skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Infographics sacrifice accuracy i.e. proportions, colors etc in favor of emotional appeal. Sometimes facts need to be packaged better for a greater impact. That's why they are primarily used for promotional rather than for reporting purposes.
American gun use is out of control. Shouldn't the world intervene?
New FAA Rules to Permit More Electronic Device Usage on Planes
If I were you, I would cancel that order and re-purchase the new model.
Intellectual ability and political interest probably follow a normal distribution, so it's not surprising that the majority of any age group prefers distraction to active political engagement. Intellectuals complain about "sheeple" in every time and place, after all. For every Snowden, a million young people happily divulge their entire lives on Facebook and don't care whether NSA is reading it. Doesn't matter, because we don't need a million Snowdens. The only thing that matters is a statistical anomaly that distinguishes the next generation from the last on election day.

Every kid who tweets about her 9th-grade teacher's inappropriate joke is a whistleblower in the making. 0.001% of them might go on to work for a three-letter agency, and 0.001% of those who do might eventually leak something incriminating. Then some men in black will go through her school records and find that she's had a long-standing "problem with authority". Who knows? Even Snowden, until 2009, believed that whistleblowers should be shot in the balls [1].

Subtle, deeply ingrained assumptions like "the Government says so, so it must be true" or "white men are more trustworthy than blacks" only show up in large-scale aggregate data. It might be so un-obvious that a whole generation of sociologists could make a living studying the tip of the mysterious iceberg. But that's how societies change all the time, it will have tangible political consequences in the long term, and that's all I'm hoping for.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/06/exclusive-in-2009...
"Back in Steve's day" they frequently updated all kinds of Macs with no announcement whatsoever, if it was an incremental update and not a redesign.
Sadly, if you believe in evolution and market forces we are on the optimal path.
Eating sushi because it's not local, ie. exotic. Since facebook was introduced it's one of the ways to promote yourself and your supposed extraordinary lifestyle online.
I'm mostly disappointed in how poor the Win32-based hardware vendors are at following Apple's lead. Apple is narrowing the cost gap in their hardware, and their quality is still leaps and bounds ahead of the competitors.

If I want to buy a solid all-in-one device with a minimally usable on-board videocard so I could fire up the occasional game (not a hardcore gaming rig but keeping lighter fare an option) then the competitors are quite close to Apple in cost.

It's the same in laptops - while geeks argue about performance, Apple's devices have build-quality that blows everything else out of the water. If you start looking at similarly-constructed competitors, Apple's prices don't seem crazy at all.
This is a useful indicator: http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#Displays
>but in reality it's pretty damn simple

Also, it's not remotely "pretty damn simple":

https://blog.lookout.com/blog/2013/09/23/why-i-hacked-apples...

"Creating the fake fingerprint is arguably the hardest part and by no means “easy.” It is a lengthy process that takes several hours and uses over a thousand dollars worth of equipment..."
Agree, this is just scratching the surface, no pun intended.

The article is a good reminder of the sledgehammer approach that we still have in much of modern medicine (not just in the case of antibiotics), even as great and advanced as modern medicine is.
You are correct. In my jurisdiction (the US), judges have complete, 100% immunity for actions they take in their capacity as a judge. Deciding wrongly is NOT something a judge can be prosecuted for. There are a lot of reasons why this is a good thing and in egregious cases there is usually a different reason that can be found. (Like the judge in my state convicted of sending kids to private jails just in order to receive kickbacks. He could NOT be prosecuted for the decisions he made. But he was successfully prosecuted for accepting bribes and kickbacks.)
looks nice

my test about gentoo - passed!
And yet if you look at high school students homework load, it seems bent on producing stupid AND diligent people...
I felt the same way (as a less empathic person). Things like this always make me think of that movie Idiocracy.
The issue has been looked at by various think tanks. The question of trust is relevant to public health policy of course, but also to other areas of governance.

If the response is simply "better messaging", that will backfire eventually. Then again, there may be systemic constraints on a more substantive response. A major breakthrough in obesity, chronic disease and/or aging would reset public sentiment.
Over one billion people are Islamic. That's about as unspecific as you can get.
As a society we very specifically said in Nuremberg that "just following orders" is not an excuse.
That's quite a selective "Back in Steve's day" memory. A lot of spec bumps like this one for Macs and Macbooks happened exactly through press releases like these.
You think Bernie Madoff should have walked?
There are other studies (e.g., http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=6327... )
A Google Scholar search will turn up others...the HCI literature seems to prefer the term visual embellishments to chartjunk.
If you don't get the new model, Apple do let you exchange like for like. There is a restocking fee involved.

I exchanged for a newly released one almost a month after buying it (outside the 14 days return policy) and they were really friendly & helpful about it all.
Edward Tufte has a lot of interesting things to say about charts and data, more than i ever thought possible.

