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Some here have said that iOS 7 has gone too far in the "flat" direction, but my feeling is that the move is an intentional repositioning on Apple's part. Removing most of the "texture" from the user interface has (outside of aesthetic concerns) been done primarily so that it can be added back in a new way in the future.

Ever since I saw this demo video for Senseg [1]:

http://news.cnet.com/1606-2_3-50115714.html

I've thought long and hard about how Apple might use this in future iOS devices. This clean slate design feels to me like the first step to something more. I personally hope it has a lot to do with haptic feedback as adding another user interface dimension to these types of devices would be incredible.

[1] http://senseg.com/
I would prefer to see a plugin that implements OTR instead of this half baked solution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-the-Record_Messaging
Majority Views NSA Phone Tracking as Acceptable Anti-terror Tactic
This Mac Pro will be using the Ivy Bridge-based Xeons, not the Sandy Bridge-based ones that are in the HP machines you refer to.
You can barely see anything through that. Watch the parts where hes scrolling through photos, it's just a massive blur.

Olde' Vista Aero did this better.
Looks like the "polarizing" prediction was right. Reactions I've seen from most people are either "I love it" or "This is terrible".

I'm going to wait until it's in my hands and can play around with it.
Hardly. Anyone who ever has to use a non Apple device - Windows desktop, Android phone, etc. - is going to still need a cross-platform solution like 1Password.
I've been using the same Mac Pro since 2008. I bought an ATI Radeon 6970 around a year or so ago and extended its life that much more. For most of my computer's life, its had a PCIe eSATA card and an external case. It works great still but its starting to show its age.

I can't say I'm too excited about a computer that's relegated to an much more expensive Mac Mini. Thunderbolt 2 is nice but its a poor substitute for internal drive bays and 16x PCIe.
I wonder if you can use the center to play office basketball with the paper scraps. If it gets hot because of usage you may even have a fun little fire pit to use.

Regardless it looks cool and it may have issues but it will be a great computer, overpriced but great.
Playing the devil's advocate here:

Black on black is pretty funky, but it might make sense to have LED lights. When you plug stuff into its expansion ports, chances are you're gonna move the machine slightly, so it lights up automagically which lets you see where things are.

You may also put this inside a cabinet or under the desk maybe (I'd put it on a mantlepiece) where light isn't abundant. Shake it, ah, there it is. No hard drive so you can shake your heart out!
Any two-bit street hustler knows that, which is why billions of dollars on wholesale phone monitoring is such a waste.
You've had half a dozen answers already, and they are all correct, but you may find them unenlightening, because you may find they are not addressing what you feel the problem is. To you it may be "obvious" that 0.9999... can't equal 1, and if that's the case, no amount of explanation of why it is will satisfy you.

If you want to talk about this further and to understand what's going on, I'm happy to try to work with you. My email is in my profile.
Malandrozwap - Comunidade
Out of topic: why do your site tell me that mobile navigation is not supported when, identified as a desktop browser, it works like a charm ?
Two things I hope to see in Android here, multitasking UI and tabbed notifications.

After Google poached WebOS staff, their card UI is really nice and pretty Palm-like. For some reason they haven't shamelessly stolen the WebOS multitasking UI like Apple just have. I really hope they do, because it'd fit Android perfectly.

That notification bar is really nice too, although it seems to be missing quick actions like Android has. 'Today' and 'missed' tabs seem like a good idea though, I'd like to see them on Android, and I'm sure Google could use Now to make the 'today' one seriously useful.
Well, we're doomed.
It's more capable, unfortunately the interface is rather inscrutable. It's a bunch of little tiny icons with no context you have to guess at.

When I have a lot of work to do debugging something, I switch over to Chrome which still has the old style layout, because I find it much easier to use.
"Thunderbolt can be daisy-chained just like USB, so you're not limited to just the 6 provided ports."

Ok. Still trying to understand the "3" limitation on 4k displays. If it's a bandwidth issue, you'd think the number would be 4, since there are two cards.

And if it is bandwidth, then presumably 3 4k displays plugged in and ... even the empty TB ports become unusable since there is no more bandwidth available ?

