skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie to come in late October, will be well optimize
What you're proposing is like this:

I want to say a sentence to someone, but in order for an unintended listener not to understand what I'm saying I will say 10 sentences. Five of which will be "I will kill you and everyone you know" and "I will bomb America".

Isn't that just a meaningless waste of energy?

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The government spies on you because you make it easy for it to do it. Instead, keep your personal data personal, use encryption and there's not much more that it can do, without becoming physical... ( it has no problem doing that either, but at least its intentions will be more obvious that way, and hopefully will wake up all the ignorants that think that some old guys peeking into everyone's lives is justified).
Is there a point in signing this as a Swiss citizen living in the UK?
The United States vs.Bradley Manning as a graphic novel
The only Android screenshots that look less pretty to me are the ones taken in the middle of doing something, e.g. the Android lock screen notifications which is in the process of being pulled down vs. the Apple one which looks a lot cleaner because it's fully extended.
There's this project in northeastern Spain https://guifi.net/, which basically advocates for a distributed network set up by the citizens. As long as your infrastructure is run by a superior power, you can only hope encryption/tor/ssl, etc.. will work properly.

Of course if you are sending information to hosts outside the network that information is prone to be subject to surveillance of some kind.
Blowing a Whistle
Also interesting to note, last time I checked, not a single press pass was granted for the trial.

Think about that. No press reporting allowed. At a trial in the USA.

They have also refused stenographers and no transcripts will be released.

WTF are they hiding.
On my PowerPC based PowerBook 14" background apps like Mail would consume 2-4% CPU quite often. Now on my Mac Mini with an i7 processor, it's about the same percentage!

2% of a contemporary processor it alot more than 2% of a 10 year old one.

So is Mail now doing alot more in the backgound than before? Or is this some artifact in the way CPU utilitation is measured?
Aus Post and local councils access Internet and phone records without a warrant
Indeed, you can be sitting there eating dinner with your family when a remote controlled drone operated from half way across the world fires a missile at you killing you and your family instantly without any forewarning.

Now that's fucked up.
Companies Complying with NSA’s PRISM May Face E.U. Lawsuits
It’s Not Okay Losing People.
WORLD WAR III: This time, the Germans are the good guys.
Only apps with UI will be affected by Power Nap, I believe.
the organisation Liberty has been campaigning on 'electronic liberty' issues and warrants our support on that basis, and others
https://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/index.php
I do agree that the article itself is among the better written stories about NSA and snoops. The title of the post on HN, however, needs editing (tries to sway attention from NSA/snooping to the messenger).
Not all the Redis values are strings...
What's SpriteKit? Sugar Cube Software's Cocoa Sprite Kit? How is it related to iOS7?
> I was going to say that this is crazy: why waste RAM to hold swap space

Because you can get faster performance, and more importantly lower energy usage, on the same hardware.
How I switched form Google to Microsoft services
Compared to Cocos2d, I'm not that interested in Sprite Kit as a framework. But combined with the new gamepad APIs, I think you might be on to something in regards to the Apple TV.
Battery life I imagine.
Problem with SNI is that you lose IE users on XP. In the UK at least, that means entire organisations with thousands of employees such as Lloyds bank and the NHS. According to our stats anyway.
The phone data stuff wasn't part of PRISM.

In general the stuff coming out of PRISM seemed to me to just be the general name for how the NSA hands out the NSLs(which are awful in their own right) to all these comapnies. A good side-effect of all this hype is people are looking at those. But PRISM doesn't seem to bring anything "new" to the table. Correct me if I'm wrong
The Obama Surveillance Revelations Are Pushing Liberals Over the Edge
Good design is long-lasting - #7 of Dieter Rams ten principles of good design.

I wonder how many app designers will realise that the apps they produced were subject to the fashion of the design of the operating system, and now that the fashion and trend has moved, whether the app designers will be confident enough to apply their own timeless design.

The iOS7 colour palette and style is fresh and new (to iOS users), but it is just the next fashion, and as fresh and new as it feels today, it will feel equally old and stale (like iOS6) at some point in the future.

