skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say that's implicit, if code that doesn't deliver business value (refactoring, documenting, etc.) is wasted, people won't do it.
Oh, this is awesome: Keith Alexander explaining how what we really should do is let the NSA have a database that stores absolutely everything, and then they promise only to search through it when it is "reasonable."
1,000 iOS developers surveyed on iOS7 features
This. I've been thinking a lot about this (not particularly hard, admittedly) lately. I suppose the main problem would be that those in power, i.e. politicians, will mostly be out of a job once such a task were to be undertaken.
So let's estimate:

http://www.telegeography.com/press/press-releases/2012/01/09... says there were 438 billion international (because that's all the NSA collects, right?) calling minutes in 2011 (in the world... not just the Netherlands).

Aberdeen will sell you 1 PB of storage for $495k: http://www.aberdeeninc.com/abcatg/petarack.htm

A narrowband speech codec will encode calls in excellent quality (for the PSTN) at 12 kbps.

So that's 438 * 10^9 minutes * 60 seconds/minute * 12000 bits/second / (8 bits/byte * 10^15 bytes/petabyte) (using lying harddrive manufacturer's definitions of a petabyte) = 39.42 PB.

Or less than $20mln/year. Which of course is the quoted budget of PRISM.
All federal prosecution is done under the Justice Department, which is part of the executive branch-- as is the IRS, NSA, FBI, etc.

So, if the president is fine with them lying to congress, there isn't anything congress can do short of impeaching and removing the president. Good luck with that.

I remember during the Bush years where administration leaders were flat out ignoring congressional subpoenas, and there was nothing the investigating committee members could do to force them to show up since the justice department was instructed not to act.
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Do you have any recommendation for documentation then ?

In my experience wikis are far from perfect and need regular gardening BUT they are vastly better than a shared folder or a sharepoint with a ton of word documents...
[2006] NSA intercepts network traffic in real time
What's wrong with Fedora in that respect? Just curious, since I haven't heard anything like that before.
This is how MOST computer science majors spend their careers.

And I'm thankful they do. Most of the very large projects that act on an extremely large scale require that sort of day-to-day grind. The spark is important too, but great things are 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration.

Just look at the code studies. Open-source projects of great accomplishment like the Linux kernel have just as many hours (those hours are just distributed a bit more)
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The Russian billionaire talks swapping your body for an android avatar, immortality, the Dalai Lama, and lifelike robotic heads.
To be fair, though, you can dismiss the argument all you like, but they do have missiles and you don't. It does seem like a rational argument. I don't know that I necessarily want tactical nukes over the mantel but isn't that what it would actually take to balance things out at this point?
"Everybody loves finding Stack Overflow answers on search results, but nobody contributes those answers."

Nobody OFFICIALLY does that. Probably because subsection 89 paragraph 12 clause 9 specifically prohibits that kind of activity on company time, and the company owns everything you produce or think of outside work blah blah blah, only company officers may speak for the company and you're not an officer, and you are never off duty and always working for the company who owns everything you may ever say, therefore you may never communicate with another human being in any manner... officially... in theory...

In practice psuedonymity is the rule. No one he's met in 8 months has seen fit to give a kid leverage over him for no apparent reason.
Many on this thread are suspiciously skeptical of Snowden. I could easily see this as the Washington Post trying to portrait him as cooperating with China. I can't imagine China being interested, and I highly doubt Snowden would think they are. The only value to China would be PR.
> Also, users who have previously purchased the app but don’t have them on their devices today will not be able to re-download past purchases. As of today, KitCam and PhotoForge2 are no longer available for download from the App Store.

Any reason to pull a paid app from the App Store so abruptly?
I get emails intended for other people all the time. Including financial data, addresses, phone numbers, tons of names and emails in CC fields, etc. I know a guy with a more common name who has made up a ranty blog post that he sends to companies who don't do proper email validation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5870692
Yer welcome =)

I pestered peeps till they turned that flag on. As you said, it's now on for Ubuntu.
> And people are still not freaked out about having the government know everything they've ever said or done?

The part you left out of the quote was "used against you, in a court of law". Even if NSA should find info on people, it won't be admissible in a court of law against U.S. citizens essentially by definition, so from the POV of a random guy on the street it's a question of whether the nerd sitting at the NSA console is worse than the nerd sitting at the GMail ops room console.

FBI would probably be a bigger worry, but no one seems to care about them for years now.
It's common for US immigration and border control agents (and Canadian agents) to do Google and other internet searches. This has been disclosed and acknowledged in the US media several times. While the messages were not likely Facebook "chat" messages, they could have been "friends only" posts (or even public posts that the woman considered "private" from a foreign government). My understanding is that US law enforcement has access to Facebook "God view" where they can see all your Facebook posts. They don't need a warrant because Facebook owns the data and is the one giving them permission to view it. It's a different class of data than a "chat/email" in that it's posted, not directly communicated, so there's no reasonable legal expectation of "privacy".

