skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The bureaucracies don't change much between administrations and there is a lot of the same faces at the top between administrations. It causes a permanence of policy regardless of the party. In fact, the bureaucracy are more or less required to be non-partisan in their long term policies. The hypocrisy is probably more of an effect of indoctrination into the bureaucracies than of actual changes in an individual politicians views. It would be difficult for a president to reverse 8+ years of an institution's operations, especially when those have been funded for longer by congress.
Sorry, this is complete nonsense.
Visit new. Upvote interesting new submissions. Contribute to good articles. Ignore submissions that are not interesting to you. Consider flagging articles that you think do not belong on HN.

A plug in / extension / script to allow users to filter certain topics would be brilliant, I think.

Allowing mods to limit the number of topics would just cause a great deal of meta outrage. It's bad enough when people flag. It'd be awful if mods controlled the front page.
Copy-pasting from this website into my other comment gave me the following:

dinosaur DNA is way, way too old to recover

Read more: http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013/06/jurassic-p...
Follow us: @SmithsonianMag on Twitter

I subsequently edited away the second line, because anyone reading this commment thread presumably already knows how to find the article.

They must use JS to insert the second part as invisible text whenever you select something? Does anyone want to dive into the source and analyze what the site's doing? It's an interesting hack.
> Sorry to hear that you did consider the article important.

I guess I meant important to me. If the article was about starving children or the atrocities in Syria, I might have made an effort to help. But I have a wife and children to feed, and so I can't justify spending time on someone else's article about such a relatively unimportant thing as the design choices made by the worlds wealthiest company.

I hope I don't come across as too harsh. Have a good day, linusekenstam.
New York didn't make texting while driving illegal - it made driving while distracted illegal, so as to encompass all smartphone-related and unrelated issues that make the road dangerous.
Good-quality & varied restaurants at all price points.

Quality theaters (both movie & traditional).

Parts of town you'd feel comfortable walking alone at 1am.

Art, both public (public installations, statues, etc) & private (museums & so forth).

Varied & competing viewpoints/ideas/industry.

Crime.
Terrorists who are competent harden their communications to avoid US sigint, where the superiority of the US agencies is paramount and well-known.

The US is known to have particularly weak human intelligence networks (few spies actually capable of infiltrating foreign terrorist groups). Al Qaeda and the rest know that it's incredibly risky to use electronic communications, so the people that you'd want to monitor already know they're being targeted.

Naturally, the US government's response to this has been to bet more heavily on signals intelligence.
From a marketing standpoint, a smaller group of closely related / themed items may be a better attention receiver than 15 misc items.

The downside is the incentives for the sellers may not be as clear being they may end up as just a bunch of competitors doing the same thing.
Twitter: API v1 Retirement is Complete - Use API v1.1
Unfortunately your friends are not representative of most people on the left in the US. According to a recent Pew poll Democrats find NSA surveillance programs more acceptable than in 2006 despite all the recent revelations:

Democrat Views of NSA Surveillance (Pew)

Jan 2006 - 37% Acceptable, 61% Unacceptable
June 2013 - 64% Acceptable, 34% Unacceptable
Change: +27% -27%

Also despite a more negative wording of the question (in my opinion):

Jan 2006: "NSA has been investigating people suspected of terrorist involvement by secretly listening in on phone calls & reading emails without court approval..."

June 2013: "NSA has been getting secret court orders to track calls of millions of Americans to investigate terrorism..."

Not that Republicans are any better. They went the other way for probably similar political reasons. But at least, in my opinion, they are moving in the right direction for now. I think I can safely predict this will at least partially reverse next republican president[1].

http://www.people-press.org/2013/06/10/majority-views-nsa-ph...

[1] Edit: Interesting side effect of democracy: since our leaders have the support of a majority of voters the cognitive dissonance of voting for someone who supports policies you don't like will lead a significant portion to support those policies anyway.
A lot of users seem to feel it's an important topic which still merits discussion.

Some sort of topic filter, or a tagging system might help (or use hnapp.com or whatever third party thing is available), but putting a hard limit on something that other people want to talk about is pointless censorship.

