skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here you can read the draft Recommendation ITU-T Y.2770, Requirements for Deep Packet Inspection in Next Generation Networks: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:hZQFa54QIRsJ:...
Apple is making the exact same mistake the RIM made. They've gone from targeting hardcore fans, to targeting teenagers.

The problem is that teenagers are quick to jump ship to the coolest new thing. Apple has been making "coolest new thing" for a while, but they're getting really popular now, which seems to be inversely proportional to "cool".

For RIM, they moved away from targeting hardcore, email-addicted business people, and it made them vulnerable enough to get killed.

Apple is doing the same thing.
Using this felt similar to using the Github Launch Bar[1] for the first time.

Something about having a command line interface really makes it feel like you are communicating deeply with the software, as opposed to poking around its surface in arranged flows. With a command line the interaction is different - it is exploratory with freestyle flow composition, and that can be really fun.

Modern graphical interfaces combined with a means to freely manipulate data and compose commands seem to be quite rare. I have always wished to have a full command line accessible in RPGs inside the game's menu system, so I could script some tedious things.

[1] https://github.com/launch
Reading about McAfee on wikipedia, I found this one interesting relating to the paranoia point of the story:

"In a 2012 article in Mensa Bulletin, the magazine of American Mensa, he stated that being the developer of the first commercial anti-virus program has made him "the most popular hacking target", adding "Hackers see hacking me as a badge of honor". He added that for his own security he has other people buy his computer equipment for him, uses pseudonyms for setting up computers and logging in, and changes his IP address several times a day."
The current Mac Pro is long in the tooth and to all intents and purposes is dead, despite the so-called 'update' this summer. The Mac Pro forums are a pretty sad place, folk still clutching at straws, hoping something comes out next summer.

"Lloyd Chambers (MacPerformance Guide) thinks it may be August 2013 before Apple releases a new Mac Pro because of remarks Steve made two or three years ago, brought to his attention by a reader of his site, that Apple would not release a Mac Pro until USB 3 was natively supported. The Ivy Bridge Xeon is supposed to support USB 3 natively."
(http://forums.appleinsider.com/t/152825/future-of-mac-pro)
If the hardware is damaged, yes.
This dour-faced child actroid is pretty old now. Newer models aren't as odd-looking (except for the one made to demonstrate the underlying technology that looks like a Meccano project with teeth and eyeballs.) Kokoro has a travelling exhibit called "Encyclopedia of the Actroid".

http://www.kokoro-dreams.co.jp/english/index.html
By this reasoning, a government that operated more efficiently would be less successful. That can't possibly be right.
You clearly have never been to an ICANN meeting. The best part of that organization is that it is way too dysfunctional and inefficient to lead any kind of conspiracy.
Why was he a terrible cultural fit? Also, do you think it was because he was older or for some other reason? (honest questions, no sarcasm intended)
School closed down and HAZMAT sent in for a thermometer? Obviously the teachers don't realise that almost all fluorescent tubes have mercury in them; did they call in HAZMAT when one of those is broken? Have schools become so risk averse as to become stupid? What do the students learn from this? At this level of stupidity it's a wonder that they don't call the CDC when a student turns up with the cold.
It might be what enables you to treat the subject humanely in the first place. It seems it would certainly make it easier, at least. Advocating empathy isn't the same as being soft on crime. It's perfectly possible to punish for crimes, even with death, and still display empathy and compassion.
So I used iOS 6 for a day
Zen wisdom crosses all boundaries :)
I had lunch with him yesterday and I can assure you that scaling down his involvement with Haskell is the furthest thing from his mind. In fact, a number of his side projects have recently reached a point where he will have even more time to contribute to GHC than he has been able to recently.
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This is the good site for to take information and entertainment related to Nepal.
He should have made a beeline for the Ecuadorian embassy and pulled an Assange maneuver.
I also find it hard to explain to users what and how to use Bitcoin. I'm running a women fashion e-commerce site and most of users are women and non-tech.
GNU Key Value Store
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I feel exactly the same way. And just like the author. I don't quite fully understand why.

By the way, I don't think the author is really criticizing Apple much. He just recognizes that Apple's vision is no longer in line with his own.
There are two regular SATA ports on the logic board.
In the root of your repo on the gh-pages branch:

echo example.com > CNAME

Then point it (if apex) at 207.97.227.245.
A good article
Do you have examples of ccTLDs being taken down? The .com/.org/.net/etc TLDs are designated to the US. Sure, they are the most common TLDs out there, but they are under US jurisdiction.

I'd be more concerned about how the domain seizures have happened basically at the behest of the content industries, with no (appropriate amount of) due diligence done by government officials.
I've always said this too, but looking at things like Facebook, Twitter, iOS, the last thing I want is to keep sacrificing to walled gardens where I have to play by someone elses' rules.

