skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Innovation means to change and advance -- the word doesn't really set that high of a bar:

- Its a different design

- Its new hardware

- It advances over the current generation
The black one on the right is the new one. Contrasted to the old one on the left.
the one on the right is the new mac pro
Do you mind expanding on your comment? I don't see the flaw in gohrt's argument.

To avoid getting into a debate about smoke detectors and fire departments, can you clarify the flaw in the actual argument he raised:

> If we already have enough data to predict criminal acts, and we are still failing, how is collecting more data the solution?
Well, it is an attack to restrict firearms ownership. Remember the original purpose of the 2ed was to arm the citizenry against tyrrany. So if government can restrict your access or avaiability of firearms (especially those said government actively uses in its military) they are restricting your ability to arm yourselves against them.

It doesn't hurt that the framers didn't conceptualize nuclear weapons or ICBMs, though. Back in 1800, it was perfectly reasonable to expect if the US military could have a mortar, a citizen could. Though I'm more of the opinion if you wouldn't trust your neighbor with some destructive tool than you shouldn't trust the US military with it.
Those gradients... ugh.
Sorry, that came about after Simon's essay:

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2009-08-05/news/0908040089_...

> A man who was jailed without bail for months because a Baltimore police officer said he tried to disarm her was set free Tuesday after Officer Traci L. McKissick changed her story during emotional courtroom testimony.

Earlier this year, McKissick told prosecutors that Joseph A. Forrest was the man who stepped on her hand as she held a gun and wrestled with Forrest's 61-year-old uncle, who was killed by police during an altercation in February.
It does not. It's a very lame excuse. There were heavy protests in this country during the Vietnam war. Not any more, but that has nothing to do with the streets. Americans don't care. Period.
Most of your stereotyped gun owners do not have a categorical opposition to gun control laws. For example, most are not particularly upset with the ban on new machine guns that has been in place for many years. Rather most of the opposition that you see is against pointless laws that target particular cosmetic features of some guns ("assault weapon" laws) or actually overreaching gun laws that pop up in particular cities in particular states.

There is little focus on the national laws that are already in place, laws that particular states have or are trying to have are what get the attention of the gun lobbyists.
Ever heard of the economic impact of chronic disease? Its in the trillions per year (CDC, WHO, others). Ever consider the economic value of a human life? Its around $5 million. Since around 50 million people die each year from disease we can estimate the societal burden of disease to be ~$250 trillion dollars per year. If you do an full analysis, I would have a hard time believing you'd find the societal burden of terrorism is greater than the detrimental impact of disease.
I don't think there's any substantial opposition to the 2nd amendment itself.

Your experiences may differ from mine, but when I get into debates about gun-control / 2A issues, I find it to be very commonplace for people to insist that the 2A is useless, outdated, and state that it should be repealed. Believe it or not, there is a not-insignificant number of people out there who are for total civilian disarmament.

And then there are the bulk of people who seem to be more or less ambivalent, or apathetic about it all. They aren't out to attack the 2A, but they aren't interested in going to any great length to fight for it either.

What's a 2A advocate?

In my book, somebody who identifies "gun rights" as an issue of specific importance to them, and takes some specific action: donating to the NRA/GOA/2AF/JPFO/etc., voting, campaigning, running for office, or something of that nature, with an intent to defend gun rights.
Donate to the FSF
We are extremely lucky to have open source software, especially in light of current events. HN, let's donate to the FSF. https://my.fsf.org/donate/
Did I miss something and they've gone back and un-broken spaces/virtual desktops? Or are you talking about multiple monitors?

Obviously multiple monitors have needed a fix for ages but spaces are my pet issue so I have to ask.
When will Mac OSX support OpenGL 4.x?
clickable: https://my.fsf.org/donate/
If you try, you probably can hide. These kind of operations are best at taking people unawares...
Next release (Maverick).
It is much harder to start a revolution with steak knives than hunting rifles. I mean, consider why you don't actively participate in violent revolution right now (assuming you are dissenting against your government for some reason). Usually, it is because of the risk of injury and death.

