skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The OP doesn't have a problem understanding _why_ Dropbox has done this, he is highlighting the fact that this transparency report is definitely not a transparency report, and is therefore useless.
> Governments violate the laws when it is in the supreme interest of the country

That's the beginning of a long, steep slippery slope. Who decides what is "the supreme interest of the country"? And who keeps a check on the laws that are violated in the pursuit of that goal?
People know who Apple is. Apple has a reputation. Sure they're compromised by NSA, but every communications medium in the world is compromised by NSA.

I don't know who's running this server in China. But unless it's the NSA, you're much worse off using this app than native iMessage, because now in addition to NSA seeing everything, so does this guy--who has no reputation at risk. Adding more eavesdroppers makes communications additively less secure.

How exactly do I have nothing to fear from the Chinese? At least the NSA is unlikely to have any real interest in communications between Americans in America because it's outside their mission, which is not true for Chinese or Russian intelligence.
Some other very interesting links:

http://dspace.mit.edu/openaccess-disseminate/1721.1/80700 Wavelike statistics from pilot-wave dynamics in a circular corral

http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/DFD13/Event/202688
Quantization of a particle guided by its own pilot-wave
That sounds great! Can you expand on that? For instance, did you develop the apps, how many apps, what niche? Were you first-to-market?
So, the magic of some Chinese companies which been used to send advertisement finally be public. Will there be more iMessage advertisements after this? Maybe it is time for Apple to change their iMessage protocol.
> But if a cable or a computer is in bad conditions ... that may cause bad signals that may triger a system failure

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusty_bolt_effect
It has just 5 different prime divisors. That's kind of cool for such a large number.
Much as I like Peopleware, it isn't credible as research. The studies were never published, and the authors made stuff up, as one of them told me himself (I'll see if I can dig up the link where I wrote about it.)

Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1995716. It sounds mean and accusatory to say on an internet message board that they made stuff up. But actually, our brief exchange was charming. He said it with a twinkle in his eye.
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That was really infuriating to watch. All of his arguments were pretty trivial and some flat out didn't make any sense. Git is so fast that it forces us to be anti social because we can't go catch up with other people in the time that it would have taken SVN to checkout a branch. Wait what? Git's speed allows you to develop faster without having stop gaps. Something else that is a shocker: Git doesn't force you to stop talking to others. All in all, this guy is grasping at straws.
> with the intention of relinquishing U.S. citizenship

Note well this. And it's not just a statute, it's controlling Supreme Court precedent. That's actually why the language that gets used is so consistently weird -- old laws have basically had "with the intention of relinquishing U.S. citizenship" forced into them by case law.

For a citizen to wage war against the United States is treason, but not even treason is punished by loss of citizenship. You could steal Putin's job and launch Russia's nukes at the US, and you'd still have your citizenship so long as you did not intend to relinquish it.
Don't the water drops can merge into irregular shaped larger water spots and trails; instead of all moving one direction, the real life drops are actually move around the surface.
Attack surface. When you increase the number of parties capable of decrypting your data, you increase the risk of an exposure.
IIRC, he photoshopped pictures of Kathy Sierra's kids into porn and posted them online, and emailed her graphic threats to rape her with a chainsaw, . It doesn't seem like you'd have a hard time convincing a jury of "obscenity".
Awesome. I would check for devicePixelRatio in order to render it crystal clear on retina display.
There is some truth to your statement. For example, we will never know if PG would shut down HN if required to hand over the private logs. So yes, our posts can be cross-referenced with other online profiles, etc.

Now, should the conclusion be "we should stop communicating electronically"? That would be a severe restriction to free speech and thus advancement of our species. So, no.

Maybe the right direction is to migrate the discussion towards encrypted and distributed forums. RetroShare offers such a feature (amongst others): http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/
Whatsapp is even worse, AFAIK the protocol is still a jabbered one but closed source.

I write/read my messages mostly from my mac (usually where I'm most of the day -.-) so I'm still using iMessage to chat with the 99% of my friends which owns an iphone/ipad.

Indeed I see what you mean and I agree with you.
Remember that a radio is useless if you can't tune it to a certain channel. If the avionics can tune to various navigation channels, then they can probably reject noise from shitty electronics.

I wonder how much power it takes to desense a GPS receiver, however.
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In my humble opinion the guy is a great engineer who is bored (by lack of challenging projects) and discouraged (by less than stellar teammates).

It is rather easy to check though - you should forget about time spent on work and need to compare the outcome, i.e. result, of this guy vs every other engineer on the team.

