skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, absolutely the terrorists are winning. This was their plan all along. As Dan Carlin (common sense, hardcore history podcasts) says, the terrorists are trying to be like annoying fleas on a dog. They want the dog to bite itself to pieces. Their plan is working flawlessly - and so quickly, it's scary.

There are nearly 40,000 drunk driving deaths per year. If we are willing to give up privacy for security, why aren't there DUI checks on every onramp? Drunk driving kills more people than terrorism by orders of magnitude.
Mine is "performant" used to mean pretty much anything you want it to mean. It might mean "high performance" (this algorithm is performant - highly performant is even funnier) or "performs better" (more performant).
They drop the ball more than they catch it.
Pivotal People–Matthew Reider
Until monad transformers are easy to use, monads are a one-way street to a dead-end. Monads are so general that being confined to one per function is a total blocker. Yet monad-transformers require far to much mental/organizational overhead.
Well snooping on you to sell info to advertisers is a core business element.

Bottom line - snooping is part and parcel of the business plan, they won't go against it, nor will they give it up.
In particular, Time Machine makes large use of hard links to directories, which not many filesystems support. With HFS+ Apple can be sure that support is always there.
APAPE, Tournoi d'Intégration 14ème Edition démarre en juillet 2013.
C++ Bugs Library
Awesome tool, used it for collaborating on my last website project. Thumbs up for the founders!
All of the two letter g commands are getting taken :). This looks awesome; great work.
Communist much?
Thanks. Yah wanted to make it easy to integrate in any existing project. Glad you like it.
End of the World — or Decline of the West?
If you follow me on twitter (@daeken) or subscribe to the RSS feed on my blog, you'll get updates as they come out. If this all goes well, there will likely be another run starting in Q1 2014.
You realize that armed muggings and burglaries are thwarted a lot, right?
> This site is down. Try again later.

Looks like somebody's 35 minutes were up
If you threaten the system then you're tarred and feathered.
Wow, self driving-car is my dream :o)
I like most of the new flat design but let's be fair those icons are objectively terrible.
It seems that no one who brings this argument up
acknowledges the possibility that terrorism doesn't seem
like a big threat precisely because of the extreme
precautions taken to stop it.

Then on the one hand, the FBI and CIA would regularly, and very publicly, celebrate the apprehension, or otherwise prevention, of would-be terrorists, with some non-detailed description of the realistic terrorist attacks they were planning to undertake.

It would increase morale at those agencies, increase their standing with the public and discourage other would-be terrorists. Not much is given away if we are told the 4 people apprehended 'planned to plant a bomb at a plane in JFK airport by sneaking past security'.

Instead, we only get the occasional apprehension of delusional people with ludicrous plans.

On the other hand, if there really were many terrorists with actual plans, there would occasionally be a successful attack. Even at an unbelievable 99% prevention ratio, some would come through. An illegal immigrant loner building pipebombs in his cabin-in-the-woods could easily escape detection.

The much simpler explanation is that there simply aren't many terrorists with realistic terrorist plots. If anything, this surveillance should be defended by appeals to 'stopping the next mass shooting': that's an example of a crime that occasionally happens, while also many are prevented.
I suspect that this technology works by optimizing the kernel process scheduler by using some heuristics to determine what should be put to the background (e.g determining what sort of syscalls are made, etc).

Will this technology be intelligent enough to know a network server process (e.g socket syscalls)? Will there be a user method to override/exclude this optimization on processes where this has an undesirable effect?

I think another good idea for OS developers is to push the concept of fibers more over threads. Often a multi-threaded application can be re-patterned to use fibers for immediate CPU optimization.

