skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Beige box" ? No innovation for the past 30 years ?

It saddens me to see people compare a super expensive mac book pro case with the low end $30 cases. I'm not sure if its ignorance or blindness, but you should inform yourself on the high end market for desktop cases (and not just the external look of the case, the internals are what matters). It will cost between $150 and $300 for a really good model, but then again you're comparing it to a mac pro.

Companies like Antec, Lian-Li, Noctua, CoolerMaster, Thermaltake, ... Have spent the last decade or so making fans and cases that can cool down a maxed 2/3 GPU SLI running the latest game while still being silent for the high end gaming and power users market.
Http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthread.php?266420-4.2.1-is-a-disaster
This is reversed causality according to a friend of mine who is involved in this. The helicopters got 13 million € more expensive, thus the order was reduced.
Looks like the link to the Austrian Pirate Party is going to the UK one.
Well it just seems like such a waste of money. Thats why.
But on a more rational level, apple having more users and hence more clout is a bad thing as they have always used their influence to try and drive a wedge between different pc users by intentionally not supporting things.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/car-experts-michael-ha...

“It wouldn’t be an underestimation to say that every day, a lawsuit is filed over a car fire right after an accident. There are every year 300,000 vehicle fires and a couple hundred deaths and a couple thousand injuries.”
> at that price

No price has been announced. Apple may surprise us. Before they came out with the iPad, journalists and analysts thought Apple’s tablet would cost $1000 or more[1].

The current entry level Mac Pro costs $2500, while the most expensive iMac costs $2000. I expect the new Mac Pro to cost between $2000 and $2500.

[1] http://appleinsider.com/articles/10/01/19/minor_issues_could...
Well correct rules can be turned on.

https://www.khanacademy.org/cs/tic-tac-toe2/1747678284
We have both z620s and Dell T7600s (http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/precision-t7600/fs) at work. Apart form the badge you'd be hard pressed to tell them apart. Certainly neither one is better than the other.
> That's pretty much how every Apple product since 1998 was developed.

This feels really lazy and borderline trollish.

Over the last decade or so Apple (and others!) have fairly consistently demonstrated a belief that design is multifaceted: the form factor, the software, the components inside the form factor.

Increasingly we see these intersecting. The form factor for the iPhone is also the hardware: the screen and the antennae. The unibody manufacturing process for MacBook Pro means that the trendy aluminium form of the product also provides its rigidity and reduces the number of components required to hold it together. More room for batteries, which increases the battery life. Apple and Intel worked together to develop a Merom chip 60% smaller than the standard in order to ship the MacBook Air, which was at the time the thinnest notebook around.

Apple doesn't design the form factor and then work out what components need to go inside it. Very often the overall design (form factor + software) is where Apple can innovate, because Apple doesn't typically manufacture components, but they frequently make compromises of design in order to accommodate hardware (and vice versa). IR receivers on the original MacBook Pro (horrible black spots on the bezel), the home button on the iPhone (an absence of hardware buttons on the front of the device would be more pleasing). The black plastic at the base of the original iPhone for Wifi (since engineered out by a combination of component and product design).

People will look back on the last two or three decades as a renaissance for design. Apple has contributed, but across the board the importance of design -- and by design I mean the aforementioned intersection of form, software, and hardware -- is visible in products from Samsung, Sony, HTC. Heck even Microsoft has realised that design is more than commissioning Brian Eno to write the Windows boot music.

Back to the Mac Pro: I'm sure Apple threw out a dozen designs which had space for more RAM, or which had more CPU sockets, or which had internal expansion. But Apple makes tradeoffs for the overall goal. Sometimes the tradeoffs are such that hardware suffers (I can still type way faster on a BlackBerry than on an iPhone), and some times the aesthetic is diminished (I bet the visible sensors on the iPhone 5 really rankle with Jony Ive). But to suggest that since 1998 Apple has consistently developed the form factor for products first is ludicrous.
They were always going to charge him if only to discourage future Snowden's.
"I find it very, very hard to believe a modern Mercedes would do that. "

Mercedes cars are not immune to the rules of physics. Gasoline is flammable.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/car-experts-michael-ha...