As for personal experience with this, I had a musician friend that posted on his website that he was going to be performing a series of shows in Canada. He was asked at the border if he planned to work while in Canada. He said no and did not have a visa that allows it. The border agent showed him his website, which was found with google, showing that he was planning to work. He was denied entry and banned from Canada for 1 year for lying to a border agent.
I think on a large corporation like Microsoft, both your cases can happen at the same time. The OP wouldn't blatantly lie and I assume you are not lying too...

This huge disparity between teams are normally a sign of very big management issues.
I'll agree with this observed trend. Colleagues of mine at a top-tier university are already seeing this in students. They have "computing" experience, but no real sense of the file system as an organizational and navigational tool. This poses a question in my mind:

Are we creating a world of perpetual intermediate users?

I think there are definite advantages to reducing cognitive noise in "casual computing" found in current mobile experiences. What's less clear is the path individuals will take from this world of per-app organization into one where content creation, workflow, and eventually implementation details increasingly take precedence.

It's not enough to say "the king is dead" until we also have a way to add ", long live the king."
Not controversial? Obama certainly characterizes it as controversial when he talks about China conducting cyber-attacks on the US.
Bad call! If they run out of names they should add more domains to their service.
I agree "if it is true," but the interview makes him look like a fairly smart sort of fellow and he has obviously been considering this for a long time (5+ years), so at the very least he's probably thought through the details more than anyone currently discovering this story via Hacker News.
All you have heard is US media propaganda about being hacked by the Chinese. You never considered the possibility that the US may be doing the same to China, but much worse?
Why does the design of iOS 7 look so different?
Yes. It's almost like this is a beta version of the biggest ever change to the OS and some people will have to learn new ways of doing the same tasks.

The only thing 'telling' is that somehow you're surprised by this.
I'm a GNOME 3 user and I love it, I feel I'm more productive with it than with any other desktop.

GNOME 3 developers, you rock!
Sounds good. Warm fuzzy feeling. I'm an introvert too. BUT. Lets be real, how many Fortune 500 CEOs are true introverts. How many entrepreneurs are introverts.

I want to see examples of the introvert leadership style in large/innovative companies. Anyone have any examples?
> This is pretty important for AMD because they've been having a terrible time matching Intel at per cycle efficiency.

Bulldozer was always supposed to be a high clock long pipe machine, sacrificing some IPC. See eg http://www.anandtech.com/show/5057/the-bulldozer-aftermath-d...

"Per-clock efficiency" is generally not goal in itself in CPU design, absolute performance and efficiency are. Where AMD has stumbled is getting the clock up, probably partly related to their unfortunate fab situation

The speed-demon strategy has seen successes historically, Pentium 4's fate notwithstanding. See eg the DEC 21164 and the IBM z196.
The problem is that Snowden's very real evidence currently consists of the 5 published PowerPoint slides.

The information in those slides does not necessarily contradict what has been said by the tech companies and the government. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5858387

The rest of the slides might have more conclusive evidence that contradicts the tech companies' and government's statements. We should be asking for those slides to be authenticated and published.
Just a guess:

The patterns in the examples seem to be horizontal, meaning the raw (pre 'cable encoding', usually 8b/10b) bit pattern of the display output would be repetitive . It wouldn't be out of the question that a slightly improperly electrically balanced or terminated output could cause signal integrity issues, including ringing (voltage exceeds spec on rising / falling edges) which could trigger safeguard circuitry in a display (shut it off).
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I wish I could upvote you more. I've been playing with clojure for weeks and I use nrepl, but it never clicked what a solid workflow could be.
Oh that is sneaky. what a shitty thing to do. one of those kudos is mine now and I am so NOT wanting to give this trash kudos. :(

EDIT: Looks like all the sites built on svbtle do that. What kind of jack-ass "feature" is that?
Obama's administration had just begun officially condemning China for their relentless cyberattacks in statements made by senior officials. Obama himself was a few days away from a meeting with the Chinese premier in which he was signaling that he was going to openly criticize China for these attacks.

Suddenly, a guy who has had this information for several years decides that NOW is the moment he must step forward with his revelations. He runs off to China (yes, Hong Kong is China), and "confesses" that his agency has been cyberattacking China.

How remarkably convenient this must be for China at this moment, and how remarkably coincidental that he chose China to run away to. Coincidences happen, of course, but I'm not ready to gush about Snowdon's patriotism just yet.
CPS1 can work depending on the game. CPS2 has not worked for me except for D&D.

NeoGeo games work extremely well with GNGeo.

Playstation games work great with PCSX_reARMed.

SNES games work great with PiSNES.

