skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All this nonsense about applications not working on iOS 7 is beginning to grind my gears. Developers aren't currently allowed to submit their apps for iOS 7. The beta is still in early stages. It'll change. A lot. Chances are that if you're complaining about applications not working on iOS 7 you shouldn't have the beta build on your phone in the first place.
To be fair, they have to start somewhere and Starbucks are extraordinarily widespread. Don't forget about all of the other things Google are doing to get Internet access to everyone they possibly can (for example: http://www.google.com/loon/)
If you had a point to make, it wasn't articulated very effectively.
Can you be more specific?

In practice, I agree there are several problems: it is common industry practice to ignore data protection concerns (led by example of large US corporations) and EU member states have neither the intent nor the means to enforce the law. What's more, the recent cookie directive debacle makes the EU seem confused and toothless.

In theory, however, data protection seems pretty clear to me: http://europa.eu/legislation_summaries/information_society/d...

Intended reform makes the situation even more clear: http://ec.europa.eu/justice/newsroom/data-protection/news/12...
I particularly recommend "How will the data protection reform affect social networks?", which discusses the requirements of 'privacy by default' and 'privacy by design'.
I realize that it isn't morally right, but I think such data storage is inevitable. With the rise of instant communications, the amounts of data people generate are massive, and old school law enforcement can't keep up. Thus with the increase in technology, there's going to be an increase in counter-technology.

I guess what we need to ask ourselves now is whether we want any secrets at all. A true Panopticon -- a society where everyone could see what everyone else was doing -- might bring a "freedom" from certain types of subterfuge, and attack.

Then again, I don't want to live in it.

That leads us to the question of how we handle the flood of data when looking for hostile activity, because governments are certain to use available technology to trap, parse and search that flood.
My god that sidebar on mobile is awful. It takes up 1/3 of the screen.
>Food was actually not a significant temptation during the fast and I found the discipline aspect to be much easier than the couple of standard diets I've ever tried.

I have experienced a similar reaction. I speculate it's because the cognitive overhead of "no food" is fairly low, whereas the cognitive overhead of constantly evaluating the quality and quantity of food against your diet plan is extremely high.
Starbucks has had free wifi for years. I think it's safe to assume they've figured out the business model.
tl;dr: &nbsp;

The talk might have been different, but there is nothing of substance in the slides.
I highly doubt the problems people have who attend online Psychotherapy are the same as the face-to-face interactions. Not to discredit any patients (at all) but it takes a different type of person to get analyzed in person than it does via the Internet.
I've had a MacBook Air since 2011 and don't remember the last time I plugged into a network (except for my desktop at work).
Zendesk beefs up password and device security
Project member here. I was disappointed with the way the PCWorld article described it as an "open source PC". MinnowBoard is really an open hardware embedded platform. If you're looking for a small form factor PC, the NUC is definitely the way to go. MinnowBoard is for embedded applications or product development where interfacing with custom hardware (whether I2C sensors, or custom FPGAs through PCIe, etc) is needed.
In fairness, the author is also Stevan Little, the chap who brought us Moose and Moe

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moose_(Perl)
https://github.com/MoeOrganization/moe
I can't wait for Perl 6.

</irony>
I'm not sure that is a given. Maybe Australian prisons are nice. You could make the same joke about the USA and it would unfortunately be closer to the truth. I'd rather get sent to jail in Mexico than one in Arizona.
Seven dirty, gritty, real startup lessons that cost me $2 million
The comments on this Hacker News page are a bit odd. The linked article is clearly offered as a bit of playful satire. In the same way that you are not suppose to read "A Modest Proposal" and conclude that we should all eat babies, likewise, you are not suppose to read this and believe these are Bret Victor's thoughts.
> Their job is to keep air travelers safe in the wake of the September 11, 2001, attacks

Not true, their job is to make people feel safer in the wake of September 11, 2011 attacks
"informed end user." Or it could be a free automatic feature of Android 4.4. The almighty GOOG has the unusual situational advantage of being the same guy doing the WIFI and doing the phone/tablet OS. The only place AAPL has them beat is they sell the wifi access point devices too.