If the check above shows that this guy is better than everybody else, than this:

>> Alarmingly often, he'd have hacker news, or dzone open and would be reading articles (I mean 50%+ of the time, not once or twice a day).

and this:

>> More than one of his coworkers have mentioned something along the lines of "can't we fire him 4 weeks out of 5 ?".

indicates one simple thing - he is not managed properly by his manager and by the company.

It as simple as that...
The article mentions that he actually has enough money to live on, but works to get extra perks, like flights to visit his children. I suppose he is also a "protestant work ethic" kind of guy who can't stand not working.
A huge donwside is that it creates 10 potential terrorists seeking revenge for every suppressed potential threat.
I have 2 companies in the professional photography space: http://bigfolio.com and http://aphotofolio.com. The first serves wedding and portrait photogs and the second high-end editorial, commercial, fashion. We provide website designs and a custom CMS for managing galleries. We get a setup fee (though that is going away soon) and monthly hosting. They aren't exactly equal but each is making in the low six figures per month.

On the wedding side we also have http://nextproof.com which is sort of a "shopify for wedding photos". It makes around $30k/month in subscription + transaction fees.

On the commercial photo side, we have http://editdrop.com which is a feedback/collaboration tool for photographers and their clients. It makes about $2k/month at the moment since we haven't done much marketing yet.

Overall, I'm bearish on the professional photo space so we are actively looking into other verticals and doing a lot of customer dev/research.

My wife and I also run http://cheergram.com in our spare time. Right now we are making a few hundred bucks a month in sales but we did almost $3k in Instagram Christmas cards last year between thanksgiving and Christmas. I'm hoping we can top that this holiday season.
Totally, let me just go and tell my lobbyist to petition them... oh wait.

Giving the government hell is all well and good, but it is unlikely to cause much in the way of change. If businesses start to feel the pain on the other hand, then they have the incentive to challenge the government about the massive monetary losses they face because the government fucked up the internet. Both giving the government hell and boycotting compromised services are valid ways of fighting back.
No, I'm saying that textbook reading on the iPad 2 is a good experience to me, aside from the rare textbook that has very narrow margins (meaning that the text is pretty small), and two-column papers.

Btw, do you have a good way to read two-column papers?
The power density from a 5MW transmitter at 1km and 100 10W cell phones at 10m is about the same. But you have to remember that the navigation antennas are outside the metal body of the plane, so the phones probably don't matter.

Sometimes you hear interference from GSM phones because the TDMA time divisions are in the AF range, but that's really a function of the power envelope rather than the power of the transmitter. I don't even really count this because I've never seen a GSM phone interfere with a non-part-15 device. Radios have to reject nearby signals; noise well outside their frequency range is even easier to reject. (I've never heard anything like GSM interference while operating my HF radio, either, and I have a GSM phone.)
I hope the protocol specs leak soon... would be nice to write a Windows Phone client that can do iMessage; kik messenger sucks and whatsapp is buggy :-/
It's feedback, why else would he post on HN - great start.
The talk is supposed to be sarcastic.
I signed up on my phone and was notified by my iPad that another device had been added to my account. Seems to be a working implementation.
Why shouldn't I use PyPy over CPython if PyPy is 6.3 times faster?
Also very interested in this story... Where would you put it up once you write it? (So I can start monitoring...)
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but microsoft can simply make the xbox360 controller difficult to implement in other games (tho i don't know how they'd do that…), and would effectively stop indies from supporting it. Having a proprietary controller, but coded using an open library (akin to what the steam workshop does), might mean that it's easier to have games implement controller support that's not fragmented.
Remember that your faulty headphones are inside a big faraday cage, and the nav antennas are outside.

I am not sure how much effect this has, but it's something to keep in mind.
"Logical Positivism" has been roundly debunked, but I think some of its principles, and those of the movements that came before and after it, are important and applicable. I call a lot of these "logical positivism" more by habit than by way of endorsing the philosophy as such.
The Shanghai Free-Trade Zone comprises about 2% of Shanghai's Pudong district or less than 0.5% of the greater Shanghai area. Other reports[1] from the SCMP indicate the government may want to make the entire Pudong district a free trade zone if things develop smoothly.

Pudong is home to most of Shanghai's finance industry. The FTZ however is centered on the Yangshan Deep Water Port. (Map of the FTZ [2], yellow neighborhoods) The loosening of Internet restrictions around a port gives credibility to the idea that Pudong in general will see more developments like this to come. This is significant because those initiating the plans to expand the FTZ in Shanghai have faced the strongest resistance from China's finance and banking regulators[3]. Most banks in China can not engage in international commerce directly so outside investments usually entail setting up a complex JV with a China based company with terms that strongly favor the embedded players.

