skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that there is no due process for these things.

You're always playing a bit of a lottery whenever you interact with, well, just about anything. But when domestic police screw up (or not!) and you get in trouble, there's at least a process in place that tries to smooth things out. It's still not a guarantee, but if you didn't actually do anything wrong, the process makes a decent stab at ensuring that fact comes to light.

But start crossing a border and everything changes. A single wage slave having a bad day can ruin you. Low-level consulate worker decided you screwed something up, even though you think you didn't? Well, too bad. Go find another country to live in.

For whatever reason, we completely throw out all these principles the moment we look at people crossing a border. And worse, everyone thinks this is fine. Foreigners have to rights, and people seem to think that's how it should be.
There's a natural tendency when people leave to say, "It's them, not us." It's also natural to say, "The best companies in the world routinely prune. Look at Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, GE and McKinsey."

The reality is this is a crutch. Firms need to actively remove the weak links, and actively keep the best. If people consistently leave for better opportunities (whether it's more income, more freedom, more responsibility, or all three) then a company is at risk.
This is common on multicore Intel chips as well -- the chip itself has a max heat profile that it can't exceed, so if several of the cores are quiet a single core can go much higher than it normally can, indefinitely if it remains the primary worker and there is enough heat dissipation.

The i5 in the new Mac Air runs at 1.3Ghz if both cores are active, but if a single core is active and the environment isn't too hot and ventilation is working, a single core can hit 2.6Ghz. Which is quite humorous -- you might have much better real life performance simply disabling a core.

EDIT: To clarify, I replied because of the supposition by the parent that this turbo mode is "for a few milliseconds". In actual practice it is usually a very significant contributor to performance on modern chips, and as mentioned can be indefinite in some circumstances. Ergo, dramatically more important than implied.
I think it assumes that established players are conservative, not dumb. They will do the least effort necessary to make their app look good in iOS 7, at least at first.
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I wish the "nothing to hide" people would just actually stop and think outside their myopic b.s.

Look, from what I've been seeing in the last few days (mostly from talking to friends), the "nothing to hide" people are usually white, middle-upper class, and citizens of the USA.

But let's try this: get out of your privileged world for a moment and pretend, just for a second, that you are a Middle-Eastern American. This is where shit gets pretty real.

Why? Because the reality is that with every email, telephone conversation, and internet search you ever commit to - you will pretty much always be censoring yourself in the back of your mind if the government may misinterpret what you are doing. One search term, one "trigger word" on a phone call, and you could be finding yourself having to defend yourself against some very serious allegations.

This is why PRISM is a completely INSANE breach of freedoms. Given that so much of human communication is now conveyed electronically, this is such a huge loss of freedom for those who are being racially and religiously profiled.

FYI, I'm a white dude. But if I had to seriously self-censor every every email, phone call, and text I wrote for fear of persecution - the US would feel to me like Syria with MTV.
If older chips from Intel and AMD could be overclocked to twice their baseline rates with high-end cooling, I wonder what you could clock this beast up to?

And yes there is a market for this. There are certain workloads that are simply not parallelizable -- they're linear chains of dependencies where the output of the first process goes into the second and so on and each step depends on all N-1 steps.
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Are we going to trawl up and link every single case of someone being denied re-entry to the US? It's just getting rather tedious.

Though as the constant karma farming off similarly tedious and usually poorly researched and written blog posts of the last week continues unabated perhaps I am in a minority of readers who gets their news from decent sources and likes to come to HN for interesting technical articles.
Clock speed is not a meaningful end unto itself, and that's why it stalled. It was used as a proxy for speed for many years, and this led to its rampant inflation. Instructions per second (IPS) is a more meaningful metric for CPU speed, and that has by no means stalled, even on a per-core basis.
What does a Bing driven Siri mean to Google?
I think he just hasn't been paying attention. ("Middle class martyrs" have if anything been the rule rather than the exception in many scenarios.)
No, its not. Your choice might be limited and imperfect -- and if you think that's the case and are bothered by it than you should be engaged in efforts to change the system that creates that problem as well as voting -- but that limited and imperfect choice is not the same thing as being disenfranchised.
This could also be related to iOS 7 having a system-level font size setting.
It's not always for projects that you're actively working on--I've done it a lot for projects that I have never previously touched and wouldn't otherwise go to the trouble of cloning just for a small tweak, like a random open source project with a typo somewhere.

I don't think it's at all related to the editor I use (I use vim anyway so I don't think that's the issue).

