skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"In order for these services to become the main foundation of the Post-PC future, users are utterly justified in demanding binding commitments to security from service providers."

Which, due to the total secrecy of the government's process (e.g. National Security Letters), they cannot provide.

We could, of course, watch ever word we put on the cloud, including the supposed private stuff, but I'd rather not do that for a large class of things (submissions to forums like this are an obvious exception, I am after all submitting it for the whole world to see as it wishes).

The cloud can still be useful for encrypted backup, that's what I do with rsync.net to avoid loss by disaster, and it saved e.g. my email when the Joplin, Mo tornado hit 2 years ago. But put my spreadsheets on the cloud? The one tracking the blood test results of a relative's anemia (fortunately, it looks like it was a "hit and run" virus). No, I think not.
The design reminds me a bit of my "sunflower" iMac, which was a really nice machine.
Maybe they left some rubber duckies in there to remove later followed by huge applauses ;)

I like the overall new style, however a bit of redefining here and there would be good, like some of the icons. Great update.
Just like the good old Cube. Only the guts are in a triangle.
Palantir Director: We're "Middle Earth warriors " Battling "Evil"
More on Palantir's company ethos.
Because once the upgrade is installed there's no going back?
Are you seriously asking if Apple did usability testing for a design decision? Really?
I don't see how this is a mass market design. It's a bunch of Xeons cores paired with ECC RAM, stupid-fast storage, and way more GPU power than any reasonable person can use. And probably priced to match.

Weird industrial design != mass market.
This is incredibly beautiful and I'm sure quite expensive, but I want one, even it makes no sense to have one. Good work Apple
I still can't get over the choice to push in Bing. I know that both companies are hoping that the collaboration is going to equal good things for both of them but really, it is likely going to go the other way.
Probably NSA should take advice from Apple on making employees keep secrets
Because then there would be no comments here :)
It's not in the keynote, but if you get the Developer Preview you can see what's new.
Repair steam-engines, cut wood into tables, benches, and shelves.

Also, despite many many years of my life spent practicing I can still cut my head shaving!
maybe a new ipod touch? does not have a speaker but only a camera at the usual location.
The more I read comments on HN the more I wonder - what kind of project does the company has to release in order to get a positive comments from HN readers. It just looks like there is a bunch of losers who hate everything that other people do and complain about everything they see, instead of just being happy for something...
While it's a bit tinfoil hat, it's not impossible that there could be hardware backdoors in processors or other hardware triggered by a very specific sequences of packets.
Announcing Anki
Actually the details aren't that surprising, given what processor and gpu tech's available at present. I'm surprised there haven't been leaks about Maverick and the Mac Pro - I work for The Foundry, and tomorrow Pixar artists are demoing an early beta port of Mari on OS X with OpenGL4 (rather ironically, as Pixar mostly use Linux).

We've known about the OpenGL 4 in OS X and the AMD graphics cards in the new Mac Pro for a while.
I had to click a tiny arrow on the bottom. This is a great example of minimalism gone too far.
Doesn't seem to work on some browsers. Not on the latest Firefox but works on Chrome and Safari.
Worst webpage of all-time.

LET ME SCROLL damn it
>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.

Err, even though it does literally everything you want?

>Asking average users to setup and maintain their own identity provider is asking too much.

So you want a way to prove identity across multiple sites avoids needing any of a central provider, third party providers, and self-hosted providers? Good luck with that...
I tried Firefox on Windows 8. I did not find any animation effects. However, Chrome on Windows 8 has those animations, and the applications' scroll bar is hidden. Bad UI indeed.
I am the 2% and I still love it
How do you calculate the probability of a "lucky run" on a coin flip?
> Maybe because outside...

I explicitly acknowledged this in the very next sentence. The difference is that you assert this as a fact (for which you have no evidence) and I state it as a possible explanation.

> The problem with this line of reasoning is that it's not falsifiable.

And for the same reason the claim that terrorism is not a problem due to lack of sufficiently motivated terrorists is also not falsifiable. Hence my suggestion that the government scale back their anti-terrorism [spying] operations and see what the outcome is.

