skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
has to be a homerun.

the last time the entire neckbeard web went apeshit like that was when they announced the iPad. and the iPhone before that. practically all forums are useless right now, including here.

guess that a lot of people also only see the screenshot, have not watched the screencast. iOS looks different in movement, the animations, parallax effect, etc. all add up.

the under the hood stuff is super, multitasking, app updates, per app vpn, etc. like christmas.

iOS7 will trigger a redesign of our own iPad app, it is a welcome agent of change as our (corporate) customers will not be able to hold these upgrades to iOS back as they did with Windows.
Weather appears to be a de-branded Yahoo Weather, but instead of local backgrounds pulled from flickr, there are generic animated backgrounds. I hope Yahoo Weather continues to exist.
This is just blind speculation (I am not apple [power] user, nor have I owned the new mac pro):

Maybe (sacrificing customizability[?] for portability) + (somewhat superficial/look change maybe for change's sake) + (lack of (water cooling, cd/dvd/bluray%, power surge supply/protector thingy%, raid%)) != professional market?

% = if you want these, there goes some of the portability/simplicity. (unless apple monitor usually has cd drive?)

I might be off the mark, feedback welcome. Maybe this is enough for most creative professionals? Video/3d/gaming/some programming/some engineering might be somewhat infinite in appetite for processing power and all, I would think.
Well, watching the "in action" videos on an iPhone is pretty darn close.

You do realize you are on a web site designed for commentary on tech matters?
The Stickers on Edward Snowden's Laptop
ESC or cmd period is your friend :)
What would be hard is also making sure that packet sniffers in the middle wouldn't be able to detect it. Specially with all the varieties of router hardware. Are we going to have a backdoor in all of them that prevents passing on that data?
WWDC 2013: The Best Defense Is a Good Offense
Good point, I haven't seen any logo. Maybe it's still in the works and will later.
The 3 most controversial founders out of Germany
"Okay, we COULD just label the ports with regular high color contrast paint. Say, white paint on a black background or black paint on a white background. But that would be TOO EASY and the panel would then really 'pop' against our otherwise monolithic clean design. Which would be distracting."

"But during actual use the ports are going to be on the BACK of the device (so you won't see it) and will have random stuff plugged into some of the ports, which ALSO would disturb the pure clean lines of the thing, so who cares?"

"No, no, we've got to label this thing with black labels on a black background, so it blends in."

"How will people be able to see the labels?"

"Easy. We'll add LED backlighting!"

"How will people TURN ON the LED backlighting, without the button to do THAT destroying our perfect design?"

"Simple - there's no button for it - you just move the machine to turn on the backlight!"

"What if you want the backlight to STAY on for a while, longer than the default?"

"Just keep shaking the machine. Or duct-tape a vibrator to it."

"That's PERFECT!"
> revolutionary features that will take the market by storm

It is indeed much simpler to lead a revolution that has already happened.
I love watching people moan about this yet unreleased product.

I think the new Mac Pro episode will resemble the iPad one - lots of "ohemgee it's like just a bigger ipod, lol, how stupid do they think we are, kthx?" reactions, when in fact this product will probably push a new paradigm shift in the way workstations are built i.e. moving away from the plastic pieces of shit ubiquitously sold now. Seriously, I dare you to look around a regular "PC customization" website e.g. [1]. Apart from Razer and maybe Alienware nobody has even tried to really innovate the workstation landscape. I remember when I was building one of my first desktops with my dad - 20 years ago.

A final thought: Apple has a million flaws (mostly software and systems, grr), but they didn't get where they are for being stupid or for not understanding the market, so at least give them some fucking credit.

[1] http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/view/Vortex-500-gaming-pc/
Very interesting and useful, not just for securing DropBox either.

