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More eyeballs have a good track record -- for instance, since bash is Free Software, many people have looked at it, which is why there have been no recent critical flaws in bash discovered by automated fuzzers.
Thank you, Apple!

They put the "Retina" display in the iMac. This means people will buy it. Higher volume means whoever (LG, I think?) is manufacturing the screens will have to produce more, driving the cost down. That means they will sell variants. Then their competition will also sell competitive options because nobody will want 1080p on a computer screen anymore.

Monitor technology has been stalled for years. This is going to be a gigantic kick in the pants to the industry!
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They still have serious issues to fix. For example try this sample app from Apple https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/samplecode/LayerBack.... 10.10 uses 4 times the CPU compared to 10.9.
Same for Planetary Defense Force 8 users!
Careful examination of the specs reveal the iPad Mini 3 is basically an iPad Mini 2 with touch ID, and less expensive memory options. It doesn't have the CPU, screen, thinness, or improved camera. It's kind of like the iPad 3 which was replaced by the iPad 4 within six months. There may well be an iPad Mini 3S or somesuch early 2015.

My guess is the rumored screen production issues for the Air 2 led to the Mini 3 being a less ambitious update.
And why would an intelligent being with a free will still hang around?
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Upgrade. I've only ever done a fresh install of OS X once whereas on Windows upgrade was for crazy people. I actually upgraded last year from the first beta to the official release and there were zero issues. As always, backup first.
I would say a PPI of 326 still qualifies as high resolution display.
I consider MS Office on Android and iOS to be superior to iWork. It's definitely not something I consider to be anywhere close to a deciding factor on 'app quality' for either ecosystem.
From my experience, IQ results are very inflated. Your father was probably very bright, but an IQ of 200 is very very high, so high that it is unlikely that he was that smart. An IQ of 200 means he is one of the brightest in the world, and I've read here and there about people being tested on IQ of around 220. Statistically it's not possible.
thanks for explaining. it sure looks interesting. i'm going to read now.
How often does a typical user use your system, and how long is the login session good for? I think I would hate such a system if it required me to check my email, say, every day or even once a week, but if it was once every month or two, I think it would be fine.
This would also depend on hilariously bad permissions on /srv/www that allow the mysql user to create files there.
Depends on which category you fit into.

You use dev tools and stuff like homebrew/macports a lot: fresh install is a lot nicer.

You don't use the above that much: Upgrade is fine.

As for the packages, I had a lot of different packages that were built for Mavericks, and needed updating, and would constantly bump into something new that needed something reinstalled etc. Various reasons for this, like Apple moving around system utilities and upgrading various things.

EDIT: Just to be clear, all is solvable with the upgrade. It's just a bit cleaner with a, well, clean install ;)
I don't think we're that far away from consumer systems being able to take advantage of high res displays. This build here (http://pcpartpicker.com/p/HZQm23) can already drive 4k on almost all games that are currently out, and it's only $1600. Large manufacturers like Dell wont be far behind with desktops sporting similar hardware. I'd expect consumer (as opposed to enthusiast) 4k gaming on the desktop to start happening mid next year.
It's basically the iPad Mini Retina with touch ID and cheaper memory upgrades. My guess is that the real update was held back by the much-rumored production issues.

So, if you want 16GB and don't care about Touch ID, get the old one. If you want 32GB and NOT 64GB and don't care about Touch ID, likewise. Otherwise the new model is better value, but probably will leave you disappointed in six months when the real bump comes.
I wonder if use in hospitals/industry/etc is at all a driving factor for retaining some of the older models. Large corps generally prefer to validate/verify/vet (for internal support) a SKU once, and then repurchase that exact model forever.
Since you're here, care to comment on:

> “He’s a guy that we’ll track for the rest of his life and he’ll have no idea we’ll be watching him,” the same Whisper executive said.

Is that a quote that the Guardian invented from whole cloth, or is that how you see your users?
What's missing here for me is some kind of performance evaluation. If I upgrade my 2011 MBA from Mavericks to Yosemite, should I expect any change in performance, for better or worse? Did the power management change in any significant way?

Apple's mobile OSs have a way of obsoleting older hardware. I'm curious to know if their desktop OSs are trending that way as well, or if they're making performance gains instead.
I actually think the WIRED piece [1] to which OP refers does a good job of addressing this point. In particular, the WIRED article mentions PORTAL, a competing device called the SafePlug (which we did some research on to show that it does this job rather poorly), and something I'd never previously heard of called OnionPi.

Also, the article states very clearly states:
"If you use the same browser for your anonymous and normal Internet activities, for instance, websites can use “browser fingerprinting” techniques like cookies to identify you.", which is basically the point of this post.

The WIRED piece even goes further, offering the same solution as is offered in this piece:
"[an expert] suggests that even when routing traffic over Tor with Anonabox, users should use the Tor Browser, a hardened browser that avoids those fingerprinting techniques."

