skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Straight Talk is the way I would go. They have Unlimited Data, Text, and Voice all for 45 bucks.. If my wife didn't upgrade her iPhone a couple of months ago, we'd be switching to that. Save us a ton of money a month.
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this is why only voters, not companies, should be allowed to donate to political campaigns (and even then, at a capped rate.)
I am not convinced that they could within any foreseeable future...there are disorders that render you unable to vocalize your own name

Seems terribly shortsighted, given the points you are arguing from. If there is a disorder, it seems quite likely that we would eventually be able to detect the disorder.
He seems to be confusing the terms "bad" and "illegal."

As if everything illegal were bad and everything legal were good.

That is what one would call a "utopia," but based on popular opinion, we do not live in one.
One thing I find interesting is that it's somehow okay as long as it's directed at 'the foreigners'. Who are these foreigners?

Is it Sergey Brin or Larry Page, before they moved to the US? Elon Musk? Peter Thiel?

Many Americans need not look further than their grandparents to see a 'foreigner' (and, excluding a few natives, the entire nation has been built by foreigners). Would it not makes sense to show the same courtesy for peoples privacy to people who weren't necessarily born here.
- It turns out your entire infrastructure is dependent on a single 8U Sun Solaris machine from 15 years ago, and nobody knows where it is.

How did you locate it? Measuring ping latency from other machines?
Email me - email address in HN profile
"Now, Silicon Valley needs to join them." - because we otherwise approve of the snooping, but for this latest outrage?

I'm honestly wondering - what's the other side of this? Who's defending and explaining this? I have not seen an article that "takes the other side" in some time, and that might be a result of the echo chamber that is the bay area...

Or it might be the result of an "intelligence community" that really IS in its own world; intentionally blocked from any outside observation and judgment, taking actions that, honestly, really don't have many if any supporters.
From the "JSON serialization" requirements:

> For each request, an object mapping the key message to Hello, World! must be instantiated.

Why mandate how the benchmark is implemented? What if some frameworks could be faster by not instantiating an object? For maximum speed, you'd want to stream-process the input into output while materializing as few intermediate objects as possible.

Benchmarks should be defined in terms of their observable inputs/outputs. Otherwise it's like defining a car's 0-60 measurement with a rule that says "the car must then take gas from its tank and inject it into the engine." And then a Tesla could only compete by adding a gas engine that it doesn't need or want.
I don't know. If some one charged me with gathering intel I would be drawing up all sorts of battle plans, including weakness analyses like these. Hell, I would even try them out in the field. I would consider this my JOB.
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Yep, your employer sponsors you using an H1-B. Not sure how this works out when you are the employer, but I think it depends upon level of investment or something.
I deal with malware day in and day out at my job and have never seen any of what this story is talking about.

Like everyone else, I'm highly skeptical and a little annoyed at what seems to be a total lack of fact-checking in this story.
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> Do you have the nice blurred Control Center background?

You get this on the 4S, yes, just not on the iPhone 4 or the iPad 2/3.

> because then developers coulnd't be sure about tthe availability of any API.

iOS 7 running on the iPhone 4 has the same APIs as on the 5S; it just doesn't have all the UI features (notably, the blurring stuff).
If FICO and Klout had a baby
Most desktop OSes (except OS X) don't scale well. At super-high DPIs, everything will look tiny. This is why it doesn't make sense to get a high-DPI display -- especially if you care about your eyes.
> without good decisions and hard work luck is wasted

I disagree. Luck can go a long way. Ever heard of Paris Hilton? Do you see hard work and good decisions, or simply a big pile of luck?

Or how about me? I'm a fairly successful programmer, making quite a bit of money as a freelancer right now. But I don't work hard, nor did I really make a lot of hard decisions. I just kinda wound up where I am. I just went with the flow. I'm lucky to be blessed with a good brain for programming, and to be born in an academic family that loved computers. My dad and my older brother are programmers, and I just followed the family trade.

