skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's interesting the US and the UK have the biggest blocks in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spying_on_the_United_Nations (the wikipedia article referenced in the story) but there's no entries for China, Iran, or North Korea.
I don't know if they are underrated, but you'll probably hear even more about Stripe. They'll either make it, or get stomped out by the big players.
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The pressing back multiple times issue appears to be an iPad only bug. Something to look more into!
Immature response that only makes the designer seem unprofessional.
the ubuntu on chromebook thread is what made me ask here, but the chromebook isn't a 10" screen, is it? i thought it was much larger. but i will check your link - i didn't realise there were multiple models.

[update: the acer and samsung are 11.6" and i can find a bunch of similar notebooks with that size screen. what i really wanted was a 10" screen. but thanks!]
Single page link for those who prefer to read the article whole, instead of chopped up into two "pages":

http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=A4ABA824-8BF9-46...
Trends in hypothyroidism among newborns after the Fukushima nuclear meltdown
I want Windows to do well, I wish them no harm. But I feel that sadly, "8" has become another "Vista" (perception). I'm bored with any news about it and barring some really big changes there is not going to be anything left to woo me to it.

I hope the next CEO of Microsoft has some empathy for people who use their products. A little bit more care should be considered before forcing broad sweeping changes. As big and as profitable as they are, would it have killed them to have different GUI options available (classic 7 mode)?

I skipped Vista initially because there was no "UP" button for folder navigation. I had to install FileSearchEX for Windows 7. Maybe I'm in the 5% eccentric crowd.
While I don't have the source handy, I read recently that most of these LOVEINT "discoveries" were actually caused by the people admitting to it before a polygraph test
It'll be free to all existing Windows 8 users at some stage in October (17th I think?).

And as I've read elsewhere, will be on MSDN around the same time.

I'm curious as to what you mean by "shit like this", as that seems to be quite a broad statement without specifics.

I work for a small'ish ISV, and find the MSDN offering to be quite decent.

Also, make use of your Azure benefits while you still have those 3 months left! http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/member-offers/msdn...
Your post described only a possible manifestation of concurrency, and attempted to define that as what concurrency is in some sort of opposition to "parallel".

I suspect we're actually in agreement that ideally "concurrent" would be a description of capability and "parallel" a manifestation of that capability, but the fact is you're never going to get everyone to agree on (or remember) that[1]. So, again, new words are needed.

[1] Edit: I just found the later post of yours where you said this:

"I like to imagine that concurrent processes, concur (agree) on how they should share the time slices of the CPU, and parallel processes don't ever give a damn about each other, cause each has its own core, and like parallel lines, they never meet."

So, yet another novel definition of "concurrent". And yet you think other people are wrong. Heh.
This is the most sensible method I've seen. The key point is that ownership does not pass over until payment is made in full.
Indeed; I feel like potential is always there to expand comradrey into a proper friendship -- it's up to the individual to put his or herself on the table. Definitely not an easy thing to do. The rejection from such a measure is akin to romantic rejection.
How about the Surface RT? Even comes with file manager and two command lines.
No question that it's a good idea to get people out of harms' way. But on principle, I think that the "ethics-neutral" view of "a stoppage is a stoppage" has caused a lot of injury and death over the years. You can say that this view isn't good or bad, but if it is applied to human workers the result will definitely be bad.
When people start misusing a word, it loses its original meaning. There is an avoidable period of confusion between the moment people start using word A to mean a subset of A and when everyone agrees A refers to a subset of what previously was A.

I like to avoid confusion whenever possible.
This looks like a wonderful initiative. I hope they succeed, I always have hope that we it is possible to offer some alternative to our mainstream education, which can be painful if you fall outside of the mainstream.

