skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I consciously avoided any reference to ethics to avoid that quagmire. But unlike ethics and the effects of the complex series of compounds that are food on the complex system of tissue that is the body, the environmental economics of food are pretty much straightforward and as far as I can tell both well understood and lacking the ridiculous back-and-forth of nutritionism.

It's absolutely possible that many vegans are vegans due to some psychological pressure towards purity or ascetism, and they just coincidentally chose a pressure vent that also makes sense in an economic and environmental sense. I'm sure many of them might even be aware of that dualism.
When Steve Jobs was around all the really great ideas probably found their way directly to him. If he then decided to call any of those ideas his own and reject the apps, do you think anybody at Apple would defy him?

Whomever that person is now (Jony Ive?) probably got ahold of this app and did the same thing.

Very easy to hide all of this under the veil of 'we were already working on something like that'. The author even acknowledges as much. So blatant theft is basically impossible to prove. But it's pretty naive to think that does not go on.
The PRISM Details Matter
Somewhat related, the BBC launched a new weather app for the iPhone (and Android) today.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/appsblog/2013/jun/10/bbc-wea...

Perhaps the requirements are somewhat relaxed for large entities.
That's my only real complaint (without seeing the price) at the moment: the GPUs. I really want/need an nVidia option.
Amen.

I'm a bit tired of people just dismissing Java based on its hipness factor.
for a thousand bucks I would buy a new desk and monitor to make it the center piece of my new study in my house. instead Apple will want at least five thousand and expect it to be a business class workstation.

make this the Mac mini, you sell a gazillion.
It's not hyperbole. Apple stole the place in the app store.
> Well, if you already have a Windows Phone, I don't think you're the kind of person that would appreciate iOS, anyway.

That's an arrogant and elitist thing to say. Your iWhatever doesn't make you a better human being, it just makes you think you have the right to tell that to others.

Don't be an iAsshole.
IANAL, Apple has an absolute monopoly on iOS, does this mean nothing?
I see. I would tend to agree. Some Americans are ignorant and stupid about a lot of things (I say this as an American) but I think you're right. I mean, part of that also is being aware of the implications of saying "I have nothing to hide", etc, but that's for the other discussions.

Anyway, to be clear, I don't think this is one of those "Why does America care about the Kardashians instead of this?!!" issues.
Would be interesting to see more GPU equipped machines designed for data processing instead of just processing graphics. ("just" not to minimize the value/importance of design, photography, and art, but "just" in that there's more to GPUs that design, photography, and art.) Form + function for matrix multiplication.

Though totally unrelated to the Mac Pro (other than it being a knockoff of MacBook Air) Dell has made an interesting push for data crunchers. Their recent-ish re-launch of an Ubuntu machine [0] that enables you to simulate and then push your environment up to the cloud is an interesting, if fairly niche product.

Could the Mac Pro, with it's specific audience, the Dell XPS, and maybe even the RasberryPi, be the beginning of a much more specialized desk/laptop computing movement in the face of iPads (errr... tablets) eating the general purpose, internet surfing computer market?

[0] http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-13-linux/pd
Java and Mono have been shown to be roughly comparable overall in speed, each a bit worse or better than the other in some ways, I've read.
Apple snuck in a new Airport Extreme
because gross generalizations are fun!
Daring Fireball: 'This Is Our Signature': iOS 7
What's frustrating, I bet, is that other apps had "useless" weather condition graphics as well. WeatherHD for example.

Now, Alaric's app is probably very interesting, but why block it when others existed (and did the animation more poorly)?
I do use that actually. But since there is no standard theme, it still means you will go from dark to light to dark blinding yourself in the process. Also triple click is hard to do right consistently, and since I have to do it over and over. :/
FISA limits intercept, surveillance, and search, not collection, from what I've read of it (I don't think there is any restriction on collection). They have chosen the (IMO bad) interpretation that merely collecting information is not special at all.

