skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems that they have an internet in mind where you consider packets that left the country to be less secure than ones which stayed in the country.

One way to implement that would be something like RFC 3514, except that the E bit gets set whenever a packet crosses a border, and never cleared.
Instantly thought of Barbeau-bot. >.<
The major reason behind the switch is that I recently had to rename a file, that someone accidentally comitted with an uppercase letter. We had to do it on another machine. It's a valid concern though.
Don't Think Like A Lawyer
Scala is not that distant from functional aspects of C# such as LINQ... certainly way more nice than Java itself, even including their latest LINQ me-too propositions...

Having C# background, I only took a look at Scala and I liked it at first glance, I wouldn't mind learning it some day.

See https://gist.github.com/samskivert/5278311

And although that's off-topic, while we're at it: http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/Java_str...
Media Has To Play A Very Different Role – Arianna Huffington
Media has to play a very different role than it’s been playing,” says Arianna.
The images of the 'super ball' look like something straight out of Sci-Fi. This is pretty cool stuff.
The amusing part about this is that Deutsche Telekom is partly responsible for German Internet traffic taking routes that pass through other countries by refusing to do peering. They instead leverage their large customer base and demand other companies pay them for the privilege of a direct connection to their network.
I think you don't actually know much first-hand about Japan:

1) Housing vacancy - http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-17/vacant-japan-homes-...

2) We have something here called "Love Hotels" - you rent them by the hour or half-day, and they are EVERYWHERE
Yes I see.

So, I assume there must be a quicker way to work out x ^ n that incorporates wrapping than just doing x = x * x % y repetitively. Darn it, my maths is getting rusty in my old age.
And with each one trying to remove the content produced by the others in some "clever" way.
JSConf EU 2013: Everything you never wanted to know about JavaScript numbers
New York City's 250,000 street lights will all be LEDs by 2017
Don't trust anything built by Siemens. Yes, in both ways (Hanlon's Razor may apply).
> but not iPhoto.

I am guessing the photo database only works with versions of iPhoto/Aperture that are as new, or newer, as the app with which they were originally created.
Until 3 months ago my computer had parts ranging in age from 8 years to 3 years old.

Now it is 4 years old and younger.

I miss my old computer, especially Windows XP
Well you sound bored and looking to do something different, meaningful and help build a product from the ground up which will save lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world every day?

An early stage human rights start-up in East London (still in the fun garage shed stage!), is looking for a developer or CTO. The start-up focuses on addressing a significant gap in the security of human rights organisations, journalists and activists - through the use of a mobile application. It builds on years of cutting-edge security operations in this field.

With the product features and business plan nearly complete we are looking for the right person to bring us to the next technical stage. Ideally you will be in London but remote working is also a possibility.

Interested? Drop a mail to secfirstmd@gmail.com
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Google Removes ExtraTorrent Homepage From Search Results
Wouldn't educating and deploying proper end-to-end encryption be a much better way of protection?
Apple pushed to spend cash hoard on massive $150 billion stock buyback
Spray-On Clothing Could Deliver a Suit in a Can [video]
HP Sued for $1 Billion Over Troubled Autonomy Acquisition
I absolutely love Deluge, specially the web interface.
Who is your core customer? 50 plus questions to think about.
Well, I read: Germany wants a German internet to be able to better spy on its citizens.

Germanys government really did absolutely nothing to protect the privacy of German people in the past and deserves the same amount of trust as the US government.

The mentioned encrypted mail-service is actually legally backdoored. If they were interested in enhancing privacy, they would support the development of open standards like GPG. Instead they are trying to force people to install closed source software for their tax declaration, which is probably spyware.

Sorry, nothing good to expect in Germany.

Edit:
The german government seems to have supported GPG in 1999.

