skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know any teenager that uses Photo Stream. They are using Instagram so they can share among all their friends and family who have varying devices. They are using Instagram so they can compare who has the most likes, who takes the best photos, and who ate the best food. Photo Stream isn't even meant to replace social networking sites like Instagram.
This is a free market. They didn't lose, they just became commoditized.
Ron Paul warned of computer surveillance in 1984
Don't be silly, there are all sorts of gradients in nature that have nothing to do with lighting.
This won't be the first lawsuit. Countries may sue the USA for this action, starting with Germany, which could class-action into trillions.
He makes some good points, except for the complaining about the app icons. If all the built-in apps had consistent icons then you'd have half the icons on your homescreen looking the same and the other half that are made by 3rd parties all looking unique and different. It's better when ALL the icons look completely different.
I definitely see what you are saying, and that is why I do think it is a very impressive and very cool computer.

But a lot of the value for me was the one device. A single, unix based[1] device that did everything from be my htpc to be my fileserver to be my desktop, music player, build box, run all my vms, etc.

I derived a lot of value from that. Even if the second device is an apple TV, it's still a second device.

Also, diverging a bit, a lot of folks are talking about a lot of video based expandability via the thunderbolt ports, but remember - it's not even as fast as 4x pcie ... 10mb/s over copper vs. 120 mb/s ... if I have my numbers right.
It looks like the method described in the article also provides a verified timestamp without the need for a (centralized) timestamp authority. I'd say that's a pretty important difference.
Milo Radulovich
Do you really think HN readers are so uninformed that they are not aware of the tradeoffs in Apple hardware? They are tradeoffs, not evil conspiracies.
for some reason, your comment made me imagine a silly conversation between two people:

A: "use google docs"
B: "why? it doesn't do what I need"
A: "yeah, but they're working on the right problem"
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I too agree that the tiny icons are beyond worthless.
What you said made 100% sense. However, it goes against the core values of the iphone-ipad-ishit-toting cat-gif-downloading html-programming black-rim-glasses-sporting self-described-nerd social-hacking steve-jobs-worshipping nauseating douchebags that infect "hacker" news like a plague.
Apple's map program will always be a black sheep because of how unsafe it is. So many people have nearly been killed by that thing they should give it a pinstripe jumpsuit.
Hmmm... does that mean that you can then run the other OSX vms (SL Server, Lion) inside of the Mountain Lion vm ? Like:

(((SL Server vm) vmware fusion on ML) Linux on Intel)
I can't think of a single app that's RAM-speed-bound.

Pretty much everything is CPU- or GPU- or disk-bound.
I am a guy in a 3rd world country. Your government could assassinate me tomorrow, and then simply say that I was in Al Qaeda. They have proof of this, but of course they can't reveal that information for reasons of "National Security".

You think this is OK, because your Congress has given the president authority to kill anyone who (according to whoever is holding the trigger) is involved in that organisation.

Fuck you.
> Regardless, that has nothing to do with this issue.

It kind of does, since a few posts above started with the Libertarian plug. One typical response to that plug is to point out that libertarians often care only about liberty as it pertains to them personally. This is a fourteen-year-old's view of the world and it's one of the things that marginalizes libertarians as it is depressingly common among them.
> But it doesn't solve my "need a new mac pro" problem.

Yes! Totally yes!

I held off buying a MBP just so mine would be one generation better than my coworkers'.

I just know there's a MBP in the pipeline, because the inventory has been allowed to dry up. Why wasn't a new model announced?
This is a very constructive question. I'm afraid I am not qualified to answer. I would like to think we just need to get congressional action explicitly delimiting the privacy scope as illustrated by the 4th.

I'm generally in favor of leaving the constitution technology agnostic.
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The App Store is more like a food court where Apple is the owner of the mall. They built the mall, they promoted it, they clean up the floors and pay the electric bill. And if they want to sign a contract to get McDonald's in their food court but part of the deal for McDonald's is that there's no other cheap burger places then that's up to them.

The owner of the mall decides who else to offer the stalls to and what the terms are and if those terms are too onerous than they will lose business because people will shop elsewhere because of the bad selection.
Watch this:
"Remembering Milo Radulovich" - CBS News (video)

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-3528798.html

And then watch this:
"NSA Whistleblower goes public" - CBS News (video)

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50148571n
The key question is: "Who do you trust more?".

