skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>what value is there in reviving the dead and frozen rather than preserving the living?

Counterpoint: if we had the technology to reanimate someone who died only 100 years ago (say, born in 1860), don't you think we'd find a hell of a lot of value in that from historical utility alone?

>And unlike some other faiths, it's a very expensive option to partake in.

If you're healthy and young, and you fund it with life insurance, the cost is on the order of $50/month. I'm not really willing to spend much time doing a rigorous comparison to "other faiths", since this line of thought is spurious, but according to one source[0], the average Protestant in the US gave about $1100 to their church in 2001.

[0] http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/religious-people-donate...
World Cup website hacked to show the world what's happening in Brazil right now.
>Why did they ever offer OtherOS in the first place, if not "cartering" to my small group?

The common belief is that's it was done to bypass EU tariffs on game systems by representing PS3 as a computer (same thing they tried to do with PS2 and a bundled BASIC interpreter).

I don't support that theory and think that Sony believed that there are more people interested in homebrew on Playstation. After all, they had Net Yaroze and PS2 Linux on previous systems. I guess somebody thought that it's because of the additional cost of the previous solutions the homebrew did not take off.
Yes but that's a company, not a single application. I thought the original commenter might be referring to an obscure command-line tool called 'panic' or something.
Most of these are big improvements, mostly because his designs don't ask the user too think too much. They are a modern,but more gradual and evolutionary than Apple's.

His idea of widgets would be great way to bring them to iOS. Just an oversized button with changing text, like a little iPod nano. A simple way to make that work would be to have a little resizer when you click and hold.
These aren't mutually-exclusive qualities.
Here is a viewpoint I found fascinating, viewing the refinement as a net loss:

http://storify.com/gegtik/j-chastain-on-primitive-gaming
Sure, in theory. However the upgrades the OP listed are in fact unnecessary on an MBA (i7 vs. i5, 512 SSD vs. 128 SSD).
I think this might just be the fact it's a new release (unless they just don't sell that many maxed out Airs). My work just got me a maxed out MBPr on Thursday. Was in/out in 10 minutes without reserving it online or whatnot (we're three doors down from our local Apple store.
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A interesting comparison I think is between Starcraft 1 (1998) and Stacraft 2 (2010). In the original Starcraft you were constantly fighting against the game engine. Unit pathing, spell casting and a several glitches which players could utilize (most notably mutalisk stacking) made the game incredibly challenging to do anything, let alone pull off complex strategies. The speed at which you could perform actions was crucial to being a top player. Stacraft 2 introduced several mechanics that made the game substantially easier. Multiple building selection allowing you to produce units from several buildings at once rather than selecting each individually. Increased unit selection from 12 to 255, the max you would realistically expect to hit. Better unit pathing so players need to focus less on army control and numerous other changes.

The down side of this is that many argue the mechanical difficulty of SC1 helped make the game so competitive and the sequel is inferior in that sense, which I agree with but think there are numerous other reasons for that as well.

If any of you want me to expand on or explain anything just let me know. Starcraft is really the only thing I talk about on the internet.

Edit* This is what I mean by mechanical difficulty [1]. RTS games, especially the Stacraft series, are extremely difficult just by the nature of the game.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4UTDudShDY
Yeah - But you said you were asked what apps... then said Panic -- I saw that co - but thought, "this isn't an app, so Ill go ask for clarification"
That's not true. There was a zoomed out and pixellated comparison days ago between the default apps on both versions, and iOS7 was clearly brighter.
I agree with the comments below. I went into an apple store recently and asked the technician for some advice. He openly admitted when I questioned his sales techniques that they are not paid on commission. He said that he would rather me not buy a product then buy the wrong one.
New Zealands largest ISP uses Yahoo as their email provider and there were reports of this happening as early as February. They've been down playing it but I'm pretty sure that it much more wide spread than they're willing to let on.

http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/telecom-denies-resp...

http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/more-problems-telecoms-yahoo-xt...
brb heading to Hong Kong for illicit surgery.
PRISM: Capturing the unencrypted network traffic of Google et al.
I, too, think it is a vital distinction. Sadly, I think the government is relying on ambiguous language in the Patriot Act (and subsequent reauthorization amendments) to bypass typical warrant restrictions.

If I were on the legal team interpreting the laws and their intent as it surrounds intelligence gathering, I'd see one widely open door--the Patriot act allowed for the searching of email and telephone communication records, and National Security Letters allow law enforcement to use these letters to investigate US citizens, even when they are not suspected of committing a crime, and absolve them of the requirement to obtain a warrant before searching "records".

Given that much of the debate is centering on conceptions of records, collecting, intercepting, databases, metadata, etc., I would guess there's a significant probability that the NSA et al. interpret the Patriot Act in such a way that the widespread collection of records is well within the dictates of the law and does not run afoul of the any legal requirements.