So while I understand the gripe that a transparent Torifying proxy doesn't necessarily do what you think it should, I would also praise WIRED for doing a pretty good job of handling these difficult and subtle issues in their article about the Anonabox.

[1] http://www.wired.com/2014/10/tiny-box-can-anonymize-everythi...
Displayport (and HDMI) have a 2 bit ECC overhead for every 8 bits transmitted, so effective bandwidth of DP 1.2 is 17.28 Gbit/s. Additionally, the timing adds additional overhead, so the required bandwidth is actually 22.18 Gbit/s for 24bpp 60Hz 5120x2880
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What you're describing is 'regression to the mean.' Francis Galton noticed this effect when he was studying the traits of various genetically influenced traits.

This doesn't invalidate the idea of eugenics. You can still modify the average of a trait over time in a given population in spite of any mean-regressing tendencies. It just happens a bit more slowly.
Switches dropping TCP packets means slower TCP rather than lost information. This is what TCP is designed to do when it loses packets, it's not related to UDP vs. TCP priority.

You can use TCP as this canary as well by monitoring a counter of how many retransmissions have been performed.
I closed the page immediately upon seeing total cholesterol. Being on a ketogenic diet, it'd probably tell me I'm at risk because the diet increases both HDL and big LDL particles (the harmless kind). Total cholesterol is meaningless.
For those purposes, do you know how smoking marijuana maps to smoking cigarette? E.g. is 1 "dose" of pot = 1 cigarette? 10 cigarettes? Or does it not map at all?

What about electronic cigarettes?
This problem isn't unique to fonts.

I used to joke to my students that the hardest part of programming is coming up with names -- for variables, functions, classes, modules, packages, etc. I still tell them that, but now I'm relatively serious about it. ("Relatively", because I don't know that it's the hardest part, but it certainly is hard.)
I believe the tradeoff is that the battery would be murdered like a camp counselor in a horror movie.

What's more shocking to me is the dearth of PC laptops using high resolution; and Microsoft's inability to support HiDPI with any sort of efficiency.
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The access to a large back catalog of CBS shows is, for me, a worthwhile feature.
Obviously metric, since that's what most of the world uses abd you're cutting yourself from a large chunk of your potential audience. The cholesterol measures are already metric.
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So now I'm curious; I'd always thought obesity was itself a risk factor, but your calculator does not consider it.

Is the "problem" with obesity only its impact on blood pressure and cholesterol? Or does obesity also increase risk in other ways in addition to worsening those factors?
Agreed, web reading is a huge usecase for me, the biggest one by far, and the one in which I'm most bothered by performance changes. I couldn't care less to get a few frames faster or -5s loading times on some game, or shooting faster photos with my camera on a tablet. I care about browsing, and I have exactly the same issue with reloading webpages.

In fact, it's why I use safari over Chrome because Chrome is much worse for me in that regard, despite using Chrome for everything else on every other device and disliking Safari generally. But it's the least bad with having to reload webpages.
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The more this happens the more I agree with Jason Scott that it should be illegal to allow data to be arbitrarily destroyed like this.
Sure, but we weren't discussing screen sizes, we were discussing 4K monitors in a certain price range.
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Meters and kilos. My blood analysis data is in g/L (but the conversion is easy).
The 5K is a result of the Mac having an aspect ratio other than 4K & HD's 16:9, and resolving that difference with using a simple "retina" multiplier. Kicking 4K's butt when it's barely out the gate probably helped.
For a more in depth review of Piketty's book, I posted a review I found a while back.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7712623
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For folks who are interested, also see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fV6eSHMfdQE&index=2&list=PLR...
I'm not talking about how people respond. I'm talking about whether we consider the responses to be accurate. Usually, the implication is that people are overestimating their own merit.
I don't follow. If I buy stock during an IPO, the company gets the money to either reinvest or invest in something else.

If I buy stock post-IPO, that provides cash to someone else to either invest in additional stock or spend on consumables.

I don't agree that investing in any way relates to hoarding.
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> What high end android phone ships with 8?

None, but they usually ship with 16, sometimes upgradable to 32, and these days often no SD slot. The Nexus 9 is 16/32 with no SD, the Nexus 6 is 32/64 with no SD. The Air 2 and 6's are 16/64/128 (though the 16GB is a bloody sham, especially when the next OS will most likely require even more available space than iOS8's already humongous 5GB for OTA) (it was really funny seeing the proud 47%-a-month-in graph when iOS7 was at 71% a month in: http://fortune.com/2013/10/15/mixpanel-apples-ios-7-hit-71-p...)
I'm guessing that would be a second dot release (1.3.1) monthly. If you look at the github milestones, it appears a dot release is scheduled for every 3 months. https://github.com/docker/docker/milestones
Serious question here. At what point is the human eye unable to tell the difference between such high res displays?

