skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
PRISM seems like the biggest information leech in the world. For good to come from it, they should "accidentally" let the whole world see everything they collected. Then they'd be the biggest seeder ever. It's not that I don't have anything to hide, I have lots to hide. But sooner or later everyone will know everything they want to know anyway.

Almost every bad movie plot I've ever seen has one point where someone says "We have to keep this secret". From that point on, things always go wrong. Light can always help a situation.

How are we ever going to get to a true collective consciousness if we are always keeping secrets from one another. Just realize that we are all human, we all have hopes and dreams, and we all have things we are ashamed of. A public panopticon could be just what the doctor ordered for our society to get to the next stage.
science still has no answer to such a great question.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NCw83LVWFo&feature=player_d...
Having looked at this for a while, the show/not-show needs to be decided at the publisher's server based on input from an authentication service.

eg.

if ( auth.is_subscriber )
puts advertisement_block
end
Well yeah, that goes without saying. Obviously they wouldn't have taken such a dangerous job if they had better options. They probably wouldn't have left Ireland or China in the first place if they weren't facing poverty and starvation.

Course, there was a lot of Nativist sentiment against the Irish and the Chinese that kept them from getting better employment, and that certainly is a mark against the US. But not necessarily in terms of "freedom", as that was a ugly part of civil society and not of government policy.

Now, the Chinese exclusion act, on the other hand ...
What, all because of a fullscreen start menu? Start8 lets you configure it to open in a smaller popup overlay if you'd prefer. Or indeed have an old Windows 7 style menu instead.
http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/11/4418188/apple-ios-7-design...

I'm baffled why all the Apple people are excited about features I disable in Windows because they are obnoxious and ugly.
Not sure about the Chinese or railroad workers in particular but most Irish arriving in the USA prior to the mid-1800s were indentured servants.
Popularizing cryptography, hate of state-institutions and more so their people, growth market in constructive paranoia, enforcing boundaries and greater respect(fear) of the individual.

What part of "best left alone" and "shearing a pig(ty Vlad)" they don't understand?
I don't agree that the motivation would be to keep the honest people honest.

There's nothing wrong with having a talent and wanting to make a living from it.
Why should it matter what people think? There is no defeat. Why does it even matter what happens? We shall prevail, and it is inevitable.
Dropbox could identify users who are more likely to need to resurrect a file (either because they frequently delete files, or because they frequently resurrect them), and offer them a discount on packrat.

After all, the man most likely to value hurricane insurance is the man whose house was just blown over by one.
Snowden's Comment on Article About Himself (June 13, 2013)
FWIW, it's probably not entirely accurate to say that Fay has a runtime. Any more than some jquery-using code does.

I think ghcjs does have a traditional runtime of a sort, but don't quote me on that. :)
This is the double edged sword that is Rails. It gives you enough to quickly deploy a basic SaaS app and lull you into the false sense of security (it's so easy to launch an app!).

Rushing through learning RoR and not a) learning Ruby and b) actually taking your time to write some tests goes against what is arguably the best practice for learning RoR properly.

Throwing together one app is a start down a path to learning RoR, it's not actually "learning Ruby on Rails". They are two different things.
> It's easy to do realtime control on a linux box, simply run your program as root and disable interrupts

If this were the case, how would the clock/time on the OS work?
>it is good that there is software that understands G-code for 3D printers, but using it as _the_ data format?

People don't really write G-code anymore, it's generated from a 3D model. G-code is like the compiled version of the model made for execution on the printer.

>Also, I don't even think G-code is that good of an idea for generic CNC files

Why make such a ridiculous assumption when you just said you heard about this only 5 minutes ago? You're making a blanket statement about a technology that's been around for more than 40 years based on 5 minutes of googling.
Before this became well known (http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=3411014) this is likely Snowden posting on an article about himself.
A fair point, to be sure.
> It's also considered embarrassing to be walked in on taking a shit.

Yes, as would getting walked in on having sex with a partner. But in which of those three cases would the joke be on the person getting caught?

> mainstream US society is not religious.

You might be filter bubbled. Most polls I have seen show at least 70% of Americans consider themselves religious.

> Nobody jokes about e.g. getting caught fucking children

Except for lots of comedians, and in fact, the humor comes directly from the fact that society shames the practice (rightfully so).
There's a difference between self-taught to get a specific job done or self-taught to learn foundational CS / SE concepts, methods, etc. Some university courses are nothing more than a souped-up "Learning Java in 21 days" padded out to 3 years.

