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Apparently Apple believes that Thunderbolt 2 changes that equation.

It looks to me like they've tried hard to make sure that the included GPUs are adequate for 90% of their users, at least for today. As for tomorrow their philosophy has always preferred replacing the machine rather than upgrading it piece by piece.
NATO's record to keep the world safe and peaceful is nothing short of a disaster. Arriving too late with too little is often how NATO's interventions can be described. Laughable at best, and in return people end up hating NATO for their lack of timely action to save lives.
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Fusing with lasers?
Mac evolution history
PlayStation 4 will have no used game restrictions or online requirements
The app ecosystem is the only thing that's really missing and I tell my friends; If I had Instagram and Googles ecosystem of apps, I'd be set.
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Web inventor Berners-Lee warns forces are 'trying to take control'
Yes, it's called solid laser sintering.
In private correspondence, or in public? Where?
I guess nothing can compete with being in space. If he could go back, I'm sure he wouldn't retire.
The crypto on your online backup and password syncing services should be both strong and entirely client-side. All they should be able to provide to an attacker is useless cyphertext. If not, you probably shouldn't have been using said services in the first place.
This would be a bad idea, tacically and economically. In a protest, at least in the U.S., you can take measures to protect your identity and not carry any documentation, along with the ability to flee on foot in any direction. You also have no tangible assets on you that the government can seize.

In a vehicle protest you forfeit anonymity (lincense plates), ability to split since road-blocks can easily stop you, and most importantly your vehicle might be impounded.
Clearly, this doesn't work so well. Obama was first elected around this "change" and to be frank, not much has changed. At the risk of being overly pessimistic, I fail to see how the next president will be any different. He/She will be trapped in the same continuity of secrets and money. Maybe the democrats will be ousted from power, but so were the republicans
There are probably things that still need to remain secret, just like corporations need secret to protect their business. However, to insure a minimum level of transparency, the government should clearly SAY what kind of things are going to be secret, so that the scope is clearly defined (for example: locations of nuclear weapons will be treated as classified for obvious reasons), as well as the constitutional limits of whatever secret operation can be carried. Likewise, there should be budget restrictions on secret operations to ensure nothing huge can go out of the radar without public scrutiny.
It's not a modern or uniquely American concept. Consider the story of the prodigal son, for example. The wayward son received all the attention, even if the faithful son had a bigger inheritance left in the end.
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> what was the excuse for voting for him again in 2012?

It probably depends on which person you're talking about and how they decide to allocate votes: some people vote to signal some measure of approval of a candidate, some people vote to send one kind of message or another, some people just vote to select one of the available candidates.

> One day they bitch about invasion of privacy the next day they want the same people to have every bit of control over their health care.

I don't know what your level of familiarity with the various threats to civil liberties is, but after reading this, one could be forgiven for thinking that you don't know very much about the recent health care legislation if your working summary is that it provides for the government to have "every bit of control" over each individual's health care.
Yeh, I have a friend that went from a Lumia 920 to an S3 and then an HTC One and he want's to come back. I live in San Francisco so I get joked a lot about my phone until it's time to take a picture :)
Not to fork the discussion, but: I'm thinking of putting together a new (Linux) PC for my needs (which are mainly number-crunching, photo processing, etc.). How much of the tech in this Mac Pro is available today to build one? I'm not sure I've seen any PCIe SSDs, for example. How about Thunderbolt 2?
It's not that Apple felt nobody wanted a weather app, it's that there are a lot of weather apps on the store already. The App Store guidelines do tell you that apps that replicate existing functionality may be rejected. And Apple already had a weather app, all they did was update it to be better.
Ask HN: Can the Mac Pro run Crisis?
This one: https://www.apple.com/mac-pro/
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They just murdered the xbox one.
Rabino - I'm not sure what you are suggesting here. I'm trying to understand if you are commenting on Apple's well known philosophy of not engaging in any form of end-user design engagement, or whether you believe that a company of Apple's stature would absolutely engage in usability testing.

A lot (many? most?) of Apple's design decisions are made by designers who create the best product, based on a combination of their intuition, design sense, and overriding design principles.

Some application (Podcast App) - have clearly never seen any form of usability testing prior to release.
This is great!

Thanks so much for sharing the code, it's extremely helpful.

I've thought about making something similar (notifications for certain events via SMS) and I'm wondering if you know if Twilio can charge a fee to the end-user for every text? i.e. if for example I say "Subscribe to get an SMS every time there is a tornado in your area, for 50c per SMS" (I made that up, BTW)
It looks like the app I was thinking of is called Clear Day[1], but it was known as Weather HD back when I used it.

