skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, it was a sarcastic comment. Sorry :)

What I'm trying to convey is that it is not Russia that is a threat in the region. And hasn't been since the Soviets dissolved.

As I said elsewhere, the US unilaterally withdrew from the ABM treaty with Russia back in 2002. This treaty had been active since the 70s and attempted exactly that - decrease the amount of anti-ballistic missiles installed.

There was no rational reason to put up a whole new defense system in Europe (under a false premise of the Iranian threat). It is in no one's interest except the US. And rightly so, many, including Russia, considered this move aggressive.

If the past decade is of any lesson, the magnitude of the US influence and military presence in the world is a greater threat than anything else.
OS 7 Steals Mailbox’s Gestures, Sunrise’s Layout, BB10′s Back Button
Apple : New Mac Pro
Also a ton of webOS. They copied cards for safari and multi-tasking more than Android has.
Hello, starter of the fundraising campaign here. I'm excited to put for this solution which combines and modifies several existing technologies into a useful solution for phone privacy. I'd be happy to answer any questions you guys have!
Yeah I'm going to need a technical rundown before I believe some random slide.
Drowning doesn't look like drowning
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so those system have no life? XD
This is certainly true; but I wonder for how much longer it will be -- it doesn't seem that economics really favor the build it yourself model nearly as much as they used to.
I really like Daniel Solove's paper on this question, "I've Got Nothing to Hide" and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy. In it, he cites the kind of response most people here have given as common and effective in the extreme case, but also notes that the flip responses such as "well then, let me read your email" don't work for stronger, subtler versions of the "nothing to hide" argument.

The gist of the paper is that the easy answers already concede too much; they admit a very narrow definition of privacy. Namely, that privacy is the right of seclusion. Instead, he advances a broader conception of privacy (from his longer Taxonomy of Privacy) and identifies societal goods from privacy.

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=998565
"A" for effort, but I won't be happy until something like this also obscures who you are talking to.
Jobs must be rolling in his grave with this UI.
This talk about "bugs" in machines makes one wonder if that is related to why Intel was one of the companies mentioned in a recent article. Intel stands apart from the rest of the companies. Google, Apple, Facebook don't specialize in hardware.
Not yet. I have some posts in the works for web designers so I'll see how they convert compared to the old page. I'm ignoring all stats while this article is on HN. This isn't exactly the target audience for my book.
Ask HN: Legendary HN threads?
I've only joined here some 4 months ago. What are some awesome HN threads to go over? Anything like really big devs talking to the community or something?

Link them! Also are there any inside jokes on HN? I don't really ever see people joking here, everything is fairly serious.
Sean Fioritto was the first person I met at BaconBizConf while waiting outside the doors on morning #1. Confident, smart, and altogether friendly guy. I was impressed the level of demonstrated grit he showed when he volunteered his site for a teardown. He was over there just scratching notes away while they punished him. We could all use that kind of grit. More of us would launch great products if we did.

Pat Pohler had a teardown too. He should share his lessons learned as well... {Pat Signal}
I like old icons with a reflection on the glass dock. Flat UI is not an eye pleasure.
So whats it going to be? Any clue?
Thanks, can you suggest me a better AES implementation ?
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Sounds exceptionally sketchy. They claim Twitter, Google+, etc is a waste of time/money? It's your money, if you're willing to have it 'wasted' then they should at least give other networks a try.

It's your company. You define what goes and what doesn't. If an external marketing company rudely suggested I bury a social link on my site, they'd be shown the door.
I find it a little ironic when people talk about how rare and possibly over-stated the terrorism threat is and then go on to freak out over the NSA snooping with a bunch of "what if" arguments ("what if they do [this|that|the_other_thing] with my data?") that are likely to be just as rare and over-stated.

Even if it doesn't really concern me too much, I can respect your concern over it. But if you turn the NSA snooping into some doomsday thing, I won't really listen to you for very long.
How to Design Responsively
The average non-technical user will now have "password1!" synced with iCloud.
It's OK if you didn't want to, but you can build something cheaper and even more quiet than this new Mac Pro yourself. There are some excellent cases and cooling systems, and you can choose your components with your needs in mind.

With these Mac Pros, I don't think people who buy them are necessarily concerned about specs or cost-effectiveness. I think they are enthusiasts that need Mac OS, and find the Macbook Pro or iMac underpowered.
Throw away the rock for a few years and see what happens. That's the test.
IOS 7 Steals Mailbox's Gestures, Sunrise's Layout, BB10′s Back Button...
Looks nice, I'm still waiting for decent keyboard navigation of the Finder though. Haven't found a third-party solution that works yet.
OS X Snoop Lion would have made me happy too.
Why did he not give even a small technical overview on what they are capable of? He should've been able to given he has a lot of technical expertise and it would've helped his evidence a lot.