Where databases owned by private companies are concerned, I expect those fall under established warrant procedures that require law enforcement to stipulate the need to search and seize such records from the companies when a proper warrant is issued declaring the specific items to be seized and from where. So, I would guess that a legal challenge against government access to databases kept by major companies would be a rather Sisyphean battle, given warrant case law and precedents. Of course, with warrants, the suspected party is, I believe, able to be notified/aware of the warranted search & seizure. With NSLs, however, the Patriot Act lifted that, creating instead a much more attractive (to law enforcement & intelligence agencies, at least) vehicle that carries an automatic gag order.

The real issue is government access to those records en masse and without standing warrants specifically detailing the targets of collection. And here is where we start wading into creative interpretation of (possibly intentional) ambiguously worded legislation granting expansive powers to search records without a warrant, records which can now include telephone and email correspondence, as well as other records which have been commonplace in the last several decades of warrant issues.
You should try actually looking at Scalia's rulings about defendant's rights.
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> Plus, Apple’s scheme makes it so easy to upgrade.

I think this statement is some local maximum of the reality distortion field.

Being able to only upgrade at the vendor's shop at a premium rate is "easy", yes. But "easy" is certainly not the first term that comes to mind.
The thing I most dislike about iOS 7 is that it has caused every designer with a blog to write about how much better they could make iOS 7.
AKA: Microsoft does not have a competitive next-gen product for those without good internet connections.

Like Soldiers, 35% of America... and even then, the larger part of Europe won't have servers for the XBox One launch. So even if you do have a good connection in say... Poland or Japan... you can't play XBox One at all.
I doubt anyone will come out with a mockup that everyone can agree on. That being said, I think there are a few nice decisions in this mockup which I prefer over the current release.
The number of requests is not, as Obama asserts, "surprisingly small". It is probably smaller than it ought to be, and in light of the NSA's recent admission that they've tapped warrantlessly, that's probably the explanation.

Regardless, here's their record, and they certainly aren't disapproving much.
https://epic.org/privacy/wiretap/stats/fisa_stats.html

If there's a reason that Obama can't confirm it (beyond that he just doesn't know), it's because it is believed that the FISC acts differently than other warrant-granting entities in that at least usually, when it denies a request, it also then provides guidance on how to refile the request in a way that it might be approved. Regular courts will do this on procedural errors, but not as a matter of course.

In all likelihood, the 11 denials the FISC has issued over the past 34 years were likely all later converted to approvals with their guidance.
I've been using it on my phone for the past week and in practice there is no difference.
He said that strong encryption was one of the few things we can rely on. That's new information.
I keep hearing this. It has never once worked for me, on any device and the WSJ pay wall. What browser are you using? Do you have cookies disabled?
and.....BOOM! Obama just played the bin laden card.
Less technical, but the VirtualBox interface looked like complete ass on OSX for the longest time.
It depends on your goals. If you just want to get stuff done, CS will make that easier. If you want to publish code or learn web programming, go with JavaScript.
In that case a Github wiki might be a good start. You get the version control, but there's enough abstracted away that it should be easy to get up and running with. Now, you just need everyone in your department to get a Github account...
Buyers remorse is also bad for business. If you feel the extra $700 you spent on top of the, relatively, high sticker price of your laptop* wasn't worth it, you're not as likely to be a return customer. That's my experience from the days I spent selling swords ($300-$5000 range for reference) in a martial arts supply shop.

*I feel like Ultrabooks have helped Apple's image by making the Air seem about the right price for a nice laptop.
If a customer requires more RAM, how do you 'sell' a ram upgrade knowing that its so much cheaper elsewhere?
As you say, it's anecdotal. But my wife's supervisor (an older lady) recently went to an Apple Store to purchase a Macbook. She came away with an iPad, extremely happy with the result and spending much less than she anticipated. Unlike her previous Windows laptop, she actually uses the iPad.

It makes financial sense to downgrade customers if you suspect they will use the product more / it suits their lifestyle better / makes them happy. This keeps them in the ecosystem and keeps them coming back.
typical designer. they just look at static mockups and don't think about interactions. okay if you have the 2x2 icon, how will other icons move relative to it when the big icon is moved around?
Journalists Need To Start Asking About Storage, Not Access
I don't think anyone is suggesting information on military operations should be made public before the fact. But we are saying that programs which directly affect us, like broad domestic surveillance programs, must be acknowledged openly. Currently we have no way of even deciding whether or not they're legitimate because they refuse to give up all the facts.
Getting 3 "achievements" or "trophies" just for playing through the tutorial (or, in Mass Effect 2's case, sitting through the tedious opening sequence introducing the cheesy and badly written travesty EA seems to regard as a "plot") is a bit off-putting. Maybe targeting 13 year old suburban ADD patients requires constant cheap attention grabbing to prevent these people from playing one of their 47 other games if there is a tiny obstacle.
Developers in particular like to know what spot on the charts their app got to. By not filtering the results everyone has a definitive view of the placement of these apps.