You do reduce it when you bring a gun to a tank / plane / automatic weapons fight, rather than a knife. It isn't meant to provide all the armaments you need, but it leaves you a starting point.
Now with PRISM support! j/k
Actually, this is salt.
That's pretty much every computer out there. Is innovation such a low bar now that a new case and the newer Intel CPU is suddenly deserving of innovation praise because it has a fruit logo?

Also am I the other one bothered by the case mentioning being built in the US but designed in California, like California is now its own nation?
While I dislike mass surveillance as much as the next guy, the OP's particular argument against it strikes me as myopic. The risks which PRISM purportedly addresses do not cap out at the 3000 deaths by terrorism in 2001. One nuclear device detonated in a major city (let's say in a RORO container awaiting inspection in New York's harbor) could kill millions. Does inclusion of that number in the math make PRISM rational?
Please show me a device that's comparable to the new Mac Pro... So much performance in this small of a form factor is pretty innovative
Mac OS X Maverick...
Physical memory attack and defense resources
Julian Assange praises Edward Snowden as a hero
Wouldn't you suffer from lower bandwidth than over PCIe, though?
Oh? I had been under the impression that Haswell Xeons (at least the E3 v3 series) were available "now" [1]:

"Twelve of the chips are available now, but the 13 watt E3-1220L that will be particularly interesting for microservers is not going to be available until the third quarter..."

What am I missing here? Presumably the 12-core option would be an E5, is that it?

[1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/04/intel_haswell_xeon_e...
Paradise lost, the cost of freedom
iOS 7 Video WWDC
As a very religious person, I find myself working the 6 days on, one day off schedule. The only difference is that Saturday I work at home, doing different things. I go to Costco to stock up on bulky items. I deep clean the apartment. I usually have some task like painting or getting new furniture moved in. If its not our stuff, sometimes we are helping someone else.

The point is that the weekend isn't leisure. It's full of things to do that you can't get done during the week.
This is a collection of resources about physical memory attacks and defenses, e.g. cold boot, TRESOR, DMA attacks, etc.
Where are all the street protests?!

Over the digital privacy / 4A issue specifically? I don't know. But protests in general are still quite alive, here in North Carolina.[1][2][3]

[1]: http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/05/13/2890544/nc-moral-mond...

[2]: http://www.wral.com/-mega-moral-monday-protests-heat-up-outs...

[3]: http://www.thenation.com/article/174679/protesters-shake-nor...
I certainly wouldn't mind if PSA[1] got cut off of the rest of internet.

[1]: Police State of America
gre general test has always been crap. I've had the unfortunate occasion to take it thrice (for each of my 3 graduate degrees) because the scores expire (what a scam!).

Now the subject math gre, that's fucking awesome. I once challenged my math professors to take it with me & they scored less :) Its broad enough to envelope most math specialities & deep enough to stump you if you haven't been paying attention to your speciality. Here's a copy of the subject math- If you don't know any CS or math but can quickly code some ruby/js/whatever, try #44.
otoh if you know some CS, try #33, #25,#28 & #30.
http://www.ets.org/s/gre/pdf/practice_book_math.pdf
Ask HN: Will hosting your app on foreign servers help avoid PRISM issues?
Good. They took their sweet time to start supporting it. Linux and Windows got it way earlier.
Store my keychain on the iCloud, eh? Is this going to be the default behaviour now?

If so, I guess I'm abandoning Apple faster than I thought I would, a day or so ago .
Yeah, Mavericks supports opengl 4.
iOS 7 looks like Windows Phone and Android had a baby.
I agree with you that the post is soft on Obama, and personally I'm disappointed with the Administration in general.

However, I think the main point of the article still holds and is important in our fight towards a stronger rule of law.

There's a political game being played here, and we need to see it clearly. I don't mean to defend Obama at all, but _any_ administration is under extreme pressure to "fight terrorism" and this creates a huge distortion between the actual risks and consequences of an attack compared to the measures taken by the Executive branch to: 1) avoid attacks, and 2) create the perception they're doing all they can to avoid attacks. There are also other players, like the defense industry, federal departments, etc., with their own interests at play.

