skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Thunderbolt 2 is nice but its a poor substitute for internal drive bays and 16x PCIe.

Why, exactly? I don't know how many lanes will be in the Thunderbolt2 (haven't checked the specs), but I have a Pegasus Thunderbolt RAID storage (4 drives), which is really fast. SSD sys drive + Thunderbolt storage = win in my books.
Further thinking along this line: most people in the world today are dependent on their phones and internet for information and communication. A lot of people suspected total listening capabilities and now we mostly know that's the case. But what if the NSA had total interference capabilities, as Snowden's quote implies? I suspect it does.

I've been finding HN to be a hub for all the facets, ideas, and fallout from this news. And the snowball of issues (privacy, gov't, business, foreign relations, internationl trade, future of the internet) is worrying to me. But what if it were suddenly gone?

And just as I had that thought, I started getting errors reloading this thread and the main page. Maybe HN is straining at the traffic, but what if some of that traffic came from somewhere else or some server was remotely hobbled? What if your ISP had "disruptions" of traffic to _your_ IP addres, or your 3G/4G became spotty?

Imagine if someone with total knowledge could track the spread of keywords through networks (physical and social) and then enable "slow-downs" to keep the level of spreading below a critical threshhold? If I didn't see all the articles subitted to HN or didn't have time to read them all because the servers crashed, then I might not be so alarmed at the situation.

We in the US and other European nations go on happily enjoying freedom to access all this information, unlike many countries, but would we know if or when we couldn't anymore?

Coincidence or not: when I tried to submit this, I got a message saying "Oops, our bad. If you see this a lot, shoot us an email at info@ycombinator.com. Be sure to tell us your IP. Sorry, news.ycombinator.com is currently unavailable. Please try again soon." Maybe I need to take some keywords out of the text...
There are three crowds on hn/reddit: Those who vote, those who comment, and those who actually read the article!
Or you know, he's referring to actually physically bugging the machine with a hardware keylogger. Which, for someone you're interested in, is way more reliable then simply hoping they're still using unpatched Windows.
"Is Snowden a hero or a traitor? Stay tuned if you can only hold one simplistic juvenile idea in your head at a time."

https://twitter.com/pourmecoffee/status/344202042019045377
In my opinion, he is a Traitor just like Bradley Manning for jeopardizing National Security.
I am trying to recall who said it - but there were two quotes I heard in the last deacade: "We will be at war with China by 2020" and "We will be at war with China within 20 years."

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Given the info I had with respect to how China was actively hacking companies like Lockheed, pretty successfully, as early as 2005 - I have never found the above to be too far fetched.

After reading the article "China invades Africa" -- an article talking about the resource land-grab that China was on in that continent, as well as understanding the US' strangle-hold on Oil in the Mid-East as well as Lithium (and Opium) in Afghanistan, and the talk that "China was on a 50-100 year long-game resource capturing plan" -- it would seem to me that the US is playing the more short term plan for Oil/Electronic resources - whereby large scale battles over the other more "mundane" resources will be expected in ~20 years.

/wild-speculation-fun-thought-exercise
The suit isn't against the government, it's against various officials.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bivens_v._Six_Unknown_Named_Ag....

Sovereign immunity prevents you from suing the government, in its capacity as the government, unless it consents to the suit. It does not prevent you from suing public officials either for an injunction, or in limited cases (as in Bivens) for damages.
I use it for setting timers and alarms, but that's about it. For more advanced queries, I am always afraid that Siri will fail me and I will have to look it up on google myself, so I just do that first.
To be fair, the US in those times was just as crazy as the USSR, they just didn't advertise it internally.
I don't know, but is it better than just getting up and leaving, since that doesn't really address the reach of the issues that confront the world today?
and then sphere? or a cone?
I find it really useful for two specific actions: Setting a timer whilst cooking, and setting reminders.

"Remind me to renew my insurance next monday at lunch time" takes a lot less time that manually entering a date, time and task. 5 seconds as opposed to 30 seconds to a minute.

And whilst cooking, setting a timer quickly without having to navigate through menus with greasy hands is great.

It did take quite a while to actually remember to use it.
Unhackable quantum cryptography can be hacked
I've heard many good things about Cologne, but most of them being more geared to the touristic/cultural side of the city. It's apparently one of the most multi-cultural cities after Berlin I think.
not for me (Germany)

Update: But for others http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/youtube.com
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Finally. This was absolutely necessary, and has been a shocking barrier to App Store developers until now.
Do you have any evidence that Manning hurt his enemies?
The most interesting mods aren't OEM builds. Alienware for instance, has always focused on complete package game systems.

There's a ton of innovation in that space by companies like Digital Storm: http://www.maximumpc.com/article/%5Bprimary-term%5D/digital_...

