skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alcohol is legal and not high cost. So either alcohol is different from those drugs (if so how?) or its very similar, which means this drugs will have the same ills as alcohol.
Can't I just give them my name, and my Google Voice number, and in return get all the information they have on me or will they only give me the information they have on my Google Voice number?
They chose grey because the icons will be slightly semi-transparent in the final build and will take on color from your background. In that sense, it's a pretty brilliant design.

The change to the camera icon makes a lot of sense if you've ever watched a first-time phone user looking for the Camera app.

Differences between music, video and photos again seems to emphasize their very different bodies of users. They actually do very different things because they service very different needs—people who buy music in iTunes or pirate it (as opposed to using Pandora, etc.), people who buy movies in iTunes or pirate them (as opposed to using HBO Go), and people who want to show their photos to someone. None of these use cases require personality and it seems like putting personality in a software icon meant to be universally understood is a bad idea.
Let me introduce some circularity: if he personally cared about the issue, then it might be self-serving of him to request the subpoena.

But why would he give a shit? Perhaps he's one of the Americans (a rather interesting one, to boot) with something to hide.
Microsoft didn't invent the flat rectangle. What about the new iOS looks specifically like Windows Phone 8?
Exactly, it could be the placebo effect.
I think it's possible to overstate this aspect of the story. The NSA revelations take the shine off U.S. tech, but it already shined so much brighter than the other options.

The idea that Chinese firms will have an advantage now is laughable--everyone knows that the Chinese government intrudes far deeper into their companies than the NSA does into U.S. companies.

And it's a horrible fiction to pitch the ITU proceedings as some sort of failed freedom fight. The nations behind those attempts are all known to be much more controlling and censorious than the U.S., even taking into account what we know now. Which why those attempts have failed so far.
Get an Android phone. problem solved.
I'm a bitcoin skeptic, but I guess I don't understand why there aren't bitcoin....coins.

Seems to me it wouldn't be terribly difficult to throw some bitcoin info on an NFC disk.
I saw an interesting quote several years ago, I can't quite remember where but I think it was from a slashdot or usenet signature line. It has bounced around in my head for years, first because its obvious absurdity an non sequitur nature baffled me and offended me to my core... but recently because it has started to make more and more sense.

"Patriotism is Bigotry"
Or trans people, who have to jump through hoops to get hormones or surgery.
Personally, I've never liked the Camera and Safari icons -- somehow my brain never associated "round thingie" with "taking a picture" and "compass" with "reading web pages" (remember the old Netscape light-tower? I've always thought that was so weird). In that sense, I kinda like the new Camera more than the old one (although Ian's suggestion to make it dynamic is great).

I agree 100000% on the Videos icon. It's a relic: when every Mac user was a pro video-maker using video-editing tools every day, I guess it made sense to keep it consistent. I don't come from that background, so that icon never felt natural; I agree that a "Play button" would be so much better.

The idea of making icons dynamic is great and would go some way towards compensating for the lack of real-time home-screen apps. Newsstand proves that it can be done, and Apple should probably use it a bit more, battery be damned. There is a risk in opening such an API to third parties, that developers will start blinkifying their icons to jump at you, transforming one's home screen in a giant flashy billboard; but it would certainly be a nice touch for homegrown system icons.
In the end, ember-data calls are just wrappers for jQuery .ajax, so anything that ember-data can't handle out of the box, you can write yourself same way you do in Backbone.
you can get uncapped 4mb/s adsl for under R450pm in soweto and most middleclass suburbs from a multiple ISP.
One thing that amazes me is how much "fix things" is a matter of attitude -- of being willing to try, and willing to try again after failure.

I didn't grow up watching anyone fix things. I didn't particularly enjoy shop class in sixth grade. But I've fixed a bunch of stuff in my house just by reading a couple of pages in an old fix-it book, a webpage, or the instructions that come with the replacement parts, and then trying.
It's really not unfair at all.
Safari broken ECDHE-ECDSA workaround: (upgrade to 10.8.4) agl/openssl
Keep your head down and stay out of trouble, yes.
History has shown us repeatedly that concentration of power and resources is the root of all evil. Let the world be a collection of thousands of small states with maximum autonomy to each to govern itself. We used to have this exact configuration in past but that resulted in frequent battles between states. That was again an attempt to grow big and concentrate power. Part of the reason was that the arangement was not created rather it grew out of the natural evolution.
So as we re-create such an arangement, we can take measures like creating loose federations of multiple levels with UN-like institution at each level. With autonomous small states, the true democracy can be realized quite easily.

However, this decentralization has to be done not only for government but also for economy, because concentration of power by any means – be it money or military will ultimately force concentration of other powers.

"My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest… No country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak… Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted fascism… True democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the center. It has to be worked from below, by the people of every village." - MK. Gandhi
It's possible that people commonly conflate their feelings towards Mono with their feelings about the general CLR/C# environment.