Remember DFW's commencement speech? [0] In our situation the political game _is_ the water. We need to see it clearly to fight back and keep our societies lawful and free. While logic is important, it's not going to win an essentially political battle.

0: http://moreintelligentlife.com/story/david-foster-wallace-in...
The funny thing is, if the US had only treated Bradley Manning 'decently' (ie. as they would any other criminal suspect), the case for asylum would be exceedingly poor - he openly admits to committing a crime, and that simply isn't grounds for asylum. But the Bradley Manning case shows that those under prosecution for that kind of crime will be subjected to 'extra-legal' treatment that it can well be argued amounts to 'persecution' (which is the requirement in the UN convention on refugees).
Social media plugs under scrutiny
"...is it worth the trouble if Wuala's clunky client takes 100 times longer than Dropbox to sync a file between two devices?"

I have no idea what the performance difference is (and clearly , neither do you), but the answer to your question is "yes". For some people, at least. It's a must-have feature for some people, not a nice-to-have-as-long-as-it-doesn't-inconvenience-me-too-much feature. Some people have data that they'd like to keep synced across systems that they simply can't keep in unencrypted form on a third-party server, no matter how much trust they have in the company that owns the service.

Of course, there are a bunch of different ways to keep your data secure and still have it be available to you on different systems, and non-open-sourced cloud storage with client-side encryption is still an imperfect solution, but it is a solution that is perfectly reasonable for many people.
I think most people who use the MacPro (video/image editing people) probably already use external storage because the 4 drive bays from the old MacPro simply are not enough. I'm guessing they analyzed their users produced something that fit users' needs.
https://grepular.com/Protecting_Your_GNU_Linux_System_from_D...
[Poster] 10 Quotes for Startups to Live By
This is very useful information for my own project, thanks. BaconBizConf sounds like a really fun conference too.
He is the president of the United States. He is smart. A lot of background characters love it when you question the intellect of your leaders because you see intended aggression and depravity as incompetance and stupidity. Never blame a goverments wrongs on incompetance, blame them on those responsible and expect them to have a functional brain, because to get into the positions they have, they do have working brains, and know exactly what they are doing.
This... looks like Windows Phone.
are the GPUs not upgradeable?

also, why are you using CUDA? sure it has more features. but then new hardware comes along made by someone else..
The new is definitely an improvement, but both load fairly slowly - I would try improve this next, or at least allow staged loading so visitors have something to start looking at quickly while the rest loads.
> tyrannical, authoritarian neoliberal

One of those adjectives has an almost oposite meaning to the other two.

Please, don't just throw "bad" words in a setence if you are trying to make a point. Understand what you are saying, and if you don't completely grasp the meaning of a word, either look it up, or not use it.

The way you wrote it, you sound like a South America neofacist (and yes, I just made up a label). And I'm quite sure you are not proposing creating a facist government hidden behind populist policiy, thus you should not speack like one.
A new approach for local messaging
Yes, they have un-broken it.

Each display can now have it's own virtual desktops, and each screen can have their own full screen app without showing linen on the other.

Easy dragging of apps from one screen to another and more.
I'm glad to see someone finally making the obvious form factor changes we've been needing for a long time at the high end. An ATX style case just doesn't make sense anymore. ATX gives you lots of volume for cooling the CPU and lots of room to add PCB area in the form of expansion cards. But hardly anyone needs 7 expansion cards, and everyone needs more room for the GPU heatsink. Completely throwing out internal expandability may be a bit ahead of its time (like ditching the floppy drive with the iMac), but it does allow for a compact and efficient system layout. I do wonder about being stuck with your original GPU(s).

So what happens now for the Mac Mini Server?
how comes there are no 16-core mac pros? :(
Apple stuff has been saying "Designed in California, made in China" for years now.
Are you ignoring the 500 point drop from August 28 to Sept 10? (Did the market forecast the events of 9/11? Did Goldman Sachs have access to data from the White House that the NSA+FBI failed to act on?)