FYI this article suggests to use encfs for an encrypted folder in your dropbox, this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5855465 suggests that this might not be a wise choice, so you might want to (re)consider that part.
Welcome to the era where you process all in the cloud. You don't need 30 HD on your machine anymore or 200gb ram. I was a bit shocked at the beginning but then I realized most of the studios are using cloud solutions to make intensive renders or local hardware farms with plenty of processing power. I think the Mac Pro still exceeds on power, but you know you will always find someone else more hungry of power :)
developer.apple.com is down since launch. Can I download iOS7 elsewhere?
Approximate Heavy Hitters: The SpaceSaving Algorithm
Glad you ask.. as you can see right now the service is fully operational but lots of improvements an new developments could be make. It's not a comfort zone problem because I'm constantly changing between the 2 areas, but I believe that this way I'm also failing in quality execution on both areas.

Thanks for the advice, it meant a lot!
Misattribution corroborated by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation. http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/when-government-fea...
This is a great example of the innovator's dilemma.
>This offers almost no advantage over a late model iMac with a Thunderbolt-to-PCIe breakout module (which is what many power users have been doing in the years since the last update).

A few big advantages over the iMac: Xeons processors, so more cores & more cache; ECC RAM; and (two) workstation graphics cards. Six thunderbolt ports means up to 36 (!) PCIe peripherals by daisy chaining, which means a lot more expandability than the iMac or even the 2010 Mac Pro.
In what ways is it slow for you?

Personally, the only issue I had with it was opening a new tab/window/shell being somewhat slow. Fixed with "touch ~/.hushlogin"
Yes or https://lastpass.com/ encrypted and free. Works wonders.
OS X Mavericks Core Technologies Overview
The article says that "The United States Department of Defense acknowledges holding 99 American citizens captured in Afghanistan, during the 'war on terror', and one of them was held, for a time, in Guantanamo."

It continues: "But although Yasser Hamdi was born in the USA, he was raised in Saudi Arabia, and Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts did not realize he was an American."

Your original comment was: "No, people are just sent to Gitmo to be waterboarded and held indefinite without a trial. They don't even care the nationality of where you come from."

They obviously care, which is why the American citizens were either transferred out or never sent there in the first place, despite being caught fighting in Afghanistan.
much worse? iTunes has 10X more functionality than the web-based Google Play interface. For $25/year you get to match 25,000 songs to 256kbps AAC and you get ad-free personal stations. Google play may give you individual tracks and 20,000 songs matched for $90-120 a year. They have their pros and cons, but I don't think either is clearly "worse" than the other. Personally, since I already use iTunes Match, iRadio is a way better choice for me.
The story has now spanned six days in the news, often as a front page story. New revelations have occurred across that timespan as well, which kept the story alive. And then the leaker revealed himself, giving the story a human face, which the media loves.

Furthermore, the President and Director of National Intelligence have come out and openly admitted to mass dragnet surveillance, while trying to make it seem like not a big deal and simultaneously trying to suggest it's tremendously useful and doesn't do very much. Couple that with some ridiculous statements about a goal of 100% security and people got pretty pissed off by his statement. It has the mark of someone trying to make an embarrassing discovery go away.
Certainties:

1. Use of glue somewhere which knackers any chance of repairing it. Memory, disks and that is it.

2. Proprietary fan which will get noisy after time and cost a fortune to replace. First step will be to put it on the floor so you can't hear it... leading to...

2a. Someone is going to put a half drank coffee cup in it and blow it up.

2b. Plume of hairballs every time a cat owner fires it up as it'll suck in every bit of crap off the floor (the dirtiest place in your house).

2c. Someone will whack their noggin on the desk while they're trying to plug their headphones into it.

Perhaps I'm bitter because my 2010 MBP blew up spectacularly, but I'm seeing a lot of visual design over sensible engineering in Apple recently.

The iMac is a sensible design over this. If only it wasn't such a bastard to get inside it.

I tend to use computers for years (typing this on a 7 year old Lenovo). I'd like the opportunity not to fill up a landfill after a couple of years.
There is Apple marketing material they've made available. It's perfectly valid to make judgements from that in my opinion.
This is a Pandora-like service. You don't get to pick the songs played, just the artist/genre/song that the streaming service's playlist will use as a reference point.