[1]: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/clear-day-formerly-weather/i...
Agree, but it should be applied to as much of the government as makes sense, right now.
The freedom to travel (and thus conduct business, politics, or pleasure in more than one place) is one of the essential freedoms of a just society.
The Treason Act of 1495 was extensively modified before 1788 (when Australian law forked from British law). Furthermore, every State and Territory has extensive legislation repealing ancient laws such as these. Sometimes you find Acts that just repeal old laws (usually Imperial Repeal or similar), or the old laws are repealed as part of the some other Act (eg various criminal codes, property legislation etc).

Reading a history book doesn't make you a lawyer.
Revolution is one violent gang fighting another violent gang, producing a new boss that's same as the old boss. Instead, seriously consider ways of living and behaving which minimize your contact with and support for all gangs.
For starters, you have to be in the US or a select few other 1st world countries to be able to publish in the Play store.
I started coding when I was like 7 or 8 years old...

Was I a freak or is that a generally acceptable age to start teaching the average child?
I don't think he meant it in a strict mathematical sense. Just that it's easy/natural to pick a direction on a line and say point C is after A, and B is in-between; whereas on a surface there isn't an obvious ordering.
This is an element of a couple Sci-Fi books I can think. Laws expire every N years (N=10 in the example that comes to mind first, that of the planet Sapphire in a novel series called Worlds Apart). This keeps the governing bodies busy enough renewing basic laws against theft/rape/murder/not paying taxes that no time is left for other things.
Well it certainly seems like they learned from the PS3 launch. They also appear to have found a fairly snarky marketing team too http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWSIFh8ICaA
I was very surprised at the price, but with the ability to play online multiplayer now being a part of Playstation Plus, they can afford this. I was impressed by both conferences, but assuming Holiday season is November, I think the PS4 is looking really good.

Also, Kingdom Hearts 3. That alone kind of made my day.
That's why it was called M.A.D. - Mutual Assured Destruction - with dark humor. Nobody chose it, the world just evolved that way until it became codified.
I wonder what Microsoft's thought process is behind the "no used games" policy. Anything I'm missing?
For example: http://www.hss.gov.yk.ca/hssc_minutes.php

AFAIK, all local governments do this
If it ever spread, I imagine the ATO would crush it like the fist of an angry god. They have enormous powers of investigation, assessment and judgement.

Plus it's passed into folk legend. It'd be bad politics to stamp on it. I imagine that they're waiting for the owners to die or sell up and they'll collect their pound of flesh from the estate.
This. THIS. This a hundred times over. If I could give this a thousand upvotes I would. It actually makes sense to have a place to put the stuff that these agencies might be requesting from the companies. What else are they going to do? mail a CD? email a zip file? Wouldn't it make sense to just have a spot that is secure and give the various agencies access and then copy over anything they've requested (and granted access to) for them to collect at their leisure. An FTP site. A Dropbox-like thing.

But sadly, this one will get lost in the sea of panic.
I found the book, _The_Sociopath_Next_Door_[1], to be an interesting read. The premise of that text is that 4% of the population has no conscience. Moral obligations probably can't be explained unless you go to the meta-level and talk about neuro-chemistry and evolved behavior of social animals. Kind of like trying to explain romantic pair-bonding, or parent-child love, or religious devotion. Unless you have those experiences, you really are at a loss to explain how or what it is. I suppose it is similar to trying to explain the concept of "red" to a person who was blind from birth. You can talk about wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation, but it just doesn't seem to capture the gut-level feel for what "red" is. Sociopaths probably don't get the same bursts of endorphins that the rest of the population gets from performing socially important acts.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Sociopath-Next-Door-Martha-Stout/dp/07...
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I had never heard of this guy before this thread, but the original article cites Joe Bidan claiming Jewish industry leaders brought about changing perceptions of gay marriage:

> Indeed, just last week, Vice President Joe Biden praised so-called Jewish leaders in Hollywood and elsewhere for promoting gay marriage and other leftist causes, stating at a reception hosted by the Democratic National Committee, "Think of all that. I bet you 85 percent of those changes, whether its in Hollywood or social media are a consequence of Jewish leaders in the industry. The influence is immense ... and I might add, it is all to the good."

The article you cite removes this context and starts quoting at the very next paragraph, as if the Klayman guy is just saying it, rather than repeating Biden. (He may very well be saying it himself, I'm not familiar with him, but that kind of misrepresentation should be called out in any case.)
I've been to Hutt River Province. No one is going to invade that country any time soon. There are no spoils to be had.
Cute, but unlikely to be Snowden's job.

* The KRSOC is about 35 minutes outside Honolulu, far enough to not be "Honolulu" http://goo.gl/maps/R2vYe

* The position clearance requirements are just SECRET, NSA roles require TS/SCI + full scope poly

* There are lots of BAH jobs in Honolulu at PACAF and PACOM, amongst others.

* Positions of Snowden's type don't require 50% travel, those are more consistent with the PACOM and PACAF roles where you're supporting units throughout the Pacific.