And the 1100 points gain from Sept 21 to Oct 12?
I'm not a Mac user, but isn't the keychain encrypted?
Sorry this is getting lost amidst all the other current flurry.
I don't imagine much changes for the Mini server; nobody buys those things for compute workstations, so there's really no competition.
I'm sure it will be repeated indefinitely, but I might as well kick it off:

Looks a lot like it was inspired a bit by Android and a bit by Windows Phone. To my eye, the font looks like an Android device and the rest of the UI looks like Windows Phone.

Note: this is a good thing. The old iOS looked tired and dated.
This is surprising. It's just HTML on S3 with cloudflare in front. Maybe Typekit is slowing it down...
What Should I Know Before I Change Careers?
I like the design overall, but am I the only person who thinks these icons are awful? In particular, the color palette they used and the ugly gradients used (app store icon).
Awesome. I'm glad it helped. BaconBizConf was awesome, I highly recommend it for bootstrappers.
What would happen if satellites stopped working
as far as i know, mac pros have never been in ATX form factor.

intel tried to create a new case standard, BTX, years ago. but it seems no one likes change..
As far as I can tell, this is using CBC mode without any authentication:
https://raw.github.com/mdp/gibberish-aes/master/dist/gibberi...

If that's the case, then this implementation is vulnerable to a variety of attacks.
Sure, but only if they make Yosemite Sam jokes. ;)
Read again. What you are saying is that "Doing less unfriendly things to non-Americans means doing unfriendly things to Americans."

Do you honestly think that way? I'm sure you don't.

And I agree with the grandparent here -- there's something which draws US to be the hotspot target for terrorism, and that terrorism originates from certain areas of the world with strong US military presene. Could it be that the best way to avoid the total amount of terrorism on US targets is to actually try to play nice towards non-Americans? Kind of like rest of the western countries like to do apart from US-led operations.

Ditch the War on Terror, and fix the problem at the root rather than try to brute-force through it. It is my claim that for some people this solution means "surrendering" and as such a knee-jerk reaction would be to not consider such options. Just imagine he PR failure for the president and congress who would even mentio that "hey, what if we're at fault...".
I like this, but the easiest way to do this without pretty much any configuration is to log in to Google Talk with a Jabber client that has OTR support, such as Adium or Pidgin.
A fugly one.
I think the obvious answer is "no"
And if your secretary doesn't agree? When the FBI man gives an order, submission is not consent.
Apple Announces iOS 7 with 3D Parallax User Interface
Organised religion is IMHO, evil. In fact, I consider it to be the manifestation of the false gods the bible itself warns about. I cant ever get out of my head the way Bush Jr used Christian rhetoric to justify his two wars.

So, at the very least, that example doesn't really work for me.
Junior Founders Wanted- Google Hangout interviews
I just hope this new design doesn't make it difficult to mount in a rack in a datacenter.
While this is a nice effort, why use Google Talk at all for chatting if you're going to do all this effort (per user configuration etc) if you could just use an XMPP client with OTR[1] support, or use an XMPP server you can trust?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-the-Record_Messaging
Assembled in California is definitely not the same as being Manufactured in USA.

Also, they could ship a unit 99% assembled in China and have somebody in the USA clip on the last piece to claim it was assembled in California.
then don't get one
Major design overhaul for iOS7
The Safari icon looks particularly strange. The white border sticks out in an unpleasant way.
I think it's hard to understand what the point is without a result that differs from the naive solution. That is, my naive "who's an important terrorist" is "who belongs to the most terrorist groups".
I've used both Windows Phone and iOS quite extensively and one of the few things I think WP does well is the UI. To give Apple credit, the new design looks incredibly different whilst maintaining the familiarity.
The Haswell Xeon E3 series is quad core, single-socket. It uses the same die as desktop Haswell CPUs. The Mac Pro is six core, double-socket, so it must be a "-E". Based on the availability date (later this year), it must be Ivy Bridge-E. Intel will almost certainly call it an E5.
US nuclear bombs 'based in Netherlands' - ex-Dutch PM Lubbers
This isn't the best solution. Instead do as others have suggested and make a subdirectory of your project the webserver root.