But post-crash fires are, in fact, depressingly typical, especially in high-speed scenarios, says Philadelphia attorney Max Kennerly, whose firm represents plaintiffs in car fires.

“If someone is driving at high speed and hits a very solid object, yeah, you’ll get a fire out of that,” Kennerly says. “It wouldn’t be an underestimation to say that every day, a lawsuit is filed over a car fire right after an accident. There are every year 300,000 vehicle fires...”

Frank Markus, technical director of Motor Trend, points out that “any impact at speeds high enough to rip the drive train out of a car is highly likely to force some object to rupture the fuel tank. There is a lot of potential chemical energy in a gas tank that's even a quarter full...

So while the casual evidence might suggest otherwise, the prosaic reality is that cars involved in high-speed crashes often go up in flames

edit: boo, beaten to the punch by 2 minutes with the same cite.
Ouch! I take it was much more expensive than usual economy tickets.

What if you planned to buy a train ticket to leave? I don't know about HK but in China it's a mess since it can only be done a few weeks before the travel date and might not even have been possible to do prior to entering the country.
Yeah! I'm a "high-end professional" I dont need to understand things!
It could be also a question of how much your time costs, if cost of the new MacPro is relatively small why should you waste time learning new tools? You'll be literally losing money.
I seen this game on: http://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2013/06/16/ultimate-tic-tac-t...
Does anyone know about a backend development resources list?
How is your phone inherently more secure than your computer?
Installing Bluetooth in Powerbook Ti
What opportunities remain in social media? Vine's wall to climb...
I don't think it is all that ridiculous. Prosecutors have tremendous amounts of discretion regarding who they prosecute and what for. They aren't just "doing their jobs" they are explicitly targeting Snowden. The fact that it is their legal prerogative to do so does not necessarily make it ethically correct.
I think it's an oversimplification to say the reason for this innovation not happening sooner is because of risk. The Boeing 777 flies on only 2 engines which sounds far riskier but didn't stop it being approved. Also there's a race for building planes from carbon materials.

Robert Witwer, vice-president of advanced technology at Honey-well of Morristown, cited some other reasons [1]:

- Increased congestion: "Short hauls do a lot of taxiing time, especially in a place like Newark, where you can be 20th in line"

- Legislation: “And there are a number of airports in Europe that have tough emission standards that would make the Green Taxiing System appealing. I believe it’s a game-changing technology."

- Fuel costs: "The prospect of annual savings of $200,000 per jet from lower fuel use and less ground time has sparked interest from Airbus and airlines such as EasyJet and Alitalia. Airlines face the highest sustained prices ever for jet fuel. United Continental, the world’s biggest carrier, says it burns $25,000 of fuel per minute. Jet fuel delivery in New York averaged $3.12 per gallon in 2012, more than four times as much as a decade ago."

- Technological advances: "What’s new in today’s technology is the convergence of airlines’ search for more efficiency and recent advances in miniaturizing electric motors to propel a plane at the 32 kilometres per hour it may need for taxiing."

[1] http://www.wingsmagazine.com/index.php?option=com_content&ta...
so there is still a consensus on how much it's going to heat up?
There is a massive difference between shooting tracers at a fuel tank and the tank being in a car crash. In the Mythbusters test, all of the bullets enter at roughly the same speed, roughly the same angle, have the same size, the same heat, and the environment is "clean"; the only objects that need to be considered are the bullets and the tank. In a car crash, the number of factors is massively increased. The fact that a fuel tank did not explode when it had tracer bullets fired at it does not imply that fuel tanks don't catch fire.
When it comes to GPGPU there is one big problem with the Mac Pro: Lack of CUDA support. CUDA is the de facto standard for GPGPU programming in HPC. Software support for it is years ahead of OpenCL. I doubt the new Mac is going to change that, if anything it might give some impulse into new workstation design for the likes of Dell and HP, sporting NVIDIA cards. Of course there is still hope that Apple recognizes this and that it offers an NVIDIA configuration. A dual Titan Mac Pro could be a very compelling HPC workstation for those who prefer this to working on a cluster. Even more so since Unix/Linux is the standard OS for HPC and most software tools therefore have OSX/darwin support.
Opera allows you to set up a master password, if you want it. If you don’t want it, you can copy around wand.dat as you like (even from your computer to your phone!) and it just works. :)
How much does helicopter upkeep cost? What are the intangible benefits to having "buy what you expect to need" instilled as a value throughout a massive organization?
Maybe you only get to see the board they made their move in. You don't get to see the move unless you select that board to move in yourself.
Or maybe you don't even get that much information. You only know what moves have been made in the board you select and no further info. Do they control that side board yet? Are they trying to rig the center boards?