> we need more transparency and less secrecy from our government

Agreed.
Why can only developers write software? What kind of tautological question is that? If you write software you're a developer, even if not necessarily a good one.
Hello? Everything here goes N times over for the PRC.

Anyone here feel their government is more trustworthy than the US's???
Hurrah! GPUs sealed directly into the machine. No more keeping old macs alive with extra GPUs. (the quadro 4000 and k5000 really helped the 2009 macpro)

It also appears to only have one CPU. From what the page says its only got one Memory controller, which as the "new"* Xeons have onboard memory controllers. So that seems a bit of a fail.

*as in the same Xeons that have been in the HP Z620/820 for the last 8 months
1. The multi-tasking, switching between apps thing is exactly as it is in the android.
2. The tabbed view in safari pretty much mimics Chrome

So much for apple creating their own distinctive UI/UX. I don't think you can convince a lot of people that Apple does things differently or 'in their own unque way' that easily with this update for ios. And I say this as someone who owns and develops for iOS only.
http://movies.apple.com/media/us/ios/ios7/f34c5445-5a9c-4b3a...

To me, that looks just like the Samsung UI. (yes, Samsung copied the icon layout but you could still tell them apart... now Apple seems to have come the rest of the way to Samsung's side)
Ah, I keep forgetting those still exist.
Other than the operating system previews, they also seem to be standardizing around 802.11ac for the airport related products.
What you’re looking at is the Bose subwoofer that came with the Spartacus, it’s not the actual computer.

Interestingly enough, the subwoofer contains the computer’s power supply.

http://512pixels.net/2012/12/tam/
The design is risky, one bad chip could ruin it.
Funny thing about the iMac I have, you can't turn off the embedded monitor and just run an external monitor. It seems the new multiple monitor situation doesn't have any call outs for the iMac or anything sensible. I actually think they prevent this specifically in the sense that I should just want a Mac Mini or Apple TV and shouldn't doubt the ability to buy a way out of the problem.
On the theme that the "medium is the message"...

The tone of the voiceover is of one taking oneself a little to seriously, I think. What's more I felt it overbearing and that it occluded the message.

Are others liking the "medium" here?
Another astronomically expensive Mac Pro. This time hermetically sealed and unupgradable. Lovely.
Skinner Marketing: We're the Rats, and Facebook Likes Are the Reward
I was hoping this would be cool to help apple get over the incredibly tired skeumorphism fetish Apple's stuck in.

but seriously meh...

it's like somebody discovered the 2 and 3 color gradient fill in illustrator and called it a day

the new airdrop stuff is cool, but no substitute for a proper intent architecture

and the backgrounds are now all white

meh
On the theme that the "medium is the message"...

The tone of the voiceover is of taking oneself a little too seriously, I think. What's more I felt it overbearing and that it occluded the message.

Are others liking the "medium" here?
"We can plant bugs in machines" to me sounds more like a clue that this guy really doesn't know what the hell he's talking about.
I just read his recap, which seems to mirror season 1 of "The Wire" fairly closely. What I remember distinctly from that season (which I've seen in total at least three times) is the great degree of difficulty they had in obtaining the warrants, in meeting the burden of proof, and in convincing a judge that the burden was met to a high enough level to allow the kind of carte blanche access to such a broad tap.

Further, they were constantly in fear of running into the expiration date, and the battle was waged on whether they could get data of enough substance before the tap's expiry that they would be able to extend it.

The problem in reconciling the two situations is that in the Baltimore case, assuming the show faithfully retold that portion, it was hard, but in the case of the NSA, their approvals come from the FISC, which numerically is reduced down to a rubber stamp agency. Since their inception in 1979, up to 2012 or so, they have approved over 30,000 requests, and rejected only 11. Further, it seems that they're somewhat unique in a warrant-issuing agency in that they've provided assistance on those 11 such that requests were amended, reissued, and in many cases, granted. So of those 11 denials, I am led to believe that the majority of those proved to be slightly delayed approvals in reality.