I just want to plug in 6 monitors and am trying to figure out how :)
Only 2 things that I don't like about it: 1) price, 2) can't upgrade.

Otherwise it's very impressive.
A "tipping point" with respect to the public-at-large? I doubt it. I'd like it if it were, but I don't think enough people care. I expect (sadly) for the buzz about this story to have completely disappeared off the radar of mainstream media by next week, and to die down even online shortly afterwards - except among extreme civil libertarian types and people who always get worked up over this stuff.

On a personal level, however, I'd say the answer is "yes". It won't be an overnight thing, and I can't say I'm going to abandon Gmail, G+, Facebook, etc. completely, but I will be making changes in how I manage certain things. Probably the most significant will be using pushing for more use of encryption and services like Tor and I2P, both for myself and among my friends and acquaintances.

One of my goals is to start a new cypherpunk / crypto-anarchist meetup / group in the Raleigh / Durham area, and start doing things like offering sessions / classes to the public on "How to use Tor" and "How to use I2P" and "How to use PGP" etc. along with political advocacy.
If Apple can save the desktop, I will thank them.
she is technical but still very much has a girls perspective
How about some kind of Snapchat-like email service
This is going to be a $3000 workstation. Its processor will cost more than that "workstation" you linked to. They aren't even competing in the same space.

The new "paradigm" this is pushing is that you don't need PCIe cards or internal storage. We'll see about that.
This is what the home screen reminds me of (NSFW): http://oglaf.com/rainbowcake/
It hasn't been announced, but xenon processors and PCI-E flash storage is typically much more expensive than the Core Processor line or SSD storage since they are almost exclusively marketed towards servers.

That said, disregarding the Apple tax I'm sure Apple gets pretty good deals on their hardware so it is possible that it will be at similar price point as the current line (which was typically regarded as over priced and outdated anyways)
As a design asthetic I find it fairly interesting. By working toward a design managing the thermals in a way that allow for more heat removal while allowing it to not sound like a 747 on takeoff is good. I suspect your typical desktop machine will benefit from that kind of thinking.

Also for a long time Intel was trying to push all of the expansion boards outside the case with USB, and Apple seems close to achieving this with thunderbolt. Leaving the primary chassis as the system/holder for CPU+Memory+GPU with perhaps some boot media, and putting anything else outside.

I can't wait to see on in action to see how well this strategy works in practice vs in slideware.
I guess that's why for people with impaired vision, there's always been a High Contrast mode in iOS
Ask EA, or the friendly folks at DICE
All I see is a cylinder?

I've seen a lot of Star Trek lately. It would fit in right next to other alien spacecraft against the special effect space backdrop of The Original Series.
I'm a big fan of everything except less RAM capacity. Getting the disks out of the case makes a lot of sense -- 4 drives was never enough to be meaningful. A boot SSD and a big 8+ drive external RAID on TB2 seems a lot better (ideally with an SSD or more RAM to cache), and/or NAS/SAN.

Curious where it will be priced; if it's $1999 or less for a usable base config, it could be a default. Mini never really made a lot of sense as a desktop. It's depressing leaving an rMBP docked all the time.
There has been much talk of Microsoft as the model of a floundering corporate, stagnant and lacking leadership.

So, and this is perhaps a small detail, it does seem somewhat interesting, that both Google and now Apple, appear to have adopted Microsoft's flat UI approach.
Whoever buys one of these promise us you will pose an Obi Wan doll behind it flipping off the tractor beam switch.
If your not concerned with performance,

20 Gbit/s thunderbolt != 8 drives @ 6 Gbit/s (42GBit /s)

i think a modern raid card can deliver 8gbit/s over 8 PCIe 3 lanes

However i guess you could trunk a few together?
Then why do they show it.

"That is iOS7."

"It appears to be different from iOS6."

"That's an iPhone!"

"I see that Apple made this."