There were plenty of other things that I would have liked to do, but all of them would have required a lot more decision and discipline. This was the easy road for me. I wouldn't even know how to apply for a different kind of job.

The only tough step I ever made, was to switch from being a salaried employee to a freelancer. That was seriously a really big and hard step for me, and one that I messed up quite a bit. But miraculously it all worked out tremendously well.
My iPhone 4S benefited immensely from iOS7 (UX-feel not withstanding). The biggest difference for was in the camera software. I can't describe how much better it is performing in filming things as they happen.

By contrast, my Galaxy Nexus has become slower and slower with each upgrade. With the last update, my keyboard started to crash... I was really looking forward to the 4.4, hoping things would improve.

And yes, I use two phones and most of the time have both with me... GN is no longer used as a camera though.
I can see the benefit there, but why make Ember a hard dependency? It seems you want the chart stuff totally decoupled, and then you could provide the above functionality as a built in wrapper or plugin. Then people who wanted to use Angular (or whatever their favorite framework is) can write their own wrappers, or you could add support for others as you saw fit.
Have you upgraded to 7.0.3? This seems to help a lot. Also, you may want to try enabling reduced motion in the accessibility settings.
It's not okay; it's still morally questionable at best.

But it is infinitely more legal. The government has all sorts of restrictions on what it can do (e.g., the 4th amendment), that apply to citizens, but not foreign nationals.

If they are not even bothering to respect the distinction, it's the case that they violate both the spirit and the letter of the law without a care; it's a much more dangerous position of disrespect for regulation.
Google stated they have a 18 month support period in one of their posts, so it's just a matter of not committing to too much.
Not here, web pages are virtually always a lot taller than wide. Putting them on a portrait monitor means much less scrolling.
For workers under 29 years of age. 30 and above is something like € 52.000/year (at least for The Netherlands).
I don't really know much about monitors, but all I know is if you stick with the big brands you should be alright. BenQ, Asus and Dell monitors seem to be quite popular or so I'm told.
> The way you fix monitor glare is by not working with a bright light at your back, not by fucking up the screen.

Some people live in places where they have these things called windows...
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I was also expecting it to be about the Stanford cooling glove.
As a "foreigner", I don't really have a problem with that. Covertly gaining advantage for their own team is what spies are supposed to do.

The rest of the world needs to encrypt and, where possible, route around the damaged areas.
Hahaha do you seriously think he's gonna give up the keywords these guys are making money off.

Spamming sites still worked pre-hummingbird and infact it works even better now.

Even Negative SEO works just as well. Have a competitor you don't like? Give him 100k blog comments with "Buy Viagra" and suddenly he will be de indexed in 3 months or less.

I think half the reason she quit is that SEO is so damn unpredictable now. You can make a spammy site and might rank or might get de-indexed. But at the same time you can make a 100% whitehat site and it probably won't even rank and can get just as easily de-indexed as a blackhat spam site.

You need to read up on BlackHatWorld a bit more Mr Cutts.
The relevant questions here would be _who_ tasked you to do this and _why_. Working on technology to be used for indiscriminate surveilance is simply outside of my ethics. I would resign rather than do this job. Obviously not everyone agrees, but there are plenty of tech people who have a strong moral compass which prevents them from doing this kind of work.
Although this is Round 7, we have no delusions that there is not a lot of room for improvement (particularly in the toolset, although that's a separate matter). If there are tuning tweaks, we'd love to receive a pull request.
Must be a response to Apple's inclusion of a dedicated movement-sensing M7 processor on the iPhone 5s.

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/519531/what-apples-m7-m...
My Nexus S runs 4.3 happily, although a little laggy in some places, and not much multitasking. It would be more than usable though.
The government has all sorts of restrictions on what it can do (e.g., the 4th amendment), that apply to citizens, but not foreign nationals.

