skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is really interesting. I can't even imagine measuring 250k different metrics without a tool like this. It's just so much data to assess.

Granted it would be extremely useful for post-mortems, but looking at it real time is a bit like the library of Babel [1].

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel
1984 and Animal Farm is available also here:
http://wnlibrary.com/search:Orwell
I kinda forgot how I came up with the figure $294. I remembered (vaguely) it was taking one of the plan with the assumption that customer would stay for 3 years or so.

I think the 50% discount applies even when you upgrade. Let me shoot an email to Geckoboard to confirm this.
I like the new look, not sure what all the fuzz is about. Looks very artistic, specially safari. I prefer this to having lots of detail and shadows in a small icon, that can be left to the app developer. I'm not an iphone user but I'd definitely use one.
I have a white iPhone, so I can't answer that side of your question, but the icon labels change color according to the background (i.e, a dark background gets white labels, a light background gets black ones).
Can't tell if trolling... every single icon has a different drop shadow.
Designers Complaining
Sure, but a button would still be a nice touch. I closed my connection before shutting the server down. I hoped there would be a "kill it" button on the page but there wasn't so I had to reconnect before I could shut it down. Hardly a great effort but some people might not bother.
Funny thing Peter Thiel is a founder and key investor in Palantir which is doing big-data work for the NSA among other things: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies#WikiLeaks...

I'd really enjoy hearing Thiel's perspective on this whole issue given that he is a libertarian with a strong business relationship with the NSA and a strong business relationship with facebook.
I had never heard of that poem before, I think it’s awesome :)
Cool! I think the day is not far when we will see DosBox ported to HTML5 as well.
The seed of doubt has already been planted. Sorry, I am looking to secure my data and will not trust any third party ever again.
I mean you should.
Will probably add PayPal and Bitcoins in the next few days. Couldn't use Amazon Payments or Google Wallet though (outside US).
Funny how it is almost a complete copy of every feature already existent in Android and WP8. They are playing catch-on and it is going too well it seems.
Too bad impairment can't be accurately tested with a breathalyzer. That's what we are really worried about in all these scenarios after all.
There are MLA, mutual legal assistance, which needs certain proof, and aim usually for foreign companies with data of interest to the US.

Servers from companies with a US-based headquarter belong to our new overlord, the US gov. and can be owned with a FISA-warrant (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act – FISA 1978/2008) garnished with a National Security Letter (NSL).

We know that procedures from Microsoft U.K. head:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/igeneration/microsoft-admits-patri...
The icons look fine to me, and really design of these icons doesn't matter all that much when they're going to next to all the icons for other downloaded apps. You're never going to get a homescreen full of icons that don't clash with eachother.
Admittedly I've not kept up with the GRE since I took it in 2004. It was computer adaptive at that point, but I found it fairly easy (and had a perfect score on the math section)
Here are some OSX apps:

http://www.postbox-inc.com/

http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html

https://agilebits.com/onepassword/mac

http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription...

I already own 3/4, but I'm sure some people would be interested in a bundle.
this kind of thing could destroy the bubble you live in, so you should pay attention.
Well, if you were a large enough non-US company, and you had large US competitors - especially defense contractors - you would think differently. You would think about Echelon and industrial espionage. But I expect those kinds of companies not using foreign IT services already.
NPR has an agenda. Easier to notice when mine is different, I guess.
Yeah, that's the prevailing viewpoint. I will raise them by quite a bit, thanks.
The text slide to unlock has a shine animation that moves from left to right.
Ive Lost my Faith in Apple
Well they wouldn't have fsn to show this time around.
iOS 7 is beta software. If it was finished, they wouldn't call it a pre-release beta for developers only.
Heh, and a closed web would be better?

This is kind of a borderline troll -- a nonsensical, sweeping generalization that will provoke a strong response. Let's not have this comment thread grow too deep. :)
I think it will cause a deinternationalization of the technology industry since each government will want it's citizens to use local tech (if you think governments can't force this look at S. Korea and IE). US companies are some of the most international, so this will hurt US companies the most and it will reduce the margins of all the big players across the board (that is, short GOOG).
What makes the domain name valuable? People stopped looking for services by domain name about ten seconds after Google was invented. Unless it's a brand name and trademark-sensitive, there's not much you can do.

If you have a viable money-making idea, build it without the magical domain name, get rich, buy the domain.
The lock screen looks much closer to Android's than it does Windows Phone, as Droid Life points out: http://www.droid-life.com/2013/06/10/that-moment-when-ios7-b...
5 Ways of Doing Continuous Integration, Compared
Can we please move on?
It's getting a bit tiresome to read the same stories over and over about PRISM. Can we please move on and start sharing about entrepreneurship, strategy and business again?

