skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think SUT fits its own motivation: instead of comparing time zones (for which numerous apps already exist), I have to compare local working times (for which no apps exist ;-).

Further, having seconds, minutes as multiples of 10 only makes very few things easier. Or when was the last time you had to find out how many hours are in 1234567 seconds? Did you have to do that more often than finding out how many months are in 1234567 hours?

Last, it totally ignores the concept of leap seconds.
Text-align: Justify and RWD
I am on windows 8, Chrome/Firefox/IE10 and even installed quicktime. I also have VLC. Does anyone know a way to stream the video? Safari is not available for windows anymore. Seems pointless to restrict a huge demographic out.
As far as I know, it will not work on Windows. From the page:

Live Streaming video requires Safari 4 or later on Mac OS X v10.6 or later; Safari on iOS 4.2 or later. Streaming via Apple TV requires second- or third-generation Apple TV with software 5.0.2 or later.
There's no evidence to the contrary, and Apple was named in the PRISM scandal, so you have to operate under the assumption that it is. Sell it and buy a non-smartphone with a removable battery.
There is a whole article on wikipedia on the subject. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_detainees_at_Guantana...

That said, US citizens has been sent to gitmo. They might been transferred out of there at a later time, but there is no denying that it happened. Then we have people like José Padilla who was held for several years without a trial, and only after major pressure from civil groups was he transferred to a civilian court. Being indefinite held without a trial until political pressure pushes the issues to the breaking point does not exactly paint a great picture.
"I don't care because I have nothing to hide."

To which I reply:

Your voting record.

All the people you flirted (or more) with.

What you did in Vegas (every single visit).

The details of the activities you engage in when your parents/siblings/children/significant other aren't looking.

Your religious views.

Yes, the government knows a lot about all the above, thanks to the magic of big-data.
E. W. Dijkstra Archive: A parable
Bradley Manning was a member of the Armed Forces who released classified information to the public. What planet are you living on that his prosecution is unwarranted?
It spins the story around in such a way that Americans can relate to the dangers of a surveillance state.

You're suggesting that the NSA is just looking for bad guys and that they should be able to capture evil muslim extremists.

But now the US government decides to bring back alcohol prohibition. Drinking, they say, is immoral, and so are the people who drink. Do you still have nothing to fear?

Abortion gets outlawed, and its supporters are branded as immoral. Still got nothing to fear?

Creationism gets accepted as a viable, scientific alternative to evolution and gets taught in all schools, and people who believe otherwise are dangerous subversives.

Are you now one of the bad guys? Are the NSA now interested in you?

I find it interesting that Americans can believe that the right to bear arms will protect them from the world's largest military, should it ever be run by tyrants, but at the same time believe that the government will always share the same moral code that they themselves hold.
I can barely watch this. Cook imitating Jobs doesn't work.
Microsoft says standard-setting would be 'blatant antitrust violation' w/o FRAND
This would be remarkably effective at getting attention, but I'm not sure how beneficial to a cause it would be.

If the purpose is to disrupt travel or commerce, it would most likely achieve it's goal almost immediately. If the purpose is to bring attention to some other issue and the disruption of the highway system is unrelated (or only tangentially related), then the attention would have to be weighed against the negative impression it creates for the many affected.

I don't have the relevant experience in this area to know under what circumstances protests that negatively impact average people succeed in their goals.
We are here. We are rich in resources, and an excellent source of protein.
I can understand why voting rights would be limited to citizens, but protection against government abuse shouldn't be.
Criticizing Israel is the de facto symptom of antisemitism.

It's the "socially accepted" version. Because, rarely it really is just criticizing of Israel - but that's rare. So people claim "I'm also one of the rare ones".
> it is best to assume that your communications are vulnerable at some point along the way.

This claim and the claim of "I'm probably going through the US" are two entirely different claims.

