skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The horrible reality is that much (possibly most, I have no figures so this is ancedotal) of the PHP code in production was written using a) no framework b) some in-house framework that was never audited.

It is only in the last couple of years that the PHP community has begun properly getting it's shit together (composer, PSR, unit testing (not a universal panacea but a useful tool)).

The problem is as always the good programmers will continually seek out better ways to do things (or at least explore the available options) while the "bad" programmers will continue to program like it's 2001 and PHP4 is the new kid on the block.

This is mostly the result of PHP's origins and is unlikely to improve in the short term.

If you follow best-practices, use modern tools (as mention composer, psr autoloading) and a decent framework (Symfony 2, Zend or my favourite Laravel) then you can turn out a good, secure and well engineered product.
Are you simply connecting to an SMTP server and sending 3 commands? You can't really charge money for a couple of lines of code.
we use https://trello.com/
We build buckets called raw feedback, todo, and urgent. Drag issues into the appropriate bucket. When they're done, devs move to "please test" and from there they then go to done when the issue has been validated. Simple, free, screenshots, videos, upload from iOS. Tag people to issues. Works for us. No timeline or "63% done", but we don't need that.
Very happy he enjoyed the city! Next time he's in town, I'll be sure I'm following his twitter to remain informed. I'd love to buy him a drink.

While there is a lot of crappiness in the city, it really is a melting pot (not as much as 10-20 years ago of course) of motivated, friendly people.
The desktop analogy is actually a weakness. With a real life desktop, you can't have 10 different workspaces that you're capable of instantly switching between, so you have to have all of your papers overlapping. This leads to an inefficient workflow when you try to switch between them. With a computer desktop, you can have as many workspaces as you need, which paves the way for a tiling window manager to increase your efficiency.
Did you forgot to change your username when you replied to yourself?
There are other solutions to fix this,
http://tieguy.org/blog/2012/08/19/a-quick-note-on-conspicuou...

However, if you think this is really the problem about ToS, I think you're missing the bigger picture: http://tosdr.org/blog/tosdr-in-action-i-have-read-and-agree....
Is this on the router level or ISP level? The article doesn't say.
> The coffee is very different than the Italian one

I've heard this many times :)

His point about SF lacking children is very very accurate. SF basically forces people with families out because its so expensive and the school situation is bad (your kids don't get to go to the neighborhood school). One of these days SF will wise up and at least fix the school problem, but until then the peninsula will get families and SF will get DINKs.
Why iTunes Radio could be worth a small fortune for Apple
Read the last paragraph of the article.
Because our government is out-of-control at every level, and there is no accountability. Our government is staffed with yes-men and women who don't want to risk their careers to rock the boat and stop injustice from happening. No, it's not really about startups or technology, but it's important nonetheless.
You can certainly save money if you make that much living in sf. Your take home would be about 65k. A very nice apartment shared with one roommate should not cost more than 2k a month, leaving you with 40k for food, entertainment, and travel. If you can't save some of this that is a comment on your priorities, not the fundamental difficulty of living in sf.
What people don't realize is that Transmeta wasn't actually trying to develop underpowered mobile processors. That is just what they wound up trying to sell.

The goal was a high performance architecture. The #1 barrier that they saw was heating. They therefore developed a very power efficient chip. They succeeded in that, but because they both took longer and were less efficient than hoped, they were underpowered compared to the market. However there was a niche that they could sell to.

From there their hope was that, being a fundamentally simpler chip, they could iterate faster. That would mean that eventually they would catch up on performance. Unfortunately for them, Intel's greater resources and experience meant that they iterated faster than Transmeta, despite having a much more complex architecture.

Transmeta was always going to either change the world or sink without a trace. They sank without a trace. But it was an interesting approach and was worth a try.
Thanks for looking at Emlipo.

I actually disagree with the "can't really charge money for a couple of lines of code" I'm afraid. There are competing services which do a very similar thing, who also charge for their service.

This is a first release, we'll be adding new features in the future. Multi uploads, better caching, exporting and much more.
My question is whether people will choose to not use a service because of its terms. I think that much like Andriod/iPhone app permissions, it doesnt matter much.
God, I read 'TrailerParks at first!
As I said in the post, I made the decision to switch beforehand. One of the issues that made me finally do it was mysterious load spikes that would happen on my machine, and I couldn't figure out what was up. Like, "Why are my fans running? Top says my load is at 2, but no process is using more than 2% CPU."

With software that is Free, I can be pretty damn sure that there isn't something that's sending something somewhere behind my back.

That said, it would not help _directly_ with the NSA situation. They're related because everyone was asking me to write this post up, because they care a lot more about privacy and information freedom in light of recent events. Taking control of my own computer is just one step, it's not 'foolproof' or 'secure' by any means.