I'm thinking in the same terms I used to think when I was doing home audio. My boss had a set of $10K speakers. Sure, they sounded great, but then I listened to a clients $5k speakers and couldn't tell the difference between his and my bosses speakers. It was as if my ears weren't finely tuned enough to tell.

Of course if you ask my Boss about the difference, he'd take an hour to tell all the differences. To me, the lay person at the time, I couldn't tell.
I wouldn't be surprised if this is a result of a victim mentality. It's very possible they look around them and see themselves as the ones placed in dire situations because other people weren't kind, trustworthy, or honest with them, and that's why they had to resort to criminal activities. This kind of attitude is (often rightly) prevalent in people on the fringes of societies.
Better for some uses... one of the major use cases for the mini is for media storage or file sharing, in which case I'd gladly trade speed for space.
I tried several times to build such a thing but gave up every time. It is easy for simple file formats but if you want something universal it gets quite complex pretty quickly. There are file formats where the endianess is specified in the file and not statically known, there are file formats where the bit width of numbers is not statically known, there are (binary) strings delimited with some special marker and there are many different ways to escape the delimiter within the string, there are data blocks starting at fixed offsets, at offsets relative to some other block or the end of the file, there are offsets computed from different values found in the file, compressed blocks, unions of different block types discriminated by a tag, tags that need to be computed from multiple values, ...

I would really love such a tool, but a language to describe most of the file formats in the wild is probably going to be (close to) Turing complete and is unfortunately nothing you can hack together over a weekend.
Same in planet Xii of sector 8 of the 4th galaxial quadrant.
It might get more ram, although I doubt it. Seems like the only unknown factor still.
> I agree that it seems strange to have both pay + ads

> I would not be a fan if this pay and pay model became the norm.

Maybe you've heard of cable television for which you both pay and see ads? I think it might catch on at some point...
This doesn't make sense at all. If I buy a gov't bond, my money goes to the gov't to spend (they certainly aren't saving anything).

If I send my money to a foreign company, the economy is global. It may or may not benefit my country, but it sure isn't being hoarded.
Hulu is not free in any useful sense. You can play a limited selection of their content on a PC without a subscription, but full access and use on mobile devices, consoles, and things like Roku and Apple TV requires a Hulu Plus subscription at the same price as Netflix.

I'm not saying the other services don't have content people want that Netflix does not have, I'm saying they're going to want the content Netflix has, too.
> How could you possibly know if you're better than average without keeping track and comparing with other drivers in a scientific manner?

Did you read the two definitions of "average" I posted above? Under the second definition, if we go by traffic accidents, I am clearly better than average, because I have been in zero traffic accidents (as a driver). Since you seem to be going by the first definition, I'm curious how you are distinguishing drivers that all have a perfect driving record.
I think that's less than constructive. We know that intelligence and law enforcement have significant issues with Tor [1] that mostly are overcome by people missing the point of what Tor does and having bad operational security in general.

Also, when parts of the government have attacked the security provided by Tor, it's been visible (and kind of hamhanded) [2].

[1] http://cryptome.org/2013/10/nsa-tor-stinks.pdf
[2] https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/felten/why-were-cert-rese...
taking real offense that to get the option to have more than 256g SSD you have to buy the 999; top level; mini first? You cannot even buy a SSD on the 499 entry model, you first have to step up to the 699.

Really Apple. I was looking forward to new SSD minis for the parents, but 699+200 is a bit a much.
I think the slow full-screen animation is intentional. It's easy to trigger by accident, but getting out of full-screen mode isn't so easy or obvious. I think they want people to really see what's happening.
Maybe it was intended for the Canadian audience, where metric for length, and imperial for weight, is common?
Did the iPhone 6 get a barometer sensor too?
Apparently the original footage of him is here. Warning: he is shown after the crash, eyes bleeding.

vhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4tuvOer_GI&t=3m

Also real documentary footage:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XztU1bhQD7M
I'd just be happy to be able to buy a MacBook Air that can take more than 8GB of RAM.
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4K gaming is currently reserved to the most high end desktop GPUs if you want to play any recent/modern games. To get >60fps you'd need two in sli/crossfire. A M290X is not even close to that.
But even on a 4K display you can easily play at 1080p because it scales down nicely, for 5K youd probably have to play at 1440p which is a bit much for the M290X
"It's difficult to notice any pixelation on a 27" screen at a resolution of 2560x1440" - wouldn't say that's true - they screens are good, but when you switch between any phone, any tablet, a rMBP and the current iMacs you really do notice the low resolution.

I never had this problem before getting the rMBP however, so maybe I'm just getting picky!
Isn't that the point? If you define "bad" as "has accidents or tickets" than many more than half of drivers could correctly say they are better than that.
>reading comprehension...try and keep up

Don't be an ass.

