skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
if you believe in your product and think there's a need than why would you consider it spam?
Yeah I wouldn't say Apple goes out of their way to screw users, but compared to Microsoft in their heyday they have traditionally been pretty terrible. On the other hand, in the age of startups and smart phones Apple seems to be screwing over customers less than almost everyone.
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Users.all.count made me cringe.
Please add push notifications?

If you log in, and no one is around, the app gets closed pretty quickly. I have checked back multiple times, and always seem to miss everyone chatting. I would love to know if someone close by is online or chatting, so that I don't have to sit there hoping someone sees my tepid 'Hello?'.

I don't know if push notifications are the correct answer, but letting me know that there was activity that I missed, after my last post, would be a good start. Letting me know if other people are active in my region would be nice, but it's mostly that I don't want to have a conversation with myself.

I would love to know if other people are chatting, because I want to join in.

In any case, thanks for the app, have you got a public issue tracker, or anything similar?
Thanks for the kind words! I was had the good fortune of having a father who was a software developer which is what made me aware of the field in general. But writing programs in BASIC on my TI-83 graphing calculator was what really spurred my interest in programming, and just making things in general. I just hope I can pass that excitement on to a younger generation.
Alternatively, if I just learned that a government did something that I strongly disagreed with, I'd probably be able to internalize the reality that the government is pretty big and that its probably better to vocally critique some aspects of it rather than refuse to help people get the medical care they need.
they seem pretty open to pull requests. so feel free to fix the "crap", as you call it.
Not to beat a dead horse, but ask Twitter. I expect their answer would be something like "Migrating off a non-performant solution to Java was more expensive than just doing it right in the first place."

Also, my point was that the newer jvm frameworks aren't much more complex or time-consuming than Rails so developer cost isn't such an issue. That said, not much compares to Rails for getting stuff up and running quickly.
Would have used /media but was thinking, if, say I forgot to unmount it or someone looked at a disk free or whatever, that it would be obvious that it was there temporarily.

Obviously that was incorrect, but the reasoning was, I think, sound.
Shame that Microsoft still have such a terrible bug bounty programme.

http://www.microsoft.com/security/msrc/report/bountyprograms...
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screw it, i'll repost my comment here too. I know i'll get the down-vote brigade but meh:

Here's what bugs me about all the people chiming in about how messed up this all is. It's like you all think we live in some sort of utopia whereby we are the only ones doing this sort of surveillance.

Every single sophisticated foreign intelligence is doing this back at us, their citizens and their enemies - probably with more resources and state sponsorship. China, Russia, Israel, Iran, etc. Why wouldn't we continue to push the boundaries and try and have a leg up on this? Should we bury our heads in the sand and hope that China doesn't pwn our entire national electric grid? (google it)

Additionally, these actors are directly targeting and stealing intellectual property, reverse engineering and compromising state secrets in order to gain military & intelligence advantages directly from US based companies (see Boeing - google it).

State actors are embedding backdoor trojans into US destined products (example: look at the wikipedia page on Huawei)

Fundamental extremists do exist and want to destroy Americans at any cost (including their lives). Why wouldn't we surveil their cell phones, email and IM accounts?

Before every gets up in arms about this, consider the world in which we live first.
Maybe they'll opt out of "single payer" as well.
Well how could they possibly fix that?
Lots of companies that are required to do business with each other (eg. utilities and the rest of the private sector or large retailers and large consumer goods companies) are able to do it, why would a statutory requirement be any different?
The HTC First was discontinued, and mostly repackaged into the 'HTC One mini'. You'd be better to look at the Moto X
Your Google isn't my Google. We're all in a bubble tailored to our interests and habits. It feels awkward to use the engine when someone else's computer - especially non-tech people.
Yes, you're absolutely right. I was kickin myself all day yesterday because push notifications weren't working. I couldnt figure out why but my guess was it had to do with the provisioning profile. i resubmitted late last night, and requested expedited review. hopefully itll be out in the next few days. either way, thanks for the constructive feedback!
That wouldn't work sufficiently well; unless the benchmark is quite complex it would almost always be better to implement an in-memory custom datastore rather than use a traditional backend. Even if you require persistance, since the intentionally small dataset means you can get away quite well with raw memory dumps or even an mmap variant. You wouldn't use a full-fledged JSON serializer but a limited string concatenation.

In any case, the way I read it, the requirement doesn't mean you have to make anything particularly heavy, just that you need to use a representation that's general enough to be usable in other scenarios without rewriting the entire app.