If anything, the NSA situation just confirmed what I already knew: the executive branch doesn't give a care in the world as to the intent of the law, only the letter. As someone who has... generally unacceptable political views, and expresses them in front of a reasonably large audience on a regular basis, I constantly wonder about things like some of the other stories on the front page.
Then why couldn't that be applied to other contracts, particularly services? "I signed it, but I had no intention of being bound by it".
Why did you erase your story? Was this in SF?
Also looking forward to the new Russian biopic coming out soon, trailer looks good (or at least expensive): http://www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum9/HTML/002381.html (could find a better link, but I'm on my phone, sorry).
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Yes. Taxes are pretty high, so making $100k w/ benefits, you take home roughly $63k/yr. Then factor in rent and utilities: 1br ($2500+/mo), 2br w/ roomie ($1800+/mo), 3br w/roomies ($1500/mo). So let's assume 2br. You walk away with around $40k/yr. Then take out transport, cell phone, random monthly bills like student loans, etc and you're down to $28k disposable. Take out food and random living expenses and you don't have much left.
He is. It's pretty much left at that, though. It's a pity he's not further discussed in at least higher-level World History education as Yuri's story is quite interesting (even up to why he decided to go on that flight that he did), and my understanding is that he was looked up to even by U.S. astronauts.
Ah! Thanks! I'll check that out.

I love Aurora; I'd been using it for the last few months as my primary browser on my Mac.
Great service.

You need to put in the version / date of these ToS, otherwise it would be hard to update. I would also keep an archive of all the ToS on your servers since volunteers would like to use track changes as a new version is published rather than re-reading the ToS. It would be also interesting to see how the terms have changed through the years.

A great feature would be to categorize these services by category. Eg: for search engine: Bing, Google, DuckDuckGo. You could add a more comprehensive chart on the terms and how it compares across these services. Eg: Tracking: Google keeps ur data. DuckDuckGo does not track user data.
Yes, I've heard this from just about everyone. If you're making $50k in this city, you're basically working poor. With the average 2 bedroom condo renting for $2500+ and houses renting for more, you're dropping a ton of your income just on a place to live. Its not uncommon to see a single bedroom renting for $1600+ in the city.
I was reading up on Catania (the city from which he hails) and it looks like a beautiful place - very different from SF, but still having a large number of tech companies.
I hate the surveillance on US citizens.

I encounter 中国 China surveillance point blank all the time.

As much as I love Declan McCullagh's writings, the CNET article is not properly vetted - what is needed is a clarifying statement from Rep. Nadler.
Leonov held a press conference and his claim is that he's had access to additional documents that back his theory. Unfortunately the documents themselves haven't been released so this mostly amounts to Leonov re-iterating his position.

The story itself is covered widely by Russian media so while you're right about RT in general, in this particular case, the RT thing is incidental.
This could just be an app, on iOS even...
Doesn't have to be associated with a newspaper.
Just needs a million users.
Kind of like an "encrypted wall" or "ewall"
As a young American, I can say that I have no recollection of his name. I've never been particularly interested in space exploration, but living in Florida, we visited the Space Center, watched launches, etc. The names I know are all American: Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, etc. The "programs" I know are too: Apollo, Challenger, etc.

We were taught that the Russians made it to space before we did, and I think that's about it before we moved on to American achievements. Perhaps I had a nationalistic teacher.
If you reread the Julian Sanchez quote above, you'll see I'm responding to it.

(You're right that the Sanchez piece this is taken from concerns itself primarily with telephonic surveillance; I take your point. Thanks.)
Avg 1br prices are up to over $2500 now. Granted depending on area and quality, you can get down to $1600, but a majority are mid to high $2ks.
I don't get most of the stuff myself. PKIs are overwhelming. There are thousands of flags you can set when creating a certificate it's not funny anymore. I did a lot of trial and error until i had a VPN using my certificates running successfully (that's what i needed the CA for in the first place).

Maybe look for CA stuff in general or some TinyCA tutorial. I've used TinyCA, it's exactly the same complexity as XCA, although I like XCA's UI better.
Intel isn't "the driver for cutting edge technology" they eek out incremental improvements to their products in as miserly a fashion as they can get away with. When a firm challenges them and takes the lead in performance, they scramble and catch up while doing their best to ruin their new competitor with nasty business tricks.
I don't want you to shut up or back down. I am just baffled by your priorities and incoherent sense of scale.

Here we have revelations by the NSA, that analysts can listen to anyone's phone calls. In America. This subverts just about the entire spirit of the Constitution and some of the letter.

But, you would rather spend your time isolating some relatively minute detail that Snowden or others may or may not have gotten wrong.

