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Get over this already. "Flat" design or whatever the hell we all want to call it has been the application of the International Typographic Style to UI elements across phones.

If you are worried about somebody ripping somebody off, worry about the works from Jan Tschichold, Adrian Frutiger, or Josef Müller-Brockmann being ripped off, not MS, Apple, Android, or whoever else.
If you're interested in that technique, check out Jack Horner's book "How to Build a Dinosaur" [1]

[1] http://www.amazon.com/How-Build-Dinosaur-Science-Evolution/d...
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I once was in a building that had a natural gas leak and subsequent explosion. I then watched the local news coverage about it on several channels. Every one got the facts wrong, the story wrong, about everything wrong.

It made me far less credulous of news stories.
ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) has had a Code of Ethics for a long time. http://www.computer.org/portal/web/certification/resources/c...
> The conflict is either small, likely involving only SEALs, drone/tactical strikes, or another group of special forces, or full scale, involving (initially) a Pacific strike group fleet. The only logical progression of a full scale military conflict between two nuclear powers is nuclear warfare ...

It's not quite as black-and-white as that, as illustrated by the history of the second half of the 20th century: The U.S. and USSR engaged in several proxy wars (Vietnam, Afghanistan, arguably Central America), but never came close to nuclear war.

(Neither the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis nor the 1983 Able Archer scare involved a war, and the Korean War of 1950-53 was apparently started on Kim Il Sung's own initiative to the surprise of the USSR, although there have been reports that Russian pilots flew North Korean MIGs in air-to-air combat with U.S. planes; when China came into the war in November 1950 it wasn't yet a nuclear power.)
Maybe corporations could go off the coast of nation states[0]… not that they will beyond the influence of them, but states may have no legal authority over them under those circumstances so they may have more freedom to be more transparent to the public because of their interests to their bottom lines.

[0]: http://www.seasteading.org/about/
As I look at the upper-case keys on my 2012 Macbook Pro, I'm not sure why you think they are going to do this.
Without government intervention, I don't think this news will disrupt the habits of typical consumers. They'll continue using whatever is easy or the most popular.

Corporations that have a vested interest in providing security (or the illusion thereof) may reconsider cloud-hosted solutions. But that's probably a relatively small market.
Complete waste of time. This is not where your problems are nor is it going to lead anywhere. May I offer http://chxrambling.tumblr.com/post/52584359139/why-are-you-s...

"you need to attack corporations bottom line for political reasons and make it very clear that's what you are doing"
``History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme." -- Mark Twain
No, it's like someone having a good idea, and someone else saying it was theirs.
"Please do not email, text, or even talk on a cell phone while driving."

I knew of a woman whose husband was killed while driving to work. In the opposite lane, on a narrow road, was a young woman who, while driving, was trying to put cream cheese onto her bagel, so she could enjoy eating it while driving. She unknowingly veered across the center line and the 2 cars collided, almost directly head on. The guy was killed. The woman was saved by the airbag in her car.

I agree that driving is dangerous. I agree that doing anything that distracts you, while you are driving, is dangerous to yourself and others around you. But I would not want to elevate texting and cell phones above other activities that drivers do -- eating is also a big risk, dropping food on your lap is distracting, etc.

The risk of emphasizing texting as uniquely dangerous is that drivers will start to underestimate the risks of other dangerous things they do.
So I'm a bit confused. Google has been happily complying with NSA without a care or concern in the world. Now some news leaks that they have been.. Happily complying with NSA without a care or concern in the world.

So they release an "open" letter trying to redirect the masses attention, and I'm not a little shocked it's working. People are actually praising Google? WTH? If Google really cared this letter is like 5 years too late doncha think? Google cares about one thing! That they got caught not giving a crap about the privacy/rights of their customers.

News Flash, they still don't give a crap. But hey, if losing gmail, google+, picasa, blogspot, drive etc. would just cause your world to fall apart, then keep using it and just be honest that you don't give a crap about your privacy or rights any more than Google does.
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Then why don't you do it?
Redesigning the entire OS is a bit more complex than proclaiming that it is similar to something and you can do it better.
Steve Blank: Startups Are Getting A Little Too Obsessed With Fund Raising
Who owns the rights to QuarterDeck's old RamDoubler software? I can hear the lawyers coming.
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Even at flexible workplaces, it's hard to find a place to nap unless there is a free room/couch somewhere. I tried taking a nap on a bench at Yerba Buena Gardens once but was kicked off the bench by the Park Guardians. :(

When I can't fit in a nap, a brisk walk gives me a good energy boost or even switching to standing at my desk... in fact, I'm about to switch to standing now. Have you tried that?
Bradley Manning trial to be recreated in comic book form
Ah yes, excellent. It wasn't obvious to me I had to roll over to get the shortcuts.
Different people have different reasons for idolizing Apple, and one would be its role in the past half decade as the innovator, the leader, or the envelope-pusher. Taking cues from other companies' products goes against the refreshing originality we've enjoyed from Apple so much.

