skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most people aren't going to get themselves into webs of trust - and certificate authorities and webmail servers and the like can be compromised. The only thing you can vest any significant trust in, with NSLs and so on flying around, is what's on your computer.

And, if you want to be really sure, what's on a computer with no radio protected by an airgap into which you never insert removable media....
Assuming all hardware has backdoors (an unlikely scenario) and giving up basic encryption that can protect you in case when there are no hardware backdoors (a likely scenario) is counterproductive.

I see no reason that Zeus shouldn't exist. Should I be worried that he would strike me with a lightning? Not until I see evidence of Zeus existing.
Feds Can't Crack Apple's iMessage
The biggest surprise for me was the apparent introduction of a "double tap" action to switch between apps in the new multitasking view. I couldn't understand what the advantage of that was over a single tap.

Has Apple used "double tap" in iOS before? It seems like something they'd studiously avoided in the past.
seems pretty inconsiderate toward those with impaired vision. there's little contrast, lots of light gray on white with pastel accents.
Colonizing the Internet
You're definitely correct, but I like this part: "Plaintiff, Larry Klayman, a former U.S. Department of Justice prosecutor"

The more current or former DC insiders fight against what's going on the better.
Most Americans back NSA tracking phone records, prioritize probes over privacy
I just push to a repo out of the web root that has a git hook which sets GIT_WORK_TREE to my web root and does a checkout.
That would probably break email search and ads.
Quicktime does livestreaming on windows
Just use the 'Invert Color' option. Configure Triple Click for it. I use it all the time. And with this new design, it will be even better in this scenario.

Personally, I don't think I will like the super flat design though. They are swinging the pendulum into the other extreme.
Yeah, except that's not what Eric meant. He phrased an answer poorly and sensationalist journalists took his answer out of context. What he REALLY said (in context) was "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be treating Google like your trusted friend by telling it to them"

Full context:

Q: People are treating Google like their most trusted friend. Should they be?

A: I think judgement matters… If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place. But if you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines including Google do retain this information for some time, and it’s important, for example that we are all subject in the United States to the Patriot Act. It is possible that that information could be made available to the authorities.”
I might have have plenty to hide:

Hemorrhoids
Herpes
Depression
I like to pick my nose
I have a sort bit on my cock
I don't wash much
I hate pensioners/seniors
I hate work
I like Justin Beiber
I hate my boss
I hate my wife
I hate my kids
I think all policemen have issues
I don't like how Jews mix race, religion, and politics
I'm irrationally scared of black people

Enough?

Now, if all or some of that were true, none of it is illegal, I would keep quite and always act appropriately despite my possible opinions, but like hell would I want people close to me or people I work with knowing any of that, let alone the government.

I have plenty to hide, maybe the above, maybe not. So, yeah, I have plenty to worry about.

Any one else?
Here's Glenn either being intellectually dishonest or intellectually incompetent.

http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/dear-fellow-liberal2
My knee jerk reaction is to agree with this post— it's design by committee, shed painting, whatever you want to call it.

"This just makes me think that each individual app team submitter their own design for an icon based on some loose guidelines and they all got thrown together into a bucket"

Probably resonates with me the hardest— personally, I think the apps look great, but the icons really just look "off" to me. To each their own, I suppose.
Why do you think it will obviously be thrown out? (I'm not being argumentative; I'm really curious, though I didn't read the entire legal document.)
Really? It looks like a funerary urn to me.
It works just fine, I think the complaint was that when one uses the scrollwheel on the mouse, the expectation is that the page will scroll. It's a cool demo page, but it feels weird.
According to Apple it's quiet. It uses a single fan at the top to draw air in from the bottom and exhaust it out the top.
German bank employee naps on keyboard, transfers millions
This is the biggest problem I have with both the press and administration descriptions of what's going on. There is absolutely no technical specificity. I understand that this isn't useful to the general public but it's hard for technical people to parse what they're saying and draw conclusions.
NSA leaker is a patriot, not a traitor
Another (or complementing) implementation of that idea is the FreedomBox:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreedomBox
We're fools if we play into their hands, which is exactly what we do when we give in to the irrational fears they want to create.
Doing that today.
So instead of a Cube we have a Cylinder. I'm sure it will look nice with a couple of large monitors and a Cintiq. The combination will still cost less than even a small company car.
Safari 6.x is jam packed with new web inspector capabilities. What are you talking about?
Yep, exactly my thoughts. Also, didn't Tim Cook say the mini was going to be manufactured in the US as well? And could it also be the case that the Mini will follow the Pro's form factor because it would save money in manufacturing an entirely separate low-margin unit?

After seeing the Pro, I fantasized how fun it would be to have a desktop machine with several symmetric displays.

My bet, the entry level Pro will be $1899-$1999.
The New Mac Pro, the world's fastest trashcan introduced by the world's least usable web page.

