skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A filesystem engineer/professor at a top-tier university told me once (well he told a whole class of us) that hierarchy is the only mechanism that the human brain has for dealing with complexity. A few people balked, they don't like 'trees' or what have you but nobody could come up with an alternative. This was nearly 20 years ago and I still haven't heard of a better idea.

So what's a filesystem? It's a very good and very scalable data structure for storing lot's of items. It's pretty good at lot's of little things and big things a like and a bunch of sizes in between. This problem remains.

Then be it tags, folders, something else, it's all just hierarchy to find and store your stuff in that data structure.. Where it looks like everything is going is having multiple overlay hierarchies, all your songs are in the music folder but then you tag different things to help you sort it out. Then maybe the computer can figure out some more optimal ways to store stuff. Take those fancy hybrid drives, maybe songs you don't play too often, there is no reason they can't be in part of the filesystem that is on spinning media and not in flash.
Today I had another interesting conversation with a person who is starting a company to unite diverse Quantified Self data streams into a simple, useful API. I was encouraged and discouraged at the same time. This is obviously needed. But there are some serious technical challenges that are invisible when these ideas are pitched and funded, but cause big problems later. These include: lack of insight into way derivation of end point data is achieved in various personal data systems, naivety about dependence on device makers / servie providers maintaining API stability; and, underestimation of the challenge of responding to API calls quickly and efficiently enough to support the app "ecosystem" that is typically envisioned. A bit more realistic dialog about these issues would help everybody.
NSA hacks China
The app developers would like the app to own the data.

That this isn't in the users' interests should be self-evident. Vertical data silos with doors owned by gatekeepers who want to charge admission: just say no!
I don't think that too many people like the feeling that their work is going to be useless. On the other hand, if you don't have a larger overview of a problem domain it can be difficult to feel that you're making progress doing anything other than optimising and abstracting.

On the other hand there are reasons why the Linux kernel runs dramatically better designed than Windows.
> I'd say the majority of the feedback from the tech press/blogosphere has been gushing.

I've only talked to programmer-ish, long-term Apple fans about iOS 7 and they aren't gushing about the interface at all (new APIs are a different story).

In fact, I felt that iOS 7 was trying to woo the "Dribbble crowd" if there is one - I have never seen another website that was so obsessed with weather apps & widgets. It felt like a parody of designer narcissism when the iOS 7 weather app was demoed, and feedback about that bit has been positive.
This is insanely impressive. The quality of the gameplay alone deserves praise, but the sounds and effects are also top-notch.
I believe there will always be a file system NEXT to search. Think about it.

You're at home looking for your keys.
First thing you do is ask your girlfriend if she knows where the keys are. If she doesn't know you start looking for it in a categorical way: Which rooms were you in today? Where do you usually leave your keys?

I feel like search is the convenient way and will be number one. Folders are a human's natural tendency to create backup plans in case of unexpected uncertainty.
Maybe I don't spend enough time in the forums, but I don't think I've ever seen anyone say anything bad about windows phone, other than the lack of apps, which really isn't the fault of the OS. I've seen pretty universal praise.
Already on front page from original source.
Are your third party cables MFI certified? (e.g.: I just bought a bunch on monoprice that are MFI, I hope they work in iOS7)
Sure, focus on metadata... but then, the path and other data about a file location on disk is just another facet.

This is as logical as saying file sizes are obsolete. Maybe storage gets so cheap users don't need to know sizes, and only developers need that info. Does that make file size information obsolete? No, absurd.

Just like all metadata, some is higher priority to lay users, and those doing serious work need detail.
> Oh, you think you're going to store all your data in a soup, pulling out collections of bits based on tags?

Bit of history, the Newton actually did store all of its data (from an application programmer and user point of view) in "soups"[1]. It was quite interesting since some of the data could be on an external card and some internal. When you pulled the external card, part of the data would disappear. The Newton was quite fun to program.