Good design is long-lasting. App designers should concentrate on getting their design right for their application, and not just follow the trend and wear the attire of the operating system.

Marco is right that when the fashion changes, those who cannot keep up with fashion leave a large opportunity for those who can. I also agree that there is also a lot of money to be made by being one of those who can follow fashion closely.

But from a design perspective... those who follow others (the operating system) rather than having the courage to lead (the right design for the app), will always be subject to vulnerability when the fashion changes.
Based on the title, I wanted to offer some advice. You're in the UK, even closer to home and more intriguing. You mention some real figures too, great.

But now I look closer, you only seem involved to make a 'quick buck'. You haven't taken long enough to look at Adwords to turn off the 'Display network' ads, and then went on to blame Google and pester their staff rather than RTFM.

The problem you're solving isn't very interesting in itself, which is perhaps why I sense so much urgency to make money, not to solve people's problems. Maybe work on something you actually care about? £50 of free credit to market a whole startup isn't exactly pushing the boat out.

I might have more constructive things to say if you actually care :)
It reminds me of this Asimov story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dead_Past

[Spoiler alert!] Someone makes a cheap time viewer (able to view only the past), forgetting that "5 minutes ago" is in the past. In the end the design leaks to the public, and the characters contemplate what they've just unleashed.
The Authorization for Use of Military Force was still passed by Congress.
If you're analyzing streams of data Haskell would be a good choice.*

*assumes that you've already put in the requisite couple of years in monastic contemplation to learn Haskell :-)
What are the QR codes used for?

I parsed two of them and came up with "|224010712|01294" and "0200014672"
M.I.T. Computer Program Reveals Invisible Motion in Video (src avail)
Jefferey Toobin calls Snowden "reckless", "irresponsible", "grandiose narcissist". Jeffery would know since he is very familiar with all of these character flaws.

According to news reports after he got his long-term mistress pregnant he tried to bribe her to get an abortion. When she refused he abandoned her until a court forced him to take a DNA test and acknowledge his son. Only agreeing to contribute to his support after being threatened with having his wages garnished at CNN. You can't make this stuff up.

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/baby-drama-c...
I think people have missed a key value of Waze -- their crowd-sourced mappping infrastructure. They have essentially created from scratch a navigation database that competes with the big two players in the field -- TeleAtlas and Navteq -- with update cycles of a week or less for new user-submitted data. This system would be amazingly powerful in developing countries where the map set is incomplete or full of errors.

That alone makes them worth a good fraction of $1b.
The Authorization for Use of Military Force declared the Global War on Terror. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorization_for_Use_of_Milita...
The root cause is power, of which money is a conveniently quantifiable manifestation. Power-seeking has occurred continually over time since human populations became dense enough to extrude persistent hierarchies.
I missed this opportunity, and have followed you on twitter with the hope of not missing the next one. I'd feel better if you had a mailing list to announce the next one though; much more reliable than twitter!
If by "it" you mean our humanity: sure, we gain and lose it with each human, over and over in flux. Kent State had nothing to do with secret surveillance or secret warrants, however.
The birth of proper ball-by-ball commentary on Cricinfo
Hehe, Google leaving China because of "policy" issues seems like a very well staged PR event now.
No doubt the tech behind it is very cool, but, presentation-wise, it just looks like a well-made slideshow with a weird gimmick for switching slides to me. Did the right arrow button go out of style or something?
They could just use the software that is on Glass now. If the hardware is exactly the same it could work.
There is a lot more new than just background downloads.
And it will change how developers think about their applications. Dynamic text, UIKit Dynamics, UIMotionEffect will change a lot as will new navigation/transition schemes.
> Now after all that fuss they just threw it away and copied their competitors?

No, you're not using the right lingo. If it's Apple, they do not throw away; they "evolve". They also do not copy, they "refine the experience".
* The lawyer John Christian Elden defends several terror suspects, including Arfan Bhatti (now arrested in Pakistan) who was charged for terror planning agains the US embassy in Norway several years ago.

