skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't there a rocking chair calling her name?

Or does her husband have even more war-profiteering to pursue?
I dunno about that. "Learning disability" has, as far as I understand, some kind of formal meaning that goes beyond mere laziness. It would be almost impossible to deduce whether the sister has that from the evidence presented.
> Chrome Apps are cool, Android is cool, but "Play Store" -- if it's just remotely as "submit for approval" as Apple, then thanks but no thanks.

It isn't. There's no approval process. Pay your developer registration fee and start putting apps in the store.
Is there a typo on the wikipedia page you linked to? Or did you intend to point to a civilization from 930-1262? A time when there was no gunpowder (in europe), movable type printing press, penicillin, electricity, combustion engines, etc...
Edward Snowden Is A 'Grandiose Narcissist Who Deserves To Be In Prison'
You have an interesting definition of "no one raises a murmur".
Hack your Brain by doing some Mind Mapping
CNN - Why we need government surveillance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZZLvVTWuJM
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I think he's referring to how the CIA was able to get the Stuxnet/Flame worm to disrupt the Iran nuclear centrifuges.[1] If the CIA or NSA want to put a virus on your machine, they can. Easily.

They can literally plant a worm or virus anywhere they want, because humans make mistakes. Heck, imagine they have hacked into the Windows auto-updater somehow and your own computer downloads and installs software on the first Tuesday every month without you even doing anything.

[1] http://www.news.com.au/technology/cia-suspected-for-super-we...
Did apple finally make a responsive web page? I'm on my phone so I can't test how it looks on a desktop.
Canada to adopt U.S. vehicle emissions standards
Ironic? Not in the least. Even if he only mildly knew about the things he described he has an understanding of the points of tap the state actors have free access to. In all generalities hiding from the NSA should be trivial with simple precautions (as it pertains to the Internet). Part of the problem is that those points of access are generally revered as daily can't-live-withouts and present trivial access and collection easement. The more interesting point will likely be that they don't find him - and then generalizations can be made about the efficacy of the NSA without their crutch. Good old 'Catch Me if You Can'?

TL;DR
Just because it's the NSA doesn't mean you can't beat them at what they do. There's always someone in the room smarter than yourself.
The whole idea of having democracy is that people should be able to throw out the people in power in case they make decisions that don't go well with the majority.

I don't have much problem in Government keeping phone records (I don't use a cellphone any way) but I do have a problem they doing this without telling me. NSA leaker has done the right thing. He must be hailed as a hero.
Google, Face, Apple, etc have to comply with law enforcement, so the point of the lawsuit is to end the program that's forcing them to cooperate under such vague circumstances.
Many as in raw # or as in percentage? To be honest I haven't met many of those, all the ones I know are more libertarians then conservatives so they don't take strong issue with the ACLU or EFF.
A couple of things after having played around with it on my iphone 5 for a while.

1. It "feels" slower, might be because it's not 100% optimized yet, but what I suspect is causing this feeling is the new animiations. Everything just feels sluggish, kind of like using an android feels to me.

2. It appears harder to locate things in apps.

3. The paralax animiations arent all that obvious and doesnt add as much depth as I initially thought it would.

4. Some of the app redesigns are really nice (address book for instance).

5. The thin font is really hard to see sometimes.

6. The new design of the notification view is really nice.

That's it for now.
It's time for some Cryptocating ;) https://crypto.cat/
What if he is not actually in Hong Kong? Just a ploy
I wish meta complaints about site a link points to would be flagged out of existence. This adds absolutely nothing to the discussion of the topic on-hand, the new Mac Pro. It takes up a ton of scrolling space with unrelated moaning garbage.
Actually, a 16x PCIe 3.0 slot can do ~128Gbit/s each way - ~256Gbit/s in total[1].

[1]: http://www.pcisig.com/news_room/faqs/pcie3.0_faq/#EQ3
"0. French only
All while42 members are french."