As a side note it's also really lovely to read something uplifting here on HN. I am not asking to stop featuring PRISM stories etc., they are very important. But it seems easy to forget that there are bunches of smart curious people around who yearn to learn and to teach interesting things. Thank god for them :)
Show HN: Contacts finds email addresses
Thought experiment: let's say that anonymity was such an important thing to the average Google user that they would decide to use alternatives if they felt that their anonymity outside of their Google account was being compromised. Could Google know enough information about you to correlate data over a lot of your activities and preferences, but still make it so that you yourself are anonymous to them and the outside world (with a high degree of certainty)? If we are not their products, then do they really need to know enough information about us to actually make a profile that is matched to our real identities?

Obvious problems are, for example if they know enough stats about your physical description to pinpoint you pretty accurately, and they also know where you live, and there are only 10 other people that live in that place. Even if they don't actively try to deduce your identity, it is very easy to do so with the available information.
Looks awesome - good luck :)
Thanks for that substance on the subject, the vid is great
Acer One?
Depends on who you are and what you're shooting - on models with moderately low shutter limits (say ~100,000 as on the 5D Mk II) it's quite possible to use up the entire limit within a month or two, if working on certain kinds of photography...
Another Vista? Hardly.

As someone who has used Windows 8, and recently moved back to a PC with Windows 7. I think 8 is actually an improvement. Lots of little UI things that I really like (the copy dialog is much improved).

Sure, there are things that need improving. I sincerely hope I can turn off the start button in Win 8.1 rtm.
No, because Google. Nuff said.
Is coding a blogging engine still worth the effort in 2013?
Let's extrapolate: What if you were thrown out of your apartment if you failed to pay rent, the hospital would make the pacemaker stop working if you didn't pay your bills. Your lawyer would tell your secrets and tell the court you are guilty if you didn't pay his fee. Guys would show up to collect the TV you had failed to pay for. Your citizenship would be revoked if you didn't pay taxes etc. etc, all without the creditor having to go to court first. Oh, and everything would be posted on Facebook, Linkedin etc for your friends to see.

Stopping services and naming and shaming clients who don't / can't pay is a slippery slope and not always civilized. Be happy not all creditors act this way.
The Play store is a cesspool of dodgy apps with even dodgier advertising and permission practices.

8 out of 10 games I download have this weird splash screen pop up advertising another game or trying to peddle me something.

It's gotten to the point where I don't even download any apps anymore. Too much crap out there and these practices seem completely legal according to Google TOS.

Is it so hard to just pay 5$ for a game, and leave me the fuck alone? Why do devs bombard me with upsells every loading screen after every level?

I haven't used an iOS product for about 3 years, but I don't remember it ever having this particular problem.
I don't think so.

The US is supposed to be an ally of many, if not the majority, of UN members. China is not. So from, say a Spanish POV, China, not regarded as an ally, spying is expected, but an ally industrially spying is more difficult to accept. In fact, something like this may well destabilize the UN. How can such an institution be trusted if its major player and funder is using it as its own conduit for spying? Yeah "we" all "knew", not now we really do know. Its fact.

What this proves is that the US is an ally of no one. The US has abused it's self entitled presumed position of trust. Now when there is some international jolly, or what ever, US requests for insane amounts of comic book, sunglasses wearing, gun toting SS to be allowed free armed reign may well be met with a lot more skepticism. The usual suspects will continue to suck up (the UK for example has no where else to turn to, given its attitude to the EU), but over all I see a lot more difficulty for the US behind the scenes and diplomatically.

In short, there is a huge difference between an enemy spying and a so called ally.
As the Chromebooks are too big, UK ebay shows plenty of second hand and some new/refurbished 10" netbooks (usually 1024 by 600) around with XP.