You'd "voluntarily" wave the protection of that collected data, so it would be identical to "give us your last 10 years of email", except conveniently they would be the ones holding it for you.

(I could be wrong; I'm really not claiming any expertise on FISA or FAA or any of the secret court rulings determining its scope, just trying to figure out ways which collected information could be used to one's detriment. Plus, of course, FISA 2 is always possible, modifying FISA.)
No .. the US is hacking/spying on every worthwhile entity. And so is everybody else. It doesn't mean a thing about who the "enemy" is. This is the status quo; it's Spy vs. Spy.

Example: http://intelnews.org/2011/02/07/01-652/
In this case however, if Apple wanted to be fair and demonstrate a consistent behavior, they would give every new version of iOS to their review team and ask them to apply the same logic they use when they (dis)approve 3rd party applications.
How is Android a "closed system" in this context?
Booz Allen said he was an employee for less than three months. That sounds really interesting, I thought he would have worked there for longer since he claims he was planning this for a long time and the reporter said he was in contact for months.

If you read what the Wash Post reporter said Snowden tried to get him to release the entire slide deck. Why couldn't he put it on the internet? It is also interesting to me that he said this required a lot of preparation. If he had the accesses he claimed he had copying classified slide decks would be risky for him but not something that would take a long time.

He also claimed that the NSA could track all emails in the USA and he (or an analyst not sure what he meant) could access the email of the president if he had the personal address. If that is the case, surely evidence of that type of deep telecommunications interception would be more important than PRISM especially since he raised that claim specifically to explain why he did it. With the access he had it would be easy to prove.

I don't know what to make of his decisions. Not saying he isn't who he said he is but I think there are a lot of unanswered questions.
This thing looks like a '90s sub-woofer. As of now, I wouldn't want this sitting on my desk as showy bling.
Based on the fact it looks like a bin, feeds air from underneath and has the headphone connector on the back, no.
External optical drive is a viable substitution. External GPU is not, at least at the moment.
It's customary to use the name someone uses for himself. He refers to himself as "Barack Obama".

What's Larry Klayman's middle name? It's not in the docket.

What's Keith B. Alexander's middle name? It's not in the docket.

What's Lowell C. McAdam's middle name? It's not in the docket.

And each of those names are more common (and thus more likely to be ambiguous) than Obama's.

Outside of his swearing in (where middle names are customary even when they're not typically used in self-reference), the only time anyone says "Barack Hussein Obama" is when they're ideologues.
As a progressive, I have conflicts with some of Rand Paul (and his father Ron) policies and positions. However, you have to admit they're beginning to sound like profits.

Like it or not, they adhere to a fairly strict view of the constitution and that's admirable in the current poll-based world of politics.

That said, Paul (and father) were never good communicators. Both vocally and even prosaically. I'm surprised he is not using the IRS scandal and tie it to the NSA's potential abuse of power.

As we know the metadata can be used to see if a person had an abortion, may have sought mental health (calling suicide hotlines, etc.) may have feared STDs (calling aids hotline) may have had cosmetic surgery or slew of other things.

Any of these information, can for example, be misused against a political contender running against the current administration. Comparisons to IRS' supposed targeting of certain political entity would have been tangible and palpable example of the unchecked power of NSA and would have been farm more visceral than the heady, "Big Brother" argument.
Ask HN: What's a good resource to find technical projects for charity?
I'd like to spend a few hours here and there helping out various charities with any technical/web needs that they may have. It could be anything from setting up Google Analytics to creating a way for them to collect new donations on their website. It seems that a lot of the sites and resources that I'm finding are dedicated to a weekend or a specific day, I'm looking for more of a "We're a charity for the homeless, we need X setup for us".
"The authorities could approach the telecommunication providers (ISPs, mobile operators and phone operators), pay a few Shekels, and obtain answers to queries, as long as such queries relate to specific crimes or investigations. "

NSA wins - they get all records without ever needing to allude to specific crime being committed.

