skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Obviously it's limitations outweigh it's strengths.

Right now, true. But I'm sure people said that of the first GUIs as well. Now GUIs offer everything the average user needs. Before we know it, the same will be true of voice control, and eventually brain control.
I use the Cert Patrol plugin ( http://patrol.psyced.org/ ) and I've noticed periods of a few days to a week where SSL certs on major sites like google have changed rapidly. Usually they were all from the same authority so I didn't think much of it. But now I am even more paranoid. Thanks man.
Sweden was sued by America, really?
And still no official WebGL support...
HTTP/REST is not big, nor healthy. It's hell no
The first step has been taken: http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/06/07/2120141/why-the-...

Quote: "A citizenry that’s constantly on guard for secret, unaccountable surveillance is one that’s constantly being remade along the lines the state would prefer. Foucault illustrated this point by reference to a hypothetical prison called the Panopticon. Designed by utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham, the Panopticon is a prison where all cells can be seen from a central tower shielded such that the guards can see out but the prisoners can’t see in. The prisoners in the Panopticon could thus never know whether they were being surveilled, meaning that they have to, if they want to avoid running the risk of severe punishment, assume that they were being watched at all times. Thus, the Panopticon functioned as an effective tool of social control even when it wasn’t being staffed by a single guard."
There are several flaws in your argument.

US agencies place a $5-10 million value on an American life [1]. This is not the value of a life anywhere, though. For example, part of the valuation comes from discounted earnings calculations, which is lower in lower-income countries.

Furthermore, just because problem A is worse than problem B (measured in dollars) doesn't mean we should spend more money fighting problem A. Money should be spent where it has the greatest impact.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/17/business/economy/17regulat...
Honestly, theyre starting to look very similar.
In that case, "Why it saves you time?" should be "How does it save you time?" That was the only line in the piece that screamed "non-native English speaker" to me.
He's gotten to discovery in a number of cases, so I don't think its impossible that it'll at least be entertaining.

I agree its likely to fail. I don't think it'll be a one line dismissal is all.
Mymail-Crypt: Easy, open-source PGP encryption and signing for Gmail
My "problem" over the last couple days is shoddy reporting and rush to judgement

Right there with you. I've started digging in my heels at breaking stories simply for the speed at which people start jumping to conclusions.
I love this new device. I suspect I will buy one.

But it doesn't solve my "need a new mac pro" problem.

Right now my 2009 octo mac pro, with six displays attached, plays three roles:

- it is my high end desktop workstation, with three primary high resolution (2560x1600) displays.

- it is my HTPC, with one of the six monitors strung into another room entirely.

- it is my office NAS, with four internal 3TB disks

So, three roles all rolled into one device. This is possible because I can expand it internally with 3.5" disks and pcie cards. In fact, my 3x gt120 cards only take up 3 of the 4 slots.

To duplicate this, I think I need to:

a) add an external disk enclosure

b) drive my fourth display via HDMI

c) pray that 3x 4k displays leaves can coexist with 2x 2560x1600 displays as secondary displays, which seems unlikely

d) pray that the disk array doesn't cannibalize enough thunderbolt bandwidth to interfere with the displays

e) another external box for cd ripping and general optical disk usage

... and all the while, with a single physical CPU, and no ability to ever upgrade the graphics cards. Granted, my needs must not be complicated if I can live with gt120s in 2013, but it was nice to know I could upgrade.

Oh, and I have upgraded my SSD boot device three times in the 4.5 years I've owned this system. That was nice.

So again, I actually really like this device - I think it is a very, very cool computer. But as a discriminating mac pro user who pushed the form factor to the limits, it is not at all what I need.
Heh, this comment failed to post when HN was constantly erroring, and I posted a much more toned down version. I just prefer the orientation and layout of the webOS and iOS ones, especially on a tablet.
Your government doesn't have to be any more trustworthy in general than the US'. From the legal side, say your government has basically the same legal regime as the US: local citizens'/residents' data on the local cloud have some legal and/or constitutional protection from the local government, but non-resident aliens on the local cloud have none. If you leave your data on the local cloud it has some legal protection, while if you put it on the US cloud it has none. (Really, none as soon as the US government decides to go after you specifically. (IANAL.) It seems the US doesn't even have to state a pretext of "counter-terrorism", "national security" or anything else to take your data under FISA 702. http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/110/hr6304/text )

Now, in many countries even local citizens in the local cloud have no legal protection from the state, or legal protections notionally exist but don't really impede the security services at all. (By all accounts the PRC is one of these.) But this is where motivation comes in to it. Many people outside the US have good reason to fear their own government more than the US'. In that case you could be better off trusting your data to the US cloud, even if it means you're trading away some real legal protections in exchange for getting getting your data out of the hands of a local government which is motivated to work around those protections to get at you. If your data also has no real legal protection locally then it's an easier choice. The problem is that some people - for example, non-US companies with interesting commercial data and US competitors - may in fact have more reason to fear the US government than their own.
Do you honestly believe AQ has been fighting for decades just to get the NSA to take phone records from Verizon? You think Ayman is snickering in a cave somewhere chalking up a tally in the Win column because of that?

