skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This honestly just looks like they are taking a bunch of apps, each with their own individual uses, and deciding which ones they want to include as part of the core package and over glorifying their uses. I can see a lot of these features being cool at first, but quickly to be turned off and remained unused in order to conserve battery.
Nice presentation and seems like it'll do well selling to the general public, but doesn't seem to amount to much actual material benefits when you think it through. Of course, this is all still speculation so we shall see.
ByteMail is a command-line P2P email system I have been working on. Version 0.2.0 Beta has just been released and was a complete rewrite, and reworking of the logic.

In the next patch I will be fixing a small bug that I don't have time to fix at the moment, but won't exactly hinder usability.

In the future I will add encryption which will be when the official version will be released.
Are you sure Google gets the credit for this?

Memory compression still hasn't been merged into mainline linux; right now it's looking like zswap will make it into 3.11. I think zswap was developed by IBM.

I think kernel samepage merging was developed by Red Hat.

https://lwn.net/Articles/551401/

https://lwn.net/Articles/545244/

https://lwn.net/Articles/330589/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ford#Pardon_of_Nixon
Unfortunately we don't live in a world of ideals.

With complete transparency comes little ability for security. Terrorist attempts become more frequent. Crime becomes more rampant and life become more unstable.

If you ask a typical American if they are willing to die for their freedom, very few would. They'd rather the security. I'm not saying that's right or wrong, it's just true.
Stayed right next door in another "Mansion" place -- with my whole 5-person family. Had a great time. We got one of the few family-sized rooms. Big enough for two beds + a bathroom. And if one person got out of the way, the other could walk through the room. Plus, when we asked the housekeeper, she gave us a third mattress and extra towel!

Actually, the kids loved it -- the previous two nights we stayed in a Teepee on a beach. First night great. By the second night we'd had enough of the mosquitoes and rugby-playing boy scouts. By comparison, the Mansion was "Mom, Dad, there are no mosquitoes! And it's so quiet when we close the windows! And air conditioning!" They didn't want to leave the room for two days.

Had to tell the kids not to wander the building without us though.
sigzero--
True, but I think you're missing the point that competition between app stores can mitigate the worst aspects of the app store model.
Please change the obviously-incorrect title. PRISM is not involved in this suit.

The suit is about the gathering of Verizon metadata.

PRISM, as it has been publically alleged, has nothing to do with this. PRISM is an alleged program that involves SiVa tech companies, and involves spending $20 M to magically ingest, sort, and dispense basically all the traffic of half a dozen of the biggest IT companies in the world. (In case my bias wasn't clear, I don't think that's possible to do with $20M.)

Note that the word "prism" appears nowhere in the legal document. Because Larry Klayman has the basic literacy skills to keep apples and oranges distinct, unlike the scribd uploader.
They do seem nice, but basically you're asking me to donate to a fund that is basically your wedding gift and you get to buy things and go on trips with the money me and everyone else gave you and yes you will have a difficult time, you still get the experience and at any time Bitcoins could crash or you could cash all of them in.
But unlike a rootkit, some HW listening device is resistant to OS reinstalls which I can imagine are pretty common with people that the NSA would target. And I can also imagine that it might be more 'cross-platform'.
I think the bit I missed was the "you can pay to keep it longer" bit. It makes sense now with that critical piece of information :)
Obama made plenty of statements that suggested he cares about civil liberties and privacy. Several of these quotes have been passed around:

>"For one thing, under an Obama presidency, Americans will be able to leave behind the era of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and "wiretaps without warrants."

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9845595-7.html

This goes to show you why you should believe what politicians vote and do, and ignore most of what they say. Obama isn't unique in this regard.
Farenheit. Lol.
$ echo foo > bar
$ gpg --sign bar
$ gpg --verify bar.gpg
I imagine it being quite wonderful. Imagine further if a bill could only contain 1 law in it and it had a built in shelf life of only 10-15 years and had to be renewed by a super majority vote in excess of 75%.
Godaddy has a static cache option?
> Booz Allen said he was an employee for less than three months. That sounds really interesting, I thought he would have worked there for longer since he claims he was planning this for a long time and the reporter said he was in contact for months.

