skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone who cares about their data should be storing it under real VCS, not a crappy Dropbox feature.
What can the U.S. do about Snowden?
I don't believe, nor anyone else I hope, that the prevalence of jokes are a statistical tell about the true societal gauge of what is moral and immoral. Jokes are made about pedophilia (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KyMhpzNNlM), jokes are made about bacon (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaK9bjLy3v4), let me know if I'm wrong, but those seem separate from each other on the spectrum of "no-no's." Citing how comedians feel about something is not great in the way of proving a point about how the majority see that thing.
I loved Masters of Doom and bought Jacked hoping it would be as amazing. Jacked had some great personality profiles in it... but as mentioned above, the personalities just aren't as captivating as Carmack and Romero. Plus there was a lot of focus on Jack Thompson (the video game activist [1]), which got tiresome. I hadn't realized that the title of the book was a pun on carjacking and Jack Thompson.

The book also didn't dig nearly as much into the detail around the creation of the games. In Masters of Doom, you felt like you were watching Carmack and Romero invent Doom. In Jacked, the game creation process was talked about in much more general (and less personal) terms. That's absolutely typical for a journalist, but Masters of Doom set such a high bar for gaming journalism that I ended up a bit disappointed.

Overall Jacked was a worthwhile read, but I didn't find it to be in same class as Masters of Doom.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Thompson_(activist)
You mean you didn't already have respect for Kim's contribution to protecting privacy on the internet?!
Hrrm. Declare bankruptcy, change countries awhile?
For sure, it wasn't conceived in a vacuum. Apple's existing IP would have provided essential pieces to make it possible.

I've only owned a single smart phone so far, and it's an Android device. But I've noticed that Apple's devices have smoother interfaces. I've wondered how much of that can be traced to platform factors, and how much is simply execution and polish. And whether the OS design, and the difference between ObjC and Java, play a significant role. My impression was that Java was a dog, but it seems to run pretty well on Android. It's possible that with the meticulous attention to detail of a company like Apple, Android could be made as responsive and smooth as iOS. Or, maybe, platform issues make that virtually impossible. It would be more technically intriguing to think that native code and Quartz are decisively better, but I'm leaning toward the more boring explanation that Apple just worked harder on the UI, and expended the effort to do all the little things right. The basis for my opinion is the observation that true explanations are more often boring.

I'm not very expert on graphics, but I've had a suspicion that dedicated graphics hardware makes iPhone-type devices possible. Highly-integrated and highly power efficient graphics hardware was only just becoming available when the iPhone was in development. And, as you mentioned, the software layers to take full advantage of it in a GUI wasn't something you could just take for granted.
Do you really need a local dev? Expand your search radius and you have access to an expanded talent pool.
Smallsat company reveals Earth observation plans
Bitcoin Black Market Competition Heats Up
Hey! Don't knock parrots. I own a parrot, a very cool and interesting creature.

If only we could eliminate this harsh parrot bashing from HN :-)
Disabling javascript isn't a protection against phishing.
> Use Django when you're an agency making a finite delivery to a client. :)

or when the client is dictating the tech stack. :)
Planet Labs Debut comes out of Stealth Mode - Steve Jurvetson's Flickr blog
ReBirth already existed in 1996, when Window 3.11 was still a common thing to have. So it was kinda one of the really early skeumorphic UIs
While I agree with you, have you ever tried explaining svn or git to somebody non-technical? It's not at all easy. Now try and explain to them how to commit and push files. Where does their repo live? How do they get at a file from another computer? How do they share it with somebody else?

There's value in a solution that makes copying your data to multiple systems drop dead easy and automatic, and Dropbox is in that niche. If you need more {robust|reliable|scalable|detailed} file history, it's not right for you. But you can bet there are tons of people in Dropbox who delete things a lot (just like I have met people who store "important" email in the trash folder)
Photoshop or Illustrator files.
On a previous thread, [I mentioned](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5942320) that at some point I'm thinking about writing Learn Enough Rails To Be Dangerous to go along with the Ruby on Rails Tutorial—but it looks like, by using the Rails Tutorial, you can already become plenty dangerous. ;-)

Seriously, though, this is cool, and every developer-entrepreneur should do something like this just to get the experience of actually shipping a web app.
> We are fatally flawed, not essentially evil.