They have actual political goals, but they don't necessarily care about what America does internally. Certainly they don't send people to die just to give a farmer in North Carolina "irrational fear". They do it for strategic goals all their own.

In a manner of speaking, a full embrace of all civil liberties plays directly into their hands as it gives them much more freedom of communication and movement while affording the citizens only a very marginal increase in those civil liberties by comparison.

Obviously it doesn't make sense to swing way too far the other way and to restrict our civil liberties so much that they turn into security theatre (like the TSA) without any marginal increase in our ability to deter and defeat terrorism.

But acting like taking any change to deter terrorism "let's the terrorists win" is itself kind of missing the point. That's not even the game they're playing.
Things are boring when you already know them. Things are interesting when you're learning something new. Most of the excitement over other languages comes down to the fact that you are starting from scratch and everything is fresh.
"X for Y" Startups
also useful are "turn off all of my alarms", and "delete all of my alarms"
Yes, but my guess the highly trafficked comment pages and perhaps the high activity on the database might have taken it down.
With at least one questionable statement:

OS X was the first operating system to ship as a single
install that could boot into either a 32-bit or 64-bit
kernel, either of which could run 32-bit and 64-bit
applications at full native performance. OS X now
exclusively uses a 64-bit kernel, but it continues to run
both 32-bit and 64-bit applications.

I believe Solaris was actually the first to do this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_%28operating_system%29#...
After 200+ Apptopia developers email'ed Apple, and after 15+ months of hustle its finally possible!
Privacy might not be a big issue for many people and so they use the issue to signal support for politicians that are similar on issues that are important to them.

EDIT:

Or with even less mental effort they saw a question about privacy and didn't have an answer at hand so just substituted it with the question: do you like the President?

It's not double think if they never had an opinion on privacy :)
Free idea: App Roulette. Everybody puts in one app of roughly equal monthly income. Spin the wheel, everybody gets something new and fun to work on. Great for getting rid of those old apps that make too much money to get rid of, but aren't something you want to actively develop.

Just pm me stock when your MVP gets funded.
if you have an sla like that, the service provider has to choose between violating the SLA by not telling the customer, or violating the warrant/court order which compels them to not inform you.
The Yogurt Company Growing as Fast as Google and Facebook
I love it too... I will probably also buy one. :/ So much for cutting back on my tech spending. grumblesmurf
A 0.01mm line is going to be invisible on a super high res is going to be pretty much invisible, regardless of Nyquist frequencies.
1. Weather (every morning).

2. Call so-and-so

3. Set timer/alarm
Or you could buy a HP Z820 with liquid cooling, dual xeon processor, a fusion io card, three workstation gpus, and 12 sata drives :)
Java and the JVM seem like fantastic foundations to have for a language like Clojure. You can develop in a fun language and still use the immense amount of libraries that have been created over the years by the community. You can interop with pretty much anything, and you didn't have to make it yourself or wait for your language to catch up to it, because it's been there all along thanks to Java.

Don't look at Java like the starting point, look at it as the big furnace for what's leveraging it.
Patriot ACT Section 702 Is Used for Terror, Proliferation, AND Hacking
Maybe if the poster had said we are fed a diet of bullshit; we don't stop to think enough; we are ignorant. Instead, it is always they, they, they. Never the poster- no, the poster is much smarter than they, much too smart to fall for any of that.
I use Siri while driving, replying to messages in particular.
I have, but she only occasionally calls me Batman (lol), but I get no respect from her, probably cause she asked who my wife was and I defined her in my contacts...example, I asked her today "who's your boss?" She said I don't have one Batman
All the New iOS Features Your Old iPhone Won't Get
>People are in meetings right now working out how to move all their stuff

I'm wondering why they didn't consider this scenario in the first place. That lets me question their expertise very much. Aren't they professionally paranoid enough? Then why do they run critical infrastructure?
So they put theirs.

Just kidding, obviously. But one can't be sure their hardware's all right, unless they go way beyond what we'd consider reasonable.
More like Safari-only. I couldn't watch it on Chrome on OSX (unless I changed my user agent to Safari)
Seriously, why not Sea Lion? That icon looks great!
This isn't new, and Sony says the same thing.
I use it all the time while driving:

1. Tell <first name> I'll be late.
2. Directions Home or Directions to <some restaurant>
3. Remind me to <do something>
4. Play <Artist or Song>

These are amazingly reliable for me and quite helpful. I find that people who started using Siri later have adopted a more efficient style, probably because it gotten better and can handle more terse queries now.

