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Most cities in the US don't have squares or city centers. Even ones that do exist are often empty, or inhabited more by the homeless than anyone else.

I believe the culture is improving here, but for a long time, cars were such important symbol of wealth that being a pedestrian gained a small but real social stigma. Large cities that were already thriving and had very affluent people who didn't drive bucked the trend, but in your average city in the US, if you're on a street and not driving, you look poor, mentally unstable, or homeless.
It's likely "real". By real, I mean that I just ran JSBench on my MacBook Air with Safari and Chrome (latest released version of each) and Safari came out significantly ahead (Chrome took 1.75x longer). They're claiming 2.53x faster than Chrome in that slide so that would mean an improvement of probably around 50% over the current Safari in terms of JS speed on this benchmark. So, it would seem that this particular benchmark already favors Safari's JS engine and that the next Safari will improve on the current Safari's performance.

Now, the issue with JSBench is that it's real-world JS, but only from 5 sources. Granted, they're 5 sources that are very high-trafficked, but it's still a small sample size (http://jsbench.cs.purdue.edu/).

Similarly, Apple showed off SunSpider benchmarks showing the next Safari being faster than Chrome. The current Safari on my MacBook Air beats Chrome, with Chrome taking 6.9% longer. So, part of it is that each browser maker has its preferred benchmarks.
It appears that they still haven't changed the keyboard layout. You'd think in 7 revisions that they'd make some adjustments to the keyboard. I am not a fan of the always uppercase.
The control center on the lockscreen is pretty hilarious to me. I can't wait to put my friends' iphones into airplane mode when they aren't looking, and see how long it takes them to figure it out.
Not sure I follow why this is a valid retort... grandparent comment was not arguing against the flexibility of "reasonable," but rather the direction the interpretation is being taken in. I agree that creating future-proofed laws with wiggle room can be beneficial, but that does not mean we have no need to be vigilant against that same wiggle room being used against us.
But it's something that people voted on, something that people knew about, something that people had a chance to protest...which was not the case with PRISM. I mean, yes, people did vote on the Patriot act, but I wonder if things would have been different if there was more transparency in putting this system into place.
As with all things, it varies, but hollow points and sabot rounds tend to be popular due to their better record on overpenetration.

Frangible rounds provide a far lower likelihood than an errant shot will punch through the wall and kill whatever's on the other side of it (which is why they're also the preferred rounds for home defense and such too).
I think iCone has precedence.
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Why don't you wait until you have a freakin' phone in your hand and try it?
Both Google and Facebook are in excellent position to actually bring public key crypto to the masses in a usable, it-just-works, kind of way. But of course both have every incentive not to do it.
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But if you put a dome on top, legs on the sides, and painted it blue and white...
I'm actually curious what would make you switch, considering I didn't see anything they introduced that Android doesn't already have
Since I work at Google, you'll have to qualify that claim, because in my opinion, Google has more respect for user data than most other companies.

The iPhone 4 actually looked like an LG Prada as well.

James Hahn demonstrated many of the multitouch gestures before Apple, proving that other people were coming up with the same ideas independently as soon as the tech for detecting multiple touches accurately was available (capacitive touch)

Apple did bring a lot of things together in the iPhone 1, but that shouldn't give them the right to own the entire concept of a touch screen phone, nor should they be allowed to hamper competition through stupid patents like the data-tapping patent.

Imagine if IBM had patented the PC or Xerox the UI, and aggressively sued anyone who tried to use them, as well as refusing to license at a reasonable rate. The entire PC revolution, which was kicked off by cloning and free-form building on the work of competitors, might have been hampered.

Apple stands on the shoulders of giants too, and they should not attempt to cripple those that want to stand on their shoulders.
I love how people are simultaneously describing it as un-original and a ripoff while also invoking Android, WebOS, Windows Phone and Windows 7 Aero as to what it's "ripping off".

Maybe it's actually original? If you think this is Windows Phone, you've never spent any time on that platform. Windows Phone is defined by solid colour tiles and typography. iOS 7 isn't, at all.
I guess he confused that with the GPUs.
This is how Android looked like, before and after the iPhone was introduced.

http://www.designer-daily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/iph...

Let's get the timeline right:

2002 - Steve Jobs started thinking about working on a Phone

2004 - Apple Engineers started working on touchscreen technology for a tablet PC and had convinced Steve Jobs that they could build a similar interface for a phone.

2005 - Partnership with Cingular(AT&T)

Early 2006 - Work on the iPhone started.

Dec 2006 - LG Prada was released. <===============

Steve Jobs Announced the iPhone Jan 2007.

June 2007 - iPhone released

http://www.wired.com/gadgets/wireless/magazine/16-02/ff_ipho...
This is great for Twitch. One of their larger problems is the amount of potential content they're missing out on due to the technical difficulty of streaming. It requires powerful hardware and a lot of software setup.

