skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like you are right on it, the whole point with the article is the fact that I don't like iOS7. That's the entire build up.

Tim stated quoting "Customer Sat rating is our number 1 priority". Well I'm a huge customer and my sat rating went from #mindblown to #deadirritated

So the fact that you don't get the article is strange to me, because you expressed the very essence of it in your comment above.
I'd have to agree with you. There's quite a few errors on the homepage too.

> "... is used in Google Chrome, the open source browser from Google."

should probably say Chromium.
As usual, incentives are in the wrong place.
Russia's best anti-US play right now is to offer massively cheap bandwidth between China/Korea/Japan, South Asia, and Europe.

Yes, they will have to look after it. No, it won't be cheap. But in terms of intelligence gathering, it has the potential to significantly impact the US' ease of access to huge bodies of information by cutting North America out of the heart of the internet.
Directive:
This directive directly directs the directing directors to direct said directives.
I can't believe we're having an argument here. First of all, if you are a US citizen then most of what you've been fed about "Al Quaeda" is nonsense. Second of all, you don't appear to understand what distributed means. I wouldn't be depending on Ecuador/Cuba/China in isolation but rather everywhere. Before you waste anymore time you should probably read some articles on wikipedia.
This made me laugh out loud for real. Like in 1995.
As an author, I can say that much of the length of my books/courses comes down to experience in the classroom from the previous teach/course or from feedback I get from students. A contrived example:

1) For product release 2.0 in 2000, I create a 2-day course and write a companion 300-pg book. I teach said course and students say, "Dang... not what I hoped for. It's too much intro and not enough stuff that I can use to accomplish"

2) Marketing/sales team comes to me and says, "We need more beef. The feedback is that people have trouble installing and configuring and, as a result, the rest of the book/course is tough. Also, we need to highlight these new features"

3) Version 3.0 of said software comes out and, to accommodate everything and everyone, the course becomes a 3-day adventure and the book is now 400 pages. The feedback this time is "Okay, now we're seeing trouble at the basics - we need more time spent on x and y"

4) Version 4.0 comes with a 4-day course and a 500-page book. The sales team pushes back and says, "No way we can sell a 4-day course. Make it 3-days. And by the way: don't remove any content!" Yikes - that's impossible. The compromise then is that I keep high-level content (overviews, introductions) to sections and move the content from the course to the book. I then have to expand the book by 100 pages (it's now a 600 page book).

5) Version 5.0 comes out in 2010 and it's a total re-design of the software. There are also completely new features that are very complex. Sales says, "Great job on the last course - don't change anything, just add the new features!" Hello 800 page book!

6) It's 2013 and now every pubs manager knows this cycle backwards and forwards. A new tech comes out and the pubs folks go ahead and tell the author, "Don't bother writing a succinct intro - go ahead and flesh it out. It needs to be at least 500 pages or else people are going to complain that it doesn't have enough meat and weight."

"But Scott, this is your problem. A better author could show in 200 pages what you took 800 pages to show!"

There's simply a minimum amount of time that it takes to teach a topic. It's all about "scope" - if the scope of the book is to teach you the basics to a programming language, it just can't be done in 200 pages for any sufficiently complex language. I think that the way to approach this is to (a) design design an actual in-person training course in which real human students will sit in a room with you, and your job is then to teach them a skill that they will have to take back to their job (which paid handsomely to send them). Given a 6.5 hour training day (9:00-4:30 with breaks, lunch = ~6.5 hours of training time), how many days of training is your course? A given day is probably 150-300 pages in a book. If you try to "Teach Java in 6.5 hours", it just doesn't work. You might need 3-5 days to learn the true basics of the language in such a way that you can "think in Java" (which is the basic starting point). Bam - 1000+ page book.
My wife buys fabrics from them. Class.
I wonder why? Did you disagree on the content or was there anything else you felt needed a change, feedback is more than welcome. Also transparency. So tell me how you feel about the issue.
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I was talking strictly about the US. I'm aware that there are actually places on this earth that have a problem with terrorism. The US isn't one of them.
I think its an interesting point. Its a volume rather than quality driven approach. Its a shame but I understand it has to be this way considering that quality in this case of a book and its content is a very subjective thing.
Obviously providing such data to the NSA is a crime. It's helping a foreign power, and it is taking away jobs from Russians at various Russian intelligence programs who now have less information about Russian citizens to look at.....
It seems the site is redirecting to http://www.lingscars.com/_donotsteal.html for me?
Edward Snowden and the security state laid bare -- Clay Shirky
Beautiful.