Not saying that's definitely the case here, but how many web-targeted projects exist for .NET/Mono? Obviously, there's ASP/MVC - but what else? Compared to the number of web frameworks/etc for Java? (I don't know.)

The anti-Microsoft sentiment seems strong among web devs. So, when new devs start out, they might read a lot about how if it comes from Microsoft - it can't be good. I am fairly certain that that is a strongly contributing factor to people's avoidance of it.
It never occurred to me to call the person writing Jerry. I have always thought of the writing as Tycho's. I mean that in the same way I would say Hamlet said "To be or not to be..." rather than Shakespeare said.
Your model seems easier at first. But it seems to depend on a simplified model of media consumption where the iTunes store is the only source of media. What if I buy audio from someone else? What if I acquire it via a regular web download? What if it's given to me on a USB stick? What if I create audio of my own? What if I have a bunch of audio that fits on my computer, but is too big for my iPhone harddrive, and I want to be able to pick and choose what goes to what device?

As soon as you run into the need to move content seamlessly between programs, devices, and services--in ways the makers didn't necessarily imagine--you need some kind of universal means of interchange. Something that is infinitely flexible and controlled by the user. As it turns out, we've had this for a while: files.

Now, you can ask for tweaks to the way the filesystem is used. Want the primary interface model to be searching, rather than browsing through folders? Ok, that's great. Things like Spotlight are already a step in that direction, and they can be enhanced. Want tagging? Sure! While I don't see it heavily integrated into current operating systems, I'd imagine it would be very doable.

But none of this is incompatible with the current filesystem model. It would just be a layer on top.
I was about to yawn, until I saw the priceing. That's pretty good.
This five thousand times. This is precisely my sentiment on the matter.

I'm not such a fanboy as to believe Apple's infallible, but I do firmly believe they'll know when they've screwed up. You can bet there are plenty of people running around Apple gauging the public reaction to iOS7. If they think it's really a major pain point for the public, they'll do something about it. Otherwise, it won't really matter.

Remember when the iPad came out and thought it was a rushed joke with an awful name?
Sympathy for the Luddites
It's a shame that we've developed all of these beautiful high-resolution/high-contrast displays...and now we're putting everything on-screen in light grey on a bright white background in Helvetica Light.

My eyes just can't take this. I'm not colorblind but I do need reading glasses. I wiped the iOS Gmail app just because the contrast gave me headaches.
> Glass is hardly the problem there - if the conversation is interesting, people will turn off any music being played and ignore whatever is happening on Glass.

Not necessarily. People can be very distracted by cell phones which are normally kept in one's pocket or purse. Having glass on your face with visual pop-ups would be even more distracting, regardless of the conversation, because it would be a lot harder to ignore incoming alerts or other cues.
I really don't think he understands ruby web servers well... Using Puma on MRI is silly. You get none of the threading gains it was designed for. It needs to run in jruby or rubinius for it to be mildly accurate.

Also, Puma ain't the fastest ruby web server. I'd like to see this same test run using Thin 2.0 (though it'll make you cry-- or so they say), Unicorn, or Rainbows.

As well, as others have said, comparing a large framework to one without is silly.

I'm not hating on go or saying rails is fast, I just feel like this is a particularly bad demonstration of the authors point.

This is more of a correlation, than causation. Too many factors not accounted for, or mentioned, which obviously contribute to the results.
Even if he were literally a baby, the only thing that would matter is whether the points he makes are sound.
This is price discrimination at work. It's basic economics 101 that monopolists or duopolists (such as Steam in PC games, or Microsoft and Sony in consoles) in a market will price their goods above the actual marginal cost of their goods, thus undersupplying the market. They would like to charge lower prices to some customers -- they are happy to sell to your brother for $30 because it's certainly well above their marginal costs. Unfortunately, it takes an awful lot of market power to be able to charge different prices to different consumers. Otherwise you will just have people arbitraging away all your profits (case in point, the folks who do a thriving business buying Steam games in the US region and trading them to folks in Australia and Germany).

Anyways, long story short, it's really hard to price discriminate in typical markets, because it's both really hard to figure out which of your customers will pay full price, and it's really hard to stop the people who get discounts from reselling to the full price folks.

But, if your market is digital, flash-in-the-pan pop culture items, then you have a market that's pretty much tailor-made for price discrimination. Who will pay $60 for a game? Well, the ones who buy it on launch, or pre-order for nominal bonuses. How do you stop the the people who buy at a discount from selling to those who pay full price? Two ways -- you attach the game via DRM to an account that is inconvenient to transfer, and you only sell the discounted copies 2 years later. Sales are also a good way to do this -- many people who buy games in sales either were waiting for a sale because the price was too expensive, or heard about the game because of the sale and wouldn't have bought the game otherwise.