All that said, these kinds of positions are a great way to go live in Hawaii for a few years. If you're young, single and want to live the island life for a while, it's a easy path.
About the "quite literally can watch your ideas form as you type" quote, it's not clear that it's referring to PRISM. It came at the end of the long WaPo article and comes across to me as something Snowden might have said about NSA's capabilities in general, not necessarily PRISM.

Firsthand experience with these systems, and horror at their capabilities,
is what drove a career intelligence officer to provide PowerPoint slides
about PRISM and supporting materials to The Washington Post in order to
expose what he believes to be a gross intrusion on privacy. “They quite
literally can watch your ideas form as you type,” the officer said.

If the NSA is snooping at the line level, which we know since the AT&T closet revelation a decade ago that they do, then they could see real-time typing in apps like Google Instant.
Dmitry's followup at the bottom of the page is both insightful and indicative of our nitpicking attitude to this. Is metadata covered under this? How about their routing and network equipment's logs? In the same time, when do we stop asking clarifying questions and arguing about the semantics of the message, a process that might turn into legalese and then lawyers talking to each-other?
I have not locked my cars in probably fifteen years. In the summer I usually leave all the car windows open (all day). Most of my neighbors do the same. It is common to see garage doors open all night in my neighborhood.

When I want to throw out something like a bike it can stay on the sidewalk for weeks if I don't put a sign on it that says "free, take me". So it should come as no surprise that we don't really feel the need to own weapons for any reason whatsoever. I enjoy target practice at the range a few times a year with my son. It's fun, and I think it is important to learn --particularly safety.

Now, I have lived and worked in areas of Los Angeles where you would not dare leave your car unlocked for one hour. I've had car stereos and whole cars stolen from right outside my window in those areas. What did we do? We moved.

Ultimately you need to consider what it is you want from life. If I have to own a weapon to feel safe at home I am living in the wrong place. I realize one isn't always free to make these kinds of choices. I get it. I also have to question if owning a few guns is of any use whatsoever as it pertains to curtailing a corrupt or over-reaching government.

Perhaps my point is that, if we have to resort to an internal armed conflict to bring our government in line we will have already failed at so many levels that this will, at that time, in no way resemble the country I grew up in.
As usual, the HN headline is misleading: it should read "Mac Mini Pro".

Oh wait, what?
Ah, we had an Apple II at school, but I learned my basic on the ole Commodore 64 at home...
As with other commenters here, I completely agree.

The NSA/Verizon issue has been conflated with the PRISM issue, because they were both published very close together and involve the NSA and broad scale data snooping.

I am horrified about the NSA/Verizon thing - because there is a court order that explains exactly what is going on, and it doesn't require too much technical knowledge to understand how bad it actually is.

The PRISM thing will scare me if it turns out to have "direct" and "unilateral" access to the servers of these companies. However, I doubted this from the beginning. Although I agree very strongly with this article, even they don't go far enough. The term "the companies central servers" keeps coming up, but even that is not a good representation of how the companies would store data of interest to the NSA.

Do the Washington Post journalists think that you just turn on the server like you do your desktop, open a folder called "John Smith", and then see a text document with all of their chat messages? Most software developers would have enough trouble trying to figure out exactly how the DB and Application layer of a piece of software works together in the first place - some decisions that DB designers or application developers (including myself) are horrifyingly baffling. And each company would have had engineers who made equally baffling, but extremely different design decisions with regards to data storage.

Then there is the number of servers involved. Would somebody at the NSA say "Hmm, I want to get details on John Smith, so I'll just log into Facebook's central servers and pull the details up." - there would be thousands of servers involved, and plenty of duplication and de-normalization. But still, what servers have details on John Smith? There probably isn't even somebody at Facebook who could tell you, let alone somebody accessing a supposed system like PRISM.

As the original article states, I think that it is more likely a system to deal with warrants and getting info from these companies through the typical channels that most of us are probably familiar with.

Now, if there is another AT&T-esque issue where the government is tapping into fibre to store data in communication, possible for future decryption, then that is a whole nother issue. As a previous HNer mentioned (can't find the reference now) we all "know" that the government is probably doing that, but none of us KNOW that they are, until we see a court order like that from the Snowden leak.
I think that depends on how good the new kinect is which comes bundled. The hardware is near identical. The used games issue and 24-hour checkins probably won't be a deal breaker for level headed people so I'd say this is still up in the air.
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I'll just throw in my two cents:
It seems pretty simple from my point of view. People switch between companies that win bids and contracts. Those companies now need to staff and they staff with the people from the companies that lost bids. The people that are picked up happen to know the systems that they're dealing with.

Also word gets around to which contractors look "hot" compared to others. They start getting resumes from people looking to jump ship.