If you enjoy this sort of thing you may like this: http://cloudappreciationsociety.org/
w-hat are they doing wrong?

http://www.lingscars.com/ redirects to http://www.lingscars.com/_donotsteal.html

Firefox (NoScript) shows:

The page isn't redirecting properly

Iceweasel has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.

This problem can sometimes be caused by disabling or refusing to accept cookies.

Lynx shows:

lynx http://www.lingscars.com/

Looking up www.lingscars.com
Making HTTP connection to www.lingscars.com
Sending HTTP request.
HTTP request sent; waiting for response.
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Data transfer complete
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Using http://www.lingscars.com/_donotsteal.html
Looking up www.lingscars.com
Making HTTP connection to www.lingscars.com
Sending HTTP request.
HTTP request sent; waiting for response.
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Data transfer complete
HTTP/1.1 302 Found

lynx: Start file could not be found or is not text/html or text/plain
Exiting...
that iOS7 is not simplicity as Tim and Apple stakes, and that I don't like iOS7, wich make Apples number 1 priority ( customer sat rating ) to plunge infinite.
Completely agree with your question. I think if the author can't explain it conceptually in a chapter or two may be the author dosnt know it really well or should employ a ghost writer
Sounds like a bug, I'd suggest you report it.
>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.

People keep repeating this reasoning. I can't understand why.

"Everything" doesn't have to have been "better in the old days", and nobody, except strawmen, argue that.

But SOME aspects of the old days, e.g pertaining to LESS fucking SURVEILLANCE, were. That's enough to be angry about and want to reverse course on that particular front.

>Of course that was only if you were a white anglo cis straight christian.

Which is totally beside the point.

Did somebody argue here that slavery was good? No, people just argue that modern surveillance (and legal-code-overload) is bad.

Not to mention that surveillance today is bad for everyone: "white anglo cis straight christians", homosexuals, blacks, and what have you.

We should not mix up orthogonal issues.
+1

Maybe it is because of my ad-blocker?
> Since where Security is a precondition to Freedom ?

If you have zero physical security, that means that anyone can come up and just knock you down and take your things, your woman, whatever... Not my idea of "freedom".

I think that it follows that you do need some security in order to live a free life. Does that justify secret government spying programs? Probably not!

People here seem to have awfully black and white thoughts about some aspects of life.

> yet we are losing our liberties at an alarming speed.

Except for minorities (at least for some things, like, say, being able to vote in Alabama), gays, people who consume marijuana in Washington and Colorado, and various others who have gained rights recently. It's not black and white.
Aurora hackers may have accessed Prism
Right? Whois checks out, though.
Of course they do. The thing is that Snowden's status makes him a huge asset for every foreign power out there. Who knows where he will go. The US government would be smart to give him immunity to prosecution for this act (and merely take away his security clearance) just to keep that from happening.
This is different and you know it. The Normandy invasion is one specific operation of one specific group. Cops doing a raid would be a similar thing. In both cases, their activities are isolated to that one specific area and they only need be secret for a relatively short period of time.

Contrast this with things like NSA: no end date, literally global scope, etc. Surely you can see how these things are different.
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.li...
The downloads page has just lorem ipsum.
I can't link to it now because the site is down, but lingscars has a PDF of 'web design tips' where she explains the design and gives tips on website design. She's obviously got an eccentric public image, and the design tips document is a bit of a joke, but the design here was a deliberate choice to differentiate the site from competitors, make potential customers feel less intimidated and more socially involved. There was even a webcam of the office with a button which apparently played a song in the office when you pressed it.

The business is also doing very well.
via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5860958

The Aurora hackers gained access to Google's servers to a database that contained information on US surveillance targets, the Washington Post reported this week, citing former and current government officials as sources for the story.

Washington post article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/chines...
The docs look Russian and the Author page is Lipsum :P http://redis-v8.com/author/

Looks like a very early post :)

It sounds like he used V8 to replace redis's network stack? Doesn't make much sense to me, but maybe someone can explain why this is awesome :)
They're probably the most popular PC parts store in Australia (I've bought from them), yet it looks like they couldn't afford to upgrade their site template they created in 1997.
Take note of the white ‘sample’ written over the VISA/MasterCard pictures.
Yeah, I'm just about to do that.

[edit] Their bug report form has a bug. https://bugs.opera.com/wizarddesktop/ keeps failing for me. If somebody else can submit this, it would be much appreciated.
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I don't know what you mean by "catch up with Java" but when I was getting acquainted with Java for the first time, I remember searching all over the place for a good in depth yet terse tutorial only to realize that the official docs and official tutorial were the best thing out there.
For official state use, not general use.
webcache - so this site worked - and went down by a Hacker News DDoS of only 31 points (3100 visitors) in 56 minutes.