They could release an ITMS app for iDevices, I suppose.

My relatively new android phone is running 2.3.7, so somehow shoehorning it into an android app would be more useful than adding to a OS I probably won't have access to for years.

Its going to need to be cross platform for the laptop users anyway.

Note that as a startup idea you don't need to be .mil grade and encrypt and verify every packet. Something as simple as a notification pop up along the lines of "Holy Cow you are in Great Danger!" would be more useful than the present nothing.
Like Uncle Ben said, "With great power comes great responsibility," the TSA employees are exactly in that position -- they have the a great deal of power at their disposal and they are not trained to control it. One can also argue that they are just doing their job, but it's probably not as simple as that. On multiple occasions when I had to deal with them (I forgot to take out a water bottle of my bag), I have found them to be unnecessarily rude. It almost seemed as if the TSA agent was enjoying it thoroughly. And I know this first hand, having worked in a customer service position for many years, I can probably smell it.
> you just offended a religion.

I did? Oh my.
You've got your timeline wrong. Facebook didn't support HTTPS for anything but user login until 2011.

[0] https://www.facebook.com/blog/blog.php?post=486790652130
Not that there's any coherent logic to IP law, but logically what's the difference between zero royalty paid (aka not protecting the trademark) and settling on a fixed-price perpetual royalty of negligible cost?

It's so weird to me how in some areas of the law (criminal law, for instance) the "gray area" is embraced and fully considered, where in other areas (IP/business law) decisions seem to be so black-and-white. As a total layman, I'd guess this "tone" is completely set by case law?

If so, is there any precedent that says a fixed cost perpetual royalty priced at $0.01 or similar constitutes "protecting" a trademark?
This is brilliant stuff. And yes, it's satire. Wish I could upvote a bazillion times.
The second of a series of CSS3/HTML5 visualization tutorials
It says can be audited. I suspect the number of times that has been done is vanishingly small, perhaps only on Snowden, after his revelations :) It smells to me like plausible deniability. Claim you have set up a system where things can be audited, don't ever answer how frequently it is done or what the penalty is for abuse of the system. Top secret and all. This kind of system really should freak people out. I imagine it would be a great blackmail info system if people start speaking against the govt or "causing problems". I can imagine public figures don't want to be publicly shamed for their online activities, gambling, porn, affairs, etc...
I have an activist media company. We'd be happy to help you. anthony + @175g + .com
Introducing Minion
The 5 Pillars of Successful Vacation Rental Management
> I hope you don't mean for the students themselves. I live in NYC and know at least two people who don't have a connection at home...

The low-income areas around me don't have a Starbucks, so it doesn't do those kids any good.
What the Soviet experience tells Americans who worry about their privacy
I've played a bit on my desktop browser and it's fun! Can't wait to show it to my kids.
I've looked for similar things a long time ago and only found Java apps/applets. I like that this is browser based.

Do you have a TODO features list? I don't know Coffeescript but this would be a good learning experience for me. I can think of at least one feature I would like to add.
How well do you maintain friends, family, connections and familiar culture from the inside of a jail cell? That's the kind of advice that's really easy to give if you happen to be sitting comfortably in a democratic country with the freedom to leave your domicile as you please.
Reports of Our Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
LOL. How can Zynga possibly win here? Bang with Friends gets free marketing......
Hi Maver, unfortunately is likely your Mac doesn't have a Bluetooth 4.0 chip and Apple doesn't have an API on the iPhone to talk via 2.0. It will work on an Android though.
Vacation Rental Pros and Cons
Is this information the NSA could've attained left to their own devices, or is this sort of stuff only accessible with help from service providers, eg Facebook and Google?

What I'm trying to ask is: with all the hullabaloo Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Microsoft, etc have made about individual, manual reviews of information requests, are we still being lied to? I suspect that we obviously haven't been told the whole story by these companies, and that they are a lot more implicit in this than they let on, but this article seems almost like definitive proof that they did indeed allow unlimited access to user information.