Disclaimer: I'm not saying I personally agree or even think this viewpoint is entirely true; just offering some insight.
I kind of like Waze at very least for the police speed trap notifications.

I can't see Google continuing to support that feature.
A Eulogy for Skeuomorphism
Presentation of offerings from multiple partner companies is often randomized to prevent bickering between said partner companies over their positioning.
Install apache2 mod_security and mod_evasive on Ubuntu 12.04
Keep the NSA from tracking you by decentralizing your cloud storage.
Why do you disagree with hands-free devices? What do you think about conversing with a passenger during driving?
Ooook. I think the bulk of what you're saying is spot on, but I can't let this go: "One of the greatest violations of liberty in American history"?

Let me get this out of the way, in case there is any doubt: I hate PRISM and I hate the crazy-broad FISC warrants. And I hope we never stop talking about them until they are good and dead.

But seriously? One of the greatest violations of liberty in American history? Here are some real contenders, just to name a few: Slavery. Japanese internment. Hoover's FBI. McCarthyism. These things are just horrific tips of the iceberg if you're looking for civil liberties violations in U.S. history. PRISM is not even close, and anyone who cavalierly suggests otherwise is just asking to be disregarded in any serious conversation about these issues. And a serious conversation is exactly what we need to have, so please leave that sort of loose talk at the door.

Keep it up, and our opponents will succeed in making us out to be loons, they will adjust the discourse to marginalize us, and then nobody will be listening as reality begins to catch up with your comment.

Speak carefully. This stuff matters.
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My point is that you could expect such an obvious decision as making a mix of UX styles of two other competing platforms to be executed a bit better.
It has been working pretty well for me. I had an issue during install where I couldn't activate my phone. I had to restore back to iOS 6 and then "restore" from iTunes by selecting an upgrade file. It was a pain but it turned out okay.

As for bugs and such, I haven't encountered any that would stop me from using the beta or are frustrating. The only app I have right now that crashes on my is Google+.
The keyboard could easily switch between upper and lower case depending on what the user is actually entering. Why wouldn't they do that? It just seems like an easy win.
No, but they work for the guy that can--
1. Veto prosecution efforts, and
2. Provide literal get out of jail free cards.

So, there's a pretty good chance that unless its a rogue NSA operation, they are pretty well covered on the whole threat of criminal prosecution front.
With the news out that UK and Dutch law enforcement have been fed data from PRISM, I really don't think anyone should take this feigned outrage seriously.
As a founder who also does our customer support, I got a big chuckle out of this. Its amazing how many people have such visceral reactions to change.
The screenshots I've seen so far remind me of nothing so much as Windows XP.
Transcript: http://votesmart.org/public-statement/295064/cbs-early-show-...

SEN. BIDEN: But this idea that no court will review, no Congress will know, and we've got to trust the president and the vice president of the United States that they're doing the right thing, don't count me in on that.

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Mind blown x 2
I'd hazard that it's about five minutes harder to set up that way and makes sure that each product gets equal attention space.
Unless Apple comes out with another expandable tower that has multiple sockets and supports > 128GB of ram I won't be buying one of their desktops.

I have an _old_ Q6600 based hackintosh with RAID SSD and RAID 10 secondary. Granted the ram maxed out at 8GB but the machine is still speedy. Having > 64 would vastly simplify my workflow by enabling more VMs to be live at the same time.
As another commenter suggested, I suspect ClickToFlash or something similar would help. For comparison, on the same version of Safari, I have more than 50 tabs open in several windows and Safari uses about 3% CPU in the background.
http://gigaom.com/2005/09/20/redmond-start-your-photocopiers...

I dont get where people got this obsession from either.
Yeah, 4chan shouldn't be your lead-in supporting web community when you're trying to look legitimate. It's bad enough that silly sounding names like "Boing Boing" are in there so early.
It looks like you have some familiarity with a variety of different technologies which is fantastic.

The most important thing is just to pick a direction and get started. It doesn't have to bee anything more specific than "I want to build something using Raspberry Pi".

Once you pick a direction you can start working through some basic tutorials and learning the ropes. At this point after understanding what's possible you might get some ideas about what you might want to do.

If you don't have ideas yet that's ok, but now you're pretty well equipped to research what other people have been doing with your platform. You could build somewhat different alternatives to existing projects, or work on trying to contribute an extension to an existing project.

If just looking at projects doesn't spark any ideas start talking to people. Start with people who might know something about your topic at your university, or reach out to individuals in the community.