I hardly ever need to use full names or contact locations like Mobile or Home or pedantic detail like "Send a Text message". It almost always picks the correct option (the one I use most often).

Sometimes she gets places consistently wrong, but you can often either speak slower or spell out things like acronyms.

Also, you might not have noticed, but you can speak punctuation, like when dictating.

Ask my wife, are you home question mark

will turn into this.

Are you home?
I'm with you on that.

But, for once, this guy wasn't insulting poor people. He was insulting average people. The average person has free time but finds it very very hard to use it for something socially beneficial. This is partially their fault but certainly not wholly their fault.
Experts: Snowden Extradition from Hong Kong Could be Complicated
> That nobody in the real world has actually tried it yet?

Surely someone somewhere has bought a Windows phone ;)
As someone who coded both Java and Javascript today, I attest that boring is also when every little darn thing takes 10x the amount of time and code as it rightfully ought to.
I don't want to beat the NSA, I was just asking for a better javascript AES script.
I have nothing to hide, that's why I would be very happy to get out of the noise of the masses and make the NSA waste a couple of hours :)
I stopped reading at "Barack Hussein Obama." That name is the clearest signal of ideological intellectual dishonesty that I've yet found.
The design is obviously polarizing and leaves many questions unanswered. But one surprising and promising development is that Cook said this would be a platform for "the next ten years." In the face of fears that Apple would abandon the "pro market", this is one of the most explicit forward-looking statements they've made in some time.

[minor edit for intent]
They were informed. After all it's our job to inform them of the facts and let them make a decision, usually based on a tradeoff of risk perception (note not real risk rating) and cost.

Now risk is perceived to be higher, cost is a little more flexible.

Businesses don't necessarily operate in the best interests of their clients. The shareholders come first, then the clients and anything which takes from the bottom line is going to end up a risk tradeoff.

I post anonymously as I'm risk averse and don't necessarily agree with how businesses operate in this respect.
To your first point, who is the identity provider? In practice, it will almost always be 1) a third party, and 2) an email provider that is unlikely to deviate from the "must be a functional email address" approach. So in order to benefit from that support and stay away from third party identity providers you must run your own identity provider.

To your second point, the problem is that self-hosting an identity provider requires a domain name, Internet accessible HTTPS server, and a server certificate that is trusted per Mozzila's cert bundle. For average users to benefit they'd have to setup their own server on their own premises or turn to a third-party for [identity] hosting service. For at least baseline requirement purposes, the device the user is using should be the only device they need to carryout their account creations and logins. I haven't thought it through, but maybe there could be an @localhost format where the browser itself acts as an identity provider.
I might be missing something here, but where is the passphrase negotiated? Apart from calling or talking to the other person, the only way to define this common key that I can see would be electronically. Isn't this a bit of a problem?
Then find something that does. Homosexuality? Recreational drug usage?
If they did usability testing with a wide range of people, I am pretty sure one of them would have leaked the design. I'm not sure how would have done usability testing with non-employees.
I would explain that it's very difficult to store and measure precise charges, which is why computers are digital (on or off). Therefore all arithmetic and logic functions are done in binary numbers, as you can only work with on and off switches. The underlying hardware itself only allows this, until something better comes along.
The most basic forms of segmentation aren't especially relevant to the discussion of the finer points of where Apple is targeting this machine. It would be like bringing up the high-power engine in a sports car, when the discussion is about where within the sports car market the maker is aiming. That it has a high-power engine is generally a given.
It's very close to Fourier series, but since the "solutions" (the equilibria) are not integer multiples of a fundamental, but solutions to a 3-dimensional wave equation, it's more like "wave equation."
Nice sounding statement, but power does corrupt. Quite a few experiments proofing it.
It's light on RAM slots and monitor connections.

Four ram slots? That maxes out at 64 Gig of RAM. What happened to the old 128 Gig?

Sorry, dropping $999 ea. on a single monitor, much less multiple monitors, is just stupid. The difference at the screen between a Thunderbolt display and a display costing half as much isn't enough to warrant the extra cost.

The former machine had a visually distinct box with tons of space inside for the video card of your choice and you could stuff drives in it for days, without relying on expensive external boxes that sucked up slots on the power strip.

It's probably the right design for someone, but not for people who want a serious workstation and not an art statement.
Glenn Greenwald: Challenging the US Surveillance State (2012) [Video]
What is the height of this workstation ? I hope apple is not messing with the cardinal rule of making workstations tall enough that you can rest your legs on them when you lean back on the chair.
Well, this particular quote might come from Stalin, but it's based on an old Hegelian idea, that of a surplus of quantity becoming quality (add enough mass and you get a black hole, temperature over 100oC and you get boiling water, etc).

(Makes sense, since Marx, Lenin, Stalin et co were heavy readers of Hegel).