More seriously, I think it's pretty cool, I like that the design has a point, thermal management, rather than just having a weird shape to look all "designy". It's hard for me to accept that this is a pro machine though, very over integrated for that kind of role.

And also, for a company that's not supposed to be focused on specs, there's a lot of specs on that page (when it works).
considering the labels are totally unnecessary, i don't see the problem. it's not like people are going to be plugging USB cables into the thunderbolt ports or the power cable into the HDMI port by accident.
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How to create your infographic, 5 tools that will help you
Why would Google do that? They are cooperating (regardless of their public statements) with the NSA to spy on us. I for one don't trust the lies.
yea, I might faint if I look at it long enough.
Ask HN: Have we passed the tipping point?
Given the recent leaks that we have been graciously provided with by Edward Snowden, do you feel we have past a tipping point over the past few days?

Is it all hype that will vanish within a few days, or are you seriously considering one of the following?

- reducing usage of social/cloud services

- completely removing sensitive accounts (email) off third-party services

- migrating to self-hosted solutions rather than cloud-based providers

- increasing usage of encryption in day-to-day activity

I know some people who are deeply disturbed over the recent news, and I'm curious to try to gauge the feeling amongst the HN crowd. Feel free to share you thoughts and emotions regarding the state of the free web.
In what way is he a partisan? He has condemned as equally bad both the Bush and Obama administrations. When Bush was President, Democrats loved him because he regularly wrote scathing criticisms of Bush's overreaching actions, and now that Obama has carried on Bush's programs (and made them worse, apparently) and Greenwald's criticized him with the same level of intensity, Obama's supporters now seem to loathe him. Reading the things people send him on Twitter, it's disturbing how many people have an absolute hatred of him. It's such a coordinated attack against him, all repeating the same talking points, it brings this to mind:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-oper...
> the standout thing for me was automatic updates from the App Store

Also makes a lot of sense from a user's perspective. Click-to-update is so last decade.
Apple needs to design a really cool sticker sign that says "No smoking ashes! This is an extremely expensive computer!"
If you are like me, then the answer is bandwidth. Alot of plans only have 500Megs per month of data. I'm looking at plans in Canada

If each song takes 5 Megs then I can stream 100 songs a month if I don't use any additional bandwidth.

Additionally I can't listen to this music during my subway commute into work, which is my primary music listening time.
But with a fan! The Cube could have used a fan in there.
They may not be hired because of the degree, but the degree is what gets their resume on the desk of the hiring manager.
I couldn't agree with you more. There was huge version fragmentation for my apps, and this is going to totally take care of that. I had been thinking about doing some kind of hybrid web view thing to compensate for the lack of automatic updates. This is a huge win for me personally as well because I have like 24 app updates all the time.

Still, it would be nice to have more composability in apps. I'm working on a UI plugin / framework for apps and I really wish that I could do incremental updates without developers having to redeploy their entire app. If only you could include app dependencies so that when you downloaded an app that used Dropbox, for example, it would download Dropbox too. That way, when Dropbox wanted to update their SDK, they could just push an update to their app instead.
Why would you want the backlight to stay on for a while, longer than default? Genuinely curious.
iOS Apps Can Now Be Transferred From One Developer to Another
My current mac pro has 6 displays attached, three of which are "high resolution" (2560x1600).

I think that the 4k displays require 2x thunderbolt ? Or else why would there be a limitation of 3 ?

So all 6 TB ports used, and no ability to add a 4th display.

EDIT: well, I could add a 4th with HDMI, but it would be low resolution, and the 5th and 6th displays are impossible. Also, all 6 TB ports used up, so no further expansion is possible.
> We can plant bugs in machines.

I've long thought that NSA and CIA would be buyers of access to botnets with backdoor access to people's machines in the US and abroad. You can buy surreptitious installs of your own malware from other malware providers very cheaply - usually under $1. $300 million and you have the whole US covered. It wouldn't surprise me a bit if there is a budget for this, with agents actively interacting on forums, buying (and supporting) certain areas of the cybercrime economy.
Cool, didn't know that thanks.
If you have an iPhone you can basically see how it looks already; just go to apple.com and watch the example videos from your phone.
Livestream from Apple was OSX-only.
I was thinking the exact opposite. I have been thinking about switching to Android for some time now. I think it is safe to say that I'll be switching to Android for sure now. I was not impressed with a lot of the changes to iOS 7 and think a lot of them are down right ugly (icons, blurred background everywhere).
I don't believe this at all.
Because then you'd be talking to yourself as nobody uses XMPP with OTR.
Meteor 0.6.4: new OAuth packages and recommended updates
These gradients on icons just look ugly. Really ugly. And the interface is too ethereal, too much blurry.
Some things are really cool, some aren't.
It took me embarrassingly long to figure out how that website worked. The text telling me to scroll took like 10-15 seconds to show up, so I kept exiting the page and looking at these comments to see if there was more than just a picture. Eventually I figured it out, but still had to scroll slowly and methodically through to see everything.
Temporary Instant Filesharing Service Filevoid
Loads fine for me even on mobile, but then I get http://i.imgur.com/JpxvAOz.jpg when I try to sign up (iOS, Safari).
..Because anyone who 'blows the whistle' will have their lives destroyed, a la Manning and Snowden.
The problem is that "equivalent experience" means equivalent work experience. Unless you're very fortunate (or happen to live in the Valley, which is largely the same thing), you're not going to be able to get that first job without a CS degree.
A. I don't understand the comparison. Crime is different than terror. For example some of the highest value terror targets are where the highest density of people are. Obviously people aren't moving away from city centers. Crime on the other hand is associated with poverty and is not committed by terrorists. People who are capable move away, sometimes just a few miles away.