"Well this discussion is getting a little bit too heated for me, I think I will go and reserve my judgement somewhere else for a minute."
It's perfectly invalid to make judgements on usability without using it though.
Hi, I spent 3 years in China and came back to the US this year, currently living in SF, working at a startup, and learning programming on my own. I'm also very interested in food. Want to meet? My email: stromeyer3 at gmail
Space bar as well
On my old feature phone, I switched from the red color theme to the blue every other week. It looked good every single time just because it was different.

(Of course, nothing under the hood has changed. So all the reasons for going Android are still valid.)
The fact that a former DOJ prosecutor is pursuing this is a very good sign. I am very happy that it's someone whose credentials cannot be called into question.

I still think it stands no chance at all but it's great to see it happening. I wonder what would stop say a good 2/3 of the country from jumping in on this case? I know I haven't personally used Verizon as I don't have a contract with them but I'm sure my calls have been snooped on since I can't help but call people who do have Verizon contracts.
I wonder if there is a patent for this design or if we'll start seeing PCs that embrace the idea of one heat sink.

It is a pretty cool idea, and takes advantage of some of the properties of aerodynamics. I wonder if they tested this in a wind tunnel.
I wonder if there is a patent for this design or if we'll start seeing PCs that embrace the idea of one heat sink.

It is a pretty cool idea, and takes advantage of some of the properties of aerodynamics. I wonder if they tested this in a wind tunnel.

Edit: I know this is up here twice, getting a weird Error from the page when I try to delete or post... Sorry.
> Take a look at the text screenshot. It is hard to tell where I should touch to start typing.

My guess is, the text box below the message list, which in the same place as it is in every sms app on every modern phone platform, and which is the exact same shape as the text box was in the old iOS sms app (http://i.imgur.com/jSGZADn.png), and which has the word 'send' next to it.

That's just a guess, though. I could be wrong.
These are the same people who bitched and whined about the iPad and the iPhone. :D
I believe Thunderbolt 2 only needs one port for 4k. (http://mashable.com/2013/06/05/intel-thunderbolt-2/)
Don't their mice have a trackpad built into the top now?
> I'll be emailing my member of parliament (MP) to make sure we keep tabs on this in Canada, and keep our privacy laws intact.

openmedia.org seems to have done a good job campaigning against the Online Spying Bill.
New multitasking is really nice, Google should have kept that orientation etc instead of how they did it. The notifications look good too, although they seem to be missing quick actions?
I'd be more excited if they used fictitious navy pilot call signs, maverick, goose, iceman, merlin... Who's with me?
1. Download iTerm.

2. Forget about Terminal.app
Are there any grown ups left on HN?
That is pretty much the agenda. Once the terrorism narrative turns fully into a joke and people don't take it serious anymore the narrative for China as the new enemy must be in place. But so long we play along.

You can hear already hear the sound of "cold war reloaded" in Kissinger's talk at the World Economic Forum:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZh5cfJxHz4
Indeed. Despite how the product fares, this kind of courage makes me hopeful about his leadership into the future.
Actually, iirc the Chinese made that processor because they were afraid of the US putting backdoors in Intel and AMD chips
Where Should I Flee to Avoid Extradition?
Youtube currently down
This is an absolute outrage! WAH!
This was my first thought. http://goo.gl/nVBNJ
It reminded me of a big battery. I thought it was cool!
For starters, it names the President as a defendant
EDIT: originally was plaintiff, dunno how that happened. Thanks
> What you posted are a few negative events. What you did not post are the few million or billion positive events that happened at the same time.

But positive and negative events don't cancel each other out. It's not arithmetic. If you have 1,000 excellent meals for every time you get poisoned, the 1,000 excellent meals really aren't relevant and they're certainly no consolation.
'[T]he word "pardon" is trouncing "extradition"'

To be fair, I think more people know the word "pardon" than the word "extradition"...
The new Mac Pro is going be a spaghetti junction of cables, power supplies, external enclosures... whereas previously everything fit neatly into one single box which could be easily picked up and moved to another desk.
..which was named after a dog. So I suppose in a round about way it is still named after an animal.
Except neither Android nor WP8 follow that assumption/conclusion.
Yeah although a big question is: what will that do to battery life? People who install lots of gimmicky, frequently-updated apps and forget about them after trying them once will suddenly be at a loss as to why their device suddenly doesn't hold a charge as long as it did before.