It's a discussion forum, and this seems to resonate with the community.
Apple likes Yahoo!’s Weather app so much they gave it a Apple Design Award. Their review:

“Yahoo! Weather stands apart with its simple, uncluttered, and beautiful visual design. This highly-rated app displays weather details with stunning photography based on time of day, location, and current conditions. Yahoo! Weather has great layout and typography, compelling animations, fast image processing, and clear iconography. This attention to detail means that in a saturated category, an app can rise above the crowd.”

https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/events/awards/#yahoo-weathe...
Everyone is so quick to judge the static pictures. But Apple took great pains to point out how this is a reactive system, how movement, suggestion and gesture follow the user's interactions. Sure, the current culture of design appreciation that they played a big part in has now started moving faster than they are. But that's mistaking visual decoration for how something works. Based on past experience, I trust Apple to make it more than skin deep.
To be fair, the NSA outcry was largely over the scale of the monitoring and the lack of warrants. However that doesn't mean that (other) government organisations couldn't approach Facebook with a warrant and request specific data, such as private messages from a suspect.

Assuming for the moment that this story did happen exactly as we're lead to believe (and I'm only making that assumption for the sake of playing devils advocate - I'm firmly on the fence with this story due to how sketchy the details are), then it would be very easy for the NSA to cover up how they had such data: "We'd been investigating her for a few weeks - here's a warrant"
You nailed it. I would use less generous language than you did to describe VBA's deficiencies in Mac Excel 2011. Huge parts of what could be considered the stdlib are totally missing in the Mac version. The language doesn't even have native dictionaries.
> Never has there been any dispute that the NSA can freely read what non Americans are doing without any sort of legal authorization. One would assume that access is given to Customs & Dept of Homeland Security too.

This makes no sense whatsoever.

Even if PRISM allowed at-will searches across the FB accounts of would-be au-pairs, there is frankly no way the NSA would be sharing this with low level customs officials. At most there would be a simple flag on her record, at which point she would be shipped back without explanation.

Frankly, the fact that a significant number of commenters in this thread are taking this non-story at face value is bewildering. BS alarms should be going off left right and center, here.
Distress Call: Please make a better, easier way to use PGP
In light of recent news, I decided to start using PGP for email. It is NOT easy to start using. Since this is HackerNews and all, I think this would be a good place to send a distress call. If someone out there feels the need, please start work on a better way to use PGP for email. Thank you
The irony is that anybody who's likely to go over to illegally work as an au pair is likely to know this, unless they're very naive. So the USCIS is probably not catching the actual au pairs - only the girls coming to visit legally!
I just heard this weird moment on "The World" radio program [1]. Discussing Russia's offer of asylum to Snowden, at 25:02 the announcer says, "But last year Julian Assange was given his own show on the state TV channel, propaganda channel, Russia Today..."

RT surely is a propaganda channel, but if you listen to the clip, the announcer forgot to say "propaganda channel" at first, then hastily corrected himself. It sounded forced, and odd for them.

This, from a show co-produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation, a famous propaganda organ, and PRI, a not as famous one.

[1] http://www.theworld.org/2013/06/the-world-06-11-2013/

(edit: grammar)
This is the only answer I've heard so far that makes sense: cash-rich companies (and investors) have money, and want to spend it.

"It turns out, there's a lot of money in the world. The money is bored. Money wants to be spent! Money is intended to be gambled. These are big numbers, but these are big companies."
- Jason Calacanis, http://youtu.be/SY62KuoxWJ0 [Video]
I see a big potential benefit for the NSA to have a spy within google who simply manually pulls and relays info on people at th nsa's request... It doesn't have to be a full Api
How did you test for YAML injection? From my past experiences with Ruby (hardly any) YAML injection is difficult to test from a blackbox perspective as you need an understanding of the source code in order to be able to craft the appropriate serialized YAML object to yield code execution.
Never used akka; but in erlang, actors (processes) are frequently long-lived, which is what he means by "unbounded lifetime. An erlang process generally doesn't do a single computation and then join back with the spawning process; instead, it usually stays alive as long as the resource it is managing is alive.

For example, in a chat server, you might have one process per user, and one process per channel; when someone says something, it's passed via TCP to the user process, which passes it to the channel process, which hands it out to the other user processes, which send it back to their users. Each of the user processes and channel process are long lived; they are there to sit around idle until they need to react to an event, at which point they wake up, do their work, and go back to sleep until another event comes along.

Fork-join, instead, is about shorter-lived processes, that are treated essentially as parallel subroutines, and go away as soon as that computation is done.

Note that both actors and fork-join may be mapped to long-lived hardware threads, but both are used fairly differently; I see a pretty big distinction between long-lived Erlang actors and short lived fork-join patterns. And of course, you can emulate fork-join with actors, but based on the paper you linked to, it sounds like there might be some efficiency benefits from treating them differently.
Voice Commands in Visual Studio 2012
I am throwing a bit of a tantrum, yes. I am pissed that the entire site has been taken over by a topic that is slightly more related to technology than an F-22 is.