That's my point. And I wouldn't even claim that we deserve to go to hell or that we are fatally flawed.

We are in the spotlight in the world and I swear I wish people would remember that when they evaluate the USA vis à vis other nations.

We should set the highest of standards for ourselves. And like any good 'American exceptionalist' we should achieve those high standards we set for ourselves.

But when we fail to achieve that standard we need to remember to evaluate ourselves in the context of the world at large, and in our own nation's history.

If the worst thing that our government did to us today was to `tee` our Reddit memes to /dev/utah and then not look at them then maybe, just maybe we're not as screwed as HN thinks we are. Even my own grandma knows that the Internet Never Forgets.

As I've said before, we may look at these programs and decide to switch up the controls, gut them all, or something in between. But this place can be such an echo chamber sometimes... and the cynicism is absolutely toxic, especially as it mixes and interferes with the very-necessary skepticism that should be often employed.
Is there a config flag to enable this?
I'd go a step further and note that from iOS 2 through iOS 6, apps already have used a wide spectrum of affordances, from complete object metaphors (the "skeuomorphism" of apps like AmpKit), lots of abstract depth cues (Tapbots apps), and pure shape and color cues (Shift Apps' lovely calculator app Digits).

Given this pre-existing diversity, the apps that are really going to need to change or look out-of-date are the ones that made the most use of (or styled their custom controls most closely after) Apple's vanilla UIKit controls. I don't foresee apps that take their own approach to UI (such as TweetBot, AmpKit, or Digits) having to change much; in fact, I really hope their designers can see beyond the march of fashion and don't abandon certain types of interaction cues purely because Apple has.

The thing to remember is that "flat versus skeuomorphic" is a false dichotomy – style is a tool, not an end product.
Oh, so does that mean I can't do anything that uses the Integral class, for example? Even if I make sure all my types are Ints?
I wonder if the cloud removal was in response to Mapbox's recent announcements. It seems like an obvious improvement either way. I remember the first Mapquest product, and now we have Google Earth in high resolution glory. What will the next 10 years bring us?
Show HN: A collection of resources for hacking together design for an MVP.
Woot, 2.19s end user browser load time. Significantly better than crashing and burning this time around guys! Go dyno go!
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I think most tab lovers mean "tabs to indent, spaces to align". The 'unholy third option' here: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/04/death-to-the-space-...

Delightfully this is what Go has settled on.

(Who actually presses their tab key anymore? Even vim does that for you.)
Opera network hacked. Malware spread signed with Opera certificate
It's there when you watch the video.

It takes you to the Live Tiles screen. (I assume that screen has a real name but I don't know it and you get my drift)
Pandora and Royalties
Indeed - my cynical first thought was "so this is how they're going to implement DRM for 3D printers"…
You're wrong this is _only_ for testing and development. NOT production applications.

Straight for the horses mouth:

https://twitter.com/NitrousIO/status/350045731442262016
> Has a larger portion of its own population behind bars than any other state in recorded history

Which comes down to (essentially) marijuana and bad drug laws in general. OK, cool, we agree.

Is the USA still the worst on Earth? Is it worse to imprison people instead of executing them in death camps or gulags?

> Is the largest exporter of torture equipment in the world

Is that the best you've got? I didn't know that torture equipment was an export-controlled category!

I suppose it's a good thing that America can't even find domestic purchasers for what little torture equipment she builds then.
Right. Don't Be Evil is effectively dead, Eric Schmidt must be removed. Visiting North Korea in concert with other US politicians and a having girlfriend from the Council of Foreign Relations does not a moral compass make.