Genesis emulation is working ok with DGEN
...or if he is a spy for the Chinese.
Please quote the what you think is the relevant part from [3]. I can't find any suggestions like that.
>This is a person at his first job out of college and he's been there for less than a year. And yet he has the audacity to say "I learned that one will see this sort of problems in all large scale companies."? Really? This is absurd.

Fwiw, I read it as a way of (plausibly) covering his ass if he was ever hauled in front of management about the post, not a way of overstating his experience. YMMV.
Trying to understand monads and the Kleisli newtype by looking at the Wikipedia pages on monads and Kleisli categories is probably going to do more harm than good.

Trying to understand what a monad "is" is probably not worthwhile. It's actually quite easy to work out how to use them just by playing around with them.
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Hey guys,

I'm thinking to launch a site for tutorial authors to post their content for free. I'm really not trying to sell anything just get some feedback on something I'm working on. I'm looking to conduct 20 min interviews on phone or through Skype and live near Toronto if in person is the most convenient.

If you have any contacts you can introduce me to, I'd greatly appreciate it. I can return the favour in any way you might need.

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I agree with the author of the article that overall iOS 7 represents a big step forward in terms of design.

However, there are some glaring warts that weren't discussed. Most notable among the goofs is the new "Control Center" feature. What's odd is that Apple seems particularly proud of it judging by how frequently it appears in their iOS 7 marketing materials. To be clear, I think that the idea of giving quick access to frequently used controls is a good one. However the current visual design execution of this idea is abysmal.

IMHO, the current design of iOS 7 Control Center is a jumbled mess that doesn't seem consistent with the rest of the new design. It violates a bunch of the new design conventions, and conceptually represents a grab-bag of misfit controls that have little reason to be together on the screen at the same time.

The controls shown in Control Center don't use the new convention of tinting to a bright color to indicate interactivity, but instead opt for inverting between light and dark to indicate on/off. Additionally, some of the buttons have borders, while others don't. Some are circles, some are rounded rectangles, others are floating in whitespace. Some less important controls (AirDrop) are big, other more important ones (WiFi) are small, and they're all stacked on top of each other in a big jumbled mess.

Here's how I propose Apple improve the design of iOS 7's Control Center:

- Adopt a consistent control element design: no borders, color hinting etc.

- Remove the bottom row of app shortcuts. Except for the flashlight these are not controls, they're links.
- Remove AirDrop and Airplay. Not controls either.

- Refine that ugly down arrow on the top of the pane. It's too chunky and is encroaching on the icons below.

- Increase the opacity on the panel to improve readability.
Edward Snowden could benefit from Hong Kong asylum disarray
On the contrary, Snowden was sitting on a veritable gold mine. But information about the U.S. hacking China is hardly it. They see it just as much as we've tracked down their PLA hacking unit.
The thing is fricking white Helvetice Neue on a light blue bubble. You don´t need a retina display to conclude this is unreadable. You just need common sense.
I was at Microsoft for 5 years, in a completely different group from the OP. My experience matched his exactly, in character and specifics.
I can confirm this is still the case. Story made me check old hotmail account - said the account did not exist and allowed me to create new account with same address.
Well, my last experience trying to recover an old hotmail account was a few years back, so they certainly may have changed their policy since then. I'm surprised I didn't hear about the policy change though, I would have happily used hotmail for a good short name :)
While correct, it doesn't really address the issue: Bitcoin isn't useful for such scenarios.

Chargebacks are not quite the same. There's an investigation and so on. I can't repeatedly take my credit card out, buy $2000 cameras, and claim I didn't. Bitcoin doesn't have that safety measure.
> What kind of assurances would you like from the NSA? How can the NSA prove to you that the systems aren't being abused?

Frankly, and not to devalue the difficulty of that problem, it's their problem. "It's hard so we gave up" simply does not fly here.

I agree with you I'd like to see more solid evidence, and I'm pretty sure we will-- Glenn Greenwald has stated that other slides contain potentially damaging intelligence and will not likely be released, but there are further newsworthy documents to come.
We've entered into a weird postmodern dystopia epoch in world history when our number one trading partner is also "the enemy."
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Yes please. I am not one for long meta discussions. However, once a big story breaks out, there are plenty of places to discuss it outside of HN. Reddit for example has a much larger audience. Mainstream media has been all over the NSA news too. In fact, half of the stories cover on HN have been from The Atlantic and NY Times. The other side of this argument is that a story like the one about NSA is affecting hackers.

I guess sometimes I wish HN had a separate section for articles that start with "Political: ..."
Well... let's wait until he actually leaks something sensitive before we go throwing that around. It's not impossible he's a traitor based on what else he's given to Greenwald, but I personally wouldn't make that call at this time.
Firstly, I think it unlikely that the White House would drop a nuke on New York to quell political unrest/rebellion.