Linux works fine on most makes. I have a Samsung NC10 with mechanical hard drive and a surprisingly good keyboard that just chugs away endlessly, but the NC10 seems to develop screen 'jitters' as the hinges age.
Tried Crouton on my Acer C7 Chromebook a few months back, and it was buggy as hell. Switched to the Chrubuntu script, and it's been a dream. I'm surprised it's not mentioned at all.

http://chromeos-cr48.blogspot.com/2013/05/chrubuntu-one-scri...
There are bound to be overstock netbooks that never sold available on ebay. But if you're asking does anyone make them anymore, No. Tablets killed them.
What happened to Microsoft? While the rest of the tech sector exploded and prospered, it stayed still. A MSFT share was worth about $35 dollars when Ballmer took over; it's worth about $35 now. The world moved on, and Microsoft didn't move with it.

You've got a huge case of reality distortion field.
Yep, my girlfriend's mother still has one. It's... slower than you'd want, unless you're used to a pentium 4.
OP wants 10" screen. The Acer Aspire One that I can see seems to be an 11.6" screen machine.
So Microsoft, I live in Bolivia; it's been quite a while now since Windows 8 has been released. Surely nearing 2014 I can _now_ purchase Windows 8 using my Paypal or Credit Card?

Edit: Nope, your updater still says my country is unsopported. :( Get with the times MS.
This is a string a anecdotes. It does not explain why college costs so uniformly much across a widely divergent set of institutions. East Campus at MIT is just as not "Hilton-like" as it was in 1980.

Then the article touts for-profit like UoP, that have a terrible reputation, and entirely leaves out Coursera.

Buried in all that ideological bullshit is one possibly good suggestion: Every student should take exit exams, except that's redundant to the existing system of GREs, which probably measure everything worth measuring already.
Instead of worrying about how power hungry the CPU is, worry about the actual battery life numbers. The 1015E gets more battery life than some other netbooks, and maybe less than others.
Never forget the May Scale of Monetary Hardness, from my old friend J.P. May:

http://stakeventures.com/articles/2012/03/07/the-may-scale-o...
Don't sell downloadables over Ebay and PayPal. You'll get about as much sympathy as if you were selling cocaine no matter how honest you are.
He exaggerated to make a point but Ctrl D every single time you boot is kinda annoying.
The thread is two years old, but it is a start. Let me know if you have any luck. BTW, someone in the Reddit thread points out that cash sent through the mail _will_ be stolen, so if anyone wanted to send him money, we'd have to me more clever about it.

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/dkear/can_anyone_...
I’m not part of the age group yet where people would be able to afford books only to look good to their peers. And while you are certainly right that public libraries might make it possible to read many books without owning any, I found that most people who like books use them to read more books, but still get the usual 5-10 books per birthday/christmas/you-name-it to fill their bookshelves.

Of course it is a heuristic and there are both false negatives and positives, so YMMV.
> then starting up a server that uses the same port as an existing service becomes a silent error.

Only if it has the same uid as the other one. It'd also be trivial to check whether the other processes listening to your port are "friendly" (as in "you don't want both Apache and Nginx listening on port 80").
Musings on the Motivations for Map Reduce - Update with Jeff Dean's Perspective
No I mean the platforms from Apple and Google are too convenient to ignore, which causes a feedback loop that is good for individuals but bad for the group.

I agree that download over the internet is better as in more libre, but then developers and users lose the convenience of having a simple way to pay and a simple CDN and update system that developers don't need to deal with. The users buy less and it makes less sense for developers to distribute software that way.
A truly SOLID project: What does it really mean?
Very nice concept indeed. The How it Works section is a kind of a bummer. No real info on how the selection of blogs is done or how they results are ranked. Also I find the color scheme makes text very hard to read.
I verify accounts all the time. By phone. I have an account number. The account number matches. The other guy doesn't have the account number. He fails step one. And that's a dead-simple, no-brainer level of implementation. It seems negligent to not even have that.

Every part of my business is involved in an account- from office supplies to banks to payment solutions.

It's not a huge burden at all for the business- and it's one that they certainly should be willing to bear.

I think it can be clearly shown that there is a reasonable level of expectation that any company would seek to ensure that they are interacting with an agent of a company.