From Wikipedia: "One important dialectical principle for Hegel is the transition from quantity to quality, which he terms the Measure."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectic#Hegelian_dialectic

Also check the ancient greek notion of the "sorites paradox", which deals with a similar idea:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_paradox
Apple Literally Stole my Thunder
My (pessimistic) prediction is that nothing will change because of this, at least not in the US.

In the consumer space, there's little that this awareness will do to illustrate the risk to those who didn't see it before. It's only when abuse of a program like PRISM comes to light in a big way will the average consumer demand change or change their habits.

In the corporate space, most already are very wary of putting trade secrets or confidential data into cloud services and those who aren't won't be any more so, I would argue, until they see real impact from improper use/disclosure.

Outside of the US? I would hope there'd be more outrage and want for non-US options, but, in truth, most other governments want to be doing the same thing, I'd bet, so just where is the safe harbor is a question many will be asking, I'd bet.
I don't like certain things happening to me (like my own activity being tracked), and it doesn't matter to me that the majority of the country or society is okay with those things happening to me. I was pointing out that there's a difference between certain people being okay with their own activity being tracked and the idea that it's okay to track everyone simply because the majority is okay with that.
...or anyone at the DoJ ...or the guy from Verizon. Basically the only person in there anyone voted for was Obama. And even then it was barely 50% of the country. I'm beginning to think this isn't a voter issue.
At least Adium, Gajim, Kopete and qutIM have built-in OTR support.

So, I guess, it's a bit more than nobody.
And Keychain stored in iCloud, yeah, nice try there NSA.

FTFY
Practically impossible to vet. You won't know whether the person you hired will remain compliant until he steals a bunch of documents and flees the country.
One of the big reasons to put something through a beta is so people will judge it before its final release
Danish oil company develops free video game aimed at young recruitment.
I can't say about China particularly, but many school systems route students into entirely different kinds of schools pretty early. Those with good early (elementary or middle school) math and science scores go on to STEM focused high schools and are then routed into STEM programs in Uni. Other kids will end up on a "vocational" track and go to a High School with a strong trade training and essentially do a supervised apprenticeship, if they're really good there they'll go on to a specialized trade school and focus in some kind of trade, instead of changing oil in a car they might rebuild alternators or transmissions or something.

I've heard China has done similar routing for several topics of national prestige, kids end up in an Olympic gymnastics or diving program and train in that program until they either make it into the Olympics, fail out or end up as a coach when they're in their single digit ages. I'm not sure about other areas.
And neither does iOS 7.

I mean, where do you see the: "jarring psychedelic colour schemes"?

If anything the grant-parent brings up the example of the Control Center, which is the opposite of that, just a two-color subdued thing.
Taking a look at the site and the walk around, it eases most of my problems, but not all of them:

- The RAM looks accessible enough that it can be changed/modified with ease.

- That's true for the built-in drive as well, it looks like one of the "blade" type SSDs that comes in the rMBP. Even if its a slightly different form factor, I've got faith OWC will come up with solutions. Will be slightly miffed about losing a "No SSD, give me the cheapest mechanical drive" purchasing option, but there it is.

- My real concern is the GPUs. With the new thermal profile and the walk around, those really don't look like off the shelf parts. I'm pretty sure you can't easily swap them. I'd prefer an nVidia option generally, and more importantly the FirePros will likely be optimized for graphics work, and terrible for gaming (yes, I do sometimes game on my Mac Pro) and not optimized for scientific computing, which would be my other use case.

It's just enough to make me like the new Mac Pro, but also hesitate because of the GPU.
Um ... for PRISM, shouldn't they be suing Google, Facebook, Apple, etc?
Your senses are lying to you.
I'm happy with AES and I don't want to write my own crypto.

I was asking for a better AES javascript library, because I found a couple of different js AES libraries, but, as you said, I don't know anything about cryptography, and I wanted to know if some are better than others.

thanks
The author seems to be incapable of making the distinction between design by committee and data-driven decisions making.
Apple App Store apps: by the numbers
> Apart from Razer and maybe Alienware nobody has even tried to really innovate the workstation landscape.

How about Thermaltake? http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/products-model.aspx?id=C_00001...
The Search Engine that Vows Not to Track You: Video
I consider this article not as an attempt to discredit these techniques by making patriotic references, but as an excellent starting point to help people start building instincts about what their "useless metadata" could actually be used for.

The great challenge we face in educating the populace (and indeed, ourselves) is that people lack any intuition for what sorts of data they should or should not broadcast. People are hesitant (I hope!) to give out home addresses to strangers without good cause--we have no such innate hunches about the data and metadata we leak.
I don't understand the appeal of flat design. Seems like a bad trend. I'm surprised so many hop on board.
It has 6 Thunderbolt/Display Port (i.e. any display with $10 cable adapter) connections. How much more do you need?