The closer they get to offering one-touch streaming, the easier it will be for new streamers to enter the ecosystem, and the better Twitch's content will become.
If its any comfort, you can probably get a home screen replacement to look exactly like ios6.
I look forward to all the R2D2 mods this will birth.
How would you implement a decent backdoor in your hardware? Would it be supported by software? How do you force the TCP/IP stack of someone's FOSS operating system to send unwanted data?

IMHO he was referring to some backdoor in software. How about a nice ubiquitous piece of software? Windows? JVM?
I can't even read these comments. They swing too wildly from people loving the redesign to hating it. Apple was never, ever, going to be able to live up to everybody's aesthetic standards.
The Verge's liveblog was confused, they saw the AMD GPU logos and thought they were talking about the CPUs.
They have been using different JavaScript interpreters all along. Chrome also had per-tab processes since (it feels like) 2010.
Forgot <sarcasm> tag.

I agree that this double speak from US cloud tech companies and the government is putting US cloud vendors into peril. But seriously, the US cloud might be like the dollar. It's not perfect, but it is a known refuge.

There is at least some amount of oversight, however weak, if you have US customers - I would assume that all foreign rivals are actual targets.

Who said it's better to be an American ashamed of our foreign policy than to be a victim of it?
At the risk of getting flamed, you haven't actually tried it in the real world yet - you've looked at it on you monitor ...
The average user already has created most of the accounts she will create. Outside of HN not everyone is trying out new services everyday. I could also see many people being confused by a random password and think to themselves that they'll never remember it and then override to use their trusty [but] insecure password. It's also not cross platform so not a solution for many people.

It's not Apple's fault, I'm sure it's a great password manager. The problem is passwords are broken. Managers are a good band aid, but fundamentally passwords are broken.
Can you please explain why transparency makes sense to you?
Apple is doubling down on their segmentation here. They're clearly abandoning (I don't mean this in a pejorative sense) a mass appeal with this new iteration and targeting it specifically to 'actual' professionals: graphic designers, video editors, etc.
A classic over reaction by a member of the press. However it may lead to certain SLA revisions. If the NSA comes calling I will notify you before giving them access. Or people choosing to host outside the USA.
I think the idea here is that, between plentiful Firewire 2 and Thunderbolt 2, you now have enough external bandwidth that you shouldn't need internal cards. When given the choice, I prefer this route, since it means I can transport my proprietary stuff to other machines, or even use them with laptops in a pinch.

That might not work for you, granted, but the amount of bandwidth available between all those ports (20 GB/s in the case of Thunderbolt 2) should be enough to cover most use-cases.
You also have to consider that this loss of liberty was maybe exactly what the real terrorists wanted to inflict all along.
It would seem that developers receiving verified email addresses of users was deemed more important than privacy and supporting scenarios where email addresses aren't required to establish accounts :( IMO, a hard requirement should have been that email addresses are optional and Mozilla should go back to the drawing board for that reason alone. The "it technically doesn't have to be a working email address if the identity provider doesn't want it to be" argument isn't enough.

IMO, another hard requirement should have been that it involve no other parties than the user and the site where they are establishing an account and that approach should be easy for everyone. Major email providers are compromised and therefore email providers should be designed out of the process. Asking average users to setup and maintain their own identity provider is asking too much.
My thoughts exactly.

It's like Google's UI and Microsoft's Metro had a one night stand, then 9 months later dropped it off at the front-steps of the Jailbreak Orphanage.
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Other JS benchmarks are not based on highly-trafficked real-world sources at all, so perhaps "real" is relative.
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Thanks! I'll take a look at Gibberbot.
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Not sure if it's the beginning of the end. But of course, if you're a non-US corporation or government (or individual who wants to retain his or her privacy), then US-based cloud services are out. No Gmail, no iCloud, no Dropbox, no iOS or Android phones.
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i don't think you can distinguish between ios/metro/android designs any more.

the recent design shrieks of adolescence.

who here predict a wave of apps that go back to earlier designs?
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The cube flopped.

Let's try a cylinder.
I'm amused by all the disparaging comments about this new design. Every time Apple launches an incredible product it is always immediately decried. I'll wait til these are on sale before judging them.
Yeah, the cylinder design seemed a little bit "what?" at first, but after seeing the airflow demo... it makes a lot more sense.
I'd start with asking if future sales really depends on further development in the short term, or if further development is instead a way of moving outside your comfort zone and into a focus on business development?

--forgive me if I am drawing the wrong picture based on the details of your sketch.

In other words, if it comes down to features or customers, customers needs to win. Otherwise you may be spending too much time in your own head.