(second reference in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnupg)
You're saying >5% of all people in USA own a Mac notebook first sold in the last 4 years? That's quite unbelievable to me, I'm [relatively] poorer than I thought(!). Does anyone have corroborating stats on this - most pertinent I could find in a short search was that 75% of USA households have general-purpose computers (from 2011 http://www.census.gov/prod/2013pubs/p20-569.pdf [it's probably higher now]; ~50% use smartphones apparently). Combining those two suggests that >7% of all general purpose computers in the USA are Mac notebooks.

In any case the thread concerns the Mac Pro, not sure why I said laptop. At best it would be MBP sales that were relevant.

EDIT: just found this from 2009, https://www.npd.com/wps/portal/npd/us/news/press-releases/pr...

>"[...] The NPD Group’s 2009 Household Penetration Study, approximately 12 percent of all U.S. computer owning households own an Apple computer, up from 9 percent in 2008. While Apple ownership is growing, those households are decidedly in favor of mixed system environments. Of those 12 percent, nearly 85 percent also own a Windows-based PC.

Multiple computer ownership is a common thread in Apple computer households, with 66 percent of households owning three or more computers, compared to just 29 percent of Windows PC households. Apple owning households are decidedly more mobile as well, with 72 percent of them owning a notebook, whereas only 50 percent of households that have a Windows PC own a notebook." //

That gives us 72% of 12%, ~9% of households who have an Apple computer that also have some brand of notebook.
To a degree, maybe. But the uproar over these NSA revelations, which has already led to proposed changes to EU law that will have substantial impacts on US businesses, demonstrates that they've gone well past what is considered acceptable.
This is just snake oil marketing from the politicians and german ISPs. First they did not care at all when 82 million people were spied on (they literally said, that this debate was over and all question have been answered) and now they make a huge deal of it because it affects them personally.

Also the whole proposal does not make sense, because it is known that our own intelligence is sniffing traffic too and Telekom and others complied with them. Not to mention that our intelligence service and the NSA working together, hence the NSA even has spy equipment here which is tolerated by the government. Also implying that "national routing" is any kind of defence against spying. And all that wouldn't even affect people using Google, Facebook etc. just lol
I agree. The first large accident involving a self driving car will pose a real challenge to its adoption.

I also agree with you about trusting my life to a disgruntled software/firmware engineer: I'd rather not. I know people like self driving cars because 'ZOMG! Computers react so much quicker!' but I'm not convinced that they will react better, or at least, that they will react better in critical circumstances. I don't want a software bug, a flaw in an algorithm, or a dust covered sensor to kill me.
Haskell indentation rules in one comment
Microsoft Exec Trashes Apple's Free iWork Software
Simply tell them you don't use it because of ethical reasons, and explain why if asked. If you would like a replacement then check out http://careers.stackoverflow.com/ (requires a certain amount of SO rep or an invite, which I would be willing to give but I see no way of doing that with you).
Why are people still using powerline when there's a pure Vimscript implementation? https://github.com/bling/vim-airline
The attitude I see from younger generations is that the freedom to drive your car is like the freedom to wash your dishes or balance your checkbook by hand. Driving, specially in overcrowded cities, is increasingly seen as a chore and a hassle. Getting rid of it means freeing up from one to four hours a day to study, play, or talk to their friends.

If you want to keep driving as a hobby, I'm sure there will be some accommodations made. But just as you can't tote a rifle in a downtown mall, there will be some restrictions to make sure you don't endanger anyone.
and here's Microsoft's reaction...

