skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's say my experience with cryptography and web security can be summed up with 'using bcrypt' and 'using ssl.' Would I be able to learn from this or would I need to seek out something more basic first?
Google Glass Hardware Teardown
Ed Snowden was wrong professionally, but right by every other standard
Can you imagine the founders approving Ben Franklin's postal service had they imagined its agents would open every piece of mail? Or even kept records of senders, recipients, locations, and dates?
https://cdn.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json?url=google.com

Works for me.
Shia LaBeouf: phone surveillance whistleblower?
"iOS 7 is different. It isn’t just a new skin: it introduces entirely new navigational and structural standards..."

Beyond the parallax effect, what are these new navigation and structural changes? I'm not trolling here, I'm genuinely curious. I'm about to build a new iOS app and I did not see major navigation or structural changes that would drastically affect how I design an app's UI or UX.
Thats an interesting read. Getting a technical developer to think as holistically as you laid out in that essay is a challenge. Its a challenge that I find very difficult, when I just want to dig into code, I have to continually tell myself to step back and see the bigger picture.
And how that fit for non-standar UIs?
Is the community jumping the shark, or is Hacker News under a denial-of-service attack? It's hard to tell.
Fragmentation :)
I don't think Customs needs any help from the NSA. Search incoming passenger manifests for anyone with a return ticket more than 5 months from arrival, then just search twitter and facebook pages for anyone on that list. Voila!
I'm getting a 404 for that link. Anybody got a mirror?
I think this is just due to the form of a news article.

"The mistake was made by IBM Technical expert Julia Smith, 38, from Palm Springs, Colorado. Julia, who graduated from Stanford in 2001 was described by neighbors as serious and career focused".

Age, place of birth / residence, education, marital status, character. Journalists will mention as many of these as they can easily find out (and they have established ways of easily finding out). When they find something unusual, in these things they are checking anyway, it becomes that persons defining characteristic, a hook for the story.
Yeah, bit disappointing. What's actually happening is that the tickets are reserved, but I have no way of releasing them or any of that. There are still 6 tickets here -- if anyone wants one, shoot me an email. First come, first serve.

Definitely switching to my own little service for this next run.

Edit: The remaining tickets are now all taken. Thank you all so very much, and see you in class!
What is the logic or basic reason for this level of extreme prejudice against people doing basic work in another country? It seems to me that someone working in a country is going to be contributing.
That only flies if there is no other possible way for another agency to have acquired the information. An administrative subpoena would be one way to do it -- I expect there is a term for that sort of thing, although the obvious "warrant laundering" does not seem to pull up any meaningful hits in google.

BTW, unless something has changed since I was last in west virginia, fingerprint info is not widely available in the general case. You take prints from an arrestee or latents from an object, you send them to IAFIS for matching and they return hits which may not even include a copy of the matched prints depending on the circumstances.
Here you're wrong. The CIA and some other members of the IC are very selective in who they hire, but not in the way most top-tier companies are. The issue is applicant clearance. So if you're a genius, native-US born linguist who has lived in several Middle Easter countries, speaks Arabic, and has a honors degree from a top school, or a brilliant mathmetician/computer scientist who studied in Eastern Europe and married an Eastern European, it's relatively hard to get the level of clearance you need for the CIA, because of the way that foreign residence and/or family and friends count on your clearance questionnaire. And if you've got this background and smoked a couple of dozen joints in college, getting a clearance becomes near impossible.

On the other hand, if you're a community-college educated applicant with solid grades and military or law enforcement experience, and no foreign residencies or drug experiences and/or alcohol-related misdemeanors, you're golden. You allude to this phenomenon.

But while it relatively easy for a certain kind of applicant to get into the CIA, it's far from the truth to say that they're not selective. They're incredibly selective, and they're excluding some of the most promising candidates that apply because of their particular kind of selectivity.

Beside the loss of many highly-qualified applicants (what serious language expert hasn't lived overseas?), this is also said to create a certain culture that bears more resemblance to boot camp than to the highly-professional organization the CIA has been traditionally. Snowden alluded to this in his interview.

This is not a secret problem. In fact, there were quite a few public Senate hearings on the issue after 911. But nothing much is reported to have changed.
I felt this way after IOS started to flourish in 2008-2009.
"Why didn't I start building iPhone apps back then."
Now IOS7, and Marco saying this, I can anticipate the same sensation if I don't hop onboard after this refresh.
> Just to be clear, though, we're still doing the 2006 thing, with the only "warrant" being a general FISC ruling on the overall legitimacy of the program. Specifically, that it has acceptable measures in place to reduce and eliminate purely domestic intercepts.

Just to be clear, that's not at all the same thing. FISA warrants have always been allowed to be quite broad, and were primarily concerned with identifying that there was a foreign intelligence target and that appropriate minimization procedures were in place, exactly as is the case now.