And the thing is, neither you nor anyone here even knows enough to draw conclusions as to these minute details. A few weeks ago, we didn't know that the NSA was collecting metadata on so many calls. A few days ago, we didn't know that analysts were eavesdropping without warrants. Yet people like yourself would argue vehemently on behalf of the government. The more that comes out proving you wrong, the more you dig in and move the goalposts. It makes one wonder what the government would have to do to actually concern you.

And the thing is, while you argue things you couldn't possibly know, there are now enough solid facts coming out (including admissions by the NSA) that should be of grave concern to you. Yet, here you are again focused on trivial, unprovable details.

I won't argue the subjective notion of whether the details are mundane. That's opinion. But, I don't understand how anyone can have such a skewed sense of scale when comparing the relative importance of what you choose to argue versus that of the astonishing revelations being brought to light about our government.
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Yes, we have a lot of work to do. :/
> If you install this extension, you might actually be making yourself MORE bound to crappy terms of service, since you will not be able to make the case that obviously you didn't read them terms and therefore should not be held to some non-standard provision.

I estimate the likelihood of me ending up in court over a TOS violation extremely low. In the history of the Web, how many times has a consumer been the recipient of a lawsuit over a TOS violation?

However, the likelihood is very high that I will encounter TOS provisions on the Web that are objectionable to me. I would like to know what these provisions are, even if I am forced to click accept because I want to use the service anyway.

I am not a fan of maintaining ignorance for the sake of plausible deniability.
Hi. Exactly, we're trying to fix this with http://github.com/tosdr/ToSBack3 but this is not ready unfortunately :-(
> the public is getting tired of superhero remakes and don't feel that the price of admission is worth 2 hours of watching 3 actors standing in front of a green screen and interacting with a bunch of CG extras, so they download it instead

Does not compute - why do they download it if they are tired watching it?

If you had read the article, you'd know that they make uninspired sequels because they are the only movies that make predictable profits.
Linux has better hardware support than OS X
You're right but I don't think this very likely. I think changing your online behavior is the only real way to escape surveillance. That basically means either not using the web or only using it when you don't care about who's watching.

Changing the laws and/or enforcing them would be ideal but then it seems we'd end up right where we are again. Part of the reason for the secrecy of these programs isn't only national security but a way to circumvent the laws. From what we know about the current NSA controversy, these programs are mostly legal and being enforced just fine. Courts are ruling in favor of these things. That's not to say a debate over the 4th amendment isn't unreasonable.

Sometimes I feel there's a part of me that believes we could change the laws. The problem may not be our representatives exactly but rather the power that's been given to the military industrial complex. It's like a totally separate government unto itself, creating problems to solve to justify its own existence.
UK Censorship is the erosion of Freedom of Speech
Only the HTML version of the newsletter uses tracking links. If you want "tracking-free" e-mails from Mozilla, sign-up for the plain text version. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=772788 for details. :)
Funny. Here in Germany, everybody knows Gagarin and Armstrong, but nobody knows the names of the other Apollo 11 crewmembers.
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Interestingly, the CNET article said exactly that. "If they're targeting anyone within mainland USA, then that triggers the system to require a warrant." But everybody ignored or didn't read that part of the article.
This is a fear people should have especially with cloud computing aiming towards the norm of storage. What happens when government gives private companies the power to send out delete requests to competitors, and for all of them to delete specific images without a third-party review first.. I'm sure businesses would love to be judge and jury.
Awesome idea. This is the first Chrome extension I have ever found worth installing. Thanks!

I think one issue with a service like this, is that your rating of TOS provisions might not match with my own. Which is why it's great that you link your rankings to discussions of provisions and their rating.
Way cool. How was this implemented? Someone hiking all these trails carrying photography gear?
You should assume that 100% of your email is available to the intelligence community.

Well, at least the message bodies can be encrypted, can't they?
"Slow down"? Please try to convince the typical manager, executive, or VC that calls the shots to slow down.

Death marches by overworked, sleep deprived, and understaffed development teams are the norm in the industry. It's a wonder that most products aren't even more bug-riddled than they already are.

I would love to live in a world where every developer was competent if not brilliant, and had all the time, training, and motivation in the world to write nothing but perfect code at his leisure.

If you know of a way to this world, I'm all ears.
Some of the (somewhat critical) opinions in that thread are Alan Kay's - worth a read.
I'm really not sure how it constitutes racism. Are you aware of many movie studio execs who aren't white men?
African languages seem to be in fashion.
very true. See this blog by Eric Lippert who worked on C# compiler team (also the discussion is quite informative)

http://ericlippert.com/2013/06/10/construction-destruction/
First of all, no, it's an example of a law enforcement officer exceeding their authority, not "government out-of-control". Government actually worked, and here's the reason why: there obviously is accountability because internal affairs got him fired and more investigations are under way.

