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I worked in Apple Retail through April of last year, and this was the specific policy advocated during training, with the argument that goodwill from being down sold outweighed the incremental profit. The canonical example was MacBook Pro -> air after getting into the customers needs, but extended to air -> ipad if the person had truly limited needs.

I honestly expected this to be basically a charade dropped during training, but throughout my time there, all of the interaction with managers revolved around the feedback score given by customers and no attention was paid at all to $/hour in sales.*

*somewhat frustratingly for me, since I sold a lot of computers and received no benefits for it.
Yes, you're supposed to try to probe the customer to learn more about their use case. This doesn't need to be rude or abrupt, it can be a casual "So what do you do?" or "Tell me more about what you're going to use this machine for while it is pulled off the shelf for you."

If someone is dead set on getting a model, you aren't rude to them. Ever. But you do your best to make them happy.
I suspect this is because they just keep the vanilla baseline models in stock at the store. If you wanted to max it out, it would mean mail order.

Going into the store and finding out you can't get what you want right there on the spot means you will likely walk out empty handed.

If the sales person can convince you that you really want the vanilla model that is actually in the store, that's money.
"you may find yourself in a situation where what was said / wasn't said can be used against you?"

How is any interaction with law enforcement anything but this? Or with any party opponent?
So now they y can digitalize all the converzations
Are modern games easier or simply designed better?
You might not be better off for buying the lower-spec model. Especially on RAM, which at today's prices doesn't make sense not to max out. You may actually find yourself needing to upgrade your machine sooner than you previously would have (which has non-financial costs in data migration).

That said, I think the Apple Store employees know when someone is dead set on exactly what they need (which the OP obviously wasn't). I walked in and stated the exact machine I needed and they said, "just a minute" and got it for me without another word.
Multiplayer voxel world in Closure, written during Google's 20% time
I am most annoyed by the Google Play store being unable to seperate games and apps correctly. The app section is littered with games making it difficult to browse apps without being crushed by them. The games have their own section. They should stay in it to prevent this clutter.
Foxtel on Fox Classics. It's about 5 months behind (I think) and the Friday ep is always out of sequence for some reason.
Or just stop talking altogether.

You have the right to remain silent, remember?
What iOS7 should look like
Different strokes for different folks - but you're painting with an awfully wide brush. I'm a staunch urbanite who doesn't go to clubs, nor do I spend my evenings getting hammered at trendy lounges or whatever the stereotype-du-jour of urban dwellers is nowadays.

And I'm not an exception. The stereotype you're looking for is but a tiny subset of the population. If everyone you know prefers city life because of clubs and bars, it may be time to expand the circles a bit.
Its more that happy people talk.
But we are both right.
Known makers make up less than half of known hereditary cases of ALS. That is in families with a history of ALS, only about 30-40% cases have been tracked down to mutations in a single gene. SOD1 mutations are the most common form of familial ALS but like I said, if you had a novel mutation, meaning one that hadn't been observed before, you'd really have no idea. Also if you have one of many previously identified mutations that have been observed in only a few or even a single patient, you still couldn't be sure you'd get ALS.
Depending on the facts they already have the right to detain you for 24 hours, or if federal agencies, kidnap you indefinitely. So why do you care so much about an answer to a question that has no power before the force of these people? Just be quiet and hope they leave you alone.
You sure it's not just the caching tricking you? It's been a long time since I used a Mac but I'd be surprised if it didn't cache as much as possible. Unused RAM is wasted RAM.
Big Brands Are Growing More Quickly On Twitter Than Facebook
That's all well and good if you're a solo business traveler happy to sleep in a cubicle. But if you've got the wife and kids, one of whom's a toddler who needs some space to run around and the other a baby just starting his solids so you need to boil and mash veggies, I can tell you from personal experience it's damned hard to find a decent place to stay. Short-stay apartments haven't really caught on in Japan: your choice is basically either tiny business hotels, or renting an apartment ("weekly mansion") for a month-plus. Unfortunately Airbnb's still quite limited in Tokyo (very few Japanese people seem to know about it), but I'd go for one in a heartbeat if the location was decent.
True, you only need your password to issue a new key set to the keybag; you can actually monitor the protocol for devices that are distributed your decryption keys (including Apple if they were spying) and you get a popup on each device alerting you to this. It is possible Apple could create a back door for them to issue a certificate set to your keybag without your permission but that would be a can of worms for them, I'm actually comforted by the fact that they'd much prefer to keep end-to-end encryption for their own liability.
Ridiculous Fishing dev has bag of precious hardware stolen at E3
yeah it's soldered to the board. and i'll guarantee you're gonna regret going for 4gb.
Yep, I think that still is the case. Generally Apple products are terrible for repair and upgradeability.