The key to a research project is just getting interested in one idea or question. Once you develop a little curiosity about on little thing it's like pulling on a thread that's connected to a much larger tapestry. Maybe your original idea has already been done but you find something else that's closely related that hasn't been done. You'll quickly be able to follow this tiny thread to a much larger world that will be of great depth and in general can be very interesting. If you have the diligence to carefully review existing work it's not hard to steer yourself to a totally uncharted area (this is probably a lot of work for a senior thesis but if you find it fun then go for it).

Also don't worry too much about originality. Re-creating something that already exists is a good learning experience, and might lead to other interesting ideas, like taking an existing thing and using it for a slightly different purpose. Just make sure to give credit where it's due. This isn't a PHD thesis and I don't think you'll be knocked for not making some brilliant original discovery. The key thing is to get started and follow your curiosity.
The same goes for illegal extra-judicial killing of citizens... don't think too many figured that it would be resolved by simply publishing a DOJ argument explaining that it's perfectly legal.

If any good has come from either of the last two administrations it may simply be that more people on both sides of the popular political spectrum have become convinced that the government is not our friend.
In that ever court case involves a judge interpreting the law, and none of the FISA cases will ever be public because they involve confidential targets, informants, sources, and methods of intelligence gathering, yes.

But the prevailing view seems to be that the whole FISA program is a system of secret laws, which is not in fact the truth.
I'll to have the butler print it out for me before I read mine.
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If found this brief bit: "Say no to most things: Features. People. Partnerships. “Coffees.” Projects. Only a few of them really matter. (Yes, it’s hard to know which.) Don’t get distracted."

http://addicted2success.com/success-advice/evan-williams-the...

But it would be great if you could get him to speak about this in more depth.
I think it really depends on the person. I always get an energy boost heading to the gym and I find my mind is clearer from the endorphin rush. Some people are clearer out of bed; I have had allergies to pollen and the environment all my life, so going to the gym clears it for me and I find I am more productive as a result. I go to the gym twice a day, akin to getting a cup of coffee to helping me focus.

Exercise and fitness is different for everyone. I don't think there is a single categorical way to approach exercise other than that you do it.
Very nifty. The automatic selection is a great innovation.

I built a somewhat similar system a while ago on-top of statsd/graphite. Mine was not designed for production deployment though, just as a test platform (I was basically using graphite to store and query metric data. Not optimal, but that problem was out of scope and it was easy to abuse like that.) This tool allowed a user to manually select a set of metrics and create a fault classifiers with those metrics.

These classifiers were able to detect not only the presence of faults but also classify what type of faults they were (provided sufficient training data. Of course you could train new classifiers with data you collected in production so training new classifiers becomes an ongoing activity.). We were only testing geometric classification, but using any sort of classifier to identify complex fault types seems to be an idea with promise.
Always fun to read these Etsy ops posts. I'm very curious to know what their practical architecture looks like that allows them to capture 250k unique metrics and also run skyline against them all. It seems like each new algorithm would add a ton of processing requirements when you're at that scale.

Also, it seems like this would be really useful with the addition of metrics grouping and group specific algorithms as right now it looks like their 250k metrics all pop up in the same anomalous bucket with all metrics getting the same algorithms applied to them.
> Do you really twist your neck around on your laptop to make sure that the labels for plugging in peripherals all the time?

Not all the time, but...yes, sometimes.

On my MacBook Pro, the headphone jack and the microphone jack take the same kind of plug but function differently. The only difference is label and position, but the label is tiny and relatively low contrast so it's hard to see clearly. One option is to plug it in, see if it works, then try the other one. Or remember positionally which one is which (headphone jack turns out to be the closer one). Another option is to squint at the tiny label, which I have been known to do on occasion.
I vote for undocumented scholar.
Looks like a good way to sign up for an audit from the IRS. ;)
That's a fair point. I don't work in the defense industry so that didn't cross my mind. I suspect you're correct with all three sentences.
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Nice for people who want to run temporary VPNs to access USA streaming video though.
So a person that simply want to learn something for the sake of knowledge is not the target of a teacher?
Though some encouragement to sufficiently prioritize basic facts about significant events in history might not be inappropriate.
Because the usage is percentage based, of course it depends entirely on which CPU you currently have. I imagine 3-5% of the latest Macbook Pro Retina i7, isn't the same as the 2010 Macbook Air's Core 2 Duo.
What about it requires a lot of attention to use? I use it daily and it's set-and-forget for the most part.
Surveillance on Americans by the NSA is still illegal. What we're upset about is that NSA has made it easier to abuse the law to perform surveillance of Americans by pre-caching Verizon phone record metadata and automating FISA compliance in a fashion that may actually be usable on arbitrary user IDs.