Combine that with laws that stipulate some amount of contracting money must go to small minority owned businesses... yeah.
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I'll note (again) that the NSA slides could indeed be talking about direct from the central servers of the company without actually having direct access to the central servers of the company.

This is also not a pedantic point. It's almost literally like adding a getter method to a class instead of giving direct access to a member variable. E.g, for range-checking.

class GoogleCentralServers
{
vector<CompanyApprovedFISA> m_fisas;
vector<PersonalData> m_persons;

// ...
PersonalData PRISM_get(int fisa_id) const
{
if(fisa_id < 0 || fisa_id >= m_fisas.size())
throw GFY::NSA{};
else
return m_persons[m_fisas[fisa_id].person_id];
}
};

In our 20¢ implementation of PRISM we can see that the data is still coming directly from the personal data store, but that the NSA does not actually have direct access to that data; it has to go through a company-provided intermediary that checks that the request is valid and only then proceeds to obtain the data and return it.

In fact I'm pretty convinced this is the most probable explanation of all the different testimony and evidence provided to this point. You could later add provisions to do real-time updating of the data in the lockbox, etc. etc., but that wouldn't change the core of the system.
I'm guessing they expected a similar policy from Sony. Whether or not they had one and killed it after seeing the reaction to the XBox One is impossible to know, but we do know that publishers absolutely hate the used games industry, plus Microsoft (and Sony) take a cut of every new game sold so it's in their interest to move more new copies too.

I personally am not a fan of used games (I don't see it as being much better ideologically than piracy, since the people who made the game are not getting compensated on resales which provide an identical experience to one that you get brand new), but publicity-wise it's a very smart move on Sony's part.
It doesn't even have to be an API. How about just a secure server that only contains the stuff they can have. Or some software that they use as a request/response queue. They log in and get it.
Only thing I can think of is pressure from publishers. Maybe the publishers offered them more exclusives in exchange for the DRM?
I fail to see how that would have made him a "true patriot". Actually, fleeing the unjust wrath of a tyrannical government is about the most American quality there is. In any case, due to the Whistleblower Protection Act he broke no law.
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I'm not so sure about murdered the xbox one, but they certainly injured it greatly.

I suspect there are a lot of super casual bro-gamers who will buy the new Xbox out of habit for their COD and FIFA and Madden playing.

But then you have people like me. I'm a gamer across both the PC and various consoles. The last two gens, the Xboxes were my primary console and until Sony and Microsoft started talking about their respective next consoles, I had just assumed I would buy the Xbox One and not the PS4, but seeing the two options mostly in the light now, well, I've pre-ordered a PS4 on Amazon and have no intention of buying an Xbox One. This decision is likely to directly spill over to at least half a dozen people I play games with if not more.

Microsoft really fucked themselves with the positioning of the Xbox One and at this point I don't see how they'll be able to fix it in time for launch. I'm sure they'll still sell millions of units, but this is still an epic failure that I'm pretty positive will cost them their current leadership role in the space for the next gen.
There's a tradeoff between discless play and used games; allowing both leads to massive piracy (in somebody's mind).
I'm wondering if there already is a directory of open source plugins and projects that allow someone to quickly take any existing project (Rails, Django, WordPress, Joomla, Drupal) and publish it on Tor with a .onion address.
I'd like to point out that it takes about that long to get through the article and clip. But just the article deserves and upvote.
I feel like having a position with security clearances and all of that good stuff may preclude a young and single person from doing many things he or she might like to do.
In that case it's a given that you will continue to shake the thing, intentionally or not, and the ports will continue to be lit.
I use it all the time.

I am a runner, and biker who does not drive but once a week. When I leave the house I jack in the head phones and go. It would be a pain if I had to take out my phone to call people, or change playlists while biking or running.

Also I am learning Chinese so I use it as a language partner. If it can understand me then a Chinese speaker can.

Also when I decide to go to the movies, or eat while traveling I am not usually near a computer. I'm out with my friends. Holding down the button and and saying "I'm hungry" is a lot faster than opening my map application and typing "restaurant" which I usually spell wrong. :-(
With Boot Camp, sure.
I don't know, but it just hasn't been a problem. If something's that wrong with the expression chain I can just break it up temporarily.
Why would any "level-headed person" buy the Xbox One when it's:

More expensive, less powerful, Comes with anti-consumer restrictions

It's a no-brainer.
That's what I was waiting for too. 8GB of RAM in the Airs isn't enough.
> Microsoft OSes don't have any restrictions on what software to run.

They didn't until windows 8. The 'classic' desktop hasn't changed, but you can't run Modern UI apps other than from the app store, and on ARM you can't run anything that's not modern UI unless it's from Microsoft.

Microsoft also has other OS platforms (Windows phone) with exactly the same model as Apple's, only less transparent.