What was at issue in 2006 had no review from anyone outside of the executive branch for either of those issues.

You can oppose what is being done now, but you cannot (without erroneously assuming that everyone else in the world agrees with you on everything but partisanship) validly look at the 2006 polls and the 2013 polls, especially given the difference in both the kind of surveillance at issue (listening in vs. call tracking) and the procedures at issue (warrantless vs. FISA warrants) and makes claims about consistency because they aren't about the same things, even if you think that people should feel the same about them.
Why Waze matters for Android
This sounds good. Upvoted cause hashing could always use better/faster solutions.

Downloaded code and will look at it more.
Ask HN: Did you delete Facebook account after the NSA fiasco?
Also, Are you doing anything about moving away from Google?

Note: I am mainly interested in Facebook and Google.
I never realized we were at war with Yemen.
There are is support for physics effects in the UI now, I'm not really sure what navigational changes he could be talking about though.
Oh I'm not complaining. 2 of my colleagues just went on security training, so I think we have enough 'security experts' right now. I'd be more likely to get an android course.
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I think that's the point: ad hominem attacks are unhelpful even when they accurate. Snowden's character and motivations should not figure into the broader debate at all.
I see a chip marked SIRF - does it have GPS?
Well, that's a laser accurate description of Brooks, so maybe not the best example...
Another point that I think has been understated thus far:

Android, WP, and iPhone's visual philosophies are closer now than ever before. I can only assume this will lead to fewer "ecosystem-exclusive" apps, which I think is a net positive for everyone.
Ask HN: Modern GUI VIM-like editor?
I very like VIM editor, its concept is just awesome and when you get used to it your efficiency becomes over 9^1000.
But VIM has issues:

1. Single threaded. Stuff like CtrlP or NeoComplCache are running in foreground and you can't do anything until they finish.

2. Lacks API.

3. Very IMHO: vim-script is not an example of good design.

4. No real UI.

5. No embedded console.

6. Plugins don't play nice with each other.

7. Speed.

8. Mixed modes.

Mr. Moolenar and thousands of commiters created a brilliant piece of software, just the problem is that it needs to adopt new features, its time to move on: real GUI, at least some general rework on vim-script, or even completely replacing it (bold), multithreading, centralized plugin repository, better error handling (read error reporting), etc...

One can of course say that VIM stays VIM even in 3013. But I have a hope that once VIM will adopt all those features.

Until then I'm looking for some alternative with support of modes, text objects, navigation...

What I've seen so far:

1. SublimeText2 "vintage mode". Loud. Next fetish after TextMate. To be honest I wasn't impressed that much + it costs money. Money that I wouldn't pay for it. Very limited and inconvinient VIM mode. Not an option.

2. Editra. Slow. VIM with 60(!) plugins is faster than core Editra. Looks like Python2 + wxPython is not the fastest thing one can imagine.

3. Various Aptanta, NetBeans, Eclipse and etc... VIM-emulators. That requires lots of polishing. Also they're slow. Sometimes even slower then Editra.

4. Gedit + ViGedit. Dead long time ago, but looked promising.

Do you know some other alternatives?

P.S. This is a shortened version, full text didn't fit. See here: https://gist.github.com/naquad/5762173
So-called "Stockholm Syndrome" is more the norm than the exception.
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iOS 7 is in many ways a new beginning for both Apple, its users, and its developers, but I think the OA is relying a bit too much on hyperbole. In the DP, there weren't really too many navigational changes, and the UI was still instantly familiar. Yes, there are new APIs and other neat fancy rendering stuff, and you can't discount the influence of the application's look and feel, but... it didn't feel very different, at least with regards to an experience perspective. It looks markedly better (apart from about 5-6 odd-looking icons on the home screen), and designing around that will perhaps be the most daunting challenge.

It will separate the best from the worst, however, and this beginning, this chance to start fresh, is what I look forward to.
This is ridiculous. One uninnovative developer getting excited about fewer choices and lower quality in iOS application.
Sure, I meant in the general case. I hope the $19 price point is low enough to encourage folks not to do it with shell scripts :)
I deleted my Facebook account years ago. I still have a Google account, but I use it minimally. I started backing away from Google before all this began, even.
It looks that way. The SIRF chip is marked as GSD4e.

http://www.csr.com/products/35/sirfstariv-gsd4e

You can see more detail of that here:

http://www.catwig.com/google-glass-teardown/teardown/mainboa...
Only (significantly) on the compression side. Decompressing is about the same whether you used 0 or 9.
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I love this in your description:

When would I use this?
Among other reasons, perhaps:
You need linux but accidentally used windows
Unsure - and (as you may be indicating), not all pop music is equal. Can you rightly compare the Beatles to Bieber?
Did he really just explain it by saving lives? I don't understand is he really that clouded? I mean can't you basically use that same silly reasoning to promote usage of nukes.