Yes, using encryption helps. Yes, using non-US datacenters help. Security is layers. Its not all hopeless. The US isn't all powerful.
(grew up in the UK, live in Ireland)

I don't consider the U.S. as the same as China or Russia (or North Korea, etc) but I don't consider them in the same league as any European country either.

Having said that, I think the U.S. is more of a danger outside its borders than China/Russia/N. Korea.

I haven't travelled to the U.S. in the last 10yrs, despite wanting to for conferences or meetings or a wedding, because I consider it to be a hostile environment.
Your site disables zooming on iOS devices, which makes it inaccessible to some of us. Please don't do that if you want people to read what you wrote.
It hasn't started yet has it?
http://w3af.org/ http://www.arachni-scanner.com/ http://www.openvas.org/ https://code.google.com/p/skipfish/
Building A Visual Planetary Time Machine
10:00 am in San Francisco Bay Area.
Lets base our curriculum on endless tests and see if that works.
> Visual Studio is not on anything but Microsoft platforms

That's a specific piece of software. You can write programs for Windows, Windows Phone, Linux, Android, and even OS X in Linux, but not iOS. Jetbrains have a suite of IDEs for developing applications, but the iOS one had to be gimped to only work properly on OSX.

> there's nothing stopping you from viewing it.

Yes, well it turns out that Apple lied, and you can in fact watch the stream on non-Apple hardware.

The issue I am talking about is much deeper than this - this is just one issue. It's also about, for instance, how every time someone at Apple talks about other company's products they seem to say incredibly derisive and needlessly aggressive things about them.
Because it's their content.
I guess that is a good thing. Some 'people' seem to have been using it as a user guide.
Is tent designed for large-scale file storage? I always thought of it as an app.net/twitter alternative.
Sorry about that - I tested it on Android (Galaxy S3), and it worked perfectly. I'll try to test on iOS next time.
Extensive discussion from four months ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5139370
Or the cases where you find out the dock was bad all along. I'm thinking of the cases where things "work", but aren't correct. Security bugs like a 32bit value getting used for privilege escalation. Or off by one errors.

There are numerous ways in which you have to maintain software.
I'm also European, I travel to the United States at least once a year and I have never spent longer than 60 seconds at the US border, and that includes scanning my fingerprints. The officers doing passport checks have only ever asked fairly reasonable questions such as how long I am staying for, what the purpose of my travel is and occasionally asking about my occupation.

However, my (US citizen) wife gets harassed here at the UK border all the time; a couple of months ago she was detained at London Heathrow Airport for several hours by the UK Border Agency for no particular reason.
VLC should play it. See this thread in the comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5854159
Yes, well it turns out that Apple lied, and you can in fact watch the stream on non-Apple hardware.
I don't think it has anything to do with hindsight. Even if you were, at one point, for spending every dime on the "war on terror" and now you are opposed, what does that mean? You're in the same exact place as you were. All worked up with yet another opinion. You're not a corporation with a lobbyist. You mean nothing.

Terrorism prevention spending is an easier pill to swallow/get behind/comprehend/profit from/ compared to any other type of possible "thing" tax dollars can be spent on. The government needs to spend money on something. The economy depends on it. But what?

People are obese. They have long lists of health problems and are plagued by the high cost of healthcare. But somehow the one thing that can help them directly (healthcare) alludes them. How is that such a difficult problem?

But mention terrorist or the potential of an attack and people will usually get behind all kinds of different programs and spending. We'll fight these damn terrorists together. Hand in hand! For FREEDOM and DEMOCRACY. We might have to give up a few things. Want to read my emails? Eh, they're mostly just funny pictures of cats...so I guess that's fine. Oh you need money to fight terrorists? Here's a trillion dollars. If we get some cool gadgets out of it afterwards, then that's awesome! Just as long as it has a spill guard because you know I'll be sucking down some soda when I use it.

Priorities...
Prism and Plausible Deniability
Let's hang on for another hour or so and see the thing first, yeah?

There are many conflicting and competing definitions of flat design. It's generally agreed that Apple will go flat, but nowhere near as flat as Win8 or even a lot of the web.