Unfortunately there are lots of university trained "software engineers" who can barely compete with your average self-taught programmer. So in terms of getting a job it depends on the company's hiring and evaluation processes. Typically big corporates want degrees and many startups look at what you've already accomplished.
He implicated "The West" which very much includes the United Kingdom. He is a citizen, like you, who is just now seeing proof of what one of these governments has been up to. He knows that the UK is doing it as well.
You are projecting feelings that the op didn't mention.

No one is entitled to a meal in a capitalistic society. You have to "earn your keep" so to speak. Everyone does have to eat, but that doesn't mean you're entitled to eat off of your music. If music isn't working out maybe these artist should get a "real job".

Most of these artist are still following a a business model that is broken. I'm not sure why they feel they are so entitle to high income. Maybe it has something to do with that carrot that the record industry dangles out there. Every feels like they should be making Beyonce money or something. Why is it that radio royalties and album sales seem to be all they focus on when they get such a little cut anyway. It seems like building a following and then getting that following to pay to go to your concert and buy your merchandise directly is much more profitable.

There are some musicians that recognized they would never make as much as they would like in that business. Look at someone like 50 cent. He realized that royalty payments wouldn't be enough. From the start he created a brand around his name and his crew G-unit. From that they were able to sell clothing, get exclusive sneaker deals, negotiate for their own label, etc. With that money he invested in outside deals like Vitamin water which made him much more money than his music did when it was sold to Coca-Cola. This is someone that understands the business and how to leverage it to benefit you more than it benefits the industry.

It's been shown time and time again that artist do tend to get fucked, but it's not just internet radio providers doing said fucking. How much of the royalties get paid out to labels, managers, and anyone else that has their hands in the artist pocket. Maybe if they could negotiate better terms they would get a bigger piece of the royalty pie.

Look, I get paid what I think is a decent amount at my job. My employer has no obligation to pay me that much. They do it because I have valuable skills in a competitive market that they are willing to pay for. I also provide much more value than the salary that I earn. If for some reason those skills weren't desired or I wasn't able to make a living from them I would attempt to move on to something new.

I really don't know why I'm rambling so much. I do wish artist could make a living, but I don't think they are entitle do earn a living wage making music. Watching this industry try to keep their failing business models alive is pretty interesting though.
It also jives pretty well with the previous reports [1] of Skype hitting URLs that have been pasted into chat, as well as the removal of the decentralized bits of Skype in favor of centralized servers.

[1]: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/05/14/1516247/microsoft-rea...
You mean the fact the writing procedural code is outdated but still being used?
There is a fair amount of artificial cloud covering residential buildings in Singapore, plus some commercial, public and military sites. Some areas such as a diplomatic district might be understandable, though others like the odd HDB block less so. Having lived across the street from one HDB block now obscured by artificial clouds, I'm wondering who might live there that its a priority to block an aerial view.
I have to agree 100% on the Tweetbot aspect. By far one of my favorite looking apps on my iPhone and iPad. Even the OSX version is very nice.
Why would you design in InDesign first, then recreate it in Photoshop? That's ridiculous; you're doing twice the work.

I've been moonlighting as a freelance web developer for 8 years now for a guy in Toronto Canada and he always sends me PSD files to slice and dice.

Recently, I've been working with a new designer local to me in NY; fresh out of college. She wanted to know how to send me the designs so I sent her one of the ones I get from my guy in Toronto. She had absolutely no problem following the layout; how the design was broken into groups, labeled, ordered, etc...

PSD or bust. And no, Pixelmator isn't the same.
There is a property animation system on Android, but it's woefully lacking when compared to iOS. IIRC it doesn't even support 2.5D transform with a Z axis and variable camera distance (which is useful for perspective transform). On iOS 7 they now have a full rigid-body physics engine built in and comes with a nice high level API for developers to take advantage of.
The Dullest, Most Vital Skill You Need to Become a Successful Manager
Exactly. People would pay radio stations to break records. Then people would buy those records.
I agree. There's also:

c) GemHell

Where you're so captivated in all the shiny Ruby Gems that you don't take the time to learn what they actually do.
A thermostat on the level of beautiful design and function as a Nest, but that works with a plug-in window air conditioner. Including the ones with weird high-amperage plugs. Maybe this would be an adapter that accepts as inputs the same sort of A/C control signal that any standard thermostat can control.
Job search
Joboseek is a job seeker type tool that offers the most extensive list of jobs for the audience online where you can find all the vacancies available
>mainstream US society is not religious.

Only 17% of Americans are non-religious.

And only 19% of Americans say religion is not very important to them (including the 17% who are non-religious).

A majority, 55%, of Americans say religion can solve "all or most of today's problems."

