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I hereby declare Judge Alsup the Patron Saint of Information Technology Law and move his name for immediate canonization by the secret council of hackers.
How much should the rest of the world care about this?

If a web service is hosted, say, in Europe and is being consumed by a customer also in Europe, will they be affected? AFAICT, they shouldn't.
Yes, looks like an Android powered device. So, at the end is just another OS right?

One of the big drawbacks when I first started my nexus5 was that I was being spyed. Why the hell do I need a gmail account to get started?!

I wonder if it would be possible to install this Android flavour in a Nexus device ?
The privacy issue in smartphones isn't the freaking application processor running Android. Sure, that ones terrible enough.

But the actual problem is the baseband processor running completely non-free software, with an enormous attack surface and access to all the interesting periphery (GPS, microphone). There is not just opportunity to compromise your privacy, Qualcomm and others actively implement such features at the behest of governments and carriers.

Oh, and if you plug that enormous hole, you get to the SIM card, yet another processor that you have zero control over, but which has access to enough juicy data to compromise your privacy. I highly recommend everyone to watch a talk from 30C3 by Karsten Nohl, where he shows a live attack on an improperly configured SIM card that remotely implants a Java app on the SIM card which continuously sends your cell ID (your approximate location) to the attacker by short message (without notification to the application processor, e.g. Android or iOS):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5B7XyVWgoxg

Carriers can do this today. (edit: that's a bit nonsensical, because carriers of course already know your cell id. Anyone with the ability to run a fake basestation momentarily (think IMSI catcher) can do this.)
Expecting people to write their own metrics stack for a promo site is a bit OTT - there are a lot of good analytics stacks out there which let you get up and running very quickly, complete with dashboards, metrics, etc.
Paul was talking about a different extension, but anyway...

The onclick event listener is the same thing Google does with the search results. Perform a search on Google and right-click a link, then you'll see the URL changes to the a Google proxy server that collects data about your click for analytics purposes. The reason is so the whole process is more transparent and the users can see the actual URL they end up with when clicking the link. The intention was not to hide anything, but to keep things as unobtrusive as possible. I'm sorry if it felt any other way!
yes taking price into account thats true. But one could make the argument that even a $50 discrete GPU will be much faster.

Just wanted to give the perspective that, while the performance is pretty good, its not the fastest on-die gpu.
There's a subset of men who enjoy sending sexually explicit messages to strangers. This is not surprising. Depressing, but not surprising.

What is slightly surprising is that online dating websites, for all their sophisticated matching algorithms, haven't bothered applying some of the most basic anti-spam heuristics to the problem. The first dating site that does it, you'd imagine, would get a very good reputation very quickly.

Dating websites actually want people to stay single and remain on the site paying their subscription or viewing adverts, but an add-on that filters out the awful rubbish is surely something women would pay for.
You don't actually need a gmail account for what its worth - Google just makes it difficult. On the screen where it requests a login you (seriously) need to tap each corner of the screen in clockwise order starting from the top left. That should skip the step.
You could always try selling it at http://sideprojectors.com - more than happy to help you out for spreading the word.
Microsoft on the threshold of deleting 'appalling' Windows 8 software
I've had the pleasure of using a high-DPI display on Windows 7 for a while, now. There are some tricks that help significantly:

1. Calibrate ClearType to use as little color as possible (use the system magnifier to help); this way, when apps get scaled the text is just blurry rather than blurry with odd color-fringing.

2. For apps that are incompatible but suitably configurable, set their compatibility mode to disable HiDPI scaling and then set their font sizes (or default zoom) to be larger. This works well for Chrome and Skype, at least.

3. For those times when you momentarily have trouble, remember that the windows key and the plus key will zoom your whole desktop.
The baseband or "The secret second operating system that could make every mobile phone insecure". It's used by all phones and it's unsecure. Do they rely on the same baseband? Source: http://www.extremetech.com/computing/170874-the-secret-secon...
This is also a good argument for switching to base 12 for normal every-day counting.

One interesting thing I heard once - a journalist was discussing the merits of counting in base 12 with someone whose society already adopted this method. When the journalist asked how we would teach kids to count with their fingers, the answer was simple - use the divisions created by your knuckles!