Of course, a little bit of extra encouragement in the form of a benchmark that's slightly harder to game wouldn't be bad.
what would you use ?
When did the 5th amendment become a privilege? Last I saw it was part of the Bill of 'Rights'.
Unfortunately this kind of thinking dominates American politics. We can't even consider why our opponents do what they do. But many people in tech have indulged in accessing secured computers. It's easy to see how somebody on one side could be swayed to the other without acting irrationally.
Could the companies that are under threat of legal action work together and risk the threat all at once?

What I am saying is that if one company such as Google was to breach their gag order from the government regarding these things then they would be in a pretty bad situation which could result in a major loss of money to the company. However a lot of these tech companies are American and for them to all breach the gag order at once would have a large impact on the already struggling economy. Could they not use this potential economic disaster as a get out of jail token?

I mean it's kinda what the banks did with the too big to fail stuff. Putting a lot of companies in jeopardy at once could force the government to not act on prosecuting them.

I could also be talking out of my butt.
No, but most hospitals are.
/b/ is like any different language/culture. totally nonsensical and absurd at first but there's good stuff going on when you get across the language barrier.
No, you still need to, because you can otherwise do a trivial string concat in most cases, even though in reality that would be most unwise for security, robustness, and maintainability reasons.
I think I totally misread this title as "how I got my first 1000 users - in one day" rather than, what I think it means, which is "how I got my first 1000-users-in-1-day"! Still, useful tips, and you obviously have a lot of energy when it comes to getting the word out, which can only be admired.
> I'd love to read some honest, uncensored interviews from people working on these things,

That's very unlikely to happen, because it's all classified and secret or top secret or whatever.

There are a few interviews around.

Here's an ex-director (He stopped being director in 1978) http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b039vhp0 - this is the first time he speaks about his time at GCHQ

Here's a radio documentary from 2010. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p007fqc4

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rmssw
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There's a Deleuze quote about this that I really like: “It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality”.

What I understand this to mean is that the nature of “rationality” is such that a rational person can rationalize anything. Nobody is saying “EXTERMINATE ALL RATIONAL THOUGHT”, obviously this is just you trolling, but to the extent that anything intelligent can be distilled from your reply, that's my response to it.

We can always rationalise anything, especially misdeeds committed by those in positions of power over us. Sometimes it's important to halt that process and stop and just say "this is definitely fucked up", and yes, not to question it any further. It can actually be really hard not to question it sometimes, especially if you trust, or have been conditioned to trust, those in positions of power over you who are abusing you. You want to find reasons to defend their abuse of their power, you don't want it to be what it looks like. And you can find reasons for it, you always can. You will. But abuse is still abuse. So sometimes you have to stop and just say “this is fucked”.
I'd like it if I could set the UI elements to 1x actually. More space for the image while having familiar interfaces still usable.
I periodically check out websites that traditionally have a bias other than my own and ran across this:

http://www.redstate.com/2013/10/30/tech-at-night-even-dianne...

Whats ironic is that these folks call Snowden a traitor, putting them in the same camp as a Democratic Senator from the other side of the isle.

I also find it funny that many of the ads on that site are for perpetual motion / free energy machines...
That has always been the case, but is not so today.
Google Play knows where I am as it offered the Nexus5 in Japanese Yen. Nevertheless I successsfully installed Google Voice just now.
Really? My iPhone 5 and my friend's iPhone 4 feels as fast as ever in iOS 7.

My iPad however, has jaggy animations when opening multitasking interface.
Yes, and a lot of it is comments.
I'm guessing current laws were written around the "managed care" (HMO/PPO) system, the previous (70s-90s) attempt at healthcare reform.

For that one, the theory was that the payment/administration bureaucracy was the cause of the health care cost problem, and that by having insurance companies buy hospital service in bulk rather than doing individual-service billing the overhead could be reduced and accountability would be increased. This requires insurers to be able to assign customers to hospitals and doctors that work for them for it to work.
Check out the ASUS PB278Q. $549.00 on Amazon right now, 27", 2560x1440, 16:9 ratio. I upgraded from a HP LP2475w (24", 1920x1200) and it is a night and day difference.

I now have two of the ASUS monitors (one at home and one at work) and could not be happier. I run them on a $6 Monoprice Mini DisplayPort->DisplayPort off a Retina MBP.

Unless you need 16:10 for some reason, the ASUS are the best deal around right now.
Taking calls with the N900 was especially hilarious. The phone was ringing but it sometimes took many seconds for the phone app to appear on the screen. When you took the ringing phone from the pocket and pressed the green receiver icon to accept the call, it just before your finger hit the screen managed to rotate the screen and of course the red receiver decline icon was there in the other screen orientation.
That's some ingenious design easter egg and symptomatic of how unfinished this stuff was.