GateKeeper, to Mac developers, is playing by Apple's rules. I don't think it's a conspiracy to say that it will tilt the favor towards those who utilize the very closed (in multiple senses of the word) App Store over regular applications.
I came from blackboard to keyboard to motherboard and now I am Bored
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Is Apple's New iMac it's best ever? (video)
There are three kinds: those that spy on the user, those that restrict the user, and back doors. Windows has all three. Microsoft can install software changes without asking permission

Don't most people consider automatic updates a feature? It's rare to hear someone say say "Boy, I really hate that chrome has automatic updates". And, if you don't like it, you can disable it. If he's referring to phones, my Linux (Android) phone automatically updates itself, and, if you recall the CarrierIQ debacle, the spyware features were disabled on iOS devices and enabled and some Android devices.

The term "back door" is misleading and deliberately inflammatory. The "back door" into windows that causes security updates to be installed by default saves people who don't obsessively download security updates from having actual back doors installed on their machines.

How does Windows spy on users? Is he talking about crash reporting or perhaps the malicious website tracking that some browsers now do, something that prevents actual spyware from being installed?

I use Ubuntu on two personal machines, and I really wish that it had a "back door" as nice as Windows Update. I've upgraded Ubuntu three times and it's broken software that I use daily every time. In one case, I had to recompile something from source, and in two other cases, I had to edit some obscure config file. I like free software, both philosophically and practically, but you're not going to win over users by telling them that features that make it possible for non-technical users to have a secure system are handcuffs.

I dislike this sort of demagoguery because it makes it harder to convince moderates. There's a guy like this at work; he makes it almost impossible to convince people of anything that's even similar to what he believes, because you have to first convince them that you're not a radical extremist before they'll listen at all.
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In my opinion, it's simple.

5 years ago, Apple was seemingly "light years" ahead of everyone. Kowtowing wasn't really even a thought because so much more was being provided than elsewhere that there was no real compromise to choose Apple.

That's not true and is increasingly more than just untrue...
The theoretical stuff wasn't immediately applicable but it changed my mental model of databases and that has helped me tremendously in my work since then.
RIM never moved their target. In fact I still think they try and promote the Blackberry as the device for 'email-addicted business people'.

And I think it's because of the fact they thought their 'hard-core fans' would stick with them put them where they are today , not the other way around.
It really depends on how good you are at writing readable, unsurprising, code, and how willing you are to document it.
Usually large cap stocks mean less volatility and more fundamental based trading, but Apple is looking more and more like a special case. It has the largest market cap yet people treat it very emotionally and it is being traded heavily by both large institutional investors and small retail investors, often for completely different reason. (For example the recent sell off was triggered by investment firms re-balancing their positions at the end of the year, but that combined with the fiscal cliff thing spooked a large number of retail investors as well, thus triggering an even larger sell off) The end result is it can seem unpredictable and the stock trades like a penny stock.
There is a Chinese saying "The bigger the tree is, the more it sways under the wind", maybe that's what's happening here?
Well, two regular ports but the second one is at an odd angle. An adapter[1] is required to fill the second spot if you buy your Mini with only one drive.

[1]http://www.ifixit.com/Apple-Parts/Mac-Mini-Dual-Hard-Drive-K...
The device that made Apple what it is now is the iPod.
> Apple is making the exact same mistake the RIM made. They've gone from targeting hardcore fans, to targeting teenagers.

Not sure what you're talking about. Apple, like any major technology company, has always targeted both hardcore fans and teenagers. Nothing's changed there.

On a related note, another constant in Apple's history has been its naysayers. Apple's critics are infamous for proclaiming in every year of the company's existence that it is doomed. People were saying exactly what you're saying 10 years ago when the iPod came out.
"I want to partake in all the goodness the modern internet has to offer... but only on my terms!"

There was a time when NoJS plugins and the likes were valid (neccessary). These days you're crippling your browser experience more and more. Which is entirely your perogative of course, but then don't make sweeping complainst about things not working.

What did you really expect? Them to run your R code server side?

a) This wouldn't allow the same snappy response, you'd have constant page refreshes.

b) why should they overload their servers, and come up with an inferior solution to serve some self entitled anti javascript snob.
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I went that route. The current Mini is by far the most complicated, scary computer I've worked in, and the SSD is the absolute first thing into the chassis.

It's doable, but it's far more complicated than the current (non-retina) MacBook Pro or any desktop I've ever worked in.
>>I don't think it's as much of a dealbreaker as some people

It is the one big thing that makes me hesitate about buying an rMBP. SSD's are prone to failure according to many articles I've read and they also have a limited life span even if it doesn't have any defects. Once the thing gives up there is no way to easily swap it out and just insert a new one.