This infographic article seems to borrow some of his ideas without even mentioning him.

I would suggest folks read tufte's "the cognitive style of powerpoint." Lots of similar concepts in a short pamphlet.

http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0...

http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/powerpoint
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I agree, the word is tainted by the association with woo-peddling. It has a real use and when speaking technically, or writing scientifically, the correct term should be used, but when speaking colloquially, I think we should avoid those words.

Reminds me of the word "believe". It should mean "you think it's true", but it has so many supernatural/unscientific connotations that people start using it as a trap "do you believe in global warming" which is just becomes a minefield of misused language and gotchas.
It might be wiser to wait until Mavericks is shipped.
While not "broadband" Australia was also big into packet radio, not just the amateur ham, but a national network for distance education in the outback was planned back in the late 80s/early 90s.
Has anybody else here forgotten you're passing on your Apple ID and password here in cleartext? There's a lot of information you can grab with that, and let's just assume that this guy also puts an app out for IOS-- and buys it with your account.

Seriously? Not to mention all the data that can be mined from your associated messages. And for argument's sake, since, again the passwords are in cleartext, let's just say that a small percentage of users also use the same email and password for their Facebook or their Gmail (or whatever else email they have) -- let's just brute force some bank accounts, send a forgot password request, then scour their facebook for the security question. Nightmare scenario, but considering you're passing some random guy in china all this information, not entirely infeasible.
What Does Prem Watsa See in BlackBerry?
Democracy may be better than most other systems, but that doesn't mean it works well. How much money does it take to win a US presidential election? The people providing that money are getter far more leverage than the voters.

Snowden/Manning also found themselves in a position to use more leverage, and in those cases it's a separate moral question about whether they chose wisely to take that opportunity or not. (FWIW, I've never seen anyone giving them carte blanche to do whatever they would like with the info they accessed -- that's a straw man).

You can't just bypass that discussion by saying "they're allowed to vote, that should be enough for anyone".
Font size on HN is too small. I wonder why every webdesigner uses 14px and smaller. there is a reason why 16px is default size.
This data was last updated in January, so it's not a reaction. Although it is certainly misleading.
i think its will explosive trend to internet

success to you
>Okay, then you can jail people if and only if you prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the downloaders they enabled were going to buy that music otherwise.

Providing pirated content is against the law whether the downloaders were going to buy the music otherwise or not.

So I don't see how your requirement applies.
Possible feature to add:

1) Ability to search for influencers that shared an article related to a specific topic. For instance, I want a way to search for SEO influencers who shared something related to Breaking Bad b/c I'm making an article about how SEO is related to Breaking Bad, etc.
What percentage of users upgrade their machines?
Neither did anybody. I remember the first time I saw a URL on a truck and realizing the world had changed pretty thoroughly.
> Perhaps you should read your own work before replying.

Perhaps you should read your own words before replying.

>> You said it was impossible, yet they did it.

> O'rly?

>>>> No, this is impossible. Linuxemu is a compatibility layer for Linux user-mode binaries. It emulates the Linux system call interface. It cannot be used with Linux drivers.

>>> emulation layer ... provide a sufficiently complete emulation of the kernel APIs so that device drivers could be used.

> Where was that?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6426384
"it's for the people operating/owning "link" sites"

In other words, six years in jail for telling people where they can download possibly infringing copies of copyrighted material? Wow, when you put it that way, it sounds ten times worse.
The age seems to range from 27 to 42 with exemptions for those with prior military experience. http://usmilitary.about.com/od/joiningthemilitary/f/faqenlag...

Within the branches I know that more interesting/selective active duty branches have lower requirements. For example, active duty Navy is 34 but Navy Seals' cap is 28.

None of this takes away from your point since there are plenty of voters older than 42.
You have 14 days to return an apple product, opened or unopened, no questions asked. They will definitely upgrade your device to the latest model if you bring it in, done it for a macbook laptop before.
Think back to Facebook at launch. It was better-looking, more performant and better designed than all its competitors. Zuckerberg isn't just a good businessman.

It's fun to hate on Zuckerberg, because it's Facebook. But the guy produced brilliant stuff that was ahead of it's time.
What I'm refering to is exactly what I said I'm refering to: the full spectrum of issues related to unchecked executive power. In other words, I'm not looking at these as seperate problems which can be stacked from bad to worse. Which is not to say people can't consider things in these terms, just that I'm not doing this. I'm doing what mathematicians do when they look for the most general yet concice expression to cover a range of instances.