Good luck.
This is not my area, so excuse the ignorance, but this statement:

A: "The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything. With this capability, the vast majority of human communications are automatically ingested without targeting. If I wanted to see your emails or your wife's phone, all I have to do is use intercepts. I can get your emails, passwords, phone records, credit cards."

Specifically the part about 'all I have to do is use intercepts. I can get your emails, passwords, phone records, credit cards'. Does that not imply they have found a weakness in TLS/SSL? Once the information is transmitted (say my Facebook password) to an https endpoint it is already encrypted, no? So them 'sniffing'/intercepting the packets would do no good, unless they could decrypt them.
yeah, the thin, light text didn't look great during the presentation, but i can't imagine they wouldn't test it in bright sunlight/normal mobile phone situations, so I'm gonna wait til its actually out and in front of me to judge.
That's pretty standard for the PCIe type SSD cards. I've been watching them for a while I didn't know you could boot off them but it appeard that has changed

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I'm not sure what should be taken seriously if at all from it, either. But lets pretend for a moment that's irrelevant and the article does have a point:

During the last couple of days, we got to see this attitude you've demonstrated here, unfortunately, much too often - Not everybody here is from the US and it isn't all about you. Your surveillance is affecting us all but most of the discussion is about how it affects US citizens, since the rest of the world has no rights in the first place.
Those who knew said it would be "polarizing".

Indeed.
They said they were abandoning skeuomorphism but they sure made the Mac Pro look like an actual waste bin.
I don't know if this has been mentioned anywhere yet, but on Apple's iRadio page, there are pictures of iPhones with colored edges.

http://www.apple.com/itunes/itunes-radio/
Why would it BS? This is almost always the case. Safari has plenty of notches on it's belt, it's just that the Chrome and FF teams do far tighter release cycles allowing for improvements like this to be pushed out the door faster.

Safari is a great browser, always has been. This is hardly surprising or new, just like it's not novel that Chrome will meet and exceed those stats within a month or two of the release of Safari 7.
The pictures of iOS7 on the white iPhone look like those iPhone fakes from Asia.
oh, but with transparency you get to see the context :))
Wait - someone used Skype in Cupertino and decided to make this a feature of FaceTime? What is going on here.

(Nice feature btw, but 5 years too late)
Agreed. Did they do any kind of usability / legibility studies on the thinner typeface? I mean, I mostly use my phone to read email. Why would they reduce contrast on the default text and make it even harder to read?! Just because you have higher resolution screens, doesn't mean you can get away with a thinner sans serif. What's the point if everyone has to increase the size of the text to read it?
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Yeah, I ended up using the buttons on the side. "Rotate your mouse an indeterminate amount" is not a good UI interaction.
You can't upgrade it? What are those thunderbolt 2 ports for then?
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The character is ſ, and it doesn't go at the ends of words, so it would be: The purſuit of happineſs.
Are you talking about the process in Activity Monitor? It's just Safari's rendering worker process, just like Chrome's "Google Chrome Worker" processes. What it was "doing" is rendering pages and running javascript. If it gets out of control, CPU or memory-wise, it is almost certainly a misbehaving tab.
It is unlikely too many people want their privacy curtailed in exchange for convenience

You'd be surprised just how many people do exactly that, and I don't mean the average citizen either. I wonder how many of us in HN have turned on Google Now ?
If you're asking that question, and really aim to write crypto safe from the NSA, then I think you have a lot more learning to do. Just naming off a different mode isn't going to cut it.

The Matasano crypto challenges seem to be popular lately. That would be a decent place to start.
The design is reminiscent of the 20th anniversary Macintosh.

https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=20th%20anniversary%...
"Good artists borrow. Great artists steal."
The more I see screenshots, the less I like it. I agree the icons look amateur. The padding inside the edges of the icons is too small. I also don't like the color palette, they are far too in-your-face and gaudy.
It's a pure cylinder. How can a basic form be ugly?

I'm pretty impressed that they didn't slap a logo on the front.
Your implementation is vulnerable to MITM attacks. That will be the case no matter which AES mode you choose.

You are on the tip of the greatest problem with modern cryptography, which is that there is no real way for widespread confidentiality to be created without trusting a third party such as a CA. But once you trust a CA, then you become vulnerable to the backdoors available through the CA community (not just one CA.)

Personally, I'm hoping for a bitcoin-like protocol (such as namecoin) to create a peer-to-peer trust network for distributing public keys.

PKI is only useful when the root are truly trusted and tightly controlled (or even supervised with highly transparent audit programs). The current generation of Internet CAs don't even come close - they are not trusted by anyone except themselves, and they sure are willing to take your money if it'll make you feel better!
They tried to get away from skeuomorphism, but still some remains. Just look at PassBook or the ugly 3D browsing through tabs.