Taking this further, you are stuck with the board you select. Even if it has already been won. You get to update the world board, but otherwise lose your turn.
Why Espionage vs Treason for Snowden?
It's interesting that they chose espionage vs treason. Espionage is the act of spying or using spies to obtaining secret information" Espionage can be an act done for one's country - treason can never be an act done from one's country. By choosing espionage it could be a nod toward the fact that this is proven to a deliberate act towards the country. Or it could be simply to remove that as a point of conjecture to better secure a conviction.
Thank you! Again, very helpful. Clearly, the message/concept will need to be carefully crafted to encourage good behavior.

One solution that occurred to me: sharing X% of proceeds back with the donor. The idea being that this would encourage people to send more objectively valuable stuff (though as you point out people are terrible at estimating value).

I like really like the idea of donating to specific causes. Did the thrift shop pay the charities a portion of the proceeds in exchange for the boxes?
Gas is indeed flammable, but only under specific circumstances.

And citing hollywoodreporter.com? Thanks but I think I'll rely on more reputable sources:

http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/videos/crash-a...
I can see arguments both ways on things that are technically recoverable but might require lots of download time (like 20GB of games). However, your settings in those games (if not held on Steam's servers; I don't know where they are) should never be deleted by the application. If you're saying that non-recoverable settings and such should go in ~/Documents, I disagree with that, too: things in the Library folders aren't what the users think of as data, but they are stuff that the users will be upset are missing if they uninstall and reinstall.
Its supposed to be drive-thru. If its not, then add opening the garage door (one coming, one going) and waiting in line to the supposed 90-second swap time.
A DA-notice is only advice, so Greenwald can choose to ignore it if he wishes. IIRC, it falls somewhere between "We'd rather you didn't publish this, as we feel it may harm national interests" and "this story may be illegal under the Official Secrets Act (or similar)", rather than being a straight block on publication.
And next week, after someone demos an easy-to-use encrypted system, the same naysayers will be all about how it helps drug dealers and other baddies.
Your answers are not scientific, even as pat as they may be.

Cars don't "blow up" though they may catch fire.

Images of cars exploding on Google?

Adamantium?

Whatever, just keep repeating this sort of stuff and maybe some more people will believe you.
I think its rather that no one has tested the above argument. The judgement was in 1953, so it had nothing to say about the internet or data stored in the US.
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By which you mean "cars catch fire all the time when they crash".

http://www.chandlerlawgroup.com/library/national-vehicle-fir...

(stats from NFPA).
Interesting. I guess that's why Guantanamo is on Cuba.
Your hardware support experience is exactly opposite to mine. My laptop runs Linux just fine and all hardware works correctly, but OSX doesn't even want to boot on it. Weird.
If a $100/hour developer averages 30 minutes/week more productivity because they're using a Mac they're comfortable with, that's a savings of $7,800 over the course of a 3-year upgrade cycle.

Try actually doing the math before you declare other peoples' considered choices a "waste of money".
As someone aged 25 - who is really just beginning on the exact same journey, and feeling the freefall a little strongly - this couldn't have come at a better time.

Fantastic piece!
That's not original reporting from THR, it's an aggregation of other stories, written by THR.