* He disucussed a court meeting with another client on Facebook, it was not a attorney–client privileged discussion. Elden was briefed by the FBI on their e-surveilence in 2005 (with a group from Norwegian Justice dept.) so he probably has a good grasp on how private Facebook really is.

* His US Visa was revoked four days after the conversation, the US embassy in Norway
cites "Homeland Security"

* Eldens comments gives the impression that he believes he's automaticly flagged, while still beeing a friend of the US.

More facts:
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=no&tl=en&u=ht...
If You’re on a Government-Owned Computer, Don’t Click this Link
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk12ALX9fz8
Most likely for tracking parts during production.
Russia Disappears Gays
To be fair, being able to understand Facebook's TOS is not sufficient to be able to set up and use a properly encrypted communications channel. Not everyone is as tech savvy as you are.
If you're paranoid, S/MIME is probably not your first choice, being dependent on a CA and all...
Has China been protecting its citizens and companies all along?
Using Eclipse, having a second screen is almost a requirement.
You get surrounded by so many windows!
So I use my laptop screen for all those windows, and my 24' is dedicated to the actual code.

I always work with two tabs of code, simply because a class is rarely interacting with itself so you want both sides of the pipe :).

Without Eclipse, It's a linux, terminator with 4 terminals in there and a two-paneled sublime text. I don't need my second screen for that, alt tab does the job. :)

I tried to work on Eclipse with a 9' laptop in an airport once, thought I would die before the plane take off :).
It doesn't matter if they're inaccurate, so long as they're consistently inaccurate. The point of a tracker is to show you the trend in your activity - if you want to get fitter then you need to simply do more. By tracking something you can tell whether you're doing more, less, or the same amount as you were in the n weeks prior to today. That's where the value lies, not in the actual numbers.
Some Great Chrome Extensions for Developer’s Know How
The reason freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom to petition and host of other freedoms are important is that, from time to time, you need to use them.

Democracy isn't a guarantee that everything will be perfect, quite the opposite, but that we have a reasonable chance of rightening a wrong without erecting guillotines on the national mall.

The challenge IMO isn't petitioning Congress, it's petitioning the public to make sure this issue remains on the radar for the upcoming election (Part of that, though, could well be a noisy march on Washington).
Overtaken due to the Android release but pretty soon back in sync according to this: http://www.itproportal.com/2013/06/12/vine-and-instagram-in-...

And really, I'm not entirely shocked that a Twitter-owned service is getting more sharing on Twitter compared with a service that gets a reasonable amount of obstruction from Twitter.
CloudFlare ( https://www.cloudflare.com/ ) are going to be getting a lot of new customers very soon I suspect.

Not least because they intend to give SSL to everyone (even the free tier) very soon, and have acquired enough IPv4 addresses to make doing so possible. Additionally their price for custom SSL certificates is a fraction of the price of CloudFront.

It is strange, watching a company like Amazon make a pricing decision like this, knowing how it will then shift things.

In our startup ( http://microco.sm ), we are implementing S3 for storage, and then to use multiple reverse proxies that make our static files surface (with our sites) through CloudFlare. The best of both worlds.
It uses an old OMAP4430, also in the Samsung Galaxy 2:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMAP#OMAP_4

As chips get faster, wearable computing will benefit more than smartphones, because (eg) an iPhone 5 is more powerful than a smartphone can utilize (and more powerful than even a desktop needs to be, for most mainstream tasks.)
I am very glad that people like Elsberg, Assange, Manning and Snowden exist in the world. They are exactly the type of people that stand between the imperfect and unfair world we live in, and absolute tyranny. I don't give a shit what they are like over a beer or if they are overbearing narcissist assholes.
Stop complaining, start building. You're welcome.
Not having to Alt-Tab to see code and browser really improve my workflow. I have set the tilde key to show terminal so that's to my benefit as well. I just hope tilde (the terminal that I use) can have multiple viewport in it like terminator.
The US hasn't declared war since the Second World War. Neither Vietnam nor Korea was declared as it is described in the US Constitution (that Congress shall declare war).
When did this happen?