So they should filter the top list like you mention, but show a definitive list online.
Virtual reality headset maker OculusVR raises $16M
> This brings to mind why people who are socially inept tend to fall behind further in interpersonal skill, unless they make concerted efforts to improve themselves. When you start developing the ability to read people, it's painful because you realize that most people passively dislike you.

Really? I never got that impression.
In Pac Man the endgame was that the ghosts moved faster and if you didn't get there you didn't miss much. Early hardware limitations meant "just make it harder" was often used to extend games. Today they just put in more content, which costs money and they want the player to experience.
If Snowden is to be believed, then Obama may as well have said that the NSA doesn't have time to listen to your phone calls and will not, unless it has reason and gets a warrant.

The problem is the retroactive profiling possible by fishing through a citizen's recorded history. If they want to build a case against you for something, and go through your history of phone calls, locations, emails, IMs, etc. with a bias toward connecting you to a crime or conspiracy, they'll undoubtably find something that helps them assassinate your character enough to convince the public you are a bad person and deserve what's coming to you.
IOS7 Parallax Live Wallpaper for Android
Much like most of the other hardware manufacturers out there.
Eh... yes and no.. and in some cases oh-god-no (http://thelettervsixtim.es/)

When I was able to get a hold of arcade/snes/nes games on emulators I replayed all of my hardest games. I beat all of my top twenty in a weekend.

How? Because all the emulators came with Quick Save & Quick Load. F5 and F6 are the major reasons why games are easy these days. It's a night and day difference. Playing some of the ultra-hard NES games became a walk in the park; really just repeat the last action until success. I even beat the arcade versions of Ghosts & Goblins, then Ghouls and Ghosts in about an hour for each.

I've been playing a ton of nethack lately and I really wish games like Skyrim and other open-world-games had a 'permadeath' difficulty setting. Sure, I can choose to play that way, but I like it incorporated into the game. I want a system where it difficulty is just a percentage of more guys & less ammo, rather difficulty should be a fundamental change to the game.
Makes sense -- that's why Tesla is so eager to sign up dealers, because it's totally worth the money they charge!

(That was sarcasm, btw. A tiny car maker like Tesla will never get anything like a fair deal from dealers, especially if state law gives dealers a monopoly. It's a disfunctional marketplace.)
Plus they've now got that single sign-in feature which does make the installing process better. And you can download apps from the browser, rather than iTunes, meaning you can use any computer.
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Why can a dealer service a municipality if Ford can't? If anything it should be harder for the dealer since they are smaller.
Yes, but unlike with PC laptops there is a real resale market. I upgrade my macbook every other year or so, and it usually just costs me a few hundred dollars after selling my old machine. Upgrading just the RAM or HDD would be cheaper, but wouldn't also be much of an upgrade compared to getting a new machine.
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The rich get richer: everyone who downloads an app by browsing the “top” list reinforces or increases the rank of the apps already on it, entrenching their positions and reducing the visibility of anything below the first few pages.

Can't you fix this by simply excluding installs that happened via the top list from counting towards the top list? If you install it via search or someone's website or even Apple's editorial area, it counts, otherwise, it shouldn't.

Seems like a straightforward way to get rid of the feedback loop.

(everyone should probably do this for top lists, "people who viewed this viewed that" systems and probably even some recommender systems)
Not just Apple, but most UltraBooks suffer from not being upgradeable these days.
What a great professor, and even kinder person. Fond memories of chatting over a beer with Prof. K at Triumph on Nassau.

Canadian to boot!
NASA is researching this (at Ames, in silicon valley).

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/aeronautics/features/sonic_boom_t...
Shameless plug here, but Lector[1] has a two-column layout (and you can also hide the sidebar if you like) and endless scrolling. It's also surprisingly similar to Yoleo's layout in some points. If you like them, maybe you should check us out too ;)

[1] http://bealector.com
If you want a trackpad that doesn't suck balls, don't get the X1 Carbon (well, it does get me using the Touch feature more). Otherwise it is a great laptop.

Why is Apple the only company capable of creating a decent touchpad + driver (even under Windows)?
This could be provided as a separate option on iTunes connect. If it was purely to cater for developers it doesn't need to be in the main app store interface.
i tried !! but many of us are already using Buffer and other apps, How different is this ?? apart from clutter and simplicity
Its because it is this hell: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebObjects
A Popular Ad Blocker Also Helps the Ad Industry
Wow, this might be my new web interface too.
Gotcha, there's also some information on migrating to paperclip[1] which might suit and I'm sure someone will have done similar for CarrierWave. Of course none of that helps with being short staffed.

