skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably still legal in Florida though.
"Expect no documentation in corporations"
TechNet has so many valuable articles! It helps me every day to figure out the issues I have without having to hire an expert;-)

And I love the Microsoft Test Lab Guides (http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/1...) which is continuously updated.
Yes I have visited - only for a week or so and I didn't travel around much. I flew in from London, and didn't notice the cameras etc which I did in the UK. I thought they were bad there. My sarcastic post has had a few very good replies. The disturbing behaviour of the state mentioned by you and others is oddly fascinating. Why do it? On a pure cost versus benefit analysis, how can it possibly be justified? Those that know The Netherlands have radically changed my views over the last week with facts and anecdotes about this. Please keep posting, I for one have been educated.
The email protocol is built for reliable delivery instead of speed. It's not built for realtime communication. It was built so that mail goes through even if the destination's mail server goes down for a day or two. The fact that mail arrives mostly in real time today is purely accidental. There's no guarantee in the protocols to ensure that.
In a video interview with The Guardian, Snowden claims to have had incredibly broad authority to wiretap Americans, saying "I, sitting at my desk, certainly had the authorities to wiretap anyone, from you or your accountant, to a federal judge or even the president, if I had a personal e-mail."
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Excellent article. I am hearing far too often, from people who I thought were very well informed and intelligent, that "I have nothing to hide so why should I worry". It is troubling to me that more people do not see the very clear signs of trouble ahead if things do not change.
Credibility isn't a zero sum game.
Most of the really absurd laws are local/state, not federal, though. (the absurd federal stuff seems to mainly be budget funding and subsidies, where even if it's clearly dumb, it's usually not pareto-optimal to remove the regulation; every one of them benefits someone in some way, usually a smaller number of recipients of moderate benefit vs. a larger number of diffuse harm.)
What?!? and blast right past the cryptic Episode IV text? "Why is this movie starting at episode 4?"
I'm actually in the windows services group now (no longer called Live). I can confirm that the author's experience is quite different from mine. Papercruncher's assessment is pretty much spot on.

Given there are 10k's of employees here in Redmond, it's not surprising that different groups are, well, different. I've noticed that rather large subcultures emerge in different areas. Once you're in the door, there's encouragement to move and find your "fit". All this blog post taught me is that I probably wouldn't be a good fit for Azure :)
I guess if you're going to stipulate that nobody believes anything Snowden says and that we're all sticking to the leaked Powerpoint slides, sure.
"Snowden is also making himself a part of the story, and making claims that are not directly backed up by the material that has been released thus far."

So why not ignore the noise & leave it for the gossip pages while focussing on the bigger picture?
They declassified some of it.
Yes. 200,000 Cincinattians elected him. 65,000,000 Americans elected the person who actually controls the NSA.
Instead of using the very board labels of extrovert and introvert we should break down the components so we can mix and match and come up with something the describes a person's personality more accurately.
just start using them now so when pg implements them the content will already be ready.

#hashtagallthethings
#earlyadopter
As somebody who's been using Windows Phone for the past year or two, I like it. I think it works as a best-of-both-worlds between iOS and WP7. Android is going to look incredibly antiquated in a year or two (especially since tilting homescreen and lockscreen widgets, while useful, made it ugly), and I'm a complete Android fanboy.
Not if you love what you're doing.
What luck for China that everyone distributes and trusts their CNNIC CA key and Hong Kong Post's CA key.
That was certainly my experience in devdiv. People barely seemed to realize that a world outside the Microsoft ecosystem still existed. I have forgotten the details, but there was a meeting once where I suggested we look at some open source project for ideas about solving the problem we were working on... possibly LLVM?... in any case the response was completely blank, like, what possible relevance could that have, why are you wasting your time thinking about some weird open source thing in the first place? It was a really strange attitude to encounter, as someone who had never even used Microsoft tools before going to work there.
They probably use a CRM which only allows for image-based CTAs.
My understanding is that Dune is Earth's future (http://dune.wikia.com/wiki/Earth), so that doesn't really fit. :)

But the opening line of Star Wars is truly impressive in its economy and efficacy. It tells the viewer all that they need to know so that they have permission to accept the truly fantastic. No need to connect it to Earth or anything vaguely familiar, no reason to wonder if this "future" could really happen, because everything they're seeing has already happened. It even has a beautiful rhythm and cadence, despite never being spoken aloud.

That iconic phrase is one of many little touches that prevents Episode IV from slipping into the silly B-movie niche occupied by so much prior sci-fi.
Because the noise is being reported as if it was fact?
>However, if you are very disciplined, you can severely limit or even totally remove the possibility of someone linking you to your Bitcoins.