Don't worry about anything until you see the keynote. If you want to mesh with Apple's new visual design, you really can't do anything without seeing said visual design.
While the right to bear arms doesn't give one person the natural ability to resist overwhelming force, it does make imposing tyranny on larger numbers of people rather expensive for the tyrants.

Let's say the government wants to send my family to a death camp - perhaps for a racial, ethnic, or religious affiliation. (Historically, this does happen from time to time, even in countries that were 'liberal democracies' in the recent past.)

The government would absolutely be able to do so - I've got no fantasies about my ability to resist a government agency. However, I could certainly try to make it expensive for them, and I might succeed. If enough people are similarly inclined to make things expensive for them, the price may grow to be too high for the government to pay.
Aftermath of Prism
You ʃhould have uʃed the long ʃ in this article
>You're haggling over the definition of "reasonable", probably based on your views of the drug laws.

I'm not haggling over anything. You asked "Are police knocking down your door without a warrant?" I provided the answer, additionally evidencing that the debate over the 4th amendment is not as static as you seemed to be implying.

>Do you think that in 1800, the framers would have considered it an unreasonable search to enter a home they could hear being burglarized? No.

Do you think that in 1800 the framers would have considered hearing the sound of a flushing toilet or people moving to be exigent circumstances?

>I'd bet the reason you think Kentucky is different is that you think drugs are a non crime.

I am not somebody who obsesses over drug law[1]. My reasons for disagreeing with the ruling are better expressed by Ginsburg which is why I provided the link to her dissent, which I recommend you read.

[1] although it's pretty clear that many current drug laws in the US are broken and highly destructive to society. Personally I don't and have never used any illegal drugs so I have no 'skin in the game' so to speak and fear of getting (legitimately) busted by the police over drugs is not a concern I have. So if you are picturing some pothead who spends all day reading the High Times and proselytising about the benefits of weed that isn't me
22 Billion Served: Julien Genestoux of Superfeedr
I think the original idea of elimination of the collection of all private or personal information by all companies is a bit extreme.

From what we have learned, these programs are quite broad involving everyone from banking institutions to ISPs and telecoms.

Should banks do their business without knowing anything a about you, same for credit reporting agencies?

Maybe, but that would be quite a shift from the way things are done today.

Also, I thought it was common knowledge that some type of digital surveillance has been going on for some time.

My recollection is that the FBI was able to gain access to ISPs and use http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivore_(software) to track emails.

If an individual is concerned with privacy they should probably take matters into their own hands and use encryption, cash, bitcoin and other tools to protect their identity and leave as little private information online as possible.
I love this kind of thinking. We are often missing a real clear understanding of even major things in software. Questions like "Why does software development take so much time", "Why can only developers write software', and this "Why does software have to be maintained" are in dire need of deeper analysis and understanding. In the long run, real evolution in software development will come from understanding these questions.
Ask HN: How Will Obama Be Remembered?
In addition to the absurdity of the scale, I can't imagine you could maintain any amount of secrecy with the number of people required to tackle the technical challenges. Unless the NSA happens to employ 1000 network engineers at the top of their field.
System Design Using RESTful Practices and Embracing State
Because TrueCrypt is not exactly "free and open source" software either.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truecrypt#Reasonable_paranoia

"""It is challenging to create binaries from source code that match the official binaries bit-by-bit for purposes of verifying their integrity due to compiler options

...

There has been no known comprehensive review of the source code by a qualified cryptographer.[46][44] Thorough security code review and testing is hard, tedious, and painstaking work, and very few people have the skills to do it. There was, however, a functional evaluation of the deniability of hidden volumes in an earlier version of TrueCrypt by Schneier et al. that found security leaks.[47]"""
But, how does owning a gun provide protection against the US military?

I don't understand why people keep asking this question, and variations of it, or offering up the argument "the 2A is useless for allowing rebellion since you can't defeat the US military".