This seems like a really really bad post.

People are afraid of drones, because it's mass satellite imaging of people's personal lives being video captured.

But regardless people do like/show interest in the technology behind them, just not the blatent abuse the government is using them with.

Edit: Also what the heck gives with his cruddy designer site? I can't leave a comment unless I use twitter? What the. . .??
It seems hypocritical to laud fragmentation when it happens in iOS and decry it in Android. These changes seem similar to the Android differences in gingerbread and post-honeycomb. The resulting effect on developers will be the same. iOS 7 has made it apparent which bloggers are unable or unwilling to be fair in their criticism when it comes to Apple. The mismatched gradients on the new icons are beautiful to them, the wire frame and confusing UI elements are revolutionary, and fragmentation is simply just creating fertile ground for change. Great.
Nothing is free.

Your website becomes a data collecting beacon for their advertising network (hence the awesome demographics).

Nothing wrong with that BTW, it's the same reason Google Analytics is free; but it's worth pointing out.
Great quote ... and we are all kind of susceptible to Battered Person Syndrome, post 911, post Boston.

It takes a concerted effort to resist the feeling we are guilty : our government and military and legal systems are there to protect us.. if I'm noticed and singled out when I cross a border, for criticizing Cheney on twitter, then maybe its me.. maybe I'm out of line.

Maybe the huge embarrassment at having to take my belt off in public at TSA checkpoint was my fault.. after all, I chose to wear a belt that had a metal buckle.. I brought it upon myself.

I think this happened to David Brooks.. I think the state sponsored 'terror' scheme of putting hackers and journalists away for 10 years for acts of conscience.. has been effective in keeping Journalists in line. Speak out and you too could end up rotting in a cell.
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There's a lot of awesome new multitasking and background stuff you can do now. It's a mix between the UI changes and the underlying parts that I think Marco is referring to.
You're ridiculous, and I predict that Marco will be laughing his way to the bank. Let's revisit this in say December or Spring of next year, shall we?
This makes me think there is a shitload we don't know about. (like this program has stopped a nuclear bomb going off in San Diego or something).

To have so many people switch their minds about privacy and to have this so secret for so long means there has got to be something BIG that they heard of day one of their jobs that drastically changed their value-system/world-view.

My guess is Snowden didn't have the whole picture (b/c he worked for a contractor)
I'm not sure but pretty sure they do. There are very few laws in the US discriminating against citizenship.
One change highlighted in the keynote presentation: instead of tapping the ‘Back’ button on the upper left corner of a UITableView layout, in iOS 7 you swipe horizontally from the left edge of the screen.

There are many more changes, you can read about them in the new iOS 7 Human Interface Guidelines: http://www.slideshare.net/evgenybelyaev16/mobile-hig-2278458...
No. There's no point, they're just going to keep my data indefinitely anyway and give it to whomever they want. "deleting" is meaningless when it comes to facebook.
Padilla was ultimatey tried and convicted in a federal civilian court. Obama v hedges has nothing to do with indefinite detention of US citizens. Obama's signing statement explicitly said the act should not be interpreted to encompass US citizens. Given that and the precedent in Hamdi v. Rumsfield, iys clear those NDAA provisions do not apply to citizens.
Pricing, since it's not explicitly mentioned in the blog post:

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Ahh, so it's forward deployment, not some modern version of colonialism. It should be noted that US bases aren't always loved or even well tolerated. See Japan, Iraq, Afghanistan et al.
The communication needs to improve at every step. I've just discovered that my one-off scan is actually a daily scan.

I admit that my intent was curiosity rather than something I actually need, however there are more things happening in the background than expected.
Unless Apple has significantly improved new app discovery on the App Store, I don't think we are going to see any changes.

The algorithms that apple uses for the top lists promote established players, the search functions suck, and the interface for scrolling through lists of apps are so slow and clunky that it discourages users from exploring beyond the first 5-6 results in any list.
Ha ha, precedence. Now the other court rulings should rule with similar rulings! :D
I didn't say citizen. I said foreigners not in the US. E.g. A yemeni citizen in yemen.
I keep hearing about these similarities, but most seem superficial/only visual. How menu/table UI systems work aren't necessarily similar. How does that help apps get on every system?
You give way too much importance to the visual part, the reason for some apps to be ecosystem exclusive are technical or legal limitations. Writing this on a rooted Android phone with third party keyboard, through a vpn...
Thats an interesting concept. It looks to me like a kind of niche. Almost like a kick starter but for already established (but young) companies?

How do IPO's and things like that work?
I hope so, as this will enable Google Maps-like functionality.
This is a very a good point. As a major Apple fan I completely agree with you. After looking over the iOS changes I see absolutely nothing that is more "revolutionary" than what we have now in iOS6, or even what Android and Windows Phone offers.

