skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of the time spent on Xbox is streaming video. How does that not fit in line with what their consumers want?
Facebook 'censorship' of mastectomy photos angers advocates
Does no one consider comparing the consoles by their hardware specs? Or is a console just a console and do specs not exist? It's seriously amazing that they priced it at $399 with what they are shipping. Could've easily been at $599+. PS4's spec are far superior.
Yeah, I said that you can use all the apps without paying $50 / year for MP games / PS+. :-)
The trick is a LOT of people on twitter/etc are basically saying screw MS right now, so if that holds than playing online MP with your friends will go Sony's way. That leaves only exclusives, and beyond Halo and Killer Instinct I haven't heard of much that would sell many copies.
The thing most bothering me right now is the lack of meaningful response from the companies that really matter: Google, Microsoft, Apple, and others. The responses we do have seem to be downright lies.
We still don't have any real details, mind. This could be anything from a fully open app store model to Steam's arbitrarily selective approval.
Apple to add: kill -9 my.stolen.iPhone
Ask HN: Is flat design for people who can't design?
I've looking at iOS 7 and many other flat design works. The biggest question in my mind is flat design for people who just can't design and whom are looking for an easy way out?
Do you also believe then that buying a used book or checking one out from library is the same as piracy?
I'm not being too much of a stickler. He did admit to it on video. Yes, he could have been forced to say that, but it looks an awful lot like he willingly broke the law. If he had come out on video claiming that he didn't do it that's a whole different situation.
I'm veering dangerously away from the topic with this, but according to Henry Hitchings, "'Reveal' has been used as a noun since the 16th century. Even in its narrow broadcasting context, as a term for the final revelation at the end of a show, it has been around since the 1950s."

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/author/henry-hitchings/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Hitchings

Just thought I'd throw my two cents in on that, since the history of English is a particular interest of mine.
This article discusses how high-level executives and many top engineers might have no idea what is happening:

https://financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/001431.html

Excerpt: "How is this apparent contradiction possible? It is generally done via secret arrangements not with the company, but with the employees. The company does not provide back-door access, but the people do. The trick is to place people with excellent tech skills and dual loyalties into strategic locations in the company. These 'assets' will then execute the work required in secret, and spare the company and most all of their workmates the embarrassment. ..."

In a discussion of this article (on a cryptography list) I observed this incredulous response: "Hmm. So what does that mean a team of ex-military/intelligence security
people work there way up or get assistance with contacts and references,
replace all the key people in a companies inner security department and
start coding up backdoors, APIs and allowing VPN access to it? All without
telling anyone or getting noticed by ops people etc."

To which the other party retorted: "Been there. They are noticed, but you get orders from on high to shut up and not notice."

If that's all true, then it sounds like only a very few engineers and managers acting as moles will have specific knowledge of the program. A few non-mole engineers will sense that something's afoot, but they'll stay mum. Maybe that's as far as it goes.
Your first two sentences sum up the situation for me as well. It looks like a nice way to quietly drive a bunch of high-resolution monitors, but I still need new workstation.

Maybe I'll see something I can use at SC13 in November. An updated CX-1 (which I guess would be -2) would be as nice as it is unlikely.
> Man, I didn't even say I supported/cared about this

> manufacturing aspect (hint: I don't) and I'm already

> getting downvoted...

Cognitive dissonance FTW. When people make a tradeoff decision that involves an entity with a provable history of unethical behaviour (patent lawsuits anyone?), they'd rather not be reminded of it in public.

This from a Spotify and Google user, note. I'm not saying that tradeoff decisions are necessarily wrong, just that my theory is that sensitivity about them is why you're getting downvoted.
The icons are awful. They are midway between photorealistic and pictograms, ends up looking childish, tacky, unpolished.

John Ive has a minimalist approach on hardware that works really well, because the hardware is not at the center, it's the software. But on UIs, you can't be too minimal, since you only have one sense to work with (vision), so you have to work with strokes, textures, depth and color (the full gamut, you're not limited to primary colors).