I fear the auto-update feature combined with multitasking will drastically reduce the typical battery life of an iOS device.
Given the guy is a former DOJ prosecutor, I think he's probably done his homework. I think it's highly doubtful that the claim will succeed on the merits (because its probably legal), but I think the possibility of reaching a decision on the merits is non-zero.

I mean looking cursorily at the filing, a Bivens action is the right vehicle for this. Anybody with some more insight want to tell me why it won't work?
Apple sells an external trackpad.
Not a lot of technical specificity around "memory compression". Edit: Ok, I stand corrected, somebody's done some research and found the code.

Windows 8 does a similar-sounding trick. At some timer interrupts they de-dupe pages and make them copy-on-write when they are identical. I seem to recall also reading that some VM products (VMware?) do this - so if you have a few instances of the same OS, only unique pages end up getting stored.

From the presentation I wonder if they're doing this, or if they might be putting the pages through a compression algorithm. (I hear "compression" and I think this, but it seems like that would make page faults needlessly costly.)
Am I missing something subtle ? With a public key, you should be able only to write mails, not read them, right ?
Booz Allen doesn't actually have a very large lobbying presence.

http://www.politico.com/politicoinfluence/0613/politicoinflu...
The Questionable Design of iOS 7
How was it ever possible that this was broken in the first place ? Incredible. Stupefying.
Guided introduction to Julia
Booz Allen Hamilton, federal contractor
Let's prepare class suit against Apple on our sight loss.
The race to get the first donut-shaped accessory is on! And If I ever would want a non-customizable computer I'd get an macbook air
Starting at the very beginning:

Stuff you write down aren't numbers, they're representations or names of numbers. There is a number named "1", there is a number named "2". "2" is not the number itself. You can't infer the two-ness of "2" by staring at the symbols.

It turns out that our way of naming numbers isn't perfect. Each number has multiple names. "2" and "2.0" are both names for the same number, as is "2.00", "2.000", and "2.0000". It turns out that you can name "2" a different way, as "1.9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999...", where there are an infinite number of nines. The names may be different, but the numbers they name are the same.
46 points in fifteen minutes and not a single comment? This NSA issue is seeming less and less like a discussion topic and more like a echo chamber, despite the rampant lack of information on all sides of the event.
Edward Snowden is a hero. This is a criminal government. Innocent citizens of the world are now enemies of the US police state.
This is huge for smaller developers that are interested in selling their apps. Send me a note if you are interested in selling. Email in my profile.
Fury of reaction to man calling himself NSA whistleblower
I vote for the 5th option, "I never use it, found it annoying, and turned the bloody thing off in settings".
Everyone made fun of the i"Pad" 3 years ago. Now everyone owns one.
The Busy Life of a Freelancer
White House Declines Comment on NSA Whistleblower
Not that odd, given that the icon for their "Mice and Keyboards" section is the magic trackpad.

http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_mac/mac_accessori...

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC380LL/A/magic-trackpad?f...
yeah the UI is much different. I read somewhere apple is trying to keep the UI consistent among XCode debugger and Safari debugger. Notice, they have almost the same UI design.
Former AUSA (Assistant US Attorney) or not, "He who represents himself has a fool for a client". Might be entertaining though. He may at least get a headline or two when it is thrown out, which will be good because this whole thing will die from the headlines in about a week, and the vast majority of Americans will go back to being blissfully ignorant.
Genius! I want one!
I would assume that most website owners will go with the integration method Mozilla currently recommends, and that method is centralized.

For instance, the quickstart guide mentions https://login.persona.org/include.js: "You must include this on every page which uses navigator.id functions. Because Persona is still in development, you should not self-host the include.js file."
> GNU userland has a lot of features that BSD doesn't have.

Do you have an example of this or a lot of them?