It sounds like a great OS improvement, especially coupled with SSDs. But I'm hoping we can turn the magic off for certain processes when the magic gets too crazy.
The overlay is in a secure iframe (much like a Facebook “Like”). All transaction information never touches hackerbundle.com.

p.s: You can use https://hackerbundle.com if it still concerns you. I just set it up last night.
Thank you for posting this. It is incredibly frustrating to see people justify this behavior with "I know I shouldn't, but". You know the jerk weaving in his lane in the car next to you, staring down at their phone? That's you!
That's not equally annoying, that's a total show stopper for many.
They may not have had "men in suits" with a pre-written story - but Woolsey [Ex CIA Head] was on NPR yesterday. I KNEW that he was going to provide a slant for people to be swayed by - so I took notes:

The first thing he said was that Snowden was, by this release, attempting to make the decision for us about having this information public and this was "extraordinarily terrible" that he would "make the decision for us"

Then he said that this action "makes it easier for terrorists to avoid being monitored" because Snowden was explaining exactly how the monitored communications actually get monitored and thus terrorists will be able to avoid it.

Then he went on to repeatedly state how "full of himself" and arrogant Snowden is. He said that he is so full of himself that he thinks he is better than both congress and the president. He said "he is so full of himself that he barely even knows what actual good conscious is!"

He said that "collection is NOT eavesdropping" and the scope of this collection is due to the new world we live in. He said that for normal people it shouldnt matter - if you talk to some friend every day but then out of the blue you call a terrorist, then a red flag is raised.

I had to drop the convo at this point as I had a Dr. appt..

The guy was an utter joke - the level of palpable disdain and contempt for Snowden was almost unbearable.

Many knew that the smear campaign was going to start - it was even posted about a couple days ago on /r/conspiracy.

In this video - Woolsey even says "we are not focused on terrorists" -- He is a tool.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/video/thefold/fmr-cia-dir-wool...
good approach. 'x for bootstrap' always makes me sad.
Even being tech savvy and privacy savvy may not be enough, but we should all try to do what we can to teach our kids about these issues... and it starts with teaching them to code early on...IMHO
Hey, bro
The open web is supposed to prevent user lock-in and make it easy to choose where you put your data.
Asking the U.S. to allow Google to publish more national security request data
The Settings app, Safari app and Compass app icon's are all pretty bad. (too much detail compared to the rest)

I do agree with the general sentiment that the icons, in general, do not fit with the rest of the design decisions.
Killed, I don't know, but now I know never to do business with James Altucher, who lets any anonymous person get their hand halfway into someone's pocket for $10million
TSA attempts to confiscate Chewbacca actor lightsaber-shaped walking cane
nzh
Curiously, in the past few days I have seen several articles about the "hidden economy of unschooled people". I guess the fact that those publications all chose to use the word hidden in the headline echoes what you say, but now that it has been widely reported and is equally fresh in the minds of the public, it is strange to see that they still hold on to those legacy ideals.
For some reason I keep getting targeted by your ads. I guess I must have searched too much Jenkins related stuff recently. Unfortunately I don't think our tiny startup can justify a monthly expense for CI at the moment. Great ads by the way!
GitHub: it ain't magic pixie dust
The people who vote for the NSA budget don't know what they are voting for, because the NSA activities that the budget is paying for are State Secrets.

Also, of course, these activities are Very Important so America can win the War on Terror and eliminate Al Qaeda and all the other Evil People in the whole World, so, as a Senator, you would find yourself hard-pressed for raising your re-election campaign funds if you were to "side with the terrorists" and failed to approve the budget for these secret activities.
Quattroshapes: A Global Polygon Gazetteer
It's not as malicious as Ron makes it out to be.

Here's Groklaw's bit on it: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20130610101148583

>The opinion Movant seeks cannot be released by the Government not only because it is classified but also because it is under this Court’s seal. As Judge Bates has explained, “[t]he FISC is a unique court,” whereas “[o]ther courts operate primarily in public, with secrecy the exception; the FISC operates primarily in secret, with public access the exception.” In re Release, 526 F. Supp. 2d at 487-88. The FISC maintains this operational secrecy because, unlike any other court, its “entire docket relates to the collection of foreign intelligence by the federal government.” Id. at 487.