Why the homepage is in English by default then?
Before this can happen, there need to be better awareness / education as what "good" crypto is. For example, why bother hashing p/w's if you're not going to salt them. Why bother doing anything at all, if you're just going to use MD5. The problem with saying "encrypt all the things" is that guite a few devs will either do it half-assed to get their product out there and use crypto as a "feature", or want to do it right and aren't quite experienced enough to make the right choices. Crypto is good, but you have to do it right.
PRISM costs $20 billion USD per year, if I recall correctly. So that $3 billion, which is already minuscule in comparison to the federal budget, could actually be $17 billion saved.
The rubber stamp argument is brandished in any discussion about FISA anywhere, from message boards to NPR. But it's not hard to see that there are at least two phenomenon that can account for it:

(1) That FISA courts are not a meaningful check on the authority of NSA and the FBI to surveil people, or

(2) That the overwhelming majority of FISA cases involve prima facie legitimate surveillance targets.

I do not find (2) that hard to believe. I'm not a firm believer in FedGov competence, but I really don't think NSA analysts are making up random targets; neither, for that matter, does Snowden, who intimated as much when he was interviewed.

(Just because I don't think surveillance in the 2000's has been abusive, it does not follow that I think we should be unconcerned with checks on surveillance).
I really doubt somehow that app reviews in Apple are cahoots with the internal app developers.

Apple is too secretive for that.
The people don't vote for federal judges, who have lifetime tenure. Federal judges are thus insulated both from popular opinion and, to some extent, from politics. That's all I meant.
It's going to turn out this guy is a "spy" for China or a plant by the Obama regime to make America look bad or both.
What happens if they make you sign a waiver to allow all their collections to become voluntary disclosures, though. And don't hire you if you refuse.

Getting a clearance already means allowing a bunch of background investigations, medical records, financial records, etc. to be turned over.
And just to prove how cool @mitchellh is (or at least to prove the fact that he takes HN comments seriously), he has added another committer to Vagrant today.

https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/344231860009828352
Still kind of the same idea. Nothing new.
I think the idea is to have Clojure support as many runtimes as possible, or whichever runtime is best for the task. The JVM was the start and at this point has the biggest momentum, but there's not much stopping people from porting the language to a different runtime.
An introduction to elliptic curve cryptography
That is just too funny...that would be awesome if they made that the next name.
It may in fact be the reverse -- he could be a double agent and this could be a publicity stunt. The USG may have determined that this leak was inevitable and they decided to take control of the situation.

What is the end-goal? Legitimizing and expediting the surveillance industrial complex. The recent news about Indian authorities wanting to establish their own surveillance infrastructure certainly has many USG government contractors licking their lips waiting for the purchase orders to roll in.
We were in Union Square at noon today for exactly the reasons this thread exists.
My comment isn't flamebait - I genuinely think iOS has played catch up to Android for the past 2-3 years.

But ya, vendors taking forever to update Android is a big problem. That's why I stick with Nexus devices.
why he choose the time Obama meeting with Xi, you know they will talk about network hacking issue?
why he select Hongkong for asylum ?
He was not such simple, he mean it.
Gesture Control: Are You Ready?
Looks like Apple on Anderoids
It's not going to change anything. For awhile now, they've been constantly shrinking and slimming their Mac Mini and iMac line and until today it looked like that's what they were focusing on in terms of desktop. It's always been a choice of a compact fully-configured iMac or a bulky cheaper, configurable PC tower and the towers didn't go anywhere. Now they're taking away the configurable part of the Mac Pro, so there are even more people who'll move to PC towers from their outdated last-gen Mac Pro.
So did you learn your lesson?

DON'T DEVELOP FOR APPLE.

Considering how many horror stories we've seen, I wonder why anybody would waste their time developing apps for that weird company.

Develop for open systems instead. They will win in the end.
To me this looks like an example of Apple's craftsmanship in depth where quality and elegance can be seen at multiple levels, from the case to the internal hardware to the OS and its APIs.