Or Falcon Northwest:
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/%5Bprimary-term%5D/falcon_n...

A major benefit of these systems is extensibility and repair options, which is why the layout isn't welded together with vendor lock-in proprietary components. Regardless... The ultimate in performance, price and flexibility is still to build it yourself.

Personally, I'd prefer to build a workstation with better specs for a third the price. I'm sure lots of people are terrified to open a computer, and will gladly pay premium prices for something that will look chic for the first nine months.

Let's talk about the real paradigm shift here: Black.
The nuts and bolts do indeed look pretty exciting. I can't wait to put it on my dev iPad tonight and start hacking away on my app.

Unlike my competition, I went 'flat' out of necessity when I launched last year (I found I could write 'bezierPathWithRoundedRect' a lot easier than I could draw a button in PixelMator). Who knows, maybe my app will look fresher in an iOS 7 context. It already looks utterly different to its competition (synthesizer apps), which are universally retro and skeuomorphic. Thanks to Apple for vindicating my laziness!

(Apologies to real designers: I do know there's more to flat design than not bothering to draw textures).
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Impeached by whom?
Can you define what kind of stuff is in the numerator in the 'culture:size' ratio? I'm trying to get a handle on what people mean when they use the word.
I didn't know what Microsoft meant in their description of Windows Phone as "Authentically Digital" until I just saw the ugly bombshell Apple just left.

The new iOS looks half-baked, they can't do anything too bold, else they lose their metaphors, yet they can't do anything radical like Microsoft did without redefining their platform and re-educating their users.

Run away. Fast.
This applies today more than ever. Up vote if you agree.

First they came for the conservatives,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a conservative.

Then they came for the tea party member,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a tea party member.

Then they came for the Libertarians,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a libertarian.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Catholic.

Then they came for the Christians,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Christian.

Then they came for the Gun Owner,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Gun Owner.

Then they came for the activists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a activist.

Then they came for me,
and there was no one left to speak for me.
For some people, probably. It looks like the programs are supported by a majority of the population, however, even with the violations of privacy. Apparently nobody cares about privacy anymore, or they're so terrified of terrorists they're willing to hand over their rights.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/most-americans-suppor...
Swedish government - or Lisbeth Salander?
*free for desktop use; you do need to pay to use it on mobile.
No one is talking about the HTML on that page?! Seriously, what kind of geeks are you... ;)
That's very true. Though, given the volume of apps and the frequency of updates, I doubt it creates nearly as big of a battery suck than constant background running apps do (I'm looking at you Facebook).

Another point is that unless updates are being pushed constantly, I don't see why it would suddenly kill battery life more so than if they were pulled - it is just the timing of when to do updates (over time or "update all" as a batch - I doubt people actually distribute their updates according to battery usage).
Says someone who has never worked tech support....

cries

(Yes, it's a workstation. Yes, I have worked with engineers who did this. Don't make life any harder for your users than you have to.)
It's more likely that my life will be ruined by a drunk driver than by a terrorist.

Also, it's more likely that my life will be ruined because I ran my own email server using FSF-provided software and it broke and I lost all my mail data, or because my email server got hacked and someone spammed all my business contacts, than because I put my email in the cloud and Google sent all my emails to the NSA.
Certainly, there is. Laser printers print at about 300 dpi and most users can't see any visible pixels there, so at normal reading distance, that seems to be close to the maximum resolution you need to visibly pixel-free from the user's perspective.

Going higher than that probably means thinner blank lines will just appear fainter and not thinner.
Make that four crowds: Those who are waiting for the comment pages to come back to life.
"no computer has been built this way before"

Well technically water cooling provides a common thermal core.
It's bandwidth of the HDMI interface (is my understanding), but even then, the max of a standalone AMD or nVidia graphics card is typically three displays. And these are 4K displays!
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Except for limited banwidth connections. I don't want my copy of Baldurs gate on my iPad deciding to update itself while connected to a 3G hotspot
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This isn't Apple's UI, it's everybody who owns an iDevice's UI, and it looks like people are taking this redesign quite personally...time to switch? :/
Ha! I really enjoyed the ending! :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAgnJDJN4VA
Unfortunately, I think the CAD cards and Xeons might make it impossible to price at that level, unless the base config is severely pared down.
He still could have chosen to use the bully pulpit to try to improve the situation. Instead he chose to maintain the status quo, specifically breaking a campaign promise. Worse, having been called out on it, he now whines, "But Congress said it was OK" as if that were some kind of justification. It's true that Obama doesn't have the power to singlehandedly change the situation. But he does have more influence than any other individual.
Most people cross the Gap by boat. It's 'overland' in the sense that you don't have to get on a plane.
Why we need government surveillance
"a witness may have a reasonable fear of prosecution and yet be innocent of any wrongdoing. The privilege serves to protect the innocent who otherwise might be ensnared by ambiguous circumstances."