I liked the concept when Pandora was new, but it seems somewhat out dated in a world of Spotify and Rdio which has radio features as a subset of a product that allows more user choice alongside passive discovery. A Pandora clone makes it seem like the record companies' interests were put ahead of the users' by Apple.
Don't mind the flatness.

As someone who uses their ios devices mostly at night, I'm not looking forward to everything having a white background though.

I wish there was a theme that could be enforced on all apps that could be swapped at appropriate times. You know, like Windows 3.1 in 1990.
Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft could all make the vast majority of email vastly more secure by implementing PGP-by-default. Send: You enter an email address, a little key appears beside it if it's recognized as having an associated public key, and a warning appears that the email can't be encrypted if an additional email address is entered that doesn't have an associated key. Receive: email encrypted with your public key is colored "green" (for "secure") and the from address is colored "green" if it's been appropriately signed. With (and, I'd argue, only with) a webmail client can PGP be rapidly deployed and almost completely transparent.

But, this would make "intercepts" far more difficult, now, wouldn't it ...
NSA Whistleblower Thomas Drake's Foreboding Remarks on U.S. Surveillance
It's basically Helvetica vs Faux Leather. They did say it would be polarizing.
I stand corrected.

(I tested before I posted, but forgot MD indexing was turned off.)
>They might have made it too flat actually. A lot of text everywhere (the user will definitely get confused on what to tap and what not to tap)

Yea, that's one thing which Skeuomorphism does well is I know instantly what I can interact with and what I can't. I still may not know what to 'tap-and-hold' but at least I know what scrolls, what turns, what swipes.
Obligatory flamebait response to your flamebait comment:

Android is a great R&D department. As long as it takes Apple less than three years to develop and deploy a feature they copy, Apple will still have it in the field on their devices before Android vendors do!
Surely there is a hard limit on this though (unless we have bionic eyes and/or small expanding robot fingers (like in ghost in the shell (http://youtu.be/PkyZGZRnQb4)))
Ask: Are there any PRISM protests planned in the Bay Area?
Beta Access to iWork on your browser
Pretty amusing, although it's (obviously) going to be thrown out.
I see no reason that this couldn't be true. There are probably many checkpoints to access the backdoors. The reason they don't use it is because once they admit it, there would be a huge backlash
It wasn't available on Windows, which many of us work on. Also, some work networks are more restrictive and block it.
Up to 3 4K displays at the same time? It seems Retina desktop monitors are on their way. I'm surprised they weren't announced at the same time.
Another interesting engineering innovation relative to the iMac is PCIe mass storage (as opposed to SATA).
If the next releases are all California surf spots, I'm all for it.
Suppose we found out that the NSA was snooping through the jQuery CDNs. It would only take five minutes for website owners to change their jQuery locations.

It's a different story with Persona. Changing your entire user system isn't done overnight.
I would like to try it before commenting, but goddamn, do those icons look ugly. What the hell are those gradients?
A correction: Thunderbolt 2 can go up to 20Gbits/s not 20GBytes/s. Thunderbolt uses a 4x PCI-E 2.0 connection.

Things like graphics cards use 16x PCI-E 3.0 at this point which is 128Gbits/s.
I will be cancelling my Spotify subscription for this.
99% of the time I just listen to random stuff. Usually top list, or different genre radios.
They will kill 1Password with the new keychain in the cloud. I'm a total fan of 1Password and I dislike this a bit.
What happened with iOS7?
I was wondering the opposite: How do you get as many people as possible to trigger the match so that it becomes a losing proposition to do this sort of traffic monitoring.
An Anecdote
Someone just tried to claim my phone number through Google voice by SMS phishing me.

I got a text saying "Your Google account has been compromised, reply back to verify your account"

Well that smelled like a phishing scam, but these thing haven't really happened to me before and I was curious where this was going. I thought I could probably catch what was going to happen before I was phished.

So I replied "K". Then I got a text saying "Please enter the verification code -68- when We will call you."