That actually makes me wonder if he actually is Edward Snowden. I mean... who could we possibly ask to check?

> If you read what the Wash Post reporter said Snowden tried to get him to release the entire slide deck. Why couldn't he put it on the internet?

Credibility, perhaps?
It seems entirely sensible that after he gave the interview to The Guardian, he left his hotel and found other accommodations before his identity became public.

I would not be surprised if The Guardian are in touch with him, but are not publicly stating so until they have a good reason to.
Again, I invite you to start up the ISP and website, and to remove your anecdotal experience from observational data: http://seeingredinchina.com/2011/04/27/how-poor-are-chinese-.... Debt is a function of belief in economic mobility; if I dont think your situation will be better in terms of income in the future vs today, I am far less likely to extend capital to you for risk. Im more likely to buy bonds. So the debt situation can be viewed as a reflection of capital markets betting against things getting better in China.
If I read your preceding comment and then this one, I'm left with the conclusion that you think either that there should be no foreign surveillance of any sort, or that any attempt to check the authority of our intelligence services is pointless.
No, it means developers can transfer the _app_. That means all the stats, rankings, reviews, and users.

You could always sell someone the rights and code for your app, but there was no way to move it to a different account so they retained ownership. You had to either re-submit the app, or give them your developer account. Both came with massive downsides.
I think the central question here is whether a democracy can endure a constant state of war where every part of our lives is catalogued and cross-indexed by the government.

The rest of it is just a legal discussion around property rights and Rand Paul's strategy, both of which are not really germane. It doesn't work. It's not that it's illegal, it's not that Rand Paul has to take this position to glorify himself or whatever, it's simply that it doesn't work.

You can get away with "novel solutions" that won't work long-term for a while, but not indefinitely. Setting up this permanent monitoring infrastructure amounts to a cataclysm for our grandchildren. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
another Mac user that thinks Lion is a useless POS? Do yourself a favor a get a liberated computer next time (and the cheapest Mac desktop if you just have to develop for iOS or OS X). That's what I'm going to do when I have to upgrade.
Perhaps on paper. But being a global power gives the US a special relationship with friendly countries as well. The dependency on US military protection subverts the sovereignty of allied nations causing them to harmonise laws on intellectual property, drugs, share intelligence including information about businesses in competition with US ones amongst other things. It is a very advantageous situation for the USA and I think it is wrong to think the only point of being a global superpower is to keep the Russians and Chinese in line. It is as much about maintaining the Empire and keeping the client states in line. Hail Caeser!
I am not joking when I say you could always start you own. Outline what it is you really believe and verify how your policies, derived from your core beliefs, improve society.

All parties start with one voice, regardless the exercise will bring clarity to the beliefs and values you hold most dear.
You can be granted immunity.
tldr:

First link is bonkers.

Second link is oh no, pentalobe screws.

Third link is gasp non-removable battery. Yep just like practically every knock of-- excuse me ultrabook has (and for exactly the same reasons Apple did it the first time: people like the very thin form factor).
I have similar conflicts as a Libertarian!

To add another point: for one election I was deeply involved with the party. I found that many Libertarians went overboard in conspiracy theories: vaccines with trackers, 9/11 truthers, anti-GMO nonsense, etc. I have a really hard time calling myself a Libertarian along with these people.
Commander Hadfield is an authentic space oddity.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaOC9danxNo
You're right, the the references to PHR residents being classed as "non residents of Australia for tax purposes" are derived from assertions made by... the PHR.