The whole design simply is not well thought out. This has clearly been rushed, which is not something I expect from Apple. If iOS 7 was leaked, people wouldn't believe it's the real thing. Sadly, it is.

I'm staying with Windows Phone.
Is someone seeing something more on this page than me?

I am using a the Rockmelt browser on a Mac Mini, and I am seeing only the trashcan thing...

The page has some secret trick or something to have more info???
I would have designed it the same way - Thunderbolt is the future of expansions, not tiny little cards you need to slide inside of the HW. This machine recognizes that - They give you 6 (six!) to play with.

Thunderbolt IS PCIe, so it's just as fast.. Why should card makers be constrained in expanding the machine to make peripherals small enough to fit inside? If I want 1 solid foot of Disks for my workstation, then so be it. Wire it in over Thunderbolt, and I'm good to go.
What you're linking to is not iOS7 but a mockup done by 9to5mac.

Oh, wait.
Maybe I won't like it in practice, but they sold me on "providing context."
Just an FYI, you can use the arrow keys (L and R) to scroll. Much easier.
Also, they can't. Be. Trusted.
Schiller explicitly said there would be external expansion options. I don't know if the GPUs can be swapped out though.
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I don't know why someone would use a liveblog when they offered a very capable livestream. Also quite the rookie mistake considering the AMD logo they showed had "FireGL" written right on it.
Would be interesting to see the current version tested against one without all the "Photoshop bashing" too. I'm not sure if that was a suggestion from the talk or another idea you wanted to try, but I feel it would be far more effective if you condensed the many long bullet points down to "Sick of static Photoshop mockups that don't respond like real websites? Feel like you're doing everything twice?"
(Maybe the bullet points belong in a blog or FAQ section with the title: "why not just use Photoshop?")

TBH I actually like your first landing page copy (other than it missing an above-the-fold "what's in this book" statement) and the second one also feels like a work in progress, so it'd be interesting to see how they both perform.
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The same can be said for Windows Phone.
There's no way a cat could sleep on it.
AMD GPUs, not CPUs.
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This doesn't make sense to me. There are two main stages to having your data analysed by such an organisation.

In the first stage everybody's data is run through, let's call it, pattern matching, to narrow down a very specific number of cases that have the highest likelihood of doing, having done or planning "something".

In the second stage, you might apply more resources to gather more data from your suspects, for example, by planting bugs.

But if you avoid triggering suspicion in the first stage, you don't have to worry about their capabilities, you're just not on their radar.

You might then argue that anyone encrypting their chats would then raise suspicion. Ultimately, such organisations have a finite limit of human resources to apply, certainly not enough to deal with any wide-spread usage.

If this were to happen, think from those organisations point of view. They need to stop it and can't scale to deal with every single case. You'll then find that encrypting your chat becomes against Google's T&C, because someone lent on them. And round it all goes.
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I only have before data right now, and not a lot. I'll be sure to post data for the new landing page, just as soon as I get some.
Are you suggesting the Mac Pro ever had mass appeal? This strikes me as the opposite, abandoning the 'actual' professionals in favour of a weird mass market design.
Price would be nice.
They have 'suggested passwords' feature. It sounds a lot like 1Password, but is there going to be a PC client or web client to access those passwords?

I wouldn't dare use it if I was on another machine I hope (I have a mix) and not have access to my passwords. If it's Mac-only, that's going to be a problem.
Possibly, if they had say, a backdoor in all Intel/AMD processors.

The question is what he meant by "We can plant bugs in machines."
If it wasn't in English, its unlikely there would be much discussion here. I could be wrong however...
A more interesting question is why he made himself public at all.
It only allows you to disable or enable wifi/bluetooth/airplane. This is pretty much 100% lifted from this old jailbroken iOS app: http://cydia.saurik.com/package/sbsettings
What about Sea Cat? It's a small marine mammal in Chile and Perú that is about the size of a cat. It might even be a feline.
The fastest PCI Express is faster than the fastest Thunderbolt 2.
I would be salivating at this if I run China. A chance to replicate the entire knowledge economy, the same way that was done to US manufacturing.
More like the 20th anniversary Macintosh subwoofer. The cpu was behind and below the screen, just like an iMac.
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> Just because you have higher resolution screens, doesn't mean you can get away with a thinner sans serif.

Yes, it does, actually. As resolution increases, so does the Nyquist frequency, which means you can accurately convey higher-frequency signals. In spatial terms, more resolution means finer lines without aliasing errors.
And it becomes black
A cylinder is not a Platonic solid.
I hate to answer a question with a question...but:

Does Apple make a pivoting display?
So http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope#Fallacy then?

I'd have to see the causal link between some abstract thing happening to me and another (similar but different) abstract thing happening to you, but until someone shows this causal link, it's a fallacy.