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China can veto any extradition.

HK and US have a mutual extradition treaty for actions that are illegal in both countries. Presumably leaking state secrets is illegal in HK. Furthermore, HK is quite willing to extradite to US and does so on regular basis.

So the question of why China (or HK if you prefer), remains.
Interesting that he used the word "machines." I wonder if we're talking firmware hacks or even code in firmware that very few people are aware of. Could Intel say no to a NSL without breaking the law?
Do they allow changing the settings or just enabling and disabling wifi?
They're advertising quad-channel DDR3-1866. That entirely rules out the desktop-class processors, which have never been used in a Mac Pro anyways. The Xeon E3 and E5 lines use completely different die configurations and motherboard sockets, and the E3s don't have enough PCIe lanes to feed all the peripheral connectivity the new Mac Pro will have.
A few years ago I was cutting it close for a flight from New York to Maine. Everyone else had boarded when I got to the gate. When my wrinkled, self-printed boarding pass threw error noises, the agent told me just to go, "and run!" I breathed a sigh of relief when I was on the plane, but puzzled that a French tourist was in my seat. When we saw that both our tickets had the same seat we called over a flight attendant. "Wait, where are you flying?" she asked. "Portland, Maine?" With this comment I now fully understand the terror came to her face as she exclaimed, "This plane is going to Paris! Sir, you have to get off this plane immediately! Run, sir, run!" They shut the door behind me as I left.

So yes, always double check your gate assignments at the airport, as they may have changed.
We all knew a UI refresh was coming, but most of the iOS7 interface concepts were unexpected. Same with trashcan Mac Pro and 12hr Air: we knew there'd be refreshes, but the details were surprising.

Also, while there's not much glitz to 10.9, the list of iterative improvements is extremely promising, assuming it delivers.
Apple introduces iOS7
It is very nice; the model of 'everything is soldered down' is really annoying wherever you find it (my BMW, my Mac, &c.) But I think that the difference in cost between standard expandable hardware and custom stuff is shrinking really rapidly, meaning that designers can now do more things with e.g. thermals or layout that are not feasible using PC style standard hardware.

The age of swapping out parts is coming to a close, I fear.
Apple introduces iTunes Radio
>The Mobile Safari tab switcher looks like a clone of Chrome of iOS/Android. Control Center? Christ, that's been in Android for ages.

You mentioned 2 features out of 1,000 Apple showed this morning. Google copied the entire concept and design of the iPhone. Big difference.
umm, thats not special to apple, their competitors also do it, and I guess most large US companies.
For the Pro market, expansion and user customization far outweigh form-factor. I have a 2000 sq ft lab space and 500 sq ft office, what do I care about the form factor of the Pro if I can't throw in my stock NVIDIA GPUs and any arbitrary hard drive?
It's not "flat", it's layered. I like that.
He says "plant bugs in machines" , so that would seem to imply malware of some variety.
There's a reason 'Phobia' is a clinical diagnosis, not a policy justification.
Hold on, they never give direct access to the passwords.
If you have iTunes Match.
From a corporate perspective: Apple's pretty much wholesale using Google's new design philosophy now, with some stuff grabbed from WP and webOS along the way. This really isn't helping the innovation debate too much.

From a personal perspective: Yay! I have an iPad and iPhone and I'm looking forward to them looking much better.
Master Developers: Christian Heilmann
I feel like all of the design and promotion in this WWDC was a notch or two less egocentric than the mean of the last 5 WWDCs; even their tagline has become less idiosyncratic ("the intersection of liberal arts and [whatever else it was]") to "making good products people love". They made fun of themselves relentlessly ("no stitching, yet the calendar doesn't fall off the screen") and showcased unrepentantly nerdy features. It felt a little like a shift from the Apple of Jobs to the Apple of California, down to the new OS X names.
The common defense I hear for this is that "what matters is that Apple was the first company to get it right".
Are you sure that means you can easily switch a locked phone to an untrusted network?
The thing I don't like with this is that Apple, with Jobs, used to set the trends in UI not follow them.
What style of ammunition is standard police issue? Hollowpoint? FMJ?
I was confused that they used different interactions for safari tabs vs multitasking. I feel like the multitasking interaction is cleaner ie. right/left swipe to change tabs, swipe up to dismiss.