This solutions just stops nginx (/whatever web server you're using) from displaying the file. If someone finds a remote-file inclusion vulnerability in your app, in all likelihood they can use said vulnerability to browse your .git directory -- because, hey, it's in your webserver directory, so the permissions are almost certainly set up so whatever user the webserver is running as (www-data probably/hopefully) can view it!

(Obviously if your webserver user can view important files such as these elsewhere on the system, you're still screwed -- but reducing attack surface, etc etc.)
So cords everywhere then. I do a lot of photo editing an have close to 10 TB storage internal (I repurposed the optical drive bays). I can keep all of my working files internally and only have external drives for archiving and backup and aren't connected all of the time.
It may just be my own setup but to me it seemed slower to load than many other sites I visit.
That's about as smart as saying babies are human so they can vote. Just to make it clear to you, because you seem a bit dense, that means what you said is extremely stupid.
I'm going with BS until they provide more details. They don't even mention what version of Chrome and Firefox they are testing against.
Looks like Sweden has even more intrusive snooping than PRISM, if you can believe that. I'd look toward Iceland, personally.
I get that, my point is that you could just say "Assembled and designed in the US" and be done with it. Does mentioning California really give them so much more culture cachet?
If it's so easy to accomplish, why doesn't it happen more?

Maybe because outside of Vince Flynn and Brad Thor novels, and Hollywood summer blockbusters, there aren't actually that many people who: A. are motivated to conduct a terrorist attack, and B. equipped / able / willing to do so.

It seems that no one who brings this argument up acknowledges the possibility that terrorism doesn't seem like a big threat precisely because of the extreme precautions taken to stop it.

The problem with this line of reasoning is that it's not falsifiable. I mean, here ya go: I have a Tiger Proof Rock I'll see you. It absolutely protects against tiger attacks. How do I know it works? Well, in 39 years, I have never once been attacked by a tiger.

Anyway, this whole line of discussion shows exactly why we need more transparency and less secrecy from our government. We don't know if what they're doing works or not, because we largely don't know what they're doing. And this is not how a free, open and democratic society is supposed to work. We should not be a nation of secret laws, secret court systems, and shadowy government agencies operating in the dark.
Occasionally call phone numbers at random.

Ask about the weather. How was the ball game? Don't take long.

Then hang up.

Associations networks will hate us if we all do that.
I can't seem to find a way to share the local/personalized results I get with others via link. Is it even possible/reasonable? Would appreciate any advice, thanks.
Sorry my statement was very poorly phrased. What I meant was, self sacrifice is not a duty imposed (or even encouraged) on you implicitly or explicitly in a democracy (like voting is, for example). It's only a duty if you believe it is. Yes, this is a tautology, but you seem to be asking for a specific answer to a question that inherently depends on each person and each situation. The majority-minority dynamic further complicates it (i.e., if you are in a minority of Americans who cares about what the NSA is doing, do you have a right to sabotage or expose what they are doing, despite being against the majority?).

As for harmful to a minority, you're thinking of winner-take-all electoral processes. Democracy is usually meant to describe the overarching idea of self-rule with checks and balances. I can't think of a single democracy in the developed world that doesn't have a minority-friendly self correcting feature (whether or not the checks and balances are working properly is a different matter).

To me it comes down to, do you "believe" in democracy or do you actually BELIEVE in democracy? The former means that you don't actually give a shit about the type of government you are ruled by until it infringes on you and yours. The latter means that to you, living in a democracy and being free (from oppression, surveillance, an over-zealous majority, etc.; whatever freedom is for you) is as important an aspect of your identity as your job or your family.
I never got math or liked it until I had to do real-world things with it, at which point I dug and managed to teach myself things that I needed. Nearly all my math teachers were horrible. One or two of them seemed almost intentionally obtuse... like they were trying to trick you and taking pleasure in your failure to understand what they were teaching.