skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's a sense of entitlement at all but rather decades of trust (and reliance) that was built after World War II when the only thing standing in the way of Soviet domination was the USA. It was always a little naive to think that the USA had everybody's best interest at heart but now it is now clear and unambiguously painted in big bold letters that the USA* are in it for themselves and only for themselves. All the talk of shared values and common purpose, spreading democracy and freedom, etc. etc. all rings rather hollow.

It's seems stupid that given recent events that the uproar over whether the US government is reading your Facebook posts has rammed the point home to many people but I guess this is just the final prod that woke a lot of people up.

*Purely from the perspective of the government. I've nothing but admiration (mostly) for large parts of the culture, attitude and hard work of the good citizens of the 50 states.
The adversary has nuclear weapons because you (assuming you are a citizen od the US of A) have nuclear weapons.
so these are actually useful; below i link a fleshed out logger monad in a scala webapp. I wrote it because at work (enterprise webapps) we want to be able to send the logs created over the duration of a request down to the client for diagnostics. Singleton loggers (mutable globals) interleave the logs in a threaded context, and worse in async or high availability contexts, and are basically a giant pain in the ass to extract useful data from.

the actual monadic types are:

type MyLogger[+A] = WriterT[scalaz.Id.Id, List[String], A]
type IOLogger[V] = EitherT[MyLogger, Throwable, V]

which represents either an exception or a value, alongside the logs that led up to it.

https://github.com/dustingetz/monadic-logging-play/blob/mast...

Forgive me if this code is ugly, this is my first foray into scalaz. The repo contains a complete minimum play app and will run. Also we're hiring in philadelphia.
> additive manufacturing doesn't have to be the end-all be-all of manufacturing

I agree with you, but thought I should point out that it may do more than you expect. Here's a guy making rocket engines http://rocketmoonlighting.blogspot.com/2012/04/3d-printed-ro... and one post older than this he's firing them.
Here is the first Google result for "OSX guest VM in windows": http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2012/08/how-to-run-mac-os-x-on-...

You'll also want to look up "osx86" and read up on that. TL;DR it's stable in my experience if you don't need to upgrade the OS. If you do want OS upgrades, even minor ones, it's going to be somewhat painful. While I've had VERY good results (my Kalyway OSX was more stable than a real MBP running Snow Leopard), YMMV.

Based on your comments, it wouldn't be an ideal solution for you.

-LazyWeb
3D Printed Rockets: The Cost Curve
This is absolutely untrue. If you watched the Sony E3 presentation for example, the moment the crowd went wild was the announcement of used game support, no check-ins, and ownership of games. This is by far the most important reason the PS4 is getting so much support, and it has nothing to do with neotribalism. The presentation was incredibly well done.
Yes, but the US doesn't care.
Due to the shape of it, the power contained within its walls... Yes, I'd be very tempted to set the hostname to 'zpm'.
One HN posting I just remembered from a while ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4590615
Repeal the Patriot Act (in part) in order to stop warrantless wiretaps
Hypercube. "No computer has been built this way before."
Indeed. The question isn't whether the surveillance was legal, but rather if the laws allowing it are constitutional.
that is because most people using high end workstations dont care about how it looks or how big it is.
Yeah, completely different. That app simply used videos of locales.
I used something similar back in 2007 and it just became a pain. It was never unusable -- lots of people do it -- it was just never truly seamless for what I saw as decreasing value for the minor frustration. The experience of using this kind of technology should be as embedded in everyday life as keeping your keys with you all the time, in my opinion. That's how you get people to do it more.
I think Medium goes off the tracks just a little here. I want to point out a couple of obvious things.

1. Prism is not necessarily the only way they get data. There is nothing ruling out having an expedited system of getting requests sent, and having some sort of access.

2. "Directly from the servers of...." can only be reasonably read one way. There is no reasonable reading of the slide which puts it in line with the NYT story.

I think it is therefore necessary to note three possibilities:

1. The NYT story is wrong.

2. The slide author was wrong.

3. NSA uses both these methods.
If it was just a PR stunt, PRISM wouldn't have needed to be secret.

(OTOH, you could say that all this is a PR stunt and Snowden is being paid to be part of it, but now that would be a conspiracy theory I'm certainly not willing to support)
If PRISM is just the front-end/interface, then it wouldn't cost too much. I doubt PRISM refers to all the servers they had to buy for example.
Why is the focus only on the phone records? Getting all the online data seems a lot bigger to me.
I dunno what laptop you're using - the screen failed on mine and I replaced it on my floor, not even a fancy workstation.
We're definitely not immune to collapse. Nuclear weapons just make things a collapse more sticky. Society needs a scapegoat to channel it's inherent violence (ie the Communists of the 50s, the "Barbarians" of Europe as you mentioned & the Terrorists of today) It's not a coincidence. Check out professor Rene Girard[1] from of Stanford if you haven't heard of him. The people who run this show know exactly what they are doing.