http://www.informationweek.com/software/productivity-applica...
So you're saying German citizens should trust their own government less than the US government? ;)
The german government is supporting the development of gnupg. Yes, with money.
Yup; I also think they'll need to wait a while just for prices to fall. If they made a $1000 4K monitor, they could sell that in moderate numbers; it's in reach of the enthusiast market. At over $3k, they're looking at a segment of the professional graphics market only, and that's probably too small; it'd be even more niche than the Mac Pro, which is at least of some interest to enthusiasts and some developers.
Two kinds of loyalty - stuck vs fulfilled
Reflash the BIOS from a different machine, install linux.
Look, I'm not defending any of those positions, frankly I think most of them are stupid, so I'm certainly not going to get sucked into a position arguing for them. But is it really worth it to ask 'hmm, why would prostitution be illegal?'. There have been 1000's of man-years of work put into that - start at scholar.google.com, then continue in your local universities' library, and one could spend every waking hour the next 40 years studying past discourse on it and still not be done. Those questions have been rehashed and researched 1000's of times deeper than anything we could every write here. Masquerading the questioning of the obvious as a question does not add to the vast majority of discussions. But yay, let's reduce every news item to 'hmm, does morality really exist?', and drown the actual new things about those items in tangential hemming and hawing, because putting a little bit of effort into trying to get some basic knowledge about a subject before partaking in a public discussion is too much work.

Normally I wouldn't even has responded if it weren't for this

"you know, people with "normal" intelligence can disagree as well"

Of course, that's the whole point of my comment, that it doesn't take much empathy to see why some people would feel it just that society enforces a prohibition of those 3 things! If even I can understand why some people feel that way (of course you'd have to know me IRL to get the implications of stressing that), it shouldn't be hard or even take effort for a 4-9's proportion of the general population to do so. By using a glib 'I don't see, within my moral framework, why they should be illegal, therefore it's stupid that they are' argument, the GP is denying exactly that.

Then again I'm just a grumpy misanthrope so what I do know...
For the past few weeks i have started to click on the paid ads and unable to differentiate them in my Mac. Also Google now makes you pay for your content to appear on top as (low quality content)paid ads occupy your position
It's not clear what level of success the improved FCP X has had in bringing back former FCP 7 users to the fold. A lot of users moved to Avid or Adobe Premiere, which both have a workflow that is much closer to FCP 7, and the vendors made major efforts to attract FCP users that were on the fence.

Anecdotally, I know a film school where they used to teach on both Avid and FCP. When FCP X came out, they abandoned the use of FCP in classes entirely because it didn't do the things they needed to teach anymore. Now that they've gone through the pain of restructuring the classes, they're not going to take another look at FCP X any time soon.
IEEE 802.3 exists in layer 2 also. Each frame holds source and destination MAC addresses (and a lot more besides).
Just do go build -compiler gccgo hk to build using GCC
I think this is a neat proof of concept. However, you have to be extremely careful to not get out of sync hell.

I see an enormous load of extra complexities for what seems to be very little advantage.

On the other hand, if you list all the queued non-GET AJAX call for the user to resend manually, it could be good.

I'm ambivalent :(
But they are not exceptional Americans, so who cares, right? If 1,000 "others" have to die, in order to save an American's life, then it's all worth it.
Ex-NSA chief's 'off-record' interviews on train overheard
India has no reason to worry about US spying: PM has no cellphone, email account
No, for example you could also run IP on DOCSIS, which is typically employed by cable modems. Or you could run it on an 802.15.4 stack, using 6LoWPAN (in the RF world, and lately also narrowband PLC such as G3).

Remember that IP is layer 3 in the OSI model, and you could run it on top of other layer 2 implementations than Ethernet.
I was as a 15-year-old briefly involved with Phalcon/Skism, the group that produced 40Hex. I also wrote a couple of ASM DOS viruses. They weren't intended to destroy anything, just sort of adolescent graffiti in x86 machine code form.

I only have a bit of code left from that period, some of which is here:

http://adam.ierymenko.name/ye_olde_source_code.html

No viruses, but some IRC hacks I wrote around the same time.
BTW: How Good Are You With SMS Acronyms?
On the other hand Germans might be saying 'They might be snooping bds but at least they're our snooping bds'.
Not really. There are features like having the taskbar visible on all screens, if you enable it. There are very minor improvements such as a 4px vertical "line" in each corner which helps you move the mouse to a corner adjacent to another screen without accidentally overshooting. But nothing major in my experience.
What's Really Driving Apple’s New-Found Fondness For ‘Free’?
Actually I would prefer to be snooped on by a foreign country, because they have less influence on me.
If you were using AOKP or CyanogenMod or any of a dozen other alternate Android builds, you would already have that.