However, to see it from Google's own view: they make cash from access to your data. Any move towards individualized end-to-end encryption faces this lost revenue impact, plus the lost password problem (no way for users to replace lost credentials, if - to ensure privacy - no master keys are held by Google for this purpose), plus the government gets angry at me for lost intelligence problem.

A solution to the second problem may be for people to declare third parties as their master key holders in an manner similar to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir%27s_Secret_Sharing ... however, this impacts reliability and might make for interesting attack vectors in the case of ... eg. family factionalism in inheritance cases. On the whole, though, it could be a good path to explore.

A solution to the third problem would be to up and move all physical infrastructure to another country. Someone needs to do it. Google, if any business is going to lead the way, should be able to do this to make a point. It's not like they're going to run out of money.

Finally, Google should certainly remove the Google Account signup effective requirement from Android. If I were a government, I would anti-trust that stuff pronto.
I've been using this for a while and have really been enjoying it. Also handy being able to choose between a few geographical locations, to reduce latency which is always really bad from Australia to elsewhere.
I can't stand the way Google just gloms their brand onto things.
Surprise - NSA Utah data center is barren on latest high-res Google Maps
On the upside, the reviews have epic potential.

https://plus.google.com/109979622757916923877/about?gl=us&hl=en
It's called metro I guess.
I giggled at how they brought the button back, but not the menu.
I always thought cats were solitary creatures.
What do you like to do? What makes you feel alive and happy? Is there any way you could do more of that or something like it and get paid for it?
On the upside - Google+ reviews are showing some potential for hilarity.

https://plus.google.com/109979622757916923877/about?gl=us&hl...
The last E stands for ephemeral because ephemeral keys are used.
Well, I just haven't had a TON of use for it yet. I'm a little wary that I'll need to work around leaky abstractions. I'm not poo-pooing it, just ... cynical.
That's a lot of fuzz for an active bug with a very easy workaround.
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If your titlebar has a dark background color, text and the minimize/maximize buttons are still unrecognizable.
Is it so uncommon to use a dark color scheme that no one who works on this cares to fix it?
Microsoft is being intentionally obtuse here. I think their goal is to knowingly introduce what people are not asking for, then when people complain about that, MS can say "see, people complain, start button or no".

No one cares about the start button. They care about the start menu. In 8.1, the button just does the same thing as hitting the winkey or clicking in the corner in 8 -- you get completely launched from the desktop environment, and go full-screen Metro-mode launcher.

While at first I thought it'd be the same (press winkey, type, enter), Windows 8/8.1 makes it far more cumbersome and is quite interrupting. Also, on Win8, you need to select what you're searching for. Unlike 7, it doesn't automatically search everything.

There is no way that MS actually thinks people want the button, not the menu.
... or at least hire someone to fix the bugs for you.

I wonder if there are any closed-source software shops that have a "pays us a premium to fix bug X first" option. Doesn't seem like it would work too well.
The Rails Tutorial is a step-by-step approach to learning web development with Rails, which covers selective features of the framework as needed, whereas The Rails Way is a comprehensive reference covering the entire framework. Between them, they're a good one-two punch to go from Rails newcomer to expert.
while it certainly looks like the second one did indeed rip off the first, i'd have to say there's nothing at all about the first one that looks even remotely interesting or innovative to me. looks like a run-of-the-mill $20 wordpress template.
I use Firefox on both Mac and Windows because of its extensions. Firefox allows its extensions to change more of the browser experience than other browsers do.

I really love Tab Utilities (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-utilities...), which helps me use my browser despite my 914 open tabs by making the New Tab command open the new tab directly to the right of the current tab, not all the way at the right. Other extensions that can only exist in Firefox include Copy Urls Expert (http://www.kashiif.com/firefox-extensions/copy-urls-expert/) and Tree Style Tab (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...).
I wasn't aware that youtube had counter measures. I use the 'clive' program (which is in the standard ubuntu repositories) to download youtube videos by simply giving it the normal URL. I've never had it stop working, which seems to suggest that Google is not trying to block downloads (as re-active counter mesures would have a delay before the app gets updated).

