skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was able to pull up this: http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/05/skype-replaces-p2p-s...

Quote from Microsoft PR on the change:

As part of our ongoing commitment to continually improve the Skype user experience, we developed supernodes which can be located on dedicated servers within secure datacentres. This has not changed the underlying nature of Skype’s peer-to-peer (P2P) architecture, in which supernodes simply allow users to find one another (calls do not pass through supernodes). We believe this approach has immediate performance, scalability and availability benefits for the hundreds of millions of users that make up the Skype community.
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Yeah. Flat designs are boring -- I never end up on the floor, convulsing, when I scroll through a flat website.
Securing the cloud
Oh my god... so whiny. An annoying read IMO.

Just keep using iOS6 if you are so inexorably fond of drop shadows, dock, tacky icons. You haven't even used the new OS... maybe try it before you whine about usability.
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That's about right, but the NSA also is tasked with protecting the U.S. against other nations intelligence apparatuses.

For instance NSA is tasked with producing (and now reviewing for approval) cryptographic schemes to protect government and national secrets, and in general devising new ways to conduct electronic intelligence so that they can devise countermeasures for the U.S. to use. If you've ever heard of TEMPEST fonts, that's just one example.
You should add a "kill it" button so I can easily free up the server if I finish playing with it before the ~30 minutes is up.
If your state has sales tax and you've bought stuff online without paying sales tax, check your state's law on that.
"No no no" -- great start.

"the GP was absolutely the question I was thinking -- and I'm sure others too" -- which was my point; chock full.

"the GP's question brought out the real answer of how this is new" -- and the person that elucidated you found out his information how? Yes, that's right... he looked at the site.

Could we quit it with the knee jerk negativism? Please and thanks.
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NSA is not a domestic spy agency. The only mix-up was that FBI does domestic surveillance, not the NSA, which the more detailed articles about PRISM did reference, if you knew what to pay attention to ;).
Ling's got some solid points to make. For example, the silly things she does on her site builds trust with her customers because her customers get more of a glimpse into her personality compared to other dealerships. Trust converts more than pretty, or sensible, visual design.

It's taking branding in a different direction than what we normally consider and I think it's worth while to think outside the box most of us put ourselves in when considering how to maximize conversions. I don't know if what Ling's doing is optimal, but it definitely sheds light on other approaches that are sometimes ignored.
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IRS Tracks Your Digital Footprint
Spreading your data around is the best thing:

- If the US becomes a totalitarian regime, then all of your data can be used to imprison you for political transgressions. If you live in the US, but your data is in Russia, the Russians aren't going to care about your political transgressions (e.g. calling for a protest) against the US government.

- If your data is in a different country than where you are physically located, then there is less of a chance of your local machine being compromised. For example, Russia is going to be less likely to send an agent to the US to bug a computer (e.g. hardware keylogger) unless you are a really high-value target.
Python 2.7.3 (default, May 19 2013, 04:22:38)
The earlier version looks more modern
So you want to transmit potentially sensitive information through the post in plaintext? Just to give the middle finger to the NSA?
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Display server availability on page load and spare people their valuable time.
What is so bad about realizing that a group you've considered a bunch of crazies -- which perhaps was an inherited or taught viewpoint -- might actually be right about something?

You have no obligation to buy a belt-fed machine gun in the wake of your realization. Just understand that REAL government has a little more complexity -- and lower ethical standards -- than what you were told in Civics class.
Everyone fears big brother, and the term 'Orwellian' became a oft-used word to describe the oppressiveness of an overt totalitarian power.

Huxley wrote about our being lulled into submission through indifference. 'Huxleyian' never became a common term, because we apparently are indifferent about a world in which people are indifferent.
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Actually you laugh, but being spied on by someone with no jurisdiction over you is better than being spied on by someone who can name you an enemy combatant because they misunderstand your e-mails that contain a plot synopsis for a book you're working on or that can label you a child pornographer because you have naked photos of your grandkids playing in your yard.
>probably just tested in safari. preaching to their own choir I guess.

I doubt they sell many Mac Pros to new customers, so it's not surprising that they wouldn't focus on making that part of the site work well for other browsers and platforms (although it did work fine under Chrome on Ubuntu for me).
Typically, people were beating shit out of someone who was not behaving "correctly".
@Shawndumas One thing I prefer on HN over Reddit is the mature and appropriate responses. Please keep the ostracization to a minimum.
New OS X uses Windows file sharing by default
If it bothers others that Bob picks his nose when he's alone, maybe they should stop digging around in his personal business. Or does every moment of our actions & thoughts, no matter how small, need to be put before a public jury now?
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Brooks argues, "He betrayed honesty and integrity, the foundation of all cooperative activity. He made explicit and implicit oaths to respect the secrecy of the information with which he was entrusted. He betrayed his oaths."