>What I'm saying is those scores are irrelevant

But you claimed the scores are based on what you're exposed to rather than your potential. If they don't change over time then that's a strong counter to your argument.

And not being potential was critical to your 'central' flaw with the approach. Perhaps you can name other flaws, but you haven't made them clear, and you haven't actually disagreed with threatofrain's assertion that IQ is the best correlation with general performance that we have.

>math

It's a series, not a set. 11 is not 'equally' correct.
Why not aim your anger towards No-IP, given the following?

"Our research revealed that out of all Dynamic DNS providers, No-IP domains are used 93 percent of the time for Bladabindi-Jenxcus infections, which are the most prevalent among the 245 different types of malware currently exploiting No-IP domains. Microsoft has seen more than 7.4 million Bladabindi-Jenxcus detections over the past 12 months, which doesn’t account for detections by other anti-virus providers. Despite numerous reports by the security community on No-IP domain abuse, the company has not taken sufficient steps to correct, remedy, prevent or control the abuse or help keep its domains safe from malicious activity." http://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2014/06/30/microsoft-takes-o...
Two years. MacBook Airs are mostly lambda consumer devices, where more pixels would just mean elements on the screen look nicer. MacBook Pro are used by a crowd that effectively need more pixels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook_Pro#3rd_generation_.28...
Mavericks added performance and battery life, but as far as I'm aware there isn't a focus for that on Yosemite - the work having been done in Mavericks.
If you can control the light, a glossy display will have minimal glare and none of the downsides of a matte display.
I never found any apps close to Garageband, iMovie, iWork etc.

I have all three of these apps on my iPad. I recently removed iMovie, and never touch Pages choosing to instead use superior options (where there are also superior options on Android). Garageband was interesting for a while (and it is a superlative implementation), but hasn't been intentionally opened by anyone in the family in many, many months.

They are good apps, but I doubt they're within even the top 100 most used apps across platforms. They aren't compelling for the average user.
Lol I'd put Alien of Exceptional Ability on my resume.
Yet "more equitable" and "socialist" countries like Canada have no estate tax whatsoever.
Nice try, insurance company.
the touch ID is very nice, but without the new processor like the phone I don't see the point here. With Touch ID I can have a very long "secure" password while still having the ability between boots/configure options of not even looking at it to unlock it. That makes the touch id on the phone so useful and I looked forward to it on this mini.

However the specs just seem odd. Is there a yield issue on the new processor or just too many phones going out the door?
hope 1.3 will be soon in the homebrew, we're migrating tomorrow to docker and all of our office is OSX. that is regarding new standard folder sharing feature.
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No, it's really not debatable. If it were, you should have presented the argument with some evidence.
As I was using the beta I just rsynced my 10.9 homebrew install. Never had any issues with that strategy.
If that's the law, then why isn't content from various large companies vanishing (and later reappearing, as in part 4) from the web all the time?

Pick any large company. Surely somewhere among the 7 billion people in this world is someone who (1) hates that company, (2) can put together a well formed DMCA takedown notice, and (3) is willing to give it a shot.

Following that, if your description of the law is correct, the specified content must be taken down, at least temporarily.

So why don't we see major corporate web pages & content disappearing & reappearing on a daily basis?
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> Instead UDP is the way to go when you don't need a transport layer at all, and you can do with trivial ack / resend strategy (DNS is the obvious example), or just best-effort transfers where packet loss is not an issue at all (think a thermometer sending readings every second)

That depends I guess. As somebody who works mostly with cloud telephony, SIP (signaling) and RTP (audio) are almost always carried over UDP. Funny thing is that you'll see more occurrences of one-way audio or call drops because of people implementing the application level protocol like SIP wrong rather than the transport layer letting you down.

That said, I would any day prefer a private MPLS network rather than the public internet.

Though I can understand why somebody who writes a fast nosql database prefers TCP. Also, thanks for redis, we use it a lot and love it! :)
The time is already ripe for 32GB base storage, the main reason iOS8 penetration is stagnating (47% after a month, by that point iOS7 had reached 71%) is that the OTA update requires 5GB of free space on the device, not even taking in account the size of the installed OS.
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The server features are available on the app store now (IIRC it's $20).

The model with two distinct disks looks gone now, though.
This needs to become a thing everywhere.
Have you configured the same drive in each? The Fusion Drive that comes standard in the high-end model is a $200 upgrade in the mid-level model.
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Users can now export their photos until the 25th, at which point they’ll vanish into the void.

Since you want this to be illegal, what do you propose instead? Some country's taxpayers pay to keep the servers up maybe?

And really why should it be illegal, doesn't the government stick it's nose into far too much already? Do you mean illegal illegal, or breach-of-contract "illegal" (in which case, what contract)?
Looks like it's almost there https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/pull/33225