1)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soup_(Apple)
Comcast Plan to Share Wi-Fi nationally among Subscribers.
The Hierarchy of iOS 7
What I came away with from reading that drivel is - Kids today are stupid, and they're that way because they use a iPad. Did I miss anything?
It's not weird, postmodern, or dystopic to have shades of gray between friend and enemy.
Cringely's server appears to be down. Here's a Google cache version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:trvMH5p...
just the basic huffingtonpost.com, bbc.co.uk(yes really, some partly consider this propaganda), freakonomics.com, HackerNews, Digg(yes I still check it from time to time), LinkedIn-News(this one is more based on who/what I subscribe to follow so this might be a special case)... oh and until GoogleReader disappeared I had TED.com feeds to read from time to time. I need to resubsribe with a different rss-reader.
I think these sites are pretty balanced sources of info & news, but I do understand that huffingtonpost leans a very deep left-wing. Not extremist, but pretty deep. Though I don't recall them outright purposely lying about stuff.
Units and Email are overlaid on third page.
And the intelligence community actively recruits high school graduates because allowing them to go to college decreases the chances they can recruit them later.
Embarrassing photo of Edward Snowden leaked on net.
Who leaked it?
What about NuGet? It seems to work well enough.
Maybe from some UI, but underneath the covers -- this isn't happening anytime soon.
Yes, just like not all startups are successful for VCs. The revenue generated by some of the research can pay for all the research, and patents are just one of many revenue sources for them. Johns Hopkins has an endowment of $2.5 billion. MIT has $10 billion. They can afford to pay for foreigners' educations without getting taxpayers involved. Taxpayers are involved so they can have even more money in the bank.
Not sure why it doesn't appear in the screenshots but it's definitely there. Used it today on iOS7 B1.
IOS 7 vs. Windows Phone 8
All these things are fine, except for the suggested Microsoft culture of not knowing what's out there, what the competition is doing. If you don't at least keep one eye on what's going on, then you're not going to see other people's mistakes and learn from them.
As a designer [iOS7]
He mentioned copy/pasting code and skipping reviews were popular things to do. The first one is definitely a sign of poor code quality, and the second isn't as definite but is surely a practice that makes room for poor code quality.
website is down, the sweet irony... Now haven´t seen the opinion, I'm sure I have read the same already (over and over). IBM is not declining. To be magnanimous, I´d say it is only declining for narrow minded tech people who can see past their area of expertise. They are not investing, they are not innovating, they are cutting jobs in the US, bla bla bla. Well, they've been compounding at over 10% for the investor for the last 10 years, sure enough it's just a lucky strike or a mirage, right? yawn
I think Patrick is trying to distinguish between pure posturing, and posturing that can lead to action. When John Boehner calls Snowden a traitor, that's pure posturing because Boehner has no authority to prosecute Snowden as a traitor. But if, say, Eric Holder called Snowden a traitor, that would be different because Holder has the authority to prosecute Snowden as a traitor.

Patrick's point, I believe, is that even with Boehner's status, he has no authority in the matter. So his words mean little.
This is exactly the idea Microsoft had and demo'd at PDC 2003. Longhorn's WinFS was supposed to deliver all this metadata searching and so on, presenting a unified interface.

Also, as far as extensions, Windows has been hiding them forever. Because you don't need to know the extension - that has nothing to do with the filesystem, that's just because extensions became the standard way many systems decided which app to associate with a file.
Judge Rules Fox Searchlight Pictures Should Have Paid Interns
The timing makes a lot of sense. With all the shit hitting the fan over the past few days he probably is now flooded with paperwork and hearings and sorts of madness.

Maybe it made him reevaluate his priorities and look for an easier job.
Exactly. And there's nothing wrong with marketing, as long as the money comes along, which is all that "right" is: money. Some of these techies who write blogs are as smart as they are shortsighted.
> I agree, but the similarities are being pointed out precisely because Apple (and their major pundits like Marco and Gruber) makes a big deal about how others have borrowed ideas from them.