This argument negates the trust and integrity the government discarded when it chose to implement citizen surveillance.

Further, Snowden took an oath to protect the US against all enemies, foreign and domestic. He broke no oath.
At your service: http://www.readability.com/articles/1xnbyizw

(make sure to click the "readability view" at the top)
What would make sense to me is that the company is able to "mediate" the FISA warrant, not the access request itself. Kind of like the TLS CA architecture; once you go and "trust" the root CA you would automatically trust requests that were signed by that CA.

Presumably they could ensure that their automated mediator limits the data collection only to things approved by the FISA warrant, in this case there would be no need to keep manually double-checking as the computer would do that for the company.

Likewise the automated system could continue to update the data in the "drop box". Think long-polling techniques or push notifications to the NSA analyst's machine.
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You may also care about a server exit strategy. Your local storage format becomes relevant in the event you want to change email servers. (Maybe if, for example, your email server decides to stop supporting IMAP to get everybody to use the ad-serving web interface instead. Or your email server belongs to a large company suspected of leaking to the NSA.)
Might be something like this http://www.mtechlaptops.com/indexofnotebooks.htm who actually tell you why that is; http://www.mtechlaptops.com/ugly_web_site.htm .

Besides that; the co-founder (from Australia) of one of the companies I built and sold successfully, was always quite focused on making 'ugly' designs. We did split-testing with pixel perfect, really professional designs versus this 1995, quite ugly 'old' stuff and every time the ugly design won at conversions. This is the consumer space we were in. We tested many times it the 'ugly' design always won.

Maybe times have changed (this is about 5 years ago), but it always makes a bit suspicious of that cry for the perfect design while it actually, again, at least then, had a averse effect. I still know of a few cases where the owner swears by amateur and ugly. The theory apparently is that a lot of people don't trust slick and believe they will be screwed somehow.

Edit: another one I just thought off; marktplaats.nl (Dutch Ebay and owned by Ebay since 2004) has looked like this; http://web.archive.org/web/19991105082644/http://www.marktpl... for a very long time. Everyone in the web design business thought it was horrible in many ways, but consumers refused to use anything else, including ebay.nl. They hardly touched the design until recently and it is still clear that they didn't want to piss the users off too much.
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Like I said in my comment above, from my always-shrinking knowledge of history, battling institutionalized paranoia with individualized paranoia and outrage just escalates the problem. I'm not saying there's no problem here to fix; I believe quite the opposite. It's just that promoting anger and fear will get us nowhere.
It's a novel idea, and you could almost say that's what GitHub (or open source in general). People donate their time and efforts, and in return they get to partake in the finished product. I'm not sure how well I see this working outside of the software world.

I suppose people could do copywriting, legal, financial, art, design, etc etc for a project. But then you have to differentiate who's actually contributing meaningful results, who's just wasting time, who's causing more harm than good, etc etc.
"US...are doing to journalists"

The US government, still maintains a pretty strong protection of journalists. They will go after the leakers themselves, but rarely even attempt to make a journalist reveal a source, let alone prosecute the journalist directly for revealing secret information.

In fact, I say still, but this tendency has actually grown stronger over the last 50 years. It has, in my not-very-researched-opinion, grown stronger due to public pressures and effective civil disobedience. So, that heartens me. All governments screw-up, but some are screwed-up, I still don't think the US is one of the screwed-up - relative to the rest of the world and history - a LOT I wish they would do better.
Amazon confirms CIA spook cloud contract
no worries, thanks to PRISM that chore is no longer needed
Had to google what article 5 of NATO was:

The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all and consequently they agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, in exercise of the right of individual or collective self-defence recognised by Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, will assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with the other Parties, such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area.