On the other hand, it really does seem like the government are happy to leave them alone as long as people don't try to "take the piss" and turn it into wide-scale tax avoidance scheme.
Haha, even here, misinformed (often angry) comments are directed at Bitcoin supporters that align precisely with what you're saying. Some of the accussations are simply flat out incompatible with an open/public ledger, let alone getting into anything Bitcoin specific.

And that's despite stuff like this being posted repeatedly. In fact, this is a repost from like ~~2~~ 10 days ago, isn't it? ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5796935 )
Indeed. This is not someone I would want to be wagering my modest chess skills against. His choices have been extremely well calculated, with a clear understanding of what is being sacrificed every step of the way. He gave an interview which may have been enough for folks with sources to figure out which hotel he was staying at. Checking out and going to an undisclosed location makes perfect sense.

Additionally the choice of Hong Kong and the timing is looking more and more careful to me. The fact that there is a temporary moratorium on extraditions and it is during the Sunnylands Summit cannot be calculations that escaped him.

One thing for sure... I would not want to be working for the State Department right now.
Still think the Spotify model is a lot better in terms of sharing and finding new music people are listening too.. Seems like I still have to pay for my individual songs on iTunes, which I think is a dieing breed.
Video editor and high end graphics guy checking in. I’m very excited, mostly by the size of the new Mac Pro. I’ll be able to take this workstation anywhere and just plug it into some rented displays. Lugging the current Mac Pro around means I’ll have to go there by car or settle for taking a MacBook Pro along and doing rendering on a rented Mac Pro. The new Mac Pro, I can bring along in a carry-on and have plenty of room to spare for other equipment. Too bad it won’t be available for months, I have so many projects for which this would be a dream.
Because he believes that abortion is a state's rights issue, and furthermore, that at some point, the rights of the uterus should be superseded by the rights of the living.

It's not really that hard to grasp is it?

Regardless, that has nothing to do with this issue.
This is not the case in the US - the President's power to pardon is pretty broad, and has been used before conviction numerous times.
Creating a base view with backbone and handlebars
This author is confused. Anyone who's tested any BETA 1 of iOS knows how unfinished it can be. This isn't your Google "beta."
It's a legitimate beta.
The Power of the Powerless: Vaclav Havel on "post-totalitarianism"
My girlfriend works for a branch of the Canadian government.

All of her emails, meeting minutes, agendas, etc. are all on the public record. Anyone can search/read/whatever them at any time.
What's your stack (including primary datastore)? What level of caching, if any, are you doing?
If such an option did exist, no way this app would be cause to use it. There are many other weather apps which have similar use of animation, such as Magical Weather. This app is not particularly unique or innovative.
Just like Cobol?

As expected, the article was that, a "Java is fast" that can only be said if you don't compare it with anything made to be fast, and "Android uses Java". All the other reasons are excuses for drawbacks of the language.

The one thing that made Java relevant - that one can create a ruleset that constrain bad coders and avoid them destroying all your codebase - didn't go away. And the context where companies just don't know how to hire developers didn't change either, thus still only projects that protect themselves against bad developers are ever successful within them. But it seems that the more productive languages are so much more advanced than Java nowadays that it become better to protect a project by hiring less developers than by making them less powerfull... Or, at least, I can think of no other reason for people to care to anounce that Java is not dead yet.
Didn't Apple make the Flashlight feature a core iOS7 thingie? So, problem solved?
Absolutely amazing. Love these. Even showed them to my oldest son as he likes to draw.
CIA does not imply field agent. If you worked for the CIA behind a desk for years, does that give you 'secret agent' skills?
Whilst I agree with your ideals, this would not work from a developer / company perspective.

Can you imagine how hard it would be to work a raw dataset when everything in your database does not have meaning?
MAD works.
Now consider also this: the medical privacy rights have the effect of withholding from research vast amounts of medical data, which would be extremely valuable in, say, cancer research.

How many people did CANCER kill in the US 2001-2012? Roughly 6 million. 6,000,000 people. 2000 times more than terror attacks.