And of course, that's the wrong question anyway. You shouldn't trust anyone with access to your data, which is why strong cryptographic techniques are especially important for cloud-based activities.
A company based in Europe wouldn't be subject to US laws, which provides more certainty for their clients.
Tell that to Dianne Feinstein.
Can we have a relative weather service? I'd like to know how today will be compared to yesterday. It's insane that this doesn't exist given that is how most of us end up gauging what action we need to take for the weather.
Don't get me wrong - I like everything about the Mac Pro but you pay for your thrills. I can't afford to lay out that kind of scratch unnecessarily. Apple has done a nice job with the design, no doubt. Meanwhile, I have a high end Windows PC for much less money. The speed thrills me, so I don't need a Mac to get a thrill.
Thanks, I'll keep an eye on bandwidth. The authorized key is a leftover from bringing up the server, I'll consider deleting it automatically.

Curious to hear what you and others use this for--I built it because it's cool, but still trying to put my finger on the biggest use case(s). So far people have told me they're having fun with 'rm -rf /', fork bombs, and getting a decent python shell in the browser ;).
Having arbitrary sizes for icons / tiles I think is still required. I'd maybe go with a consistent gradient / no gradient approach.

Personally I'd go with no gradient and a flat colour.
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This is surprisingly easy to fix.

What you have to do is

1. Any agency can designate a document as classified, a designation which remains in play for four years. This dovetails nicely with the election cycle. Also, the majority of police, etc. undercover operations are shorter than this period. Above this you are in "major case" / RICO / terrorism / etc. territory.

2. Extending the classification beyond four years requires a motion to show cause before a bona fide judiciary, where the agency must show by clear and convincing evidence that the classification falls into an enumerated exemption criteria. The classification can be extended indefinitely, but only in increments of 12 months and only upon the approval of the judicial branch.

A proposal like this addresses most people's objections. The real problem with the current classification scheme is A) like Mickey Mouse's copyright, it expires on paper but not in real life, and B) the agencies are all essentially self-policing and nobody really checks in on them to see if the classification decisions are correct.

The thing about this proposal is that it requires all three branches to sign off and say "yes, this should stay classified" and it also limits the number of secrets you can have, because there are only so many lawyers and so many judges, and now you have to decide if you want to allocate time in the budget to make motions for the next 50 years. There are legitimate secrets that are worth that kind of hassle, and then there are the other 90% of stuff that the alphabet soup of agencies does.
I agree, this is one of the few useful analyses of the PRISM leaks that makes much sense. One begins to feel that the Snowden person is a relatively low-level employee of government contractors, with a predisposition to the EFF/EPIC/ACLU end of the spectrum, who came across some slide decks, misinterpreted them, and constructed some far-fetched conclusions therefrom, and wrapped himself in the middle. Greenwald probably didn't do him any favors, because he has a history of grabbing any barely-true story and detonating it (see: dozens of wrong things written by him in regards to the Plame thing.)

Under rational scrutiny the PRISM story has fallen to pieces. It doesn't make any sense that all of the high-level executives and hundreds of thousands of top engineers have no idea what is happening, while some guy from Booz Allen and a blogger are the only people with the truth.
Twitter’s Surveillance Resistance
It doesn't need to be. Their address isn't any different from any other public address, like 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. With Bitcoin, you can just send money to it; no form required.
CALEA requires telecoms to install surveillance equipment in their datacenters
>If you have some points round a 2D circle you can visit them in order one after another; but if you have some points on a 3D sphere, there is no order that places them one after another; and

Can someone clarify why this is true?

If we consider the sphere in spherical coordinates, we choose an arbitrary starting point (as in the case of the 2D circle visit) them in the following order:
find the next point for which θ(pointA)-θ(pointB) (A is the point we are now, B is the point we are considering) is minimal and greater than 0, if there are two or more points that are the same number of radians away on the θ-plane (and they are all minimal), find the point, out of those, for which φ(pointA)-φ(pointB) is minimal and greater than 0, this uniquely identifies all points on the surface of the sphere and allows us to order them if we have some arbitrary starting point.
Although I don't think this petition should be hosted by the government, here it is: Pardon Edward Snowden -> https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/pardon-edward-snow...
I feel like people who are much younger than me don't have any frame of reference for a time when surveillance wasn't the assumed state of affairs.

It's mind blowing to realize there are people who are too young to have experienced how different the pre-9/11 world was.
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This is kind of how I feel. My least favorite so far is their new Contacts app. It's just so plain-jane that I feel like I'm looking at a CS101 app or something.

I really wish someone beyond Ive had the final say in the graphic design of this. That's really all I can say about it. The usability of the home screen and the new springboard are great, but the design is just... uninspired. Black and white and blue is not only boring but missing the subtlety that I admired in iOS of the past (skeumorphism aside).
24 Hours later, Edward Snowden/NSA story hardly covered on NYT homepage
And yet the BBC has it as their cover story. Is this really happening?
I agree. I am hearing and seeing that too in regards to all the "actors in this play"

Mr. Snowden is getting slammed for only having a GED and for once working as a security guard and now this former prosecutor is getting slammed for his possible missteps.