In other words they've made it easier to do all that surveillance if they choose to, but as far as I'm aware even Snowden has not claimed to see the NSA actually track an American down using the system, only that the NSA could do it easily.

While that is certainly a serious matter that warrants public debate, it's not the same as what you're referring to (which makes me wonder why... it's not like this issue requires any exaggeration).
He had to do this to control that conversation. Otherwise if he tried anonymous leaks, the first time we heard his name it would be on a news report based on gov sources going something like 'high school drop out and suspected drug user ed showdown is on the run from the FBI, after stealing classified government information vital to the fight against terrorism, and has fled to the protection of comminist china. We're unsure as yet which rogue state or terrorist organisations he plans to sell the data to. Is he the worst traitor and terrorist sympathiser the world has ever known or is he simply a confused data janitor? You decide, after the break.'

As it is the discussion from the likes of brooks or cnn hasn't risen much above that level. I agree no conspiracy though - its fairly easy for the gov to guide the conversation by controlling what info they release, but he has turned this technique against them.

So I completely understand why he wanted to get in front of that story with a cogent statement of his beliefs and background, though I hope he has saved some more pertinent information to leak in order to steer the conversation back to where it should go - onto the NSA and their abuse of the powers they have been given, including lying to their oversight committee, and the secret laws and secret courts which have facilitated that.
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Great post. This is what I keep thinking. I couldn't care less about these companies copying each other. If it benefits me as the user, then let them sue each other into oblivion or make any marketing claim about being innovative. Why do people take these things so personally?
Mozilla wants 500M users to tell gov’t: “stop watching us”
It isn't a claim at all, its simply speculation. I think you raise an interesting point though, which is that there is no possible evidence, testimony or papers written by blue-ribbon commissions (coming in 2017!) that will ever "settle" these questions in some quarters.
Evan Williams isn't even swole. Why is he qualified to give workout advice?
yet, you're commenting on it...?
Ultimate authority rests with the executive because they have the guns.
The Prism leak also seems to have caused a series of severe thunderstorms in Bangkok. It's really been wet here.
I have to admit I like the variant with court and Congressional oversight just a wee bit better... but as long as people are able to buy guns all willy-nilly and avoid vaccinating their children because of their special religious rites, it's hard for me to claim with a straight face that the NSA is even in my top 25 list of things I'd worry about.
How should I approach learning more about this sort of thing? I mean obviously reading about Nazi Germany, but what sort of materials? I had no idea who Goebbels was.
The area calculator is really interesting, good job!
3. I think leaking details of signals intelligence programs should be a crime.

I think dealing in absolutes, anywhere, should be a crime.
... and so it was in the film. The video which they show in the information center talks about how they fill in the gaps from frogs to patch together a complete DNA.
Annoying, yes, but easy to opt out.
The executive has the guns because that's how it was designed.
I couldn't agree more. This was my aha moment: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/06/world/europe/06bulgaria.ht...

I happened to be born in Bulgaria and keep current with events. This is what struck me:

1) Times' perspective: "prominent radio journalist". For anybody living in the country, the victim was a convicted conman who used his game show to defraud participant and advertisers. His other claim to fame: admittedly close connections with the mob. The "exposing the underworld" book they refer to was in the spirit of "one night, me and my buddies...". At best, the victim could have been described as a radio game show host.

2) At the end of the article, they referred to a US embassy report stating that there's been 125 contract killings in 2008 alone.

I sent an email challenging the "facts" and asked for a pointer to the embassy report. They corrected the number by an order of magnitude and ignored the rest.
The sad thing is that this letter is currently frontpage/top of HN. The #1 most important company implicated in this NSA leak; the very company accused of co-operating & enabling the NSA's intrusive violation of our privacy - is now enjoying this great exposure at the top of HN as 'hackers' eat it up.
:) I am aware of that, that is why I have posted this message on hn.
Agreed. Is their data format open, in the sense that anyone could write a client that did nothing but transmit and receive police locations?
Do you know the cause of the 3k requests which Vista made? Do you have a sane theory why these were occurring? Also, do you have any suggestions for better clients to use?
Great article. They've begun and they'll continue. Intelligent people will see propaganda for what it is.
I agree with Russia on this one.
He may be overthinking it. My suggestion would be how could he hack together a solution in 3 days total. Then use that and iterate. He's probably worried about scaling, and being featured on TechCrunch, etc. Which are common. But if he's the type to always make slow and methodical decisions, he might not be the best fit in a startup.
Sarcasm is a word that has been so misused by Americans, that people have tried to actually re-write the definition.
-the use of irony to mock or convey contempt -
It does not mean 'joking'.
Under US jurisdiction.