- Slochower v. Board of Education - 350 U.S. 551 (1956) http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/350/551/case.html

"we recognized that truthful responses of an innocent witness, as well as those of a wrongdoer, may provide the government with incriminating evidence from the speaker’s own mouth."

- Ohio v. Reiner - 532 U.S. 17 (2001) https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/532/17/case.html

This is why "nothing to hide" fails as logic. Even the innocent can be misrepresented or misunderstood in ways that appear criminal.
There is a setting to put Siri in kinda-silent mode. Settings>General>Siri>Voice Feedback: Handsfree Only. This turns off the voice and boop-boop.
Or you know the Icelandic embassy in Hong Kong.
I use it all the time for exactly two things:

1. "Set an alarm for __:__"

2. "Set a timer for ____ minutes"
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The 'power desktop' has been revisited since the 80s - the 'all in one' was a revisit.
No, ideally when they lose, the judicial branch will call for the closure of the PRISM program and citizen's rights will be restored.
It seemed suspicious that in his video interview he said "there's a CIA station right up the street," thus alluding to his location relative to the US embassy. That seems like a way too carelessly revealing statement for an NSA hacker who is so cautious he reportedly covers his keyboard under a sweater while he types his password. So careless it seemed contrived.
Could the media please make an effort not to write articles primarily responding to tweets? This is barely one step above writing articles responding to Youtube comments (please don't get any ideas). You'll find whatever crap you want to find on Twitter. There should be plenty of actual thought out and (intentionally) publicly published opinions longer than 140 characters out there to reply to. It brings your article down in my eyes when you respond to tweets of random private individuals.

I know these people are making public tweets, but ultimately they are not public figures and scouring twitter for their tweets and then exposing them to legions of your like minded followers for public evisceration seems... unprofessional.
Can you explain to me why it makes sense to ban machine guns? If I take a rifle that can shoot as rapidly as I can pull the trigger, and modify it to waste bullets as fast as possible, is it in any significant way more dangerous? Why is the second banned solely based on firing mechanism?
I use the dictation feature in email and notes pretty constantly. It's remarkably accurate with zero training needed, and is much faster than typing by hand. Also saves on hand strain.
The wider audience being the people who make the purchasing decisions...

I work in the financial sector in Europe and this HAS pretty much killed the cloud simply due to the uncertainty. People are in meetings right now working out how to move all their stuff off AWS etc rapidly before the people who pay the bills land it on the doorstep.

In fact it's killed datacenters that are US subsidiaries such as Rackspace as well. I had a conversation with a guy at Rackspace this morning and they actually recommended going to a local company over themselves.

The shit has literally hit the fan this time.
Ask PG: Did the WWDC shut HN down?
HN went down for like an hour. It's back now, but some comments links still don't work and display the nginx error page.

Was this because of the WWDC event?
Where would the private keys be stored? What happens if I lose my laptop?
Meh. Better to be a traitor than a drone.
Why Java is still relevant
Where would the private keys be stored? How do you handle the use-case of a non-technical user losing their laptop?
Or they could let the timeout be four hours.

No harm done if they do that.
IIRC, it's a two-day thing...
Well, My book will not be low-quality. And it will be evident after I've written some high-quality sample content and guest blog posts. So the landing page is just the final step in the funnel.

That said I don't mean for it to look low-quality. That could just be a side-effect of my lack of design skills. :-)
I've had several job offers from start ups and I'm far from a god. If anything, I'm an idiot. :)
> what kind of project does the company has to release in order to get a positive comments from HN readers[?]

A good one?
You're supposed to link against GPG-ME. It's specifically for that purpose.
I think I'd still prefer to look at iOS7 everyday than the turd of an interface that Android ships with
"I had a conversation with a guy at Rackspace this morning and they actually recommended going to a local company over themselves."

Errr... what?!
The PRISM Lesson: Beware the IT Guy
Ask HN: What has binary to do with computers?
An intelligent, but not very tech savvy, person asked me today: "What has binary to do with computers?"

We didn't have time for a really long, complete, detailed, start-from-the-ground-up answer.

So what would you have said?
It specifically names the NSA and the DOJ as defendants. So while that is not against "The Government" as some single entity, it is against two government agencies. I'm not a lawyer so I don't know how that is different. But as a lay-person, that sounds like suing the government to me.
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They are indeed very open minded and interested in new technology and ideas.

We hope that they will like our tool for PhD students: bohr.launchrock.com
Which would be trivial if they had agreements with the various mostly US providers to quickly get man-in-the-middle signed keys from their CA's.

Although this seems like it would be quick to spot since if you were watching certificate fingerprints change then you'd see the switchover and switchback.
> To me that seems utterly brilliant. My phone retains its battery life while the apps stay up to date. To me that is brilliant design and why I appreciate Apple products.