It's as if it is strategic trolling.
Your account was made 47 minutes ago. I wish I had enough karma to downvote this.
The Idealistic Nerd
Commander Hadfield did as much for the space program as anyone in recent memory. Massive kudos to him.
I'm curious what the age distribution is for these statistics. I'd be very worried if the younger generations are pro-surveillance.
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Paleo-liberal, then?
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You are conflating, "Closed" with "Wide Availability of zero-cost toolchains."

Windows was as open as open can get, in the sense of, "Do I need to ask anyone's permissions to create, install, and sell a binary for this platform?"
I don't get why crypocurrency even has to be a replacement for normal currency. I dont really think it should be BitCoin's goal to be able to 'live off of it like normal currency'.

It's just another financial tool, of many. People get so religious about it, and think it has to be "the future" and " the one true currency", and that some day you'll buy milk at your local grocery store with it... I dont think that should even be the end goal. Maybe BitCoin will get there some day, but even if it doesn't, that doesn't mean its failing as a currency.

Like I said, its just another tool of many, good for some things, bad for others. It's not going to replace normal currency, but it's also not going to go anywhere anytime soon IMO.

Credit Cards came along, and didnt completely do away with normal currency, so it shall be with bitcoin. I wish people would stop implying that it should be a replacement for anything.

(and dont get me wrong, i'm a enthusiastic user and supporter of BitCoin... I just think some people get kind of silly with where they think bitcoin going)
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Like what? I honestly can't think of a single example.
I would guess there are about 0 people on that team working on this team.
Drama sells. This is the unfortunate state of mainstream media.
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While Google's lack of consistency in icon sizing is frustrating (though it is getting better, slowly), real world usage does look much better than that, as the icons are centred rather than placed on a baseline. http://i.imgur.com/CYUVTw8.png

That being said, I do think that rounded squares are an important part of iOS's design and that style icon is associated with iOS, so I don't think it should be changed.
Suddenly, Android and WP no longer look so lame. Apple may have improved its UI/UX of iOS, but only at the cost of losing its distinctive taste.

The inspiration from the original design would continue along the third-party apps and some of them would gain significant users just for its non-flat graphic theme.
There are plenty of free and open source toolchains and languages for Windows... in particular the same ones available on your Ubuntu installation (gcc, openjdk, python, etc.).

Microsoft sells and supports development toolkits, and they happen to be better than a lot of the free ones. I bought PyCharm for Linux -- that doesn't make it closed.

The only thing closed about Windows is the kernel source (and even that isn't that closed, start your reading here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963901).
They don't look anything like the messy image you posted at all.
You're handwaving, throwing around terms in a paranoid fit. AT&T was granted immunity for violations of FISA by Congress. It was FISA that created the basis for the suit against AT&T in the first place, so it was just Congress making something not illegal that it had made illegal. In bad taste, but not anything that has to do with sovereign immunity or inherent immunity from suits.

I don't think Snowden should go to prison, but if he does it's because he's the only one who did anything illegal. There's nothing illegal, under the FISA Amendments Act, about AT&T or Verizon sharing the information they collect about your usage of their networks. The default presumption is that you're allowed to share information in your possession, unless restricted by some law. HIPAA protects medical records, FERPA protects educational records, etc, and FISA/ECPA protects electronic communications in certain circumstances, but the monitoring programs here, as far as we know, are written to avoid running up against these laws.
Just started playing with the beta and I have to agree, it is something you must experience to judge accurately. Using iOS 7 feels good. There will definitely be refinements to come, but I think it's a huge step in the right direction. The stock apps, especially the App Store app, feel much nicer to use.

Although I have to agree with the OP about the app icons. I just don't think they look that nice.
What's confusing about crowded speech bubbles?
As long as the machine is plugged in, I don’t think we can speak of it as being completely off. I suspect the LED illumination will work even when the machine is turned ‘off’. Even if the computer is not plugged in, the LED illumination might work, provided the machine has a built-in battery. At this point in time, we just don’t know. I’m going by the amount of thought Apple usually puts into its products.
Playstation 4 to be priced at $399, $100 less than the Xbox One
One of the few who makes me a proud canadian.
WhatsApp or MessageMe or WeChat – Which one would you prefer?
worth reading a counterpoint article (which I happen to disagree with):

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/06/edward...
"Military force" doesn't actually mean indiscriminate killing is OK, otherwise we wouldn't consider My Lai a massacre.

So my government would have to, at the very least, demonstrate that you actually play some operational role within AQ where a targeted killing of you would appreciably impair the military capacity of AQ.

This was the logic used by the U.S. to send what was essentially a kill mission against the Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto during WWII, but it probably helped end that war faster so people don't seem to complain as much about that one, for some reason.