Somewhat tangentially, iFixit's self-repair manifesto is great: http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto

If only Apple realized that allowing people to repair and upgrade their devices is worthwhile. If they really cared about their customer's best interests, they'd publish detailed repair manuals and make their devices user-repairable and upgradeable.

And the "making our stuff beautiful/sleek adds difficult design constraints" doesn't cut it: they could at least make an effort. There are many, many ways they could make their devices more user-repairable without compromising on the aesthetics.
Sure. Chris Mather did a screencast on building a multi page web app with Meteor - http://www.eventedmind.com/posts/meteor-build-a-multi-page-a...
Sorry, tried to look it up but too many false positives; What is Panic?
Study Gauges Value of Technology in Schools
They are simply describing your reaction to the question, and when you are formally in custody you have an immunity to that reaction being described, is the best I can dumb it down.

It's sad that the legal context of your presence would be the basis for whether or not you have a constitutional safe harbor that you can rely upon. But that seems to be Scalia's reasoning.
> The most common form of request comes from police investigating robberies and other crimes, searching for missing children, trying to locate a patient with Alzheimer’s disease, or hoping to prevent a suicide.

AKA Terrorism
When I worked in telco, if a customer came in knowing what they wanted I would not offer alternatives unless we did not have stock of what they were after. If you do, the moment something goes wrong, the salesperson is immediately the person to blame (in the same way that if you help someone who is computer-illiterate with their PC, everything that goes wrong in the future is because you touched it). Customers will come back, sometimes multiple times a day, to harass you because you 'made them buy this damn phone'. It never happened to me, but I saw it happen to many of my coworkers (especially the few who were happy to talk customers out of an iPhone purchase for an Android one, back in the 2.x days of Android).

He may have been trying to be helpful, but like you said, I suspect it was because they didn't have stock and he wanted to make a sale for his KPIs.
Tell HN: The CSS that Makes Medium.com Load Really Slowly
HN is always filled with great Medium.com links. But for whatever reason, in Firefox 21.0 on my Mac OS 10.7.5 (MacBook Air), every page on their site takes several seconds to load. It always felt like a bug and no other browser on my computer has this slowness. So I did a little digging and some binary-search-like process of elimination to find the culprit.

The problem is in this CSS resource:

http://dnqgz544uhbo8.cloudfront.net/_/fp/css/main-base.f4gmHr37dkTU585y-PwfDg.css

Specifically this line:

.wf-loading .post-header .post-title,.wf-loading .post-field.subtitle,.wf-loading .post-field.body,.wf-loading .post-meta,.wf-loading .post-author-card,.wf-loading .post-article .caption{visibility:hidden}

And specifically this part of that line:

.wf-loading .post-field.body,

I verified this by downloading their only two CSS resources locally and along with an HTML page from their site. I edited the HTML to point to my local CSS from their CDN and could reproduce the slowness every time (loading from my local SSD!). When I remove ".wf-loading .post-field.body," from the above-mentioned CSS, the page loads instantly.

I figure I could dig some more to see how that CSS class is being used any why it's being used. But I figure this is a good task for someone at Medium.com ... of course this may be a Mozilla bug. And the real defect may be in something that's slow prior to changing visibility from hidden. Anyhow, if a developer at either organization could fix this, I'd greatly appreciate it. Maybe some others experience this same bug.
let's not forget https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc

50 minutes long, but worth it.
SourceTree has been great and Atlassian's support is also excellent. However, I still can't work out how to turn off Git's overly-optimistic automerge, which leaves << HEAD strewn through files at random.
“Apple iMessage users should be aware that regardless of what they heard last week, their messages can be easily obtained by law enforcement pursuant to a warrant under the Electronic Communication Act [ECPA],”

http://www.globalresearch.ca/cell-phone-surveillance-us-law-...

So which one is correct, or does the language permit both to be?
And if he responded, "you should be fine—the i7 is only necessary for emacs"?
" I strongly recommend the 8GB RAM upgrade, RAM gets eaten up really easily and is definitely worth the extra $100."

While I absolutely and totally agree with you that the 8GB of ram for $100 is a good deal - OS X (at least in 10.7.5) is astonishingly good at making use of shared libraries.

I have 30 applications running right now on my 4 GB 2010 MacBook Air, Including VMware running Windows 7, and Aperture (two hogs) - and the laptop runs really well - even though I do have about 14 GB of pageouts. I think the SSD/Flash Drives finally makes virtual memory useable again.