I don't come to HN to get into political circlejerks. Why? Because we aren't any better at discussing politics than anywhere else on the internet... full of unsubstantiated claims, ad-hominem behaviour, flame wars and nonsensical comparisons to Nazis.

Sure it's an important issue. No it has no place here, beyond one or two threads where those that wish to discuss it can in all their glory. There are a lot of important issues on this planet, hell, hundreds of people died today because they couldn't get access to water or food - I'd say that's more important that someone reading your cell logs - but I don't think 30 stories about famine is the right thing to do here either.

I gave it a couple of days, without complaint; such is this site.

But it still seems that a vast majority of people can't really discuss anything but this issue like it somehow took over their lives two days ago. Seriously, get over it already. The signal to noise ratio of HN has degrated significantly over the last few days, and it really fucking sucks. /rant

Aw, how cute, now I'm shadowbanned. So much for free speech.
Here's an article that gets me.

http://www.androidcentral.com/apple-s-ios-7-copied-everyone-...
I know I'm reading a Google translation, but the story seems weak.

It's a real newspaper, but we've got an article with an unknown source, about a girl with no last name, landing in an unnamed city on an unnamed date. There's no statement from any authority and no way to corroborate any part of this.

It's one step above this story that I heard from my best friend, whose cousin's mom totally said ...
Couple of methods. For one thing, we test for status codes returned for particularly crafted YAML/XML parameters. Aside from that, we also carefully craft a YAML injection using a timing attack and test blind, that way.
Ideally that would be true - but try to tell that to Apple in 2010, 2011, and 2012.
>we teach children

Keyword being "children." Starting in middle school through high school, you hear much less biased info.
It's actually not an ad hominem. A firm grasp of language, grammar, and communication is actually recognized, albeit informally, to be a good signal of technical skill and design effectiveness. If he can't refine his linguistic communication well enough to convey such a simple sentence, how can he be expected to refine his visual communication (i.e., UX design) well enough to surpass one of the leading UX teams in the industry?

There are further reasons it's not an ad hominem - I recommend you read The Ad Hominem Fallacy Fallacy [1]. I don't mean to criticize - I made the same mistake until recently, so I offer the article in a spirit of goodwill, not superiority.

[1]: http://plover.net/~bonds/adhominem.html
Another one:

http://www.droid-life.com/2013/06/10/ios7-vs-android-a-quick...
Analysis of WWDC 2013
Thank god it's "secure". FTPS or SFTP, dare anyone ask?
Your failure to mention the printout in your original post is deceptive considering we are discussing internet "wiretapping." Of course possessions are searched upon entry, it happens every day in every country. If you're a Malaysian with a visitor visa and show up at customs in Australia with a bag full of resumes, you'll be turned away too.
Did anyone read the comments? Troll alert.
Yes, though by that time much of the classroom time that we have available for teaching history has been wasted.
I'm a news junkie and my sources run the gamut, but on most topics, NPR is by far the most impartial source of American journalism; they lean to the left to be sure, but I can't think of anything closer to the center.
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Team of 5 looking for office space in downtown San Francisco or SOMA for immediate move-in. Sublet/share and ~$2k/month total.
Month to month or short-term sublet leases.
Here's a story from 2012 where a UK subject made a twitter comment about "destroying america" and was subsequently denied entry to the US.

(http://thenextweb.com/twitter/2012/01/30/this-is-what-happen...)

Obviously, tweets are public. But still, this kind of stuff isn't unknown.
Or it's an indication that they (and most mainstream media sources) are not in fact sources of solid journalism.
ZDNet.com reported in 2010 [1] (and others [2]), that when Google was hacked via suspected chinese hackers, that their "internal spy system was the target".

...they [hackers] apparently were able to access a system used to help Google comply with search warrants by providing data on Google users, said a source familiar with the situation, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak with the press. "Right before Christmas, it was, 'Holy s!@#, this malware is accessing the internal intercept [systems],'" he said.

I guess this could be the system that google uses to compile the data before transmission, or something else, but none the less, it does raise questions.

[1] http://www.zdnet.com/blog/foremski/googles-internal-spy-syst...

[2] http://www.informationweek.com/security/attacks/google-auror...
> Because everything else I read in that article is perfectly consistent with what we already know as fact, and therefor completely plausible

It's completely in-consistent with logic.

We're making a couple assumptions here :

1. The NSA, via PRISM, can search FB private messages at will (this is a stretch)

2. They are sharing this ability with customs & border patrol (highly implausible)

3. Customs is using this ability in routine border checks, and/or monitoring 18 year old german girls for weeks (highly implausible. seriously.)