Maybe it's worth considering that others prefer different workflows than you or have different use cases?
When we talk about fragmentation (as developers), we mean API/display size fragmentation. My iPhone 4 doesn't have Siri, but developers can safely use iOS 6 APIs, knowing I can upgrade.

THe iPhone 5 and the 4" display was a step backwards in that regards, but still, you can safely target iOS 5+ and reach about 95% of active, current app-buying iOS users, or target iOS 6+ and reach 90%. But you can't do that with Android (yet) - targeting 4.0+ would lose you a lot of sales.

This will be fixed in the Android market in the next couple of years though, but until then, iOS users/developers/lovers can rightfully boast about "less fragmentation".
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and here i was hoping never to see a high-clock-speed headline again...(supercomputers excluded)
Actually, I was thinking of a Windows program named 'MagnaRAM' that Quarterdeck sold.

MagnaRAM worked by replacing a portion of Windows' virtual memory system. MagnaRAM would insert itself in the string of Windows Programs that determined what pieces of RAM will be moved to the hard disk. Instead of writing directly to the hard disk, the information to be written would go to MagnaRAM's own buffer as this was a faster process. During CPU idle, MagnaRAM would compress the information in its own RAM buffer. When the RAM buffer becomes full, it is then swapped to the hard disk taking both less time and less space

Sounds very similar to zram on Linux. Virtual memory always seemed like a black art to me.
David Simon uses Q&A style to create a nuanced stance on the NSA.
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Indeed.

There will be a mail client next...
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Perhaps because recent events have me grasping for sources of positive news from Americans, I am touched by the sincerity and tone of this letter. I would much rather believe that the attitude expressed in this letter is that of most Americans.
Maybe Samsung won't use it, but patents are actively bought and sold. Who knows what the next owner of the patent might do?
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It's almost as if there's a trend that people who go on and on and on about their commitment to "small government" principles suddenly abandon those principles the moment they're in power.
http://youtu.be/vyUQ0Z5hyU0
>Let me ask this - why wouldn't app makers just migrate their apps to an iOS7 look and let the (by the arguments in this thread) vanishingly small non-iOS7 contingent deal with something that doesn't fit the theme of their system?

It's not really about iOS 7 guidelines, it's about iOS 7 APIs, and you can't use iOS 7 APIs on iOS 6 devices. So if you still want to support iOS 6, your code has ifdefs everywhere and is a mess.
Why are you so bothered that other people might like option to do this? Not everybody is you.
I wonder if this is one of those vague "security" problems. It seems like if people get denied for normal stuff (overstaying, violating their visas, etc) they're told and can at least fight it a little.

But when you get a black mark against you it seems like you get stuck in an administrative blackhole where nobody is authorised to tell you WHY or they themselves don't know.

It was the same way with the no-fly list for the longest time too, but because that wound up impacting a few powerful Americans it was eventually sorted so now you can at least fight it a little or do additional background checks to get off of it.

The worst part is that these security black marks seem fairly easy to get: family member or friend a "terrorist?" Share a name with someone "bad?" You're now on it. And nobody you can actually talk to can either tell you why or has the authority to remove you.

I would blame it on bureaucracy, but that is an easy out for a policy which is partly intentional -- Americans don't want people visiting, working, or studying on their shores. They have made that abundantly clear over the last ten years.
As the other commenter said, the corners aren't quite rounded which is a pain, and the blue gradient is a joke, referring to the gradients that Apple spewed all over their design.
> Snowden most likely defected to the Chinese government

I keep reading this hypothesis

Am I right in thinking that it still has no evidence to support it whatsoever, excluding the fact that he announced his identity while in a Hong Kong hotel?
Netflix or LoveFilm? In the UK you might want both
It doesn't seem to be streaming stuff, just loads a list of keywords at the beginning. The rest is fluff.
Not just the length property, but also a special array API (push, pop, etc). So there is no equivalence between an array and the simple object constructed from its keys and values, but the object would correctly represent a snapshot of the subset of array key-value pairs.
Right, but intel usually doesn't create press releases that ONLY mention the turbo speed, as if that is the only meaningful speed metric.
Yes, according to Wikipedia, IBM was shipping 5.0GHz POWER6 processors by 2008: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER6

The article cited in the Wikipedia entry is dated 08-Apr-2008: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/08/ibm_595_water/
Most likely there was a legitimate reason

Why make that presumption?
Hacking the NSA System. How does it work?
I know Amazon keeps root password for themselves with virtual servers and only gives me a pseudo-root. Is this the policy they make Facebook et. al. sign onto while the NSA installs some special software as true root? How hackable is this; say if my competitor or the chinese want to know what I'm doing?