> some may say more bloated

I'm not worried about "bloat". What I am worried about it lack of functionality. If BSD is lacking in that area, it should be easy to identify.
Just a suggestion - using the word "actually" will severely skew the results of your poll. Too much confirmation bias.
Se seen below:

> In the United States, the federal government has sovereign immunity and may not be sued unless it has waived its immunity or consented to suit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_immunity_in_the_Unite....
I really hope iCloud can be disabled in OSX-M. As far as I am concerned iCloud is a disaster. It causes all manner of data loss on iDevices, generally without the user having a choice. For example, my wife lost her entire calendar -all events- just for turning off calendar synchronization. All events had been originally entered through her phone. Somehow iCloud decided to delete anything that was also stored in the cloud, which meant everything. I really don't get the logic behind this behavior. It's really dumb. You never loose user data. So, I don't trust it now. I don't care to have anything to do with it.
and they would look like an "i" :)
I am not afraid. I am awake.
I use it for a single thing, but I always use it for that almost daily: to add things to the calendar.

Also from time to time I text my wife while driving.
Yes I love the design. But the main thing with the Mac Pro that I love is I can swap a drive, memory etc without walking through the mall to the Apple Store. I have shied away from too many iMacs for this reason (I have 2, both failed at times where I needed them now - one a drive from Seagate and one a video card which pretty much kills that beautiful screen along with it). As long as it is easy to swap memory, a drive externally, and maybe a video card then I am cool with it. Otherwise customizable computers from Apple are no longer.

This definitely explains why it took a while to update the Mac Pro. A nice surprise today.
You mean as a defendant? Nothing stops you from suing the President in his capacity as a public official. The usual remedy, though, is an injunction, but under Bivens you can seek damages (as is being done here).

E.g. Rasul v. George W. Bush (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasul_v._Bush).
It's worse that that. It uses a questionable javascript crypt library (written by a former twitter dev, not a cryptographer) and a fixed IV derived from the password which is re-used for each message. This is oh I read the wikipedia article on AES level cryptography deployed against people who would have written the Wikipedia entry if not for that fact that what they know is probably not public.

Better idea: Just make a plugin that uses OTR[0]. Don't try to roll your own crypto, especially when you are up against people who know what they are doing.
[0] http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/
I use it sometimes when I'm cycling to play certain song, playlist or album, or to get the current time. If it would understand me, it would be even useful.
The Best Features of iOS 7
Perfect. And then when they lose and need to pay a bunch of lawyers $3B, someone will go shake the money tree and a bunch of tax payers will fall out to foot the bill.
From the pdf linked in another post below: They use WKdm, a very fast compression.

http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/xnu-1456.1.26/iok...

http://static.usenix.org/event/usenix01/cfp/wilson/wilson_ht...
Is it just me, or does it seem like this guy probably isn't holed up in Hong Kong but elsewhere? I really hope this guy is smart enough to not actually advertise where in the world he actually is to a bunch of people that would likely have no problems disappearing him. I really hope he's already in Iceland.
Yep, nothing like the accidental triggering of Siri in a quiet meeting/conference...
The Emergence of the DarkNet and Why It Matters
Well think about the extreme cases:

You feel 100% safe, but you have a 100% chance to die tomorrow
You feel 0% safe, but you have 0% chance to die tomorrow

Which is better? Well in the first case, you feel safe but are dead tomorrow. The second case, you feel completely in danger, but you stay alive.

I would say the one where you ACTUALLY die is worse. It doesn't matter how secure you feel if you are dead.
This is huge. I sold an app to another company several years ago (very small deal) but had to continue distributing it for them because Apple had no way to transfer ownership.
Desktop Macs come with either a large trackpad or a mouse with a trackpad surface.

http://www.apple.com/magictrackpad/

http://www.apple.com/magicmouse/
I think this is precisely why the original reporter made it clear that there was new information that has yet to be revealed.

If they blow their news all at once, they won't get a sustained reaction as they would by releasing snippits every day.
I have to agree. I was pleasantly surprised by the UI changes for iOS 7, as I think the developers at WWDC were as well (a standing ovation, no less - even from fanboys)