Also the Busybox default shell was next to useless. The charging microusb port also always broke. How many cents did they save per phone by using a substandard part? The keyboard was very good though.

N9 was so much better than N900. The graphics and the fonts looked so clean, and the swipe UI was just pure genius. You could see it had some serious thought put into it. Android UI is a mess compared to that. It's very slow to switch between apps and tasks in Android. If only N9 had not been so excruciatingly slow. It didn't help that multitasking was so easy.

I guess such incoherent products are a sign of a malfunctioning organization.
Can someone tell me what is the difference between php and php-raw?
It's promoting repeated posting of the same article in attempts to get lucky. It borders in the grey area of spam.

Spam works. But it's still spam.
Trying to identify the motivations of an action from the perspective of the perpetrator doesn't mean that one agrees with their actions, no, but the post that I replied to implied that there exist reasons to support “these types of activities”, which does imply agreement with the actions of the perpetrator.

Edit: And also, it has to be said that trying to identify the motivations of an action from the perspective of the perpetrator far too often amounts to little more than apologetics and defence of the indefensible, empathising with the perpetrator and blaming the victim. I'm not saying it's never useful to consider, but it's not like it's an uncommon thing to do. Blaming the victim is nearly always the default in this culture.
No worries! I just put some context in my reply so that it made sense, not as a comment on your edits.
I would really like to know on which devices the host emulation API will be available at all.
thanks guys got lots now, won't be taking any more for a little while..

thanks also for feedback and emails.

will do a post once we've got this batch done,

we're seeing some interesting points and themes that can be pulled out.
>My understanding of the legal theory is that computers are considered to increase the capabilities of the population; hence, the government's power to enforce the law must also be increased.

The obvious counterargument is that it would have to be a two way street or you would have endlessly expanding government powers. Thus, if computers increase the capability of law enforcement (e.g. to wiretap at scale or search recorded communications without individual law enforcement officials having to listen to them) then the individual's rights against government surveillance must also be increased.

Moreover, if the argument is that we need to maintain the historical balance between privacy and law enforcement interests then even the existing powers of law enforcement go too far, because the technology available to law enforcement officials when the amendments in the Bill of Rights were adopted didn't allow real-time communication between individuals to be recorded whatsoever.

And I have to imagine a lawyer would ask what case establishes this legal theory of government automatically gaining new powers as a result of technological advances, because I'm not aware of any such precedent.

> Consider a car analogy: you must display visible license plates to identify your vehicle whenever it is on the road, yet that was never required for horses, carriages, bicycles, or any previous mode of transportation.

It is easy to draw a distinction between cars and computers because the reason we require identification for cars is not that they are more powerful than bicycles etc., it is that they are more dangerous. Computers, by contrast, are for the most part not dangerous at all. No innocent bystanders are killed when someone uses the internet while intoxicated. Moreover, we can see how the distinction plays out with automobiles, because anyone can use mass transit anonymously, which is clearly much more powerful than a bicycle in rapidly getting you from here to there, but also not very dangerous.

> It is assumed that the spirit of the law must be upheld. If the police are legally allowed to wiretap a suspect as part of an investigation, then encryption must not be allowed to get in the way of that. In other words, technology must not defeat the law, even in spirit.

I'm not seeing any coherent principle in this argument. If the police are legally allowed to stand in the street and look at you through the window when you are standing in your living room, then a curtain "must not be allowed to get in the way of that"?

It seems obvious that just because the use of a technology makes the jobs of law enforcement more difficult doesn't mean that people have no right to use the technology.

And it is also quite beside the point, because I don't think anyone is making the argument that no one can use the specific technology (e.g. encryption), the question is rather whether someone who has already used it can be compelled to reveal the secrets against his will.
Why are people so excited about a Bitcoin ATM?
Sometimes I wonder if some genius "systems thinkers" in Washington planned that out as the end game all along. Add in the factor that some states have almost no hospitals, thus the insurance companies have no leverage to lower premiums, which leads to why certain states have very high ACA premiums. Theoretically the free market says that another hospital would pop up to compete on price, but theory ain't practice...
This: " In addition, the new Chromium WebView supports remote debugging using Chrome DevTools. For example, you can use Chrome DevTools on your development machine to inspect, debug, and analyze your WebView content live on a mobile device."