That is the primary reason I think Apple is getting so much crap. Apple claims to be the industry leading innovators; Tim Cook even said during the D11 conference "I don't like copying. It's a values thing." in reference to Samsung patent litigation. Apple partly built it's reputation on bashing the Microsoft (Switch campaign) and Android (WWDC's and MacWorlds). Now that Apple is playing catch-up in the mobile space that they essentially pioneered, they are getting the same snide back-handed remaks that they were dishing out.
Which makes it a great source of non-Qatar news, which is probably 100% of the news I'm interested in.
(for consumers)
This being the top comment on a thread about how HN's new golden boy, Snowden, is just another scumbag says a lot about what HN is now. We have had vapid ranting articles up voted for the last two days in some circle jerk because people who I assume are usually intelligent have temporarily lost all capacity for critical thought in some deluded quest to take down the US. My brother thinks he is taking down the government by not paying taxes but he is only slowly shooting himself in the foot. I am not downplaying the importance of proper oversight of intelligence.
See, I'm personally of the same opinion. I couldn't figure it out, but then it hit me. It's the same line of logic that the military uses in their security clearances. Back in the day I used to work for a JAG lawyer, and have several friends that are/were in the military. So I do have some knowledge of the matter.

The way they do things is this. There's clearance and then there's need to know. So for instance one of my friends worked in network IT for the military. So had access to computers with "top secret" information on them. However, he wasn't allowed to access any of the information on the computers. Simply to use them for his job. Sound familiar to what the NSA is saying?

If there's other people on here that are closer to the military than I was please correct me, but it all starts to make "sense" when you think about it that way. I'm not saying it's right, in fact I think this system is likely problematic in a non military setting (and perhaps even within one as well)
That sounds more like security clearance paperwork, minus the W2's. If this isn't a security clearance, it's probably TMI.
You know what: stipulate that this is an internal presentation by a manager at NSA. My opinion is unchanged about who's more credible.
One thing I've seen on HN and elsewhere is the accusation, and I'm not saying you said this, that goes something like this: "Of course Larry and Mark are lying! They'd be required to lie because of <handwave> government secretsauce."

This naturally extremely well-written article demonstrates that AT&T and Verizon never actually lied. And that AT&T and Verizon acted in basically the opposite way that the Internet companies are today. So it casts doubt on the <handwave> forced-to-lie-secretsauce allegations.

An update to the story includes some more detail on AT&T's participation.
Show HN: Uncut Truth: Anti-Circumcision Doc on Kickstarter Raises $30K+
For what little it is worth, it doesn't repro on chromebook pixels.
Jesus, who cares? I've taken 1000x worse pictures then that.
A 101 processor machine with 4 cores each and 5.5ghz that is actually sold and profitable does not sound like something a fallen company can pull...

It sounds like a machine a business would use too, you know, like someone named International Business Machines might build and sell.
We get mad at China for hacking us so shouldn't the Chinese get mad about us hacking them? Really it needs to stop on all sides but each side, government and civilians, believe that they are entitled to hacking foreigners.
When we're talking about "direct access" to Google's own servers, yes, I think Google is more credible than NSA.
Zillabyte (YC W12) wants engineers to help model all the world's information.
Tamale Lady banned from Zeitgeist
I'm genuinely curious why you seem to emphasize "communist" in all your descriptions of China.
Totally agree about desktops.

Previous employer asked me if I wanted a laptop, but I prefer a large display, keyboard, etc. with a big fast machine and lots of working memory. Ergonomics are important to me, I have friends with permanent damage from poor posture. To see people hunched over laptops makes me cringe.
Huffington Post rejected this article and refused to say why. (first time they have rejected my work.. last article was an interview with Ray Kurzweil ) I'm not sure, but I at least suspect it's because the content is too controversial for them. What do you think? Props to Hypervocal for picking up the slack. - ADA
To all those who say they have nothing to hide: even if someone hasn't done anything illegal, this sort of "embarrassing" thing can be used to sideline and discredit anyone who gets in the way of the people with access to the information.