When I tap the power button, I get: current weather, time, next calendar item.

When I touch the unlock symbol, dragging it right unlocks the phone, but dragging it up, down or left gets me to the phone, camera, and my ebook reader.

All of this is configurable, including the number of items available at unlock time. Downside: the unlock icons are not available if you use a PIN or password.
A big use of dropbox is sharing files with other people.. so unless all your friends run windows as well, cross platform is actually a big deal.

I'm sharing some vacations photos with Windows, Mac, Android, iPhone and Linux users.
I've lived near a US base in Germany all my life (I can actually see the "border" from my house) and I can't think of any way to "get in trouble" by showing up nearby. The only way to get in trouble here is to actually enter the base without permission.
One great feature of it is that it puts a start bar on every monitor (not just your primary monitor) which makes switching between programs much easier. For some reason though they decided not to put the task area (which has the clock, etc.) on each start bar though, only the primary monitor.
Sorry, I'm relatively new here, so I don't know the etiquette, so I'm responding to you directly. I appreciate the question!

Firstly, it's not a matter of what's the harm, it's a matter of what's their right. The only person with a right to my information is me. I can appreciate the need for financial data sharing (note: need), but I don't appreciate the "need" of phone application data.

My example above with music is a good one. What if the CRIA (RIAA up here) decides to come after me for my music collection, based solely on data gleaned from this company. I own 800+ cds, I've dutifully ripped them all, I've bought another 100+ albums on iTunes, eMusic, etc. But I can't prove the eMusic ones. They're MP3s, and more importantly, because I'm pro-privacy, each one has been regenerated from the original MP3s, headers ripped. That means the MP3 looks nothing like the one I purchased. The problem in the current court system is that although the notion of innocent until proven guilty exists, it would take a long time to establish that reasonable doubt. And this is for legitimate usage of my music collection.

Let's go a (perhaps crazy) step further, pretend you're in America (disclosure: I'm in Canada), and you have two political parties. Political party "A" produces an app that you download, just to check it out. All of a sudden you're deemed to be an "A" as opposed to a "B". As data gets sold, or to be legally accurate "shared only within our partner organizations" you apply for a mortgage at a bank wherein the loan officer is affiliated with "B", and your loan gets denied? Why should your political interest (not even affiliation) have anything to do with your ability to receive financing.

Extend that concept to interest in health insurance, or VPN network usage, or a more realistic general interest in chemistry (I like model rockets, they need propellant).

The reality of the situation is that corporations cannot be trusted, neither can government. At the very least the EXTREME MAJORITY of Terms of Service agreements make it abundantly clear that "data is only shared with partners" or something similar. The net result is that anyone can partner.

Sorry if that came off rantish.
Countries are run by humans, and in a democracy we can and should expect politicians to do what's right for citizens and to behave ethically.
All great points. Directors have a very wide range of discretion, even now including absolution under many articles of incorporation for pursuit of corporate opportunities that may create a conflict of interest (as well as the long standing waiver by the corporation of the duty of care so often included in Delaware articles).

Short of a grossly malfeasant breach of loyalty or bad faith—or declaring dividends when the corporation meets the legal definition of insolvency—there usually aren't many claims for shareholders to bring.
Didn't Siemens sell its mobile subsidiary to taiwanese benq and its network subsidiary to finnish nokia?
Is the new iPad Air innovation?
Why there is no issues tab at MongoDB NodeJS package at GitHub?
Germany has many secret police's individual landers have them as well this woudl be like Texas or Yorkshire having its own equivalent of MI5.