The current status quo is that all the profit from the $30 customers is going to GameStop. Microsoft would rather it go to themselves and their developers, so they would rather have digital downloads. Not so they can stop games from being sold at $30, just so that they can sell games themselves at that price without killing their market.
The main goal in that project is to provide primitives on top of $.ajax that are required by ember. Key thing to keep in mind is that it's just $.ajax under the covers.
Very interesting. Had you learned any language / had experience trying to learn a new language before this? How is your current knowledge of French, Spanish and Russian, and how long did it take to reach that level? As someone who has an incredibly hard time learning languages, this intrigues me greatly (not that I'm necessarily interested in trying this)
I think it took hold so quickly because it is a self-reinforcing cycle. Picture a well-to-do father who makes good money and spends too much time at work. He elects to outsource things like laying tile and repairing his car, because he spends little enough time with his family as it is. As a result, what opportunity do his children have to learn these things? Thus, over the course of just one or two generations, you move from "valuing your time" to "completely unable to perform repairs".

It doesn't surprise me, either. My father was very much that type of father. I luckily picked up a lot of the skills on my own volition, but already I choose to pay someone else to replace my radiator when I could do it myself, even though I am yet unencumbered by family duties.
Of course, the idea that it's useless to try is guaranteed to accomplish nothing.
Tangential to the actual post's content, but I'm a bit miffed at the "Microsoft is the victim of bad messaging" trope: what distinguishes "bad messaging" from the argument not made (deliberately or not) is, apparently, the existence of an argument deemed better - but that's never been any basis to determine the former. Talk about the potential of Microsoft's system (and we can do so independently of Microsoft) - but the act itself is nothing that deserves pity or accommodation. A policy of taking arguments at face value at the very least allows for consistency.
Yeah, I've stopped caring much about what the general populace thinks about issue X since they seem to mostly just respond with what they think they should say.
What option did they add that helps with this?
Interesting- we are starting to see more and more APIs that interface with real physical objects. Is this the new advent of APIs?

Am i going to be able to purchase a pizza delivery whilst printing a shirt and having my car unlock for the car wash guy all from my phone as I'm heading home.

What other real life APIs are there available atm?
Weirdly, I had no idea what he was talking about in the final paragraph, because I lack enough background information. But somehow I enjoyed reading it anyway, because of the last sentence. That was brilliant.
at the top of my head reddit and youtube are written in python...
Developer interest in iOS 7 beta is twice as high as iOS 6 beta
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Their example replaced gray with pure white, and I'd guess that the former is far more prevalent in the world than the latter. They also complain about colors being too saturated (even though the colors they talk about range from 60 - 80% saturated, and are in no way "pure", ignoring that such a notion is an artificial one to begin with).

But I'm not sure why prevalence in the real world is relevant at all. We're not talking about some Samsung claim of being inspired by nature, and skeudomorphs are not the goal. I don't think natural prevalence is relevant at all.

So white is "better" than gray. Less saturated is "better" than more saturated. At least in the author's opinion. Narrative beyond that (such as the notion that some colors are too easy) is just trying to build some structural justification for those notions.
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No, sadly iOS doesn't work this way. Yes, there is a filesystem on an iOS device. But the user doesn't access it directly. Instead, the user must rely on some rather opaque abstractions called "syncing" that Apple has introduced. Syncing in this context basically amounts to copying and deleting files, but iTunes decides what to copy and delete. Sometimes it makes choices you would find counterintuitive. I've definitely seen it ruin people's days.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who's anal about redirecting to the canonical host name. Now, let the bike-shedding begin: should the canonical host name be www.foo.com or foo.com?
Snowcrash was 1992. People who are thoroughly wired are referred to disparagingly as "gargoyles".
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You should submit it to a few subreddits, too.
Actually, should work as long as the zip code is right.
The other ship would have momentum in the direction Of you. I suppose you could swap your hulls charge to repell
In this case, I would say no. What I said is a very basic observation. Why do you ask?
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It's absolutely not unfair. Even to the beta Apple has invested a ton of time putting their UI designs front and center. If they didn't want them to be the travesty they are now they would have made them differently.

It's hard to believe that there's any other reason the icons look this way other than through intention. And then the question becomes about Apple's taste level.
Imagine if you could tie this api into a game, you level up your character and get a t-shirt with all the new equips/stats to show off to your friends...
... really not sure where to go with this particular comment.

shirts.io would appear to be using Bootstrap, which will give a common popular minimalist style to their site - of which Stripe is a good example (but I don't think they use Bootstrap).

However, I'm not really seeing anything on their site that immediately screams 'We cribbed our design from Stripe'.

Do you have something you can point to?
> The thought of speaking to someone wearing the device makes me a little uncomfortable. I realize that may sound a little luddite-esque to certain members of this community, but there you have it.