I'm looking SO forward to upgrading to the 13" Macbook Air (12+ Hour Battery, Insanely fast SSD compared to the 2010 (already pretty fast SSD) - and obviously I'll get the 8GB (I run a lot of VMware instances - and, after about three or four client OS's running - Aperture starts to have trouble cacheing) - but for 90%+ of the population, 4 GB is probably more than enough.
Yahoo Becomes Exclusive Partner Of 49ers Online Content
Where does one have a bonfire in Mountain View?
MBA's really are the best ultrabooks money can buy right now. I'd say the X1 Carbon from Lenovo comes close, except if you want comparable specs you'll have to shell out a lot more cash, and that's pretty much the same story with all other ultrabooks out there right now - if you want comparable form factor and hardware to the MBA, it's going to cost a lot more.
I've never noticed a problem. I have the same set-up aside from running OS X 10.8.3.
A sales rep at the Apple Store did this with my wife, actually. When the unibody 13" MacBooks were released, she was dead-set on getting it. However, she assumed that the sales reps would try to up-sell her to a 17" MacBook Pro, so she tried to downplay her typical computer usage as much as possible. She went to the Apple Store and explained that she wanted a laptop for basic word processing, web browsing, and viewing photos, but, to her dismay, the rep directed her to the older, white plastic MacBooks and insisted that they would be the best fit for her! My wife had a great time trying to explain in the least superficial way possible that she was willing to pay more money for the better-looking computer, lol.
I'd say who paid you to say that? :)
Assuming Panic Software products, or the whole suite. Most popular likely being Coda: http://panic.com/coda/
Apple has never made the iMessage protocol publicly available for review, but from reverse engineering people have not been able to find evidence of end-to-end encryption, just SSL/TLS to and from Apple's servers.

> I do not see anything about retrieving public keys of users you are sending messages to; hence your message is completely readable/editable by someone at apple's servers.

http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/18908/the-inner-...

Further, an iMessage message can be received simultaneously on all your devices. Unless your private key is synced via Apple's servers, how would end to end decryption work?

And finally, there were incidents some time back where people were receiving messages intended for other people, but were able to read them unencrypted.

It would be nice to get some clarification from Apple on this, along with making the protocol and its security public.
This is still anecdotal, and that's still a retail store. Attitudes are very different there than in the board room.
Tech Analysis: The Last of Us
Really? But they have the most obvious url: http://panic.com/ :P
Ugh. I remember 2007 Xilinx tools and I wouldn't wish them on anyone. I was so surprised when I started doing FPGA work again and found even the old ISE versions I'm using (2010/2011-ish) are so much better!

I have access to newer software, but the designs I'm working with don't import correctly into them. :-P
Maybe more that the GitHub developers also use GitHub all day long?
I hear your points as it relates to the "Top Free" list and there is obviously a lot of room for improvement on discovery, but in response to:

> The “top” list simply rewards developers for getting as many people as possible to buy or download the app once. There’s no reason to optimize for longer-term satisfaction or higher engagement after purchase.

I personally find tremendous value from browsing the "Top Grossing" list. Being in the "Top Grossing" list is some indication on both long term satisfaction and engagement. It tells me that the application has generated real value for their customers and they are speaking with the wallets and not just with their ratings/reviews.
IIT Kanpur has great speeds. You can go upto 100 Mbps at times
What I meant was look to me as an example. We can't even be sure who's really an American citizen, right Trump?! Fist Bump!
GitHub Rolling Out Major Redesign, Emphasis On Speed, Content And Interactivity
The same thing already applies in the courtroom (ignoring the hyperbolic word choice of "intimately" and "nuances"). When you take the stand in court, you have to explicitly invoke your fifth amendment right. Nobody is required to tell you your rights.

The article explains how Miranda rights were already special. The requirement for the police to explain your rights was to mitigate the fact that custodial interrogation is inherently coercive (am I free to go? no.) and there is no judge present to interpret the law.
Take a look at the definition of "U.S. person." If she's here in the country legally, she would be a U.S. person, I recall.
"That's not really his business to stick his nose and interrogate you"

You don't think it's a salesperson's job to make sure that the Apple store is selling the right product to the customer? If you read the entire article, it turns out that this user was super happy with the solution that he ended up with, and saved about $750. I'd say the salesperson did a good job.
Austin's traffic is avoidable if you live and work in central Austin, which you can do for half of what you'd pay to live in the Mission.
There are a few videos on youtube explaining it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=AIBYE...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZApBgNQgKPU
I am not sure if this is the same Panic but there is a company called Panic that makes great Mac Applications: Transmit and Coda are their most famous apps.
Or worse yet, "cannot" as in authorized by a secret interpretation of that legislation blessed by a secret court...
Engineering is a science. Shitty title is shitty.
It's a bit ironic that the same technological "inevitabilities" that make piracy possible and DRM hard are the ones which make spying possible and privacy hard. Personally, I don't think either are inevitable (regulation is the answer to both), but if you think one is inevitable, you should think that the other is, too.
How are you handling photo backups with the iPhoto library on an external drive? Do you replicate it? I'm always fighting drive space on my iMac due to iPhoto, but with time machine running, I'm hesitant to move it off the main drive.
Well, 8GB of RAM also future-proofs you a little bit, and 4GB is starting to reach the cusp... 6GB would probably hold you over for the foreseeable future, but convention dictates 2GB => 4GB => 8GB.
If Apple is using the Obama administration's definition of "can't", then "Apple cannot decrypt that data" simply means, "Apple does not decrypt that data".
In most cases no-one will want to blackmail you. But people do blackmail journalists, judges and/or political figures with power. There is a track record of this sort of thing having been done even in countries like Canada (where the wife of a former PM was illegally monitored to try and get dirt on the guy). Or look at Nixon and Hoover.