Are you sure about that? IANAL, and I've not kept up with more recent laws, but the forth doesn't say anything about "citizens", it says "people".
Absolutely spot-on. ALWAYS assume it's going to fall through, and put your BUSINESS first, not the discussions. As long as you keep the business growing, the acquirer will not walk away (assuming they're serious in the first place).
PHP and node.js neck to neck?

I'd really like to see the chart showing RAM usage for these tests.
Yeah, but KitKat is supposed to run on low-end devices. Call me disappointed, but I'm a happy camper with my Galaxy Nexus and will be looking at possibly rooting my phone in the near future with 4.4. But am really disappointed Google didn't support Galaxy Nexus with 4.4 since the phone still rocks! :(
Wait, why? Isn't Reddit funded by HN?
Not to speak toward the validity of your comment, more to nitpick, but Larry Page was born in Michigan, so there was no "moving to the US" :)
How about a PDF? :)

http://stuff.maxolson.com/On-Startups.pdf

There are other startup-related essays thrown in there too. PG, if you're reading this and want it taken down, please let me know and I'll oblige.
According to this nodejs is barely faster then PHP. Does this have to do with the nodejs http server vs nginx or more to do with the language itself.
> zRAM integrated into stock kernel

2013 definitely seems to be the year of memory compression.
I read the article and at the end muttered "abso-fucking-lutely"
"Android for all ... unless you have a Google phone that's older than 18 months."
PHP benchmarks are extremelly outdated and not even using PHP 5.5 with OPCache (that is now native). Python and Ruby implementation choices are also really weird.

- Laravel Version 3.2.14

- PHP Version 5.4.13 with FPM and APC

Don't waste your time with this crap.
Looking at that code they probably didn't actually have a professional Perl developer on staff. The code isn't terrible, but certainly a far cry from good. It doesn't help that back in 2005 all the books for learning Perl were still teaching a code style from the early 90s.

Edit: I revise the terrible bit, it's a little terrible, as it has SQL injections.
It's pretty clear that normal rules don't apply to the NSA or to GCHQ.

If you want to make a difference, it's probably best to call your congressman and let them know that you're deeply troubled by recent events.
It says "the people"
Which is weird. Whenever I'm downtown at night (Belltown not included) it seems like the only people there are older upper-middle class white people who are going out to dinner at fancy restaurants.

Sure, there are a handful of homeless people and people waiting for buses, but there's nothing too scary.
> No we are not, we are talking about communication between already infected machines.

I rather wish you had shared that tweet instead of engaging me in splitting hairs. I dismissed the article outright as stupid largely based on the initial claims it made, which seemed implausible and outlandish. Going back and re-reading the bit on microphone-speaker ultrasonic transmissions makes more sense in light of what you've shared. I don't think those two paragraphs were particularly well written and could have provided additional clarification.

That said, I was wrong and misinterpreted that particular part as being a mechanism for attack. I apologize for my glaring mistake. It renders my previous comments entirely incorrect and they should be ignored. To anyone else viewing this thread, please disregard my previous statements. They were based off of misinterpretations regarding an incorrect reading of the Ars piece.

Sadly, it's the fault of my unfortunately judgmental and inherently skeptical nature with regards to much of the news I read. Maybe it's the fault of politics and the likes, but in spite of the dangers of excessive skepticism, I think it's a better long term approach that can yield useful questions and discussion. Unless it gets out of hand, as is my case. :)

> He may or may not be, but whatever your hunch is, it doesn't appear to be based on the actual situation at hand, so I don't think it carries that much weight.

I still stand by what I have said. I think Mr. Ruiu has stumbled upon something quite fascinating. I was under the mistaken impression that ultrasonic communication was used as an attack vector. So let's not be too harsh over an honest mistake. :)

However, I do think the Ars piece isn't a particularly useful exhibit of Mr. Ruiu's work thusfar (particularly in light of the tweet you shared); it's a lengthy, rambling article that provides only fragments throughout its impressive word count, requiring careful reading and some liberal interpretation of the author's intent.