B. I don't undestand the following types of argument:

1. people are ignorant of something and have irrational fears about it.

2. Lets spend a bunch of money so they feel better.

What ever happened to education?
> part from Razer and maybe Alienware nobody has even tried to really innovate the workstation landscape

By and large this holds true, however an increasing number of manufacturers are offering pre-built slim form factor PCs. They may not be radical re-designs of the sort Apple is trying to push, but they're certainly a departure from the norm [1].

[1] http://www.falcon-nw.com/desktops/tiki
If you don't want it known, don't use the phone.
And it's also 320kbps. I think it will even preserve the format of the uploaded file and just stream at 320.
Apple Invest $80B, In Education of American People who Buy Your Products
And the obvious answer: Yes, they sell more pivoting displays than non-pivoting displays.
If you have a scroll mouse. Scroll down. And scroll down many times to trigger the animation. It took me quite a while to realize this... =D
Why use Google Chat at all when there're a lot of 3rd party community-run jabber servers available? Then you can use any client you want and get a level of protection you desire (including OTR).
First Week at Hacker School
Double clicking the home button brings up the recently opened apps.
New MacBook Air — up to 12h battery life
This isn't the world of PS2 ports -- there's no ambiguity about which port does what.
In terms of the supported Web Platform APIs, is this new Safari release any different from the recent WebKit snapshots? (http://nightly.webkit.org/builds/trunk/mac/1)

Also, is WebKit2 framework still private on OSX 10.9?
Nope, that's the Quickstart guide. It's possible to do it without using Mozilla's servers. Someone just a couple weeks ago posted a writeup on how they did it themselves.
Yes he did. The point is that having something to hide doesn't necessarily mean you're a criminal or a terrorist. Or that in some situations what our government today would classify as "criminal" or "terrorist" is in fact an act of patriotism.

We all know that history is written by the victors so I won't suggest that what Paul Revere and the other revolutionaries did was an unmitigated good.

But I will argue that needing to expend the resources it takes (salary, benefits, management, etc) to have one human being monitor another does put a pretty good check on the ability of those in power to stifle dissent. It also provides some kind of a critical threshold over which the revolutionaries can't reasonably be stopped. In many ways that's a good thing provided it's a high enough level. Once the public opinion swings the best thing to happen is for those in power to give up on suppression and start packing their bags.
> > you need to have a Mac to develop iPhone or OS X apps

> This backs up my previous point. Why can't I develop iOS apps on Linux?

You can.

http://www.saurik.com/id/4
The product descriptions seem just horribly written:

> Something that provides an extremely powerful argument against the status quo.

> The new Mac Pro packs an unprecedented amount of power in an unthinkable amount of space. A big reason we were able to do that is the ingenious unified thermal core

> Not only does it feature a state-of-the-art AMD FirePro workstation-class GPU with up to 6GB of dedicated VRAM — it features two of them.

> The new Mac Pro looks unlike any other computer. Because it is unlike any other computer.
It works on Firefox, it just delays for a long time before you can scroll, tricking you into thinking that you're just looking at a boring teaser page picture.
Skeuomorphic vs. flat is a red herring. Either one can be tastefully or tastelessly done. Today's iOS 7 unveil was unfortunately the latter.

The sad truth is: once Steve Jobs passed on, the quality of designs coming out of Apple started to decline. The ousting of Scott Forstall and the rumored eschewing of anything resembling skeuomorphic design was heralded as the coming of a great new era, however now that we can see the first results it's apparent that Apple is no longer capable of producing great design at all, no matter where it lands on the skeu vs. flat spectrum. The new designs are still as ugly as the Forstall-era stuff; it's just a different kind of ugly.