Do you really think that if I were to walk into your bank, say I was you, withdraw all of your money, that you wouldn't be just a little pissed off that the bank simply took my word for it? Hell, I'm the founder of my company and when I withdraw from the company account I have to prove I have the right to do so.

I'll reiterate: this submission may not be telling the entire story. However, if it is, I think Apple should be made to repair damages in a very precedent-setting way, so companies are held to some reasonable behavioral standards.
I agree that defacing is not the best way to go about this, but taking down the site and/or holding your own work hostage until a payment is made seems fair to me.
"Library Binding" may be the term you are looking for - though this is not necessarily available from the publisher and libraries get it done after purchasing a regular copy. Some publishers offer Library Binding editions of some of their books.
Pack boxes of 50% books and 50% clothing/computer parts/bedding/everything else to make the boxes lighter and get a good indication when you have enough books (i.e. when they really do make up 50% of the content of your boxes).
Wait, I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not, because just about all those things that you mentioned actually do happen.

You DO get evicted if you fail to pay rent. The hospital won't make the pacemaker stop working, but they'll refuse further treatment that might be necessary. The lawyer wouldn't tell all your secrets, but might be asked to help track you down. Repo men DO come and collect your TV if you don't pay for it. Your citizenship won't be revoked if you don't pay your taxes, but you can go to prison, thus having your liberty (arguably the most important part of citizenship) revoked. And most of these things happen in public, for everyone to see.
They're not throwing RTM out to MSDN subscribers from what I hear

Historically, Microsoft has released RTM versions to MSDN and TechNet subscribers within a couple weeks after the RTM is official.

With Windows 8.1, you can't get a U.S. based spokesperson to say whether they are continuing this policy. They all say "no comment". Just like when you ask them if Windows 8.1 was RTM'd - "No comment". You gave no citations for anything you said, but I'm guessing you're basing it on the single Microsoft employee from the Netherlands that put out a message that said MSDN/Technet would be released at general availability. That's hardly official.

We're freezing dev and moving off .Net and Windows due to shit like this

A rumor that Windows 8.1 RTM would not be available to MSDN subscribers before GA is "shit like this" that makes you move off of .NET and Windows?

audits

Need an explanation of this one. The only time I've ever heard of an MSDN subscriber getting audited was taking MSDN .iso files and keys and posting them to torrent sites for something like 5 years before they said a word to him.

MS support being beyond fucking useless unless you're a multi million pound customer.

MS development support is useless and always has been no matter how big of a customer you are. The typical chain is: find a problem, report it to MS, solve it yourself, they email you asking for additional information. Been like that for at least the last 15 years. Vendor support is useless anyway when there're much better resources like Google to find quality sites like Stackoverflow.
Create a blogroll from your reader blogs
> Guys would show up to collect the TV you had failed to pay for.

This happens all the time, it's called a repossession.
Yes, they are. That's why they have to go through the invasive process of getting clearance.

Believe me, I'm not claiming it's a perfect process or that it has been perfectly applied, but the system as a whole does acknowledge that analysts are intrinsically "persons of interest", and takes steps that are at least appropriate in principle to deal with that.
The link to the original WaPo report has been obscured in the OP, but it's worth reading to get a full understanding of this case

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/19...

> In 2007, the police arrested a Massachusetts man who appeared to be selling crack cocaine from his car. The cops seized his cellphone and noticed that it was receiving calls from “My House.” They opened the phone to determine the number for “My House.” That led them to the man’s home, where the police found drugs, cash and guns.

It's not quite the easy jump to declare that this case would open the gates to warrantless domestic phone surveillance. The defendant was arrested first. The WP post doesn't say if the police needed a warrant to get into the house or if the call represented "probable cause"

Also worth noting: the phone in this case was a dumb phone
There's like so many, esp. libraries:
http://libgen.info/
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Subject:Computing
You definitely get thrown out of a rented apartment if you don't pay your rent and if you finance your electronics and fail to pay they will eventually repo your goods.