I couldn't really tell what the angle was yet, but I thought "as long as I don't give away secret information like a password or a 2 factor auth token, I'll be fine"

Then I got a call from a number in DC. It was a automated message telling me to enter my code. It sounded an awful lot like the legitimate automated Google services. I was too curious, I couldn't resist. I entered the code.

A second later I got an email alert from Google telling me my phone number that was linked to Google voice had been claimed by someone else. Then I figured out what happened.

They used a Google voice account to try to claim my number as their own. Google voice tries to verify that you own a number by giving that number a call and having you enter a 2 digit code. So they had me enter the 2 digit code for them...

After that they could have used my number however they liked, and given that banks and other institutions use phone numbers as a way to ID customers they might have been able to do some damage with it if they knew more about me.

I took the number back using the same way they had taken it from me. Hopefully they didn't call anyone in those 2 minutes it took to do that.

I guess the lesson here is that I can't really outsmart a scam as easily as I thought I could.
This underlies one of the core questions of philosophical ethics: "what should you do?" There are many moral frameworks* but the way I've always understood it, underlying each of them is that morals are defined by the obligatory feeling they give rise to. (Those feelings may arise regardless of who or what created a particular circumstance.) So for someone to find a situation immoral but not to act is to be immoral himself (or to lead him to rationalize the moral dissonance by revising his moral framework so he perceives that situation as moral).

* E.g. dominant frameworks are: morals are that which is necessary as a matter of integrity and self-respect, morals are that which you would prefer all people strictly adhere to, morals are that which provide the greatest good to the greatest number, morals are that which promote the state (or increase compassion, or knowledge).
Schumpeter: The age of smart machines
"And so—before the capability was made public, it _likely_ wouldn't have been used against mere political nuisances,"

Wasn't this type of data mining the source of the data leading to the expose' of Eliot Spitzer's bad habits; ultimately leading to his political demise? Exposing philandering politicians, or prostitution, are both far away from what I'd consider an appropriate use of technology.
If you have nothing to hide, then you'll kindly hand over your bank details, passwords, don't skip your porn stash.

Also I'd like your significant other's mobile number. I'd like to see if I can get a topless pic.

Everyone has something to hide.
I would have preferred Sea Lion too until the OSX 10.9 and after that they could have shifted to California spots etc
Google will host 20,000 uploaded songs for $0 per year.
> First of all because it's been aggressively expanding its borders to the expense of the local Palestinian population for the past 65 years.

Hu? Israel's borders have shrunk - it used to include parts of what is now called Jordan. History didn't start in 1948 you know.

Map: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kingdom_of_Israel_1020_map...

In 635 CE the Arabs stole it, control jumped around to various nations ever since, till finally the descendent's of the original local population (who never left, and lived there the entire time) regained it.

Any claim the local Palestinian population has is superseded by the original population.
What Chinese People Think of the USA
Note that the "10.9" part was extremely diminished in today's announcements. While those underlying version numbers may live in, I suspect they won't be using the numbers in public in future.
I've been doubting that he actually IN Hong Kong at the moment. He may have been there at some point and did the interview there, but I would have hoped he burned his location and is currently in another country.
Disparaging remarks? What, do you have something against trash cans?
Although I'm amazed at the thermal core design, it still looks like a litter bin somehow.
While there's a high possibility of that, hopefully if enough people care about the issue, the public backlash could (in a perfect world) lead to the case being looked at
Butterflies Inspire Anti-counterfeit Technology
Actually, It's a great time to graduate.
ITunes Connect: Transfer an App
This will only work for average email users if you can pull it off without ever using any of the industry language, or requiring anybody to ever actually do anything with a key. Find other descriptive language to use, and make it require zero extra effort, and you've got a winner.
As I've mentioned elsewhere on this page, there's a difference between what Persona is right now and what it will become later.

Right now it is indeed centralized. Check out the integration documentation and you'll see how. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Persona/Qui...
Still requires you to trust the holder of your private key....
Really, you don't see the refinements?

At first glance the multitasking UI looks like Palm's. But, if you listen to the keynote there is a whole lot of logic built on how it's done.