/me sings http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY0WxgSXdEE
It seems to me with Linux's dominance, FUSE is becoming an attractive way to export APIs, since by operating at the filesystem layer full access is guaranteed to all programs regardless of creed... without having to write a C library, or a corresponding library for every language. This is particularly useful for shell scripts. It's still a tradeoff though, and *BSD'ers won't be super pleased if it becomes too popular.
> Terrorism is not about numerical risk, it is about public perception.

Public perception is driven by media. Why was so much time spent covering the Boston bombing? The event claimed three lives, it should have been a byline on the local Boston news.

If you self immolate, no news outlet will cover it because they want to discourage this kind of behavior. We need to do the same thing with terrorism for related reasons: terrorism makes people irrational. The risks of terrorism are practically non-existent but people get emotional and irrational about it. So the best thing is to just stop covering terrorist attacks.
They don't address Government back doors into their routers as a result of CALEA etc.

See:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/routers/7600/ios/12.2SR/conf...

and:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Assistance_for_L...
That's largely irrelevant to my point. The average person doesn't think google is going to use their information against them, which is why they allow google to engage in such invasive tracking (also, they don't realize how much google tracks). At the same time, the average person doesn't share HN's reflexive distrust of the government. Desensitized to privacy issues by google, etc's, tracking, it doesn't cause them any consternation that the government has access to that information too. They don't perceive either entity as a threat.
I guess the author of redis-v8 is not the one who submitted this to HN.
In most cases, revolution was dynamite that blew up the old regime, and had little bearing on creating a desirable society and regime to take its place. In most of Europe this happened through centuries of political reform.

We like to romanticize the few revolutions that had positive outcomes (America), but also downplay the utterly disastrous consequences of others (France).

We also like to ignore that today's terrorists are often what we used to call revolutionaries. (Was 9/11 was not Act 1 in a revolution in US governance?)

My point is that violence exists, and revolutions happen. But they exist to destroy, not to create. Annoying, compromising, good old politics haVe to clean up the mess and replace it with something better. That's rare.
New York Times XSS Leak
New York Times XSS Leak
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The same applies though - how often do you hear AAC news? In the last few years I remember maybe one or two stories about improvements in slightly-incompatible variations; no changes to the base spec. Looking at wikipedia, even AAC+ v2 (which I believe is considered current?) seems to have been stable since 2006.
Yeah great conspiration theory, the prism slide says that Skype started cooperating on 6th February not 2nd June :)
Then ask a fucking lawyer.
Jeez, it took you all of three sentences to get "Self-centered philosophies" in there in your hate-on for the economic portion of Rand's philosophy.

This thread and the quote to which you responded are really about the creation of criminals by those in power through the manipulation of arbitrary law.
This has already been posted. The conclusion was that all of the documents are publicly available and that there was nothing groundbreaking inside them, despite the swathe of impressive sounding govspeak.
Ouch! Looking at it. Have created a bug about it already, so no need to report.
Has 'fruit of the poisonous tree' ever shut down a line of evidence in a terrorism investigation? Will it? I don't really expect our security apparatus would tolerate a restriction like that. 9/11 changed everything...

If they can't get their way in the courts, who takes the fall for "letting a terrorist go free"?
Correct. The motherboard is the key, followed by the WIFI adapter.
I think 1984 is less allegory than Animal Farm though?
Level 0 uses less CPU (and improves battery life).
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https://twitter.com/LINGsCARS/status/344424290189455360
It looks like the bugwizard hasn't been updated to make it obvious how to report mail bugs yet, but I have filed your issue.
You have this mistaken idea that google is a "steward" of your information. They're just someone who has your information (I.e. Your level of trust of them has no basis in any actual obligations they have with respect to your information--see facebooks ever shifting privacy policies for proof that they have no particular obligations).

Its not a "search" of you to get information google keeps about you using government powers. It just isn't. The framers did not contemplate that people would freely hand over private information to third parties who have no legal obligations to protect it.
Yes, but the US government is now in the position the * British government* was then. So telling them that their actions will prevent another Paul Revere isn't going to win them to your side.
"a worthy embodiment of the mythical "xMac""

It would certainly look great next to whatever black non-apple monitor(s) or TV(s) you wanted to plug into it.
>You don't seem to understand how design works.

Yes. Along with those high profile designers in Cupertino.

>Tell me you like those new icons.

You don't seem to understand how design works.

It's not about "liking" the icons. Icons are not pretty pictures for you to "like" or not. It's about how the thing works, and if they fit their role.