This is nothing but a distraction from the real story, and if the media has any awareness at all, they know this and seem to be doing it intentionally. If it's just reflexive for them, we need to call upon them to start covering the story more seriously and not stoop to this ridiculous level.
(ex-googler here)

google is pretty good about this. if you're a googler, you'll find out about most of the other things going on. there were a few exceptions during my time there (Android, Wave), but the teams involved always came clean to Googlers before they told the world. The culture is definitely very open.

my suggestion: join and find out :-)
Spec Ops: The Line used that to great effect as a way to humanize the thousands of people you kill over tge course of the game.
They're talking about their battle against cyber-crime as war - which is a reasonable statement to make. It's just the same as when governments and new agencies talk about the "war on drugs" etc.
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I think what Snowden did is a great thing, but it probably isn't great from the NSA's perspective. The NSA probably wants smart people who can do what they're told and keep their mouths shut.
I really hate this idea, one of the things that most annoys me is the lack of a way to see my files in the filesystem on my windows phone 7. It is one of the things I can't live without, the abstract idea of Pictures, Documents etc doesn't work for me I want FILES not categories and types of files stored somewhere I DONT know where or how.
Or, a language should tend toward simplicity, without unnecessary frills. Which you'd prefer is probably just taste.
Agreed. I can't reach the article as the site is down, so my comment may be out of context, but i do agree they're doing something right. I haven't been following their stock price, but i do take the odd glance at their movements.

I was in talks with an employee at a blue-chip here in the UK, about assisting them with their digital strategy. They clearly needed alot of help. Unfortunately a major player swooped in - fast forward 12 months - they've helped them turn things around and now the client is doing great.

Turns out the major player that swooped in was IBM. Who knew IBM was actively doing digital marketing. I mean they're an IT company, right? I.e. networks, servers, software.

I think the reality is, they're a consulting company for big business that will help their clients get anything done and it only has to be remotely technical.

So i think they'll be around for a long time to come.
Glad the NYT Editorial board has stepped up and been so blunt.

"But Americans should not be fooled by political leaders putting forward a false choice. The issue is not whether the government should vigorously pursue terrorists. The question is whether the security goals can be achieved by less-intrusive or sweeping means, without trampling on democratic freedoms and basic rights. Far too little has been said on this question by the White House or Congress in their defense of the N.S.A.’s dragnet. "
Every ISP in the world already has an infrastructure for collecting this kind of metadata (albeit using some degree of sampling); some ISPs even have provisions for sharing signatures generated from that metadata. So yeah, this sounds credible.
Americans Disapprove of Government Surveillance Programs
This poll is almost the exact opposite of the one Pew Research did, http://www.people-press.org/2013/06/10/majority-views-nsa-phone-tracking-as-acceptable-anti-terror-tactic/.
Google buys Waze for 1+ Billion
Exactly, that is what scares me!
The multi-threaded Pov-Ray and Cinebench tests are just about the only two benchmarks where the AMD 8-cores beat the i7 2600k, and just barely beats it.

The Intel chips soundly win in anything else (encoding, Photoshop...), and by almost 2X in some of the single-threaded tests.
I'll jump in here as I recently started a side business shooting weddings.

You're dealing with an old school photographer who expects to cover his costs (salary, rent, equipment, etc.) from print and album sales, rather than scare you away with a large initial cost.

It's true that photographers prefer to withhold RAWs because they're unprocessed and in bulk, but that's not your photographer's issue.