Note: the only bad thing I noticed haha.
In the demos/screenshots it looked like fast switches where you could enable-disable things (wifi, bluetooth, airplane, flashlight), nothing more.

edit: http://www.apple.com/ios/ios7/features/ confirms it

> Turn on or off Airplane mode, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Do Not Disturb. Lock your screen’s orientation or adjust its brightness. Play, pause, or skip a song. Connect to AirPlay-enabled devices. And quickly access your flashlight, timer, calculator, and camera.

(emphasis mine)
It automatically suggests new passwords based on Random strings when it sees a password box.
So, this update might actually get me to switch back to iOS from Android. Anyone else?
So don't set your phone on promiscuous mode.

I'll be willing to bet the controls only show whitelisted (i.e. previously visited) wifi points.
The FCC Uses GitHub
For what it's worth it loads quickly for me (1/3 second). East coast US.
Probably not gonna happened, but it would solve so many problems with public key crypto. Key distribution? No problem, tie your public key to your gmail account. Need to communicate with someone? Just send them your public key. Goole would verify that key X belongs to mail Y, another problem solved. Mix it together with some javascript library (source code available by design) and you have almost perfect and simple to use public key crypto for masses. Oh well time to wake up….
If you redefine 'practical level' to include basic statistics, which is almost entirely ignored, I might actually agree with you. Basic statistics is essential for the eminently practical purpose of not being ripped off and lied to, and is, in fact, much more useful in that respect than trigonometry, which is mainly useful if you're either going into calculus or becoming an engineer.

It's also a great way to introduce the mathematical mindset of breaking problems down and figuring out which rules apply, which also has great practical value but must be taught in context if it is to stick.
Yes, 256 bit AES.

It's unknown how many of those bits the NSA knows already.
Because what can be done to you, can be done to me.
I love the update on their website too... They've managed to flatten everything.
KickBorn version 3 is released
We would not know, they can not even acknowledge the gag order legally. This is the beginning of the end for US based technology companies.
It's also somewhat aimed at foreign invasions. "The security of a free state" goes both ways--a free state securing itself, and securing the freedom of the state.

The Japanese were pretty worried about landing on the West Coast because they'd have to fight through miles of woods, filled with Americans who knew the land, carrying hunting rifles.
For one, the new design is quite innovative.
And if the firetrucks still didn't make it in time or ignored the warning signs because the fancy smoke detector gave off lots of false warnings....

I still don't see a flaw with the underlying argument.
Hey, your bag of stupid is leaking into other threads.
Some of the apps like Weather, notification center, Stocks look brilliant, other seem too white. Why is it so damn white?
All looks very sensible, but I'd be interested to see a split-test. You never know what will or won't convert...
Great artists steal?
This is Cook's Apple. And Federighi's iOS.
Looking good so far.
Thank you for sharing this. I've been working and listening hard and anything that clears up conversion tactics (especially when just handed to me) is gold.

Cheers.
Nothing in there was particularly unknown as far as I know – Webkit 2 has been around for a while, Blink wanted a different direction on much of the newer architectural decisions IIRC.
Designed By Apple Video
I haven't read the article yet, but clicking on the before/after links got me to say: "Aha, it's a book!" in the first second after opening the 2nd link.

So even if it's only this (which I'm sure it's not), huge improvement in the clarity of the message.