What's interesting to see here is the government is using the opening up of Internet restrictions as a carrot in part of a larger play to promote economic growth while the opposition is coming from the entrenched players in an industry which otherwise stands to make huge gains by introducing more competition. Framed like that, the situation is very analogous to American cell phone carriers with regards to spectrum control.

[1] http://www.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/1303462...

[2] http://www.waigaoqiao.gov.cn/SysAdmin/upfiles/2006-4-27/6328...

[3] http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1282793/li-fought-str...
You seem to misunderstand the OP concerns.

It is not only one person, it is not only Apple servers reading all your messages. It is in fact the whole world. Through Apple gives it to NSA which hands it over to various other agencies, GHCQ, FRA, your data ends up in Israel. Your data is already a goods traded with on the international market.

Why not increase the competitiveness of this Chinese actor, you will get better service in the future? More competitive - better service.
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Gaming is definitely a "killer app" of any platform. Heck, there are devices out there with platforms that only do that, and they are very successful. I'm talking about consoles, obviously.

Microsoft realized this a long time ago, and so did Apple (starting with iOS only). It took Google even more years after that to finally put 2 and 2 together, and realize that the reason why so many still choose iOS over Android is because of gaming.

Same goes for Facebook with Farmville, and so on. So yeah, if you want a very successful platform/OS, definitely focus on gaming as much as you can. It's what brings the "mainstream" in.
It is a fun little story meant to balance the other harsh news of the day. It is not a biography on the poor chap.
These countries, Iran and China probably knew that Facebook is a huge spying machine and kept their citizens safe.
Sure, but that approach is also a root cause of overpopulation of the planet. Maybe you could even call it a kind of pyramid scheme, because everybody needs several children to support them (one is not enough, too risky). So obviously it is not sustainable in the long run.
What's a multiple object model?
Which books on body langauge did you specifically read if I may ask?
For me I was always reassured by everyone who mattered to me that with a degree in physics I could go just about anywhere because my analytically skills would open doors. Hearing that day in and day out breed in a sense of brainwashedness. Perhaps I am the one who is wrong. I certainly hope so.
Other than inertia, and an overrated idea that proprietary drivers give you a "competitive advantage" over your competitors' very different hardware, why aren't more manufacturers making open source firmware for their hardware?

Especially after the NSA scandal, we should really demand open source firmware from hardware manufacturers with every chance we get.
I think this is key here. Before, you could try and lock or wipe your phone when it was stolen. But in order for it to work the thief must have let it powered on. If he was smart and shut it off, took it home and booted into DFU mode to restore a the thing back to factory settings, you were out of luck.

But with the new Activation Lock, it supposedly doesn't matter if it is shut down, the minute someone tries to flash the phone. Be it normally via iTunes or via DFU mode and iTunes there should appear a message that the phone has been wiped and must be unlocked with the iCloud password of the account that did the wiping. So no chance to flash the phone back to factory settings.
Don't forget the cost of all those drugs.
Tried. Super slow.
Were you at the keyboard when he was typing this message?
This rests on the false premise that everything is stacked against the consumer. It isn't; there's a balancing of risks that takes place, but you clearly have an axe to grind so I'll let you get on with it.
Thanks or the feedback! That's exactly what the Routes tab in the screenshot is for. It is going to show users the different places other people have visited leaving from where they currently are, as well as the most used travel methods as you stated, price and distance. It'll also allow you to link multiple locations together into a travel Route to get a breakdown of your overall trip.

I'll be sure to post a link to more shots showcasing the Routes feature. Keep in mind Booking.com is mainly a hotel booking service, so the thinking here is that the average person may already know where they want to go, they just don't know where they're going to stay. I do think there is still an unmet need to provide an easy way to find places to go to for those who don't have any particular travel plans yet and are looking for interesting locations. I think this is a direction booking.com can go to expand their service offerings.
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More like, they didn't want any competition with the government.
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Security-wise, yes, Whatsapp is terrible, but as a product, is a pretty impressive success. The lack of a desktop client is indeed an issue, I switched to Android recently and when I need to do plain SMS messaging there is AirDroid for that, but for Whatsapp no good solutions so far.
That's the model we've ended up with with most of the mobile GPU drivers in Android -- open source kernel side managing resources and queueing and proprietary goop in a library in userspace where it can do limited harm (can't crash the kernel, clobber arbitrary memory, etc). Not as nice as a 100% open driver, but a massive improvement over proprietary binary glop in the kernel.
> by 15 or 16 people should already be expected to act like adults.

I think that's the age where an apprenticeship should begin. It's time to go back to the old ways and actually give people a real skill for when they do become adults.
I see, I would point out that for production work you are very unlikely to be running the latest release of any video driver due to it being largely untested in the wild, no matter if you run Linux or Windows.