It has better usability in many areas, but it was a bad idea making a 180 degree turn on the UI design with Ive at the wheel. Jobs would never let this out so unpolished.
That's tautologically true though. Just like no one likes government that's any bigger than it needs to be.
Network Traffic Optimization for Busy Wifi Channels
Testing is not a thing in the iOS and Mac community and that sucks.
These sorts of things are gag-ordered. It may be that the top brass doesn't even know, for plausible deniability's sake, or that they've been told and now immediately face federal felony charges if they tell anyone (spouses and PR flacks included).

There was a fight (which was won) to get the gag-order provisions of PATRIOT NSLs lifted, at least for speaking to one's own lawyer, which is a protected right (spouses and coworkers are still out, tho). Who knows if those rights extend to FISA orders, though we've seen how they interpret other constitutionally protected rights.

It's not their fault that they don't want jail time. Blame your government. Support courageous people like Snowden. Tell your friends.
Ask HN: Have the terrorists won?
Given the fact that we appear to now be surrendering the very freedoms the "terrorists" wish to take, does this call for an Al-Quaeda victory lap?

One further, is an initiative like PRISM actually an act of domestic terrorism?

One more, wouldn't the logical response to a terrorist attack be granting of more freedom and liberty to the American people (to signify they can't break our stride)?
Perhaps not, Solar app: http://thisissolar.com has very similar effects. It was not rejected and it is still in the app store. Off course it does not have the full marketing of Apple behind it, but still.
It's disappointing because I agree with the factual content, what little there is, but disagree with calling everyone a "fucktard".
False, there are people with TS clearance who regularly see psychiatrists. This is one of the misconceptions that is left from the policies of 30 years ago. Other examples include homosexuality and past drug use, both of which formerly precluded you from a clearance but no longer do.
They still have to waste CPU cycles comparing either the plaintext or the checksum as you suggest.

If nothing else it makes their server room A/C more expensive.
Except that does actually work sometimes. Debian flat-out broke crypto for a couple of releases, yet it appears it was caught first by OpenSSL developers and not the black hats.
>The bits on the disc may be identical, but the experience isn't. For example, a game bought new in 2009 might look great in 2009, but by 2013 you've come to expect more.

That's a fair point. But a new copy of a game bought today that was released in 2009 will also cost closer to $5 than $60 - the decreased experience in that sense is already reflected in the retail price.

For me, ideally what would happen is that used game sales would go away [1], and as a result games would become cheaper, either when they first go on sale, or through heavy discounting more frequently (because people only have a set amount of money to spend on games).

This is essentially what has already happened with PC - there are no resale options, and prices discount far, far more quickly than on consoles. If you want the 'day one experience' as you described, you can get that, for $60. But you have the knowledge that, if you wait, it'll also be available for $30 in 3 months time, and $10 in the Christmas sales. Plus, on every single copy sold, ~70% of the money is returned to the publisher/developer.

[1] edit: As I noted elsewhere, I still think you should be able to lend games to friends. That is, I think, beneficial to publishers and consumers.
Depending on how open this is, this could conceivably make Ouya obsolete.
All the data from the Yahoo weather app comes from a YQL query. Anyone can use the same query to get all the same information.
Not necessarily, also, I was using an extreme example to make a point, I can imagine many scenarios where he killed a civilian "related to blowing the whistle," but since that obvious exaggeration failed to get my point across I'll move along.
If anything, China and Russia are more interested in the locations of the SSNs than the SSBNs, at any given time in the modern age.
Far superior? Reference? http://www.nowgamer.com/news/1942974/ps4_xbox_one_hardware_v...

Also, PS4's missing the Kinect entirely, so I don't think the price point is amazing.
Large-scale active attacks on SSL are infeasible, as many applications (Chrome included) support certificate pinning.

