skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, if you're going to quote me, please do so accurately. I said "Nothing that invasive is required." [emphasis added], comparing to the proposal further above that called for comprehensive regulation of the Apple's App Store itself. However you feel about the invasiveness of my suggestion, surely we can agree that it is less invasive than rewriting the store rules, appointing a third-party arbitrator and the rest?

Second, should Apple find iDevices and their app store subject to government regulation the idea that Apple would be the one entitled to complain about free riding is just... precious. Even if we only look what Apple gets from the legal system itself (copyright and patent rights, injunctions and import bans, blocking unauthorized clones, trademark protection, license enforcement and so on) some regulation of sideloading and/or third-party stores wouldn't even begin to tip the balance.
Look at all the comments under the announcement. Really sum's up how I feel as well. A selling point of Opera was the built in email client.

I liked how Opera used to be a silo for a whole bunch of features. When you closed it the rest closed as well. Was a great way to turn off work.

Now we have ANOTHER fairly generic stand alone email client. ANOTHER fairly generic webkit browser. If it wasn't branded with an Opera logo would anyone really give a shit?
Oh yes, don't talk to me about the food :)
Given the size of the infrastructiure they have id say its multiple sources one of which includes ISP level optical taps/aggregation
Doesn't it run on PSP/Sony Android Phones and PS3 though?
> while making sure to take in a maximum amount of profits

The Guardian is owned by the Scott Trust, a UK non-profit, so perhaps at least some of your cynicism is unwarranted.

Of course they will want to keep this running for a while, releasing everything at once would lead to significant stuff getting buried and would reduce Snowden's overall impact.
Ask HN: How do you define a 'top developer'?
Someone said to me recently that if I was a 'top developer', that they could get me a job easily.

It always struck me as presumptuous describing oneself as in some way the best - so was curious what my fellow HNers thought?

Do you describe yourself as a 'top developer'? How do you define it?
Can't they use the NSA logs to find him? hah
What does the way you access your data has anything to do with where it is stored? Just because you read your emails from a local copy, don't fool yourself into thinking that the drawbacks of the cloud no longer applies to you.

Now, if you were to host your own mail gateway, that is a different matter entirely.
IMHO, the single most important book published in the 20th century and a heck of a read.
Definitely, but this isn't what PRISM is about.
oh, wow - I always thought FUSE was a c-library - didn't realize it was this "smart". I guess I'll have to go look more closely at the various FUSE projects :-)
And give them burner phones.
I, for one, give a shit because I need a standalone email client that fits my workflow better than what we have now (I use Thunderbird nowadays).

The Opera logo is merely just encouraging me to check it out.
Ofcourse the have to do that now.. short of ideas they are!
> You realize that when you get an osx license it says it is only valid when run on apple hardware right?

Yes, that is exactly my point.

> This isn't that big of a deal

It's a big deal to me. It's the only operating system that I know of that I can't legally run on my computer.

All I'm saying is that I wish that Apple were more focused on creating the best products they can and letting people use them, rather than erecting artificial walls to keep people in and out.
In fairness to them, with that strapline they're not saying what about "Your Privacy" is a priority...
IOS7 - Focusing On Design Is The Problem
...if you want to middle-finger the US government. But why would Google, Facebook, et al want to middle-finger the government - a government that could massively help or hinder their ability to conduct business, etc?
Microsoft didn't handle payments, discovery or customer credit cards though…

Hardly the same
Wow, that sure is an annoying product page. Where are the details about what mail providers they support? Does it do calendering? What are the system requirements (WinXP, OS X 10.5, CentOS 5, etc...)?
I never understood tabs in an email client
As far as I'm aware, it's respected by every git subcommand. I've never had a problem using it. Do you have any specific examples?
Yeah, any idea why development slowed on this so much? Did they get the codec so perfect that there was nothing left to do? It's kind of interesting that something that has seen so little development over the past several years still dominates this market, or whatever you call it.
In real life they remind the NSA that there is so much more that they could say but aren't saying..and have someone ready to blow that open if by some accident they do not manage to regularly check in.
Ink. An(other?) impressive Twitter Bootstrap. Is it?
Umm ... no one said anything about zero DRM. The existing generation of consoles have drm but let you play used games, sell games, etc.
I think interpreting Orwell's books literally seems misguided. Animal Farm wasn't _REALLY_ about farm animals...was it.
Ask HN: Why is every technology book 500-1000 pages
I am trying to catch up with Java and am looking for a concise book that can get me caught up with it. To my surprise I couldnt find anythign within <200 pages. Upon searching more for different technologies I realized every book out there is 500+ pages. Its almost like the publishers wont except anything less than that and as a result authors are forced to writing long books. Do anybody else find this frustrating ?