Or did you mean when they took out a design patent for a touch screen device of iPad like dimensions with very specific rounding on their corners that is reflected in the rest of their product line as well.

I'm pretty sure, that particular patent of Apple's is EXACTLY what design patents were invented for.

Disclaimer: I don't believe in the patent system at all, but the system exists, so the players play it.
I don't know if his argument holds up either. I think he's approaching it with some baggage as the former proprietor or Instapaper. He frequently, on his podcasts, discussed his timing as to when he could simply "Require 5.x" as the iOS based on his user base.

That's the other problem with abandoning even a small percentage of your customer base - even though their existing app will continue to work the way it always has, the fact that they can't continue to upgrade to newer features, might results in negative reviews.

I agree with you, btw - that any app maker worth their salt, if they truly believe that 90% of the iOS userbase will be on iOS 7 in 3-6 months, should be prepared to completely abandon iOS 6 (except for those few that are targeting the iPhone 3GS and older iPod/iPad customer - big fish/small pond competitive technique) and focus all of their energies on iOS 7 development.

Ironically, this creates a positive feedback loop - as no more apps are being written for Pre iOS 7, people more quickly migrate to iOS 7, resulting in more developers completely focussing on iOS 7....

Marco's counterpoint might be, "The set of interest/resources/skills/focus that allowed a developer to build a leading iOS 6 App, might not be present for the new 7.0 paradigms, with their 3-D Z-axis geometry stacking of translucent tiles, inclinometer responsiveness, background processing. Someone who has an entire week at WWDC (yes, the videos are available - but nothing replaces 30-40 hours of onsite time) + all the developer networking (and drinking) that takes place might drive ahead and find the "Sweet Spot" in this new world.

Take, for example, Instapaper - perhaps a hungry up-and-comer will deliver a fully featured, iOS 7 ready read-it-later app, complete with background loading, fully 3D Sheet sliding of documents, light/colorful/iOS 7 palette brilliance etc... several months before Instapaper could be rebuilt. It's also possible (probably, as it turns out) that the original author of Instapaper didn't have the energy to rebuild Instapaper because they'd moved onto other things- And we haven't touched on this, "Upgrading an Existing App to iOS 7 gains a vendor no revenue (unless they have some IAP model)" - but does gain vendors of new iOS 7 apps lots of revenue.

In other words (and this hasn't been voiced yet) - there is a lot of incentive for NEW iOS 7 apps, but, unless you are a top 5,000 App on the AppStore, much less incentive to put a lot of energy into rewriting/upgrading an existing app to iOS 7.
I mean, if you were willing to invest that sort of effort, it might even be easier just to put the innards from a modern slim "ultrabook" laptop into the case of a 2000 era thinkpad monster. Throw on a "third party extended battery" for good measure... Actually, don't bother with that. There is plenty of air-space in many older laptops that you could pack with explosives if you don't worry about being able to run the computer for more than several minutes without it overheating...

The entire "turn on the computer" check is idiotic security theater. Either they can tell if there is a bomb in the computer anyway through other means (in which case why are they bothering to do that check?) or they cannot (in which case, how can they possibly hope to catch anything?). My money is obviously on the first.
Changes in rankings of smartphone search results
Thousands of developers will be perfectly happy to drop iOS 5 and 6 support and remodel their apps for iOS 7 – myself included – because:

a. The new APIs and Xcode look lovely to work with.

b. Dropping support for iPhone 3G and 3GS devices four years after they were released doesn't feel unreasonable.

c. Apple has a long history of featuring apps that use their latest APIs. Having your app featured is still the only reasonable hope to make money in the App Store, unless your business model revolves around selling Smurfberries.

d. Many developers will have been holding back from making major app changes because they were waiting to see how iOS 7 would change the design language. Now that they know, they can spend the Summer redesigning.

e. Apple are openly inviting developers to "reimagine your apps on iOS 7" - that's the language they've used in their developer emails.

f. A successful developer with a widely read blog has just come out and said that everyone who drops support for older iOS versions to build afresh on top of iOS 7 stands to gain a lot.