And yes, that obviously includes the NSA. But it also includes the transformation of the CIA into a paramilitary force, the transformation of the FBI from a federal level police force into a domestic intelligence agency focused on "national security", secret interpretations of law surrounding the the Patriot Act, unaccountable militarization of police forces up to and including the offices of prosecutors (tactics driven largely by the Drug War), and of course, the explosive growth of what has become the world's largest prison system, which we chillingly refer to as 'an industry' as though there were anything productive about destroyig people's minds using solitary confinement. And let's not forget prisons that operate completely outside the law, where the normal rules about trials, evidence, and expediency are a abandoned altogether. Topping it all off is the culture of fear, suspicion, and paranoia that pervades the agencies involved. The unprecedented use of the Espionage Act to terrify whistle blowers, actual or potential, fits squarely with a general pattern of escalating abuse. Indeed, that's one of the most frightening aspect of this entire development since it indicates that the people at the heart of this know that what they're doing is wrong and that it won't stand up to public scrutiny, but they're doing it anyway.

HN is full of people attuned to systems. And what we're seeing here is a system getting completely, dangerously, wildly out of control. And not just any system, but one that keeps coming back to work done by a lot of people here. Even if it weren't for these unnerving personal connections, HN readers are far more likely than most to recognize deep systemic problems when they occur, and to see them in those terms. That leads to a desire to identify root causes, which leads to a general problem in the inescapable lawlessness of the Executive Branch. In essence it is treating the problems and conditions of normal life as though they were a formal state of war, and adopting the vastly more expansive and unaccountable set of powers that actual war permits.

That must end.
If they've already shipped the old config and you're near an Apple Store retail unit you very much should return it to them, get a refund or credit, and get the new config. Get it from stock if you're getting a default config. You'll get no resistance or hassle from the staff for doing this.

Even if you need to mail it back it'll be worth the little extra wait to have the latest config.
Now I'm wondering if someone will provide a 4 cube division of this.
It's all pretty simple really.

The number of people who want more hard disk space and aren't willing to use an external drive is small.

So small in fact that it isn't worth Apple's time to design a computer specifically catered to them.
Whether consistency is ensured at the application level or the database level, mistakes can be made. Someone can forget to set things up in a schema correctly in exactly the same way they can forget to implement things correctly at the application level.

Also, even with relational databases, there are many times when you need to use transactions to prevent certain types of inconsistencies, they don't protect against everything.
MBPR refresh probably. I'm in the same boat :(
How IPython Notebook and Github have changed the way I teach Python
Because you all love data so much: http://childhealthsafety.wordpress.com/graphs/

It's funny to me how the HNers who question vaccines remain silent when these threads pop here. I know they're out there and I know they read them all the time, just are too scared to respond. Guess I am too, with this throwaway and all.
Agreed. Apple is still expensive but if you want build quality, I think it's the clear winner. And I think a whole lot of people care more about build quality than gaming performance.
Could you please buy it now?
I'm surprised yours is the only comment I saw pointing out the incremental approach to this "living room" goal Valve has been using.

The steam box will obviously require some OS to run, and it seems perfectly reasonable to ship the OS, get feedback for it and it's features (i.e. streaming), and have it production-tested once the inevitable steam box is ready. Why take the risk of shipping all-new-everything when you can do it in smaller steps?
Thanks, good to know!

(I actually checked on the local Apple website if you are correct since my home country is not known for being consumer friendly. In this case, however, it is Apple being consumer friendly …)
> a respect for institutions and deference to common procedures.

Hope I'm not referencing Godwin's law so soon in the discussion, but this quote makes me think about the deference most of the German intellectuals had for "Der Staat", starting with Hegel. There are countless examples, but a quick search brought me to this (which is actually a book written from an "individualist" POV, as far as I can tell):

> Oppenheimer's view of the state is profoundly opposed to the then dominant characterisation propounded by G. W. F. Hegel of the state as an admirable achievement of modern civilisation.[1] Proponents of this view tend to accept the social contract view that the State came about as every larger groups of people agreed to subordinate their private interests for the common good.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_State_%28book%29)

As an outsider, I always regarded the Anglo-Saxon system (meaning the United States and Britain) as an antidote to the views expressed by Continental Europe, seems things have changed.
A vapid wish list isn't interesting. Doing the math for what's feasible (even if from a "hard sci-fi" angle) is.

He starts with requiring 7 passengers, or 4 with cargo, which ballparks to a minimum of 1400 pounds. Not being a car geek, I don't know what that requires power wise for average & standard-deviation roads (even if we start with just the passengers & cargo, ignoring vehicular mass 'til later) but would like to know. That then directly impacts the wishful EV battery needs, which is a straightforward capacity calculation for likely & conceivable storage. The solar power wish (to wit "cover it in photovoltaics") is just that - a wish; at an absolute maximum of 1.3kW/h per m^2 for solar gathering, this wish is going nowhere. The self-driving & data connectivity is a given, being little more now than mounting your smartphone in the window plus boring old steering/accelerate/brake remote control tech.
I agree. I was glad to find that it is easy to upgrade the RAM, it would be awesome if the hard drive was just as easy.