Would like to hear the communities thoughts on how they learn/brush up on technologies in this era of limited time and unlimited distractions ?
But then, she also wrote Atlas Shrugged as a kind of warning, with the hope that we would not become the kind of regime she fled. The OP is exactly apropos.
No, I want to know what felonies I commit.
IOS 7. Unpolished By Design.
I work with a Muslim from Yemen at an investment bank. He's as American as anyone I know but be recently got a gun permit and got a visit from the FBI about a week later. They wanted to know if he felt threatened, if there were problems at his Mosque, why he wanted a gun, if there was anyone at his Mosque who used hate speech, etc.

Something tells me he government knows if you have a gun.
Is there any way to stop the code view appearing in its intermediate textarea form, and go straight to the full line-numbered/highlighted view? I had the same issue here: http://www.fabfabbers.com/openscad/
Some interesting context, Morgan Mayhem/@headhntr, who he is debating with, is also a Google Security employee.

Interesting given they are having this conversation in public and that their joint-employer (where they both hold a security-orientated role) is directly implicated in this story.
I think for many people it will be a beautiful black cylinder on a cluttered desktop. For people who need to use expansions this will take up a significantly larger footprint than a machine that allows for internal expansion.

For those that put the machine under their desk it will just be a mess of cables and things to kick over.
Years ago, when Russia was vehemently against US expanding its anti-rocket shields, I was against Russia, and supported US, because "US are the good guys, right?". Over the past few years I've started to understand Russia's position. Nobody should want US to become too powerful, because clearly you can't depend on Americans to keep their own government in check, no matter how good the US Constitution is.

So I kind've understand this move from Russia, too, even though it will probably end badly for Russia, to the point where they become more like China, but I feel that US deserves this from every country in the world, until they roll back all the spying, and end these programs and laws (Patriot Act, FISA).

I imagine that if there are hundreds of corporations lobbying the US government to stop because they are losing business overseas, they will eventually do it, because they know that the end of the day, and despite all their public statements, the spying is not that useful for catching terrorists, and specific investigations and wiretapping should still be possible under reasonable laws anyway.
This is not Ayn Rand quote per se. In a sense that was public secret for anyone living in Eastern Europe at the time - got a few relatives that made a few trips to the concentration camps. That if you got authorities attention there would be more than enough crimes on which to convict you.
I've been reading node.js books and they're around 300 pages.

I mean Java is a freaking huge language. Generics in Java alone is a giant book.

It depends on the tech I guess...
Sorry for the spam, it seems client specific (RSSOwl). I tried another client and it was fine, then looked at the RSS flux and it also looks fine.

I've been fooled by the fact that I only had the issue with HN but none of my many other feeds. My best guess is that you're using the HTML entity "&#x2F;" instead of the straight character "/" for URLs. Somehow RSSOwl handles this fine in <link> elements, but not in <comments>.

I'll submit the issue to RSSOwl.
Starting a full KDE Plasma session in Wayland
At that price I'd jump in just to use it for web development and some video processing and OpenCL development.

But I suspect it will be a lot more expensive than that, especially here in the UK. I say it will probably start at $3,500 at the very minimum in the US and then with extra RAM and other upgrades it can go up to $6000 if not more.

This machine will typically come coupled to very beefy displays and external thunderbolt RAID drives and the whole set-up will average more than $10,000.
This will probably be the last medium.com link I click on HN
You forgot the Bayseian weight of negative one million, for revealing his identity and what he's been doing to the international press.
Does it offer PGP integration?

Well-designed email clients with proper privacy seem to be very hard to come by, and new players in that niche would be welcome. Particularly in the current climate, I would argue.
That's why you frequently deploy moles who try to get away with something (e.g, with writing a password on a post-it), and seriously reprimand persons who do not report that.

All your personnel must be paranoid; you cannot get there with only the real break-in/data theft attempts, as those are too rare.

Also, you regularly shift the roles, turning an operator into a watcher and vice versa.

Finally, you cannot have someone teamed up with the same person for weeks, because they might befriend each other and start to let things slip.
Looks interesting. I've been a Thunderbird user for a long time but the fact it appears to have been practically abandoned[0] by Mozilla is a shame.

The 'Import from Thunderbird' wizard appears to be a bit broken, though. It tried to import all my Thunderbird accounts but seems to have just munged them all into one account in Opera Mail. It would be nice if I could selectively import single Thunderbird accounts.

Also, as others have mentioned, it seems to be lacking compared to Thunderbird in auto configuration (in TB, I can enter a Google Apps email address and it'll figure out it's Google for me).