I'm curious how you might do this? Basically you must be able to hide the fact that you own an address, correct? Does that mean using different addresses for handling transactions while updating the block chain from different IPs (in different physical locations, just so your phone or simple general geographic pattern doesn't reveal you)? Is there something I might be missing?
Delete local and remote branch in git
I worked at Microsoft as well (and even on the Azure team as little as 2 years ago) and I agree, none of this sounds like any of the teams that I worked on. I'm guessing it has more to do with his perception as a junior dev suddenly working on a large team than with reality.
Using Coq to verify PDF files (video):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmPw7eo3nQI

The core of the xmonad window manager was verified with Coq (PDF):

http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~swier004/Publications/Xmonad...
Most of these comments are silly including mine.
Gitdown: Programming while drunk may be fun, but it's not a good idea.
His standards weren't based on the real world though.
It is fortunately not true of all software jobs; if it were, I would have changed careers a very long time ago. Perhaps I have been lucky, but my experiences in small companies have generally been much, much better than what the author describes.
It doesn't matter for the material he disclosed, which we can indeed evaluate on our own. But it does matter for the things Snowden is saying that aren't backed up by that material, such as his supposed ability to read Barack Obama's emails.
Did Path Cheat Its Way to The Top?
I like that idea. Similar to an episode of Star Trek, where the alien child's telescope allowed him to view earth live, yet in the past. Would this camera angle show who really shot first in the Cantina?
What about the recent lawsuits and uber violating transport regulations? My impression (without really following the thing, just reading headlines and a few HN comments) was that Uber can compete with such low prices by not following some legislation there is in the person transport business.
That last sentence is so bigoted. If you don't like flat then you're a child? Right.

I don't care about this whole debate, as I like flat and non-flat, and I actually prefer a happy medium.

What I wonder is if OS X is going to adopt iOS 7's new look in the upcoming years.
It's hard to say how big and/or profitable the car-sharing industry might end up being when it's mature and stable and all the inevitable regulatory issues are ironed out, but for now as a consumer I welcome cutthroat price wars. In San Francisco I use SideCar almost exclusively, and it seems to be about the same price as a taxi, so it's great to have another similarly-priced option.
Idunno, I think Apple is already moving a bit away from the "pure cool" targeting and are just going to grab as much as possible now... the "mini" lines are a huge compromise on this because they're obviously created to be a low-cost alternative to their flagship platforms.

Apple is the prestigious brand. Having a budget line compromises that image.
I think it's just internal vs. external documentation. People are paid to write external docs as their job, so they should be pretty good.
I don't have a problem with educating foreign students, only those who have no intention of staying here, or those who won't be allowed to stay here. Top universities can stay top when we educate only those foreign students who can both be allowed to stay and have stated their intention of staying.
Strongest possible agree; this is a great video. Also:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqMjMPlXzdA
I'm pretty sure if Apple would have release a desktop environment like Gnome 3, people would have love it.

I personally like how they do things, they provide what people need, not what people want. And I do believe that they provide an awesome and by far the best desktop environment.
Except where - particularly around Hacker News - people have been taking everything Snowden has said and just running with it as though it's obviously true, regardless of technical or legal possibility.

The material that's actually been disclosed is, what, 3 powerpoint slides? Almost everything else is simply wild speculation.
On the contrary, the bulk of this article is attempting to explore how the ability to break the law is valuable for society.

However, when I talk about selective enforcement, what I mean is that in a world where we're all technically violating the law at some point, and where we're all being monitored intensively, then it's essentially up to those in power to "decide" who is punished and who isn't, without any real standard of measure. In that world, it seems pretty clear who ends up in jail and who doesn't.
Great!
A question, is there any way to generate a custom version Font Awesome where we select icons that we want to use?

As new versions appear, there are many unused icons which adds unnecessary size increase.
That's true. And usually they're so old that even the lawyers, legislators and judges don't know they exist.

If the Federal government could do nothing else I wish they'd change the budgeting to be something that doesn't essentially mandate spending the whole rest of a discretionary budget on stupid and only possibly-useful kit at the end of an FY to keep that line of accounting from being slashed for the next FY.

I get that the budget is so large that ZBB is probably off the table, but there has to be something we can do to incentivize thriftiness where thriftiness is an option without penalizing that agency in the out years.
NSA leaker Edward Snowden: U.S. targets China with hackers
Your taxes don't pay for students going to Johns Hopkins.
Well, they are trusted 3rd parties, regardless of whether or not you happen to trust them. Anyone who has a private Gmail account necessarily trusts Gmail.