Did they figure out how to tap complicated SSL? Is it hardware based? He gave no hints but could have easily.

Instead it's this blanket statement that's supposed to imply that all encryption is pointless.
But Tim said he doesn't like copying.
Can we please just post the print version. As this site asks for a signup which I am not willing to do.
Well can they do that in Richard Stallman's laptop ? If so we are doomed :)
Glenn Greenwald said on Twitter that he was given the technical details and isn't releasing them.
There's even stronger arguments that this article doesn't make. Cures last forever (at least until the entropy death of the universe assuming we can become space-faring and continue to exist for ~10^50 years) benefiting incalculable numbers of people. On the other hand, preventing one terrorist attack, has very temporally limited benefits. New knowledge lasts forever.
The government-run polls that really matter a.k.a. elections don't seem to bear this out.
Apple Slips Default Bing Integration On iOS 7
Not a lesson. But a lesson well learned.
Obamacare To Increase Individual-Market Health Premiums By 88%
Sounds like there's not enough room to cool 16 cores. (BTW, Ivy Bridge-EP supports 20 or 24 cores in a 2-socket machine.)
I really like this - they've taken the best ideas they found in WebOS (flicking cards), Windows Phone (flat UI, but NOT the idea of live squares, or the ugly typography), and Android (swipe screen and more swipe notifications, what else?). It'd be nice if others looked again at WebOS as we lost a lot of good ideas there - I still feel like they could radically reinvent multi-tasking and just let apps present as many cards as they want in stacks or something, base it all around cards/views rather than apps.

The typography looks nice - Helvetica Neue works well on devices with a retina display, though we've yet to see how it works on older devices, perhaps iOS 7 will require retina?

I'm really pleased to see they've removed some of the tasteless fake leather etc that iOS previously indulged in (compass app, games centre etc), while retaining hints of real depth and physical relations where it actually helps the design (as in the translucent keyboard). I wonder how much of that was stuff that Steve personally insisted on?

Some of the icons could do with some polish, but it's hard to redesign an entire set probably coordinating with different teams and keep them all up to the same standard - I'm sure revisions to those will come with time, and at least we've lost all that faux 3D render effect which doesn't work so well at small scale - these flatter logos are an improvement in most cases I think, though things like the photos app icon don't make sense to me. The radio and itunes icons are an example of something that works extremely well in this style though.

There are far better screenshots on this other story:

http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/10/live-blog-wwdc-2013-keynote...
Thanks Barry. It was nice to meet you there. It was such a great conference, I learned so much and met so many great, like-minded folks.
I'm kind of surprised and amused that they chose the name of an old Ubuntu release (October 2010): http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/maverick/
Install and use mplayer to play the stream. I had the crashing issue with VLC but mplayer works perfectly.
Lol... so some random contractor was on campus and saw someone browsing reddit upvoting/downvoting. I'm sure Linux guys are doing the same thing Pro-Linux and Anti-Windows but the difference is nobody is lurking in their backyard spying saying 'Some neckbeard is being open-sourced to make positive comments about Linux on reddit!'.

It's just some random guy on reddit at work who happens to drink the Microsoft koolaid.
IOS 7
Thought it was wicked, until I heard how big it was.
I guess I haven't ran into this. I've been able to re-use some of my components through different incarnations of this desktop, and it's saved me a ton of money.

For example, I don't need to upgrade my entire desktop to upgrade my video card. I can toss something nasty in there, and even if my motherboard doesn't support the latest and greatest PCIe spec, my next one will. Ditto for SATA.

I've got a ton of mileage out of my case, as well. Spent a little more to get something nice, and ended up liking it so much that I've held on to it for close to five years now. Ditto for my modular power supply.
List the innovative ones.
This is a damned if they do, damned if they dont moment for Apple. The UI needed a refresh. They have to follow design trends that make sense. The mobile UI is maturing and standardizing since there have been a lot of smart people thrown at the problem. I think the design is classy, functional and is refreshing. I dont know that there is a "best" in class anymore. I think WP stepped up the UI frontier and Android seems to get the message that things need to have good design aesthetic. I dont think apple nailed every aspect of the refresh, and its not perfect. I do think that it will provide a solid foundation to move iOS forward, and Im very glad they got away from skeuomorphic design. I've never been much of a fan of that design, as it usually ends up negating all the advantages of software UI.
The Mac Pro has always been just about the worst platform for CUDA/OpenCL development. Lack of power, hardware driver support, and underperforming GPGPU (especially OpenCL) APIs have made it more of a prototyping environment than a production environment.