It would mess with everyone but I think there's a pretty strong argument for base 12.

edit: okay, i finished reading and it kind of says that already. But it's still cool!
This article lost credibility pretty early for carelessly conflating tokenized python with Java bytecode. That is unfair to readers that don't already understand the difference. It's not a trifle.
Same reason the abbreviation for the Swiss Franc is CHF.
Bottomline, the only entity that can be accused of ageism here is the nature. I regret to inform everyone, but yes, biology discriminates.
i hear you..i still own a phenom X4 3.4Ghz and will just purchase a $150 GPU to replace the old HD5000 series and it will be much much faster than any of those APUs for the same price.
Came here to say this exactly. The world needs an open-source baseband processor/firmware.
Reading this is interesting both from the content it describes (a guy passing for a girl on a dating site and being horrified by the messages he gets) and from the tone, that all this is self-evident and why don't guys just know this?
Well, they don't. But when they learn it, they are as horrified as it deserves.
You want to send private messages to mechanical turk?

Not a good idea. Karma would work (but could be abused).
Well I don't know about you guys but that isn't surprising to me at all.

It's amazing how big the mountain of stupid is out there and it's not easy when their all trying to talk to you.

That's why us guys have it hard in general. When she has to sift through so many emails to find just a half decent guy.

Lesson 1: You need to stand out if your just like the other 20 guys she's talked to these past hours you're doomed to fail. Be yourself but be your best self and don't be afraid to be unique or weird as long as its not in a creepy way.

Lesson 2: Don't be a wuss or needy let her reply in her own damn time and if you're writing a follow up be funny and bust her balls a bit for not replying in a timely manner. If she still doesn't reply ...oh well there's plenty of other fish in the sea.
I was part of the team that rewrote Finland's most popular dating site about two years ago and this was one of the problems we tried to fix.

We got pretty good results by letting users block messages from users who do not meet certain criteria. We gave users three different filters:
1. Allow messages from users who live in those areas where you are looking company
2. The same as 1., but also age and gender must match your "dream partner" settings
3. And finally allow messages from users who meet X percent of your dream partner settings

And of course you could block users after they have messaged you, but that is already too late if you get 100 harassment messages per day.
In Windows 8.1 you can override the scaling for individual apps through their properties dialogs. Set Chrome to not scale, then set the zoom within Chrome to be > 100%.

The url bar and tabs will be a bit small but the page content will look good.
The problem isn't that the rating for Ireland went down when the economic indicators did, it's that HF claim the rating is a predictor of economic performance, without a shred of evidence.
Nice work guys. Loved the articles on Medium as well.
And what of Android?
You're probabbly talking about numberphile's video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6xJfP7-HCc
Is there any danger that someone has seen the problem?
Android having the most granular permission system ever seen on any operating system is already the most secure operating system.

The biggest security hole next to the baseband processor and the SIM is the user who installs every app in seconds without checking permissions.
True privacy on a smartphone can only be expected when software and hardware are 100% open sourced. This of course includes the source code for the 3 Os's that typically run on a smartphone.
Anything that's running server-side cannot be trusted either. So we need client-side encryption/decryption as well.
I love the topic, bur god, Jezebel's writing is painfully atrocious.
I've been using Euler to learn Python too. It's been so much fun that I kept going. Now I wonder if I should switch again.
Well, Silent Circle is based in Washington DC, so even if they were keeping logs themselves, it wouldn't be much of a privacy reassurance...
I have seen a lot of numberphile's videos but not this one! Thanks for the link.

I'm pretty sure my flatmate told me the story and he watches numberphile too so you're almost certainly right either way :P
"and anonymize your activity through a VPN."

iOS and Android support VPN but it needs to be manually activated each time, making it rather useless unless you're using some public wifi. If I understand correctly there is a possibility for large companies to integrate VPN but for the average guy it's rather useless if you have to activate it. If this phone has VPN really integrated that'd be great.
Not really, iOS permissions are more granular sometimes - iOS will ask you before an app accesses your phonebook, and you can deny the access. You can't do that with Android.
That was the royal "you" and wasn't meant to be condescending. It used to scare the shit out of me as well.

The point I was making is that talking or being in front of a group of people aren't terrifying by themselves. You're likely to be worried about being judged in some unfavorable way. Don't be. Shit happens. Just get through it -- without drugs or Jedi mind tricks -- and you're realize it wasn't that big of a deal. Do it a few times and you'll be a natural.
I think that your idolatry of the NSA is unwarranted. They have powers and technologies that they can use to actively thwart anyone who will cross an American interest. They're not a military organization; the military is simply one of their biggest customers.

What they are, is a totalitarian control mechanism for American political and business interests to apply around the world.

So if you are on the 'American' side of this fuzzy, electronic wall that they have erected, and if you are an American who will do what is necessary to further American interests in the world - okay. The NSA is on your side.