So the official SteamBox will come with very stable drivers for it's hardware configuration, and the same goes for third-party 'Steamboxes' aswell I'm sure.

For Steam users running on their own machine configurations it's another thing of course, but that's no different from the way PC gaming has always been.

One possible difference is that the official Steambox will likely function as a 'confirmed' hardware configuration so even if you 'build you own machine' or look to buy another offering you can use the hardware setup of of existing Steambox(es) as a hint of what to buy for the best 'Steam-experience'.
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We don't need to give "due process" to enemy soldiers before we kill them. How are al-Qaeda members different?

If you're at war, you should only target enemy fighters in uniform, not civilians, and try to minimise civilian casualties at all times.

If you're not at war, people should be tried in open court and found guilty of crimes if they have committed them, not assassinated on suspicion, along with civilians nearby.

If you're proclaiming total war against anyone who is on a secret list, and leaving the power to decide in the hands of Obama, you are proclaiming the US a dictatorship where life and death rests in the hands of one man, and there is no recourse to justice before or after the killing. In the wrong hands and combined with total information awareness this would be a terrible power.
On the East-to-West axis, it's probably defaulting there because it's the International Date Line. No idea how it's picking that spot on the North-to-South axis though.
And when the companies move there, they'll just end up blocking facebook anyways to increase employee productivity!
You are missing the point.

If a company publishes a "Transparency Report" that is woefully incomplete, they shouldn't call it a "Transparency Report", should they now? They effectively fudge the numbers to make things look better than they are.
Proprietary drivers and firmware are really two separate issues.

Proprietary drivers usually are the result of licensed code that can't be open sourced or IP concerns (giving away the "secret sauce", patent worries, etc).

Provided it can't be updated behind your back, I don't see proprietary firmware as particularly harmful unto itself -- it'd be nice if it were open and make the device less of a black box, but from the POV of the driver or user, there's not really much difference between a device with an embedded CPU running some firmware and a device implementing the same functionality in the asic.
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I'm not familiar enough with Apple products, iOS, iMessage, etc. to understand why this is such an impressive feat. Can someone fill me in on why this is so amazing? It's a closed protocol I guess, but if this guy could pull this together under the radar like this how hasn't it been done before?
As is often the case, and is often ignored, the key is intent.

There is a difference between:

You: Can you give me the email address of user 50?
Librarian: Sure, here you go

Librarian: Oh balls, I wasn't supposed to hand that over, that could have been anyone!

And

You: Can you give me the email address of user 50?
Librarian: Sure, here you go
You: Hmm

You-irc: Hey guise! The librarian is giving out everyones email addresses, this is totally breaking privacy laws right?
You-irc: lols, I'm going to get all of them! This could be used for a massive phishing operation
You-irc: or even make their stock price drop, we could short it

You: Hey librarian, can you give me the email address of user 51?
Librarian: Sure, here you go
You: Hey librarian, can you give me the email address of user 52?
Librarian: Sure, here you go
You: Hey librarian, can you give me the email address of user 53?
Librarian: Sure, here you go
...
You: Hey librarian, can you give me the email address of user 1023821?
Librarian: Sure, here you go

He didn't grab one or two, then send the information to AT&T to get them to fix it. He deliberately collected a significant amount of data he knew was personal information and gave it to someone else. That alone would be enough. If he just wanted to verify that the attack worked, get the code of someone else who gives you permission, show that they can be easily generated and you're done. You don't need more than a few to prove the point.

The service was clearly not intended to be a directory of email addresses for people to use. It was clearly there to return the email address to the user of the iPad with that ICC-IDC code (which, unlike my example, aren't obviously guessable)

I'm not going to say anything about the sentence, but I do think he was guilty.
Now all they have to do to get people to use it is create a QR code for it ;)
Adjust for socio-economic background. Separate by majors to avoid Simpson's paradox. And get a group of subjects who haven't been influenced by knowledge about this kind of studies.
No, I don't think you could argue that at all.

The Air/Pro/normal macbooks all run the same software binaries. Microsoft was/is selling two products with different machine architectures that run different software but with almost identical names. That's a marketing and customer-service disaster.
How has this been up for 10 days?
That's a good point, it might do that. (haven't seen evidence, but it does sound plausible)
... and people with mild autism are classified as 'normal' and get treated as shit, if they do not fit.
I'm skeptical this is related to steamos/steambox. Nvidia's already working to ensure their proprietary drivers work as well on Linux as Windows and probably considers maintaining one codebase to be far less of a headache.

It's very cool that they're starting to drop docs to support the open drivers, but I suspect it's going to be a long road from these small steps to the open drivers being fully competitive with the closed ones...