This has nothing to do with women's careers or yes-men. This is tragic, but not important. It's tragedy porn.
I don't think it matters what the government says about this from here on out. They've shown the depth of their ambitions; they want and will get records about every communication we have. They've been caught in multiple lies, and we can expect that we will never hear the whole truth on this issue. They are doing whatever they want to do, legal or not, and we can't stop them.

We can all now safely assume that if we have unencrypted electronic communications (phones included), the full contents of those communications will be stored somewhere and made available to government agents should we come under suspicion for anything. Plan accordingly.
Because ever since the NSA story leaked, HN has become isomorphic to /r/politics.
I erased it because I am afraid. No, but it was California.
Heh, myself and @sam_benne randomly picked it, there was no reason behind it. We just looked up "exists" in Google Translate in a few languages. Swahili was the best sounding.
I assume it varies by school/textbook, but while I agree the American space program was covered with much more emphasis, in my class we did learn about Gagarin. The bits of Soviet space program we learned were basically: Sputnik, first dog in space, Gagarin, Mir.
I don't know if it's common, but it is definitely possible to save money while making 100k in SF.
Nothing free that i know of. But that's certanly a good idea.

The whole industry is going crazy about automated deployment and devops stuff. So maybe someone could create a repo containing puppet configs that can set up a "best practice" full stack modern mail server. Don't even have to call it a distro.
Fuck you. That judge sat there, the other marshal sat there, and did nothing. IA didn't even contact the woman. The judge still has her job. The Marshal only lost his job. You just watched a woman get fucked by the system that was supposed to protect her, and you defend it.

I hate your guts.
I used to feel like this, until I saw Simon Peyton Jones use Comic Sans for a slide deck on Haskell and decided this was a such a petty, knee-jerk reaction to something as superficial as font-choice. At this point, I'd almost choose Comic Sans on purpose for my own presentations, just to weed out and troll the people who aren't paying attention to what matters.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers...

edited to add: Dug up an actual comment from SPJ on this, I hadn't realized he uses Comic Sans for all his talks:

http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/1bd1ia/spj_and_comi...
I think you should assess and rate your own legal page using the same standards you apply everywhere else. If there is no ToS (as you point out here), you should say that.

If nothing else, it's a usability issue. I assume that tosdr.org has a good ToS, so if I want to see what an A-rated ToS looks like (according to your ratings) I should navigate to your page and your browser extension should tell me.
What about the Mercury Seven: Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, John Glenn, Scott Carpenter, Wally Schirra, Gordon Cooper, and Deke Slayton?
The big question I would think is whether or not the NSA can capture a phone call (without an analyst listening to it) with a warrant or not.

On the one hand that's a phone call which has its own specific wiretap requirements.

On the other NSA has been capturing things elsewhere that they need a warrant to look at, so the logic would be similar. And given that most phone calls are probably routed over a computer network by now the wiretap law may not apply directly in NSA's view.

I said yesterday that it Nadler probably understood "we can capture but not listen to calls" as "we can tap into calls (i.e. eavesdrop)" and so the message the NSA rep delivered is not the one Nadler understood.

But that still leaves open the question of whether phone calls can be recorded in NSA's view, or whether it's just the metadata.
Is your estimate of 65 including state (10%) and city (1.5%) taxes?
The problem is that ARM has never been a high data throughput architecture, since few devices that need to process a large stream of information also need to be mobile.

What, Acorn Archimedes was supposed to be mobile? And if it was low data throughput architecture, does that mean that the three-times slower 80386 chips had an ultra-low data throughput architecture?
If they can't "listen to" a call without a warrant, can they record the call without listening to it, and get a warrant later?
can't link you to something direct, but everything i've read about it leads me to believe it's ISP level.

i'm not sure how effective this will be..
Jira seems like the kind of system sold to managers and then inflicted on engineers. Managers love it because, like Excel, it's the kind of tool that lets you easily generate reports and enforce workflows without programming. (And in fairness, that can be a major selling point.) However, from an engineering perspective, it makes simple tasks clunky; it turns what should be 1-2 step processes into 5-step processes, and otherwise manages to be the antithesis of a lightweight tracking tool. The phrase "makes the difficult things easy and the easy things difficult" (or "painful") comes to mind. In particular, the tasks it makes difficult/painful are the ones that engineers find themselves doing 30 times a day.

And for agile/scrum, Greenhopper is absurdly bad, for the same reason.
So I just buy the book and use software from the site? That's all that you need?
FWIW here in the UK in the mid to late 70s we learned about Sputnik, Laika and Gagarin as well as Armstrong, Aldrin et al.
Yep, that's what I meant, perhaps a little unclearly, by 'game' rather than just 'high performance CPU'.