It's secret simply by the nature of the court, not by specific executive instruction.
Pretty incredible run. Both the PowerMac G5 and aluminum PowerBook G4 helped pave the way for the Intel transition. A good way to re-use R&D and save money!
Yes, that's very true, although I still think that a large part of the reason the USD is still trusted internationally is that a large group of wealthy people (Americans) have to pay their taxes in the USD. Another large part is the US military, of course.
The saddest part is not a single candidate from either major party is going to reject this a couple years from now.

They might even take it a step further with drones.

you have to know everything in order to be completely safe

- Erich Mielke, head of the Stasi, East Germany
I know I sound like the NSA shill here but I agree with this 100%. Stuff I've allowed to be on G+ or FB is done with the full knowledge that even the "Restricted" settings will not 100% reliably stop it from leaking to the Internet. Even without the NSA there are problems with corporate insiders, hackers, implementation bugs, countless other things.

Data I have that needs to be private is not stored anywhere on any cloud, except perhaps in an encrypted format sufficient for Data-at-rest.

In fact I was looking for a cloud service provider to use for some work-related stuff (PII) when I came to the conclusion that I couldn't actually trust any of the available cloud services, since it would always be possible for a cloud provider to gain physical access to the machine even if I use full-disk encryption.

What I'm hoping is that someday providers like Heroku will kind of meet-in-the-middle and setup a provision for setting up an enterprise cloud service (inside the protected WAN) that can be provisioned and managed similar to the public cloud SaaS services. Something where the enterprise would have the hardware and network interfaces but Heroku would provide the OS and management software.
The web is an open platform.

Linux is an open platform.

Android is an open platform in the sense that, if Google blocks you from the Play Store, people can still install your APK off the web.
A more recent book that sparked huge controversy was The Bell Curve (1995). Many critics simply dismissed the academic work as biased and racist because they had ideological disagreements with its conclusions.

Rand seems to invoke this type of strong reaction as well. Critics argue that since the country in the book is too simple, there is no value to be had there. Again, ideological disagreements allowing the critics to avoid addressing the central thrust of the book.
A lot of people are objecting to the color palette, like which gradients Apple choose to use. Well, you don't accidentally make the iTunes store icon purple. That's a deliberate choice Apple made to be bold.
Django Circus Love
If not providing the right browsers with a OS is a reason to enforce huge fines, then large scale espionage is a reason for much higher fines. Probably enough to fix the Euro crisis...
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true, but the ouya target demographic likely has a smartphone anyway. Most of the mass market will probably never hear about the Ouya.
Yes, but it has never been part of iOS 6, and still looks the same on iOS 7. It's not even a major app - the current version has half the reviews of Pages, which costs $10, and roughly a tenth of the reviews of the Podcasts app, which mostly duplicates functionality found in the iOS 6 Music app. I'm not sure if there is any metric by which FMF is a major app.
Can someone chime in, with the pros and cons of each network filesystem. And which is a good fit for Linux - or rather for those OSs that don't need to cooperate with Windows? Was NFS ever updated - or replaced? How much of SMB is now open after court rulings? And is their one that is technically better than another?
Doesn't Chrome have it's own "keychain"?

Also, I use 1Password on my desktop a lot more - it's far more full featured, storing not only passwords, but credit card details and mailing info pretty securely.
Sounds like you should buy the hackerbundle and get 3 months free! ;)
I clicked the up-arrow next to your comment as hard as I could without breaking my mouse.

I feel this way about every single newsworthy event that I've observed either first-hand or through--as you put it--a passionate interest. News coverage is routinely wrong out of laziness or willfully misrepresenting of the truth. And I'm not talking about political or even vaguely controversial events. A report on a fire I had observed as a child was wrought with errors in our local paper's coverage. Before the Tesla Model S became the media sensation it is now, I would read coverage and marvel at how many articles wrongly reported its price, specs, range.