In any case, the argument isn't that webmail is perfect for implementing PGP. The argument is that

1) no one uses PGP now because no on else uses PGP

2) if webmail providers deployed PGP, everyone would be using PGP

3) some use of PGP is better than no use of PGP

It really seems like some people are cutting off their PGP noses to spite their PGP faces. I remember when the assumption with vegetarianism was that you were either a vegetarian (and never ate meat) or you were a meat eater (and ate meat regularly). So people kept eating meat regularly because they "couldn't give up meat", thus believing in a false choice. If vegetarians had been pragmatic, they'd have realized that would have been much easier, and would save more animals, if you convinced 95% of people to give up meat 95% of the time.

Dear privacy advocates: stop wanting everything yesterday, because it's keeping you from getting something tomorrow. Most change takes place gradually. Webmail providers deploying PGP will instantly create millions of PGP users, which will at the very least serve a valuable educational and awareness purpose. These users will gradually become more concerned with the implementation details, triggering a gradual increase in overall privacy and security.
"Off" means "prettier".
Not to mention someone suing you because you infringed on their software patents, with source code proof.
Introvert or not, what does it say about me that I have absolutely no desire to be a "leader"?

At least not in the 9-5 rat-race definition of such, which basically translates to manager...
Because that wasn't there when it was originally released. It just said "Star Wars".
> That's cool. Move on. Use what is best for you.

You didn't understand the point of the article. Breaking user-experience is the absolute worst thing any software project could do. It goes against the "Linux way".
people haven't learned from microsoft office clipper!

Everyone rather have control than implied ominous prediction.

i hate that i can't press a button on my phone and switch from landscape/portrait modes. rotation sensor is silly most of the time.
Flat has always been about ornamentation and not layers. Plenty of flat websites have layers. Modals. Pops outs. Sliding menus.

I don't know why people think flat is about not having layers. Did Apple just start this bizarre thinking?
At least from my experience, corporations had very good documentation and where I worked we always had constant peer/code reviews. Also if you worked 2-3 hours likely you'd be overrun with work. It's hard to argue with some of the other points, like "It is all about getting shit done," though I'm inclined to say that that point is universal to most companies.
When I look compare WP8 and iOS 7 the thing that's the biggest difference is that iOS 7 seems to be much busier. WP8 apps definitely take a "Metro" approach and keep it simple: squares on simple backgrounds, rectangles around buttons that do things, and the buttons that are icons enclosed in circles.

I was on the Montréal metro this weekend and really like the flat design they use which WP8 really took to heart. It will be interesting to see if the way iOS does it leads to more confusion for users or if skeuomorphism was the way to go.
We do it for 2 reasons, I think:

1) We want to broadly dismiss a group of people.

2) We want to call out people who were wrong (huge thing on the internet is not ever being wrong; nothing is worse than changing your mind), but it's too hard to keep track of everyone you disagree with, and worse you can't as easily get away with calling out an individual as you can a group.
> "My guess is that you can't..."

Why would you guess that you can't be that place? Personally, it would make much more sense to have a place where I share all my stories and then choose whether it should be for the public or just personal (like how it's currently done with Facebook). That makes more sense to me than having two separate sites to share public vs personal, as long as there is still the aspect that personal DOES, indeed, stay personal.
Definitely. The guys over at http://www.icnfnt.com/ are a couple of versions back, but the IcoMoon app works pretty darn well: http://icomoon.io/app/

Anyone else have any other favorite options?
I really like the new designs, but since apple is all about "responsiveness" - they should REALLY reconsider the animation-durations of the different effects. It really slows you down in your usage.
Might I suggest discussing version control with your clients in the future? "Collaboration" might be an over-charitable word for the relationship between you and the other freelancer, but even an agreement to commit in two branches to the same git repository (e.g. one hosted privately on https://github.com/ or https://bitbucket.org/) would have gone a long way towards preventing this outcome. In this case, git would have kept a permanent backup of every new feature/fix in your development process, as well as each of the other freelancer's changes. You'd have been able to merge the two at every milestone (or every day!) with minimal pain.

If you're new to version control, GitHub has a nice git tutorial at http://try.github.io/.
I think CDNs make the best effort with the tools they have. However, many PoPs don't have locked racks, biometrics, or cameras.

This means CDNs are limited to where they can safely terminate SSL connections, which impacts latency and ultimately their bottom line.