Bands of rebels armed with mostly light weapons have caused superpowers all sorts of issues: See Afghanistan, from the Soviet era through today.

And if a full fledged rebellion did break out in the US, here are a few points to consider:

1. It's likely that at least some military units would side with the rebels. So you're already not talking about a case of just "you and your AR-15 versus tanks and F-16's".

2. Nukes are effectively "off the table" since there wouldn't be much point in nuking your own country, as there wouldn't be anything left to rule.

3. A hypothetical rebellion would not be limited to just AR-15's and what-not... factor in IEDs and various kinds of improved weapons.

4. And factor in stolen / captured military weapons.

5. And factor in military weapons provided, illicitly, to the rebels by the manufacturers, distributors, foreign groups, and gosh knows who else.

6. The population of the US is somewhere north of 300 million people, right? And a significant portion of the population own firearms. How many members are in the standing US military? According to Wikipedia, there are 1,429,995 active duty members of the US armed forces. IF a rebellion had sufficient popular support, consider, as they say, that quantity has a quality all it's own.

Anyway, the point is to say that it's not as simple as "you and a gun versus the US military" if you look at the big picture. I mean, sure, if it's just you and you take on a tank with an AR-15, they're just going to run you over, game over. But if an actual, massed rebellion, with lots of popular support were to break out, those guns do matter.
Academic version: http://db.tt/6UA1bXZq

DIVIDE AND CONQUER: DISTORTED COMMUNICATION IN NETWORKS, POWER, AND WEALTH DISTRIBUTION
Wilson Perez-Oviedo

Cornell University and Banco Central del Ecuador

Abstract
In a society composed of a dictator and its citizens, what are the determinants of the political equilibrium between these two? What are the conditions for a successful citizens’ revolt? What kind of strategies do governments follow to prevent such revolts? The situation of these types of societies can be understood as a game played between a leader, who has to decide the distribution of the aggregate income, and a group of citizens who have the opportunity to revolt if they are unhappy with the distribution. Coordinated action by citizens is possible because they form nodes in a communication network. However, communication through the network is distorted, which could preclude the emergence of collective action among citizens. The network structure and the distortion level are determinants of the political equilibrium and wealth distribution. The model explains how the dictator could use propaganda, cooptation, and repression to increase his expected utility. Finally, the model is illustrated by applying it to cases in Nigeria and Zaire/Congo.
I am the co-founder and CEO of freshdesk. I want to clarify here that I spent close to ten years at Zoho and I thoroughly enjoyed every bit of it. There was absolutely no frustration leading to the creation of freshdesk. Zoho has been a great place to experiment and learn and I owe a lot of what I learnt to Zoho. Regarding hiring school students, I think the media has hyped it beyond reality. I have seen first-hand on how it changes lives of kids who would otherwise have had no access to college education and would have been pushed into poverty. Having been a Senior manager at Zoho for several years I know that Zoho pays it's star performers reasonably well, but anyone who leaves Zoho always commands a premium in the market.(That speaks volumes about the quality of the experience that we pick up there)
awesome stuff carl, will definitely check it out. useful tool for sure.
Another Dropbox alternative: Jottacloud, hosted in Norway
Apple Store taken down ahead of WWDC Keynote
Though I have felt the intuition you mentioned, here's a study that found that test-then-study-then-test leads to better recall than just-study-then-test: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/330/6002/335.abstract
Not if Mozilla itself doesn't have the data.

A major part of the purpose of persona is to build a system that designs out the capability to engage in surveillance against the users.
If this is the guys who stream from a phone then last time they got caught about 5 times and the video/audio was pretty terrible in the auditorium wifi which is flaky. But that was a Steve Jobs keynote. Maybe Cook's will be different/more lenient.
IRobot and Cisco Team Up to Create Ava 500 Telepresence Robot
Ask HN: What would you do?
Hi, my name is Francisco and I'm a solo entrepreneur (big mistake!!!).