This is for hypothesis only by deductive reasoning. If you have signed any Security Clearance documents please do not answer or violate your contract or violate any laws.
Whether or not it's a survey that's extrapolated is not the point. But it's an extrapolation of people's self-observation and, even more unreliable, their predictions regarding their own behaviour.
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Not really no. Every object has it's prototype set to the object prototype. Which means that even if you create a new empty object, it inherits functions and values from the object protype.

var a = {};
typeof(a.hasOwnProperty) === "function"

Objects are very often used as associative arrays, quite simply becouse objects and arrays are all js has to offer. Javascript Harmony will change that though, with it's own Map type.
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Don't all of those companies have published APIs for getting that data?
No, Intel and Nvidia DON'T do the same thing (i.e. release press releases that only mention turbo speed without indicating a base speed)
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VERY CORRECT! I really wish more people thought like this...
Moving and prophetic.. even today and probably tomorrow.
Http://natiga-thanwya.blogspot.com/2013/06/blog-post_4840.html
For many languages (especially interpreted ones) you could just use a dumbed down interpreter with crippled libraries.

It's fairly common actually, like the PHPs running in shared environements.

Many programming language's websites let you try running some code from the browser, without having to install anything as well, see for instance http://dlang.org/ (amongst many others).

I'm not sure it would be very useful (to me at least, but I mostly write C) but it's definitely not rocket science.
Here's a nice example of a challenge that is very hard to parallelize (http://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/lcs35-puzzle-description....) (http://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/5831/what-is-the-p...)

(https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/pubs/RSW96.pdf)
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> And the surveillance process must comply with the Fourth Amendment.

This phrasing seems to suggest that the intended target of FISA 702 - the US cloud data of non-US-resident non-US-citizens - enjoys Fourth Amendment-based protections, such as the probable cause requirement, under FISA 702. But in fact it seems that (IANAL) FISA 702 is compatible with the Fourth Amendment (if it is) only in the sense that slavery was compatible with the Fifth Amendment: simply because the Fifth Amendment does not apply to slaves. If 702 envisaged non-resident aliens' US cloud data as being protected by the Fourth Amendment then it would presumably require the US government to establish probable cause at the FISC (or some other court). But in fact 702 doesn't seem to require the government to claim any kind of cause or suspicion or even state any purpose or motivation for the search to the FISC. The FISA 702 PowerPoints obtained by the ACLU under FOI make it clear that the US government understands FISA 702 as removing the probable cause requirement http://www.aclu.org/files/pdfs/natsec/faafoia20101129/FAAFBI... .
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This is mostly a good point, but is missing an important difference. A lot of important Android APIs are provided as part of Google Play services and made available back to Android 2.3, whereas an iPhone 4 running iOS 7 still will be unable to use Siri.
> you know that at least two agencies (FBI & NSA) have total access to your Facebook data.

OK maybe I missed something, but do you have a citation for this?
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I think HN is seriously at risk of having jumped the shark for good. This NSA thing blew the lid off - the front page is completely full of articles about politics, with more each day about all kinds of different things.

I suppose things may settle down again - they have after other big events, but... I worry, I worry.

(And for the record, for those who conflate not wanting to see every article about this with not caring about it - I care about it deeply)
how do you know mozilla was not forced by US to post just that? and they cant tell you they have been forced to do this.
This simple fact basically destroys persona imho.
Can you hear it - the shrieks of all those D-14 and Phantex-s screaming.

I would like to see review though. And pricing. If it has decent single thread performance and that number of cores with all next gen games being multhithreaded by default it could be a compelling processor if it is in the 4770 price range.
The supporting graphics with the patent are ridiculously awesome. Nothing like an image that refers to "RAM", "ROM" and "Web Browser" as equal parts of input to clear things up.
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I posted this because I find it interesting to see the perspective that gets packaged for readers outside the tech world. Like all journalists writing about an area you're familiar with, this will probably deviate slightly from your understanding of the subject matter, but those are small nits to pick, Wonkbook does better than many and aren't afraid to namecheck slashdot or HN.
Indeed. The thought behind all the spying is that it creates security... but this forgets that privacy often enhances security. The upshot is we get one arm of the government opposing encryption, and another arm trying to mandate it (HIPAA and so on). I believe eventually time will show that, on balance, more privacy-enhancing measures are needed, not only because it's the right thing to do, but because our security demands it.
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They are all to happy to release only max speed without reference to average performance.

https://intel-newsroom.jive-mobile.com/#jive-content-item?co...