Furthermore, this would be easily reproducible evidence that they are actively intercepting (and proxying) traffic. Never happen.
I think they all enjoy this show:
http://bcove.me/ktrt5nu0
Of course, reddit does [0]. To match the Xbox One, without the $100 Kinect, a controller, or a nice keyboard / mouse combo it's about $700 [1]. So we can imagine something matching the power of the PS4, including a controller or a nice Keyboard to be around $800-850.

[0] http://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/1g24s4/the_xbox_on...
[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/1g24s4/the_xbox_on...
Found this by searching for something else. I'm currently making my way through "Practical Vim" (http://pragprog.com/book/dnvim/practical-vim). It's quite good, though I think it assumes you have some basic vim knowledge. I'd recommend doing vimtutor first at least.
That survey is flawed because it's based on culturally influenced beliefs of Muslims in tribal-based societies where the concept of honor has a higher precedence than religion itself. I believe you would find similar results among Christian and Jewish populations in the Middle-east. For instance, in Egypt, where I've lived for a considerable time, Christians and Muslims share practically the same family values with varying degrees. If a Christian woman and Muslim man, or vice-versa, decide to elope then either of them risk being honor-killed or at the very least disowned.
Nothing. That's a risk you take when using any proprietary software, however.

I'd say the real world risk of this is (fairly) low, however if you're legitimately worried about it, you can use EncFS over a network share or FUSE file system, to your own systems. In which case you'd be using entirely open source software.

If you're that worried about security though, you'd probably be better off using a container based encryption method, anyway, as it wouldn't leak timestamps, file sizes and other data which could be sensitive. EncFS has some known issues with metadata leaking, but it's a decent solution for most general use cases.
Remember how PS 3 let users load their own Linux then a year or two later they sent out a firmware update that turned it off. Like imagine buying a car then the dealership sends a rep over and takes the nice stereo out and installs a cheaper model...but doesn't give you a refund, or a choice. And this stood up in court?
The degradation of the non-digital product isn't what's important -- it's the value of that product that is important. Oftentimes (like in the case of most cars), the value is closely related to that degradation, but that's just the case for cars.

The value of a digital product like a video game declines over time, as well, even though the data on the disc doesn't degrade. The experience degrades. If that weren't the case, the used games store would be able to sell a used game for a lot more than they do.

If publishers and studios really want to kill the used games market, they'd acknowledge that their games lose value over time, and drop the prices over time accordingly. Which they do, just not enough, apparently.
When they say they will allow X it means they will allow exactly X and no more, so I'm sure there will be approval. But developers may get to keep ~70% instead of ~30%.
There us another way: support everything, friend with everyone, produce a lot of information that will cause a lot of headache for the investigators. Leprechaun policy: http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/tfm/tfm133.htm
Hence the reason I tell you all that neither the NSA nor the U.S. government is actually omnipotent or all-powerful. :P
SCOTUS says Fourth Amendment does not apply to third parties. Smith v. Maryland - 442 U.S. 735 (1979). Third party doctrine.
Note well that Rackspace offers primarily dedicated server services, which would make it rather difficult for them to participate in PRISM as shown. You'd tend to notice if someone rebooted your box and installed a service. :D

Nothing stopping NSA from splitting their transit fibers on the (3), Telia, and Qwest sides though.

What's going to be really interesting is how PRISM integrates with AWS, once some brave Amazon soul decides to self-immolate for our own intellectual curiosity.
I use to use it all of the time, because when it works it works great, such as setting an alarm, a count down, "Directions to XYZ", "Message Joe, be there in 5", "Remind me to take out trash when I get home" and such. The problem is quite often when I ask for one of those it does the spinning wheel for about 10-15 seconds then says its not available right now. Other times it works relatively instantly.
Many gamers like to buy and play games day 1, so something that's not retained in used games is riding the crest of the hype/community wave.
People don't "broadcast" their information. They send it using point-to-point protocols to companies or people. The government is using special, secret authority to compel intermediaries or stewards of the information to turn it over en masse.