(Disclaimer: I'm working on this problem.)
> Note the qualifier at the end. He's claiming that the NSA can read the emails of anyone once they know the address. The implications are that investigation and surveillance are done when a target is specified.

Those certainly are not the implications. He explicitly explains that all data from all people is always ingested by default. The surveillance is already happening right now. He needs the email address (or other information, note Snowden's reference to a "selector") in order to query the already monumental database of information and possibly to pull in future collections. But this isn't magical. Knowing an email address doesn't mean you can decrypt secured messages. It does mean they can access information gathered from their sources of which Gmail is a known source.

And re: Why They Go Looking - Snowden says this:

It’s getting to the point, you don’t have to have done
anything wrong. You simply have to eventually fall under
suspicion from somebody, even by a wrong call, and then
they could use this system to go back in time and
scrutinize every decision you’ve ever made, every friend
you’ve ever discussed something with, and attack you on
that basis, to sort of derive suspicion from an innocent
life and paint anyone in the context of a wrongdoer.

> If President Obama doesn't use barack.obama@gmail.com from a known IP address, then his emails are essentially hidden from the NSA.

Exactly.
Bologna. Tell that to a veteran who sustained bodily injury.
I'd thought about that, and wasn't sure if approaching a potential competitor would look like an ultimatum and just piss them off. "Pay for this or I release it and compete with you."

Of course (a) I guess that's business, and (b) if I were the competitor, had the money, and wanted to get a leg up, I might actually be pleased. It would depend on my position.
The new visual language means design is more important. You can't hide bad design with gloss and shadows. This is obviously bad for the Dribble crowd who often seem to favour style over substance, making the common mistake that design is about making something look good.
> He _hated_ it.

We still do.
Nobody understands the GIL
Flippa looks geared only toward web apps with web traffic, not other kinds of things.
These are arguments for fixing problems with the IP system, not against GM food.
Agree, generally. We have an interesting solution to this we'll be announcing soon.
Students are not a drain, even if tax payers fund them.

They spend money in the local economy. They help with competition and keeping standards up. They (as others have said) take back useful soft-power propaganda to their home countries.
Ask HN: We have no hope of digital privacy, correct?
After reading up on PRISM and certain privacy guards, it seem to me, we have little to no hope of digital privacy. Is that a true statement?

Sure, it's possible to encrypt our data and hide our tracks from the local coffee shop "hacker" but what about the US government? Do we just accept the inability to have some sort of digital privacy? If so, is that fact nothing more than a minor changed state of mind? We now have to admit the NSA is collecting data on us, do we just shrug our shoulders and go on with life?
> Many service men and women take their pledge to uphold the constitution very seriously, and would not take up arms against the American people

This has been disproved by President Washington during the Whiskey rebellion. Everyone had equal guns and the insurrection was squashed.
I'm easily going a full day on the 4s with iOS 7. Not sure what your definition of atrocious is though. Also experiencing a little choppiness but nothing deal breaking. A couple of crashes here, but they seem to be more of Springboard crashes than full reboots.
I totally love what im doing, but forgive me, i love my family more.
Is anyone using Octopus for .NET stack deployment? http://octopusdeploy.com/
Prepare yourself for an onslaught of comments about Myers-Briggs/eColors/etc.

Personality-type classifications have their uses, but they're wildly over-used in the corporate world (or that's been my experience, anyway).

Just wait until you've worked in an environment where you're required to wear a two-color label based on your personality type (I'm not exaggerating, unfortunately... At least blue and green are my two favorite colors?).
>At the end, you are working for your manager’s and their managers’ paychecks.

You are working to get the shareholders a better share price and dividend payout.
You know, you are right about that. I think that you are right about there being some small companies that are very good and some developers that are excellent at documenting code, sharing knowledge, etc. All software dev companies should probably require Code Complete as regular reading and sharing info should be encouraged as well.
FontPrep has built in subset options, which work really well for subsetting FontAwesome.

I'll give away a few free licenses for anyone curious, just hit me up on Twitter. @brianmgonzalez

http://fontprep.com
It speaks volumes that even the M$ engineers are afraid of new versions of M$ software...
It surprises me that many people, and even officials say "let us know everything you say or do, if you have nothing to hide", when the very first thing the police tell you when they arrest you is:

"Anything you say, can and will be used against you".

And people are still not freaked out about having the government know everything they've ever said or done? I think the problem is most people just don't realize this or don't think about the type of abuses that this could create.
> Nothing like real data. The US has over three times more immigrants than any other country.

That doesn't take into account the population of the US. Relative to other countries, the US does have lots of foreign-born population, but is far from being the one with more immigrants.