PS: They will even compare old chips with turbo boost disabled to there new chips with turbo boost enabled. See note 3 http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/xeon/xeon-...
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Simply because the vast majority of cases regarding visas/entry into the United States are determined by strict procedure and in accordance with the law. So most likely, as in the majority of cases, there is a reason we're not able to see here, for national security or one-sidedness.
I have been told by other foreign graduate students that getting married in another country (possibly even married at all) violates that student visa agreements. One girl is French and marrying an American, she was told that if she goes to France to have a wedding ceremony that she would not be allowed back in to America. This sounds exactly like what happened to this student. It's shameful and bizarre, but it appears like these are the rules however poorly they are communicated (my friend had NO idea as the university filled out her visa application and did so incorrectly 4 years ago).
"FX", "PileDriver", "Max", "Turbo" ???
Whats next?
obviously, "Super", "Mega", "Ultra", "Extra"?
Also all telecom companies must provide to CIOT all new and updated registered customer buying MSISDN's. If it is postpaid, all details including address, full name and D.O.B is given, prepaid also, but that can depend on how the customer has purchased the SIM.

Anyhow, why does it matter that much. If you have something to hide, then I'd be sweating. If not, who really gives a sh*te if people are tapping into our digital lives.

Facebook, Google and rest are just as bad as the governments. They are invading us with advertisements in all parts of our digital life.

If people are worried about it, turn your crap off.
It's actually good security practice. If the terrorist's find out they got flagged because of X, now they know not to do X any more.
I think this should be regulated by the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Safe_Harbor_Priv... , basically US companies must certify themselves by the stricter EU laws... But I'm not sure if this is mandatory.
the first question anyone should ask themselves is - how do you know they will tell the truth? they might be forced by their police state law to pretend the numbers are low and you have no way to be sure.
you can not trust any company based in Police State of America, everything they tell you might be because law requires them to.
I much prefer my screens to just blink into view.
I don't believe we'll ever see developers tossing out their IDEs to edit things through the web, but this as an API this is a huge open ended solution towards automated testing.

You are doing some clojure work, you commit it, the unit tests run and fail. Clojure can tell you exactly what function failed with what data and it could commit a file for you to execute in your repl.

Using the ability to edit/create files through a webservice means the CI server running the Clojure tests could dynamically add or edit files showing the real failure over some pretty-print error message. You could check into the branch and open up user_104_error.clj and see the data that caused the problem.

When you solve the problem the CI server could automatically delete these files from the git repository, or maybe keep them around just to keep testing them.

Automated code modification into the version control system really could be interesting new ground in continuous integration and testing.

That and just last week I committed a file with the javascript url hardcoded to http://localhost/sit/js/api.js and wanted to change that back before anyone noticed.
One major reason for this feature is that it's used to edit the wikis. Wikis are git projects in bitbucket so you can check them out and edit them locally, or edit them in bitbucket. For the less technical users collaborating on a project, I'd say that this feature is a big win.
Well, you know. If he has any sense, his computer is offline. And powered off.
Hmmm, I think HN is pretty great for interesting news from decent sources (usually Atlantic, NYT, New Yorker, etc). I also think people getting questionably denied entrance to the US is pretty newsworthy given the bomb that has been dropped in the last few days. Maybe don't click if it doesn't interest you?
In addition to Citadel, look at Kolab (http://www.kolab.org).
Speaking of which, here are some FAA-related documents which have been out for a while:

http://www.aclu.org/national-security/faa-foia-documents
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In 2013 that might seem unrealistic but maybe not in the not too distant future. They'll have a lot more data than that by then, but you'll still be able to get the whole of the worlds info from 2013.
Edward Snowden talks to South China Morning Post
I meant "freedom" more or less.
I seem to recall reading that these processors would have a 220W TDP - which makes the whole 5ghz thing much much less impressive...
Unfortunately that's not allowed by Apple. OS X needs to run on Apple hardware.
Are they talking about LoveFilm digital? I just ask because LoveFilm also operate a physical DVD business whereas Netflix don't.
Contrary to this, AMD's current strength is extremely multithreaded wordloads, and their single-threaded performace is rather slow.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6396/the-vishera-review-amd-fx...

This shows at least part of what I mean - Vishera (slightly lower clocks than what was just announced) loses to Ivy Bridge by a mile in most single-tread tests, but nearly ties in multithreaded ones.