Perhaps more pertinent, a minority of Americans consider pornography "morally acceptable." Even among Americans ages 18-34.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/1690/religion.aspx

http://www.gallup.com/poll/162881/older-americans-moral-atti...
But many musicians unfortunately argue as if it is.
I would hire the one with the degree (in computer science), absolutely no question about it. The person with 2 years experience or certificate with the exact skill might be able to do 80% of the work (the easy stuff), like writing some front end code, but as soon as they encounter anything requiring more than basic understanding of computer science and math and some scripting skills, they'd be stumped most likely. Not only that, but someone with extensive math knowledge will see math and elegant solutions where others would see nothing.

University is a great place for people to learn the fundamentals in a structured way and learn how to learn. While a few very talented and motivated folks can pick it up themselves by reading, the vast majority can't reach that point by themselves (me included).

(Note, I'm only talking about sciences and engineering, those are the only ones I know anything about)
SLCON 13 - Recordings
IIRC, it's $18 + submitting your fingerprints to the FBI in the US. Might be interesting to see what you get back if FOIA requests for their records on you return a "Huh? What records?" response.
A good example of flat design in an app is Propellerheads' Figure.

http://www.propellerheads.se/products/figure/

If all flat design apps are like that, things won't be too bad.

Interestingly, their other iOS apps are totally the opposite, and are pinnacles of skeumorphic design:

http://www.propellerheads.se/products/thor/

http://www.propellerheads.se/products/rebirth/
Is this the first time Microsoft has branded an update as a dot X release instead of a Service Pack?

I for one welcome this change and hope it signals a switch to more frequent major OS updates.
Edward Snowden said leakers should be "shot in the balls" in 2009
They should charge people a fee and rebrand it as a data archive /cloud storage service. Every email you've ever sent, every phone call you've ever made, every online purchase, the whole architecture of your online existence, preserved forever with no effort on your part. And maybe someday when you die, they'll finally copy you.

Won't that be fun?
Twitter's 24 hours of global governance
i object to the characterisation of such opinions as strong.
they are not strong, they are weak. weak for their justification, weak for their referencing and weak for the world view which informs them.

(but i totally agree with you)
Hey Vu,

I'm impressed. Would like some words of advice from you, as I am attempting something similar but less ambitious. Ok to contact you via email?
Granting (probably correctly) that Marie Antoinette is better known, the fact that you can pick out two examples with a particular relationship doesn't tell us a lot about the distributions they're drawn from. Looking at rough contemporaries, I would expect Descartes is better known than either, and Montesquieu, Rousseau, and Voltaire aren't exactly obscure.
The Philosophy of markov chains
And... that was the joke :)
"SkyDrive is now the default location for saving documents. So you always have your files wherever you go, even when you’re offline. And with the included SkyDrive app, you can manage both local files and SkyDrive files in one place."

This is a massive play for cloud storage. Will this be replacing "My Documents" for the majority of casual Windows users?
But without copyright, Pandora could simply copy the music and sell the service without paying any royalty at all. It's only by government fiat that Pandora has any costs, period. Copyright hasn't been nullified, it's just been altered.

Without congress, Pandora wouldn't have to negotiate with anyone at all, because there wouldn't be any copyright on the music to stop them.

You can argue that compulsory licensing is good or bad for artists/distributors/consumers in the long run, and it's an interesting debate. But it's not like there's some default natural right that is being violated here.
This is actually quite an impressive update.

People like to dismiss MS, but they really understand iterative development.
For details, please download this 18 megabyte PDF file (don't mention XPS).
Yeah! Of course. Just tweet at me and I can direct message you my contact info.

@vu0tran
Don't forget:

* Has a larger portion of its own population behind bars than any other state in recorded history

* Is the largest exporter of torture equipment in the world
I recommend Soul of a New Machine as an excellent example how not to manage knowledge workers for the long term. The book has a romantic "gung-ho" energy to it that might appeal to start-ups in crunch time, but the environment described in the book eats the seed corn. As mentioned in Peopleware, practically everyone on that team quit Data General after the Eagle project due to all the abuse. Peopleware actually references the book when explaining the "Spanish Theory" model of IT management that they contend doesn't work.
Depends if you count Windows 2.0/2.1 and 3.0/3.1 as similar-sized increments to this [0]

At least in the past 10 years, Microsoft's language has been all about "Service Packs". The landscape of mobile OSes, their app stores, and the movement of web browsers to an always-up-to-date model is conditioning consumers to expect continuously-updated software. It only seems natural that desktop OSes (which are the most entrenched in point releases) will eventually follow.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_3.1#Improvements_over_...
At least my home town (Tampere, Finland, the home of Nokia) is so cloudy that the image data is useless. Misleading headline.
My best car seemed to get past 300 before the road ran out:
http://imgur.com/f1Gr25d
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>They have to use actual facts.