Alternatively it would be nice to see someone take action against PRISM. Less talking. More action.
Isn't partisan politics a wondrous thing?
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I don't think this is correct.

My understanding is that it's not a library issue, and in terms of Haskell types (<=<) is not a generalisation of (.) (although it is mathematically speaking).

If you want a -> m b to be a Category instance so you can use (.) you need the Kleisli newtype wrapper. If you want a -> b to work in any monad so you can use (<=<) you need to compose with return to get Monad m => a -> m b.

Either way you have to explicitly specify the isomorphism explicitly and I don't think there's any getting around that.
Just for more feedback: extremely interested! I'm not able to do it right now, but please consider offering it again in the future. I'd also be interested in working through the material on my own with a limited support or a forum if that would help you with residual income from this :)
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Ah yes, welcome back to The Highly Effective Work Habits of People Flush with Silicon Valley Cash.

How does this help the rest of us who have to be in the office during core hours, no more than an hour for lunch, or else look for a new way to feed our families? In a down job market?
Logically, it should be a radial gradient with the light end centered on the sun and the dark end away from it. Ideally, all icons should look like they're lit from above for consistency (light end of gradient at top, dark at bottom). Having some buttons lit from above and some lit from below (or some bulging out and some carved inwards) looks terrible.
When you see an institution reacting in ways that you think are completely backwards, you shouldn't immediately assume that (a) they secretly think like you (b) they are being pressured to say otherwise.

Institutions filter out people who don't agree with their mindset at the interview stage. Or later on, if they have a noticeably different attitude, it becomes an impediment to career success.

The higher up you go, the more journalists feel themselves to be part of the governmental system, and the more they come from the same background as the people they are interviewing.

Ironically, this is why whistleblowers are so rare in the first place.
But isn't the interpretation of those laws as used by the courts and the DoJ a secret?
I get that, but I think it's very difficult to make an argument that given a new user, it would be interpreted as an interaction cue rather than just visual polish.

The presence of the up arrow is actively misleading, from a UX perspective. It's like having a slide toggle that you have to double tap to activate!
I don't think that comment added anything. If you could please keep any NSA related conversations in threads actually about the NSA, it would be greatly appreciated.
Which is the font Apple has been using since iOS 4. iOS 7 uses HelveticaNeue Ultralight. Personally, I prefer Akzidenz-Grotesk.
N.J. Bill Seeks to Force Drivers To Hand Over Phones in accidents
Still seems reasonable to me. If you're the type of person who believes it is more efficient to pay someone to do your errands, this doesn't seem like the increased cost suddenly becomes a dealbreaker.
Russia 'would consider' Granting Edward Snowden Asylum
The intriguing part is, that while it is impossible to get DNA out of 15 million year old dinosaur bones, you could get dinosaur DNA fragments from the genome of currently living birds...
> The icons are easiest part of a redesign to redo and implement tho

Agreed, but that's why it's so puzzling that these icons were released in the first place. If they're the easiest to do and redo, they should be the easiest to get right.

Also, the iOS 7 video spoke of their new "harmonious" grid system used to design the icons. So I'm unconvinced that the powers-that-be at Apple believe they need fixing.
They are not at all the same thing.

In fact if Americans weren't in general wary of the government I'd be wondering who kidnapped all of America and replaced them sleeper cell aliens. There's no finer American pasttime than distrusting the government, it's right up there with chopping cherry trees and baseball.
The interpretation of the Law rests on judicial opinions. Many of those decisions are indeed secret, rendering the interpretation of the law itself secret. I think it's reasonable to say that this makes the laws 'secret', since it is impossible to know whether you are in violation without knowing the interpretation.

Source: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/government-says-secret...
I second this question. I know it seems like it would be against the law...but a lot of things that seem like they would be against the law actually aren't, so I'm interested in specifics.
> (eg the US directly threatening Britain in regards to leaving the EU)

Can you clarify this, I haven't heard of it?
HowTo: Use Tor for all network traffic by default on Mac OS X
They don't, it's an illusion because the background is a flat grey and some icons are darker than others.

It's consistent because every icon has a gradient, even if subtle - in contrast with the original, where some are flat and others have a 3D effect from the gradient, and some even have a gradient on the opposite direction making a complete mess of convex/concave illusion on the home screen.

It's also consistent because all icons have just the right amount of detail. Compare the safari, clock, compass, notes, reminders, newsstand and passbook icons.

Lastly, he modified the margins back to the original proportions, which are better balanced. Compare the iTunes and App Store icons.
Awesome Google Maps Components with AngularJS
I'm really hoping there's a GUI way for the average user to disable it. Otherwise, writing to plist is not something easily done by the average user. Some apps aren't readily updated. Another thing Apple might do is publish a list of App Names and version/build number metadata to automatically disable it for apps known to have problems with AppNap.
Where are you located? What you probably want right now is a seed round of angel investment, but that depends a lot on the angel community in your area.