Apple is a lot like the old Mercedes: simultaneously innovative and conservative. Mercedes used to have a lot of new features in R&D years before the competition, but would still roll some things out after the competition, after they got it right.
From what I saw, WWDC had been over for quite a while before HN went down.
We learn all the time how to do complicated things on the internet. Facebook isn't instantly trivial to use (though it seems that way now that we know how to use it). Neither is Google+.

The whole problem with PGP is that it's not worth learning to use because it depends necessarily on network effects. If Gmail deployed it, the network effects problem would immediately disappear. At first it would only work within the online webclient, obviously, and enabling it would have big consequences for how/whether client-based access (IMAP and POP) worked.
Remember, you can only sue the government to the extent that it lets you. If the powers that be decide that they are immune, then they are. If they decide to give immunity to Verizon for complying with government orders then poof! they have immunity. It's a noble idea, but the courts will not solve this issue. I think ultimately the government will not be able to fix itself, one branch cannot fix another branch.
> well, then I guess you won't be a customer. Guess what.. this
> doesn't matter, the loss is probably all yours

Was this meant to be snarky, or am I misreading it? I completely agree, and it seems like you're arguing against a position I never took.

> ... is an OK price to pay to significantly increase the readership

As you no doubt noticed, I said these design decisions were likely made because they work. You are agreeing with my statement.

> And I'm pretty sure patio11 and brennan know quite a bit about this.

Did I claim otherwise? I shared the reasons why I had somewhat of a negative initial impression of the site. My impressions have nothing to do with the experience or credentials of those who were involved with the redesign.
This is everything I hate about Reddit/Chain Letters/Mom and Dads Internet.

You can make lists and ask for upvotes, but instead why don't you go and do some activism. Get off your ass and organize meetings, raise hell until you get people to care about the things you care about.

Sending chain letters on HackerNews is the most Masturbatory thing you can do on the internet besides the deed itself.
All I have to say about the redesign is: What looks cheap in still may seem anything but when its animated on a retina screen with the weight of the device in your hand.

Even now, it looks a lot better in video than in still.
They are indeed open minded and interested in new ideas and technologies. We hope they will like our new tool for PhD students: bohr.launchrock.com
this would make "intercepts" far more difficult

Yup, Google is doubtless completely in cahoots with the NSA.

... Really? Is that what you are thinking? Apply some rational thinking here. It's simpler than that. Google advertises to you based on the contents of your email. It is not in Google's interests to prevent themselves from being able to read your email, and if they can read it so can the NSA.
The part that most worries me is that this doesn't seem like such a different interface from things I've already seen.

What happened to the "Think Different" Apple?
The sentiment is good, but it's poorly written. Consider posting it on a wiki and letting interested community members edit and comment on it.
Come on. If you're getting a customised PC, the items have to interoperate, but you gain flexibility. The Mac Pro customises... how? You're comparing apples and oranges.

Besides, while the new design has some interesting features (well... one plus a different look), it's not like you could have built an 'all-in-one' with your dad 20 years ago. Stop with the hyperbole.
A good tutor needs to be able to meet the student at their level, and be patient and encouraging with confusion and lack of understanding and bigger motivational problems.

Instead, this person seems disrespectful and judgmental of his student. Perhaps she is on another forum, writing, "My sibling badgers me for hours and acts like I'm stupid."

Good one on one discussions done with an open heart really moves mountains.
Show HN: PhotoDrop - Live photo sharing with video chat
PhotoDrop is a side project I've been working on with a couple guys in the office. It's an app that allows you to connect via video and share photos with people at the same time. This is a minimum viable product with no real UI effort, but I'd love to get a bit of feedback.
And you know, given the tens of thousands of people involved in chip design, are we to think that absolutely no one, anywhere, would've leaked that there was some anomalous circuitry in the chip designs which they were told not to worry about it?
Hand in the air, I don't have an iPhone. Really, they only just introduced auto-updates on iOS? Wow...
I'm talking about the non-extreme-security case of where the online email provider stores your private keys.
I agree with the sentiment but those responsible won't. They can't, because to do so would be an admission that what they were doing was wrong.
I'm strongly against this whole idea of PRISM, et al, but I don't get this leap of "the government is going to know everything about you" to, "it's going to be posted for all to see." The latter is simply not true, unless you know a whole lot of NSA employees with access to that information. Not saying it's all ok since that is true, but all of the arguments that bring up the "going to be public knowledge" argument is just a straw man.
But all the pundits will still lap this shit design up ...because its Apple. They've got some of the best designers on Earth, I just can't believe this is what they came up with for UI.
Sssssshhhh, let the people whinge. They need to complain about something, don't contradict them with facts.
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