I ended up going the external thunderbolt SSD upgrade route, since I didn't really feel comfortable pulling apart my expensive new computer. It works great, but has obvious down sides.
Neglecting our nukes
By MITM you think a guy with a hard drive sitting in the middle of the Apple HQ siphoning data directly to NSA? Yes, I could imagine that.
The other interesting thing is that, as far as I know, until the late 90s the entire installed base of computers was bought practically every year. There'd be 10M computers one year and 10M bought the next. In that kind of fluid market a company can take over without winning converts (Joel Spolsky wrote about it here: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html).

Today, PC sales are steady or falling because everyone in the developed world has one already. Someone buying a second or third computer is getting a tablet.
Yup. Agreed with everything.

Tried "customer success" for example and the results were not valuable. Tried "startups" and got lots of results, but that might be too broad of a topic.

Technically I'd say this is pretty good, I agree that OP needs to work on value proposition and to sell: that's something for content marketers, but try to dive more into the problem you're solving. Be specific. "Social insights" seems too broad to me.

For example, the problem could be not knowing which content to write, wanting to keep tabs on what your competiton writes about, spending too much time researching all this...

You're already writing about benefits("discover what people are sharing..."), I'd try to connect that with how your app is better than current existing methods used by content marketers to create their content strategy.

Congrats with the launch !
Except that those sites are not infringing copyrights. Those sites are just pointing people to the infringing copies. Take the sites away, and the infringing copies continue to exist, and everyone just goes to sites hosted outside the jurisdiction of Spain (or they find a new way to share the links).
How do game servers make money? Advertisements in the game?
That wad looks familiar. I wonder if I ever played it.

When I used to work for Lotus we used to use their Unix box in the US to FTP onto one of the big CDROM sites that had loads of wads on and play different ones every week. Happy days.
Linux Foundation on the Foundations of Linux
Great idea! We're currently working on adding more advanced search operators/an advanced search option so you can do stuff like this.
"David Brooks..." That's why.
There was recently a thread about this. I was looking into a good way to provide this service and tested the idea by booking mock interviews on Fiverr. There was little interest and most was from young people with heavy accents who wanted to practice being understood.

However, that does not mean you should give up on your idea. Just be sure you're basing your decision on popularity with paying customers.
Incredible live coded music performance by Andrew Sorensen at TEDxQUT [video]
The real crisis is the crisis of the State. Anti-Statism has found many supporters in the newer generations, and for good reason. The homogenization of western cultures has made all boundaries easily transgressible to the point where the sovereign state is seen as an archaic and irrelevant construction that is not so easy to trust as it used to be.
They want you to buy a new one.
This is the issue I have with all of this. Everybody is defending HOW he did what he did with no thought as to WHAT he actually did - as if it shouldn't matter.

He knew what he was doing was illegal and didn't care, he got caught and tried to justify his actions by blaming AT&T for having a faulty configured server.

Not good enough for me and the jury agreed.
Thanks, I had not thought of doing that.

I have just cancelled my order and re-purchased the new model, the delivery is scheduled only one day later than the original order. On the downside, the price went slightly up …

Apple might have delivered the updated model anyway but following your suggestion was probably the easiest way.
GPU Acceleration Coming to Java
It might be a good place for companies like Amazon to set up a data center there.
Ferguson then conducted postdoctoral research at MIT while also consulting to the White House, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, the Department of Defense, and several U.S. and European high technology firms. From 1992–1994 Ferguson was an independent consultant, providing strategic consulting to the top managements of U.S. high technology firms including Apple Inc., Xerox, Motorola, and Texas Instruments.

In 1994, Ferguson founded Vermeer Technologies, one of the earliest Internet software companies, with Randy Forgaard. Vermeer created the first visual website development tool, FrontPage. In early 1996, Ferguson sold Vermeer for $133 million to Microsoft,[6] which integrated FrontPage into Microsoft Office.

High Stakes, No Prisoners: A Winner's Tale of Greed and Glory in the Internet Wars. W. W. Norton & Company. 1999. ISBN 978-1-58799-065-6.
No, nobody knows.

Apple retail UK used to swap out old stuff for new stuff if you bought it within a month of a product release, the time period did get (rarely) stretched out if you kicked off about it. Three months was the longest I saw. They might still do this, I don't know.

Source: I worked there a long time ago.
Just as I saw this story I was working on the same thing in voxeljs :P
So many helpful answers in just a few minutes, thank you all! :)
I like to think of myself as an establishment intellectual (glued to my smartphone while chugging Starbucks).
The Chromebook Pixel has better hardware features than the MacBook line. (The touchscreen and LTE are both fantastic options.) But, pricewise, it's not far off from Apple's either.
Comet ISON will pass closest to earth on December 26
Richard Feynman explains how rubber bands work.