Then again, that's probably a matter of necessity, so I can't really fault Ars. A frightening-sounding article peppered with equally frightening lingo gets page views. "Boring" academic reports rich in data do not.

C'est la vie.
and (eventually) the estate tax

This depends on how much money you're leaving behind. The estate tax only kicks in above $5,250,000.
Are you dissatisfied with the municipal monopolies that provide you electricity, water and sewage? Does water and power flow 24x7 (subject to occasional blips)? Is your garbage picked up regularly? Are you being charged obscene rates relative to cost for them?
Blame DASH and learn how to disable it.
http://lifehacker.com/preload-entire-youtube-videos-by-disab...
Funny how this landed the same day as ESR's rant about Dell UltraSharp resolution modes (different model) through various connectors.

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=5089

At least the 3214 notes that HDMI can't drive it to full capacity. Guess the lesson is "use DisplayPort".
That's a pretty broad definition of "enhanced".
I'm not sure but I thought Facebook was PHP from the beginning. Perhaps they thought building the svg graph was easier in Perl for some reason?
It wasn't my laptop, so I didn't know the details. I just remembered it being around 2000px. My original reply was meant to be a "hey, so I did some research and edited the post." Sorry for any confusion.
I suspect the webview was updated because of two related reasons, first they didn't want to maintain a separate webkit, and second because Chromium/Chrome have switched to Blink (a fork of webkit). Also, being Chromium this should be directly in the ASOP sources, so it's still separate from Chrome.
s/use a blog/use a blob/, LOL.
He says a folder _under_ /tmp/
That's nice to know. Do you work for a Berlin big data startup too?
Wonder if this means alert dialogs will start showing up from ads in embedded webviews. Window.alert() didn't work in Android's webview and the WebChrome client was the workaround.

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=752
I'm sorry about that. As an also non white developer my personal experience has been the extreme opposite. Even my pathetic attempts at German were held in good humor.

And getting the visa was amazingly easy too. Got it within a week, but go with a native speaker.
I use a Dell U2711. But I needed perfect color calibration.
What platforms is it hosted on? Did that have anything to do with who is helping out?
Making a wrapper is a lot of work and you end up with an unsatisfying solution. One of my first projects was an Ember wrapper for Slickgrid, but very soon you end up hitting the walls of the abstraction, which is why we wrote Ember-table. If we use Ember throughout, we also get to use bindings and computed properties for writing the charts as well. I think in the future it might be easier to have charts depends only on specific parts of Ember and not the whole framework.
For JSON serialization, I'd assume it's because they're testing object serialization.
The distinction comes from the SCOTUS interpretation of the constitution, not the constitution itself. They've been quite consistent in limiting the constitutional rights to American citizens/soil/etc.
This seems pretty interesting, are you seeing lots of traction? It seems like more in-depth analytics might be pretty useful for some segments.
I want the test to require the work of creating an object or allocating the memory for the response and then use of a JSON serializer.

These tests are intended to be stand-ins for realistic application behaviors. They are not realistic applications, but they should make use of the same functionality that a real application would. I want the tests to establish realistic high-water marks for the types of operations they exercise.

Running a single query per request? The high-water mark you might expect is what you see as our single-query test. It would be very difficult to make a single-query operation in a real application more trivial than what we have.

If I treated all tests as a black box, none of the database tests would actually query the database; the fortunes test would not add an ephemeral object and re-sort on every request; and so on. Everything would just send static responses back.