If this is saying what I think it's saying, then I feel seriously back stabbed by the startup darlings -- Zuckerberg, Brin and Page, etc -- that so many people here love and idolize. They should absolutely be held accountable.
Uber Seeking ‘Hundreds of Millions’ in New Financing
Tempora: What the UK government didn't want you to know about
Most of what I do involves loading text files with fixed width records. A file is between 500M and 4Gb. Then I do things with these records.

So far I have not found anything faster than perl unpack (1), but I would be happy to. I plan to investigate Go soon.

Would you have another suggestion?

1 : or marginally faster, with the advantages negated by the time it takes to write the code. However, a 10x improvement would be very interesting to me.
Yup. When I travel, I look for a Starbucks when I need to get online (or want to get a coffee and space out on Facebook for a little while). That can't be an altogether bad thing to have people associate with your brand.
who said it is a muslim community. im just saying HN should not be refuge for immoral people who insult other people's cultures. speaking of tech startups and silicon valley, a muslim guy invented algorithms. the word algorithm is a transliteration of his name. his first name is Mohamed. without him, HN nor silicon valley would exist today. in that sense, the OP made an insult to the Tech world as a whole.
@netrus - I am not even sure where the tinfoil line is anymore.
I haven't even looked at these since it doesn't interest me, but I think posting slides is kind of bizarre: if they're done properly, there shouldn't be anything much of substance in them.
There are notes as to what the actual talk covers beneath the slides; some of them are quite substantial.
My tl;dr - The author says people are currently writing "perls" that add features that he likes and remove features that he doesn't like - and he would like us all to consider them all the perl not just the one binary. IE the future of perl is many runtimes, that are slightly incompatible.
Of course, it would have been more amusing had the 'selector' been chosen as 'Barack Hussein Obama II'.
Why are people upvoting this post? It's attention-baiting and deceptive.
It's interesting that Dell is doing this and now Activision. I wonder if we will start to see a trend of other companies doing the same?
A word about the website: The video is really great, enjoyable and fresh (very positive vibe, extremely well executed).

But I'd rather see something different than a (blurry) image of the founder looking somewhere off screen. I mean it's "personal", I get it - but this can be improved. While this might sound superficial, it's the first thing that came to my mind ...
The spec from HackRF github wiki:

https://github.com/mossmann/hackrf/wiki/Jawbreaker

* half-duplex transceiver

* operating freq: 30 MHz to 6 GHz

* supported sample rates: 8 Msps to 20 Msps (quadrature)

* resolution: 8 bits

* interface: High Speed USB 2.0 (with USB Micro-B connector)

* power supply: USB bus power
Why is that argument stronger? You think Starbucks hasn't run the numbers/experiments to test whether a warm body on a laptop is better than the same body ducking in and out? I would bet money they have done a frightening amount of analysis on this question.

Also, to your specific point - when people choose restaurants they often go where there's a crowd (the food must be good here), not to an empty restaurant. The situation is a little different because Starbucks is so pervasive, but don't discount the customer draw of a bustling store full of people.
i respect your god more than you do, because i think before i type.
Really enjoy the different take on the interface.. feel like you might be missing something in having modality though, seems like you could combine the actions for drawing a gear and drawing a belt, which would make it a bit neater.

Any plans to add more complicated gear types? Would love to see something like this enabling easy explanations of watches and the like..
Apparently their market is developers who don't own computers:

> However, the MinnowBoard is still cheaper than most PCs and could appeal to developers looking to write and test commercial applications before they're deployed in servers, embedded devices and other computers.

I'm baffled as to why anyone would purchase this board. Raspberry Pi[1] destroys it on price/value so _will_ Parallella[2]. Why not wait a couple months and get a super computer![3]

[1] http://www.raspberrypi.org/
[2] http://www.parallella.org/
[3] Why do I think anyone here needs these links?
Yeoman Testing With Coffeescript
Thanks!