[1]http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rene+girard+scap...
Probably a minor refresh for Haswell. I wouldn't expect too much.

Pure speculation, but maybe they had some integration difficulties and didn't want to commit to a specific timeline, or they couldn't release it /right now/ like the MBA so they wanted to hold off to fill out their fall event. There are a ton of other things that could have held it back; perhaps Intel isn't ramped up enough on volume production of the quad-core Haswells and they didn't want to just update the dual-cores first.
...especially because it seems natural that OS X will follow! Switching away from the iPhone is easy for me, iPad might be harder, but leaving OS X is just impossible for me right now.
"If you stop playing the game Civilization and look back at history, you'll see that there are a lot of very bad people in the world who do very bad things."

When I look back at history, I see that the worst people that have done the worst things are in fact people in state governments, using the powers of government against civilians.
South Africa here - we're also suffering from the fact that geographically "in the middle of nowhere". As for government, don't get me started.

But I'm curious - what's happening in Australia that makes you say that it's about to back to the 50s?
dunno, but I'm perversely psyched.
If they can snoop SSL'd content, that would be a bombshell. Many of the implicated companies use SSL for most of their properties. FB is all over SSL, for example.

For stuff in FB, FB could be pushing that target-specific data to collection points in real-ish time. Instead of doing daily dumps, you just provide a targeted stream of data.
Maybe it is the wrong question, but VC's keep asking it. unless you have mad traction.
The chirpy voice actor seems rather unsuitable.
Writing a FUSE file system in Go
On iOS 7 and why using native elements/gestures is good
> I still don't mind if the NSA has access to my data if they're not allowed to share it.

Some day you may regret that sentiment.

> If you are concerned about this type of privacy I'd suggest living like Stallman then.

No. I shouldn't have to completely disconnect in order to be safe from government spying.

I'm a private citizen and they are public servants: get that through your head.
I'm sure someone will come out with a tweak tool to let you muck with the lighting settings once this thing is on the market.
Ayn Rand hated libertarians. She didn't care much for all the "liberty" stuff. She mostly cared about low taxes and such, just like current Republicans who only care about low taxes and aiding their corporate friends, and only pay lip service to other liberties, but never follow through.
World leaders seek answers on US collection of communication data
Objective-C gets modules in XCode 5 (Apple Account Required)
Edward Snowden: Hero or Villain?
I do hope that with PRISM revelations the walled garden system may be on its way to reforms.

If enough people wake up to the topic how important device and software control is for the owner there will be pure market pressure and current Apple kinda lack the salesman Steve that is able to override privacy concerns in the public.

Also we should have good streamlined legal process to declare software platforms "common carriers" when they are above certain size or market share with all the benefits and responsibilities that come from that. And lets hope cases like that will be greatly reduced.
I was thinking about this as well. It would make sense to cluster these with a front-end node. The improvements to the scheduler, among other things over the past few years, would indicate a simpler way to build the equivalent of a VAXCluster.
Now the question is who creates the irrational fears?
You're correct about the US of today, but you're making the common mistake of thinking the US of today has much in common with the US of 1950 (etc). We're a radically different nation today, even than what we were 15 or 30 years ago. This kind of rapid change isn't uncommon in our history, the US of 1840 was vastly different from the US of 1890.

There have been at least four or five major epochs for the US, which saw fairly substantial changes (good or bad) to the rule of law and social cohesion. We started as a constitutional republic and nearly laissez-faire capitalism; then we had a massive federal explosion post civil war, that saw the power of the states greatly diminished; we shifted to a mixed economy, welfare state with a heavy bent toward democracy; now we're speeding toward police state socialism with oligarchs, the facade of property rights, and blended government-corporations, aka fascism (or as some call it in our incarnation, corporatism).
What are the chances of Lastpass being backdoored?
I'm a full time user of Lastpass, the free or paid online cloud based password manager.

But in the light of recent revelations involving various government backdoors in popular sites, I'm beginning to wonder if such services can be trusted.

I'm not an expert but I'd seriously want to hear the opinion & advice of HN users.

Thanks
My Dell U2410 has buttons that detect when your finger gets near them (they start lighting up) which is pretty slick. Maybe it's just a bit more expensive / harder to integrate and wasn't considered worth it. Not exactly sure how it works but I think it uses the same physical phenomenon as a theremin. Again it's mostly pointless, but it is pretty slick.
You americans and your "everyone is out to get us" mentality is laughable. The fact of the matter is this - what the government has done is intrinsically unconstitutional. People calling the leaker a traitor try to back it up with the fact that he signed a non-disclosue agreement and that the law approved by a secret court says PRISM is constitutional.