So there will probably be a huge host of "new, nimble" apps with new takes on tired old setups come Autumn.

But I bet a lot of torch app developers are feeling very hard done by.
3d running horse simulation using particles
If such a distro existed, I'd love to run it on my CR-48. I probably would stick to Windows and OS X on my other machines.
I don't get why glass is so different from ubiquitous smart phone cameras or (in the UK) CCTV.

Parents already have problems taking photographs of their children at school events[1] and people are regularly harassed and arrested because they are taking photographs in public. Most people seem to think this is too extreme, but I get the impression that they wouldn't mind if it was happening to glass users.

As far as public surveillance goes there are much worse situations than actual people wearing (currently) expensive hardware wandering around. It's cheaper and better to mount CCTV everywhere; and it's good for the operators to have hidden[2] low[3] level cameras.

[1] Although I agree with Louis CK about this - don't video the kids, watch them. The resolution on the kid is much better than on that little phone screen.

[2] To avoid vandalism.

[3] Face height, not on a tall pole.
Skyline and oculus both look interesting and this is definitely a solid direction to be heading in.

However, I wonder if some form of topology knowledge, operations dependency tree or similar could further inform this type of root cause analytics.

Without a declarative style "here is how thing should be" model of adequate accuracy, it seems like the analytics will be stuck at the "these things are strange and happened at once, what does human think?" level of sophistication.
That is one reason I wish this leak had happened two years ago, or two years from now, when it could affect the Patriot Act extension vote. The only thing members of congress can do now is try to defund it, because voting to repeal it might be political suicide.
"I tell you, freedom and human rights in America are doomed. The U.S. government will lead the American people in -- and the West in general -- into an unbearable hell and a choking life."
- Osama bin Laden, October 2001
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/US/01/31/gen.binladen.interview...
This blog post helped me when I took a look last year: http://geek.michaelgrace.org/2011/09/installing-statsd-on-ub...
For a while. Don't worry, Greenwald will always have plenty of slimy things to report on.
If I could give you more than one upvote, I would. This was EXACTLY my reaction - "Didn't this exact same thing happen 7 years ago? Complete with half the internet losing their mind? What am I missing?"

Once the 2 minutes hate is over, nothing will come of this. We'll repeat it again in another 7 years.
The history of big data
monsterix is talking about the third sentence in the article, which links to another article on the same website with the opposing view point.

Its title is "Edward Snowden is No Hero," and it contains sentiments like, "He is, rather, a grandiose narcissist who deserves to be in prison," and, "As a result, all of Snowden’s secrets may wind up in the hands of the Chinese government—which has no commitment at all to free speech or the right to political dissent. And that makes Snowden a hero?"

Did you bother to read it?
If you've ever sent the signature to anyone by email then they've arguably got a copy already.
Basic on a Matra-Hachette 'Alice' and on a Thomson T07/70
Demo doesn't work, not great news really is it?
LoCO.js: a JavaScript/C++ application framework
Same here -- I turn on Waze before I go somewhere, and then don't touch it (or really even look at it) until I arrive. I figure that the social features are meant for a passenger, or MAYBE if I'm totally stopped at a red light and/or in very heavy traffic. But the notion that I would look at my phone's screen, let alone press any buttons on it, while driving is pretty terrifying.
Or each company sets up a continuous mirror. NSA has direct access to the data without (legalistically) direct access to the servers. Everybody's happy except democracy.

Not that I think this is the case - I suspect your scenario is what at least Google is doing. But if it's set up as an API (they submit a search query, Google approves it or even rubber stamps it in many cases, the query is run, the results sent to the dropbox), then the PRISM description is pretty accurate.
In The Netherlands a case is usually dropped if evidence is provided that the conversation between a lawyer and his/her client was recorded and analysed.