Any such armed attack and all measures taken as a result thereof shall immediately be reported to the Security Council. Such measures shall be terminated when the Security Council has taken the measures necessary to restore and maintain international peace and security.
arent new ios icons pretty much taken from metro?
Go big or go home. I like it.
And furthermore, if the government had had its way, we still wouldn't know they were doing this. (And they haven't admitted to everything they're apparently doing, judging by more recent reports.)
i just tweeted the hacker news link to him, so there is a decent chance he is in fact reading this stuff.
You're being pedantic. "Freedom" in this case quite clearly refers to "Liberty" or "Autonomy" rather than to "Free Will".
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In case you hadn't heard, the KGB no longer exists. They've been replaced by the FSB and SVR.
That sounds nice. Let's hear you deliver that soliloquy when you're held by a mugger at gunpoint, about how you are your own master.
Execute the following in the console:

$("#TB_window, #TB_overlay").remove()

or alternatively, if you are using Google Chrome, paste the following into the address bar:

javascript: $("#TB_window, #TB_overlay").remove()

and hit enter.

P.S. if you copy-paste the latter bit of code into the address bar in Google Chrome, "javascript: " will be removed so you'll have to type that bit in manually.
What ever happened to CryptoCat man after he discovered he had been rooted by the Canadian Intel people? He was as freaked out as could be (prudently) and then I haven't really heard about it since
The Smears Against Edward Snowden Have Begun
Jesus Christ.

iOS 7 is an excellent revision that brings iOS into the modern age. There's a goddarned video on Apple's website that explains how it's still modern, fresh, but familiar, and that also explains the excruciating detail they had to go in to revise it.

I don't see how usability is affected at all; the new OS looks great, and it's change for the sake of progress (a la Android), not change for the sake of change (a la Windows 8).

If you don't like it, then maybe you have a problem with change...

...or you just really, really like leather calendars.

In any case, I think Steve Jobs was greatly holding the company's talented designers and engineers back with his vice-like grip on every decision that the company made. He brought Apple back to life, it's now Jony's, Craig's, and Tim's turn to work together and push it to the forefront, further than Steve ever could have done.
The irony. If there were ever a place to spy on what Americans are reading, it would be Kindle.
This is one of the oddest things I've read all week. It accuses Snowden of a lack of character and claims that lack is a threat to society. But this society and its government are designed to minimize that threat.

The reason we have a "big government" is to make unnecessary the civic virtue Snowden supposedly lacks. The article calls "honesty and integrity" "the foundation of all cooperative activity." But we have a highly regulated economy, to ensure that it still works when most of its participants are dishonest people with little integrity. Now that integrity is unnecessary, it's predictably rare.

Similarly, it says Snowden damaged "the social fabric" and has "no real understanding of how to knit others together and look after the common good." The U.S. doesn't need its citizens "knit together". The country is held together by government power, not a fabric of common consensus. Citizens don't need to look after the common good. That's the job of the authorities the author commends. NSA surveillance is supposed to prevent "solitary naked individuals" from causing any trouble.

In summary, not just Snowden but the whole country fails to live up the the character standard set out by this article. And that doesn't matter. Unless the cynical people are right.
Partisan means predjiduce in favor of a cause, one can criticize Bush and Obama and still be partisan.
I wouldn't advertise the "Made in USA", especially not after the NSA scandal.
If you think it is a problem that Microsoft is behaving like this, you shouldn't reward them by ending your article with a pre-order link for the relevant product.

Edit: This is why disgraceful “controversial” behaviour doesn't die out: it gets its perpetrators attention that their sales messages piggy-back on.
So much is converted to Javascript with Emscripten now. I used it for http://www.fabfabbers.com/openscad/ too.

Just hoping asm.js support catches on.
> Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses.

As we move further into the 21st century and the world government's seek to expand their power, this strategy is seeing even greater success. This complements Orwell's 1984 very well, specifically because it matches Alduous Huxley's 'Brave New World' quite well.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_Circuses
Poland's side is not so important here. Nobody's blaming Poland for taking US missiles, they're blaming the US for putting them there. It's as if Russia decided they wanted to put missiles in Cuba.
Monkey Island 2: Lechuck's Revenge had a great demo as well. I might recommend adding that.
cut him some slack, he is just another Obama-worshipping sycophant :)
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This is really cool. I've been looking for a fun Raspberry Pi project.
There are graphic designers. I went to one to get a logo made for an internal web app I made. It's just that most powerpoints are made by interns and younger military folk.
Hackathon on wings
Yes, maybe we should keep hackers in the clink for YEARS, mulls EU
Yahoo wins Apple design award
Lets not forget military intelligence; however, since for the first time the US is at war with non-state actors, both foreign and domestic, it should be assumed US military now has global jurisdiction over intelligence. Of course one would think their jurisdiction should be limited to targeting 1 of the 45-50 named enemy combatant terrorist organizations, but I will go out on a limb and say they are not.