I think people are sometimes deluded into feeling a news service is reputable, diligent, unbiased, and incorruptible by way of its tone and the way it carries itself. But the veil is off once you have observed something directly and then read their coverage of the same event.
Mozilla just gave me a reason to consider buying their phone.
Three things I like about iOS 7 and the future of the trend.
Conversation #38– disrupt or die
I wouldn't put so much emphasis on the source:
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels#Misattributed
Actually I think you'll find it makes use of hard links to files. Its basically a reimplementation of rdiff-backup, or it might be the other way round. I can assure you that no directories get hard linked, and I'm sure someone will furnish the obligatory xkcd.

Edit -- I stand corrected! It does in fact link folders as well.
Also:
http://xkcd.com/981/
Equinoccio de Pasion.
I have always thought it was all his pun on: "Under capitalism, a man exploits a man. Under socialism, it's the other way around!" But I may have been mistaken.
Does anyone care about the constitution anymore?
I would rather argue for infinity, than injure or kill another human being.
I'm guessing the penalties are not anywhere similar, however, which was the parent's point. Out here in California, a DUI generally ends up costing someone ~$10,000 after all is said and done (if I remember correctly). A cell phone ticket is nowhere near that.
It isn't secure, even if it is in an iframe, as the href of the iframe could easily be changed with a man in the middle attack.
You should force https for the whole site.
Eh, that may be the intent, but I think they could work harder on making giant buttons for things that you are supposed to use while driving. For instance, the popup that says there is a hazard ahead, and you have tiny buttons to say it's not there or to give a thumbs up.
Will give Slate a look. Thanks.
For context, Driving while texting is already illegal in 41 of the US States, however, I believe what the parent was saying, is that the penalties need to be higher, like that associated with DUI.
I think you are being a bit disingenuous in this response, finish the quote:

> We definitely do not live in a system of chattel slavery, but that's only because chattel slavery is so much less efficient..

This statement makes it sound like you start from the position that we would live in a system of chattel slavery if not for its lack of efficiency then you are comparing what you deem the "current form of slavery" to chattel slavery. You are, to my reading of your whole comment, specifically saying that the slavery you allege we currently labor under is as bad or worse than chattel slavery.
Intention revealing methods: refactoring is more than just removing duplication
iOS 7: Instead of Flatness, We Got Depth
The Awful Truth About Jogging
Blackprints Crowdfund Inverse Black And White Illustrations Of Classic Cars
1. Many countries with good care are on the verge of bankruptcy.

2. Sad to hear.

3. From what I gather, the corruption in the construction industry extremely bad there.

4. Are they really worse than any other country? Starting off of the base of the previous regime, there's obviously going to be a lot of work to do.
As far as I'm concerned the 'latest' Python is 3.3.2
Yep, it's general, but no, it couldn't be applied to any other system.

For a start, most repressive systems in history were phisical, not bureocratic. In them the boreocracy existed mainly to feed data to the police, and the police supported the regime. Our current ovespecialization made it impossible to survive outside of the system, thus the bureocracy grew real teeth and the importance of the police reduced. Nowadays a government can almost kill a person just by making it impossible for him to use a bank account.

And them, the hightly sophisticated part... Well, it probably would be better described as hightly technological propaganda. Sistematic research on propaganda started arount the 30's, and high tech one is quite new. So new that I have no idea how it looks like, and if the current actions are it or not.
Signed up! This'll be more useful than what I'm learning in university right now.
"Will there be a user method to override/exclude this optimization on processes where this has an undesirable effect?"

The answer to this is in the article: yes.
How is this story notable? Seems like a garden variety 419 scam to me--except for the bit where the scammer gave up the $15,000 legal fees as ante.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_scam
(<=<) is a generalization of (.), and it's one of a number of historical issues that many Haskellers would like to see resolved, but everyone is afraid to try because it would basically break every single available library (many of which are no longer actively maintained). This is basically a library issue, not a syntax issue. A similar issue is that the Monad typeclass doesn't require a Functor instance, even though it's mathematically necessary. There's a long standing argument over how the Prelude (standard library) should be updated/modified, but there's a lot of bikeshedding going on.
Apple files ‘iMoney’ patent for virtual currency, digital wallet
If you think that $19 / month is over-priced, you are not in anybody's market.