Certainly one can find flaws, but compared to a typical Windows machine Apple has more craftsmanship (in my opinion). Windows exhibits more of the "just get it done" utilitarian idea.
Woah, finally! Congrats to guys from Apptopia and to developers who are about to sell apps there!
> Far far less than Java jobs.

Especially in middle America, or corporate America.
it's not impossible that the Dev teams flag certain categories of apps shortly before launch dates to prevent similar applications from stealing their thunder so to speak. after all why get egg on their face when you violate the developer agreement retroactively?
How has nobody mentioned its size? I freaked out when I guesstimated 6.6 inches in diameter and 9.9 inches in height.

Size doesn't matter, but that's some astounding cramwork.
So on top of the almost-certainly really expensive Mac Pro, you now also need to get the really expensive PCIe expansion enclosure on top of it? Or did I miss nvidia or ati making thunderbolt video cards?

This is why the idea that this makes sense for professional users is silly. It's just asking them to spend a lot more money for something that's been possible with standard case designs for decades. The old Mac Pro was already a bit silly with its chassis that seemed designed to survive a car crash, but this one just takes the cake.

The cooling system design is innovative and interesting on its own, but this continues the trend of the Mac Pro being a check box for Apple instead of a real product.
Given few enough data points, you can fit any theory you want.
To be clear, Apple are claiming the ability to install both 32-bit and 64-bit kernels on a single disk, and select the correct one at boot time so that boot disks are transportable between 64-bit and 32-bit machines.

OS X has had this ability since 64-bit PPC days.
I don't mean the home button. I mean tapping the screen. I just remembered it's used for the keyboard capslock, anywhere else?
You also end up with people fearing the people unfortunately. Not sure how that was missing from the original equation.
I'm not sure how that could happen under the aegis of FISA.
I'm not necessarily in favor of government intervention here, but I do like the Android model: there is a sanctioned marketplace as the preferred distribution channel, but it's not the required distribution channel. This allows editorial control without creating a monopoly on app distribution for that platform.
it stops when you refuse to concede any sort of control in a vertical market you monopolize.
This is very true. It's why I seem to keep looking at Clojure articles and tutorials lately. I keep saying I should master language "X" then I jump to something new...Thankfully I'm just a hobbyist.
> I think ultimately the government will not be able to fix itself, one branch cannot fix another branch.

Bottom line: another July 4th is brewing... good. We need it!
Hopefully he's making his was to a country with not extradition back to the States.
Indeed. At first, I thought the use of "literally" was hyperbole. Then it almost sounded like Apple had stolen his thunder graphic (in which case, it would've been an awesome title). But no, so back to hyperbole. I do feel for the OP, but given the number of other animated weather apps, I don't think he had any thunder to steal.
And "there's a bus for that" if you want anything else. (referring to thunderbolt 2.0)
#1 is true whether or not #2 is true, because there is no adversarial process in the FISA courts. A one-sided legal process is never a meaningful check. With regular courts, even when the initial process is similarly one-sided (as it is with search and arrest warrants), the fact that the outcome will be subject to adversarial process down the road is something of a constraint (but, even then, I don't think anyone is going to be point to the regular warrant process as a particularly strong check on executive power.)

The FISA warrant process, because of its secrecy and because it is generally not subject to downstream adversarial process, isn't a meaningful check. If the judges on the FISA Court are extremely diligent, it might be better than nothing, but given the secrecy around it, its unlikely that anyone not directly involved will ever really know whether or not it is (which is one of the things that makes it less likely that it will be.)
Any devs know if its possible to html5 stream an encrypted mp4. I've heard that netflix was pushing drm in html5, but anyone know if its supported yet, or just proposed to the W3?
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I like Java, really. Learning it might be a good idea as the article suggests, you might find you like it too. It's solid, fast, tons of libraries, it's efficient for programming IMO.
I have a problem with the author's use of comparing the quantity of people killed by terrorists with the quantity of people killed by guns.