In any environment where mass surveillance is technically possible and hidden from effective and comprehensive public oversight, abuse becomes permitted and hidden.

So standing up for privacy is not just a matter of protecting your own identity (although that is frankly reason enough). It is about protecting the conditions under which a free press and democratic society can survive, and in which individuals can act according to their moral conscience even when such conscience leads them to oppose entrenched power structures. And you should care about what happens in the United States not only because God knows how its security apparatus will use this data against your own country and elected leaders, but because American discourse influences global perceptions of what is seen as an acceptable level of state surveillance in other countries.
The police aggression is getting ridiculous.

My university is right next to a soccer stadium holding a Confederation's Cup game. Since the effect of these and other upcoming sporting events on public works is a major cause of vindication, a large group of protesters tried to move near the stadium and ended up clashing with riot troops. I was at one of entrances into campus, when police started throwing tear gas and shooting rubber bullets almost indiscriminately while yelling that anybody who stayed was going to get beaten.
That's odd. Maybe it's a Mac bug. I even tried starting Firefox is safe mode with:

/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin -safe-mode

... and still the same problem
You should care because even if it doesn't affect you right now, one cannot say that with certainty in the future.
Am I missing something? Endless scrolling is the reason GReader wiped the floor with the competition, without it Yoleo's not the same at all, plus it has a three-column layout. Also, with Ubuntu/Firefox, the navigation keyboard shortcuts don't seem to work... except in the right column, which I don't need in the first place?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percentages_agreement

Or, if that doesn't suit your fancy, any of the WWII dealings among the Allies about how things would be divied up.
or at least search words. I'm surprised Apple hasn't made a bigger deal of it than one sentence at the end of an unsigned statement
See my comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5897497 for some concerns I have that seem to cast doubt on the claim, along with a link to discussion of reverse engineering efforts that suggest no end to end encryption.
Weird that a team led by Andrew Ng couldn't do better with the 11 billion parameters model than with the 1 billion one.

This is becoming accessible for everyone. It's both exciting and terrifying. It has the potential to save humanity from itself or condemn us to totalitarianism. I am sure machine learning and NLP and statistical models are what enables them to analyze the data they collect on us.

Big, fast noSQL tables, clustering technology (map-reduce) and machine learning are what allows these guys to do what they do. Our most prized toys became our enemies.
Those suggested interfaces look very messy and inconsistent.
Hah, hey Patrick! Long time no see. Sounds like things are going well over there. I'll let you know next time I'm headed that way.
Strattonian Gambit
Did they remove the PushState support? Going back and forth seems significantly slower.
As a non-US citizen, the whole PRISM scandal is actually more relevant to us than to Americans, since Obama (and disappointingly, a lot of commentators here) basically decided that its perfectly fine for the NSA to spy on foreigners. The scandal blew up only because the NSA decided to spy on Americans.

Other than that, the risks are the same as before. You have to trust that some unknown entity (in this case, the US government) will not misuse your private data.
The JVM Situation and Scala
Norway Cloud Service Touts NSA-Free Storage As Alternative To Dropbox And Others
Replace Brazil with Argentina, and everything you two have said would still be correct. As a country, we are much more alike than we like to acknowledge.
Just curious, are you implying that piracy is a flaw in the system that we must try and get rid of? And also implying that regulation might solve it?

While the first is a matter of opinion, I must disagree with the latter. Laws have tried and failed to curb piracy for as long as piracy has been possible. Unless that's not what you meant?
Too much... stuff. Lots of small buttons IN ALL CAPS. Irritating UI "helpfulness" like (just one example) overriding right-click on article titles, so you have to right-click, aim pointer, left-click to open the original in a new tab.

The showstopper for me is the lack of infinite scrolling, although only today (after using NewsBlur for several months!) did I realize it's apparently intentionally crippled so I'd go upgrade to the premium version.
If You Love Watching Videos Online, This Is Your Dream Job
I've asked myself the same question after recently playing Battle Isle 1 again... Seems to me like the learning curve of modern games was so much shallower. But this is of course only one example and not representative as such.