In the last months I've been developing tymr.com , a social platform for discovering, managing and promoting events.

I've already tested the market and had a few clients. The main source of revenue came from ticketing selling but I have other plans to monetize a platform like this.

Right now I've come to the conclusion that I need help developing other parts of the software and the business itself. It's mission impossible for a single person, and I'm not Tom Cruise.

So I'm facing this strategic dilemma:

1- Stop everything and seek funding

2- Keep on going while trying to get more customers

What are your thoughts on it?
Ask HN: I am in San Francisco for a  month
Hello dear HNers,

I am from Europe, Serbia. Occasionally I travel to San Francisco to work onsite with clients. I don’t have my own business, I am just Software Developer working in offshore company here in Serbia.

Everytime I come in San Francisco, visit tech talks, meetups i feel that entrepreneurial spirit. Naturally driven with all of positive energy of this place, many ideas comes to my mind. Life is expensive here in San Francisco. Developers too. Developers are really gold here.

From time to time I ask myself, is it really so hard to find IT projects that can be outsourced to cheaper but still quality developers?

I am here now in San Francisco for a month.

I would like to talk to people, who can help me achieving my goal.

Is there person / business who would like to outsource software development projects to offshore team?

Is there someone who would can find IT projects in Bay Area, and outsource them to the offshore team?
What do Snowden, Manning and the Steubenville hacker have in common?
Obama has hurt himself and business over privacy
That link doesn't work as of now.
You know who said Israel has apartheid? The Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa[1].

[1] http://www.hsrc.ac.za/en/media-briefs/democracy-goverance-an...
All the Scandinavian countries you list are actually EU members — a better term for your first group would be Western Europe.

But, really, I'm not sure how much confidence you could have in any of those countries: The UK's GCHQ was very heavily involved in Prism themselves, much to our national shame, for instance.
I have absolutely no intention to spread FUD about client-side encryption, and in fact I don't think Dropbox's speed advantage has anything to do with (lack of) encryption. Encryption shouldn't have any noticeable impact on sync speed, since modern CPUs can encrypt a file a hundred times over in the time it takes to upload/download it. I agree with you and suspect that it has more to do with crappy architecture.

Anecdote: SpiderOak takes 5 minutes synchronizing metadata with the server if I start it on a laptop that I only use occasionally. That's how long it takes for the client to find out what files I changed in my other machines in the meantime, including all the files that have nothing to do with this particular machine. Nothing gets synched during this time, and the client sometimes consumes a whole CPU core for extended periods. It's very annoying when I just want to see a few files that I know I changed in another machine. I understand that the protocol needs to be different if all the encryption is done by the client, but this is just ridiculous. Wuala is no better in my experience, although YMMV depending on your use case and filesystem structure. (I have over 50GB of data in my SpiderOak account, made up of a quarter million files. At one point I had over 100GB stored in there, and it was a PITA to sync any files at all.)

As an interesting comparison, Microsoft SkyDrive performs just as terribly as SpiderOak does when you give it a few hundred folders with ~100K files to sync, despite the fact that it does no client-side encryption. It just sits idle for half an hour or more, scarcely utilizing any network resources. I have no idea what it's doing. Maybe it does sleep(random()); between each upload. In any case, encryption isn't making it slow. It's just bad app design, bad protocol design, and perhaps overloaded servers.

Dropbox, on the other hand, immediately begins to upload/download my files, and once it's done scanning any large folders, its speed is only limited by the bandwidth of my Internet connection. When I need to do a presentation, I can just work on the .pptx file in my Dropbox on my desktop PC, take my laptop to the conference room, and expect the .pptx to be there as soon as I wake my laptop. That's the meaning of convenience. By the same metric, none of Dropbox's commercial competitors (perhaps with the exception of Google Drive, which I don't use) are even close to convenient.
Can we interpret this as a sudden rise in popularity? (thanks NSA).

In any case, there are many other sources. I like the formatting in this one for example: http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/o/orwell/george/o79n/