Cardiovascular disease and stroke: roughly the same, and just as likely to benefit from medical data.

I - personally - would much prefer that my medical data becomes known, than my e-mails and telephone conversations. I think that applies to 99+ % of us. Certainly the argument "if you did nothing wrong, you got nothing to hide" applies to medical data - few medical problems would land someone in trouble.
Eh. Nothing that invasive is required. Just mandate that Apple allow sideloading and/or third-party app stores and the rest will take care of itself.

The elegant part is that regulation would target the real problem - the tying of the iPhone to Apple's App Store, which, in my opinion, seems pretty fishy for an allegedly general-purpose device. As I understand it, this tying might theoretically be an antitrust violation even in the absence of an iPhone monopoly, but legal requirements for an illegal tying arrangements have become considerably stricter over time.
> ...had to be renewed by a super majority vote in excess of 75%

While I'm sure some small government fans would say this is a good thing, the answer is that very little would get done. Symbolic gestures and the like would pass, but very little of real substance. It's commonly the case that most everyone agrees that something needs to be done, but often they disagree on what exactly needs to happen. You can see what happens in the senate when 60+ votes are needed to pass anything.
How the hell are you guys viewing this site? I get a "sign in to collaborate" bullshit.
The donate page lists bitcoin destination addresses for donation but the page doesn't seem to be HTTPS.
Which illustrates why it is probably better to address what is said rather than what else you think a person might think in addition to what is said.

EDIT: To amplify: I've explicitly laid out why the existing FISC system is not a meaningful check, and I have explicitly declined to take a position on whether it would be possible to reform the system in a way which would retain its essential character as a judicial oversight system while fixing the problems that prevent it from being meaningful oversight. We haven't addressed any other (e.g., non-judicial) checks, existing or potential, nor have I commented at all on what should exist. So your inference that I must believe certain things about what should exist, or that I have a particular belief about what checks are possible on foreign surveillance, is unwarranted.
Do you not have 5 friends? I can name about 5 friends' houses that I like to go over to and hang out.
http://www.pewforum.org/Muslim/the-worlds-muslims-religion-p...

The _low_ end is 15-20% who think honor killing is rarely/sometimes/often justified. The high end is 60-70%. How is this "fringe"?
The design won't change significantly in the next months. For example, the Game Center design is likely there to stay for the most part. And, by the way, I acknowledged that it's a beta and there's time to improve.
The completely arbitrary icon sizes look absolutely terrible on Android, IMO : http://cdn.androidpolice.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/nexu...
oh wow.

ridiculous petitions aside, too bad he doesn't have any reason to pardon him - it's his last office anyway and the poor dude already put all his cards on the table.
The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman
Why do people think we come out of the woodwork? I want you to be free if that's important to you! If you disagree (with either being free or my analysis of the situation) you can still buy it.
Without expandability this product is for hipsters and the aesthete. If I am paying thousands of dollars for a computer I refuse to compromise on core functionality.
Using Python (and an API) to data mine Twitter
Yes it does. It calls into question his motivations when it comes to civil liberties. He could build a much stronger coalition among civil libertarians if he were more consistent in his beliefs about the extent to which the government can monitor and control the people who give it power.
On shared hosting no, I am not sure if it is available on their VPN/Dedicated hosting plans.
> Has the US become the type of nation from which you have to seek asylum?

It's a little sad we even have to ask this question...
I killed all traffic from EC2 while dealing with a traffic spike. It's back for now, but I'd encourage you to have your client directly access the site instead of using a proxy.
I am using a hackintosh for over a year now, I had a macbook pro prior. Works great, Core i7 3770k with 32gb, SSDs...