It makes me really sad, because the original iPhone was an incredible triumph that led the way of the industry for the next several years. I fear we will not see something of such high quality for a very long time after this. Nothing will change until there is once again someone in place at the top of Apple's hierarchy who can enforce the notion of good taste, regardless of the current fashion or style.
You need to minify the code so it's harder to cheat (:
I am so happy to hear that OS X Mavericks will fix fullscreen apps across multiple displays!
So instead of a Cube we have a Cylinder. I'm sure it will look nice with a couple of large monitors and a Cintiq. The combination will still cost less than even a small company car and will be able to handle most of the tasks people use workstations for!
Show HN: API for global atmosphere data collected with Android sensors
you missed a free trip to paris! what an adventure that would have been. well, not if you can't leave the airport.
1Password is going to be fine, it's still invaluable for people that want cross-platform synchronization and backup.
Thunderbolt can be daisy-chained just like USB, so you're not limited to just the 6 provided ports.
In theory, the auto setting for brightness should alleviate that problem. There are many apps nowadays that use a white background and I can't say they are too bright at night.
iTorus. it could fit around an iCan, hold an iSphere or iCone. And think of all the Thunderbolt devices you can plug into a donut shape!

See you WWDC 2014!
The color choice is one of the least weird things in this announcement. White and blue have been Apple's (and most of the internet's) go to colors for a decade.
Surprise: Apple's Siri adopts Microsoft Bing for web search
First thing I noticed was all the dark -- what, did someone turn off all the lights? Where's the white that has dominated Apple material for so long?

But hey, give Tim Cook some credit here. This is literally the first significant product release during his tenure as CEO where the major elements of the update weren't simply screen-size or resolution. I don't have a lot of confidence this is earth-shattering, but it will be interesting to see how this is received.
A constant source of confusion: Simplicity
Not even then. I remember reading about how he uses the freest (as in freedomest) setup he can get:

http://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html

He mentions its a Lemote machine which doesn't look like it uses an AMD/Intel processor, as it uses Longsoon:

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

"Unlike processors from Intel, Advanced Micro Devices or VIA Technologies, Loongson does not support the x86 instruction set. The processor's main operating system is Linux, while in theory any OS with MIPS support should also work."
Indeed, 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.

I can't say I'm too excited about a computer that's relegated to an much more expensive Mac Mini.
For those that don't remember, the biggest innovation in workstations is that we can build them out of consumer-grade PC parts.
Both laws are based on fear.
Fear after 9/11 brought you (and many other western countries) those laws. Now your only chance is to turn the fear around so people fear the tools that have been brought in to fight their fear of terrorists. What is actually happening in some media and on the net.

I'm not sure if this will work out as a long time strategy...
Right. My re-interpretation of the quote is correct then. Google shouldn't be trusted with your most private information because it may have to share it with the government. Words of warning from Eric Schmidt - don't treat us like a trusted friend.
A terrible working from home policy
how much storage you've got there?
Very useful list. None of these have anything running as a service you can try out easily, I guess that would be a Bad Idea anyway as this kind of tools might either accidentally cause stuff to happen to a server, or be used as part of an attack. I guess script youngsters will not be very much deterred by having to install e.g. a python or ruby library - but any lazy bum that drops the idea to scan some elses site is a win.
How well will it play the new crop of game? Battlefield 4 etc? (serious question).
Curiously, my first association was "jet engine", was amused to learn that to many it's a trash can.

Am I the only one whose breath was taken away by this new design? Power desktop seriously revisited for the first time since the 80's, anyone?
ios7 flat ui reminds me latest ugly gmail ui.
We reserve our right to moan at consumer junk with the workstation label glued on.

Innovation is not something I really want in the workstation market.

I want something utterly reliable that works flawlessly for several years and if something goes wrong I can swap the bits out in minutes. If I need more disks, just throw them inside it without playing around with half knackered frayed cables, external enclosures, power management and cable routing, volume management etc. More RAM? chuck it in. More CPU, chuck another CPU in.

Apple aren't offering ANY of that.

To be honest, neither Alienware or Razer are even workstation class machines either.

People have a low expectation of the term "workstation" these days.

Citation:

http://www.hp.com/united-states/campaigns/workstations/z820_...

Edit: will the "downvoters" please bother to stop and explain what their idea of a workstation is?
well, then I guess you won't be a customer. Guess what.. this doesn't matter, the loss is probably all yours (if the actual content is something you can benefit from).

Don't forget, this book is being written to get profit and recognition (I think ;) and loosing a couple of "this looks too cheap for me" dudes is an OK price to pay to significantly increase the readership. And I'm pretty sure patio11 and brennan know quite a bit about this.

So, so long as "it works" I think he's going in the right direction.
Been waiting a long time for this. This definitely heats up the App acquisition marketplace. There are a lot of companies in this space already but one that's funded by Mark Cuban: https://www.apptopia.com/

http://www.crunchbase.com/company/apptopia