"out of which, almost 2,000 were related to political activities such as public disturbances."

Political activities and public disturbances are very different things. You can make public disturbances while doing political activity, e.g. protesting, but you can also beat up a cop while protesting, that doesn't mean beating up a cop becomes example of political activities.

" Israel addressed Google for subscriber information (not by the Metadata act, as it does not apply to Google), about 350 times since 2009. Google responded to most of these requests; meaning that there are 350 people in Israel that the government obtained their correspondence,"

It actually does not. It means there were 350 requests, on which in about 2/3 of them Google disclosed some data. There's no indication which data was disclosed and whether such data was correspondence or not.

"Israeli nationals are always subjected to espionage and surveillance: employers read your email, the state sets up traffic cameras, parking cameras, security cameras and protection cameras."

Parking and traffic cameras have nothing to do with government surveillance and obviously are added just to sensationalize the article, as well as allegations about email snooping by employers, which again has absolutely nothing to do with government. Both are very common and nothing specially relating to Israel.

Summarily, though the article raises a very valid question of eroding judicial overview over state surveillance - which has, unsurprisingly, the same trend in Israel as it does in the US - overly sensational tone and bunching together legitimate privacy concerns and complaints about security cameras in private places. This detracts from the quality of complaints significantly. Main message of the article - that Israel is somehow an Orwellian total-surveillance state - is false, while Israel does have the same problem as US does, this claim is exaggerated.
Cause apple users pay more, a lot more. It usually comes down to money in the end.

The way to mitigate this risk is to create an MVP that you don't put a lot of work into. Then afterwards iterate and improve upon it.
Is it possible to use gAES with Google Chrome?
> So ENCRYPT EVERYTHING, and don't believe this propaganda.

One of the best things you can do to improve your OPSEC is to stop believing in meaningless panaceas like "ENCRYPT EVERYTHING". There are many weak points in cryptosystems beyond the algorithms (key generation, management, and distribution famously come to mind), and many weak points in data security systems beyond cryptography.

Spouting meaningless catchphrases doesn't help anyone.
Maybe he already joined the communist.
Monopoly power is only regulated in the context of a relevant market (a term with specific legal meaning). The relevant market the iPhone is operating in is not the iOS market, it's the smartphone market, where there are many alternatives and Apple makes only 18% of the devices. Apple doesn't have monopoly power in the relevant market, so nothing it does can be an abuse of monopoly power, which is what's regulated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relevant_market
Rackspace's position on Government Surveillance
HN stores comments permanently and offers no way in which to delete them. Given the current trends it's overwhelmingly likely that someone will eventually be detained, harassed or put on a no-fly list due to past comments on HN.

Given the subject matter, doesn't it seem reasonable that a lot of people would see more risk than benefit in commenting? If your primary goal in life is activism, then sure. But most of us have other primary goals.
In a word: Rsync. What I do is have source files in one directory, filter them over to another with, at the moment, jinja2, then rsync that to my server using a shortcut script. The filtering is the tricky part.
I write code like that with LINQ and such in .NET all the time and have no problem debugging it.
The air being heated naturally flows upwards, so blowing downwards in such a design is a very bad idea. Ideally (and for it to be truly a relevant design), the whole thing is silent at the very least while idle, using very little if any fan and relying on convection to do most of the cooling.
Since it comes for free with iTunes Match, I suppose I will cancel Pandora if this doesn't suck. But I don't have much faith in that... iTunes Match is barely serviceable IMHO, and I'm mainly paying for it as a cloud backup of my music.
The brightness doesn't go low enough unfortunately on mine. Still I'd prefer grey/sepia on black late-night.
I said this in another thread* but I think that the choice of Hong Kong was shrewd. It puts him in a civilized country under the umbrella of a nation that won't be in a hurry to do the USG any favors, and would push back hard against any attempt to disappear him, since that would require action of an arguably military nature on their turf.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5855146
this is a wonderful explanation

I'm currently implementing ECC for a personal project ;)
I agree to all but the government part.