Beyond that, I think that Mr. Simon overlooks the capacity of metadata at that scale, and how effective it could be in painting a picture in a way that smaller scale, Baltimore-wide data could never do. If, for example, the British had been able to capture 'only the metadata' of our founding father's meetings in Philadelphia, it wouldn't have taken much analysis at all to have proven what was happening (famous statesmen gathering in Philadelphia court house for overnight meetings, etc.) Just knowing the attendee list alone would have likely been enough to condemn them all for treason or assassination, and the United States might never have existed.
RTA Summer Academy Announces 2013 Class & Schedule
Show HN: Responsly — server monitoring for people
the white text on light backgrounds is unbelievable
Monitor your home with an old iPhone and DropBox
Booz Allen is hiring
Fantastic commencement address by Dom Sagolla
Darwin One: A crowdsourced space mission
So let's see... in Firefox I have FIVE apple logins saved, because they can't decide on which url to use:

* appleid.apple.com

* daw.apple.com

* id.apple.com

* secure1.store.apple.com

* secure2.store.apple.com

If they have trouble getting something as simple as that right, I'd like them to stay away from my keychain.
I wish I could but it would likely turn into an argument over partisan politics and name-calling. I'd rather not to do that.

What I would suggest is look into major political protests over the past few years and draw your own conclusions from their outcomes.
Node.js and Websockets: A Modular Approach
That could look just fine on a phone when looking hard to read on a projector in a auditorium
Map Stack by Stamen
On the theme that the "medium is the message"...

The tone of the voiceover is of one taking oneself a little too seriously, I think. What's more I felt it overbearing and that it occluded the message.

Are others liking the "medium" here?
Be happy: https://github.com/prof7bit/TorChat (description: https://github.com/prof7bit/TorChat/wiki )
Awesome. I've been wanting to play League of Legends in 4k.
Intercept could also mean man-in-the-middle.
Hacker News doesn’t seem to like the new iOS UI
Hacker News doesn’t seem to like the new iOS UI. Which means it’s probably good for everyone.

https://twitter.com/lrz/status/344176625899937792
(2011) Palantir, the War on Terror's Secret Weapon
It looks like a garbage bin.
Inferring the Origin Locations of Tweets
I don't see it that way at all. The Mac Pro has always been about the top 1% power users. The appeal was twofold: it was a bitchin'-fast machine you could stuff with as many cards and drives as you want, and it ran OS X.

This new design removes the former selling point. 12 core max (same as current)?? Four RAM slots (down from eight)?? 1/6th the volume (i.e. space to plug stuff in)??

This offers almost no advantage over a late model iMac with a Thunderbolt-to-PCIe breakout module (which is what many power users have been doing in the years since the last update).
Venezuelan Government to Sell State-Produced Cars Online
Apple Announces iOS 7 and New MacBooks at WWDC Conference
Then use one of your friends that has the developer account, or wait till it's on every phone in the Apple Store. Either way, the point is to reserve judgment until you use it. Just like everything else.
Glenn Greenwald is a partisan hack, his opinion is worth basically nothing.
That may be in the case in some situations, but I can recall several major, i.e. large, protests that resulted in very few arrests or problems with the police. In fact, some of them were a quite pleasant crowd if the reports were to be believed.

Sadly, you just generally don't hear much of them in the news.
I'm not sure if flipping through 3D browser tabs mimics a real-life affordance.
Yeah, but the iSphere would fit perfectly on top of the iCan.
Show HN? You need to show us something :)
It's never too late to be great
I always figured the better solution would be to have a cloud-in-your-pocket. You can carry your own data with you and sync backups to a site you personally control.

Phones certainly have the capability to do the job of a personal server (of course you may not want it to be an actual phone considering the latest snooping news). A mechanism to use any nearby desktop or laptop as a client would enable most of what you need without any requirement for an untrusted remote storage provider.
I realize that a lot of people will be focusing on the UI redesign for iOS 7, but the standout thing for me was automatic updates from the App Store. I think it's a huge thing for developers.