If the government was just browsing Facebook or doing Google searches, nobody would complain. But they are using government powers to get the information, which means that it is a search.
The never-ending "war" we insist on having is also highly related to the economy. Since WWII, we've essentially propped the US economy up on the defense industry. If you add up all the defense related spending, including contractors and subcontractors, it almost certainly amounts to a hugely significant portion of our economy, and more importantly employs a massive segment of the population.

Folks on the right talk about not wanting to create a welfare state, to have a large segment of the population dependent on the federal government for their livelihoods. Yet those same folks will spend as much as possible on the defense industry, ostensibly doing just that.
This is VERY interesting. The console business is living proof for all entrepreneurs that past success DOES NOT dictate FUTURE success. And consumers are NOT as loyal to your brand as you think they are. It's anyone's game and you have to win over your customers each and every decade.

=== SONY ===

[Gen1] Playstation (1st place) 102 million units

[Gen2] Playstation 2 (1st place) 154 million units

[Gen3] Playstation S3 (Last place) 70 million units

Sony slipped from being 1st to nearly last. The original lack of online support & multi-media online content of the X360, The "Cell Processor" mistake, high $600 price really hit the PS3 hard, it made up for it by including a blu-ray player though and later free online multiplayer.

=== Nintendo ===

[Gen1] N64 (2nd Place) 33 million units

[Gen2] GameCube (3rd Place) 22 million units

[Gen3] Wii (1st Place) 100 million units

Things were getting bad for Nintendo until they tapped into an unknown market known to us now as "Casual Gamers". Before 2004 (much before FarmVille and other casual games) I had honestly never even heard the term at all throughout my life. Well done at discovering a new market.

=== Microsoft ===

[Gen1] n/a

[Gen2] Xbox (2nd Place) 24 million units

[Gen3] Xbox 360 (2nd Place) 77 million units

Out of no-where Microsoft (one of the most hated companies in America at the time which inspired Google's original "Don't be evil" moto ) got itself up to 2nd place consistently by catering to "Gun-Bros" and hard core gamers (the type that go to a lan party to play Halo Matches) and delivering online content near perfectly (except for the price tag of Xbox Live). It revived an old idea (playing online with strangers, something that Sega tried and failed at twice) and made it work. It also helps that internet penetration rates were much higher than the days of Sega. It also introduced the standard "achievements" and "gamertag" that we now see all over the place. And it was the 1st to launch during the Gen3 console wars.

=== Moral of the Story ===

Last year's winners are this year's losers and last year's losers are now at the top. How differently will things change in the Gen4 console wars? So far the "Wii U" is doing terribly. PS4 looks the most innovative, and Xbone looks like Microsoft's attempt of control and conquering everything in the living room without asking the consumer for input (M$ as usual).
Or the UK:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_Act_2006#Extending_th...

Laws written originally to thwart the IRA were used to detain suspects and in many cases innocent people, who happened to be Irish, where convicted after confessions were cohered out of them. Can you imagine being jailed for 90 days and being interrogated for that length of time?

It seems plausible that the same thing will happen to innocent Arabs and Muslims whom are in the wrong place at the wrong time.
I wonder if there is now an added requirement that "must have political views in favor of widespread surveillance of American citizens."
Who was there before Israel?
It was actually close to three years later, but the rest of your point stands. I, too, am concerned about them "taking back" features I paid for.

That said, in the case of Other OS, I'm pretty sure the only reason they got away with it was because almost nobody used this feature. Indie games would hopefully be more popular, and hence harder for them to back out of.
Show HN: Made a substitution-based URL Sanitizer/Shortener
One of the benefits I see in unit testing is the fact that it makes you write testable code. Only that is already a huge argument for incorporating testing in the development process.
Thing is though, now you've changed the recipe from what you intend to run in PROD. You linearized it to gain a debugging advantage that you lose when you re-lambdaize it.
Julian Assange and John Perry Barlow, interview today.
"I don't get why crypocurrency even has to be a replacement for normal currency."