Funny enough I use a corporate issued Retina as my Windows Laptop (and Steam gaming..) I can't lock it at work (Apple, no kensington?!), so I keep it at home mostly.
I do not understand why it is so hard to support someone when you agree with them and fight them when you do not. That person X supports reprehensible policy Y does not mean that you cannot support him/her on Z.
Definitely. Good to see someone making science cool.
(straw man)
Mark Thomas flies over Menwith Hill Listening Center-1999[youtube]
One thing I can't understand, why would they make the blurred background on the Control Center lighter and put white text and controls on it?? Is this supposed to be customizable?
Last I checked, GIT_DIR wasn't actually respected by a lot of git subcommands. Is that no longer the case?
Interesting design aesthetic. This still doesn't justify the price and Apple's going to be taking a hit now that so much of the entertainment industry has turned away from Final Cut.
To be fair in the very same sentence they name several people without full middle names: "Plaintiffs hereby sue Barack Hussein Obama, Eric Holder, Keith B. Alexander, Lowell McAdam, Roger Vinson".

Emphasizing Hussein seems pretty intensional.

EDIT: In fact, looking further: Eric Himpton Holder, Jr. probably isn't legal without the Jr. And Clyde Roger Vinson was missing the entire first name. Lowell C. McAdam and Keith B. Alexander, clearly have middle names, even if I can't find them in a 5 second google search.

Basically they used the common public names for everyone but Obama.
Almost all confidential informants are engaged in the Drug War. There is a pretty strong argument that whole thing is counterproductive.

There is no global existential threat that is anywhere near as grave as the nuclear standoff with the Soviet Union once was.

So, where is secrecy really needed? Is it more than 5% of the secrecy we have?
Rayiner, you're confusing legal concepts with reality. Remember that AT&T was granted immunity by Congress for the room 641A fiasco. So even if you can't meet the legal standards for sovereign immunity the system will still protect itself. Nobody is going to jail for this except for Snowden.
The New Hotness
What's your source for that? Based on experience with previous betas, it could absolutely change.

In the iOS that Game Center debuted, it didn't even work until BETA 4.
Err, I've run numerous websites in China before. The only functional difference with running them in the west is there's a generally unenforced request to register with the government so they know who to call if they have any issues (very civilized!). As for ISP... get out of the 90s! The state took China from zero internet to most of the global internet in ~10 years - of course they own the infrastructure. As for the list of incomes .. those look out of date but I have personally spent much time in rural Yunnan and some in rural Guizhou and Sichuan and can tell you the people are generally fine and have great quality of life with loads of interesting festivals, scads of TV channels, cheap education and such. The biggest issues tend to be if people need rare medical treatments or try to migrate to the cities with minimal education... the first often ends in death, the second in a return to the country with whatever cash they can stash. Sort of like those young Amish that leave their communities to experience the world for a bit then tend to go back home.

Remember, these are people who are not traditionally part of the market economy in any significantly state-backed-currency-involved sense. So what you see as 'zero wealth' through modern economic glasses (described by George Soros, universally acknowledged as an authority on that mire, as "wrong" and "entirely based upon a false analogy with Newtonian physics"), is a lie. The people have food, clothes, housing, community, education, even internet. They don't need to sell much excess crop for fiat money.
> or remove useless buttons like the calculator and timer buttons

Pure opinion here. Personally I use the calculator a lot on my phone, and love having a quick way to access it. The timer icon is actually the clock app, I got confused by the icon too.

After playing around with the Beta for a while, I can say that the design doesn't make sense until you actually use it. Give it some time.
oh come on, if you're going to sue Obama, NSA, Verizon, and DoJ, go for broke: $TEXAS.
I realize what you were referring to. What does FirefoxOS provide that users want?
>With complete transparency comes little ability for security. Terrorist attempts become more frequent. Crime becomes more rampant and life become more unstable.

I understand how it can seem that way, and I'm not criticizing, but is there any evidence anywhere for these claims?
God this will make contracting & hackathons so much easier. I can build the App on my account and send it off to theirs after it's the code is stable, approved, and launched. No more futzing around in other people's accounts. Fantastic.