Do you have data on the conversion rates before/after redesigning the landing page?
Why doesn't Google up the security in its own apps? The government may "force" them to provide access, but can it "force" them to remove safeguards like encrypting email/chats/etc? Even if they just gave us the option to check a box, and it wasn't on by default. The problem I'm seeing with all these solutions is that they're very specific to two users, they both need to have everything set up. Well, great, the NSA will see one less conversation when they peek through your stuff. I'd like to have ALL my messages encrypted.
The choice of colors and gradients look terrible. They made iOS look worse. They swung too far away from skeuomorphic design. Even the art on the icons, without considering the colors, look like an amateur drew them. Look at the SDK icon:

http://i.imgur.com/JXw7KQA.png

That is ugly. So is the iTunes icon, so is the Safari icon. Not a fan.
For android, but:

https://guardianproject.info/apps/gibber/
Any guesses as to when Apple will drop the "X" from "OS X"? The name "OS Ten" is getting a little long in the tooth. I hear people pronouncing it "OS Ecks" more frequently these days.

At the code level, I assume we will live with the 10.x version numbers forever, like Solaris 11 is also "SunOS 5.11".
I hate Google for their lack of respect for privacy, but I disagree. Copied is pushing it, definitely. I'd say "inspired". There has been plenty, plenty of innovation on Google's side.

Also, the concept of a capacitive touchscreen existed before the iPhone, take the LG Prada. Apple wasn't the first to do it. They were the first to do it right, and if people are inspired to improve upon it further, I see that as a great, positive thing, not a bad thing. I don't see how you could call yourself a hacker with that kind of mentality.
Meteor 0.6.4 release: new OAuth packages and recommended updates
De-motivation wrt learning actually is a relatively well-researched field in psychology. Essentially, you learn to become demotivated by a series of aversive experiences with the subject. Unlearning your avoidance strategy is hard work cannot be done by carrying out some tricks. I know from personal experience that it can take years to unlearn an avoidance mindset.
It looked like you could turn it on and off.
So will developers have to redesign their apps to bring the visual look more in line with this new version of iOS?
The old iOS had such a defined design language, I wonder if opening an app that doesn't have the new "flat" look will feel terribly inconsistent or jarring.

The free radio service sounds unbelievable though. I'm very jealous of iOS users just for that (even though I'm not a big music listener)
I really really hope, they improved the dog slow of Terminal.app
It just feels like the like source is different for different icons (some go light-to-dark, others are the reverse), and it's driving my designer eye crazy.
Are Goose and Iceman the next releases?

Sea Lion was 100x better

And Keychain stored in iCloud, yeah, nice try there Apple.

Finally - the new MacPro looks like a roll of toilet paper encased in glossy plastic. What is that thing.
> Jetbrains have a suite of IDEs for developing applications, but the iOS one had to be gimped to only work properly on OSX.

What do you mean by gimped?
I'm sorry, is this windows phone ?
Well, sure. America should do the right thing because it's the right thing to do.

But I would like to stress that it's actually possible that America might make different choices about e.g. foreign policy issues than other nations and it still be a reasoned, deliberate policy choice and not 'tyranny and oppression'.

The easy example is how freedom of the press in the U.S. naturally conflicts with the Islamic prohibition against depictions of the Prophet Muhammad. I can only imagine how well freedom of expression would have went over during the ancient battles between iconoclasts and iconoblasts.

So many people are preconditioned now into opposing what America does for no other reason than that America did it. China or Iran spies on their citizens and filters what they can see? Who cares, they're China and Iran, we expect them to be totalitarian; but because they do what we expect we give them a free pass! Why? Instead we buy stuff from China and Iran even while we're busy boycotting the USA? Uh huh, OK.

The U.K. and Sweden manage to out-do even the USA in public and net surveillance? Whatever, they're European, they're the "good guys". Nary a whimper anywhere in the world.

So if people want to hate America than whatever, but at least stop acting like they're applying the same standards to the USA that they do to the rest of the world.
Why do you think it does not help?
If a company operates inside the borders of the U.S.--and rsync.net does--it is subject to U.S. law. If they receive a FISA letter they will give up the data because U.S. law says that they have to, or go to jail.
Braun KF 20

http://goo.gl/fNfU8
Nice. How did you figure that out?
I truly believe that's the case. It's simply a subjective opinion, not trying to lie. I think it's better than twitter because of the reply system, whereas twitter doesn't support conversations very well. You may not think it's better, but it doesn't mean it's a lie. Although, I would love to hear your thoughts on why it's not better. :)
Actually, I'm not so sure, after reading this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exigent_circumstance_in_United_...