One of the biggest pains I think we face as developers is software fragmentation. So far Apple has done a very good job of having users update versions of iOS and keeping consistent with hardware specifications - it's probably one of the top three main drivers for why I develop primarily for iOS (sometimes solely for iOS). I'm thinking this reinforces that build-for-iOS-first mentality for developers. If the quality of apps is such a large factor in what's keep users loyal to the platform, this is an important point.
In Firefox, right click the element and select "Inspect Element". This will then show you the DOM, with the element higlighted. Then right click the hilighted element and click "Delete Node". Alternately, click "Web Console", and then type in the same command as from the example above.
I've never thought a screenshot of a mobile device's screen felt even remotely like holding the thing in my hand.

Exactly why it's foolish to only test mobile development on the Simulator/Emulators. I never use the Simulator for app development - it's not even remotely close to the same experience.
I assume he is referring to the strange decision to make the thing so small (and beautiful) at the expense of any internal expandability. So professionals are going to have all sorts of hard drives and external graphics cards and optical drives etc hanging off this thing.
The parallax effect is pretty cool.
Here's what Android looks like today - http://www.motorola.ca/consumers/MOTOROLA-DEFY-PRO/m-Motorol...

Android was built as an amorphous, multi-form factor OS from the very outset. That "before and after" picture is completely dishonest and only plays on enthusiast sites.
Obama, NSA, Verizon and DoJ sued for $3B over PRISM
I would have preferred Hello Kitty
> Agreed. Did they do any kind of usability / legibility studies on the thinner typeface?

No, of course they didn't. Apple is widely acknowledged in the industry as having amateurish design and an utter lack of anything resembling perfectionism or attention to detail.

Seriously, this may be a flop from them, but I cannot comprehend the mindset that would surmise they did no usability testing off a few screenshots.
Flying drone delivers burgers at restaurant - video
I had to enable JS to find out what you're talking about. The result was 200 megs of memory consumption and the realization I may be using a different kind of internet than most people when using NoScript. (I'm surprised they have a non-JS version.)
I thought it looked like a car boot mounted sub-woofer.
You Are Responsible For Your Privacy
Isn't the whole point of flat design replacing the loud superfluousness of skeuomorphism's textures with equally jarring psychedelic colour schemes? That's how designers prove their worth, by adding more stuff, right?
"Terrorism" is simply the most popular contemporary propaganda used as cover for any type of state overt or covert military action or agenda. In other words, use of extraordinary force must be justified by circumstances of mythical proportions. The real reasons for going to war or surveillance of citizenry, like the desire to acquire territory and resource control, or to suppress dissidents or political opposition domestically, are not ethical or marketable.
Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction: http://worrydream.com/#!2/LadderOfAbstraction This should be required reading for every developer.

While the redesign looks better, I'm somewhat turned off because it follows the same design strategies as used by low-quality info products:

* Cheesy book shot. At least it's not a fake "book generator" box. If this will be delivered as a PDF, why not use the Acrobat logo below a thumbnail preview of the actual cover/first page? To me, seeing real content lends credibility.

* Thin column of text with bullet points.

* Periodic bolded keywords.

* The only things it's missing are a "P.S." section and a breakdown of the cost savings over the alternatives.

I have no doubt that the reason these things are standard is that they work. However, for me the site has the same look and feel I've seen in many low-quality info product kind of sites. As a result, I'm immediately more skeptical than I otherwise would be.
We really got the game !
What about the stage where they just process the hell out of all the data they have about you and keep a profile?
Sadly, for those families where the iPad is just another shared computing device, it would appear that there is still no multi-user support. Bummer.
But, coupled with zero internal expansion, no spinning disk bays, and a small number of RAM slots.