The entire point of Bitcoin is to replace "normal" currency. Otherwise, we could just push for Chaum-style systems, which are better designed, more secure, and allow for things like offline transfers. The point of Bitcoin is to remove central authorities, which are the very thing that make other currencies valuable (yes, even gold, which would have been little more than a rare shiny metal were it not for ancient governments).
And think about it. These things precluded clearance because they were seen as things you didn't want made known. The idea is that if you were engaging in homosexual activity this could be something that a foreign power could blackmail you with to get you to turn over secrets.
Not sure- somewhat, but here's the best comparison I've found online: http://www.anandtech.com/print/6972/xbox-one-hardware-compar...
Hello Alan,

I have a quick question for you which might be of interest to others as well:

Why isn't SpiderOak open source yet?

I've read your FAQ answer[1] on this, however it doesn't really give a concrete explanation, besides "soon" and "licencing concerns" which is definitely disappointing.

I currently use my own, EncFS based sync solution, however I'd love to be able to use SpiderOak, or a third party open source application which supported syncing with SpiderOak (if you'd ever consider exposing an API/Protocol which allowed such.)

This is the only reason I'm not using your service currently, however I love the concept and hope you'll take it into consideration. It's likely I'm not the only one with similar concerns.

[1]: https://spideroak.com/faq/questions/35/why_isnt_spideroak_op...
Well, from a collector's perspective, the xbox one is a dead end.

Unless they make a very overt overture towards the end of the life of that console ...
In 15-20 years time, when the servers go down and the lights go out. It will be a useless piece of plastic.

Hell, in 15-20 years time even the non-collectors who hung onto their consoles will be screwed.

Unless the pirates manage to save it from obsolescence.
Sure, in the sense that they are now permanently unusable by being transferred to keys for which the private key is not known.

By sending a single satoshi (0.000000001 BTC), the monetary effect is insignificant. There will eventually be 2,100,000,000,000,000 of such units.
Candidate Obama debates President Obama on Government Surveillance
Yes, but what about the SDK costs? I believe special development hardware was required for PS3 development which had/has a cost of around $10k. If Sony is offering similar pricing for the PS4 SDK then what's the point of indie publishing?
If you're in Australia (and you all are, aren't you <ahem>) you can read the entire text for free at http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100021.txt .

If you're in the USA it may even be illegal to know that it's available for free elsewhere, so delete the knowledge from your mind.
Does anyone watch american TV shows ?

The idea that security > privacy is brainwashed into the american masses.

Does anyone work as a sysadmin ?

wheel users can read every one's data.

Does anyone go to internet facebook/forums/mailing-lists ?

They are mini totalitarian states where lusers are killed. The rhetoric ? Order and kill spam.

The point is, internet has never been a shining example of democracy. There are no privacy laws for sysadmins.

The internet ocean-tubes are owned by the government, the fact that they want to read email is no fairer than forum admin "banning" lusers or running sql.

In 1984, every home has a cctv. Our 1984 is a paradise. TV's are the thought police. Hollywood takes care of public anger. Internet gives faux democracy.

The government didn't do anything with it. The government only copied what admins since 1980 have been doing.

You are interacting a with an interactive cctv !
Flat design is flat because your looking at a 2-d surface. Making 2-d surfaces which are typically words and "things" that separate words look 3-d is not that important. Design is hard regardless of the dimensions, implied or otherwise.
> It would be almost impossible to deduce whether the sister has that from the evidence presented.

Right, so why not have a professional, who is trained to figure this out, get involved? The OP seems to just assume his sister must have the exact same mental equipment he has, and is just "being lazy". Where is his evidence to back this up?
Memory performance is a big problem.
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2158184/intel-memor...
Honest follow-up question: How much danger would it need to put us in for you to think it's a bad idea?

What if what they're not telling us is that FISA collection orders and analysis has kept people from nuking Manhattan a half-dozen times?