Bottom line: nothing beats benchmarking your own application. But the tests in this project are intended to give a first-pass filter of sorts, assuming performance is on your list of requirements.
The difference is that in a GUI, even if you fall back to displaying a foreign or poorly-encoded filename as a bunch of Unicode entity squares, the user can still preview, open, edit, move, rename or delete the file. On the command line, you can't do anything with it if you can't type the name.
Nexus devices have shipped with Chrome instead of the stock browser for quite a while. However being Chromium, it'll probably be included in AOSP sources, so I'm unsure if they'll stick with Browser or make a Chromium. If it is a Chromium app, there are chances that it will be less bloated, as I don't think they opensourced the Chrome Android UI/enhancements.
NSD 4.0.0 release
I gather this post regards http://box.com which appears to be a DropBox clone. From their website:

"Simple, Secure Sharing from Anywhere

Box offers secure, scalable content-sharing
that both users and IT love and adopt."
Please disregard this comment and others I have made in this thread. Or at least read this interchange first:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6650186

TL;DR: My reading of the article incorrectly assumed the infection vector was via microphone. It wasn't; the ultrasoncis bit is apparently how the malware communicates (presumably). The tweet referenced in the above link clarifies this.

Please do not upvote my comment further. It is incorrect.
The problems with that code don't have anything to do with it being perl, though. It's just amateur in any language.
I had trouble taking this article seriously because it kept referring to David Foster Wallace as "Foster Wallace". His last name is just Wallace. It's not a compound, hyphenated last name or anything strange like that.
Surely it was scheduled for inclusion previous to the M7's announcement 6 weeks ago.
I live in NYC currently. Besides living in Seattle (2 yrs) I've also lived in San Francisco, Toronto, Vancouver, Ottawa, Waterloo, and London (Ontario, not the cool one).

I've seen a lot worse than what happens in downtown Seattle, and yeah, SF has it a lot worse. A lot worse.

I also have an intense dislike for the urban one-upsmanship that seems uniquely American in my experience. As if having seen/lived through worse crime is a badge of honor, and that people living/working in elevated crime areas (just less elevated than some other places) should just suck it up. SF is the absolute worst in this regard (far worse than Seattle), where any criticism about the state of poverty and crime in the city elicits a "hurrr go back to the midwest then hurrrr".

A spade is a spade, even if there are bigger spades out there. The fact that Seattle's urban planning cockups are less severe than San Francisco's should come only as a very mild, very cold comfort.

Part of Seattle's problem - one that I touched on but didn't expand on earlier - is that it feels less safe than it actually is. When it comes to quality of life though, perception of safety is equally important as actual safety. The vast stretches of nothingness at night presents a huge perception problem that I don't think can be conquered by simply telling people "yeah, that nearly empty street with no businesses and a lot aggressive panhandlers making catcalls at you isn't so bad, statistically your odds are good!".

Seattle isn't that dangerous of a city - I made that clear earlier. The downtown is mildly sketchy, the homelessness problem is acute but not as bad as some other places, but the complete void that fills downtown after work is a huge problem that prevents any major progress on this front.

By the way, Seattle is a pedestrian ghost town. Even Pioneer Square on a busy night is ghostly compared to every other urban core in North America I've ever been to. Downtown Seattle (qualified as Olive/Pine all the way down to Yesler or Jackson, and west of I-5) is completely f'ing deserted at night.
No, your cards contain special chips which you can't replicate (otherwise anyone could clone your card on touch). This post refers to the NFC hardware not needing a secure chip, to get around hardware and software limitations.
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The result is different (because Gigabit Squared hasn't reached city-wide fiber monopoly yet), but the stage is set the same. This feels so much like history repeating itself. Wouldn't surprise me if people made the same argument in favor of Comcast over Southwestern Bell (or other local telco monopoly).
When I'm logged in on Amazon I get a warning next to the product price that I can't ship it to my default location.
Bigger than 3.5 inches, not interested.
Again, you're misunderstanding the nature of privilege. Having the choice of whether or not to have children at — or after — 18 is a privilege. There are parts of the world (arguably, even parts of the US) where young women don't get that choice, whether through (lack of) education, (lack of) access to contraception, forced marriage, or otherwise, those women have had that choice taken from them.

To have the choice is the privilege, not whether or how it's exercised.