Of course, it all comes down to how reasonable you think our current criminal law policies are.
I took that to mean that they have exploits they can run once they which will let them take over your machine and install keyloggers etc. to report back any further activity. It wouldn't take much for them to purchase or develop a suite of vulnerabilities for all the major operating systems/browsers which they keep current, and once they have that any encryption is pointless as they can see what you see/type/hear. He mentioned it right after talking about seeing your machine on the network and mentioned hardware bugs separately.
Thing is, that's definitely NOT a joke
Apple Releases Developer Preview of OS X Mavericks With More Than 200 Features
Here's the link without the annoying cover:

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/06/10/inside_the_...
> I used to have your opinion, based on textbooks.

I do have compiler development experience, but alas as you say this is not getting us anywhere.
Eric Schmidt's quote

“If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place”

becomes

“If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know maybe you shouldn’t put in on the cloud in the first place”
because Apple presents all of them as major, radical innovations without acknowledgement of their prior existence

I don't think that happened in this case. Indeed, the presentation seemed to have an awkward elephant in the room feel where Apple needs to both embrace functionality that their competitors have long had (e.g. Control Center for iOS is a close to identical clone to what Samsung has had in TouchWiz for years, later to be adopted by Google into Android...but swiped from the bottom rather than top), only celebrating that it is now available for iOS.

Apple is absolutely stealing a lot of functionality from Android for this release. There was one point early in the demo where they showed an iOS 7 lockscreen and I actually thought they were showing a Galaxy S4 lock screen. Bizarre.

And there is nothing wrong with that. And as a current Android device user, if they can pull that off with excellent Apple execution, it may just induce my next purchase.
I wonder what those will feel like on a emitted light display rather than in a giant auditorium. Same for the blue text on white.
So cords everywhere then

Sounds like marketing gold for Drobo and Drobo-style solutions.
New Airport Extreme
Something that greatly improves everyday use of the device, but isn't a ripoff of something that's been on several versions of Android already.
So now Apple will have a pretty major ad platform in the near future. I just wonder if it was their idea or a result of negotiations with the labels.
Wonder how that impacts resale. Do you need to "unregister" your device to sell it?
Likely whatever obscure feature OP thinks is important to him and not others.
Very unimpressed. They put lipstick on a pig. iOS was in need of a big update and this isn't it!
@pixelmonkey i recently implemented a chef/vagrant deployment to the rackspace cloud. I'm extremely curious how you managed to share the setup between rackspace cloud and local vagrant boxes. I used the vagrant-rackspace plugin, and it seemed like I would need a separate vagrantfile for local vs remote deployments.
The flat trend was widely expected since Ive's comment, the Windows Aero overlays were kind of ironic in a silly way, a great direction nonetheless.
I agree; this was a developer's conference first, and a product unveiling second. As much as I hate to say it, I think I like Cook's, Federighi's, and Ive's Apple more than I liked Jobs', Serlet's, and Forstall's Apple.

They care more, they listen, and that speaks a lot.
WEBRTC support for XMPP
Strophe is a xmpp api for web connections, but don't support Jingle.

This extension provide Jingle/Webrtc support to this library.

This API support Firefox and Chrome Webrtc API.
Ask HN: Best hardware for doing the coffee shop / bar testing?
Hi,

You've probably seen the threads here and there on HN about testing your product live in coffee shops and or bars to see how real users break it.

I was wondering if anyone, since those submissions, has tried it out and what hardware worked best.

Right now I'm leaning toward buying a Chromebook with 3G. That way if it is broken or dropped or spilled on, I'm not out a MacBook or anything like that.

