skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You've come a long way from 'Give me liberty, or give me death!'.
No need to spend hundreds of dollars; just sit behind the curve a little bit. Spent $68 on an Optimus S with Ting a year ago, and it gets everything I need to do done at less than the cost of my Verizon dumbphone contract. It's as fast as the computer I took to college not that many years ago, and I got a lot done on that. Battery runs for days too, even with considerable use.

Looking forward to upgrading to an S2 or S3 when prices drop to frivolity. A larger screen will be nice.

Tools needn't be new nor flashy to be powerful.
Reactionary
I just watched a North America nature show with a group of hawks who conspired to catch game. It had video of several of these big birds working in concert to flush and kill amongst thorns and bushes. Unbelievable theory: those video producers must have conspired; patching together clips to make me believe it.
I question the authenticity of this article.
So your theory is that the NSA somehow drugged 12 jurors and a judge into seeing evidence of insider trading that wasn't actually there?
Did you read the post?

Fragmentation is about your userbase being split across incompatible platforms and the paralyzing effect that has on development, which is precisely what Marco was lauding as a good thing in this post.
Take a look at http://hynek.me/articles/python-app-deployment-with-native-p...
It's great to see that Microsoft has begun to put a greater emphasis on design. It will be interesting to see if they are able to win some of the 'cool factor' from Apple.
I have been using http://beanstalkapp.com/ to do automated deployments. Basically it is Github + some nicer deployment features and a corporate repo focus. (Private by default, easy to add / remove / manage account access when adding or removing employees.)

I have experimented with EC2 Beanstalk and AWS OpsWorks. Both are horrible, and I do not recommend them. The documentation is incredibly obscure, with gaping holes for even basic use cases and I found the deployments themselves to be slow to complete, and unreliable, frequently having issues that were extremely hard to diagnose because of hard to access logs and cryptic error messages.

Git is by far the best deployment system in my opinion, especially if you can automate the code to get each server instance to automatically pull when needed.

But for beginners Beanstalk (http://beanstalkapp.com) is the absolute best. It is dead simple to set up a Git repo on the service, and then Beanstalk's servers will automatically deploy via SFTP to servers (or even directly to Amazon S3 for static content, even invalidating CloudFront caches), and you instantly have a secure deployment mechanism out of the box with no fiddling required.

With Node.js code if you are running your server through Forever you can easily configure it to watch the code directory for changes and restart the server when needed. End to end setup is extremely quick, and it is incredibly reliable.
I know it's 2013 and the state of the art has changed (as have trends) but I'm kinda weirded out to not see CVS or SVN on here.
Personalization as a service for mobile apps?
And the OS is specifically built to handle that. Layouts are't done in visual pixels, but in density-independent units. The layout engine itself is designed to accommodate different display sizes and aspect ratios. The entire OS is built around a capabilities system that is designed to make it run on devices that may or may not have a camera or trackpad or whatnot.

Android fragmentation is about the availability of API levels, not the variance in hardware.
what does any of his comment have to do with pre-ICS phones? he was talking about switching to a nexus 4
New Law Would Allow Police To Seize Cell Phones
I don't own an iphone, but from your explanation, it seems like a great product! From looking at the screenshots on iTunes, I would tweak the design to make it your own. It's very "Pinterest" looking.

However, If that's what you're going for - great job.
No.

What I believe is that if the NSA are already monitoring someone for whatever reason and see evidence of law-breaking that they would call up an appropriately cleared contact in the relevant agency and say, hey you should look into this person. The agency is free to run with it from there, using whatever tools with minimal oversight are available to them and no need to even mention the NSA after that point.

In fact, I believe that the number of actual terrorists is so small that such (ab)uses of the system are inevitable. In the same way that all the federal money for SWAT training of police departments has resulted in SWAT teams being deployed for all manner of low-risk situations, there just ain't enough real work for them to do so the mission creeps.
While that is speculation on the lawyer's part, it's also speculation on your part to assume he did something especially wrong. That's the problem with this type of monitoring(and revoking), it turns each case, as well as public opinion, towards guilty until proven innocent.