[0] https://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2012/07/06/thunderbird-stabi...
Cold calling training: a must for startups
Wow, I've done entire reverse-engineering projects (namely re-skinning Angry Birds Chrome, for one) squinting at minified JS and never knew that that was what that { } button did! Thanks!
The issue with iOS 7 is that it's just not good enough. Transparency and blurs, new options draws and changes to icons to me are not worthy of being called a "reboot" — the operating system changes are purely cosmetic and as pointed out, unrefined (by design, who knows). I think the issue is that Apple have trained people to expect a certain high quality end-result, iOS 7 could have been great but misses the mark and not quite the high standard of design I and others have come to expect.

I have no doubt the operating system will get better but adding in eye candy and filters to the camera app isn't revolutionary nor frothworthy either.
I Quit My Job to Live in a Tent and Write Code
So internal security has been ramped up after the China attacks. How? In part:

On 4 February 2010, the Washington Post reported, “Google
approached the NSA shortly after the attacks, sources
said, but the deal is taking weeks to hammer out,
reflecting the sensitivity of the partnership. Any
agreement would mark the first time that Google has
entered a formal information-sharing relationship with the
NSA.” EPIC rapidly submitted a Freedom of Information
request to the NSA requesting any documents pertaining to
this NSA/Google relationship. The NSA’s response was
Glomar – a refusal to confirm or deny that any records
exist.

So while rogue employees might become less likely, rogue (NSA) agents hardly become less likely.

I totally get it though: Security and operations at the largest search engine in the world is a matter of national security. I think this new Google-NSA relationship is inevitable, though it could be a bit more transparent.
"even though it will probably end badly for Russia, to the point where they become more like China"

Not sure what you mean by this.

As a European I'm pretty uncomfortable with the idea of a foreign government being able to snoop on my internet communications and I'm hoping European leaders take a stand on this. I don't see that leading any where bad though.
There are soooo many dev companies with offices in Poland, where developers are able to work 2/3 cheaper. Like, 100k USD/year vs 100k PLN/year (100k PLN = ~31k USD).
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Space Cowboys Is Trying To Create The Israeli ‘Call Of Duty’
The purpose of owning a gun is not to start a war, but to protect the peace.

Anyone with nitrogen fertilizer or many, many other household items can "start a one-man war," but they likely will die just as quickly.

At the risk of quoting Yoda, wars don't make you great. But more to my point: the best offense is a good defense in politics.
Amazing - does anybody know how much post-processing went into it? The oranges and blue hues are a bit strong or is it actually that vivid?
Online play seems to require Playstation Plus however. It seems they've followed Microsoft in this matter. So if your game is online, it could get interesting. Though from what I understand playstation plus gives steam level discounts to gamers on a console.
>If people steal from you find out why they hate you

This whole blog is gibberish. Juveniles apparently up vote without reading.
Sometimes I get a whiff of nostalgia from posts like this. As if everything was great back in the good old days, where the police weren't able to hassle you, when laws were fair and simple.

Of course that was only if you were a white anglo cis straight christian. Anyone who didn't fit that was able to be prosecuted/killed/oppressed/jailed. But if we pretend those people don't exist, then everything was great in the past.
While that argument might stand up in court, Trading Standards and ASA (Advertising Standards Authority) do take misleading consumers as seriously as outright lies.

The real question is whether they consider the PRISM leaks as evidence to challenge the tag line. Given the secrecy of the operation and Microsoft's denials, it the standards authorities might consider that evidence too much as hearsay to take definitive action.
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Only one icon with 3D effect
Supports IMAP and POP. Mail providers like gmail, yahoo and hotmail should work pretty well. Doesn't do calendaring. Runs on WinXP. Don't know about that old OS X version, but I think it probably does. Runs on old Linux (when we release the Linux version that is). You don't even need gtk or qt, though it'll use them if it can find them.
I honestly don't see how american-run social media companies can disentangle themselves from the NSA now. It remains to be seen if the public in most countries will even take notice, but this kind of response will not be the last we see from foreign government agencies. If Facebook or Gmail do fall from public grace, the only certain thing is that their successor won't be run by an american company. International trust in american companies may be fundamentally tainted now.
OAuth2 and the Twitter API – A WordPress plugin
Building on the last few WordPress related tutorials, this week we’ll being using the Twitter API to display a users most recent tweets using a shortcode. Several of the existing tutorials and code examples out there use the old version of the API or the search API that do not require authentication. This API has been deprecated and been replaced with version 1.1. Although it still works, Twitter can disable it at any time.
Yes, we have a shipped XML configuration file which finds and sets up many common domains automatically.
I use it to put important mails such as tasklists on separate tabs so that I can come back to them easily and keep reading other emails.
I tried the code and its very simple and elegant. Will try out in my next new project.
I really don't care about the product itself, but I am always glad when Apple releases something new. It's really interesting to study the release process.