Well isn't this a nice, little euthyphro dillemma? If congress rules that PRISM is unconstitutional, Snowden is suddenly NOT a traiter anymore?

Another thing - constantly mentioning "security" as a reason for surveilling an entire state just proves how much americans think with their fear, instead of their brain. Not a lot of other countries have this problem.

Lastly, by definition, U.s. is now a fascist state.

1.Powerful and Continuing Nationalism - Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia

Check.

2.Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights - Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of "need.

Check

3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause - The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial , ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists.

Check.

4.Supremacy of the Military - Even when there are widespread
domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized.

Check.

5.Rampant Sexism - The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional gender roles are made more rigid. Divorce, abortion and homosexuality are suppressed and the state is represented as the ultimate guardian of the family institution.

Check.

6. Obsession with National Security - Fear is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.

Check

7. Corporate Power is Protected - The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite

Check.

8. Obsession with Crime and Punishment - Under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego civil liberties in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations.

Check

The reason Snowden is hunted down is because he embarrassed the u.s. government. Not because he is a traitor, not because he aided Enemy(whoever that may be).

Stop watching the tv and absorbing the propaganda you're fed, and you'll realize much more.
Metro done right! (well, much better at least)

> distinct functional layers help establish hierarchy and order and the use of translucency give you a sense of your
context

...when the MS design guys ditched Aero style aesthetics of skeumorphism and transparency, they actually threw the baby with the bath water, they didn't realize that layering and transparency are the missing ingredient for adding order and hierarchy to flat design. yeah, avoiding hierarchy and "flat is better than nested" are good ideas, but for any non trivial GUI you need some order and hierarchy, and transparency is the only thing left to use for this after ditching skeumorphism. as usual, Apple gets design right! (though kind of late...)
Ansible: an introduction // Speaker Deck
Hello World Foundation
It doesn't seem like $20-million would even cover the cost of what the government is claiming PRISM actually is, so I think you're right.
I am glad a post like this reached the front page. There have been many aspects of this story that are odd to me and should be odd to anyone here once they move past the visceral outrage of being told the NSA has direct access to your e-mails and Facebook account. Obviously other people realize this, but I haven't seen many comments about it (and I have to blame myself partly for that).

I find it odd that the NSA has managed to basically gain admin access to the databases of Facebook, Google, Skype, Microsoft, etc. without anyone working for these tech companies coming forward. I know some people have proposed theories as to why, but I haven't found them to be very convincing.

I also find the denials from all of these companies puzzling if the NSA slides are accurate. While some people have tried to read non denials out of the denials, these readings have seemed contrived as several of them seem pretty air tight to me when I read them (Google's is a good example).

The $20 million annual price tag is also laughable, especially to those who have a feel for how much large technical projects cost (and this one would be gigantic).

If we found out that PRISM was simply a software system for companies to comply with FISA warrants that they were already complying with, with those companies pushing data related to individually identified persons and without supplying any more data than they already were or are legally required to, I would not be overly surprised. And this entire thing would be a non story. The details definitely matter.

What really keeps me from settling on that idea entirely is that I don't think that could be true without Snowden having some kind of malicious intent (or being very mistaken about the nature of the systems he had access to). He seems like a true believer civil libertarian, and does not seem evil or stupid.

If this program is really nothing special, than the government should have no problem declassifying more information about it. But even if they do, will we believe them?
"half 8 >>= half" might look a lot different from "half . half $ 8", but they're actually identical in underlying structure! The monad version is just using the wrong operator for visual comparison.

(.) composes two functions[1] but (>>=) composes a monad value with a monad function[2]. It'd be nice if we had an operator to compose two monad functions instead.

We can define that operator in terms of (>>=): "g <=< f = \x -> f x >>= g". You can check that the types work out[3]. Notice the great similarity to (.). (It's because they're both categorical composition operators of functions.)

Now we can write "half <=< half $ 8" and everything's dandy.

[1]: (.) :: (b -> c) -> (a -> b) -> (a -> c)
[2]: (>>=) :: m a -> (a -> m b) -> m b
[3]: (<=<) :: (b -> m c) -> (a -> m b) -> (a -> m c)
Its interesting I was also thinking 'man I wish I could have all the information on me the government probably has, that could come in handy'. Relates to the personal API someone posted last week [1] http://x.naveen.com/post/51808692792/a-personal-api
That was a weird situation. Italian government asks US government for "help" with servers (well, logs) in a UK datacenter run by US-based Rackspace.