The media isn't fearmongering off 'death by planecrash'. Why can't he use something more direct like 'mistakenly-shot a family member that forgot their keys', or drive-by shootings, accidental-discharge-of-a-firearm-while-it-was-being-cleaned deaths? Unlocked gun cabinet related deaths?
The latter. But I'm going a step farther than you probably think I am. I'm terribly annoyed by the presumption geeks like us have that Americans are ok with surveillance because they're stupid. They're not: their stance on surveillance is entirely rational. It is a fact that most of them --- like, 99.999% of them --- really don't have anything to fear from NSA†; in fact, the cost/benefit of NSA surveillance vs. Islamist terrorism probably does favor NSA, for most of them.

† IN 2013!
Perhaps if you like unicorns puking all over your phone...

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/06/ios-co...
Your definition of 'monopoly' is not helping your argument.

Apple controls a very big portion of the handheld market and that portion is completely roped off by iTunes. Worse, if they see something they are doing, whether it's better or not, you can't get your competing app onto their device. Was this not the same issue with Sun's Java and IE back in the 90s?

Meanwhile, crazygringo has a website. Sure he controls the content of the site but doesn't prevent anyone else from publishing on the internet. If 'mjbaldwin.net' was one of only a couple portals on the internet, you might have an argument there.
I actually think this is a "Pro" machine - just the definition of "Pro" has narrowed to someone who does visual design work (FirePros instead of a more general purpose/off-the-shelf solution that can be swapped out for something specialized) and has large enough storage needs that they've probably got an external drive enclosure or NAS already (only the SSD for internal storage).

Unfortunately, that narrower version doesn't fit me. But since "Scientists" weren't mentioned in the litany of users of the Mac Pro, and apple.com/science is a 404 page now (which was better than the Leopard-era page that came before it talking about the innovative Workgroup Cluster), I suppose I shouldn't be surprised.
Informed meaning not lied to, not tricked, not mislead. If the government need to use the tricks of criminals to create new laws, then the government is doing something wrong.
Why does everyone assume China is doing industrial espionage, but nobody imagines PRISM is being used for that. If a low level employee has such access, the only question is how many people are using this to cheat the stock market? Are there trading algorithms that have access to PRISM?
as far as form factor, I'm eyeing an air, but that's reassuring to hear.
In Israel, cybersecurity classes begin in 10th grade
You're not the target audience. Notice the demo apps for the Mac Pro during the keynote: Final Cut Pro. The Mac Pro is not, and will not, be a developer's machine (though it could be).

There's the overall computing market, which overwhelmingly favors laptops. A subset of this market desires powerful desktop computers. An even smaller subset desires a self-serviceable desktop computer.

For everyone else, particularly people who who use these machines to make a living and are not overly technical (and have no real reason to be), a Mac Pro with a good support contract attached is far more valuable than one they can open and tinker with.

I think this particular point is overblown. Everywhere I look developers have overwhelmingly switched to MacBooks to little ill effect - machines that are far less expandable and less maintainable than these Mac Pros. It turns out that, if you use these machines to make money, it makes a lot more sense to let Apple take care of problems than to roll up your shirt.

Doubly so if you can't tell the front of a DIMM from the back.

Developers will continue buying MacBook Pros in droves. The Mac Pro is overwhelmingly a media machine.
Granted, that stuff shouldn't be in the repo, but some of us are both dev and ops, or just working on our personal site. Chill out.
For true. People have made noise about this since before OS X 10.2 Sherlocked Watson.
You don't understand irony. Many people don't (Alanis Morissette.) If my house burns down, that's unfortunate. If I install a fire detection system in my house and through a fault in itself it burns my house down, that's ironic.
It will be very frustrating if they don't make a dual coy socket version. If you do iOS development and large compiled code bases, a mac pro is the best you have. Hackintoshes waste your time in other ways.
When even the people who ought to care - the techies that know better - buy into it, I think it's fair to characterize an overall sense of acceptance.
How could there ever be an adversarial process for foreign intelligence surveillance? Can you explain how that could ever work?
Email addresses aren't exactly unique per-person though. I frequently forget which email I've used on a website, but rarely the username (except for ones where I don't get to choose)
This reminds me of Steve a bit... like the Next Cube 2013. Must be why it is black.
Except that they have the fan backwards - suck air up from the floor... along with all of the dust and crap.