There is also the scandal of Germanys police secret and normal missing a hard right terrorist group that killed several people - of course they where not ethnic Germans they killed which makes you wonder
I don't know what you are trying to say. It sounds like you've missed the point of the quote, which is understandable as it's not very transparent from that one sentence. To put the Vonnegut quote in fuller context:

"One of the great American tragedies is to have participated in a just war. It’s been possible for politicians and movie-makers to encourage us we’re always good guys. The Second World War absolutely had to be fought. I wouldn’t have missed it for the world. But we never talk about the people we kill. This is never spoken of."

The point of the quote is that the US participation in just wars like WWII has given the US government a free pass in a vast number of other conflicts where it's behaviour has been shameful, as well as when it comes to the behaviour in specific instances in just wars. And this has happened to a great extent with the intelligence agencies too.
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Makes me think of the time the CCC reverse engineered a trojan used by the German police.

http://ccc.de/en/updates/2011/staatstrojaner
Agreed. Smartphones are nice little tracking devices, now helpfully with GPS!
You can turn all that nagging off, so the only notifications you'll get, will be calls and texts. I really think some people blame the smartphone for being a distracting element, and it's not wrong that it can be distracting, but it's because the user allow it to. You can turn off all notifications, so you decide when to see if there is something of interest. For instance, my phone does not tell me when a mail arrives - the little badge will show how many new mails if I choose to flip to the screen with the mail app. Facebook never notifies, not even with a badge - I decide when I want to see Facebook (which rarely is on the phone, that app is horribly slow). The same goes for most of my apps. Only when people try to contact me directly by call or text will it go off, and if I'm particularly busy I will set it to "do not disturb" and rarely be bothered by it.
As somebody who moved from F# to Scala for a project, my major gripes:

- Lack of a yield statement equivalent(in c#/f#). I know, there are probably a dozen alternatives such as continuation passing etc, but none so convenient.

- It's a massive language. Operator overloading seems to be highly encouraged, and library authors go to town with it. The Parser combinator stuff itself is enough to make one go dizzy, if you aren't familiar with it.

- Tools: Idea is OK, but not a patch on VS and F#. Compilation times are practically instant for small/medium projects in VS land - here it's glacial, even on a recent MBA. SBT is great, when it works.

On the + sides:

- If you know f#, you practically know Scala - well, enough to be instantly productive.

- Play 2 is very close to ASP.NET MVC. This was a welcome surprise, and a relief as well.

- It's such a relief that whatever you build will run on anything with a JVM. Xamarin/Mono is awesome, but those guys are still a little obscure, and a tougher sell than a JVM-based language.
The German government financially supports the gnupg project, but I guess that didn't fit into your agenda.
DuckDuckGo has ads.

https://dukgo.com/help/en_US/company/advertising-and-affilia...
A great and unfairly ignored framework. I love it for its simplicity and speed. Do everything with HTML and CSS and use Knockout to bind that to your data, and then just use this for AJAX and other utilities:

http://minifiedjs.com

Now you have a full stack in like 50k.
Your computer's power button functions as a shutdown switch. After 14 years in IT, you have never realised that?
Analysis of yesterday's PHP.net exploit
NO a balkanised Internet does no one any good except maybe for a big tax payer subsidy to national champions.

Also violates the spirit and legal requirements of the EU charter in several ways.
The only source I found for that is from 1999, which is a long time ago and especially pre-9/11.

Second reference in:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnupg
As a former mathematician, the second sentence is an abomination:

"...but to give you an overview, the idea is that you introduce an algebraic symbol ϵ such that ϵ≠0 but ϵ^2=0"
Personally, I think it is misdirection. Why should we assume they are not willing to lie? More likely, in my opinion, is that they deny the present and future to make us think it used to happen, but just maybe might have stopped. Is there really any reason to assume they've stopped?

I mean, if they're not capable of lying convincingly, they'd make pretty shitty spies.
Goes for every country's citizens and government. No reason to Trust any government without constant Verification.

Always suspect ulterior motives when giant organizations, asymmetrically wielding extensive power over you, tell you: "Just trust us. We are the good guys."
Same can be said for a PhD