Here, maybe you'll trust NFPA instead:

http://www.nfpa.org/itemDetail.asp?categoryID=953&itemID=296...
I'd prefer not to be supporting Glenn Beck's company by boosting his impressions if I can avoid it. Especially if another source (LA Times) broke the story.
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The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory is that conspiracy theorists actually believe in a conspiracy because that is more comforting. The truth of the world is that it is chaotic. The truth is, that it is not the Jewish banking conspiracy or the grey aliens or the 12 foot reptiloids from another dimension that are in control. The truth is more frightening, nobody is in control. - Alan Moore
Or, X% to the donor, Y% to a charity, Z% to cover expenses
"Feel old."
Me too.

And the Kermit protocol...
Actually, I didn't have to buy a ticket to leave immediately, I just had to prove I had a return ticket. I just bought the cheapest one close to the date when my tourist visa would expire. I think it was around $600.

There is no train that connects Japan to another country that I know of.
Apart from the initialization code which I'd agree is significantly less painful for CUDA, I haven't seen that much difference in terms of exploiting a GPU's compute units. I never wrote complex applications though, so am I missing something?

The bulky initialization is no longer a problem with a library like PyOpenCl - everything becomes much more elegant...
Spying on an enemy government is way different from spying on civilians.
Fixing a screwed production push on a friday! Working from home.
Exactly, and consider if you had one wheel brake while the other did not for a short moment, it might be like grabbing the steering wheel and cranking the car right into a line of palm trees.
Live stream of Japanese deep submergence vehicle's 5,000 meter dive [video]
Petition: World without oil (a possible solution)
Sounds like: We are sorry we got caught.
Not if you have a large infrastructure to integrate it into. Sadly we have to triple boot (win 7, RHEL5 & RHEL6)

I'm a sysadmin and I make things just about bearable for my users. I install VLC, gitk, flash and chrome. I make sure that the email client is setup and talking to ldap/AD. Granted we use RHEL5/6, so there is a lot of work for me to do to make things nice for them. However RHEL/centos/SL whilst old and not trendy is a loverly slow moving target for our customers to jump onto.

Granted mint and the like make installation easy, but integration is still hard.
I haven't seen a beige-colored PC in about ten years.
I think that the "target audience" of this new Mac Pro is snobs, not HPC developers. With almost everything soldered down it's hardly a good machine.
Link to the original paper and one additional paper: http://www.autosec.org/publications.html

The money shot - single image comparing all attack vectors: http://i.imgur.com/ylXoPmz.png
Helicopter maintenance is expensive, and training mechanics and repair technicians is also expensive.

Not having a spare machine when you really need it is expensive, too.

And on the gripping hand, how many wars is Germany planning to fight with helicopters in significant roles?
what about HPs Elitebooks, Lenovo W Series or Dells Latitude/Precision ? They are pricey but offer alot of performance, good cooling and decent GPU options.
Also the new Macbook Pros (Retina) should be alot less noisy because of some special fan design (see Reviews and youtube).
If you have a "sysadmin to set it up for you", that probably means you have a standardized environment, and the developer won't have root. This cripples developer productivity.
My spouse, most of the people I know, they dont care enough. Most of them 'have nothing to hide'... Some even show disregard I started working on a privacy tool. 'Bad people might use that.' It's somewhat depressing. I feel lucky to have a few friends who are more aware though. And hn of course.
You know what's worse then Glenn Beck's website might potentially be? Someone that would disregard a message simply because of the messenger.

Now I'm not necessarily a believer, but it certainly is a fishy story.
> For a pro computer, where performance is absolutely the most important consideration, do you really care about the shape of the case?

It’s a tiny 10"×6"×6" workstation. That means you can take it anywhere in a backpack. Lots of pros are going to love that, from photographers to DJs to forensic detectives to doctors without borders.