4096 stream processors just reinforces Apple's lack of interest in pursuing that market segment. It's good today (although they'll be clocked down compared to, say, a 7990) but I suspect that's what we'll be stuck with for "the next ten years."

I'll probably mistake mine for my wastepaper bin at some point and set it on fire. :-)
These two apps look really good for a kid -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hHPCTV6KAw
http://www.slatescience.com/
&
http://www.dragonboxapp.com/

I have played with dragonboxapp, I loved it.
And the old one looked like a cheese grater (to many complaining at the time).
Have a good time waiting, sir.
In the meanwhile you might be interested in the following fact:

1. Google is removing XMPP as protocol
http://www.zdnet.com/google-moves-away-from-the-xmpp-open-me...

2. On the other hand, however, duckduck is giving us some alternatives
https://duck.co/topic/duckduckgo-s-new-public-xmpp-jabber-se...
Author Of The Patriot Act Says NSA Surveillance Is An Abuse And Must End
I think the concerning thing for me is trends. I don't think that, all other things being equal, acts of terrorism increase in frequency just by their nature. An intelligence agency, on the other hand, is going to seek for more and more power as long as it is unchecked. What scares me about the NSA is now what they're doing now, but the direction they're clearly headed in.
cloudfare will cache your content in much much more locations across the globe unlike plain s3. (cloudfront from amazon does the same thing)
It's still free, I don't pay a dime.
I thought Google were being fingered as complicit? I wouldn't trust them, even if they totally super-secret pinky promise they're not handing everything over, honest!
This reminds me of the Wired article on the big NSA data center that is presumably recording every packet it can get its hands on for later analysis.[1]

This idea that the big coup here is that when they decide they want to target you, they already have a huge cache of intel on you. Like the Boston marathon bombers - at 9am they identify you, and at 9:15am they know everything there is to know about you since they've already collected it on everyone.

[1] http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/
My problem with encouraging people to break the law is that they can delude themselves into believing that there will be no consequences to them personally.

No matter how right you are to break the law, you will still have to face the consequences.

If someone is going to martyr themselves for their beliefs, I sure as hell hope they have a damn good team of lawyers behind them.
The TB ecosystem will probably get a significant boost with the new pro, since its extensibility is basically USB3 or TB2, and mostly focused on TB2 (6 TB ports versus 4 USB3 ports I think?)
I really hope we have an option to use Google Maps for all these in-the-car features.
ios 7 support ipad2 and mini, so they dont require retina.
IOS 7 Beta firmware released
The old Safari and Settings icons are way better.
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I've been using encryption with Adium for a long time, but the problem I have is switching between clients (laptop and mobile) results in me seeing gibberish on the mobile side. I have yet to find a mobile client that supports encryption.
a demo where you can't read[1] the labels...

copying microsoft design for icons.

ouch.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/10/apple-ios-7/scaled-screen-s...
Lots of people are already doing this with 1Password either in iCloud or on Dropbox. As long as it's encrypted with the appropriate algorithms, what's the issue?
If using chrome try executing following from Console (Right click > Inspect element)

$("#TB_overlay").remove();$("#TB_window").remove();
This is just them doing a 1Password.
like the position of the keys on the keyboard you pressed when you typed your password? it's meta-data ;)
This is seriously good stuff. Great write-up and sounds like it was a good conf.
Personally, this was exactly like what I was thinking-- to me, some of those icons look like bad mockup-stage design. Some of those gradients, in my opinion, are pretty bad and do not work.
They allow changing Wifi settings without even unlocking the phone.

Be really careful about letting anyone touch your phone, esp. at conferences/airports. A hacker could setup an easy MITM Wifi, to capture all of your traffic. But, now, without unlocking your phone (but still getting their physical hands on it), they can connect your phone to the Wifi SSID of their MITM attack network.

Then, you're just surfing facebook, email, bank sites, & everything looks 100% legit. Meanwhile all of that traffic is going through their wifi & they can capture your sessions & impersonate you. Nasty stuff.

All it'd take is one malicious network, and a band of attractive agents to shmooze unsuspecting people into showing them their phones to harvest tons of sessions & data.
What argument would such a person who believes self sacrifice to be a duty give as a defense for such a belief?

And democracy is not related to the democratic republic the US currently runs on. If someone's using democracy to refer to such representative democracy or republic, then they're misusing the term.