I also mention upfront that I only provide web-quality images for the quoted cost, as I believe I can offer my expertise to provide better quality prints when requested, or any other image processing needs (slideshows, albums, collages, etc.). This also provides me with another much needed revenue stream, albeit it's often perceived as greed. I should note, however, that I charge much much less than $4k, as I am in a different market.

What do you intend to do with the RAW files if you get them?
No that's a misunderstanding of the legal term of art "knowingly".

It is a legal maxim that ignorance of the law is no excuse. A law that has a mens rea (i.e. intent) of "knowingly" refers to some factual circumstance that is one of the elements of the crime.

An example from the New York state penal law:

"156.05 Unauthorized use of a computer.
A person is guilty of unauthorized use of a computer when he or she knowingly uses, causes to be used, or accesses a computer, computer service, or computer network without authorization."

In this case the "knowingly" element is satisfied if you knew (or should have known) that you didn't not have authorization to access the computer, computer service, or computer network.

Similarly for possession statutes, the (sometimes implicit) knowingly element is satisfied if you knew you possessed the given item even if you had no idea possessing it was illegal. A situation where the knowingly element would not be satisfied, is if someone snuck the item into your luggage.
On the flip side, it would revolutionize the alibi-generation process (both legitimate and illegitimate)!
If you're talking about the collage with Bridget and Max then:

Bridget is from the lockscreen (if you look closely the green button says slide to answer), and is a Phone call.

Max is a FaceTime, and is likely when the phone is unlocked. There's already a UI difference in iOS6 for these use cases.
This isn't journalism or even interesting. It is a race to the bottom to do a character assassination on someone.

Oh hey look someone in their early 20's did something silly what a terrible person.....oh wait..

Sadly too many of the recently educated eat this kind of stuff up as logic.
You're saying it's not about Snowden or PRISM. I'm responding to the actual article.
BrainRush: a fast-paced learning game that adapts to you
Because, in terms of the politics, that's the red meat (pun only slightly unintended.) Their being 'communist', and communism being percieved as atheistic, anti-capitalist and militaristic, is what makes them the bogeyman, that's why the media and the government go out of their way to make their efforts seem so dangerous and terrifying because being 'communist' makes them our de facto enemies (because we're the God Fearing Capitalist Shining City on a Hill.)

If China was a predominantly Muslim country, plug 'terrorists' into the same socket, it would amount to the same difference, in terms of the rhetoric. If we found out Britain was spying on us (ECHELON aside), or Germany or Poland, whomever, it wouldn't have nearly the same sort of ominous sense of 'the other' that the spectre of China/Russia/the Middle East do.

I certainly didn't mean to imply anything tacit about China being communist having anything to do with their attempts to expand their influence or anything. It's what they should be doing.
This article is stupid. "I'm fresh out of school, but take my word that this is how ALL corporate jobs are". Then his bullet points are depressing. "Expect the bare minimum, because the bare minimum is A-okay."
The gloves are coming off
So...

10000 Americans love pizza
15000 Americans hate pizza
10 Chileans love pizza
15 Chileans hae pizza

America loves (and hates) pizza 1000 times more than Chile?
Hacking iPhone to bypass iOS 7 Lock Screen - The Hacker News
One other thing I saw is the claim that the denials were not evidence because it would be denied either way. Which is in complete contradiction to Bayesian statistics (denial probability is ~100% if they aren't surveilling us, and <100% if they are, see: http://lesswrong.com/lw/ih/absence_of_evidence_is_evidence_o..., specifically the discussion of the supposed "5th column").
I used to be a developer with IBM and I was quite surprised that people actually paid for some of their products. The majority of the software sales were done as a part of 'packages' and 'solutions'. There was very little innovation happening there. The only way any new 'solutions' were developed in the business were through acquisitions.
I managed to snag <myfullname>@ymail.com during that land rush, but when I gave out my email to people, many thought the "y" was a mistake and would send email to gmail instead. The lack of free IMAP and the supermarket tabloid-style ads plastered all over the place finally drove me away.