The new cooling system (and thus the case’s round shape) is what allows the new Mac Pro to be so ridiculously small.
> Steering an offshore team in an Agile manner is hardly possible

This is so true. I sometimes wonder how the so-called Agile offshorers actually work.
Those sites did not appear here in the past - or at least not prominently.
As the Constitution is the "supreme law of the land", nothing "unconstitutional" can simultaneously be "legal."
A 1.75 ton car wrapping itself around a tree at 80+ mph is an exceedingly chaotic situation. It really should not be surprising that some of the times that happens a fire will occur.
I have been down this road before. But what I realized was, when you quit work to go find the "deeper" meanings of life, it is very easy to convince yourself that you are actually making progress when the opposite may be happening.

What I also realized when I did get back to work (and satisfying work at that) was all the philosophical stuff took a back seat and that was not a bad thing.

Uncertainty imho doesn't correlate very well with long term happiness.
Why don't you sue and find out?
Impressive how Tesla destroys electric car critics
Petition to pre-emptively pardon Edward Snowden reaches goal of 100k signatures
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Good work doing some extra legwork.
I cant imagine how little most people investigate their workplace and unfortunately go into a new job with extremely rose-colored glasses.
You saved yourself.
That would be GNU coreutils true, which is a little more complex.

Some discussion of that over here : http://forums.thedailywtf.com/forums/t/3779.aspx
The Real 'Unavoidable Truth' About Used Games
Also, Yeoman is mentioned twice under Workflow.
" only under specific circumstances."

Major crashes are one of those circumstances. I can't even believe this is being contested, it's like something out of Zoolander... Michael Hastings framed in freak gasoline fight accident

https://www.google.com/search?q=car+explodes&source=lnms&tbm...

Yes cars really catch on fire.
this seems interesting.
First of all, nobody is going to port few KLOC of CUDA to OpenCL or vice versa because of one developer's whim. Hence no choice of GPU is bad for developers.

And there are some differences which may be relevant for large projects: CUDA supports ahead-of-time compilation of GPU code down to the lowest level assembly (compilation of several KLOC project takes minutes), direct data transfers between GPUs or even GPUs and network adapters, some subset of C++ (classes without virtual methods, function/class templates, operator overloading) and probably few more useful features I haven't listed.
Don't be obtuse. I didn't say that I want to run Mac OS X, I am just pointing out that it doesn't. Lots people people like Mac OS X.
Comprehensive Experimental Analyses of Automotive Attack Surfaces
There's this myth that in the early days lifeguards were trained to literally punch victims in the nose to knock them out - or bring them back to themselves - to facilitate rescue.
No clear answers why Snowden remains free despite U.S. request for his arrest
Petition to pardon Edward Snowden reaches 100,000 signatures
Well, he's definitely "off the radar" now.
Scrooser: an mobility solution for the environmentally conscious
Hmmm ... Final Cut? I would have thought NLE's in VFX would be mostly Avid now .. after the whole FCPX bungle last year.
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I'm sure many here will roll their eyes at this source:

http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1687.htm
Top US Journalist Attempting To Reach Israeli Consulate Assassinated - By Sorcha Faal

But it's an interesting set of dots.
The address they give for the Israeli consulate is correct: http://www.israeliconsulatela.org/index.php/en/get-direction...
Which does make it about 9 miles from Hastings' crash site, fwiw.

But I'm more interested in identifying the exact crash location, and the direction he was going. In this article:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/06/21/email-sent-by-mic...
there are two photos of the crash site that should allow location of the exact site using google maps and streetview. Particularly this one: http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/600x39998...

It seems to be somewhere sth of the intersection of Highland and Melrose Av, here:
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Highland+and+Melrose+avenues&...

I've tried, but still can't pinpoint it.

From this image: http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/600x339.j...
I'm wondering if the car clipped the foreground palm tree, then hit the next tree solidly on the front left of the car. So the car ends up spinning to the right, stopping at 90 deg to the street. This would explain why there's little visible damage to the RH side of the car. But not really why the rear damage.

If that's so, it must have been traveling away from the camera view point. But is that going Nth or Sth?
In either case, it's hard to see how that fits with heading to the Israeli consulate.

Someone might like to go and see if there's any shrapnel damage in the road surface anywhere before the impact point.