Combine this with the fact that their is an API for third party players, and they are effectivly on the honor system to not 'download', and to show adds where appropriate.
I've been using Ruby for some years now, and let me tell you something: just learn Obj-C. It's not hard to learn, is actually a pleasure to write, and will surprise you with it's elegance sometimes, e.g. KVC collection operators (http://nshipster.com/kvc-collection-operators/).

RubyMotion would have been awesome a few years ago, but now that Obj-C has ARC, literals for dictionaries and arrays, and blocks (yes!), I can't help but think that RubyMotion has missed the boat. Learn Obj-C. Go to iTunes U, get Stanford CS193P, and have a bunch of fun.
I'm waiting for some Windows 8 for Workgroups...

I mean, Win3.1 was quite usable, then OS/2 (joke), 95, then XP (some flavor of NT w/ a service pack wasn't horrible). It takes some iterations, sometimes, to get it right.

There are things I don't particularly care for in Win8, but compared to Win7, it is much snappier on older hardware and that I appreciate (stuffing it in a VM). I also appreciate the faster release iterations.
I didn't see a workaround, can you elaborate?
Strictly speaking, phone numbers identify phones.

I mean, that's what we would say when the RIAA comes at us saying that IP address umpty-squat was used to download a movie, right? "Must have been my neighbor on my Wifi". "My friend was browsing my laptop".

But either way, that's why the NSA must get a separate subpoena to get the subscriber information for a given phone number, if they don't already have it from earlier. And only after that can they get a warrant to allow for grabbing the data itself.
No, that's not what I'm saying.

And this doesn't seem to be a very effective line of discussion, either.
They still refuse to let me purchase a valid Windows 8 licenses here. I'm in Bolivia.

Hell, I can purchase games on Steam, a VPS from a wide array of providers and even make purchases on Amazon, but Microsoft doesn't take my money.

Just give me a cart, a checkout page that lets me pay with Paypal and we're done MS. Just sell me the god damn serial key!
That's only online at a PC, I believe. If folks are on a phone, they won't have a green bar.
When you take the timeline of the history of the planet Earth into account, there was a not so distant past where an artist, musician, etc. could make a living based solely on the support of a single benefactor. It seems as though the past 50 years is likely to be seen as a blip on the trend of how an artist is compensated for their work.
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You raise a very good point aresant. Its a point which everybody should understand.

It is not interesting to post a story which says "Pandora Paid Over $1,300 for 1 Million Plays" but it is very interesting to post a story which says "My Song Got Played On Pandora 1 Million Times and All I Got Was $16.89"

I watched Mike Arrington (founder of TechCrunch) talk about PR on youtube at a startup seminar and he raised this exact point. Regardless of your agenda, a controversial story is far more newsworthy and will get you more coverage then a regular story.
The last sprint has started - GoD Factory: Wingmen
I understood that using an instance variable is a viable workaround. Or maybe just code around the issue?
http://globalnews.ca/news/670794/google-celebrates-gay-pride...

That's the first link I found referencing the fact that June is LGBTQ Pride month but if you look back over time Google has been doing this for years. This year it just happens to coincide with trending search terms due to the SCOTUS ruling. I can't believe I'm the first person to post this.
Ah, so you're the guy I have to thank.

I'll come back to the site eventually and finally get around to learning how to write those unit tests. :)
It's been done to some extent. Have a look at makelovenotporn.
Skype has screen share but the quality pales in comparison to RDP/Teamviewer
Thor for iPad is a great case study, but I'd say it's actually a fine example of how the entire "flat versus skeuomorphic" debate has ultimately been misguided: The app utilizes a broad spectrum of digital UI affordance to great effect, from literal object metaphor ("this is a synth; it has knobs that do exactly what synth knobs do") to abstract color and shape cues ("these controls aren't part of the synth but have auxiliary control over it and your project").