Not to mention, if I remember correctly, just being a known associate of a terrorist (i.e. talking to one) is enough to revoke or deny a foreign visa. To me, this whole situation seems more like a "he talked directly to a terrorist, revoke his visa because he's a 1st degree contact in that terrorist's social network (not looking at what his profession is or what the purpose of the contact is)" than any other possible situation. It's not about what the US is getting from this specific revocation, it's more that they likely have a specific set of guidelines in place and this guy got swept up in an inaccurate net.
At least he voted Nay on the Patriot Act :)

Not that it mattered... only 66 nays in House (63d, 2r, 1i) and 1 in Senate (1d).
With a frequent enough update cycle there's no reason it can't be close to real time. The government's systems could then use inotify or some other filesystem watcher to automatically reload the page when new data comes in over SFTP.
I tend to think of this immediate reversion to ad hominem attacks as an extension of the bike-shedding impulse.

Is PRISM a good idea? Did Edward Snowden do the right thing? Where is the line between unacceptable disclosures (that should be punished severely) and, e.g., the Pentagon Papers. These are complex issues and few people are courageous enough to take a stand on them, especially under their real names. There's just too much uncertainty. I sure as hell don't know what the right answer is, on many of these questions.

But everyone feels entitled to an opinion of whether Julian Assange is "creepy", "arrogant", et cetera.

As a lesser degree of whistleblower, I went through something similar. People make all kinds of speculations about why you did what you did, and they're usually far off the mark. Granted, in my case I made some mistakes along the way. For one example, I probably should not have implored Google to "choke on a taint" at one point (if only because it distracted attention away from the valid message there) even if, on that particular issue, my indignation was justified.

People get into bike-shedding discussions about personalities and possible motivations because it's a lot easier than discussing the underlying and often more complicated issues.
Exactly, I just smirked and thought to myself "Your move."
It's not about limiting the audience. HTTP Live Streaming is just a better technology. Watching the keynote it was blatantly obvious. I have more outright pauses in the average Youtube video than an HTTP Live Stream. It required some rapid and noticeable quality changes but I would much prefer that over the video simply dropping out entirely.

The technology is there and can be implemented: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Live_Streaming

Most just choose not to. That's not Apple's fault, nor is it a reason to fall back to a worse technology that degrades the experience for all watching to help out those on other platforms.

For the record, it wasn't at all limited to "Safari on OS X". Any device or program that properly implements HTTP Live Streaming could easily view the keynote. Apple listed Safari on OS X, the Apple TV, iPod touch, iPhone and iPad as all being verified, but other devices supported it too.
I've actually spent the last 14 hours learning to deploy to ec2 using rubber. It's definitely powerful, and the railscast helps, but I haven't found much in the way of help for doing anything beyond deploying basic apps (for example, working on setting up resque workers right now...)

Before 2 days ago I used Heroku for everything.

PS. Rails.
I don't think it's based on git, but twitter has their own bittorrent-based solution called Murder.

https://github.com/lg/murder
Thanks! Alas, only a few people thought so!
or check out amazd. Example:

http://amazd.com/ahmad
It would be great if they started promoting e-mail, video, chat with built in idiot proof encryption. So easy to use that your average joe could use. That is the only way we can be sure the government cannot easily see what we are doing.

The slogan could be "You are not a terrorist, so why should the government be able to snoop on your private life?"

Or "Somebody in a dark government office could be listening to all your phone conversations, reading your e-mail and text message, and watching your videos. Are you really OK with that?"

One more: "You are not OK with people spying you in your house, why should you be OK with people spying you in your private digital life"

Just like with your house, the walls do not allow people to peak into what you are doing [1]. Encryption will fulfill the same purpose.