[1]https://gist.github.com/serek/375203
I wouldn't for a second trust that Apple /doesn't/ have the ability to do this.
This is called a 'fait accompli'. it's a distraction technique employed to keep someone from arguing an issue.
As a feed reader developer myself, I find your idea for a standardized protocol very interesting. I don't have much experience designing protocols, but I'd love to help if someone is working on something like this. I have some friends who would love to see such a protocol implemented on all these readers we're seeing coming out every day ;)
Yeah, that's incredibly cool. Make a meaningful statement whilst throwing their own rhetoric back at them. The more I hear/read from this guy, the more I like him!
Non Brazillian, but I spent two months traveling parts of the country (São Paulo, Niterói , marituba (near Belém) - and the favela's (where I spent a lot of my time) made me initially think that Brazil was a very, very poor country - until I had a chance to look up the OECD stats [1] on Brazil - they are ranked firmly in the middle (on a GDP per capita, PPP). The security situation is pretty sketchy - I thought it was bad in the United States (having come from Canada) where everyone locks the door - even when they are at home - Every apartment I visited in São Paulo had a full-on-data-center-class man trap, with an elevated (and shielded) security guard to let you in. I've never seen anything like that in the United States outside of Data Centers.

[1] https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...
Might be the OS X version but my work 2012 MBP, 10.8.4, has 4 GB RAM and a 500GB HDD. With a text editor, an email client, a couple of terminals, a couple of chrome tabs and an IDE open, the RAM gets loaded and the swap starts to trash. I get huge slowdowns all the time.

With my own MBPr (10.8.4), I have 8GB and never get into similar cases. And having a SSD instead of the HDD, I don't fear nearly as much the day I'll hit the swap.

The OS itself takes over 1.2GB of RAM, add to that ~1GB for the IDE (IntelliJ), ~1 GB for Chrome tabs, that's already > 3GB. Add the terminals, email client, various other processes and daemons... 4 GB is not much.
Universities that train U.S. teachers get mediocre marks in ratings
Maybe that's a bigger store. Tacoma WA, my 15" RMBP was only available in-store in the absolute base, no customization models on the online store. Anything else had to be ordered in.
News that hackers might be interested in. Considering its page-rank, I'd say the OP succeeded.
I always told them to get it elsewhere if they were comfortable with installing it on their own, exactly because Apple charges so much. Specifically, I recommended OWC. Apple is completely okay with this, as long as you make it clear that the RAM is _not_ covered by AppleCare.

The reason Apple's RAM is so expensive is because it undergoes very thorough RAM tests to verify it is 100%, and is also covered by AppleCare. So if your RAM goes bad, they'll replace it. Of course there is a large upsell $$$ here, but you're paying for stability. Some people just feel better going 100% Apple, despite the charge.

Of course, I never had an issue with RAM from OWC, so I always recommended it. I even helped a few customers purchase it in-store using the display units.

Totally fine.

Another cool story: You may or may not know, but new Mac computers used to (may still do) come with a $100 rebate towards a printer. The entry-level printer is exactly $100, so it is essentially free. There really is no catch here except you have to wait 4 to 6 weeks for the check to arrive. We (Apple store employees) knew that most people forget to file for their rebate, and manufacturers bank on this. So we were all officially trained to help file the rebate form in the store as part of the checkout process, to make sure the customer got it.

Also, even if the customer didn't want the printer, we'd usually try to sell it (for free, remember), and tell them to sell it on Craigslist, because they could get an easy $20 to $30. shrug Again, this was encouraged.
It does, but it's not a lot (and unfortunately the system is abused). There are still millions of people living in misery.
TV Tropes has an endless supply of these:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NintendoHard

Great for nostalgia. :)
The full text is linked at the bottom.

(Perhaps it wasn't when you looked at it?)
How augmented reality can be shared experience
Security was the #1 reason why I wanted to move out of the country. After my 4-year old stepdaughter saw her aunt being assaulted in broad daylight in a park, I definitely knew we couldn't stay there anymore.
Ironically this post is currently at the "Top" of HN. :/
You can still win the game be refusing to play. Assert your right to depart as soon as possible. State (politely) that you refuse to answer off-the-cuff questions. Upon any indication of detention, ask if you are free to leave.

If you no longer have this right, you're in hot water. Shut up. Lawyer up. The law is a dangerous animal that you do NOT want to face alone and unguided.

Most people trip up by either:

(1) Assuming that the law officer is their friend and they are not a suspect. That's what happened here.

(2) Foolishly thinking they can talk their way out of their predicament with what they gleaned from the last episode of law and order. The cops probably know more than you about the law.

I personally would refuse to answer any questions beyond the level of "how fast were you going" from a LEO without a lawyer present. I would advise others to do the same.