Unlike my understanding of Palm/Android the apps are not continuously running and draining battery. Instead the OS chooses when to give the app cycles. E.g. the heuristic explained is something like: The radio is on and there is a strong connection, the phone just went into standby, so before powering down the radio give the most frequently used apps a few cycles to update their content.

To me that seems utterly brilliant. My phone retains its battery life while the apps stay up to date. To me that is brilliant design and why I appreciate Apple products.
They already did the iHemisphere (2nd gen iMac).
iOS 7 = iOS + Metro + Android = iMetroid.

Not bad looking in my opinion, if a little bit weak on color choices.
Also, how can we forget the infamous and most hyped iWatch. I was so happy they didn't make it.
It does not kills the cloud. It just makes some of the flaws that were obvious to the tech people since day one known to the wider audience.
Poll: How many HN iOS users actually use Siri?
I played around with it a bit when it was new, then haven't used it since. Now that it's been out for quite a while, I was curious about its uptake.
I use it all the time and would hate to be without it.
I use it occasionally.
I use it rarely.
I never use it at all (other than playing around/demos) and wouldn't miss it if it were gone.
Three MVPs in three days
Just tried it on the new iTunes for OSX and it kind of sucks. Great collection of Radio stations but you can't:
1. Save any stations as your favorites.
2. Quality of audio is below par
3. Station frequently looses signal and iTunes has to rebuffer.

I don't see it replacing Pandora yet.
On the animation titled "Expansion, vastly expanded" you see an apple logo on the case briefly before the animation stops. Top/center.
Good insight from another skilled designer.
Ask: Are there any planned prism protests in the Bay Area?
Odd that they implemented a web site for a desktop PC for consumption via the input devices of a laptop, and not a... desktop PC.
I was a holdout against subscription music for a long time but the time has come (actually probably a year or 3 ago). I accidentally lost my 15,000 song collection and was pleasantly surprised that I could still listen to it with Match (in fact I liked that doing so did not take up any drive space). But I still pretty much ever listen to my iTunes collection, instead just call up (almost) anything on Spotify. Being able to access almost any track for the cost of an album per month beats the heck out of pay-per-track/album.

Will be interesting to see if iRadio (and some of Apple's other things) make it to Windows and Android. That's the only way to become Pandora-et. al. killers.
Wait till the actual release date! There is not a good reason for them to announce new apple displays until they can actually be used with their hardware. Thunderbolt 2 doesn't even exist yet.
He mentioned "...your favorite 3rd party displays" when introducing the 4K-ness.
Or if something like f.lux[1] was built in from the start. f.lux is the entire reason why I jailbreak my phone.

[1]: http://justgetflux.com
So is it official? China is the "enemy" now? Otherwise, how are they justifying the attacks?
Ask NH: Help me understand the cloud
I was just watching the xbox-one expo on the xbox360 dashboard, and realized during the Forza 5 preview that I didn't know what the cloud was(Forza 5 uses the cloud to move away from preset AI to a learning AI, by updating your driving patterns to the cloud). So I read up on Cloud Computing, and its defined as undefined. Not really helpful, considering I want to know what it is, or how it is used. If there are resources that help explain this that you know of, Please post them.
Director of National Intelligence: It depends on the definition of 'collect'
Show HN: Managed ElasticSearch Now in EU Datacenters
Feels like KDE4, in a way. I think the graphical approach KDE took with KDE4, with new icons for example, made it look worse. It feels very much like Apple is no longer leading in the design department.
Why. If you have trouble with your password just ask NSA. They should just open tech support hotline. Also - can a person get his full facebook profile from them - since they removed archiving?
I'm in the exact same situation. I am hoping that they launch the updated 13" rMBP along with OS X 10.9.
Apple's OS X Mavericks: Back on Sacred Ground
Just a guess, but I think they're more referring to WP's lack of depth in the UI - everything is flat.
Very funny pics of animals
I would like to share with you 3 of my favorite funny animal pictures. Lets have fun and enjoy them.