Unless you're supposed to have this on your desk to show it off. I suppose that wouldn't be unusual...
There are 64 bits of randomness (however, they come from Math.random which is not so good...).

The encrypted text produced by this has a distinct signature - all message will contain "U2FsdG". Here's how we break this if you're Google/can force Google to do stuff:

1) Detect messages containing that OpenSSL 'magic number'

2) If detected, push something like this:

// Should check to see if GibberishAES exists to avoid errors if it doesn't...
// Grab target function as a string
var keycode = '' + GibberishAES.openSSLKey;
// Inject something evil
keycode = keycode.replace('key = result.slice(0, 4 * Nk);','key = result.slice(0, 4 * Nk); for (var pos = 1; pos < 4 * Nk; pos++) { result[pos] = 0; };');
keycode = 'EvilGibberish = {}; EvilGibberish.openSSLKey = ' + keycode;
// Execute the modified code to generate the new object
eval(keycode);
// Replace the 'good' keygen routine with the 'evil' one
GibberishAES.openSSLKey = EvilGibberish.openSSLKey;

This will zero all but the first 32 bits of the AES key, allowing easy brute forcing.

Note that this is based on something I wrote for a CTF, and I haven't tested it specifically against GibberishAES, but the technique works.
The idea that Anwar al-Awlaki was only guilty of 'speaking out against the government' is bananas.
I honestly thought Sea Lion was pretty cool.
Hahaha. Way too much credit is being given.
Stanford student looking for advice - dropping out and working?
I'm a Stanford student with decent CS academic experience on foundational software engineering concepts. I'm really burned out at school and I'd really like to just join the work force next year instead of returning to school. Ideally I'd like to hone my skills in an interesting job that I care about. One problem is I have literally zero work experience in CS/engineering jobs. So I'm planning on working on some projects with a friend this summer to build up my resume.

Does anyone have further suggestions? Or recommend that I finish school? I'd have over a year to go most likely.
Are you serious? Mavericks is awesome. One of the greatest surf breaks ever. Every bit as lethal as any of those cats and more a testament to human achievement. Personally I am looking forward to releases like Cloudbreak, Teahupoo, Waimea, and Shipsterns.
I didn't get that he was hinting at that. The problem is what Apple thinks is significant to the platform when they develop it versus when it's an outside developer.
What I don't understand is why the OP is even trying to teach stuff in which his sister is obviously not interested. He is seeking a solution to the wrong problem. "How do you get someone interested in math so he can develop the will to learn it ?" is the problem he should solve before trying to teach her anything. If he fails getting her attention on mathematics, then he's lost the game and she'll have to wait until she gets interested, or just do something else (which is fine, by the way).

What I think is most depressing on another note, is that even though she clearly isn't learning maths, she'll probably stay in the average of her class, and with this attitude eventually even get a university degree in domains where comprehension of maths is the cornerstone.

I'm a software engineering student at what you'd call a "valued" university. It is unarguably essential to understand basic university maths, and yet so many of my friends would just give their faith into "applying formulas" with little to no idea on what's going on in fairly easy topics like introductory linear algebra, and they'll even sometime get As because the teacher gave up when he asked for a little reasoning on the midterm (failing half the class) and gives a silly final.

I think the issue is more that we force people into doing what they don't want to do.
Her sister doesn't have to understand maths at her age, she can wait until she feels the need to (and she will for these simple maths problems, but later).
>> Stream.of(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
.map(x -> x * x).filter(x -> x % 2 == 0)
.reduce(0, (sum, x) -> sum + x);

If I catch anyone writing Java code that I will have to work on writing Lambda expression crap like the above I will hit the ceiling. How can you debug junk like that?
I didn't define monopoly or claim he had one. Re-read his suggestion: "a company shouldn't have to be a monopoly for anticompetitive behavior to become illegal".