iOS and mac community".

Anyway, most Mac based code bases I have worked with have lots of unit tests.
The Secret to Safe Continuous Deployment
God's advocate: because you're still asking.
So you thing all the guns in the US revolutionary war were superfluous?
Probably not a crash for the market as a whole, but certainly not a good idea for a company who's console is struggling against the competition.
Interesting, but an all-cloud solution would seem to be a better fit for servers with fat pipes (especially EC2) than for individuals with crappy residential connections. I have fiber at home, though, so I might try it out sometime.
Most developers are there to make a living. Expecting ideals from them is a little too much. They probably have ideals in others spheres of life. I wouldn't expect most devs to just follow the money and continue writing iOS apps until it gives them good returns.
But as I noted separately, widespread collection of call detail records is not really at issue in Smith v. Maryland. Rather it sits at the intersection of Jones v. United States, United States v. Knotts, and California Bankers Association v. Shultz.

If you read these (I noted them in order from most recent to oldest) and read/carefully count votes on concurring and dissenting opinions (after having read Smith v. Maryland), I think you could be pardoned for thinking the Supreme Court had said a bunch of things about this, much in conflict with a bunch of other things.
Really a great guy and he did so much for space exploration and science with humor and panache. Thanks so much!
Hello, this is new the NSA community outreach program.

We proudly announce that, using our PRISM system, we just obtained personal information of anyone who just bought the "1984" from Amazon.

Teams have already been sent out to ensure that those terrorists do not harm our country and are not allowed to take away our freedoms.

We'd like to thank you for your cooperation in ensuring that our nation continues our democratic traditions, and send our best wishes to you.
I think we've both said the things we wanted to say in this thread, so further replies might not be especially useful -- I just want to point out that I think your pricing decrease algorithm needs a little tweaking:
Aliens: Colonial Marines, which got generally terrible reviews, was released on Steam on Feb. 12. So, four months ago. It's only dropped $10 in that time ($59.99 to $49.99).

I don't doubt that the publisher has probably done a little thinking about whether they'd sell enough copies at $30 rather than $50 to make up for the loss of per-sale profit, but it seems to me that what they (the publishers) are actually trying to do, by killing secondhand sales, is have their cake and eat it, too.
Great for hiding explicit links.
I don't need to cast aspersions.

Apple's claims about performance primarily applied to OS X when run on a specific version of the PowerPC processor:

http://www.ece.uprm.edu/~nayda/Courses/Inel4215F03/power64.p...

(See pages 304-306.)

But, there was a cost to that dependent on architecture. If you read the document I linked above, you'll see that there is a cost to this 64-bit translation -- the performance is not completely equivalent to a 64-bit application running on a 64-bit kernel where there is no need for translation.

And yes, there were performance tradeoffs. A 64-bit application running on a 32-bit OS still had all of the 32-bit limitations enforced (limit on maximum process size, number of file descriptors, etc.).

And once Apple made the transition to x86 from PowerPC they lost the built-in hardware advantage. x86 can also run 64-bit applications on a 32-bit kernel, but the cost of doing that hardware switch is not as cheap as it was on PowerPC. I also think it's very telling that Solaris, Linux, and Windows opted to never do this as well.

And now that OS X no longer offers a 32-bit kernel, this all seems moot anyway.
Three Useful Monads
>The point is, internet has never been a shining example of democracy. There are no privacy laws for sysadmins.

By using a system, you presumably agree to some terms and conditions you never read. Since I also never read them, I'm going to go ahead and presume that those terms and conditions state that any data or activity on said machine is and can be monitored by a sysadmin. If you don't want to be watched, you have to be the sysadmin.

Since I'm too noob to downvote, I thought I'd just chime in here and inform you that you are wrong.
Apple doesn't have a consistent single login url. Firefox isn't to blame for that.
sorry that sounded weird upon reflection, basically different tech stack but thank you for the article and this other link!
I do agree with that statement, but it doesn't mean they can do a whole lot of damage. From Iraq to Aaron Schwartz, when the US government turns it's big sloppy attention at you, watch out.
But it is still controlling law in the area of pen registers applied to single individuals, right? Knotts raises some uncertainty as to whether dragnet surveillance should be under the same rules, and at least 5 justices in Jones v. United States clearly articulated that it was different for long-term, widespread surveillance of this sort.

So I am questioning as to whether Smith controls the Verizon order as it is. I am not sure a simple "yes" is possible.
It's not the fact that US=bad, EU=good. The fact is that you can use free software programs over xmpp which support OTR cryptography.
I came to iOS development after five years doing TDD and Ruby on Rails. It was a shocking change. The early iOS testing tools were pretty bad or just plain missing, but what really got me was that no one seemed to care at all. It really was just a different culture.
I should have phrased that better, I think if you reexamine some history you will be more outraged
I'd be immensely wary of Sony declaring themselves open to indie devs. When I was a teenager I did homebrew development on the Sony PSP. Sony did every damned thing in their power to stop it. To run homebrew, you had to either run an older version of firmware or root the device. Every time an exploit was patched, a new one was found. This inevitably meant a lot of people spent a lot of time rooting the PSP[1]. I was impressed with how the security of the device fell time and time again to the community.