I can't really tell to whom the product is targeted, honestly. If I were buying a Mac Pro for work, I'd want the expand ability. If I were a consumer buying a desktop, I'd get an iMac or mini.
What compels me to actually "buy" any song now when I can just stream it on "iRadio" for free?
Using DNS to Securely Publish SSH Key Fingerprints
I imagine they designed it for trackpads, not scroll wheel mice. It works pretty well on a trackpad.
I've always thought 10.9 would be the last, before they go to 11.0

I just don't think Apple marketing would go for "Ten point ten" or "eks point eks" or even "eks point 10"
tptacek doesn't seem to have found this thread yet, but he's said many, many times here that doing crypto in js is a bad idea: http://rdist.root.org/2010/11/29/final-post-on-javascript-cr...
if another hit to the US economy is what it takes to make things change ...
Why bother with bugs when they can just use van eck phreaking? I think it's safe to say that most cots hardware isn't tempest shielded.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonic_solid
I'm using Firefox 21 on top of Debian Wheezy. Works fine for me.
Partisan towards... what? He is a very strong civil libertarian.
This comment thread is why the internet is bashing so hard on HN. This is so extremely negative and hyperbolic, It's hard to understand. There are certainly things to be criticized in iOS 7, but invoking a plea to the holy lord for answers, is a bit extreme.

Can't we at least temper our criticisms with a few things we found positive and a good attitude?

Let me give it a try.

I am really excited about the control panel. It has a lot of very useful features that will save me time and frustration. However, I am concerned that the design of the control panel is busy and may make it difficult to make the correct selection quickly, we'll see.
I explicitly acknowledged this in the very next sentence. The difference is that you assert this as a fact (for which you have no evidence) and I state it as a possible explanation.

I actually meant to end that with a question mark, but I mistyped it and didn't notice until I saw your reply. I definitely don't mean to assert that as fact, but just floating it out there as a scenario worth considering.
The value of a decimal number is by definition the sum of its digits weighted by the appropriate power of 10.

If the fractional part is not finite, we need to compute an infinite series

n
0.999… = lim Σ 9/10^k = lim ( 1 - 1/10^n ) = 1 - lim 1/10^n = 1 - 0 = 1
^ n→∞ k=1 ^ n→∞ ^ n→∞ ^ ^
| ^ | ^ | | |
definition | induction | algebraic basic now we're
| | limit theorem proof getting silly
0.9 = 1 - 0.1
0.99 = 1 - 0.01
… = …

which is the case of a geometric series

∞
Σ a⋅r^k = a / (1 - r)
k=0

with a = 9/10, r = 1/10.

Another way to look at this is via the constructive definition of the reals as equivalence classes of Cauchy sequences of rational numbers:

The sequences (1, 1, 1, …) and (0.9, 0.99, 0.999, …) are just two of an infinite number of Cauchy sequences which make up the real number 1.
I think he meant bug as in: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert_listening_device

whereas you might be understanding bug as in:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_bug
Legally they are completely different things, different royalty rates.
It isn't new- Windows 8 had this at launch.
Somewhat more technical information found 2 links deep on Apple site http://images.apple.com/osx/preview/docs/OSX_Mavericks_Core_...
Everything Apple does always makes a lot of nerds angry.
People who claim they have nothing to hide never grew up in a small village or community.

People love to politick. People love to gossip. People love to single out those that are different. People love to be busbodies in other peoples' business.

Are you black? Are you slightly too white? Are you female/ Are you male, over the age of 19 and don't have a girlfriend yet? Do you not get up before 10AM? Do you work odd hours? Do stay up late at night? Do you like "those" kinds of movies that aren't our kind of movies? Do you prefer to sit quietly and read books? Do you not like killing small furry animals just because...? Do you prefer playing with computers? Are you fat? Are you not pretty? Aren't you cool? Do you not like the manly, healthy pursuits like hunting, team sports (but only the ones we play) and fishing? Do you drive the wrong kind of car? Do you eat the wrong kind of food? Is your hair not quite the right length?

People that say they have nothing to hide never grew up being persecuted for things that were perceived as different. There is a reason that in Amish communities shunning is an effective punishment.

Beware not of the dictators of this world. Be afraid of the little Hitlers instead for the world is full of them.
Delete your Google account and make the NSA sad.