But either way, if you're a non-U.S. citizen in a 3rd world country then for whatever reason you're not someone that our civil libertarians in the U.S. care about, as they only care about the extrajudicial killing of American citizens.

I'm assuming when you say that they have proof that you are implying that the government is pretending they have proof but won't show it. If you're actually in AQ and involved in the violent death and destruction of Muslims, Americans, civilians and our allies throughout the world then I can't honestly say that I'd feel too sorry for you...
Hey Paul,

Do the lessons economic history that these books teach still have relevance today?

Technology (as a term to describe innovation) back then would have a very different meaning to technology today.
Fascinating, I wish my German was better. The Broad Group is potentially building their 220 floor building [1] which would seem like something you could do in Hong Kong and profit quite handsomely from. I suspect though that the Broad group is thinking about this sort of environment as a potential result.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broad_Group
In other government/megacorp settings, contractors can end up staying in the same position for years working for different companies. Back in the early 2000's I worked for a State government where some of the contractors had been around for twenty years working for Digital, IBM, Dell, HP, a half dozen companies you never heard of, etc.

There tends to be a small world around big organizations, as social proof is important for getting jobs and closing deals.
How could she possibly come to the conclusion that what he did violates the Constitution? Has she even read it?

To simultaneously uphold and violate the Constitution on issues pertaining to the 4th amendment (or any other part of it for that matter), I think you have to be a member of one of the armed forces. He worked for the NSA as a contractor via Booz Allen. He was not under an oath to the Commander in Chief like Manning was. With this in mind, how could anything he has done be in violation of the Constitution? Is there some part of the Constitution I'm forgetting here?
How Edward J. Snowden Orchestrated a Blockbuster Story
+1 on stock Android 4.2 looking great and being very usable.
+1 on iOS7 and stock Android 4.2 looking way too similar.
It sounds like people have them pegged as FirePro W9000s, which retail for >$1500, but that's probably the top option, with the lowest end being a much wimpier card. So you may be right.

(Also, I didn't realize they had ditched the dual-CPU approach, though that was probably a good decision)
I have pondered this - and every time I come back to the Beatles. Pop music in its day, still great music now. I shudder imaging someone saying this about Beiber et al.
$30 is too much. I stayed there for $7-$10. Hint: negotiate in languages other than English, yes, tens of languages are spoken in that building, with "hoteliers" from every continent.
And is an external unit adequate for your needs?

I understand that an internal unit might have been more convenient for you, but Apple tends to optimize for the more common needs.
> I think the central question here is whether a democracy can endure a constant state of war where every part of our lives is catalogued and cross-indexed by the government.

With regards to the latter point, I think it's both inevitable and not likely to be the downfall of democracy. There is no future scenario in which the government does not have the kind of insight into our lives that Google, Facebook, etc, have. Not necessarily because the government will ignore any laws and collect that data anyway, but because people desensitized to privacy issues by a computer at Google scanning their e-mail just aren't going to care about a computer at the NSA doing the same.
Posting minified JS is pretty useless. Open up Chrome inspector tools and use pretty print to actually read it:

http://i.imgur.com/PHUaDSU.png
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Comments with "Really?" on the end are extremely disrespectful, and I see it all the time. Just because something is obvious and common-sense to you, does not mean it is to someone else. Offending someone is not a good form of persuasion. Please consider not doing that in future because you probably do have good ideas, and it would be nice if people heard them.

Speaking of this design, the icons are asymmetric. More so by the unharmonious colour selection. However, the notification centre and animations are well done.
For the home user, this is fine, but one thing Apple forgot about (And they usually do) is the enterprise customer. If you're looking to replace your current setup of Mac Pros with these, how would you go about mounting these things in a rack?
That argument is flawed. You can destroy each other, so what? Everybody loses. We know that some countries have their weapons ready to go at the will of a single person or very few. What if that leader becomes crazy or incapable of reasoning? Your subs you't protect you in that scenario.

There are so many other ways you can prevent such attacks. Diplomacy, commerce, keeping good relations, etc. The threat of an axe on your neck makes it hard to look like you have good intentions in the first place.
Well, if you choose to go on a vps or dedicated hosting plan, will be easy to add a static cache on nginx and in your database, take a look qt these sites:

http://www.6tech.org/2013/02/nginx-tuning-with-php-fpm-and-m...

http://pureform.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/using-memcache-with...

And, if you can fit redis at this setup even a very small vps would handle more traffic than a shared hosting
Check out poncho.is which launched recently from betaworks. They do this (It's warmer than yesterday) and it's been really helpful for the confused nyc seasons we're getting.
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If he was a true patriot, he'd have stood his ground and gone to trial. It doesn't seem very American to me to flee the country to avoid the repercussions of breaking the law. Mind you, I support him releasing this information.