This layering of design language creates a useful divide between areas of functionality that can't be achieved when you're limited to "flat or skeuomorphic" as a binary choice.
Bay area police using automated plate readers, sharing data with feds
So, two users behind a proper NAT or firewall won't be able to use this feature?
I ended up switching to openSuSE because she was having a difficult time remembering how to connect to our network shares and I didn't have the spare time to sort out what it took to get Active Directory membership working. After the switch, though, we never went back. This was 4 or 5 years ago, and she's now my ex- (unrelated to software choices), but for what she used it for -- e-mail, basic document creation, YouTube (Flash at the time), music organization (I believe we used SongBird? ... whatever it was, she was happy with it), and (at the time) a SageTV client. Aside from having to learn what did what, where (which was pretty minimal, she was already using OpenOffice on Windows, and Firefox was Firefox, SageTV was SageTV, most things were familiar), it was great. She figured out, on her own, how to customize the background and some of the other user settings.

And I had fun from time to time connecting via SSH and making a song or two play when I knew she had to be cheered up. She thought that was a little creepy, but hey.
Motorola's Logo Gets a Googley New Look
Doors are for people with things to hide
So do you suppose that is why you can't be invisible when using the iOS Hangouts app?
yes. it looks really barren to me -

http://i.imgur.com/W3enB7s.jpg
Except that AQ and other groups are already adjusting what they do in light of Snowden's leaks. Check the news.

No one (least of all at NSA) thinks AQ are brainless goons. That would, in fact, be why NSA wouldn't want to divulge detailed-enough "This is American data" guidance, as they assume that AQ and others would be able to play off that guidance to alter their own COMSEC procedures.

In fact forcing AQ to switch to using postcards would be beneficial in some regards from the NSA POV as it would slow their communications cycle. If you've never been in an environment where command-and-control are important, let's just say that effective communications are the backbone of operations. Many less-than-perfect debriefs I've been involved in had a major lesson learned "Poor Communications".

There's a maxim that most plans don't survive first contact with the enemy. From AQ's perspective that makes communications import so they can determine the problem, adapt and improvise a solution, and communicate that solution to all affected stakeholders.

Likewise even AQ engages in administrivia like expense reports, promoting leaders, org. alignments, etc. Those all need communications.

So when a break in AQ comms may rely on them screwing up a single time, it becomes even more important not to give away the "Do's and Don't's of NSA SIGINT". Even forcing them to always use GPG might be beneficial, with things like Geo-IP and metadata analysis.
> Steve Jobs would be rolling in his grave

Please, let’s not play that game.
Christmas usually isn't "Christmas", it's a generic holidays-themed doodle:

http://www.google.com/doodles/search?query=christmas
It's interesting to see Microsoft unashamedly exercising what's left of their monopoly power to force market share of unrelated products up. Defaulting storage to SkyDrive, integrating Bing as a default search every time someone does any kind of search, even tying the windows login itself to a microsoft account, integrating Skype as a default installed app and giving no opt out once you accept linking your Windows login. I notice they've made it extremely difficult to set Google as your default search engine in IE (no default search provider for it, can be quite hard to find in the search provider list).

It's the kind of thing that used to get them in a lot of trouble. I wonder if they are past this or whether they will get rapped on the knuckles for this at some point?
No-fault divorce has hurt women very seriously, which is evident from the precipitous increase of divorce rates since no-fault was established

Does not follow.

No-fault divorce has caused higher divorce rates. You haven't offered any basis for claiming that those higher divorce rates harm either the women or men involved, let alone that they harm the women disproportionately as you imply.
They're also sarcastic.
Bing's aerial imagery shows the buildings: http://www.bing.com/maps/?q=40.426257,-111.932873&sty=h

I'm probably on a list now, for all the searching and zooming I did on that area.
The majority of people are sharing more about themselves online.

And? What does that have to do with anything? I can share 99.99% of my personal information, but if I want that .01% to stay private, I have the right to keep it private. So what if people have gone from routinely sharing 75% to sharing 98%... pretty much everybody has something they don't share. That's what is at issue.
From the reviews: This is a killer data center.