Also, sometimes I need to swap out hard drives (or SSD drives in this case). With the rMBP that is not possible. The rMBP is a nice computer but I really hope they see the error in their ways and add a replaceable standard SATA SSD.
Rethinking the iPhone Lock Screen
Too bad you felt offended by my use of pronouns since I evidently wasn't speaking about you. Just because you're a developer doesn't mean you're the representation of an entire group.

Perhaps you never heard about Behavioral Economics [1], and that's why you quickly dismissed your feelings from this subject. Nonetheless people's feelings play an important part on how the markets are played.

I understand you're curious to learn about my views on business, but first you need to understand more about emotions, without it you're a dead duck. Sorry as I can't give you a link or recommend a book to help you out here. But you can always go out and interact with real people, be openharted, and try to learn from them.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_economics
Well, I think the US is actually doing an "ok" job of managing the internet. If you have to hand over control, give it to anybody EXCEPT for the UN. The UN is a joke, full of even more corrupt politicians than in the US (and we have many!).

As usual, research your own propaganda, but here is one bit to digest:
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/rosett040406.htm
Yeah I agree, such a troll bait article.

He states a bunch of things he doesnt like, but gives no reasons why they're bad.

At the end he still says he's running a Mac Book and it's the happiest he's ever been (albeit with Ubuntu but still). Makes no sense.
Which is interesting because I believe traditionally when calculating production costs, you added materials required to produce an item and a hourly salary of workers making an item divided by the number of items they can make in an hour. You could throw in marketing and advertising bugdet too.

The management salaries weren't the part of the calculation. They were considered constant and therefore insignificant in the mass production.

But now, when your CEO makes 380x worker average, and the rest of the apparatchiks make the same combined, and you have 250 workers - then it is no longer wise to "optimise" worker salaries at all because they are by far not the biggest expense!

That's capitalism turned upside down. And I know it because I see how people are able to account for recurring costs but put a blind eye on development and management costs.

P. S. Maybe it tells us it's CEO/traditional management who need to be disrupted now. In some areas you can imagine a worker's cooperative paying 1.5x average salary to workers, outsourcing their management cheap, and still being insanely competitive thanks to no apparat spendings.
I think it should go without saying, but Steven Levy's Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution is excellent, and deserving of a read by everyone even mildly interested in the history of computing.

Another interesting book I read was Boris Malinovsky's Pioneers of Soviet Computing. The author recounts his experience building computers for the Soviet Union, while at the same time providing a history of computer development in the USSR. At some points it's a bit of a slog, and the chronological structure of the text leaves something to be desired; but overall I found it very interesting. [0]

[0]: http://www.sigcis.org/files/SIGCISMC2010_001.pdf (CC licensed PDF.)
You mean emacs, I'm sure. :-)
The site isn't working for me, here it is in Google Cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
Nanowire '4D' Transistors Could Replace Silicon
You can replace the SSD on the rMBP. There aren't a lot of options, but it is possible.

http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/SSD/OWC/Aura_Pro_Retina_2012
It's questionable that a board has to decide between paying the herd of Exchange-fixing server-rebooting IT people and their executive. Most of the time the executive salary is set beforehand in board meetings, so it doesn't come as a surprise end of the year.
Hackers is in my world reality.
I wonder what was the vision he thought he shared with Apple ?

If you reverse all his points then it seems like in his mind Apple provided ultra customisable hardware and software with great options for the enterprise. I don't remember that Apple.
No, most of the time you want to pull from trunk, which everybody agrees on is the most current version, not feature A from Alice, and feature B from Bob and see where you end up.
I believe that's a very rational conclusion and is likely correct.
MG Siegler - unbelievable that guy - never written anything bad about an Apple product. Somehow even managed to like the iPad mini's poor display. What a clown.
I use an ad-blocker but disable it for sites that both (1) ask me too and (2) are good enough.
The original Database class is available [1] via Coursera for self study.

[1] https://www.coursera.org/course/db
As a newbie into databases, I thoroughly enjoyed it. I now have a good understanding of all the concepts including relational algebra, SQL, etc.

Some of the exercises confounded even the database experts who were taking the course for various reasons.

The forums were immensely helpful too.

The course did not dwell into database internals, though I did get a feel for what must be going on inside.
Not sure I see Apple hitting $700 ever again

Supply chain problems? Sure.
Stale products? Possibly.
Demand dropping? Maybe.
Samsung destroying them in sales? Definitely.
Tim Cook? Not helping.
Ran out of ideas? Haven't really anything but refreshes. iPhone 5S in June? Going to be nothing special.

I think the market is waking up, consumers still have a ways to go but they'll get there...
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This mistake started when Steve Jobs returned to Apple.