But for those of us who do not live under the crux of American hegemony - and there are quite a few of us, after all - knowing about these heinous violations of human rights, and the tactics and technology that these totalitarians are using, is very important. We are not all Americans, here, nor do we all derive profit from American military-industrial efforts.

To some, the NSA is a heinous, despicable construction. I, for one, am glad to see leaks around this organization; as I am with any leaks that will reveal the truth about the tyranny we all live under.
I'm impressed by your skills at completely missing the point, victimisation reversal and turning a discovery/report of many women's day-to-day creepy and harassy experiences (on dating websites specifically, but the 2X comments make it clear this extends to online and off-) into "yeah mates it's hard for a guy to get noticed, here's one weird trick to be picked"
> iOS permissions are more granular sometimes

Not true, http://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.perm...
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I've been using it to learn Python, and to your point, frequently thought "this would be much easier to do recursively"
Hey - guess what - we can all choose which country we want to live in. For now. For the most part. Well, some of us can.

And those of us who do not like the actions of our governments can leave. In fact, we do.

So don't think this 'high road' of "you did it too" is going to absolve you of anything. We all leave the playground, eventually.
NSA put secret implants into “nearly 100,000″ computers
I know they are pre-launch and this is just a landing page, but it doesn't tell us much. Questions:

1. Is this just a stock phone with some privacy-orientated applications built-in, or is the OS and hardware contributing anything?

2. They seem to be using Android. AOSP or Cyanogenmod? Have they any work themselves to harden the OS? Are they using virtualisation?

3. Any closed binary blobs in there? What about the baseband firmware? (Does open source baseband firmware even exist?)

4. Whats the hardware like? Is it hardened in any way?
You don't need to write your own, just self-host it: http://piwik.org/
I will only believe it if they preface it with "honestly" or "frankly". :-) Where is Orwell when we need him?
> There's a subset of men who enjoy sending sexually explicit messages to strangers.

IMHO the majority of men.

> but an add-on that filters out the awful rubbish is surely something women would pay for

Most dating sites are free for women.

In my experience, the most effective dating sites are social networks that are about anything but dating. Where you can meet somebody with whom you share a hobby or something like that. I met my girlfriend on a foreign language learning website and we are still together after 4 years. I guess it's more complicated to meet girls on a Java forum...but the fact that one engages a discussion without sex or relationship in mind can make a future relationship more genuine.

EDITED! since I just found out this subject is a very "sensitive" one for some here. But i still stand by my point.
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☑ Don't show commonly blocked users and prevent them from contacting you.

^ This would be an attractive feature.
Depending on the niche it should get 20k to 40k. This is from my experience selling sites over the last 10 years or so. If you want to send me the details of the site davidpaulkrug@gmail.com I'd be willing to take a look and pass it onto my list of buyers.
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>I would say 95% of men on dating sites...

Citation please or be responsible and remove this baseless claim.
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> I have some friends who got married via an online dating site, but it was a paid one.

Note that it's not a post against online dating sites, commenters on both 2x and jezebel note that they've met significant others on dating sites.

> I get that this problem plagues free sites like OKC or POF - is it also a problem on paid sites?

Creepy messagers have as much money to spend as others (if not more) I'd guess, unless the site finds out they make people leave (and stop paying) I'd expect little difference. But you'd have to ask women using or staff of these sites to know/get a comparison really.
This web page is clearly marketing page not technology information page. They simply try to gather information if there is interest/demand for something like this. LEAN startup :-)
This is a simple little app I've been working for the last few months.

Some of the features include:

- Two Viewing Modes: Grid and List.

- Browse all of your feeds including popular, everyone and debuts

- User login, so you can view your personal following feed and access your profile quickly

- HTML Comments + Automatic Link Detection

- Fullscreen Image Viewer

- Sharing options

- View user profiles

- Animated GIF support

- Designed for iOS 7

- French, German, Spanish and Irish Localization

Would love for you to check it out!

I also open sourced the component I wrote for rendering HTML comments in the app: https://github.com/mattdonnelly/MDHTMLLabel
http://www.antigrain.com/research/font_rasterization/index.h...

This is a few years old now, but is still one of the better explanations of the issues involved in modern font rasterization, with emphasis on how Microsoft's likely held back the entire industry by only realistically supporting widget fonts at the standard 96ppi. Really, anything other than the stock Arial 10pt/96ppi is going to cause layout issues.

In an effort to very-aggressively hint that font so it looks consistent, they throw out horizontal accuracy by rounding to pixel boundaries. Per-letter. Ouch.