Not to me. It's the social equivalent of walking around holding your smartphone, recording everything. Sure, you might not actually be recording everything, but when you hold it up like that I have no idea if you are.

An audio-only version of glass may be more socially palatable.

Still though, it'll be interesting to see how this works when it is available for the common public. I personally feel that people wearing bluetooth headsets in public are sorta douchey-looking (just my personal impression), I wonder if that's going to be any different with Glass (I doubt it).
I love the variety of icons on Android, especially how they use different shapes. "Forcing" icons to always be rounded squares seems so silly to me.

Random examples:

https://lh5.ggpht.com/mKx3_D9fhszXZ3A-03zI5qsKi4yiecWo8i1jm_...

https://lh5.ggpht.com/nENqr4mCerIwGYtbn6lAhaWSE7P1itMRp_A5yL...

https://lh6.ggpht.com/T7nxYYhpmGDzg5Ckwu3L7Jb4HTHyKdGoz0n2u1...

https://lh6.ggpht.com/os72icmFlDtbxpYbZCP-v6kOereSLGDmlKsBl1...

https://lh6.ggpht.com/H_b-56TTd9bE-TOx13irsriNiqHCHijeaEcSaf...
Maybe this is true, but T-Mobile USA does outsourced billing via AMDOCS so 100% of call metadata is leaked anyway.
Do you ship internationally?
I dunno. His writing has always seemed extremely persona-driven: that is, he's still Tycho when he writes the news items. It's deliberately inflated with self-importance, to give the sense of a snobbish art critic in an area where that kind of persona is rare and a little absurd. I find it amusing.
I completely agree. I would have phrased it as:

A religious devotion to "rationality" is the most insidious form of irrationality.
If an incorrect paper makes it into PRL, and someone is really sure, then there's blood in the water, and the sharks can be merciless.

I haven't read the papers, so I can't comment except to say that, just as Physics can let you be really right about something in nature, if you're not correct, sometimes you can be really wrong.
All I want to know is, can SSH traffic be decoded ?

I don't trust SSL, for various reasons of implementation and many, many questions about weak links in the PKI chain, etc.

But I rely on SSH. I'd like very much to see some kind of assurance that this is a reasonable thing to rely on...
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Ah, at least.
Yeah, medical procedures can make you better. In case your condition is acute. But we have no single medicine that will make healthy human better for a lifetime. Well, single medicated "you" MAY outlive "you" without a medicine, but that is a play of statistics, in general there is no force to tell ya if you will suffer instead.
Even a vaccine is a simulation of acute condition, but the key for this effect is single stimulation.
Lois Lerner taking the 5th is another conservative bad-faith argument. She submitted written responses to inquiry prior to her taking the 5th, proclaimed her innocence in no uncertain terms, and then even after invoking the privilege against self-incrimination nonetheless gave testimony as to her previous answers that were part of the hearing record and which covered the very issues the committee was considering. http://legalinsurrection.com/2013/05/house-irs-hearings-live...

Her innocence has never been questioned. But conservative media play the clip on loop, acting like she didn't testify to presumably hide information (and she still testified!)

"If Congress doesn't act, I will" is another bad faith argument. I implore you to watch the clip from where that quote originated: http://www.politico.com/multimedia/video/2013/02/state-of-th...

Just read the quote and tell me how it can be construed as executive overreach: "I urge this Congress to pursue a bipartisan, market-based solution to climate change, like the one John McCain and Joe Lieberman worked on together a few years ago. But if Congress won’t act soon to protect future generations, I will. I will direct my Cabinet to come up with executive actions we can take, now and in the future, to reduce pollution, prepare our communities for the consequences of climate change, and speed the transition to more sustainable sources of energy."

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Please understand why rational people don't respond to conservative talking points: http://cboye.wordpress.com/2010/01/27/bad-faith-arguments/
Personally, I don't have a problem with people seeing footage of me in public. Well, not too much. I've always thought that since 1) the recording is legal (AFAIK) and 2) I'm okay with it, everyone else should be and if they aren't, too bad. I've come to realize that this is a Terrible Thought.

PRISM is (arguably) legal, and there are plenty of people that support it, yet I am completely against the program. This is probably just a me thing, but in case it isn't, just be aware that because you think being recorded in public is okay that everyone else is.
I thought of Stripe too.

1. Logo looks similar-ish
2. API functionality in a similar place
3. Similarly proportioned "reasons to love us"

Not a bad thing -- Stripe's design is good.
I think a lot of people who oppose ubiquitous, unchecked surveillance also want to fix the two-party system, and would have a hard time compromising on the second to accomplish the first.
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> Microsoft didn't invent the flat rectangle.

They did, however, create a set of design principles for user interfaces for computer applications (inspired in large part by particular pre-computing graphic design styles, but also including particular principles for providing affordances and feedback for interactive applications within that graphic style.)