And now they have $80 billion dollars in the bank.
No offense, but yeah, I was intentionally jumping context in order to express what I considered to be an interesting idea. There's no intent to imply what you said is wrong, but to move beyond it to more interesting topics.

Comparing the Mars rovers to phones made me think of the ways in which the public does in fact do that. There's interesting conversations to be had in that direction. Perhaps future shock has turned into future expectation. Or blase-ness. Or something.

This is personal for me, and I've been around long enough to realize I'm never going to have what I want in this regard, but I do wish conversations were more fluid when there are more interesting directions to pursue beyond the immediate context.
http://seekingalpha.com/article/1046581-the-reason-behind-ap...

"“At this point, the most plausible explanation is not very reassuring. It seems that COR Clearing is increasing Apple’s margin requirements to 60% from 30% due to excessive concentration,” Santos writes. “This is supposedly leading to mechanical selling to re-establish maintenance margins of leveraged traders.”
Fair point. I like the article about OOP too :

http://prog21.dadgum.com/156.html
I can sympathize and I feel less content with Apple than I used to. I love their hardware - anyway I always find myself buying a new device rather than upgrading. Apple does great stuff but as other's I'm really worried that they won't fix their awkardness with the web.

But another note - how come no one can throw in a bit of analysis to back up these kind of argument? Otherwise it just seems like typical disillusionment (as products and companies inevitably evolve). As such it doesn't mean anything, it just means one person with a blog decided to use Ubuntu. There is a guy with a blog for every product that has ever changed. Throw in some analysis, and it may make a bigger difference.
You're very right about hackers. It's a mindset. I just found this project a few days ago, but I think Jonathan Schiefer gets this basic notion. Here's an interview that shows this quite clearly.
http://youtu.be/o9iS0Khm7XA
His reason for making this film is to show how empowering the hacker way of thinking is, that great things are possible with the right mindset
Will he have the same annoying and egocentric article next time another nobody decide that he no longer like a product or start being bored by drinking coffee?
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There are other faults though. When you submit an APK their system allows you to discontinue support for older devices. Therefore there is no consistency between the team and the system.
High Court rules Dotcom can pursue case against police and GCSB
$120B.
The article doesn't seem to indicate so, but shouldn't the Best Buy executives who took this decision (and against whom there seems to be incriminating email evidence), be punished in some way as well?

Else, from Best Buy's perspective, this is still potentially a net win if they made $140 million and had to pay out $27 million. And more importantly, the actual net benefit of following such a strategy (assuming BB has done this to other small companies as well) is likely much higher if the other victim firms weren't able to fight the lawsuit against BB.

Punishing the executives will hopefully be a deterrent to other executives.
It was Twttr.
Another Smart Watch, This Time Casio's G-Shock Watch
What has pandas borrowed from R, other than a 2D data structure with heterogeneously-typed columns?

I guess the data frame merge invocations are similar.

(I know patsy/statsmodels are introducing R's formula syntax to python, but that's not pandas.)
I think patio11 would agree with you.
I think people implicitly trust Microsoft and Apple to not install anything dodgy on their computers, and it's no different for Linux users.

As Mark Shuttlworth said, regarding integrated Amazon search, "Don’t trust us? Erm, we have root. You do trust us with your data already. You trust us not to screw up on your machine with every update." (http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1182)
I find it amazing when people ask questions about the price of something without even considering supply and demand.
Screw Google Glass, I want my augmented-reality heads-up-display contact lenses
What happened to RIM is that all they were left with was their hardcore, email-addicted, security minded end users and corporations. But that proved to be a small subset of their overall user base. The majority (me) jumped ship when the iPhone came along. Why? Mobile email was critical to us because we were always on the move. The apps that you could get on the iPhone - whether a 2 hour movie for a plane ride or a flight app that let me understand where my plane was before the gal at the counter did, or maps that let me find a Starbucks near the meeting - more than made up for the slightly less (then) optimal email vs a BB. RIM had to move. They just moved poorly because they couldn't adjust.
nice idea.
how is this sustained?
According to his blog, he might not get deported:

> My lawyer just brought a judge to the jail and the judge issued a stay order until a higher judge can review the case. This effectively stops Immigration from returning me to the Belize border. So….. the urgency is eased a bit.
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I think he did pick the right word. At first the "hacking" vs "cracking" term thing came to my mind too. However, seeing him talk about hacking being about seeing the world in a certain way, finding something you want to change and then doing it without the need to ask permission.
This film does involve cracking, but these characters from what I can see are true hackers as well. In the Bitchan interview, she may be a phreeker, but she's also definitely a maker.
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I get the feeling the author doesn't like Microsoft.
John McAfee found, arrested by Guatemala police
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