Secondly, yes the gap in power has widened. But just look to the Revolutionary War. The British had the world's greatest troops, and the world's greatest Navy. (Hell, the Queen's Navy was like the prototypical American Navy) The power gap was already tremendous.

I'm not a philosopher on the issue or anything, but the crux of the matter, the thing that makes revolution different from war, is the government does not need to crush. It needs to obtain consent. It wishes to govern, not to conquer, for a government without people is nothing at all.

Firearms are one of the ways the populace can resist in some fashion, can refuse to consent.
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I've also considered the possibility that I might be a smart robot. Lacking evidence for this, however, I don't give it much thought.
Sen. Franken ‘Well Aware Of’ Surveillance, Defends NSA
I've never been in any of those countries, but I totally agree with the sentiment. By the way, you meant "kind of action," right? Unless that was irony.
That doesn't deny the call. It just turns the ringer/buzzer off until they give up.
^ This right here is why I don't even bother debating some issues with some people. I just know feelings/pride is going to be hurt and people will be offended. I just wish I could somehow tell them, without telling them, that if they only knew the stuff American-corp/gov does to other countries directly and in-directly they would know what's really behind "Hate Americans because of their Freedom(TM)".
But alas, any site that I get my news from will probably considered "Extremist Propaganda Against America" by the folks I'm thinking of.
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Get a quote from another photographer and use it to negotiate or just find a different photographer.
I think you are looking at history through rosy tinted glass. The patron system worked, but not as well as the government funded research we have today. It would never have gotten us to the moon.
Always wondered why more companies don't do this. If AOL had released screen names in the early 2000s it may have stayed relevant a little longer. Twitter could stand to do the same.

I've been wishing there was an alternative to Gmail (because they keep making the interface worse). Yahoo seems promising but you can't get a good name... this solves that, bravo!
The real world is an awfully broad place. There are plenty of places you can go where mediocrity is not encouraged, people do more than 2-3 hours of real work a day, they're passionate about their work and curious about outside developments, and your specialties do matter. If you want to work there and find that you're not able to do that in your current job, change your job.

You tend to get the life you believe you deserve - if you're willing to put in the leg work to make it happen, you can very easily reconfigure the world around you to something you're satisfied with.
OTOH, I've learned to treat IMs as emails to a degree: often I'll send a message to someone who's online and expect that they'll likely see it. This might be a quirk of the clients we use, but it's very email-like.

The difference is less one of speed and more one of an ephemeral inbox. (In how it's treated by typical use cases; obviously, IM logging makes it less ephemeral.)
AT&T and Verizon didn't have to deny it: what were their users going to do, switch to Quest?

Facebook, Google, etc stand to loose a lot if the allegations are true or are believed to be. If what is alleged is true, they have a massive financial motivation to lie and lie blatantly.

That doesn't mean they are lying, but the fact that AT&T and Verizon didn't lie doesn't tell us one way or the other.
The namespace market is growing all the time. Something to consider when naming your kids.
Oh my. You believe that, do you?

They don't. They work on something they believe in. Now - that's not a reason to agree by default: Lots of people do things they believe in and fail their social circles or even society.

But there's no further point to argue about: Your article was a (poor) rant, your comments here are further proof that you deeply disagree with everything Gnome 3 and still are unable to provide any meaningful comment.

I'm trying to put it simple: If Gnome 3 doesn't solve your goals, it's not 'destroying the project'. If a couple of 'Yeah, that's really crap, mate' people agree with you that doesn't magically make you the majority of the userbase, nor does it mean that the developers are wrong and you are right.

In all seriousness: After your rant was posted you had only one way to react without digging an even deeper hole: Acknowledge that you were overly aggressive and wrong in quite some points. Instead you continue witih statements like this.

English is a foreign language for me, but I think 'to pout' is the verb I'd grab for if I'd need to talk about this comment of yours. Stop complaining, start improving things you care for.
Happened to me too. Was saving a few MB's per person on average really worth the ill-will actions like that cause?
Daniel, your age is irrelevant.

Apple looked at the steps other companies took and followed suit: webOS-like multitasking, Android-like control panel widgets, Microsoft-like thin UI fonts and flat surfaces. This is not necessarily a bad thing -- for a while, other players were catching up with Apple's design. But now, Apple is catching up with their innovations (and graphic design memes).
I read there are still a huge number of show-stopping bugs in iOS7. Things like using a date picker causing a kernel panic. How are you running it? On a tertiary device or on your phone? Just curious.
Thanks for sharing. This is terrifying and it's the reason releasing the email addresses is a horrible idea.

The web runs on the assumption that you have access to an email address and you'll never lose control of it. Ignoring that assumption and opening up your old users to identity theft just because you want to reissue short usernames that will again be squatted on is kind of crappy.