Government in this case is a set of rules, optionally with an enforcement body (e.g.: public utility commission) that puts fear into the provider.

The only problem with the above is that it requires sane and non-corrupt legislators. Those are getting fewer by the election season in the US.
China is a big player here, too. And they don't shy away from kidnapping.
The death of the word 'innovation'
That's where I'm at now. A FirePro is a graphic design GPU. I don't want a graphic design GPU. That's not what I do. I certainly don't want to pay for two of them.

And at the prices the Mac Pro will go for, we're also talking about comparable systems with a Titan in them. I'd much prefer that GPU, except Apple's going with a bespoke design by the looks of it.
This is a suit under Bivens, so even if CISPA addressed the subject matter (it doesn't), it wouldn't have any effect in this case because the Constitution overrides any statute.
I looked and can't find an allowance FISA makes for any private citizen to waive anything in FISA.
Don't confuse patriotism with jingoism.
I love making fun of it but of course I'm just hiding my admiration. At one point I owned an iMac G4 lamp-shade and it seems to hearken back to that design - especially the bottom vents. Ive and co clearly felt they had to come out with something as unique as that lamp-shade design (although it was discontinued, probably because it was really easy to snap in half) and new to inspire excitement about Apple again. It's really sleek, and not nearly as unwieldy as the lampshade iMac. Apple and Tesla routinely set new standards for industrial design. I predict they will sell like hotcakes, not just among professionals but for home users as well.
“metadata”
Verizon-NSA call logs take metadata to an entirely new level
Show HN: My first attempt doing data visualization in d3
There is no Such Thing as Invention
It's also because of automatic garbage collection and the fact that programmers today can't handle memory management.
Either California or surfing metaphors will be next. Sea lion? Probably a little on the cute side for an OS trying to get into enterprise markets.
> Fail a component and its off to the shop.

Oh, so it's exactly like the laptop, tablet, and phone you have now. Gotcha.
That's a very observant point. The language they're taking is as defensive of their own actions as it is offensive against his.
[In a small voice] I like the changes.... [run and hide]
Apple, Microsoft, not to mention Oracle, IBM, CA, etc. are still making money hand over fist. They all make money by selling closed source systems that may or may not have open sub-systems.

You have a curious definition of "win in the end".
This is sensationalist use of the word "missing". The BBC doesn't know where Snowden currently is -- that's all the article says.
I was impressed by your clear writing. Some minor suggestions since you asked for feedback: <:)

* "mandatory requirement" is redundant. If something's not mandatory, then it's not a requirement! :)

* "Many admit that as much as Java is not much fun to write code with, the JVM is a different story.": This sentence is awkward. Perhaps something like: "Many admit Java code is not much fun to write, but the JVM doesn't limit your choice of language."

* "Scala shares the Java Technology Stack, and knowing Java is a big plus when learning Scala, especially due to the common library ecosystem, and the insights into the JVM workings.": This sentence is awkward. It could be simplified into something like: "Knowing Java is a big plus when learning Scala because the languages share a common library ecosystem."

If you are interested in more resources about English writing, I recommend Joseph M. Williams' Style: Toward Clarity and Grace. Strunk & White's Elements of Style is a classic (and short), but some people dislike it.
I find that perfectly readable. I would be more likely to catch an error in that line than in the equivalent in imperative style. It's a matter of habit. It all depends on what you are used to write, whether you are used to functional style or not.
The thing I really like about my old Mac Pro is that I could crack it open and stick a couple old graphics cards in there and go crazy with media. I had 5 screens including a TV and a Wacom digitizer connected to mine.