[1] Somebody using some form of x-ray radiation or infrared technology could still spy on you, but that is still fixable by building walls specifically designed to defeat this type of snooping technology.
yea kinda, i expected law enforcement/government to be able to get the chat history, but not that something could be flagged for inappropriate content and then possibly checked by a human.

Makes me wonder just how many times has something been flagged, checked by a human, and then not removed and your non the wiser that someone has just read your message
amount of people hurt, no, wait, killed by governments each year: millions

amount of people hurt by unscrupulous businessmen each year: millions

amount of people hurt by conspiracy theories: 0
We don't deploy every 2 secs, and botching something because you tried to automate it too much costs a lot more than a few minutes of my time.
This is not twitter.com, but twıtter.com (note the i).

$ host www.twıtter.com
www.tw\196\177tter.com has address 67.63.50.58
Watch this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_PGKHZqqg8 . This is advertising material for Narus Insight. This was released in 2011. Please note the bit where he mentions the ability to do real-time analysis of "hundreds of millions of sessions". I can't think of who this product is aimed at, if not for government. You're average ISP or hosting company would be struggling to handle hundreds of millions of simultaneous connections. I guess you can buy the full system and trained techs to run it, for less than $20 million.
IT is not where a lot of my friends make a living; many of them are/were intel analysts (open source, meaning they do not do the classified stuff, they do large-scale cultural analysis that is the background to the classified reports; we all know the majority are not reading their work, hecne the problems) because language skills with a certain Middle Eastern language. And they will all tell you the same thing: every strike radicalizes more people, and is causing more problems than they intend to solve. They know this by the way through local media they are paid to read. Also every one I know from Yemen, and I know a few, will tell you the same thing as our government has progressively fucked up their country so bad no one sees straight. Agitating people in a lawless state, as you hint at, is only asking for desperate people to do desperate things.

But what do I know, this rationalizing logic (and to be fair it is not yours, it is the USG) is disgusting. But it works in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and worked so well in Iraq, yeah?

No, it did not. Strategy bad, implementation bad, and results bad. What a surprise.
This is similar to suggesting that a Desktop computer isn't innovative because it's just a few peripherals connected to a very fast turing machine.

Some examples of Smartphone innovation (in my opinion):

At 2:00 AM in bed, when I'm exhausted, and realize I have to wake up at 7:00 AM, but I'm tired enough that I might not be able to reach my alarm clock, and I can just flex my thumb and say, "Wake me up at 6:00 AM" before drifting off to sleep - I call that innovation. I don't know if you recall, there was a time that the big "thing" at Hotels was having them give you a wakeup call, so you wouldn't have to figure out how the alarm clock in the room worked (if they had one). I haven't done that in 5+ years. Used to do it every night when I was in a hotel.

I'm out walking at night in Redwood City, and Dark Sky pops up and tells me it's going to start raining in my neighborhood in about 15 minutes - so I turn around and grab an umbrella.

I'm out at a customer luncheon in Singapore, and they ask me about a presentation I did awhile ago, on my laptop, and I know backblaze has backed it up, so I'm able to grab it while standing there from my iPhone and mail it to them - that real time delivery makes a positive impression. (Replace Backblaze with Dropbox/iCloud/SkyDrive/favorite cloud mechanism that you can connect to from your mobile device)

Listening to a great german song in a Taxi in Aschaffenburg, and I pull up Shazam - and 90 seconds later I have it on my iPhone (and it's now been synced with iTunes match and is on my iPad and Laptop)

Late at night in PaloAlto, and I need a ride home - and Uber tells me there will be a driver at the restaurant in 4 minutes, and shows them driving towards me, and makes sure they show up - As somebody who had spent hours waiting for cabs in the middle of the night - I call that innovation.

Walking down the Stairs at Southwark in London, and getting the real-time update from TubeMap, that the London Bridge station is closed due to a station fire - turning right around and grabbing a cab to an important symposium.