Go read everything Paul Graham (the guy who started YCombinator) ever wrote, for starters. And read Brad Feld's website as well. Those will give you a good insight into fundraising.
On your last point, I would argue that the more power and information an organization or individual has, the higher the standard should be.
Montreal’s The Founder Project to Name Toronto as New Chapter
This is a smart idea, but it made me think: I'd like to see some productivity/exercise/lifehacks for those of us who are stuck with inflexible managers or retrograde office cultures. I know I'd be vastly more productive if I could knock off around 2:00pm for a thirty-minute nap (or jog, depending) every day but unfortunately my company takes an Office Space-style approach to personnel management. It'd be great to see what people who have worked years in similar environments have been able to come up with.
Free app, no monetization model ----> Sold for $1B

Take notes folks.
Never-before-seen photos from 100 years ago tell vivid story of gritty NYC
Employees of the NSA cannot in fact do things that are felonies under federal law and be immune from prosecution.
It starts a thermonookular war on Android.
I am working on a P2P network based around Kademlia. I have not got very far mostly due to lack of time and knowledge, but I keep going with it when I can.

https://github.com/zwerfvogel/Mimosa
How to find gaming jobs in six seconds
A closer look at the PS4
My two year old daughter figured out how to unlock my iPhone by sliding her thumb across the slider. Interested to see how she'll find the iOS 7 interface. Toddler usability testing :)
The camera icon should revert completely. The lens is the most imporant part of a camera - the camera body is a skeuomorphism. Other than that, I can live with most of the new icons (the redesign does some better - ie, Settings but others are too simplified).
Can you expand on this idea?

I would think that one of the main points of signals intelligence and their efficacy is if the emitter is not aware that you are collecting their signal.
Do we know that the VP is supportive of this program? Admittedly it's hard to tell what parts of a politician's speech are principles and which are just to build their party or tear down the other one's party.
Is it going from

$25/hr = $24.25 + $0.75 to $30/hr = $27 + $3

or

$25.75/hr = $25 + $0.75 to $33/hr = $30 + $3?

The sensational headline seems to indicate the latter, but that seems like an extremely strange strategic decision.
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In a general sense, this is natural design evolution - where Darwin's mutation and natural selection concepts can be applied (generally) to the evolution and advancement of good/effective design.

The windows phone likely took some of its design concepts from previous iOS and Android designs, and now iOS7 is 'evolving' the same way.

This (evolution) can be described as a recursive process: keep the things that work (natural selection), try something new (mutate) with the things that didn't work.

I would also like to note that I find iOS7's weather app design closely resembles Yahoo's weather app, more so than the Windows' phone.
You have posted exactly nothing at all but complaints about PRISM. If you want to change the topic of discussion, do it. Start a new conversation.

No, I won't stop talking about PRISM. It, and all the recent and likely future revelations, impact entrepreneurship more than the vast majority of other news events today.
If Amazon does their accounting the same way as Google/Facebook, then Amazon Ireland is likely their international HQ, and technically a different company than Amazon US. (For tax reasons; Ireland has a much lower corporate tax rate than the US)

And so I would really expect them to follow Irish, not US, law.
You seem to have selectively omitted "shall not be infringed." from the rest of your statement.

What part of that is hard to understand. If you don't like the amendment then get rid of it. If you can't do that stop trying to work around it. The constitution is not there to be worked around and every time someone does "work around it" it becomes that much more of a worthless document.

There is away to change the document. Use it or live with it. It is there for a reason.
"If your machine isn't already rendering that page flawlessly, I would argue that you weren't the website's target audience. IMO, the site caters those looking for a high end performance machine; those who likely already own and are using a MBP or even an Air and want that extra performance boost."

If you don't already have a fast computer, you probably will never want a fast computer. Makes complete sense.
To be fair, most of Eastern Europe was under the Soviet boot in my lifetime, and I'm only 30. I'm sure Eastern European residents are happy that their American allies are not letting their guard down re:Russia.

Just because one side of a conflict starts to do something bad does not make the other side the good guys!
In order for this to be an option, it would have to mean that all of the internal security and audit controls at Google were bullshit, wouldn't it?
Why is Everyone Suddenly having a blog and an opinion? Why can't everyone just shut the fuck up and not say a word about things that they are not an expert on?

Seriously, can't down vote this enough. The irony of a blog asking people to stfu.
Use Decentralized Cloud Storage to Keep the NSA From Tracking You
This is great. But what would be more impressive is if Mozilla would drop Google as Firefox's primary search engine - and instead use a non-PRISM provider such as DuckDuckGo.
Yes, finally getting to hide Newsstand was lovely. :D

I've been playing with it since yesterday, and I like the new UI. The crashiness is a bit of a pain, though. I honestly like the flatter icons.