They'd still do it today, IMO:

> we are of the view that Rackspace is prohibited from accessing and turning over customer data stored on a customer’s server or other storage device in a U.S. data center without a properly issued, lawful request ( e.g. search warrants, court orders, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Orders)

> without a properly issued, lawful request

> lawful request

When you write the laws, anything is lawful.
If that were the case, we wouldn't have multi-level CPU caches and we really wouldn't care about misses stalling the processor.

Everything is RAM speed bound when it comes to CPU and GPU.
Dutch secret service 'also has access to information from PRISM'
The point is that security is a precondition to enjoying all of the freedoms you list. There are trade-offs to make between freedom and security, and neither the freedoms nor the security are absolute, and they never have been.
If you already know about high order functions and a bit of haskell notation, I suggest chapters 11 and 12 from "Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!" [1]. I think that following the explanation from Functors -> Applicative Functors -> Monoids -> Monads makes it easier to understand where monads come from and what problem they are trying to solve.

[1] http://learnyouahaskell.com/chapters
Weaning yourself off jquery
This is impressive, but it does not make me want to try Haskell more.
Sounds about right. It's nice to imagine them doing a version with a single socket and a nice-but-consumer-level GPU -- that would finally be a worthy embodiment of the mythical "xMac" -- but they've been actively disinterested in releasing a headless mid-range machine for years, and I can't see that changing now.
HN titlebar flash: PRISM is just a weekend project.
The 12 cores are going to be in 1 CPU BTW. It's a limitation of the chipset and probably thermal capacity as well (check out http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/... ).

As far as 16GB dimms in standard sizes; that's already a thing: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=...

There are also a handful of 32GB DIMMs out already. Example: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820326...

I would expect that you'll be able to run 64 or 128GB of RAM max.
I found these tweets a couple days ago from Glenn Greenwald. Click to see the full context, of course.

"The highly detailed NSA technical materials on how they eavesdrop, that I have & am not publishing." [1]

"You won't - it contains very specific technical NSA means for collection - we'd probably be prosecuted if we did." [2]

"There are all sorts of secrets I have I'm not publishing - it's public interest v. harm analysis at the heart of journalism." [3]

[1] https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/343470800784982016

[2] https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/343454484917280770

[3] https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/343453682387542016
As a PS2Linux owner, I stopped caring when they released OtherOS instead of the support I was used to.

I just meant to list the legal possibilities, but as I said Sony is very schizophrenic in how it does it.
Not really; bandwidth, latency, etc.
There are 4.86×10^15 128-bit GUIDS for every star in the Universe
(this is possibly why they opted to go for a chipset that supports 4 channels and only include 4 slots; 1 slot per channel)
"[1] for completeness/fairness, I'm pretty sure Amazon would treat and Sydney AZ instances I spin up exactly the same way. [2] actually, I suspect I'd get the worst-case scenario of the least protection available under either US or Australian law - if push ever came to shove..."

Totally. These points completely nail it for me (A non-US consumer of US based services).

Anyone who was concerned about "the subpoena risk" [1] before, but was satisfied if their data resides in (eg) Australian data centres will now be forced to think again.

I see this as a huge opportunity for non-US domestic PAAS / IAAS providers who keep everything in a single juristiction.

[1] http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/privacy_...
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Yup, him and the Beiber. :)
It could be that Eric Snowden is really just a cynical bastard who was trying to get away from his family and defect to China, bargaining with the rest of the secrets he knows to live a comfortable life.

Releasing the information to the public might be just to make up for it by doing something he thinks is the right thing to do. It would also distract everyone from the truth. If they never hear from him again, they may assume he got killed or imprisoned, and this makes him look like a martyr. This alternate story will keep his family from feeling the shame of being related to a defector.

And, maybe at the same time he wanted to say a big fuck you to his former employer, the US government.

It may seem far fetched, but with the information he has, he probably knows what happens to people who defected to China, and could evaluate whether it was a good idea or bad.

I guess we'll see if any ever hears from him again. If not, it fits right into this idea.
half 8 >>= half

It’s not quite half . half $ 8, but it’ll do

but

half <=< half $ 8

is!
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Excellent summary by Ev at the end of the post.
The displays don't actually run over thunderbolt, they just share the (mini displayport) connector so there's no need to worry about losing bandwidth.
12 cores is because it's a single CPU. More info: http://www.cpu-world.com/news_2013/2013040201_Some_details_o... Expected release date is Q4 2013.
Americans always seem to be boasting how they are better at things than everyone else. Well now they can add 'killing Americans' to the list. As Homer Simpson would say: USA, USA, USA :-)