I could obviously go on - but I find it so hard to believe you don't recognize all of this as, "innovation"
How is yours holding up on 6.0+? Mine is super laggy on 6.1 - I can't imagine it being a good experience with 7.
Could that just be mitigated by spawning a pool of processes (there are multiple examples, one even in the LYSE book) and then executing the computation then returning them to the pool?

This basically follows the "Erlang process is quickly checked out of the pool, runs a single computation and returns back to the pool"
You mean to be skeptical of all conspiracies to commit malicious acts as they can be better explained as a conspiracy to commit stupid acts -- unless I am interpreting your unerring faith too literally.
Why would you do that at minimum.

At minimum, redirect the entire site to https. Why bother with anything less? Https is easy.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/ssl/ssl_howto.html
You mean the model of the iPod touch first released on September 1, 2010? Three years ago by the time iOS 7 ships?

To you the product's less than a year old, but the reality is that the technology in that product is closer to three years old already.

I say this a iPhone 3GS owner that still hasn't upgraded. It's a bitter pill, but that's the nature of technology.

I really think 3-4 years is more than reasonable support for a mobile device in the current market.
Greenwald: Snowden Has Provided ‘Thousands’ Of Docs, ‘Dozens’ Are Newsworthy
http://saltstack.org
Yes, that is correct. It is impossible for anybody outside Turkey to make this mistake and it is even harder for them to spot it in regular writing. But in Turkey where most protestors communicate over twitter, it is possible to make this mistake.

http://www.twıtter.com resolves to http://www.xn--twtter-q9a.com/ also.

edit: curiously, when i tried to ping twıtter.com from mac terminal, it errors: "cannot resolve twıtter.com: Unknown host" but i think that is the i without the dot causing a problem.
iOS 7 is not an evolution - it's a revolution

What the hell does that even mean?

We can wax poetic about design and UX or we can accept that what they did was change the way something looks and feels, which is ultimately not the same thing as changing what something does.

I'm not underplaying the importance of design, but I think calling something that ultimately does not affect the capabilities of the device a 'revolution' is a bit of an exaggeration.
"You don't need a formal conspiracy when interests converge." - George Carlin
That's exactly right. You don't need a conspiracy when interests align. Especially when the interested parties have a lot of power.
The settings icon sticks out so bad. It's like 4 weird skinny gears inside each other. A few just seem like big and cartoony, like they just took a stock icon and stretched it to the edges of the container.
Indeed. One of the things Marco is glossing over is how the iOS 7 overhaul makes iOS development riskier:

- Will I (and the apps I'm planning) be able to adapt to the UI changes smoothly or not?
- How are these changes going to play out on the iPad?
- Does Apple have any other foundation-shifting changes planned before iOS 7 comes out?
- Will these changes impact user behavior?
- And so on.

From the perspective of an independent developer starting out, none of this matters. Their risk is already off-the-charts (and the downside limited by time and effort, for the most part), so all they care about is the increased reward potential. They don't even really care if that increased reward potential is coming from changes in absolute rewards and/or relative rewards vs other developers.

For everyone else, the risk vs reward calculation might look quite different.
Did you just try to discredit an article about conspiracy theories by alleging that the article is in fact part of another conspiracy theory? I think you just proved the article's point.
That is not what he's saying at all. He's saying there is disruption and an opportunity now, not that continued disruption (fragmentation) is a good thing!
It's been generally fine. It's nowhere near as fast as my phone, so I'm not sure I'd notice a comparative speed decrease anyhow, though.
All kidding aside, Glass will go head to head with iWatch or whatever else wearable devices that the various companies come out with.
Whether or not HLS is supported by Chrome is quite confusing. I'm not surprised they blocked it at a User Agent level (which Google does all the time for their services, Reverse Image Search & Maps being good examples).