Thanks in advance for any advice,
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To be safe. It may be more difficult for people to swallow initially (which explains why no administration has or will act that way, gotta maintain that power now), but I think we would all be better off if society were pushing us towards logic-based policy rather than pandering to irrational emotions. We're sociopolitically treading water (or worse, slowly drowning) by continuing that.

Why do we still go to war? Sending our own people to die senselessly by the thousands, for what again? It's 2013 and America is still spending vast sums of money on weapons and war. Utterly ridiculous. But that is what people have done since the dawn of civilization, and despite all of our knowledge and "enlightenment," we're still catering to these primal animal urges.

The nihilist in me says "fuck it, if that's what they want, that's what they get," but the idealist weeps at the thought of the existence we could have built...
Perhaps he thinks that revealing technical details would actually hurt national security? (And I could easily see that.)

His goal wasn't to tear down the NSA, but to reveal what they've been up to domestically.
"We can plant bugs in machines" doesn't mean that they can do it remotely. That would actually be a serious serious backdoor and would put all kinds of businesses in mortal danger - banking, credit card, online shopping, etc.

Imagine what one rogue NSA employee can do with that kind of backdoor access.

So ENCRYPT EVERYTHING, and don't believe this propaganda. If your hardware has a backdoor, you're fucked no matter what, but businesses are fucked much much more.
Two words: "Chilling effect"

When I googled to see if anybody else had made that connection, my main find was a DOD paper from 2004.
I'm kind of surprised and amused that the NBA expansion team chose the name of a Roast Beef Sandwich restaurant in Minnesota. http://www.mavericksroastbeef.com
Enduring quest for superfast trading takes to the air
the iTrashcan looks fantastic.

iCan is super motivational, too.
I really can't believe they released this. The pictures are sometimes full of everything, the colour choices are especially weird (white and blue, why?) and overall I really understand Jobs' and Forstall's vision of the iOS UI better than Ive's.
The functionality looks much worse than Google's Play music service, but it's free, so there's that.
We actually took a lot of logo inspiration from the CNN app, instead of Path. If you had a chance to take a look at the app. I'd love to hear your thoughts.
Looks a lot like Windows Metro interface.
I'm kind of surprised and amused that the NBA expansion team chose the name of a surfing location in Northern California (1961): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mavericks_(location)

;)
I'm pretty curious will this affect 3rd party apps, like Facebook and Twitter. Apple didn't show them on the demo ( and any other 3rd party app ), so basically we should be careful of how we design apps in the future!
Android was backed and later bought by Google in 2005, and unveiled in November 2007.

The first iPhone was released in June 2007.

They were developed simultaneously, Apple was just first to market by five months.
So weird not having support for individual songs. This might hurt Pandora but this won't be touching Spotify's business.
I'm sure they are more interested in who you talk to than what about most of the time. I would assume they want to track people close to persons of interest they know about.
Where "entire concept and design" encompasses the totality of "touchscreen". That is it, and comparisons between iOS and Android 1.x are almost comical. To take that even further, Google didn't so much copy (because there were many other touchscreen smartphone devices pre-iPhone), but rather learned from Apple's commercial success.

Don't let the anger of the late Steve Jobs guide reality.
In fairness, check out the "Thermal Core" section on this page:

http://www.apple.com/mac-pro/

It's a pretty sweet design. Huge central fan in the middle of the column, and three big aluminium plates to conduct heat away and into it.
And with 1Password being "broken" for some versions this spring, I'm not entirely bothered by this latest sherlocking.
The FBI already plants or at least attempts to plant malware on targets (recently: http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/04/25/texas_jud... and regularly: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/04/fbi-spyware-pro/ )

Also, judges can now order people to decrypt whatever ( http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/05/decryption-order/ )
The apple tv desktop extension is something apple was way behind on. AirParrot has had that for 1.5 years. http://www.airparrot.com

*disclaimer: I'm a former employee of AirSquirrels the maker of AirParrot. I have no real interest in making them money other than I have some friends that still work there. :)