As for hospitals (in the US), they don't even talk to you about replacing your failing pacemaker before proof of insurance that will pay.
It is actually a big deal. Assuming the surveillance took place in New York, this constitutes warrantless domestic surveillance, something which is explicitly forbidden by law and has been repeatedly denied by authorities.
Safari still requires turning WebGL on in the (also off by default) developer menu.
The other issue is that no company will ever not show you some type of ad if they don't have enough information on you. Instead, you get lowest common denominated and wind up seeing something of the category "alcohol/dating/deordant" (at least if you're a white male under-30 it seems).
Does OS X even let you turn off an external monitor yet? (Via a control panel setting or other software driven interface?) In Linux and Windows I can use the OS to turn it off. The Mac forces me to unplug the monitor or power it off manually.

Didn't OS X users just get the ability to resize windows by any edge or corner? They only had to wait 10 years for that wonderful feature.

How about being able to properly replace the Dock? You can't, because Apple does not allow non-Apple programs to affect NSScreen visibleFrame.

Maybe you can tell us how much Finder can be controlled versus the file browsers in Windows or say Gnome/KDE? Wait, nope - turns out it's sorely lacking in extendability hooks.

Furthermore - OS X has shitty package management and limits what you can do with your terminal as well because you cannot replace certain packages without breaking your entire system - http://cloudhead.io/2011/04/18/why-osx-doesnt-cut-it/

So, no...OS X is not as maleable as other operating systems.
False positives are only a part of a matrix of statistical results known as [sensitivity and specificity](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitivity_and_specificity):

* True positive = correctly identified

* False positive = incorrectly identified

* True negative = correctly rejected

* False negative = incorrectly rejected

Using these four values, we can actually calculate the likelihood of a given event.

However, to have high specificity (low false positives) you must lower sensitivity (false negatives). So what you are doing is reducing a type 1 error in exchange for an increase of a type 2 error. Sensitivity is related to ability to identify positive results!

This particularly disastrous in security, since we can determine likelihood from good statistics; and use this in our risk management 'risk = impact * likelihood.'
So, I might be in the minority, but I think this is a fair discussion to have. At it's most basic level, it's a question of whether the contents of items found can be apart of the search. After all, if the police have the right to search you, then they are allowed to open the wallet you are carrying and search it (and obviously this isn't 1:1 the same as a mobile phone, but I'm just trying to have an honest conversation about this, so if you want to anally start picking apart individual phrases or words, go somewhere else please. Edit: Clearly, reading comprehension isn't the same or as valued. I'm not suggesting a wallet and a phone are the exact same thing. Nor am I suggesting they are comparable. If your comment starts off by saying this, you've failed. I should just have made a comment about how this is awful and "OMG Snowden!" rather than have a discussion).

I'm not up on the law with regard to weapons, but assuming there is a difference in charges regarding a gun and a loaded gun, the same argument could be made: you didn't have the right to search the contents of a gun? And yeah, that's stretching the comparison. =)

So how fine grained do you make the warrants? This is already established within the warrant system. As I understand it, you can't search a small locked safe if your warrant limits you to searching the property for a car. But in the case where a person is arrested for selling crack/cocaine, and during the arrest the person is searched, and the phone is found, how far is too far. After all, if a bag of white power had been found, would a separate warrant be needed to search the bag?

Anyways, it seems like this is something that should be addressed. While I'm in support of the 4th Amendment, it discusses unreasonable searches. And it seems reasonable to assume that if you get arrested for dealing drugs, it would be a reasonable thing to search the mobile phone you had for records.

Obviously, not a lawyer here. Completely arm chairing this. Corrections welcome.
no stirring? I always stir while the water is seeping through my pourover.

i should probably do some taste testing on that myself, but it seems most logical that you need to stir at least once, to make sure all the coffee gets wet.