Feel free to steal anything: test PSD files, etc.

If you want to implement layer blending in PSD.rb (required if you want to be able to export layer groups as images) then check libpsd C library - I think it has the most sophisticated open-source PSD blending implementation available.

Your PSD.rb and https://github.com/layervault/psd-enginedata libraries are very nice too; unfortunately I'm busy with other projects now, but maybe somebody will take effort and port PSD.rb features to psd-tools, or I could do this in future - the LayerVault's code will be very helpful.
I don't quite know what you intend "1 TB GB/s drives" to mean.

But note that you can buy off the shelf PCIe cards with SSD's mounted that will give you 1TB storage and an aggregate read bandwidth of more than 1GB/sec today. I've got three sitting in various servers. They're expensive, and frankly for the future I'll rather get a couple of extra SATA III controllers and get multiple "regular" SSDs on separate controllers for that reason, but they're available.

For NSA style data collection, though, the collection is trivially to do in parallel: Hash all keys to a "virtual bucket", and hold a map of virtual buckets to physical servers. Then when you want more capacity, you add some physical servers, reassigns some of the virtual buckets from other physical servers to the new ones, and synchronises any old data (given that NSA claims they could only hold the full data stream for three days, you don't even need the hassle of moving data, just make collection on different days map to different virtual buckets, so that on day one you "just" reassign virtual buckets the content of which is being expired on the old servers anyway, on day two, the next set etc. - you maintain full spread of read/write traffic by ensuring that in normal operation all servers have an even spread of "day 1", "day 2" and "day 3" buckets).

It's amusing they see storage as an issue, but of course this was in 2008. Today I have 6TB in my home NAS, and my perfectly off the shelf tower case can easily fit 40TB+ with current size harddisks (though I doubt the noise would make me popular at home).
Probably not as much as FB co-founder offering his company Palantir services to government on people's intelligence.
They're probably not thinking of it as immoral. Most likely they actually do believe they're improving national security by doing this.

Or they just like the paycheck, that's a big possibility. I imagine the NSA is probably happy to pay a lot with a large amount of bonuses to keep people in roles.
The Serial Killer Has Second Thoughts
It's a 2012 Macbook Air, so it should have Bluetooth 4.0 chip. Any other thoughts?

Edit: For the reference - I went to Authy support chat room, and it seems that even though I have a 2012 Mac, system profiler says that I have LMP version 4, which means Bluetooth 2.1. That's why it doesn't work. The support was top notch though.
I volunteer for a mountain rescue team. Holy heck, sitting at a computer dealing with bugs and other such "stressful" issues is pretty easy after working on the side of a mountain when someone has got themselves stuck or injured in a precarious situation. The people I get to work with are just amazing.
And get something back for the unpaid tax.
Before you comment, please keep the following things in mind:

The talk was held by Stevan Little, the creator of Moose, the person who experimented in Moe on a modern Perl 5, and the person who is currently working on a Meta-Object-Protocol that can be put in the Perl core to make good OO available out of the box, on which Moose, Moo and friends can built. He dearly loves Perl and has done a lot for it.

This talk is not a blind troll, but a warning, an overview of his past efforts and ends on a positive note.

Please do not comment before actually reading the entire thing.
Twitter’s IPO-related job posting has disappeared from the web
Yup. I think that we all classify as "Enemy sympathizers". I wonder when we will be classified as "Enemy combatants?". As soon as somebody mentions violence, I suppose.

Oh bum..
Here it is http://www.amazon.com/Feeling-Good-The-Mood-Therapy/dp/03808... at Amazon.

I can only directly recommend the '80s version, before the "Behavioral" bit was added, but I found it to be very very powerful. In 20/20 hindsight, so good that talk therapy afterwords hasn't been useful (there's no doubt a bit of Psychologist Roulette as grivo puts it involved, maybe there's a better therapist out there that I haven't found, but...).
> ... Google seems to have abondoned their Authenticator app

What exactly would you like improved in Google Authenticator? It's not like it does anything special, it just scans TOTP QR codes and generates TOTP codes, and it does both of those pretty well.