This is a total miss for me.
Assuming that the "in EU datacenters" is mentioned in regards to privacy more than latency (which is likely, following the recent news), the issue is that both the company behind QBox, and the company QBox seem to be using for their servers, are American companies. This means they're subject to the same laws that Google et al are subject to, never mind where the data is physically stored.
Taking classified data away from the organization in question may not be trivial. Email is probably monitored, using USB storage is probably not allowed, printers are probably monitored as well, CDR drives might not be readily available, internet access is probably quite limited and monitored.
You can call me an asshole, it certainly won't be the first or last time.

Most people who meet me find me rather average in pretty much every respect. Probably below average in quite a few. We all have choices we can make with our time and I know nothing about spectator sports, for example.
I think it was a philosophy more than anything. Fullscreen is not just "taking up the whole screen", it's the idea that you are working on only one application. So if you are fullscreen on one screen, the other screens should be blanked out so they aren't a distraction.

Many disagreed with this philosophy, but that was why it was "broken."
I haven't met a person yet who hates their windows phone.
You're overanalyzing my post. My point is simply that you can't count up number of deaths to compare two problems. One murder puts a far bigger strain on the social fabric than one old person dying of heart disease. The fact that people in a city of almost 3 million people freak out over ~500 murders, compared to probably thousands dying of heart disease, a year is evidence of that fact.
I would think that Apple devs would use multiple monitors and would have coded the base functionality so that it made sense working.. Even Windows has had pretty decent multi-monitor support for about 5 years now.

Anyway, I look forward to proper multi-monitor support without have to purchase an expensive 3rd party add on, or manually resizing my windows on different screens.

I'm also hoping that like windows, OS-M will remember what apps are where when I plug in different screens (like home vs office).
This close after the leak? Surely give it some time before snatching him, this is such a hot story right now that people are going to draw this conclusion...

(Although obviously China etc might also want him for a few "questions")
"No one objects to balancing security against liberty. No one objects to seeking warrants for targeted monitoring based on probable cause. We've always done this.

What is objectionable is a system in which government has unlimited and privileged access to the details of our private affairs, and citizens are simply supposed to trust that there won't be any abuse of power. This is an absurd expectation."

I think one of the reasons we libertarians have had such a hard time over the years talking about the security state we're building is that Paul is right: this is absurd. People simply do not believe that such a thing is actually happening. Sure, they think, some bad guys are being monitored, and the usual crackpots are complaining, but overall the government is doing a good job. After all, there hasn't been another 9-11, right?

I appreciate Paul's efforts, but we're going to need massive reform in the surveillance policies of the U.S. As a start we need something like another Church Committee.

One thought is this: how about making it a felony not to disclose information that an agency is clearly violating the constitution.
Right.

I think Java does suffer from a little too much boilerplate, but that is solved by becoming proficient in an IDE which doesn't actually take too long. Even for this old hacker who only picked up an IDE 2 years ago after nearly 20 years of emacs.
"There’s a sense of place, depth, and spatiality in iOS 7 that makes it feel like hardware. A real thing, not pixels rendered on glass."

The physicality of iOS 7 wasn't clear to me until I watched the video demo, and it's very impressive: http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-ios-7-video-jony-ive-20...
The Design Battle Behind Apple iOS7
Anwar al-Awlaki may have been a terrorist or he may not have been, however he wasn't tried in a court of law so he wasn't guilty of anything.

The above statement looks very awkward but we shouldn't advocate extra-judicial killings.
Google added this to the Linux kernel quite some time ago for Android.

Basically, it inserts a step before the "move to swap" step where it compresses the page. This a) allows Linux to write a compressed page to swap which allows both faster writes but also faster reads, b) allows you to use more memory before hitting swap.

Major distros are considering enabling this functionality in their kernels by default.

What you're describing sounds like samepage detection, which Linux also has thanks to Google and Android.
What they said. But yeah, I felt bad that the comment was going to sound personal, which is why I apologized.
Programmers in the past couldn't handle memory management either.