In fact I would probably fall out of my chair in shock if a single politician, fbi/cia/nsa/doj agent, or military official could name the terrorist organizations we are at war with.
Which makes him a partisan. Perhaps you should lookup the word, it doesn't mean what you seem to think it means.
Ditto! I don't want to enter a CAPTCHA for nothing.
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European Parliament Up In Arms Over PRISM
Tracing iOS 7's influences: Apple remixes almost everyone in the industry
I guess I meant the inner circle, who were complicit and aware of it, and dissociating the fact. That came from the myth of Lenin that a small, pure cadre could run the whole show. Oceania follows this design.

Today we need no such evil and aware of it crew to see the same systematic abuses, merely the banal evils of everyday.
Does anyone have a download link of the keynote video ?

I live in India & the bandwidth is really low to watch the streaming video(even post the event) :(
What would MLK or Ghandi do?
Can you create a landing page with an executive summary and pricing button? I cannot show my boss a blog post. Just hit the high points: 12 week course in web security, $1000, increased proficiency in x, y, z, ability to do a, b, c, protection from j, k, l, and security as a key to protecting data -- the core of the product -- the core of business.
iOS was never particularly cohesive. App icons have always been a mixed bag (gradients, lighting, gloss, dimensionality). I don't see iOS7 as a particular departure from this. Also, if things are too minimal and cohesive, the UI becomes very boring. I can't imagine ever being excited about a UI that was universally designed like the new Mail app you praise.

One of the things that bothers me about this post and others like it is that it has an element internal inconsistency. Having the entire UI unified and minimal as you suggest does not strike me as relying on intuitive or emotional or human design. It strikes me as being over-engineered and analytical.
I see that Google, Facebook, Microsoft et al are conspicuous by their absence from that list. Kind of shouts out how little they feel for your (and my) data privacy.
Its interesting the title says people hate the new icons, when they only preferred the old icons. Theres a comic to explain this situation quite well. http://theoatmeal.com/pl/state_web_winter/facebook_layout
First thought, isn't this a tad dangerous for the supplier? There seems to be nothing stopping me from using huge amounts of bandwidth just to screw with them. Or if I really was a bad guy, how much of an effective dos attack could be launched on ec2 hosted sites in the same az from these servers?
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If we are talking about being charged with treason and possibly executed, it's interesting to me that you are OK with brutal state oppression in Russia just because it hurts the US. It gives some insight into your priorities: hurting the US is more important to you than whether people are subject to gross injustice by an authoritarian state.
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This is great, but I'd just prefer to use Vagrant and VirtualBox for vanilla Ubuntu VMs that I intend to destroy. It's so easy to set up and I can use it longer than 30 minutes, for free, if I desire.
Ask HN: Where can one turn for design help/critiques?
If you have a product design and you want some honest design critiques, is there a place to get those?
Absolutely, good call!

Edit: Put up a simple launch page here: http://course.daeken.com/
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Have you ever read the Declaration of Independence? It didn't just declare that a new nation exists. It declared why that action was taken, and made clear that the action wasn't being taken lightly:

http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transc...

> Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

And later,

> The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.

Seriously, read the whole thing. It is a wonderful document which stands on its own, and explains why these Americans no longer considered themselves British, and also why it was not some mere disagreement with their government.

Now, are you going to claim that government operation of a legally-instituted (and reviewed!) program that the majority of the population supports is "absolute Tyranny" with the sole purpose of oppression of the American populace?

I'm just saying, I'd prefer we at least attempt to give the press, the EFF, the ACLU, and the concerned citizenry such as myself and many of my own friends a shot at fixing it before we go saying that violence and terror is the answer.
True only if chattel slavery were the only kind of slavery.

The ruling masters treat those who work "at will for pay" like livestock when the masters demand taxes, threatening violence upon those who withhold the protection money. The livestock are being milked with every paycheck.

We definitely do not live in a system of chattel slavery, but that's only because chattel slavery is so much less efficient (for the masters) than farming those who are willing to repeat the mantra that we "are not being enslaved."
I would like to see Googles name on this action.

Now is the time for Silicon Valley to step up.
"it's the reason you haven't seen the latest USB on a Mac in forever."

Do I misunderstand what you mean by this? USB3 is rolling out on Macs and available on most of them today. (I think the Mac Pro is the only one currently lacking it.)
So what you're saying is they need to convince people that they aren't safe because the NSA is spying on them? Seems a fairly easy sell.
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