4. Customs officials are in turn sharing this with their suspects when they have no reason to. (highly implausible)

Yes, this is utterly implausible. I expect more common sense out of HN.
So because you think its unlikely that US immigration officials has access to private communications on FB, that speculation is enough to dismiss the whole article about how two young girls, traveling to the US with hopes and dreams to study the language and experience the world, and then at the border was interrogated and immediately sent back.

Is it just me who feels that is a bit heartless?
There's one on GitHub - google Turing oath for programmers
Somehow I don't think even the NSA's system is going to pick up on the fact that it's an attorney-client conversation. The conversation itself would not be admissible in a court action, but if the NSA were looking for known "confidants" of the flagged terrorist suspect then it wouldn't be surprising that the Visa was flagged for cancellation by one of those automated NSA algorithms.

NSA lives in a world where they don't normally have to worry about attorney-client privilege because they're not trying to bring cases to trial, they're trying to gain intel on enemy networks, and ideally prevent them from gaining entry to the U.S. in the first place. So I'm not even sure if attorney-client communications is something their analysts would even check for (that is, if a human analyst even ever saw this conversation).
The fact that the details were on hardcopy with her at the border sort of changes the context of your comment -- in a pretty important way.

Let's not conflate standard (even if objectionable) border entry policies with digital surveillance policies.
Googles lost my trust. To my newly discovered emabarassment I naively and passionately defended them amongst my friends for several years. Seems like if a company gets big enough it's ethical demise is a certain inevitability (yes, I'm a little late to the party). What a pathetic untrustworthy world I find myself now living in.
I'm Bulgarian too. Born in Sofia. Btw have you been keeping up with what's been happening there with government corruption? Billions missing. The insane electric bills. Bribing the gypsies to throw human feces into the anti-government protestor crowd. It's on the news stations. My parents have DJTacho.com which streams to the US. The children of the communists that once ruled basically raped and pillaged BG for anything left. And spent 100 million on surveillance/spying equipment.
I know for a fact is does not. Even with the traditional criminal warrant (say a mafia boss) they only need a warrant for ONE person on the call.
Porting XNU (Darwin kernel) to BeagleBoard.
Not sure what the implication is here - yes, 16% of the vulnerabilities found by our scanner, of just over 100k now, are XSS. Are you implying XSS is less widespread? In my appsec experience, it's possibly even more widespread, if anything...
So how long will it take them to realize that people have more than one computer?
Actually we can't. We specifically don't get to vote on foreign relations, ever, and it doesn't pass through the normal bicameral legislative thing. It's just the president draws up whatever and then the senate OKs it.

Last election they ran all the 'progressives' out of the senate, next election there will be no anti-surveillance candidates except to the house where no one can do anything.
Also https://github.com/mystilleef/FedoraZram

Note that you need kmod–staging from RPMFusion.
>> The folks who think that only Apple designers are leaps and bounds better

Parent doesn't say that at all, or make any comparisons.
One would assume that access is given to Customs & Dept of Homeland Security too.

Maybe, but even so, from giving access to the department, to allowing border officers to prove to foreign citizens that they can read their PMs goes a long way.

Using Facebook's private messaging, with or without NSA spying, is very stupid because we know Facebook stores all of this forever, including after you "delete" your account. That could make it accessible even in a non-criminal civil dispute.

She lives in Germany, which has a widely different fact gathering process, being much more restrictive and protective of the defendant's privacy.

Moreover, she's 18 and from a country which is probably much less lawsuit-happy than the US. It doesn't seem stupid to me at all that she didn't consider being sued when sending PMs to her host.
Working with Ruby Threads
Google translate needs some work on translating. It doesn't seem to understand the differences in how sentences are constructed (order of operations) in different languages.
Would someone please submit this poll? 
(1000 karma is apparently insufficient for me to do so myself)

Poll: Do you feel free to speak your mind in the U.S.?

text:
Though I've always assumed the NSA (etc.) watched for keywords, I've recently begun to feel still more nervous about using the words "terrorism" or "bomb" (etc.) within correspondence (I'm even censoring myself in this post!), lest my identity get flagged.

I'm curious as to how many others feel the same way.

questions:
I am a U.S. citizen and I feel free to say whatever I want.

I am a U.S. citizen and I engage in self-censorship for fear of what the authorities might do.

I am a legal alien within the U.S. and I feel free to say whatever I want.

I am a legal alien within the U.S. and I engage in self-censorship for fear of what the authorities might do.

I'm a non-American outside the U.S., and I feel free to say whatever I want.

I'm a non-American outside the U.S., and I engage in self-censorship for fear of what the authorities might do.