While Chrome has supported HLS for a WebM backend for some time now, documentation on their support for HLS with an MP4 backend is unclear. It seems to work now as of Chrome 26, but that wasn't always the case. It also works fine on Android devices past 3.2 because of Google TV.
Edward Snowden, Bradley Manning and the risk of the low-level, tech-savvy leaker
Isn't that just as bad as someone who is naively trusting of every conspiracy theory they hear?
It's in the works :)
It was, just not via any typical Windows browser because of their lack of support for HLS. Simply copying the URL into VLC would have worked.
I love the "scare quotes" around kill switch in the article title (and OP). This is clear linkbaiting; a more accurate title would be "Apple adding theft protection in iOS 7" or similar.
SVN Commit / SVN Update
Self-promotion is hardly a conspiracy (unless you can have a conspiracy of one, from a simple conflict of interest... namely in the form of: "alternative narratives are bad," says the author, quoting on behalf of a well-established narrative).
You're just talking past each other. He's talking about computer science "software" innovation.
East Coast vs West Coast Startup Feud?
I've been in some development environments where the GitHub master branch is what the build system pulls from in order to deploy to dev, staging and production. With that setup, it's more challenging since the build process probably involves more steps and potentially ssh keys that are only allow the build server to deploy.

Depending on how many repos you need, I would say set up an alternative remote on bitbucket.org.
Instead of a "campaign", how about some technical countermeasures? They're the only thing that actually has a chance of working.

You simply can't rely on the political process as it exists when the response of the security establishment is to a) wait for an arbitrary crisis to dust off a naked power-grab, b) secretly "reinterpret" the law beyond recognition, and c) flatly ignore the law as they did with their "Terrorist Surveillance Program".
Do you have a source for the bit about Germany that I could use? This is a seriously chilling argument.
People are starting to wake up and question our truth, better shame them into submission again! Tinfoil hats for everyone!
Android as in an Android device you personally have used for a while, or Android as a pejorative?
1) I think most people were surprised by her sudden leave of absence. Did you know before her announcement how cozy her husband was with the administration she covered every day for 3 years plus the 2008 campaign?

2) I don't watch MSNBC - you do. I was referring to the AP article linked as [6] above where Mika attacks the Guardian reporter. That is why [b] was next to that link. Mika's father was not mentioned there. I just recognized the last name and checked - bingo! Did you look before calling me "unfair"? Guess not - sigh!
"In the US, gag orders may compel silence but to my knowledge may not compel private citizens to claim they are not under a gag."

This is correct.

There is a difference between people lying, compelling silence, and being forced to lie.

The government can force people to be silent, be it upcoming raids, targets of investigations that they don't want tipped off, etc.

I know of zero legal authority that allows the government to force people to actively lie.

If anyone here does, i'd love to see it.

There is in fact, authority that the government cannot compel false or misleading statements. None that i'm aware of in the national security context, but this actually comes up quite a bit in the abortion context.

For example, Casey vs. Planned parenthood and others make it very clear the government cannot compel you to speak misleading information.

Opinions argue about what is false and what is misleading, but that is clearly not an issue here.
Does GitHub use a CDN? It seems like that might help them with the DDoSing.
Not exactly a Google update, but the open source nature of Android makes efforts like CyanogenMod possible. They support many old devices.

My Motorola Defy came with 2.1 Eclair. Runs 4.2 as of now, thanks to Cyanogen. I keep it because it's built like a tank; all phones should have IP67 certification.
Whether this is true or not this is certainly not good PR for the US tourism industry and the US in general. Germans were not so long ago the people in the world who had the best image of the US.
Extracting and sending it manually seems incompatible with the idea that they're doing this on a really massive scale.

Also, forwarding all of everybody's gmail would be a lot of data transiting the network. Unexpected traffic equal to all of gmail's normal traffic could be noticed.
The US doesn't have any military bases in Iraq.

The Japanese could certainly ask us to leave, and we would. But they don't, because except for a vocal minority they do want us there.

And Afghanistan is a war zone. I wouldn't consider that anything but an occupation. Which, I might add, they brought on themselves, so I don't have much sympathy.