If I understand the process, it DOES involve judgement of IRS agents. The IRS requires that applicants describe what social welfare activities they're going to take part in. If they didn't put something in that blank that was reasonable, then of course they weren't rubber stamped.

The Tea Party is pretty much all about reducing government size and spending and reducing taxes, with a few other standard conservative (guns, military) and libertarian (privacy, intrusive government) positions thrown in [1]; what could a "Tea Party" organization do that would promote the social welfare? Looking at teaparty.org, there's nothing in their set of 15 core beliefs that fall under "social welfare", [2] except arguably "Traditional family values are encouraged." Pretty much a stretch to expect 51% of their money to be spent "encouraging family values" and only 49% on politics.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_movement.

[2] http://www.teaparty.org/about-us/
We've all gotten stuck there. It's too tempting to add easy functionality, until it breaks and you have to debug it.

Hopefully you are going to take a long journey with Rails!
actually it's context-sensitive. If you start typing "gay" into the search box on top, the rainbow styling comes on. If you type in something "gay" that has a more negative association, it doesn't. Try entering "gay love" and then "gay hate" or "gay rights" and then "gay bashing".
I've only ever had this issue when someone on the hangout uses speakers instead of headphones and forgets to mute.
How can "hi there".equals("cheers ") == true?
Since there are no IE11 threads on the front page, I'm going to hijack to express some amazement with the IE team. DASH and Media Source extensions (among the other, more well known HTML5 stuff added/bolstered)?! Awesome! Any word of CU-RTC/WebRTC though?
Dropbox is yet another NSA whipping boy. Couldn't care less what lame features they're adding.
Cats against surveillance
I think you're screwing up your logic here. While I will agree that more listeners per royalty means more CD purchases, think through the implications of that. It means that the best situation for CD purchases is one with minimum royalties, in fact it's a situation with negative royalties causing large play counts. Also known as payola. Which means your original argument about royalty payments is disproved...
It is if its from Ikea.
It was a generalized statement for people who want to begin to learn it, I personally find that Obj-C offers very similar level of abstraction for beginners as Java does (especially with ARC, and not everyone has to deal with CoreAudio, AddressBook and other C libraries or integrate C and C++ code into their app).

I'm a professional iOS dev as well and everything you said were correct, so no arguing there.
Coincidentally, yes, it did cost exactly $3,000. That includes 2 separate freelancers - a designer and a coder.
The branding did recall to mind Windows 3.1, which was the first usable Windows.

The video was clearly not targeted at me - lots of jumping around the product and distracting. It just seems sad versus the Apple approach of focussing on end users doing things.
Would this be something like Google Latitude, where I share my present location (privately, limited to you, a select group of friends, Google, and the NSA; or openly, à la Foursquare or Twitter)?

Or are you envisioning a phone-book-like service where I post a more general "I live here" sort of thing?

I would not participate in such a service. It's arguably much more invasive than a phone book - for one, phone books are usually only available in that geographic vicinity, and are not readily searchable like an online service would be.
Forbidding or encouraging? :-P
You can zoom each affected site out from the View > Zoom menu. And the add-ons NoSquint (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/nosquint/) or Default FullZoom Level (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/default-fullz...) let you set the default zoom for all sites.
Ignoring the terminology errors, and the fact that this is a pretty scummy and uninteresting business model (it's kind of like blogging about the awesome architecture you built to predict when people will be at home eating dinner so you can robocall them with telemarketing crap right then), this kind of system is also inherently unreliable.

None of my email clients, on OS X, Windows, or Linux, will show that pixel unless I press a button or take some action.

And I believe that is increasingly the default behavior of email clients, isn't it? Which means this technique will increasingly not work, and there is nothing close.io can do about it.
There was also Windows NT 3.1/3.5/3.51 (among other lesser known ones: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Microsoft_Windows)
That seems like a good idea but I only use gchat on my PC, for my phone it's text messages. I don't like it when someone assumes that I'm on my PC and starts to have a conversation with me as when I'm on the go I'm not able to have a serious chat. At least with txt msgs both parties know that you may not respond in time and that you may be brief with your responses.
In one of the articles I read on this (sorry no link) I'm pretty sure it mentioned their new philosophy, for hardware and software, was rapid iteration.
Interesting. I heard rumors about them possibly adding something akin to a start button back in 8.1, but there's no mention of that on this page.
Some bugs are incredibly complex, and you can't just pay some large sum of money to have them all fixed beforehand. They're basically crowdsourcing security and it seems to be working quite well.
Believe it or not, IE6 would actually be a major @#!%ing improvement in one or two cases. At least we'd already know how to work around much of its braindamage.