You keep saying, "believe in democracy" which, even if you're granted the definition of democracy you keep using, doesn't explain the argument for a duty to act. If you believe it works, then you believe the system will correct for the supposed abuse of power the government is perpetrating. If you don't believe in "democracy" as you've defined it, then you have no belief that the misuse of power will be rectified. In the latter case, what argument would be given to justify a moral obligation to take action against this immorally acting government system you don't believe is effective?

You seem to want to talk about the practical nature of taking action, when that is entirely irrelevant if the philosophical conclusion to be drawn is based on flawed or incomplete reasoning.

First we must establish there is even a theoretical duty to act before we even talk about the practicality of doing such a thing.
Having a "public" discussion about security is an almost fruitless endeavor.

It is nearly impossible to have a public discussion about threat assessment and mitigation. If a person has never truly experienced threat, which the vast(99%+) majority of the US public has not, then a persons ability to even identify threat is exponentially reduced. The perceived safety of a persons daily life directly effects the perception of overall threats, which in the context of the US severely jades any discussion towards inherently safe.

I am not an advocate of public surveillance and I am a strongly opinionated in regards to privacy, but my experiences abroad have lead me to resolve this conviction into the reality that is our world, and that world is not the lives we have in the US. The threats to this country are real, are large scale, are extreme, and are discovered every single day.

I know the argument is that we need to talk about this and we need to have review, but this has happened already. It happens all the time. It happens every time a warrant is issued. It was not one person or 5 people or 100 people, but thousands of people that have seen the threat and that have fought the threat with their own hands. These are the people that have time and time again decided that to much information is better than not enough.

I know that people will not agree with this, but I long ago discovered that principles and good intentions do not stop bullets and bombs.
Too bad people don't speak about the fact that Apple participates in PRISM, at least that should've tarnished their products release. Instead you have glib masses waiting for handmedowns of great products(electronic collars) in exchange for liberty and right to privacy.
Apple obviously does specialize in hardware and if you use iMessage it is already encrypted.
The Mobile Safari tab switcher looks like a clone of Chrome of iOS/Android. Control Center? Christ, that's been in Android for ages.

What irritates me is that other companies get accused all the time of copying the smallest things from Apple, even microphone icons, gloss, or rounded corners.

However, Apple clearly was a late comer on many of these features, and they are inspired, and in some cases, downright cloned, and they're going to get a pass.

What if Google had a patent on Chrome's tab switcher and sued Apple? Or on a Power Controls setting pane? Or on cross-device open-tab sharing? There's be outrage among Apple users, because people just don't seem to see Apple building on other people's designs, because Apple presents all of them as major, radical innovations without acknowledgement of their prior existence.

I wish all of the claims of theft and copying would get dropped, I don't have a problem with Apple "stealing shamlessly" the ideas of others, I just wish they'd stop going nuclear when other people do it.
http://live.arstechnica.com/wwdc-2013-keynote-liveblog/

Scroll down to about halfway through.
Free iTunes Radio. No subscription. I'm in.

Edit:

Without iTunes Match = Free iTunes Radio (with ads).

With iTunes Match = Free iTunes Radio (without ads).
Side note: Every time I see that fic mentioned, I cringe internally. The author wasn't above asking for money in return for every chapter (and implying he won't post if he didn't get X amount of money).

Oh, and the story is shit. One of the better reviews of the fic that I've read: http://www.reddit.com/r/HPfanfiction/comments/u5j3l/looking_...
Great work, thanks for sharing. I'd love to have Amy and Patrick critique my site - I reckon I'll head to BaconBizConf when it's next on.
It makes all the sense in the world. Who else would benefit from keeping America's crimes in the public light, by granting asylum to one of its citizens with the courage to reveal those crimes to the world?
What counts as an innovation?
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The anti theft, require original appleid to activate wiped device for one.
OS X Mavericks
SIRI rival version 3 is released
I'm kind of surprised and amused that Ubuntu chose the name of a NBA expansion team (1980): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas_Mavericks
Yes, the keychain is encrypted with your OS X user login password and only unlocked on login. I imagine this will still be the case as Apple mentioned AES256 encryption on their iCloud Keychain slide, though they could change it to use your Apple ID password if they plan on having mobile device support.
From the article:

"Control Center is a pull-up tray that is available in your lock screen.

You can adjust brightness, volume, and other settings including Wifi, Airplane mode, rotation lock, or Bluetooth.
"
XMPP on a Raspberry Pi box with minimal raspbian and OTR. Gives you some control and a minimally-hackable box.

Some interesting related reading on the XMPP with Raspberry Pi:

[1] http://russelldavis.org/2013/01/18/setting-up-prosody-on-the...

[2] http://oskarhane.com/make-your-raspberry-pis-and-other-serve...