"Liking them" has little to do with it. If you check top downloaded themes for Gnome, KDE, or Windows theme managers, you'll find out that people "like" all kinds of BS junk.
Man, this is so enlighting. Much more than most of what I rad on HN for some time.
Thx for the link!
I would imagine that it's reached the point of diminishing returns -- it would take months of hard work to squeeze another 1% compression out of the format, in which time hard drive space per dollar has gone up by 10% with no effort (on the part of the software developer) at all.

(There are probably still compression technologies waiting to be invented; but applying them within the constraints of an existing format is hard or impossible, and creating a new format means you need a /massive/ improvement to make switching attractive for the consumer)
Of course that was only if you were a white anglo cis straight christian.

I always find this line to be the lead-in for a false dichotomy. Either we have this big overpowering government with tentacles into all our lives or we have slavery.

We could instead maintain our sense of respect for all people of all races while also respecting the individual and the civil society enough to allow it to function without the iron fist of government.
Apple OS X doesn't restrict. iOS does, but that hasn't hurt its success: Apple is largely supply or carrier constrained. !I don't think Apple is playing the game you want them to.
From what I've read the desktop version lost basically everything that was special to Opera. I know it's early builds but I think many features won't make it back.
What are you talking about? Britain was his government/country. By today's definitions the man was a terrorist aid. The founding fathers were all terrorists doing things like the Boston Tea Party and shooting only officers when rules of the day prohibited that kind of behavior.
They're not "betting the farm" on it: they're locked into Thunderbolt because Intel sold them an end-to-end platform, from CPU to chipset to everything in between. That "everything in between" includes Thunderbolt; it's the reason you haven't seen the latest USB on a Mac in forever. Even in spite of a dearth of options, Thunderbolt was the only way to go on a Mac because Intel said so.
Personally I feel I know java from J2EE/2004-5 days After that I have been doing more non tech work then tech work. As a example I missed out on annotations, and everything after that. While I do know what annotations and generics etc do. I feel my knowledge has gaps because I learned it in bits and pieces (read I learnt about it in passing when I need to). As a result I feel the need to 'brush up' - basically looking to feel confident such that I have a good grip on Java as it is today. If you have any specific tips on how I can brush up, I am all ears.
Hiding it is riskier than just not having it there in the first place. Why blacklist when you can whitelist?
Accessible with a swipe from the lock screen.
The 4th amendment protects your personal information, not just information that isn't public. That's a big difference. I might not be able to obtain your call metadata, but hundreds of people at Verizon have access to it. Indeed, its not even you data. They generated it.

Do you ever think the framers contemplated you being able to invoke the 4th to protect other people's letters about you?
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I really enjoyed the cookie ticker. Here are its full contents: http://pastie.org/8034213

Unfortunately, the site seems to have detected me mucking about (perhaps because I deleted the element containing the annoying flash video?) and redirected me to /_donotsteal.html (which itself was a redirect to /_donotsteal.html) for a while. Now it just serves me a 1-byte file for any URL, except for /_donotsteal.html, which is 4 bytes.
I think he's talking about how China blocks a lot of American online services. Russia could head in that direction too, though for different motives.
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It's driven partly by the economics of publishing technical books.

Technical books are often more expensive to develop; there may be more authors, technical editors, illustrators, etc. working on a technical book. A book may have only one or a few authors listed on the cover, but if you look at the acknowledgements page there may be a dozen or more people involved.

Technical books also typically have a smaller potential audience than other books; you can count the number of technical blockbusters on the fingers of one hand.

As a result, publishers must price technical books relatively high. In order to convince buyers that their book is worth the higher price, they make it longer. In the case of Java books, they throw in huge appendices that cost them very little in development cost. Most Java books include the interface specifications of the complete set of Java libraries; information which is widely available online.

Your best bet is to find a highly rated book, skim the first 50 or more pages to get past the parts where the author explains why his book is the best in the field, then stop reading when you hit the first appendix. I would also recommend buying the e-book version of the book; being able to electronically search through a technical book is hugely valuable.
Wow that is a lot like a site I would have made in 1997. (I'm not a web designer, but back then sometimes there was no one else to do it.)

Except that Donald Norman would say that putting directions like "PLEASE NOTE: For GUIDE SERVICES, MEDIA RELATIONS and access to other HBO EXTRANET sites, use the links on the left." means that your user interface is not self-explanatory and should be fixed.
Finally, strong evidence that Tunguska event was caused by meteor
https://www.bof.nl/2013/06/11/bits-of-freedom-dutch-spooks-m... The press release from bof (dutch organisation like the eff) about this issue.
(and the problem preventing the bugwizard working at all should now be fixed)
given the huge brainwashing, I'm not surprised
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I don't agree with Brooks's viewpoint, but I would be curious to read how HN readers might refute (or support) his argument.
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