This is a huge step forward for the development of HTML5 hybrid apps if it allows us to debug our app's embedded webviw. Good riddance console.log(*) debugging.
"Comcast executive named Janet Turpen contributed $500 to Murray's mayoral campaign in October 2013"

Errr, in a large company aren't you likely to find individual employees donating to almost any given cause?
I'm constantly amazed that its like everyone has suddenly forgotten that during Occupy Wall St, protests before and since, and the entire Arab Spring revolution, it was portable and mobile recording devices widely dispersed amongst the populace that enabled successful revolution against government and evidence and checks of the abuses of power of police and other authorities.
After ~36 years in the US Senate you're bound to get a few things right.
How did you implement it?

I was writing that comment, and kept thinking of the possible annoying implementations. For example, I probably don't want a notification every single time someone within 1 mile sends a message.

Some seemingly sane ideas off the top of my head, which I think would be useful and not too annoying:

* A timeout, where I get a notification if there is a new message, after a period where no messages were sent near me

* Notification if I send a message with no reply, close the app, and then someone replies

* Notification if there is a particularly active conversation around me
It's funny you say that, I've been looking at this: https://github.com/buzzfeed/libgif-js — it's a fork of jsgif, but doesn't require a server though. You call the library on the GIF and it handles the rest.
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I wholeheartedly agree. But like said:

> I'm not saying it's an especially useful benchmark, but it's intended to test something besides raw response speed.
I was monitor shopping recently and finally decided simply not to upgrade for now after becoming fed up with seeing the "full HD" moniker used all over as if it were the end of display history.

4K, 24", reasonably affordable. When it happens, I won't mind if the desktop display market gets stuck in that rut for awhile.
OS X's scaling model is retarded.
Window's DPI scaling has worked since at least vista, at least well enough for my purposes.
Anyone know how to get in on that? :) Being a senior level enterprise java developer in the health care sphere, I'd be interested in helping out.
I don't know if it's 3 times, but I could easily bet on a "at least twice".
When ever I feel like that, a few hours with either the Java or Scala persistance frameworks rapidly cures me of it.
Xbox One Kinect privacy policy promises to keep secrets, but not all of them
Infinitely. And I don't get the outrage that foreigners have that the American people aren't outraged that we are spying on foreigners. That's what spies do - for both sides.

Well, for many people, the spies have gone too far (and apparently you think they have domestically). To my mind what you are defending here is the building of a tyrannical superstate the likes of which the world has never seen, with absolutely no restrictions on spying because 'spies will be spies', and spying easily crosses boundaries. To apply that rule domestically and then give free reign when turned on others is the height of hypocrisy, and will gain you nothing anyway, because the NSA interprets anything involving foreigners or crossing a border as within their remit, and of course your laws have no meaning for fellow 5-eyes states in your view, so all your data is fair game to them, and they'll just have to share it with the NSA. If you don't like that and you think others should be spied on in the same way, frankly, why should we care?

If you accept restrictions on spying and gov. intrusion, they should apply equally to all people, at least that's what the founders of the US thought:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

They were responding to an unreasonable, tyrannical state which wanted far too much control of their lives, but now we have come full circle and the US, with UK connivance, is behaving in exactly the same way toward its vassal states and their citizens (in fact toward the entire world), and yet we still hear that as long as it is done to foreigners, it's ok, because everyone does this sort of thing. Well no, everyone doesn't, and because some governments do doesn't make it ok with the people concerned, just as its not ok with you. This spying should be cut back right to the essential purpose, which is protecting the nation from attack, not economic espionage, political espionage, or dragnet surveillance of any kind - that is just far too dangerous in my view.

The electronic monitoring of foreign communications is the charter of the NSA. By the way, China is quite silent on all of this because they are hacking the shit out of the US trying to steal everything from political to military to commercial secrets.

Great to hear that compared to the totalitarian regime in China, the US is not quite as evil, that's quite an achievement.
1 Reason: http://willyloman.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/boston-9.jpg (NSFW)
Sometimes you need try and understand both points of view.
> Larry Page, before [he] moved to the US

Michigan is admittedly weird but it's not technically another country.
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I thought so too, so I looked at the source. It's communicating with a MongoDB persistor over the event bus rather than querying the database directly. So the poor performance is because there's an extra layer of communication happening, which is kind of misleading for a benchmark like this.
Putting aside the fact that Silicon Valley is doing a lot more than whatever makes the front page of TechCrunch today, there's still the fact that in order to get an ad impression you have to provide something that an actual person somewhere ostensibly finds useful. At it's worst this is orders of magnitude more useful than Wall Street's endless arbitrage seeking to benefit the richest of the rich without actually providing anything that is useful to someone with less than 10M dollars.
"The People" is commonly interpreted to mean the citizens, i.e.:

We the People of the United States

There is no way to interpret "people" in that line as including Saudis and Chinese.