It's truly impressive being able to create such hype around a release. Funny enough, many Apple fan-boys are basically fanatics. The rational thing to do is of course to work against the corporations, in order to force them into improving and lowering the prices. But somehow Apple has managed to create a "personal army" of fan-boys, blindly defending their every move.

On a related note: I am really surprised they are going desktop, has not the last five years been about replacing it?
Using vocab correctly.

I got a couple of people that use function and method word interchangeably and thinks a programming language reserve
word is a method.

Biggest issue I have is the fact that they don't use the vocab correct. It abstract and black box a concept at a higher level, so you don't have to spend 20 words describing a concept. Instead of describing closure you can just say closure and just focus on solving the actual solution instead of the nitty gritty mechanic.

Ability to be humble and admit that they don't know it, ask questions about it, and not bullshit and pretend as if they know it.

We hired a person that said he was a 9 on a scale of 1 to 10 in knowing jQuery. Dude wrote a parser for json in 50 lines in one of his javascript code. He did the same think for PHP but to parse xml files.

This isn't out of arrogrance, it's the fact that you can bullshit to your peer and thinks they're stupid. Like not only can you not trust yourself to learn from your colleague but they're full of it. They rather choose to pretend to know it instead of actually learning and improving upon their craft. Top developer? More like top bser for those management type position.
Move the mouse pointer until it becomes a hand at the left of the next slide (but not too far).

It does work - but fairly non-obvious.
Is there an ETA for the linux version ? Or a beta ?

edit: ah I see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5860776 , around a month then.
A 'top developer' is a relative term. I used to be a top developer few years back at my startups coding and developing interfaces, backend, APIs and everything in between. I would understand design, database and UI, as well as the best implementation methods and optimize code. However, there were times, when you just had to release something and get things done. So, my perspective, a 'top developer' is the CEO of development who can get things done and still think of scaling and long term viability of the code.
That's a sizing problem. I couldn't work out how to switch slides until I'd maximized my browser, allowing the neighboring slides to sneak into view (and thus visible to click).

It's a pity the presentation isn't more responsive / dynamic to the browser's viewable area, but at least the content is there and at least this is an interesting topic which is worth my time scrolling through the slides - which is the most important thing :)
The EU is not going to do much. The reason is that all these nation states are in bed with each other and if there is one doing something like this you can bet that the rest of them are engaging in similar activities (probably with a few exceptions).
Expression UI
Proof by fictional evidence? ;)
And Pakistan still quakes under the thread of being bombed back to the stone age. I wonder how many other countries were threatened by the "leaders of the free world".

"They hate our freedoms"? What, as much as the US hates and compromises every one else's?

Now can any one help me with a definition of a Rogue State?
oh so poignant. if apple expects this platform to be around for a while, they are the true beneficiaries of TDD in iOS.
So do I. But the point is that these felonies are largely a product of trying to stretch other laws to cover behavior none of us would consider illegal.

However, the big one I would look at in current times for most people is violating web site terms of service.

My point is that the mentality is "Show me the man and I'll find you the crime."
> "It can begin surveillance a week before making the request to the secret court, and the surveillance can continue during the appeals process if, in a rare case, the spy court rejects the surveillance application."

How can this be constitutional? Doesn't the 4th amendment say you need probable cause before spying/searching on someone? I've also read that the NSA is spying on some, and then gives the info to the FBI, "which now has probable cause". It seems to me they are doing nothing more and nothing less than fishing expeditions, which are illegal/unconstitutional. I really hope someone manages to bring the Patriot Act and FISA to the Supreme Court this time around.

Also, I seriously believe US needs a Constitutional Court to look at all passed bills by Congress, before they become laws. Congress doesn't seem to care about the Constitution anymore and just passes stuff to make all sorts of things "legal", and could be a decade or two before they even arrive at the Supreme Court, especially with the president trying to fight them at every turn, and with all sorts of gag orders and whatnot - rules they are making to prevent you from even suing them over it. This is becoming increasingly more common with the worst of the worst laws.

I know there are some arguments against Constitutional Courts, but they are working quite well in Europe, and if they have a secret FISA Court that rubber stamps all the spying anyway, how much more damage could a Constitutional Court (that would be public, obviously) do? And of course, the laws could still arrive at the Supreme Court later, and judges would still have to verify their constitutionality in trials, just like today.

At least Americans would have an extra check on their governments from passing all sorts of crazy laws, thinking they get away with it, and might even leave office by the time it arrives at the Supreme Court, and passing these laws days before Christmas. At least it would stop the majority of crazy laws being passed by Congress.

The system you have now is simply not good enough anymore. Not when Congress and the president are breaking their oath to the Constitution on a daily basis.
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