If Sony just allowed the PSP to run homebrew games, they'd not be in such a mess. Many of the developers rooting the devices just wanted to run their own software, but the shadow community would use that result to pirate games. Separating the two communities by allowing homebrew software on their device would have made sense for their own protection.

This was then followed up by the PS3. After releasing with both the ability to run Linux, they removed both. You paid for a device with X, then they removed X. Understandably the community became somewhat irate. Eventually their private signing key for their entire console was leaked due to the desire to allow homebrew and to restore OtherOS (Linux) support[2]. Sony's legal department tried to fix that...

So, from all this past history, I wouldn't trust Sony's new direction. At the very least not until they start to act on their new found conviction.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_Portable#Homebrew

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Hotz#Hacking_the_PlaySta...

Edit: Thanks for Dylan16807 correcting me re: PS2 emulation. Having a deeper read into it, the situation is confusing -- some models have hardware PS2 support, others do emulation, and then it was completely dropped whilst "PS2 Classics" (recompiled or via emulation) were released on the PS3 as pay for downloads.
I was wondering why the job was in Hawaii, thought maybe that would be a choke point for underwater cables. This map shows that isn't the case. http://www.submarinecablemap.com/
not genius. but could certainly be incorporated into a better process.
That the guy who has been getting what amounts to fairly special treatment since the jump (with The Dishwasher) likes the guys who created his meal ticket is not terribly surprising.

(Not saying he's wrong to feel that way, but his biases are stark.)
Now watch this guy fly completely under the radar in 2016, courtesy of MSM.

Edit: assuming he runs for office...I guess I'm jumping the gun a bit
That's not the PSVita process. I have a hunch this'll be a lot closer to the Vita process than that.
Are you sure you've looked back at history? People's freedoms are typically limited by elites in their own country, not by foreign enemies.
(Published on Nov 13, 2012)
Bitstampoer on github already does a Verizon of this.

https://github.com/newell-purdue/bitstamper
Which can already be done on Android with zero problems--and which statistically-nobody cares about.
I loved this blog ... no offense on his words, its true
IOS 7: interface, not art
So true :( so sad.
I've got a bunch of friends that know how to use it. They're just annoyed if I enable it. :(
On the topic of history...

"After the fall of the Roman Republic, the constitutional balance of power shifted from the Roman Senate to the Roman Emperor. Though retaining its legal position as under the Republic, in practice, however the actual authority of the Imperial Senate was negligible, as the Emperor held the true power in the state. As such, membership in the Senate became sought after by individuals seeking prestige and social standing, rather than actual authority."

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_senate#Senate_of_the_Rom...]

Imagine for a moment, further expansion of executive autonomy and power. Then review recent elections with the definition of populism in mind. There are stark similarities.

"When Hitler was appointed in January 1933, Germany was a democracy. Germany had fair elections; nobody had their right to vote abused; there were numerous political parties you could vote for etc. To pass a law, the Reichstag had to agree to it after a bill went through the normal processes of discussion, arguments etc. Within the Reichstag of January 1933, over 50% of those who held seats were against the Nazi Party. Therefore it would have been very unlikely for Hitler to have got passed into law what he wanted. Many saw Hitler as a fall-guy politician who would have to shoulder to blame if things got worse under his leadership.

Hitler had promised a general election for March 1933. This would have been, in his mind, the perfect opportunity for him to show all politicians who opposed him where the true loyalties lay in the German people. In fact, 1932 had shown Hitler that there was a possibility that support for the Nazis had peaked as their showing in the November 1932 election had shown. Anything other than a huge endorsement of Hitler and the Nazi Party would have been a disaster and a gamble which it is possible that Hitler did not want to take.

One week before the election was due to take place, the Reichstag building burned down. Hitler immediately declared that it was the signal for a communist takeover of the nation. Hitler knew that if he was to convince President Hindenburg to give him emergency powers - as stated in the Weimar Constitution - he had to play on the old president's fear of communism. What better than to convince him that the communists were about to take over the nation by force?"

[http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/Nazi_Germany_dictatorsh...]

Even in a well formed government, there are possible scenarios that play out with catastrophic results. As politics become more polarized and government exerts more authority, it is more likely that individual opportunists can raise to dominant positions and wreak havoc on policy and settle vendettas against political opponents.
Well that's great, but it's also stupid. Companies like Google and Facebook have hundreds of high-level engineers staring at all levels of their system all day long, trying to find out where their microseconds have gone. And these people are responsible for umpteen billions of dollars in capital expenditures every year, and responsible for capacity planning and so forth. The theory espoused at the link you posted requires that all of these people are either not smart enough to notice that an external entity is using their resources, or that these people, who I would point out are largely not Americans, are in on the conspiracy, or, finally, that the NSA is capable of pulling off their surveillance without having any detectable impact on production CPU, memory, storage, and networking.

These are highly implausible scenarios.