For reference, here's an actual screenshot from my phone, rather than just one of Apple's promo images: http://sta.sh/02e3ujebq7hp
http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2009/02/27/how-to-buy-d...

See item 4d in the list. James Siminoff tells how he pleaded for and was given the domain Noble.com for free.
You know, I can see that. If Android is ripping off iOS that really means that for iOS to step up and get modern, Android isn't the template to follow -- Android is stuck with innovating off of iOS's past accomplishments...it's innovating while walking backwards.

WM, being a ground-up re-imagining of how smart phones work is looking forward...better to co-opt some of those ideas instead...be in a position of innovating while walking forwards.
This is just another episode in anti-american hysteria reality show called Russian internal politics.

>if Russian law requires

there is no such thing as "Russian law" in the sense "law" is understood in the Western world. There is though a will of whoever has the power - it is real Russian law and it doesn't require any prove for a guilty verdict.

>And how influential is this "Lower House deputy" anyway?

Just a government mouthpiece. The elections are based on party lists. So beyond 10th position in the leading party and 2-3rd position in other parties, these people are unknown nobodies. Some just buy the position in the list to
get immunity from various criminal prosecutions the face.
1and1 default-opt-in price increase for undesired extras
peer to peer DNS is possible (see: namecoin)
Paul from Geckoboard here.

The discount applies even when you upgrade - it's a pretty generous offer and could save you substantially more than $294 depending on the plan you choose.
The OS looks far better on a device in front of you than on a static picture on a website or on a projector on a wall.
Not to mention that, hey, prices go up.
I'd love to see Beneath a Steel Sky in HTML5 form.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beneath_a_Steel_Sky

http://www.gog.com/gamecard/beneath_a_steel_sky
We are talking about smartphone screens. There are not lots of flexibilities for UI design. You either slide up or to the side for a lock screen. And what about time?
The only thing required to "break" SSL in the absence of some serious protocol flaw is either the ability to MITM connections with a CA-signed certificate, or possession of the private key used by the server.
That doesn't mean the criticism is invalid, particularly given the preening that Apple did on stage yesterday about the precision and thought that they put into every pixel of the OS.
Is Apple pulling a standard consulting "leave some things wrong so customer can suggest easy fixes and feel happy with themselves" proposal approach?

This is a beta, after all. Steve Jobs' pedantry about everything being absolutely perfect for a demo may not be Cook's style.
> Ah yes, welcome back to The Highly Effective Work Habits of People Flush with Silicon Valley Cash.

I think this is very unfair and a bit childish. Many programmers have flexible work hours they can use. You don't need to be in Silicon valley or have a pile of cash to work in a flexible work environment.

> How does this help the rest of us who have to be in the office during core hours, no more than an hour for lunch

Well in this case it doesn't. However, it doesn't mean the advice isn't good advice for people who can use flexible hours.

I used to work out at 2pm each day at work. My work had no problem with it.

My current job means I can't leave my seat during trading hours( 9:30 until 4) so I now work out at 4.

However, the old saying that everyone has the same number of hours in a day to use, its up to you to choose how to use them.

Like tptacek said about pricing earlier today:

> The most common pricing fallacy on HN (perhaps after cost-plus pricing) is the idea that every product must be targeted at all people to make sense.

You can generalize this to advice as well. Advice doesn't have to be targeted to all people to make sense. If you can't or won't take the advice then its just not for you.
It's happening here on my Mac. It goes from 12% to 30% even when the application is hidden. I'm running the latest Safari with three windows and seven open tabs on average.

Safari 6 has been a major resource hog. But I can't stand that ugliness of Chrome. Solution while the next iteration doesn't solve this: close tabs or add ram.
As a Google employee I find it extremely frustrating. I'm sure it's even more so for the executives and founders who created the brand and are being personally questioned and attacked on top of it.
The first part is true; forcible coercion does usurp freedom - and even more so when done by the government.

The second part is fallacy; you obviously cannot remove the ability to point a gun (or knife) at someone and make demands, and any attempt to do so necessarily tramples other's rights. In reality there are two effective choices - the person being mugged can defend them-self and/or the government can attempt to find and punish the person after the fact. The second one does not do a bit of good for the current victim, of course.
Can we please move on after four or five days? One of the greatest violations of liberty in American history, that depends on the very technology we discuss here every day, utilizing our data, and using some of the most important companies in the tech sector. I don't think we should move on from that any time soon. Not to mention, the story is going to keep going and revealing more details. The discussion about encryption and privacy related to PRISM (and in general) is going to keep going, and it should, perpetually.
Actually, I think Zune HD was the first Microsoft product with the slide up to unlock. (Obviously close enough)