If you think that the service is not as good as your current solutions, that is a different critique and discussion altogether.

I would actually advise to get rid of the $19/month option, because as all of the successful SaaS operators say it will result in the unhappiest customers and the lowest profit margin.
There are people who don't know who Goebbels was?
I ride a motorcycle to work. I'm extremely vulnerable to mistakes and bad habits (my own as well as other drivers). I would really appreciate if you'd rethink your priorities as we share our commute.
In theory, the Congress achieves this power by their ability to approve appointments by the President. However they have greatly diminished the impact of that power by allowing partisan politics to pollute the business of vetting someone for competence.
Do you have any insight on how "good" that tool is.

I checked their scientific work page and couldn't find any international conference only published some work in 3rd tier conferences. Ideally I'd like them to do some comparison with KLEE which is the academia standard for static analysis (from stanford).
Development of 64-bit C/C++ applications
I've seen icons for chain restaurants show up on the map. Is that what you mean?
Perfect Audience Changelogs: Never forget ad campaign settings again
Well, if people go read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Lie then perhaps the light will start to shine in their minds.

<sarcasm>And what? You dare to question the absolute veracity of wikipedia? You will be sent to the Re-Education Camp immediately?</sarcasm>

<notsarcasm>Having to use the sarcasm tag means enough people are unable to recognize sarcasm. I blame the education system. It's a damn shame though.</notsarcasm>
I would love to see this same thing but for box software tools, like sublime text and such. It worries me becoming dependent on external services like this.
It looks the same on iOS 7 because Apple hasn't updated any of their non-preloaded apps yet. (iTunes Connect, Apple Store, iTunes U, Podcasts, iBooks are all other examples which have not been updated)

Given that FMF made it into the keynote both when it was introduced, and yesterday, I'd say it's important to them. (Not just text on a slide)

Edit: Whoops, I was thinking about Find My iPhone from the keynote yesterday, my bad. It was introduced in a keynote before.
Yes there are some assumptions that play into my assertion. Were there others who may have toyed with linux on their own time, quietly? Quite possibly. However, I doubt it. When Lockheed Martin visited my school to mentor/start a cyber security (hacking) competition team, we were only able to get ~18 people (from multiple grades) to show up. I also know for a fact that there were only ever about 60 kids (across multiple grades) enrolled in the school's CS offerings during the year. I knew all of these kids.

I think you'll find that 300 is a much smaller number of people than it sounds. While I respect your challenge of my assertion, I feel it's mostly valid. The effect intended is that only a very small fraction of kids in my class were technically inclined.
Ask HN: Would a resurrected aardvark.com work today?
Back in the day, I was a huge fan and user of aardvark.com before it was bought out by Google. Aardvark was basically a 'real time' question answering service where you can post a question, tag it, and receive an answer via google talk or other im means.

I legitimately got tons of questions answered through it, and was sad when it closed down. I asked questions about food recommendations, cities, programming, and even gardening questions.

Would any of you want a resurrected site similar to aardvark.com?

For my 2 cents, a new aardvark style site would be slightly different by:

+ After you answer a question from someone, you can become their connection online. After some users answered some questions from me, I would want to ask them specifically more questions.

+ I would also make aardvark structured categories. At the end of the day, the tagging got a little bit gnarly.
from a functionality point of view yes - you have always been able to connect to a Linux/BSD box using NFS, SMB(1) ( if samba is installed on them ) or AFP ( if netatalk is installed on them ).

What this thing is saying SMB2 support has been added ( since Mountain Lion does not support SMB2 ) and seems to have been simultaneously made the default for connecting to servers that support it ( hopefully only if you don't explicitly specify what to use and presumably the SMB server on OS X Mavericks does )