At best, it looks like iOS7 is nothing more than a mix of Android and Windows Phone plus a few extra UI elements.

I am not a big fan of Marco's obsession with drama but I do respect his opinion and find his take on certain thing within the tech industry enlightening. Unfortunately, this post does seem like nothing more than turning a blind eye to what Apple has done with iOS7.
I don't think this is going to play out this way.

Look to other operating systems that evolved their UI in similar fashion and a few of their dominant software players over the years:

Windows-Office, Quickbooks, Quicken, IE/Chrome/Firefox/Netscape (which have shifted favor over years, but not because of UI changes in the OS)

Mac OS (X and classic)-Adobe PS, Illustrator, ProTools, Office

UI changes, even major ones, have had little to no effect on the dominant software titles for those systems. There have occasionally been new categories of software introduced. For instance, high quality video editing software for the home market, which was made possible by better home cameras and major advances in speed and resources of home computers. Pervasive internet allowed the browser wars to happen. It wasn't minor UI changes in the OS that allowed new players to come onto the scene, it was major technological advances.

If you go back far enough, you can argue that the change from command line to GUI allowed for just such a revolution described (it definitely did: Wordstar/Wordperfect lost to Word, Lotus lost to Excel, AutoCad nearly lost its throne, etc.). But, nobody in their right mind is arguing that iOS 6 to iOS 7 is the difference between DOS and Windows 3.1 or between an Apple IIe and Lisa or the first Macintosh.

History isn't always the best indicator in the tech industry, but in absence of other indicators, I'll bet on history repeating in some form.
I hope I'm not in some crazy minority here, but I actually value stability and UIs not changing radically all the time. I feel like there's a craze afoot at the moment to "redesign everything all the time" and I'm not a big fan of it. If you're in tech, sure, it's the "price of progress" but for the lay user (i.e. the people who pay us money for software) it's just annoying.
So says the guy that just sold all his legacy apps.
Lumia 900 owner here. OS is nice, but the apps... just as an example, I got really frustrated with IE this morning because it didn't recognize StartCom as a trusted certificate authority, and it doesn't cache my response (to ignore the warning and browse the page anyway). The https page loaded the first time, but subsequent pages just showed blank screens. And that stupid SSL warning page just kept popping up.

It's 2013 and I can't browse certain web pages with my expensive smartphone...
Both of these features look really useful; kudos to AWS for launching them. I've already moved my personal website's root domain directly to CloudFront. (I was previously hosting the root domain through S3 and the "www" through CloudFront, so it's nice to have them both set up the same way now.)
It's not fragmentation. Within a year, the vast majority of iOS users will be on iOS 7. It's evolution.
People usually don't talk back to the radio though. Thinking up a response to your conversational partner is where the distraction occurs.
It doesn't take an attack for there to be problems. Accidents, leaks, contamination, poor behaviour and violence by troops etc is somewhat more likely. That and the external appearance of supporting what ever the stationed troops are up to (often related to regional/nearby wars etc).
This is depressing. Welp, looks like space is the place to be.
Not really. China has the apparatus to apprehend a person such as al-Awlaki. It has nothing to do with greater or lesser.

Emphatically, I am not saying this in defense of the assassination of al-Awlaki, but instead I am saying this because I believe it to be a simple truth that is related to the case.
Facebook and Twitter are magnets for narcissists
I'm also an Apple fan. I love my Macbook Pro Retina, it's the best computer I've ever owned. Being a fan of a company shouldn't blind you to their missteps when they happen though. It shouldn't lead to unfair application of criticism.
I predict there will be a "Ad Hominem Fallacy Fallacy Fallacy", which states that presenting the article is not a valid defense.
Except for all those not so old iPhones that are stuck on iOS 6 forever.
Deleting your data on Facebook or Google doesn't change anything. They just mark it as deleted.
> getting excited about fewer choices and lower quality

> laughing his way to the bank

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Really, this is exactly what I expect of people wanting to do the right thing when in between a rock and a hard place. I imagine this is what I would do if sincere and in their position.

Thanks Google.
I think you forgot the part where Android fragmentation leaned more towards the 3 year old version. 2.3 is still huge. If Android had simply evolved fast and all the new phones had the new Android the problem wouldn't be so bad.
If you want to go full paranoia, don't forget that the GPS is a US DoD project! Why bother with GPS clients, when you can have direct access to the satellites?
There's a huge tendency for designers to overstate the importance of "looking modern" as an actual end. A lot of people honestly wouldn't care if the buttons on their phone were modelled to look like 3d photorealistic rainbow poop. The designers tell them they don't need cases but they all buy the most garish hideous cases to say nothing of the bedazzler people.

Sign me up as skeptical re: the coming app store revolution.