I actually like the fact that it has no additional functionality. Everything stays on the device itself and is not sent to Google or saved "to the cloud"[1]. The only thing I think that would be an improvement would be for it fit the entire iPhone 5 screen (it's letter boxed) but that doesn't really bother me that much.

[1]: I've heard it gets backed up to iCloud but I don't use that.
You could just disable two-factor auth and continue password-only until you find an alternative provider.
i would have thought the same, but maybe we're both non-american? my impression is that there is something deeply weird about american culture and engagement rings that i really don't understand (or perhaps do, in which case it's just creepy).
Make a Bigger Haystack
Well, the only way to avoid that appears to be to go off grid. Perhaps some coffee shops will begin to advertise lack of wifi, and perhaps even relocate to areas without any mobile phone coverage?
No, that's not true. We know it's not true because Aaron Swartz's lawyer disclosed the sentence they were threatening him with at trial, and it was nothing resembling that number. You can go look it up yourself. In the meantime, one wonders: since we know the number you stated can't possibly be true, where did it come from? What enabled you to confidently state that Swartz was threatened with a 50 year sentence?
The Bitcoin protocol is designed to make it average 10 minutes between each block, so on average the wait is 5 minutes. And if I was Starbucks selling a coffee, I probably would be willing to accept zero-block transactions, especially if the user has one of those rewards cards. Just re-charge them next time around. Only very rarely will they need to eat the cost of a $4 coffee, in exchange for not paying 1%-2% on every single purchase.
The thing that is not talked about enough, and not mentioned in the article, is the underlying reason. That reason, of course, is Mickey Mouse. Every time Mickey Mouse is about to fall into the public domain the Disney lobby has congress extend the copyright expiration.
So true. Most manufacturing engineers who have worked with injection molding have also worked with rapid prototyping techniques like 3d printing and know the differences in application very well. Journalists don't quite seem to grasp the difference yet.

The great contribution 3d printers will make is in small-scale production and I wish people would stop talking how 3d printing will "disrupt" this or that.
GNU/Linux-libre from Source Code for Loongson (MIPS64)
Dear freedom lovers,

In an attempt to build a simple GNU/Linux-libre distribution targetted
at Loongson machines (MIPS64), I wrote a document that describes how to
build a basic GNU/Linux-libre operating system. The system is built by
cross-compilation in two passes (with sysroot):

1. Cross-compilation toolchain and tools are built.
2. The target system is built.

I hope it will be useful for the community.

Christophe
I'd like to know where they are keeping these "over 300 terrorists" that have been captured due to this program.

How is one labeled a terrorist by this program I wonder?
Worse crimes than injuring 246 people and killing 5? The only reason it might not be "exception" is the number of heroes that prevented victims from bleeding out. Without immediate aid, nearly everyone that lost a limb would be on the deceased list.
"The NSA documents assert that by 2008, 300 terrorists had been captured using intelligence from XKeyscore."

So, even IF this number is not just another lie, XKeyscore has been made worthless, with something ridiculously small as the 2 prison breaks of the recent days.

That means: What remains is a police state that is not even "secure".

Good job, governments/lobbyists/"defense" corporations.
(Keep in mind these slides are 5 years old, before Google Search over SSL)

The NSA has clearly tapped trans-oceanic fiber -- why not also tap high-volume inter-datacenter links?
I'm not employed as a teacher, but one thing that I learned in a traditional classroom setting was how to teach. I observed fifty teaching styles, and the subtleties of adapting to those being taught. I use those skills every day. If anything, an economy that expects more of us to become entrepreneurs, teaching skill will become more valuable, not less.

I'm betting my career on some things never going obsolete, such as the laws of physics and being able to explain a concept to a non expert or skeptic.

For one semester, I taught the "terminal" freshman math course. The syllabus that I was required to follow was obsolete by thirty years. The switch to online course should really be accompanied by a vigorous debate over the content that is being taught.