The best part of the paper, though, is this image that moves the sentence to the right exactly 1/10 pixel each line:

http://www.antigrain.com/research/font_rasterization/sample_...
Unbelievable isn't it? It used to be a good source of interesting articles about gender/sexual politics but at some point they must have worked out that the excessively conversational "new york" style articles get more traffic, and now you can almost hear the exposed brickwork in every sentence.
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Though if we're talking about Suomi24, the site is so buggy in general it's almost abandoned now. For example it loses your login status all the time.
Maybe encased in non-conductive oil with a waterblock-like circulation?
Agreed. Wouldn't be hard, not least because (unlike email) the site has a god's-eye view of every message a user is sending, so can see if a person is just sending the same spammy message to everyone and penalise them accordingly.

That, and minimum message lengths.
Unless they have some really special hardware in this, I don't see how its that much different than running cyanogenmod + secure applications on top, such as textsecure.
Anecdote is not data, but see comments in the 2x thread which seem to indicate that 95% (of active male users) is — if anything — an understatement. E.g.

> Out of over 300 messages, less than 10% were actual introductions rather than a plain 'hi' or some rude sexual commentary. I responded to every single one of them. 90% of those [nb: the initially actual non-sexual introductions] turned into something sexual in less than 8 back/forth exchanges. In the end out of somewhere around 340 first contact msgs received, only one guy actually carried on a normal, reasonable conversation longer than a few paragraphs, and even he made one or two not entirely subtle hints in the process.
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Geeksphone is doing pretty impressive for a startup that they were launch partners for Firefox OS and now have roped in PGP founders for this project.

Were they successful in delivering on the Firefox phones?, Their website always says 'out of stock'. Blackphone seems to be ambitious too. Is it possible for a startup to sail these two boats?

Also I find it odd that the PR is always just before the Mobile World Congress (MWC) which happens in Spain, last year with Firefox OS and this year with Blackphone
A friend just moved back to the us from Denmark and can't shut up about how much better it is for business in the US.
I am not getting it, how do you prevent the carrier from knowing where you are if you sign up to it with your number?
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I was part of developing a Swedish dating app, and during this time I discussed online dating with many friends of both genders. While many women would find the attention a bit tiring, and sometimes had to report someone for the tone in their messages, no one ever told me anything like this. I would guess that it heavily depends on which kind of dating site you use. So to counter this story, I share that I've heard 10-15 stories that was much more positive.
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It's not just for people who are banned from HN. Most who get banned from HN would not get an invite.

A glance at the front page shows it to be generally quieter and much more technically oriented. HN is now much broader - look at the front page and only half the items are actually technical, and probably less than half are, to quote PG's aim, "deeply interesting."

Also, Lobste.rs has tags, which increases its relevance substantially.
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I was thinking of int types, SIMD, shared memory with an explicit model, and arbitrary jumps. It's nice that some of those are getting fixed.

I would also like to see a bytecode with structures (and alignment control), nice code generation and execution and some form of virtual memory for resources.

What I don't understand is why Mozilla didn't define a bytecode and a to-JS compiler for it. Browsers without support would have been just as slow, but there would have been much more room for evolution.

I'm almost expecting Mozilla to pull a Trojan any day now: define a bytecode that compiles to asm.js and declare asm.js deprecated.
The problem is making a filter than works for everyone. A 50 something conservative christian woman probably has different ideas about what constitutes as acceptable message to a 20 something liberal woman looking for a more casual fling.
Call me jaded but I suspect OKCThrowaway22221 was in fact a woman, posing as a man, posing as a woman.
I think Apple also realised that the 2x solution is all they will need. There is very little point going higher density than the current 15" rMBP display. So there is little point in supporting completely arbitrary resolutions — Apple are betting on this density as the standard for the future.

I think they also realise that our current "2x" solution is our future software's "1x" scale factor. When Apple's line of hardware is retina-only, we'll probably see them drop support for the distinction between 1x and 2x. Everything will simply become designed for the current density.
Even better , ghost them and make them pay for each message they send... (kidding,as it would be fraudulent).
The website doesn't really tell me anything about the phone.
More about Pharo at http://pharo.org

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Your comment seems hypocritical to me. Ofc, you're bashing guys by stating that 95% of men on dating sites send creepy messages. And ofc, you're comparing those creepy guys to ethical self and stating emphatically: "I am NOT like them, I met my SO at a non-dating site". So yeah, you are here to bash guys.

Concerning your "its just an opinion" defense, I'd like to share a quote by Harlan Ellison — 'You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.'

EDIT
Took a look at your HN profile statement, now its clear that you have an agenda.
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